Into the ring to take a swing: The first individual to fight back against a flood of subpoenas issued by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) lodged a motion in the name of ‘Jane Doe’ with a Washington court on Thursday, seeking to prevent her ISP handing over her …

Since the president relies on aids to do everything but wipe his butt, (one assumes, no pun intended), it probably shouldn’t be a surprise that he doesn’t have much hands-on experience with tech gadgets: No pager or PDA hangs off his belt and there’s no cell phone in his suit …

Sobig.F shrivels and fizzles: The fast-spreading Sobig.F e-mail virus slowed on Sunday and failed for a second time to launch a remote data attack using thousands of infected personal computers, computer security experts said. Sobig.F, which first emerged on Aug. 18, was programmed by an unknown creator to unleash a …

Suzanne Vega learns to drive, lives to tell the tale, and writes about it in today’s NY Times: And I really wanted a driver’s license. I was 43, had my learner’s permit and had failed the test once already – but that was in Riverhead, on Long Island. I’m an …

The classic, horrifying, mesmerizing song “Strange Fruit” has received a lot of attention of late – Steve Rhodes reported on a PBS special on the song and its creation back in April. Besides being a milestone in the civil rights movement, Billie Holiday’s 1939 version of the song was also …

The exquisite sounds of near-silence.

We’ve had a lot of talk lately on Blogcritics about Elvis Presley, the founding of rock ‘n’ roll, and title to the throne. There was a two-year period between 1955 and 1957 when NO ONE made rock ‘n’ roll like Little Richard. In the spring of 1955 Bumps Blackwell was …

Sometimes Age just jumps right up and kicks me in the jimmies, although most of the time I don’t think about it. Driving around the mountains of North Carolina a couple of weeks ago listening to the eccentric classic rock of The Ride gave me plenty of time to torture …

I was looking for something else when I stumbled across this story from June about the Dead Kennedys suing each other – this is what happens to idealistic punks 25 years down the road. It depressed the hell out of me, so in order to counteract this, I put on …

A rather self-congratulatory update on the Dixie Chicks from the UK’s Guardian: Ever since Natalie Maines, the Dixie Chicks’ lead singer, told a London audience they were “ashamed that the president of the United States of America is from Texas”, the group has found itself in the eye of a …