plus: Napster. K-tel. Slayer. Psychology is not a science.

Singer Chris Robinson told Billboard that his band the Black Crowes will be playing with Bob Dylan [ tickets ] in Knoxville, Tenn., on April 27, and that the band is trying to set up a short tour with Neil Young [ tickets ] and Crazy Horse.

Agence France-Presse neatly summarizes the current state of affairs between Napster and the Recording Industry Association of America:

The labels give Napster lists of songs to be filtered from Napster's file-trading service.

Napster, per court order, has 72 hours to filter them.

A spokesman for the RIAA says that Napster isn't complying with the court order.

Napster says that the lists don't say how the songs appear on Napster file-trading service. Napster also says that those omissions violate the court order.

(Napster also says that "[The omissions] produced an environment that will wrongly cause significant user frustration with the Napster system." The article doesn't say how that "environment" equals "frustration," and we can't figure out how it would.)

K-tel, the company that's released all those hit compilations, is shutting down its music distribution division, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported.

Inside.com points out that, for example, the "Now That's What I Call Music" compilations, are produced by a "consortium of labels," and that K-tel doesn't have as much access to contemporary songs as it once did.

According to Sonicnet, "Lawyers representing the parents of a 15-year-old girl who was brutally killed by three boys claiming Slayer made them do it are taking another crack at the heavy-metal group after a judge ruled that they didn't present enough evidence to take the case to trial the first time around." One of the lawyers reportedly has more studies and research to back the case this time.

Remember:

Contrary to what They would have you believe, psychology is not a science.

For something to be a scientific fact, if you do A, then B has to happen every time.

Psychology contains no scientific facts. Not one.