TP tells Rolling Stone what frosts his flakes: 1 Radio is not even worth listening to “I don’t really give a flying fuck about any of it. I’ve tuned out. But I was elated when my song was banned. I mean, nothing could have complimented me more than to hear …
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Biting the Hand
Rolling Stone took out a half-page ad in the NY Times today, apparently repositioning themselves as “voice of da kids”: A BIG FAT THANKS TO RECORD EXECS Thank you for fighting the good fight against Internet MP3 file-swapping. Because of you, millions of kids will stop wasting time listening to …
Read More »Burn On, Consumer, Burn On
DVD burners look to be big holiday sellers: This holiday season, electronics companies and computer makers hope DVD “burners,” or recorders, will become a hot new product, following the success of compact-disc burners in recent years. Another industry, the movie business, has reason to dread the same prospect. THE RISING …
Read More »Legendary Producer / Engineer Tom Dowd is Dead
Tom Dowd, producer of Aretha Franklin, Allman Bros, Eric Clapton, Rod Stewart, and engineer of dozens of Atlatnic classics dies at 77 in Florida: Dowd died on Sunday morning at a nursing home in Aventura after fighting a respiratory disease for two years, his daughter, Dana Dowd, said. “His contribution …
Read More »Republican Business-poet to Lead the NEA
Dana Gioia proposed by the White House to head National Endowment for the Arts: He is a writer with a background as a businessman. He is a registered Republican who voted for George W. Bush and for his father before that. His poetry is not political. His criticism, essays and …
Read More »Eminem a Hit in the Cradle of Hip-Hop
Eminem appears to have transcended barriers by focusing on class over race, living out a sociologist’s dream: The Bronx River Houses are hallowed ground in the hip-hop world, one of the neighborhoods where young African-Americans and Hispanics helped create a new art form in the 1970’s. The housing project in …
Read More »Never Mind the Bollocks Turns Twenty-Five
Still sounding dangerous and subversive, the Sex Pistols' one and only studio album a quarter-century later.
Read More »Hal Viewed As Pal
Workers say computer more important than management: According to new research, many workers think their computers are more useful than their bosses. The survey, conducted by research firm Taylor Nelson Sofres in the United Kingdom for Fujitsu Services, found that employees rank IT systems as the most useful thing in …
Read More »Osbournes Back in Time For Turkey
Metal icon, mate, and spawn back for second season: MTV’s hugely anticipated second season of The Osbournes will premiere just two days before Thanksgiving, on November 26 at 10:30 p.m., Sharon Osbourne confirmed to E! News Live. There has been much speculation that MTV might push back the debut episode …
Read More »Johnnie Johnson Lawsuit Dismissed
Piano great’s songwriting claim against Chuck Berry tossed: So it goes in St. Louis, where a federal judge has tossed a royalties lawsuit filed against the rock icon by former sideman Johnnie Johnson, the pianist immortalized in Berry’s classic “Johnnie B. Goode.” Johnson sued Berry in 2000 claiming to have …
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