Hey, my bud and Cleveland native Chris Butler, former leader-songwriter-guitarist-producer for the Waitresses, Tin Huey member, solo artist, has a hypercool, zeitgeist-humming new CD out called The Museum of Me, wherein he recorded new songs with the ur technology of wax cylinders, wire recorders, and vintage tape, all mixed up …

Hilary is on her way out, everyone and their mother says drastic change is in the offing, but industry officials say they are going to keep alienating everyone who can possibly help them: Music industry officials on both sides of the Atlantic on Friday vowed to keep up the fight …

I’ve always liked SNL’s Tracy Morgan but haven’t always been sure why: he has appeared sporadically over his seven years on the show and is sometimes hilarious and sometimes seems wildly out of place. I now think is the essence of his appeal is the contrast between his NYC streetwise, …

I like the one week break between the Conference Finals and the Superbowl: it keeps a lid on the hype, which really seems to pick up steam in the second week. This year it seems more like a big game than a Roman Spectacle, and since the weight of the …

Anderson Merchandisers, the largest magazine wholesaler in the United States and Wal-Mart’s music distributor, has bought Liquid Audio’s technology and other assets: Liquid Audio was at the forefront in developing technology to deliver music securely online but has been in financial straits recently and has suffered through a nasty boardroom …

My sweet, beautiful, thoughtful, beloved 18 year-old daughter – who is in Americorps for a year before college – called a couple of days ago all excited: she had attended her first anti-war rally last weekend, and marched and shouted slogans, and listened to “Jesse Jackson and Jessica Lange speak!!” …

Privacy concerns and spam, bit Internet concerns. Network Solutions blows it on both fronts: “A few thousand” Network Solutions customers received e-mail messages that contained more than 85,000 e-mail addresses of other Network Solutions customers, said spokesman Patrick Burns of VeriSign Inc., the parent company of Network Solutions. “We made …

Our buds at Amazon show a quarterly profit for the second time: Amazon’s performance, and the rebound in its stock price since last summer, might surprise those who assumed Internet companies were better left for dead after the dot-com implosion. But analysts say Amazon and a core group of Internet …

A new group, the Alliance for Digital Progress (ADP), combines tech giants Microsoft, Cisco, Intel and Apple, as well as consumer groups and think tanks: The new group is trying to prevent any new attempts at legislation that would require the introduction of technology that makes it hard to copy …

The Economist presents a wide ranging, boldly ambitious consideration of “The Internet Society,” looking at the conditions and ramifications of where we are now and where we are going in a connected world. The information is edifying and some of the conclusions are surprising. The whole endeavor is bookended by …