Yahoo! Music — AP - Germany's highest civil court has dealt electronic band Kraftwerk a blow in ruling that sampling music does not in principle violate copyright. more info

Associated Press — BERLIN (AP) -- Germany's highest civil court has dealt electronic band Kraftwerk a blow in ruling that sampling music does not in principle violate copyright.... more info

BBC News - UK — A German court overturns a decision to protect electronic band Kraftwerk's copyright on a 1977 track sampled by a producer 20 years later. more info

Pop Matters — Covering far more sonic terrain than just the astronomy mapped out in the title, Kraftwerk and the Electronic Revolution is the rare music film that doesn't talk down to its audience. more info

JamBase — By: Greg Gargiulo Lofty yet tangible, downright serious yet rife with whimsy and playfulness, Chad VanGaalen's latest, Soft Airplane (Sup Pop) manages to strike all the right chords (both literal and emotional) with a remarkable tenacity that stri... more info

XLR8R — Talking with avant-garde post-classical composer Max Richter about his influences is truly inspiring. In a single breath, he’s able to make connections between Romantic music of the 1800s and the work of Steve Reich and John Cage, all the way ... more info

Gorilla vs. Bear — So that Paper Route Gangstaz mixtape FINALLY comes out next week on Mad Decent, and I'm hoping it'll give The Renaissance a run for its money for best hip-hop release of '08. In anticipation of the release, iTunes is giving away Fear and Loathing in... more info

Guardian Music — Powerplant is a collective brought together by percussionist Joby Burgess, combining Burgess's playing with electronics and soundscapes devised by Matthew Fairclough and visuals by Kathy Hinde. This disc provides an intriguing sample of their program... more info

Pitchfork — The twentieth anniversary edition of the annual Rock for Kids Rock & Roll Charity Auction will take place December 5 at Chicago's Park West, with the aim of raising some coin for the city's homeless and underprivileged youngsters. Over the years, the... more info

Altsounds — Four Texan dudes called Honey Claws have come into the fiesta and they’re bringin’ the future with them. A mostly electronic, mostly funky, 14-track hip-hop epic, Honey Claws’ self-titled debut album is a pulsing, cursing, ... more info