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This is amusing – I go to the front page of Amazon and find Anna Kournikova in her new Shock Absorber sports bra with – Molded, lined cups with an inner support sling – Shaped, padded comfort straps – Adjustable crossover or straight strap-fastening options – High-tech CoolMax® fabric because …

As Dawn mentioned yesterday, we have been having no end of computer and ISP problems between the worms, virus and spybot scans, security patches, and every other manner of heinous horseshit. I had to download an anti-virus program from BitDefender, which is cool and all (that reminds me to run …

Remember all that cool news I mentioned about the Willie Nelson-Ani DiFRanco concert to benefit Dennis Kucinich’s presidential campaign scheduled for September 6 in Cleveland? It was all a lie: Concerts Being Rescheduled In order to better fit the Kucinich campaign’s schedule, the Willie Nelson concerts set for in September …

Imagine the music created by a 29-year-old Japanese visual artist (Susumu Mukai) living in London on his home four-track with analog electronics, samples, guitars, bass, turntables, electric piano organ and other keyboards, clarinet, cooking spatulas, a matchbox and other found objects, drawing equally from severe avant garde electronica, disco (especially …

FirstEnergy may or may not have been the cause of the last week’s largest blackout in U.S. history – its officials continue to insist on their innocence, pointing accusatory fingers toward the east – but it doesn’t look good for the company regardless. The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports FirstEnergy is …

Australia’s INXS is still making a go of it – they just headlined the monsoon-plagued Live & Loud festival in Singapore with Jon Stevens singing lead in place of the late Michael Hutchence, who committed suicide in 1997. It’s hard to believe it’s been almost six years – I remember …

Perhaps after ten years it is time for Wales’ most important musical export since Tom Jones to break through in America. Super Furry Animals, led by singer Gruff Rhys, have a new neo-psychedelic gem out called Phantom Power, which doesn’t have a single as immediate and compelling as the techno-pop …

Another tale from the blackout – NYC handled itself rather well. Ted Leo did his part as Lookout Records’ Tristin Laughter informs us: 08/14/2003: South St. Seaport Pier 17 – New York, New York Seaport Music Festival- With: The Natural History; Doors: 5PM; all ages Having loaded in, checked, he …

DiFranco joins Willie Nelson for September 6 benefit concert in Cleveland. I don’t care if the Rolling Stones, U2, Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie, and the ghosts of Elvis Presley, John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, and Buddy Holly all endorse him and agree to …

Sonic Youth latest to be inducted into Hollywood’s Rockwalk: Critically acclaimed godfathers of alternative rock, Sonic Youth, have tirelessly charted new music terrain for nearly a quarter century. The underground American rock icons abandoned any pretense of traditional rock ‘n’ roll convention by redefining what noise meant within rock music, …