Maybe you love DISCOGS because you want to know what your vinyl copy of A MOON SHAPED POOL is worth, or because you really really want that BILLY YEAGER test pressing. For me, and I know I'm far from alone here, it's still all about the metadata. Where else can you find out the barcode of FRANK OCEAN's BLOND or who A&R'd TAME IMPALA's CURRENTS or what numbers are etched into the run-out groove of SONGS FROM DAWSON'S CREEK? SPOTIFY isn't going to tell you any of that. You aren't going to find it on ALLMUSIC either. In a content-heavy, information-light digital era where it can be a chore just to find out who played the bass on any given track on any given album, Discogs and its user base have done an exemplary job of collecting and cataloguing the minutiae of album liner notes. The next step, product director NIK KINLOCH tells THUMP, is to "link together tracks, look into that musicology of where they came from, who wrote them, what other versions are there of the tracks. How they've changed over the years, how they've been remastered." Yes. Please. Thump's long Q&A with Kinloch and the rest of the Discogs exec team on where they came from and where they're going is very much worth the read. And breaking news within: A Discogs music gear marketplace launches next month... REDEF pal BILL FLANAGAN goes one-on-one with BOB DYLAN, asks the essential question "If you can sing like that, why don’t you always sing like that?," and gets a great answer. And much much more... My friend TIM QUIRK has some thoughts on TED LEO's in-progress-and-way-overfunded KICKSTARTER and what it says about the music biz's need to embrace an ARPU model... My friend GIL KAUFMAN catalogs 10 artists and music projects that have benefited from the NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS, including the KRONOS QUARTET, the MONTEREY JAZZ FEST and HAMILTON... Bonus non-musical thing we can thank the NEA for: MAYA LIN's VIETNAM VETERANS MEMORIAL... Hearts, thoughts and prayers to LONDON. Here are TIME OUT LONDON's 100 favorite London songs, from the KINKS and BLUR to ED SHEERAN and KATE TEMPEST... The late CHUCK BERRY has a new single and we're continuing to expand our REDEF MusicSET "Remembering Chuck Berry." Lots of quality essays by GREG TATE, ELVIS MITCHELL and more added in the past 24 hours... QUEEN MONOPOLY.