After releasing four albums' worth of demos last week, Atlas Sound/Deerhunter leader Bradford Cox was hit with copyright-police e-mails by Sony Music, which deleted three of the four volumes of his Bedroom Databank series. The Sony e-mail-- copied and pasted on Cox's site-- claims, "The specific reason for the removal was: unauthorized reproduction and distribution of copyrighted sound recordings owned or exclusively distributed by Sony Music." This is especially curious because, last time we checked, Atlas Sound are signed to Kranky and Deerhunter are signed to 4AD, neither of which are associated with Sony. A call in to Sony has yet to be returned.

On his blog, Cox wrote, "Apparently Sony Music owns my bedroom. Feel free to call or email and let them know what you think. I can understand them requesting for me to remove a cover but the only one I can imagine that happening with is Dylan. [Cox covered Bob Dylan and the Band's "This Wheel's on Fire".] Which was on Vol. 1. Which was not deleted. I am re-uploading the files now. I'll put new links in the posts." All the links are indeed back online, including the one for Vol. 4, which was released on Thanksgiving.