A couple of days ago we mentioned the blockbuster hippie-fest Bonnaroo Music Festival coming to Tennessee this June – there’s another camp and jam extravaganza featuring some of the same artists coming to West Virginia in May: Thursday, May 15 to Sunday, May 18, 2003 7th Annual ALL GOOD MUSIC …

New software lets you blog via cell phone: While most of the world will continue to post their weblog entries from a desktop PC, a new outfit based in Dublin, Ireland, called NewBay Software has designed a service called FoneBlog that could eventually let wireless customers create a blog using …

In its (totally legitimate) fight against real pirates – in this case Asian gangs – the Motion Picture Association is looking for informants: Hollywood is seeking informers to combat hi-tech and often heavily armed Asian pirate gangs, which are flooding the world with cheap DVDs and robbing U.S. cinema of …

I am saddened by the reports that Salon.com will not survive beyond the next couple of weeks: In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday, Salon said it has been unable to pay most of its bills since December, including its rent. If it cannot increase revenues …

While I am fully behind the War on Terror, I am absolutely against the War on Americans that is Patriot Act 2. So is law professor Anita Ramasastry: On February 7 of this year, a January 9 draft of Patriot II was revealed to the public – but not by …

In a move that would appear to be an effort to bolster its legal position, 321 Studios is offering a reward for information about illegal DVD-copying with its products: The major studios sued 321 last December, saying the company promotes copyright infringement by offering products that allow people to copy …

The poets, the celebs, the musicians all have large anti-war segments. Good for them – war in general is bad. But THIS SPECIFIC war isn’t a generic war, isn’t Vietnam or imperialism, or for the corporations, or some vague aggressive muscle-flexing. It’s proactive self-defense catalyzed by the hideous shock of …

Own a label? Interested in starting one? Maybe you’re just interested in how indies operate – if so, check out this program in LA on the 26th: The National Association of Record Industry Professionals presents: “INDEPENDENTS’ DAY: Indy Labels Charting A New Standard For Success” Managing independent labels to stability …

AC/DC will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 10. To celebrate, Epic is rereleasing their entire AC/DC catalog AND giving away tickets to the only AC/DC show in the US this year: AC/DC TO MAKE THEIR ONLY US PERFORMANCE FOR 2003 ON MARCH 11TH! …

For a show whose premise was to turn the tables on grasping gold diggers by faking a $50 million fortune, Joe Millionaire sure went the way of a Disney fairy tale at the end. The masquerading lummox had to choose between Sarah the bitch, and Zora the schoolteacher: sophisticated, blonde, …