(UPDATED) I'm back from a quick and interesting trip with our own Jeff Miller to Nashville for a meeting with Rick Alter. We spent some time at IEBA - a conference for casino, fair and event buyers. They're a wonderful, and in many ways, savvy group, but have only just begun to engage fans using digital and social marketing. In some ways, it was a reminder of how far the music industry - in this case live concert marketing - still has to go.  PS: Big thanks to Kyle for doing double duty on Hypebot for the last two days.

• A major Facebook redesign announcement seems likely for tomorrow after an employee lockdown. (TechCrunch) 
• Apple lost a $625 million lawsuit over tech behind Coverflow, which tiled album art so users can scrolling through a stack of titles and other features. Apple vows to fight back. (Bloomberg)
• 21 To Drink, 21 To Listen: Iowa City's Live Music Problem. (NPR)

More Music Industry News & Commentary:

• Digital Music Cloud Challenge: Rdio on The Road (SF Appeal)
• Apple Boots BitTorrent-related App From Store. (PCWorld)
• Interview: Tunecore CEO Jeff Price (Singer Universe)
• Porn studios' copyright lawyer: 'I will sue.'(Cnet)
• Piracy Badges All Around: Boy Scouts Take Stand Against Illegal File Sharing. (TIME)
• Gene Simmons Angry Music Industry “Didn’t Have Balls” to Sue-Em-All. (ZeroPaid)
• What's a fair price for an e-book? (Telegraph)
• Ten Years After Napster’s ‘Time’ Cover: The Revolution of Free. (D&T)
• When Will Auto-Tune Get Album Credit? (SunBreak) 
• Instant Lyrics puts lyric-finding in your hands. (Yahoo)
• Are you ready to rent music? (Cnet)
• Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber racing to 1B YouTube views. (MusicAlly)
• Punk Pioneer Steve Albini on Music Festivals, The Future of Radio and Why He Wants GQ To Fail. (GQ)