Honestly, folks, the best thing jazz fans can do this week is help the good people at Melody Records unload their inventory so they can walk away from their venerable store with something to show for it. Even when the city was flush with record retailers, Melody was far and away the best for jazz, [...]

According to the BBC, Coldplay has denied in a federal court that "Viva La Vida" was inspired by or originated from Joe Satriani's "If I Could Fly" off the 2004 album Is There Love In Space? (For the last time, Joe, no: astronauts can't love.) Satriani makes a decent living off the instrumental rock circuit [...]