+ People (Joe Satriani, Creaky Boards, Cat Stevens) keep piling on Coldplay, but that doesn't mean they can't fight back. Drummer Will Champion deflects the latest plagiarism accusations with the familiar old "there are so many notes in an octave" trope: "There are only eight notes in an octave and no-one owns them. There are probably about 12,000 songs that feature the exact same chord progression. I think it [plagiarism] lies on an intent to steal, which we certainly have never done and never would." [NME]

 

+ Courtney Love JUST CAN'T. LET. GO. She still thinks Ryan Adams somehow stole some of daughter Frances Bean's trust fund dough. And of course, she wrote hundreds of words on the matter. [MySpace via Stereogum]

 

+Morbid but newsworthy: Blur guitarist Graham Coxon claims to have thought of jumping out of a sixth floor window at the height of Blur's mid-'90s success. According to Coxon, vocalist Damon Albarn talked him out of it. [Guardian]

 

+ Trent Reznor thinks the last few albums by both Prince and Rivers Cuomo/Weezer have "sucked." Cool! [NME]

 

+ R.I.P. Ean Evans, bassist for Lynyrd Skynyrd. The loss comes a few months after that of Skynyrd keyboardist Billy Powell. [AP]

 

+ The National were on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon Wednesday evening. Watch, won't you?