We mentioned back in March the Harvard-UNC study by Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf which seemed to indicate that Internet music file sharing has no negative effect on legitimate music sales. Oberholzer-Gee discusses what the industry should do next with Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge: Sean Silverthorne: The draft of …

Summer has officially arrived! The summer solstice was June 21, the longest day of the year, the calendar beginning of summer. With summer comes summer music – I wrote about some of my favorites for MSNBC.com: Summer’s here and the time is right – for music From ‘Margaritaville’ to ‘Kokomo’, …

I wonder if the electronic music community will have the same backlash against assumptions of their common left-leanings as the punks did. Anyway, a contingent of electronic music artists is seeking to “ReDefeat” Bush: Los Angeles – Members of the electronic music community are coming together and coming out to …

Bowing to the inevitable – I wonder how long this idea has been on the table – the Marley boys are taking to the road to celebrate dad’s legacy and do a few tunes of their own as well: Ziggy, Stephen, Julian, Damian and Ky-Mani Marley – five sons of …

I don’t talk enough about Thomas Mulready’s Cool Cleveland newsletter and website, which tackles real and difficult matters of culture and activism in a truly local way. I admit it: I am something of a mercenary. Even though I have lived in the Cleveland area for a total of 22 …

“Spots” in radio lingo means commercials, and commercial radio (at least they got the name right) is so full of them now that even the advertisers are complaining: The strategy of stuffing commercial radio full of ads has backfired, as a handful of investment banks predicted slower growth, downgrading six …

Whoa, this changes plans for a lot of people – and a lot of bands – for the summer: LOLLAPALOOZA, 2004 CANCELS ALL DATES Los Angeles, CA – June 22, 2004 — Even with what has been touted as the best line-up since its inception in 1991, with such eclectic …

And more importantly, my reactions.

With blogs turning up in the mainstream media virtually every day, it astounds me that there are still vast swaths of the population that haven’t heard of them. So the more coverage the merrier, evne if it’s the same story over and over again. NPR’s Talk of the Nation did …

Although I haven’t attended, I am totally down with the Bonnaroo concept of peace, love and eclectic jam bands, and I have no problem with declaring this year’s show another success – the numbers speak for themselves. But what I don’t get is an extended pat on one’s back that …