Ode to the Inverse of the Dude doesn't come out until April 21, but the group's next album is already slated to come out in early 2010.

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The fundamental problem is that MP3 wasn't just dreamed up by a dude in a lab somewhere, it's a standard which builds on the work of earlier codecs and formats, so it's easy for a variety of different entities to legitimately lay claim to having some patents related to its creation.

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Dude, the talent ain't buying it.

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"He didn't look like a California dude, but intellectually he willed himself into becoming the paradigm for what a young L.A. artist could be and he had no interest in ever leaving, " says Schimmel.

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