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Creem to crush trees once again: When Creem relaunches on newsstands next year, the rock magazine hopes to bring back the sarcastic wit and intelligent, observant voice that Creem CEO/publisher Robert Matheu says has been lost in much of today’s national consumer music magazines. In an exclusive interview with Billboard.com, …

Napster is wasting no time jumping into high profile marketing maneuvers, taking on iTunes and the seven dwarfs with confidence and aplomb: Penn State University announced today it is going to revolutionize the music world with a ground-breaking agreement with the online music service Napster, a division of Roxio. ….Penn …

This is an odd news report: More than a million households deleted all the digital music files they had saved on their PCs in August – a sign that the record industry’s anti-piracy tactics are hitting home, said research company NPD Group on Wednesday. NPD credited the ongoing anti-piracy campaign …

These young whippersnappers just keep coming up with ways to bug people with their mobile phones: Phone owners now have something else to do with their handset: bluejacking. This involves sending anonymous text messages to other phone users via Bluetooth short-range radio. Bluetooth works over a range of about 10 …

Good news for the industry, although there aren’t all that many songs even available in physical form, but that’s another story. Digital tracks are outselling physical singles by a growing margin, a sign that consumers increasingly are embracing the brave new world of Internet downloading. Digital download sales outpaced physical …

I like Taking Back Sunday quite a bit – great screaming melodic punky emo – in a good way. They are on tour with Saves the Day! through November and have some very cool news for fans: Taking Back Sunday and Nokia have teamed up to provide fans direct contact …

Son of a sneezing biscuit! This story couldn’t fit in much better to my daylong crusade against smug pricks, concerning which, this pud from Diebold joins the Smug Prick Hall of Fame: Diebold Election Systems, which makes voting machines, is waging legal war against grass-roots advocates, including dozens of college …

At 45 I have been listening rabidly to rock music for over 35 years – I AM classic rock. If it came out in the late-’60s or ’70s, I pretty much know it, but I have to admit all I remember about Bloodrock are their album covers. Barry Stoller passionately …

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