The NY Times reports the RIAA is losing the morality battle among the Youth of Today, or at least this segment thereof. Remember, over time perception IS reality: IT shouldn’t be illegal,” said 14-year-old Sonya Arndt. “It’s not like I’m selling it.” “Isn’t it like recording movies?” asked Korbi Blanchard, …

In 1970, Shep Gordon, who managed Alice Cooper, was wandering the streets of Toronto, killing time as he awaited the arrival of funds to pay the band’s hotel bill after the Strawberry Fields Festival. His wanderings led him to the door of Nimbus 9 productions, producers of the Guess Who, …

Another one-album wonder, Ned’s Atomic Dustbin put out one of the great modern rock albums of the ’90s, God Fodder – a masterpiece of catchy hooks, painful insights and thick, chunky guitar – then for all intents and purposes, went away. God Fodder announces itself from the fade-in of the …

Pat Collier was a member of the Vibrators, one of the earliest British pop-punk bands in the late-’70s. As the ’70s became the ’80s Collier turned to recording, owning and operating the Greenhouse Studio in London, and over the course of working with dozens of young bands he developed Collier’s …

With guitars and their wielding very much on my mind, I tossed the new Chris Duarte Group (Duarte, John Jordan – bass, Ed Miles – drums) CD on the player and let it rip, er romp. Romp is the hairy, Band O Gypsies-clad, Austin-based fret-feeler’s fourth album, and if you …

My friend Stephen is on tour playing music in Syria, Kuwait, Lebanon. He had a hell of a time emailing from Syria – this report comes from Kuwait: I’m now in Kuwait where mercifully the internet is not (as) censored!!! I can’t imagine how much effort those guys go to …

Senator Sam, Republican from Kansas, cuts through the copyright industry jibber-jabber and strikes a blow for consumer rights, due process, and privacy. He sees the DMCA for what it is, and the proposed “broadcast flag” on digital television as an affront to consumer rights. His press release on the matters …

Besides all the political, legal, and cultural machinations driving the need to resolve outstanding digital content and copyright issues, the spread of broadband is also quickening the pulse: The global number of broadband subscribers grew 72 per cent in 2002 to approximately 62 million, according to a report from the …

Evolutionary psychologists, anthropologists, neurologists and various other ologist-types have been trying to figure out the meaning of music in terms of human utility for some time: Darwin proposed that traits found attractive in courtship would enable their owners to get more genes into the next generation. The upshot would be …

If the extreme bass sound known as infrasound produces anxiety, extreme sorrow and chills in people, what would this note do, make an entire nebula soil itself? Astronomers say they have heard the sound of a black hole singing. And what it is singing, and perhaps has been singing for …