The 1973 concert film Wattstax returns for a limited engagement theatrical run staring June 6 with original ending restored: On August 20, 1972, more than 100,000 people attended what came to be known as “the black Woodstock.” The popular appeal and broad diversity of the attending Stax Records artists ensured …

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And that’s essential. The Byrds lay at the foundation of not one, or two, but THREE essential rock ‘n’ roll subgenres: folk rock, psychedelic rock, and country rock, and they weren’t just a foundation, they were among the highest manifestations of all three. Columbia/Legacy – with the world’s greatest catalogue …

Summer is almost here – although it’s 55 and raining today in Cleveland – and summer is the time for the langorous strains of a Jamaican backbeat wafting on the floral breeze. Ya mon, it’s reggae time, and if you only have one collection spanning the entire reggae era (in …

For $750 mil, AOL TW decides Microsoft is tits and Netscape is history: Bill Gates, the chairman of Microsoft, and Steve Case, the newly unemployed former chairman of AOL Time Warner, were at the same cocktail party this week in North San Diego when AOL officially surrendered in the Browser …

Cal Coastline photo project captures Streisand estate – she sues: Barbra Streisand has filed a $10-million lawsuit against a multi-millionaire who posted a high-resolution photograph of her Malibu estate on an Internet Web site documenting erosion along the California coast. The lawsuit, alleging violations of the diva’s right to privacy …

Bootleggers contributed mightily to new Led Zeppelin DVD release: When ex-Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page lamented “it’s a real shame that … there isn’t enough live footage of us,” he wasn’t being completely candid. PAGE, WHO WAS speaking to me in 1998, knew full well just how much footage there …

Turner opposes FCC media ownership deregulation: On Monday the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is expected to adopt dramatic rule changes that will extend the market dominance of the five media corporations that control most of what Americans read, see and hear. I am a major shareholder in the largest of …

I don’t mean “politically correct“: A legal dispute that threatened to derail Gateway Inc.’s groundbreaking plan to load music on its computers has been quietly resolved amid growing interest in such offerings by rival PC makers, executives and analysts said on Thursday. Months after announcing a first-of-its-kind deal in December …

Hey now, we are flattered and honored to be given the thumbs up by the coolest music trade going, bar none, HITS (what, you think Billboard is cool?). Check out their smoking hot HITS Daily Double column daily. Here’s the Blogcritics salute from the hypercool Roy Trakin: tbomedia.co.uk: Some of …