This is a great story – sometimes lives do turn around and have happy endings, or at least new beginnings: R&B singer Howard Tate seemed to have a promising career going in the ’60s and early ’70s. Tate’s voice and emotion-charged stylings had people comparing him favorably to Sam Cooke, …

Eric Olsen laments the loss of Salsa Queen Celia Cruz

A beautiful day, the Orb, and Ricki Lee Jones

Neither the RIAA, MPAA, nor any other AA can trace users on public Wi-Fi systems: Early last spring, NYCWireless co-founder Anthony Townsend got a note in the mail saying that someone on his network had been violating copyright laws. This type of note is becoming increasingly common as record companies …

Amazing and invaluable project making virtually all Supreme Court oral arguments available on MP3 for free: The Oyez (pronounced o-yay) project has taken the original tapes of such historic cases and is now making them available in MP3 format for free. “Reading a transcript of a spoken event is not …

The only way to get the new Avril Lavigne live EP is through iTunes: The cuts, “Sk8er Boi,” “Nobody’s Fool,” “Unwanted, “Losing Grip” and a cover of Green Day’s “Basket Case” were recorded on March 23 in Dublin. Fans can purchase individual tracks for 99 cents or the full EP …

I was unaware of the this syndicated PRI show, Echoes, which appears to be tres cool. We do not get it in Northeast Ohio: ECHOES A Nightly Music Soundscape Over 150 Radio Stations FEATURES AND HIGHLIGHTS **UPDATE** for July 2003 Following is a listing of Echoes features and Living Room …

Madonna to do ads for Gap: Madonna will be the new face for Gap’s fall multimillion dollar ad campaign. Gap spokeswoman Claudia Hawkins would give few details on the campaign, set to break July 28, other than to say the campaign also features rap star Missy Elliott. Over the past …

Limbaugh to join ESPN’s Sunday NFL Countdown: Hired to “provide the voice of the fan and to spark debate on the show,” according to an ESPN news release, Limbaugh makes his debut Sept. 4, the night of the NFL opener. ….”Football is like life and I know life,” Limbaugh said. …

We loudly salute our very own Brian Flemming (note the hairy arms), whose film Nothing So Strange opens in New York July 21! Called “brilliant” by Wired, “chilling” by the Seattle Times, and “a crackling good movie” by Variety, this hyper-realistic faux documentary won the New York Times Claiborne Pell …