Idolator

I channel surf back and forth between a few local Baltimore stations during my morning commute every day, but obviously this morning I made a mistake by not listening to 92Q. For the first time in years, hometown R&B heroes Dru Hill appeared on the air together to announce a reunion of all four original members, including onetime solo star Sisqo. But not ten minutes into the interview, Woody Rock started to explain that he feels he's been "called by God on an assignment," and Sisqo, in disbelief, asks, "the group, right?" Once it becomes clear that Woody doesn't mean the group, Sisqo very reasonably retorts "dude, you could've told us this yesterday" and storms out, followed by a physical altercation between Woody and Nokio. I'm torn between feeling incredibly embarrassed for Baltimore right now that these guys are possibly the biggest stars we can claim as our own, and too entertained by this footage not to share it. [YouTube]

The saga of QTrax—the so-called legal peer-to-peer service that was set to launch Sunday night with a splashy £500,000 presentation at the MIDEM conference, only to have a lot of egg on its face when it was revealed that the company didn't actually have any signed agreements with the major labels whose wares it would be hocking—is dragging on, with CEO Allan Klepfisz spinning like mad, telling everyone that his company is "not idiots," and floating a few conspiracy theories:

"We are not idiots," he said."We wouldn't have launched the service in front of the whole music industry unless we had secured its backing. We feel we have been unfairly crucified because a competitor tried to damage us. Everyone is very upset."

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After putting up a pretty Web page on Friday and having a splashy launch event at the MIDEM conference yesterday, QTrax—the long-in-the-works ad-supported peer-to-peer system that was supposedly going to have all four major labels on board—was supposed to launch its client at midnight ET. But there's one small problem: Three of the four major labels don't actually have deals in place with the service, thus throwing the "legal" part of the company's whole "legal peer-to-peer" claim in serious doubt. More »