Is viral-videos-will-save-the-music-biz the new syncs-will-save-the-music-biz? OK, no one's actually saying that, but FACEBOOK is reportedly offering "hundreds of millions of dollars" to labels and publishers to secure music rights to its users' videos. The initiative doesn't seem to be aimed at creating any new functionality but rather to pay for what its users have long been doing. BLOOMBERG sees it as "the latest windfall for a music industry surging from the growth of on-demand streaming services." Mailbox money, as songwriters call it. How much of it will actually go to songwriters? Asking for a few thousand friends. And how will this play out differently than Big Music's relationship with YOUTUBE, which pays just enough on music rights to make the whole industry hate it?... SONG EXPLODER and GOOGLE collaborated on this cool experiment to present song stems in a 3D audio and visual space online. Which is a sentence that would have made no sense to me a couple years ago. PHOENIX, NATALIA LAFOURCADE and PERFUME GENIUS are among the artists whose songs are available to explore... Imagine having to upgrade the electrical sockets in your house every couple of years, and imagine your turntable and your amplifier requiring different sockets. Hi, APPLE... SCOOTER BRAUN and BUN B's Sept. 12 hurricane telethon will now benefit victims of IRMA as well as HARVEY. BEYONCÉ, DRAKE, JUSTIN BIEBER, MIRANDA LAMBERT and many more are onboard... DAVE MATTHEWS BAND is hosting "A Concert for CHARLOTTESVILLE" on Sept. 24 featuring PHARRELL WILLIAMS, JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE, ARIANA GRANDE, BRITTANY HOWARD and others... One MTV NETWORKS vet exits, another enters: COURTNEY HOLT is SPOTIFY's new head of video and podcasting... BILL WITHERS' first recording in 32 years... "The Hippie-Capitalist CEO Who Wants to Win a Nobel Prize With Sober Raves" is a headline so on-point I assume either an algorithm or a SILICON VALLEY showrunner wrote it. Read at your own risk... RIP HALIM EL-DABH.