Guns n' Roses Sued by... Ulrich Schnauss?

NewYorkMag.com is reporting that Guns n' Roses are being sued for allegedly using unauthorized samples from the songs "A Strangely Isolated Place" and "Wherever You Are" by German ambient musician Ulrich Schnauss. The track in question, "Riad n' the Bedouins" appeared on GnR's recent commercial flop "Chinese Democracy". I personally wouldn't believe that Axl Rose was hip enough to know who Ulrich Schnauss even was, but the article has samples of all three pieces of music and it's pretty much clear as day. Oops.

Music is Everywhere Part #3,971

Birds on the Wires from Jarbas Agnelli on Vimeo.

A gentleman in Brazil was reading the newspaper and saw a photograph of birds sitting on an electrical wire and noticed how much it resembled notes on a musical staff. So he decided to transcribe it and hear what the music made by the birds in the image would sound like. He developed it into a full orchestration and this video is the result.

Oldest Known Musical Instrument Discovered

The BBC is reporting that German scientists have dated a recently found primitive flute is around 35,000 years old, making it the oldest musical instrument to be found thus far.