New Apple music service to go live today at 1 PM (EDT) – at $.99 per song it is way overpriced and will do little or nothing to change current habits. I believe the tipping point is somewhere between $.50 and $.25 per song. The Financial Times’ report: Apple Computer …

Please see guest blogger John Parres’ take on Madonna’s genius viral marketing move – the remixes containing the Profane Matron’s utterance of warning continue to proliferate here. Check them out – contribute your own. All the attention seems to be selling old-fashioned CDs: her American Life album just jumped from …

The arguments now against the war in Iraq – coming from the rather awkward position of resounding victory and liberation in just three weeks – are that our motives were “wrong” (just not pure enough for a worldview that values ideology above all else), and that this dangerous “preemptive” war …

The Apple “surprise announcement” coming Monday, the 28th, isn’t much of a surprise anymore: High-quality design and simplicity of use are expected to be the hallmarks of the new digital music service from Apple Computer ….Label sources tell Bulletin that the service is an a la carte download store — …

This just in: In a case that could turn the tide on online piracy, a Los Angeles judge ruled Friday in favor of online file-sharing services Grokster and Morpheus, saying the two companies are not liable for online piracy by users of their service. The follow-on services to Napster — …

I imagine for reasons of component origins, whenever I spend much time pondering the blues, I end up thinking about reggae and ska. Hepcat’s Push ‘n Shoveis my favorite American ska album of the last several years, and one of my faves going all the way back to to the …

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Octagenarian Mississippian T-Model Ford plays ragged, raunchy, wild and wooly juke joint blues that makes the North Mississippi Allstars sound like Kelly Clarkson. Like fellow members of the recurring Juke Joint Caravan Tour (Paul Jones and Robert Belfour) of Fat Possum artists, Ford beats his fuzzy electric guitar with vicious …

By far my favorite blues-rock album of the last few years is the North Mississippi Allstars’ Shake Hands With Shorty. This ’00 CD by the young trio of brothers Luther Dickinson (raging slide guitars and vocals) and Cody Dickinson (drums and vocals) – sons of the great producer Jim Dickinson …

I’ve been getting back into the blues lately, as I periodically do to keep myself grounded. Among my favorite white blues (not necessarily an oxymoron) releases of the last few years is The Chill by Rusty Zinn. Zinn is a brilliant young singer and guitarist from NorthernCalifornia who proves that …