Disney is making a film out of Douglas Adams’s comic sci-fi classic Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, which incidentally began life as a radio series on the BBC. John Malkovich has been added to the cast in a role created by Adams for the film: It will also star Sam …

Though they are mainly a bunch of commie pacifist peaceniks with dangerous hair, I love my buds at the great punk label Epitaph. This year Epitaph is providing much of the firepower for the 10th anniversary of Vans Warped Tour. I remember vividly going to the first Vans tour when …

Hanging at Hangar 1018

Beautiful dubby weirdness plumbing the subterranean depths and playing laser tag among the stars. ROIR Dub Sessions is a sampler of one song each from Laswell’s four dub CDs for the NYC indie punk and reggae label ROIR: “Dread Iternal” from Sacred System Chapter One: Book of Entrance, “Thunupa” from …

Certainly the central topic of our time, and with this group debating the fur is sure to fly. Go Hitch! KCRW TO AIR FESTIVAL OF BOOKS DEBATE: “U.S. and Iraq One Year Later: Right to Get In? Wrong to Get Out?” On Monday, April 26th, from 2 to 4 PM …

Hard to believe it’s already been a year since the last Future of Music Coalition Policy Summit, but it has. The cost is quite reasonable, the topics crucial, and the star power impressive: Now in its fourth year, the FMC Policy Summit is a forum for musicians, lawyers, academics, policymakers …

This one really takes me back: I was DJing four night a week in SoCal through most of the ’80s and this collection is an astonishingly accurate representation of the best of club and party dance music from “the decade of excess.” I played every single one of the 17 …

It’s not free but the Digital Storytelling Festival in Sedona, Ariz this June sounds very worthwhile for the right people: We are once again in the planning stages for the Digital Storytelling Festival being held in June 2004. This will be the second year the Festival will be held in …

Lawrence Lessig has a new book out that is generating a lot of attention and interest, Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity. We have discussed it here, here, here and here. Yesterday the Wahsington Post conducted a fascinating online …

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