Whine fret whine, speculate, whine some more – movies really are different it would appear, at least so far. The summer film box office ended up being the highest ever: A little fish named Nemo made some big waves at the box office, helping to lift this summer’s grosses to …

Nearly everyday there is news of the legal, strategic, political and other objective aspects of music file sharing – here is an excellent article from the LA Times on the ethical aspects, which is ultimately the foundation of all other considerations. About half of the Internet users in the United …

The capitalist in me says why not to this – why should brokers and scalpers be able to get what the market will bear but not the venues or the performers? Yet I don’t trust Ticketmaster any farther than Pearl Jam could throw them. I fear it will help drive …

Craggy faced tough punched his way to stardom. My favorite Bronson role was as the only surviving member of the Dirty Dozen . My favorite of his leading roles was in Hard Times, Walter Hill’s directorial debut about a taciturn street fighter in New Orleans in the ’30s managed by …

For all of the flailing, flagellating and flapping of wings in the blogosphere, two-thirds of voters – including two-thirds of Democrats – were unable to name ANY of the Democratic candidates for president, according to a CBS News poll released yesterday. This seems about exactly in line with what I …

The start of another tour, last night’s concert webcast, and the forthcoming R.E.M. greatest hits (from the Warner Brothers years only – ’88-03) remind me that the band has never made music I want to hear more than their very first full-length album, Murmur Murmur is still the group’s defining …

R.E.M. began their six-week North American tour last Friday at Thunderbird Stadium in Vancouver, where they have been working on their next studio album. They have a new collection, In Time: The Best Of R.E.M., 1988-2003, coming out in October. The second show of the tour, tonight in Missoula, Montana, …

The legendary Peter Tosh talks about his hopes and plans - and the problems coming from the shitstem

The rerelease of Animal House on DVD is a pretty big deal for me and apparently for many – it was a sell out at our local Wal-Mart. My obsession is in ample evidence in this analysis of the movie, and this look at the soundtrack. But there are people …

Though veterans of two EP’s and two albums on Lookout Records, the East Bay’s Green Day (Billy Joe Armstrong – guitar, vocals; Mike Pritchard – bass, vocals; Tre Cool – drums) were barely in their 20’s when they came to Reprise Records seeking Rob Cavallo for his work with the …