The Wrap Up: K’naan rises, Virgin and Circuit City collapse

More sad tales of the music industry’s demise:

• K’naan’s Troubadour debuts at number 32 on the Billboard album charts (billboard.com)

• Pirate Bay cowed in court? (wired.com)

• Telefon Tel Aviv’s Josh Eustis discusses his late musical partner Charlie Cooper (antigravitymagazine.com)

• Virgin Megastores liquidate (idolator.com)

• Excellent story on hip hop’s “most notorious” housing projects (unkut.com)

• Bakari Kitwana and MC Serch organize 2009 Rap Sessions panel tour (hiphopdx.com)

• Eminem schedules Relapse for May 19 (billboard.com)

• Circuit City closes down (sfgate.com)

Intranet detritus: Joell Ortiz, Covering the Classics sampler (smokingsection.uproxx.com), Marq Spekt’s Guilty Party (backwoodzstudioz.com), Coast 2 Coast mixtapes March Madness series (coast2coastmixtapes.com), K’naan and K-Salaam & Beatnick’s You Can’t Buy This (2dopeboyz.com)

Photo by Sasha Nialla.