The Rock Hall Induction Ceremonies were Monday night. Read Johanna Hoadley’s webcast of the event here. Bios of the inductees are here. Billboard was backstage at the event talking to the honorees: Well-known for his liberal political beliefs, Jackson Browne was asked what it would take to unseat President Bush …

This is preposterous: to the best of my knowledge, no Iraqi has EVER wished death upon Jews, lusted after Japanese schoolgirls, shunned regular bathing, or been intimate with a quadruped. What were they thinking? an official for the Clear Channel Communications station, KFI-AM, said she would read an apology on …

What is and what is not appropriate regarding teen dance styles has been an issue as long as there have been teens and dancing – that’s why some societies forbid dancing with the opposite sex. What has changed, at least to a certain extent, is the overt reproduction of various …

Essential Cheap Trick, the new 36-song, 2-CD career retrospective from America’s greatest power pop band, finally gets it right. Authorized Greatest Hits and Greatest Hits both focused too much on the later records and pop hits, neglecting the first album entirely and underrepresenting the classic In Color and Heaven Tonight …

Ron Wood lucky to be alive? Maybe, but what about Keith Richards? He looked half-dead 25 years ago, he is still only occasionally coherent – the man has been actively poisoning himself for about 45 years. Rumor has it he has no blood or organs, yet how many people have …

David Carradine, who isn’t Chinese and only looks vaguely Asian because he squints a lot, is back in the spotlight with his title role in the Kill Bill films and with today’s DVD release of the first season of Kung Fu. I loved Kung Fu when it ran on TV …

Claims misrepresentation in film and accounting improprieties: “‘Rapper’s Delight’? No way, mate – I’m a Cold Chisel man. And they swore I could keep the jacket and the cash in the pocket.” So he and his gang are waging a campaign of intimidation and assault: Sylvia Aldren was working in …

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland is airing a closed-circuit feed from the Induction Ceremony from the Waldorf Astoria in NYC tonight. My great pal Johanna Hoadley is webcasting the event live from the Rock Hall: 8:31 p.m. Ahmet Ertegun, founder and chairman of the …

Toronto Star Internet columnist Peter Howell is coming a bit late to the blog game, but late is way better than never: I was skeptical about Weblogs – “blogs” for short – when I first heard about them, and why I’ve never really followed them that closely. Blogs looked like …

People I’m telling you, when I was growing up in the ’60s and early-’70s there was nothing hotter than the Raquel Welch poster from One Million Years B.C. My parents would have freaked, well actually, my mother would have freaked if I had put it up in my room or …