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The zany MTV Movie Awards – which demonstrate their level of seriousness by handing out gilded buckets of popcorn to the winners – air tonight at 9 pm on (duh) MTV. The show was taped on Saturday and the nominees and winners (talk about spoilers) are listed here. Keeping with …

It all began with a heads-up from our pal Scott Matthews of Andromeda, who alerted me to the chewy goodness of director Tobias Perse’s extraordinary stop-motion animation video of NYC indie-rocker Sam Bisbee’s classic song “You Are Here,” utilizing polaroids and half a stick of gum, available for consumption and …

Though the connection to “jazz” is tenuous – this is really about artists who get played on “smooth jazz” and “quiet storm” radio stations, which is something different from “jazz” jazz entirely – there are worse ways to spend a few summer days than at the very first Cayman Jazz …

This seems like a pretty exciting show for the youth of today, a live music show Thursdays at 8pm on the WB, Pepsi Smash. Tomorrow’s (6/10) show features Alanis Morisette, Maroon 5, Joss Stone, and Phantom Planet live in the studio – the Smash Stage in Los Angeles – and …

Like Christopher Ricks, newly elected professor of poetry at Oxford, and the Warren Professor of Humanities at Boston University, who has a new book out on the subject that many might consider … granular: In a corner by the desk there is also a boom box. Mr. Ricks brings this …

My strongest feeling about the passing of Ronald Reagan is not much feeling at all. Part of this is simple ambivalence: I was at my most liberal during Reagan’s presidency, didn’t vote for him, resented his yanking of the country to the right, the silliness of “just say no,” the …

Talking like a screaming, slashing, deranged libertarian gov-o-smasher, Declan McCullagh of CNET wants to abolish the FCC and offers to dynamite their building himself – okay I made that part up: It’s time to abolish the Federal Communications Commission. The reason is simple. The venerable FCC, created in 1934, is …

As a lover of radio and an intermittent broadcast professional I feel despair at the state of commercial radio today. I heartily agree with this policy statement, just released by the Future of Music Coalition regarding low power FM (LPFM): FMC Statement on Low Power FM Legislation For the past …

Robert Quine, one of the great guitarists of alt-rock history – an underrated #80 on the Rolling Stone guitarist poll – died at 61 of an apparent heroin overdose in his NYC apartment. Quine had been despondent since the recent death of his wife. Billboard.com has more: Born in Akron, …

With non-media consumer companies getting into the promotion of digitally downloaded music (Pepsi, McDonald’s, Coke, Starbucks, etc), it is interesting that Scotland On Sunday elected to give away actual CDs by hot Scots Franz Ferdinand in yesterday’s edition: FRANZ FERDINAND CD – FREE INSIDE every copy of Scotland on Sunday …