Joni Mitchell is resurfacing and previewing her new album via the web: For two weeks leading up to the release of Joni Mitchell’s new album, “Travelogue,” Nonesuch Records will be previewing one complete track a day from the album for 14 days as streamed audio over the internet. Beginning November …

Here’s a story. Knoxville singer/songwriter Michele Newton recorded some tunes raw, just her voice and guitar, with some friends as a club demo – you know: “I want to play here, this is what I sound like.” Lives go on – Newton got married, became a mom and dropped out …

I was looking forward with breathful anticipation (I stop breathing for no CD) to Paul Thorn’s new album, Mission Temple Fireworks Stand, Thorn’s take on the traveling Southern tent revival culture Thorn learned so well at the side of his preacher father. Alas, perhaps the charming and charismatic Thorn is …

When we were in Hawaii last summer we listened to a lot of Steely Dan, one of the few bands the whole family – from (at the time) 2 to 43 with a couple of teenagers thrown in the middle – could mutually appreciate. The teens dug the rocking guitar …

Now, in addition to frogman, professional wrestler, politician, sports announcer, and guy with an outrageously annoying Minnesota accent, the current governor of the Gopher State – or whatever its damn nickname is – Jesse Ventura is negotiating to be a talk show host: Jesse Ventura is in talks with MSNBC …

Starpolish did an interview with Jam Master Jay just six weeks before he was murdered: STARPOLISH: It’s no secret that Run DMC is singled out as being the band that broke hip hop to the mainstream while still maintaining every ounce of credibility along the way. First and foremost, I …

Jefferson Chase thinks so: It is no accident that ideas like these should be put forth in a German journal. Germans are not as humorless as stereotypes would have it, but German nationalism was characterized historically, from its inception in the mid-18th century to the end of the Nazi catastrophe, …

Speaking of crushingly awful reality shows, (all of them) USA Today has the scoop on the hoops contestants must leap through just to get on each pitiful mess: Name. Address. Age. Education. Sexual fantasy. What kind of application asks for such an intimate detail? One that gets the winning hopeful …

We are still in the middle of getting moved in to our new house, and getting organized, set up, settled in, and whatnot. I spent much of last night putting together a “home entertainment center,” which means slapping together a bunch of fake wood and hoping it doesn’t collapse under …

Fortune thinks so: things look pretty darn bleak for Martha, right? Actually, no. First of all, barring new revelations, it’s unlikely that any criminal charges will stick. If the SEC forces her to step down as CEO of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, she’ll still control it because she owns 62% …