The MP3 is not dead. Not really dead, not most sincerely dead. Maybe just, say, maturing? MOTHERBOARD's JASON KOEBLER reports how the format's death, widely reported in the past few days, isn't fake news so much as an overeagerly reported and somewhat distorted nugget of technology news. Not only will the format be around to house your digital music files for some time to come, it may live on for considerably longer as the underlying technology on which the major streaming-music formats were built. Still wondering if the format will achieve—or if it already has—the generic status of KLEENEX or XEROX, where we will call all digitally ripped and purchased tracks "MP3s" even if that's not what they are... Was the punk community's quick response to sexual assault allegations against PWR BTTM's BEN HOPKINS fair? Was it right? Would/should other music communities have done the same? Or, to put it another another way, why haven't they? We explore the issue in our MusicSET "PWR BTTM's Crime and Punishment"... I was in LOS ANGELES when SLEAFORD MODS played BROOKLYN, and in Brooklyn when they played LA. Note to self: Plan life better next year. This is what I promise not to miss next time around... I'm not sure I'd put it quite the way SAVING COUNTRY MUSIC's KYLE CORONEOS puts it in this catchy headline, but yes, the thing the revived AMERICAN IDOL could most use is a judge with razor-sharp ears, an abundance of self-confidence and a gift for expressing it with both wit and clarity. Is STEVE ALBINI available? No, wait, wrong show. How about KANYE WEST?... People like to write songs with "COACHELLA" in the title. Wonder how long till the "FYRE" songs start coming out... The architect using PINK FLOYD to troll TRUMP TOWER... RIP KEITH MITCHELL, POWERS BOOTHE, CORKI CASEY O'DELL and BILL TOLLEY.