In an article for MSNBC.com on the Ten Best Bands in rock history, I picked the Grateful Dead as number four: The Grateful Dead Out on the road today/I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac/A little voice inside my head/Said ‘don’t look back, you can never look back.’ (Don …

Bowie invites mashups: If you’ve seen the new Audi commercial, then you’ve already heard a mash-up of the David Bowie classic “Rebel, Rebel” and Bowie’s brand new rocker “Never Grow Old” from his new REALITY album. On April 12th, another mash-up by Mark Vidler will be released as a single. …

I have pics but they’re buried in boxes best left undisturbed, but my high school baseball teams from ’72-75 (hey Merle, you out there?) had the longest hair ever. EVERYONE on the team had serious flow and some of us had CRAZY long hair (I hadn’t discovered conditioner yet) – …

Though I still wag my finger in a disapproving manner regarding the NY Times’ policy of charging for access to stories over one week old, I stand up and applaud two new resources they have just made available. The Times now offers over 5,000 movie reviews from its pages, including …

We announced the lineup of this year’s Lolla a couple of weeks ago. I just got in an update that, frankly, is rather impenetrable, or maybe that’s just the mind of Perry Farrell: The Lollapalooza 2004 is quickly shaping up as this summer’s most provocative and exciting musical extravaganza. Genre-blurring …

Simpsons creator Matt Groening is finally appearing as a guest for the first time on this Sunday’s show: Although Groening’s image has appeared on “The Simpsons,” including a framed photo on the wall of Comic Book Guy’s store, this will be his first speaking role on the animated series, Fox …

Singer Sophie B Hawkins found her new album available on eBay before its April 20 release date. She went to small claims court: The Grammy-nominated artist won $346 from the eBay seller for offering advance copies of her new CD on the online auction service. The album, called Wilderness, is …

Let’s forget Bush for a moment. George W. Bush is a very odd vessel for what is the most important message of our time: that there are implacable forces in the world that hate us, our way of life, our vibrant culture, our personal freedom, and those forces will do …

Isn’t a part of our romance with the car due to the fact that it CAN’T talk back to us? Don’t we crave that mute responsiveness? That may soon be ruined: IBM is working on developing a system that allows a driver hold a conversation with a car. The system …

David Fiore has an interesting post about popular culture being our best tool for “conquering” the Middle East. Today the NY Times has a great stroy on what our forces take with them to the far reaches of the globe: American troops arrive for duty in Iraq with a rifle …