I feel Dawn’s pain, as expressed passionately here. It also feel the deaths of our young military men and women in Iraq piling up in my soul, crushing my optimism. The key to this enterprise is to remain on the offense, as is supposedly our entire modus operandi for the …

There is good and bad about the Penn State-Napster deal: good that someone worked out a blanket deal with a provider of digital music, bad that there so many restrictions on usage, and especially the $.99 per-song price to keep permanently or to burn to CD. This will not solve …

Sony and BMG are merging their music divisions in an effort to … to do what? That’s what Forbes asks: In theory, the merged company will benefit from reduced overhead and bigger market share, and may also prevent rivals EMI Group and Time Warner’s Warner Music Group from consummating a …

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Do I take great pleasure at the misfortune of others? When the others in question make up the rapacious filth that is Clear Channel Communications, Inc., I do. Why? They have done all they can to turn radio into NOTHING but a commercial-delivery system. They have created monolithic blandness out …

Speculation has been rife for at least a year, but yesterday Sony and BMG agreed to merge music units. Warner Music Group and EMI are talking. And then there were three?: Sony Music and BMG on Thursday said they plan to combine their music units in a move that could …

Creem to crush trees once again: When Creem relaunches on newsstands next year, the rock magazine hopes to bring back the sarcastic wit and intelligent, observant voice that Creem CEO/publisher Robert Matheu says has been lost in much of today’s national consumer music magazines. In an exclusive interview with Billboard.com, …

Jessica Lynch has been lionized as a hero by the military, vilified as a fake by the rabid anti-war crowd – she has been bandied back and forth like a tennis ball. She is not a symbol, she is a person, she did not fight like Rambo when she was …

Following the day-to-day news from Iraq is very disturbing and can be terribly confusing. I HATE the fact that Americans are dying almost every day – I feel powerless and frustrated. That’s why a story like this is so important: things are different, there are tangible gains, a society that …

As always the subject of the Dixie Chicks generates more heat and gas than a cattle drive. Very interesting that the CMA chose a Clintonian triangulation for this year’s awards show: not inviting the double-nominated Dixie Chicks to appear, handing Chicks-nemesis Toby Keith the spotlight, but then totally shutting him …