The 40th Anniversary CBGB Muisc Festival

Are you free in October?  Then you might want to head to NYC for this.  From Spin:

Legendary New York venue CBGB may have shuttered its doors in 2006, but the brand is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year with the second annual CBGB Music & Film Festival, happening from October 9 to 13 in NYC. The five-day event will take place in various locations throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn, with the Landmark Sunshine Theater on East Houston Street serving as the hub for the conference and cinema showcase. 

According to an official announcement, the 2013 installment of CBGB Fest will be "NYC's largest ever showcase of music, film, art, social awareness, entertainment industry workshops and conferences." The music portion will feature a total of 700 artists performing in more than 175 venues; the film segment will host approximately 100 screenings of music-themed flicks and premiere an estimated 40 new movies, many of which will be followed up with Q&A sessions with directors, producers, and actors. 

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Chemistry Turned into Dubstep

If my chemistry class had been like this, I might have stuck it out.  

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How Does Copyright Work in Space?

Copyright is a tricky thing.  Rules vary from country to country and territory to territory so at the best of times, keeping track of things is a giant clusterf**k.  

And that's just on earth.  What about copyright in space?  The Economist reports:

CHRIS HADFIELD has captured the world's heart, judging by the 14m YouTube views ofhis free-fall rendition of David Bowie's "Space Oddity", recorded on the International Space Station (ISS). The Canadian astronaut's clear voice and capable guitar-playing were complemented by his facility in moving around in the microgravity of low-earth orbit.

But when the man fell to Earth in a neat and safe descent a few days ago, after a five-month stay in orbit, should he have been greeted by copyright police? Commander Hadfield was only 250 miles (400 km) up, so he was still subject to terrestrial intellectual-property regimes, which would have applied even if he had flown the "100,000 miles" mentioned in the song's lyrics, or milions of kilometres to Mars.

His five-minute video had the potential to create a tangled web of intellectual-property issues. How does copyright work in space?

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Watch 14 Year-Old Girl Shred Like Eddie Van Halen

Well, I'm impressed.

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Watch the Trailer for the Upcoming Metallica FIlm, Metallica Through the Never

First, the poster.

Now, the trailer via Blabbermouth.