Idolator

Following up on the "Chris Walla's hard drive got confiscated at the border" story: the Department of Homeland Security said that the drive didn't have the necessary paperwork to come back into the country, and that any insinuations of there being a political element to the drive's seizure were incorrect; the confusion seems to have stemmed over whether or not the drive's contents were actually a commercial product or not. Walla—who actually now has the files to finish the album, which comes out next year—shot an e-mail to The Daily Swarm explaining things more fully, including a quirk about what was and wasn't confiscated from the courier who tried to bring his stuff across the border: More »