Oakland GM Billy Beane is first GM to build a team around sabermetrics.

Just about every election year, one or more pols attempt to curry voter favor by beating the straw man of violent/sexual/vulgar/drug-related entertainment content: WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN??? There’s Tipper, Ice T, Eminem, Columbine, Cheney, etc etc. Now this: Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) announced Friday he will hold a field hearing …

The Sex Pistols headlined a punk festival at the old home of the US Festival, the Glen Helen Pavillion in smoggy Devore, about 50 miles east of LA. Shockingly, a few fans got rowdy: In true punk spirit, rowdy music fans pelted the Sex Pistols with beer on Saturday as …

Paul McCartney is set to release a 14-minute Beatles piece, “Carnival of Light,” recorded during the Sgt Pepper sessions: – Paul McCartney is to release a Beatles track unheard for 35 years as the soundtrack to a film montage of his late wife Linda’s photographs, The Sunday Times said. ….Beatles …

While the majors persist with their “smash hit” model, where anything less than platinum equates to failure, niche indies like blues label Blind Pig make a living from modest sales: Michael Jackson’s last album “Invincible” sold 2 million copies but was considered a commercial flop by Sony. So where does …

Solid state reprogrammable storage at about $5 a gig: Nüp2 Incorporated will revolutionize the electronic memory business. Using our patented memory technology and our patent-pending “Topolithographic” manufacturing process, we will develop and produce solid-state electronic memory having gigabytes of storage in a tiny package for just a few dollars per …

New study says many watch TV and surf the Internet at the same time: Where do TV and the Internet meet? The answer, according to a study released today by comScore Media Metrix, is that it’s often in the same room. The survey of 45.1 million Americans finds that 48% …

Here is the Digital Consumers Bill of Rights in the opinion of DigitalConsumer.org: 1. Users have the right to “time-shift” content that they have legally acquired. This gives you the right to record video or audio for later viewing or listening. For example, you can use a VCR to record …

Edna Gunderson delineates the conflict between artists and labels: What started as a classic David-and-Goliath skirmish over contractual terms could be tilting toward a level battlefield as opposition on a wide range of issues swells against an industry mired in a sales slump. “The record business is in rough enough …

Epic is pissed about writers, radio people, etc – people like us dammit – trading files from records before they are released: Writers receiving review copies of two soon-to-be-released albums — Tori Amos’s “Scarlet’s Walk” and Pearl Jam’s “Riot Act” — are finding the CD’s already inside Sony Walkman players …