The print version of the June edition of Louisville Music News is on the street, featuring fattlabb on the cover.

An article from the Canwest News Service says that the Canadian government is “secretly negotiating an agreement to revamp international copyright laws which could make the information on Canadian iPods, laptop computers or other personal electronic devices illegal and greatly increase the difficulty of travelling with such devices….The deal would create a international regulator that could turn border guards and other public security personnel into copyright police.”

The agreement would include allowing for confiscation and destruction of devices with infringing content. The entire article is here.

Pitchfork.com has a lengthy and - positive - review of Will Oldham’s Lie Down in the Light CD.

The 37 Flood blog has a review of the Swell Season show at the Brown, with pix.

As this written at 2 p.m. in afternoon, it’s probably way too late for any tickets to be left for the My Morning Jacket show at ear X-tacy on June 10. But I thought it best to at least note that the guys are playing in town before their show in August.

Momentum continues for now at LEO, with a stack of reviews as their contribution to the music scene, including reviews of King Sonic and Marion Square. Mat Herron plugs an upcoming Bodeco show.

Over at Velocity, Joe Lord has reviews of the latest Will Oldham project, Lie Down In the Light, Ben Solle’s Learning to Bend and Your Highness Electric’s (formerly Christiansen) The Grand Hooded Phantom for a hat trick of Louisville music.

The LEO blog General Sense of Outrage finally has a post about the recent announcement of the sale of the paper to SouthComm. The blog post is dryer than dust but the comments are interesting. A check of the SouthComm websites reveals that their product is mostly Chamber-of-Commerce-ish publications - city mags and directories.

Update - The Ville Voice blog has this comment about the LEO changes and this one about Stephen George taking over as editor.

No comments noted anywhere in the Gannett realm, even though that’s who prints the publication.

A Richmond, VA, website, Yellowbuzz.org, has a video clip of VHS or Beta at Toad’s Place, plus a link to a webmag called RVA Magazine, which has an interview with Craig Pfunder

Jimmy McGriff, jazz and blues master of the Hammond B3 organ, died on May 24 in Philadelphia at age 72. Jazzpolice.com has more details.

The Backseat Sandbar guys threw themselves a first anniversary bash at the Pour Haus. Of course they reviewed it.