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Brian, check it out: First Scene Film & Music Expo provides a premier platform for emerging filmmakers, and other artists to debut their projects while giving influential members of the New York film/Arts community a first look at exceptional new work. First Scene will commence on May 21st at Pressure, …

Manhattan civil court jury awards indie label TVT $132 million in damages against the Island Def Jam Music Group and Lyor Cohen, its chairman and chief executive: [The award] followed a federal trial that ended in March, when Mr. Cohen and his company, a large and profitable record label, were …

Coincidence? Wal-Mart just dumped the three “lad mags” for being a little too much like Playboy. Playboy announces its “lad mag” makeover: Playboy’s new editor James Kaminsky says he’s got a magazine for you. After months of nips and tucks to stop the signs of aging at the 50-year-old publication, …

With their concert tour off to a rousing start a few days ago, it appeared the Dixie Chicks’ nightmare was about over. But no, the controversy just won’t go gently into that goodnight: two DJ’s were suspended from country station KKCS in Colorado Springs for playing the Chicks: “We pulled …

Okay, so Mister Rogers didn’t say it, but “Mister Robinson,” one of Eddie Murphy’s better parodies, did. The accumulated wit and wisdom of the beloved Fred Rogers, who died at 74 in February, will be published in October by Hyperion: “Fred Rogers’ messages – that we respect each other’s uniqueness, …

I am a huge fan of Pete Yorn’s first CD, Music For The Morning After an eclectic mixture of rootsy rock and folky ballads, but having only heard the recent single off of his latest one, I will let the reviewers speak for me. If looks and sex appeal count …

Inimitable and ever-morphing Madonna has released her latest CD, American Life. NME “She’s simply done everything there is to do, done more than any other pop star will ever be able achieve, done it with bells on and knickers off. Surely that’s enough now?” Undercover – “Madonna has succeeded in …

We are very concerned about the concentration of the media into fewer and fewer hands, but what about retail? Wal-Mart is the world’s biggest company, it is the biggest private employer in the US, it sells 36% of all dog food, 32% of disposable diapers, 30% of photographic film, 26% …

The Third Annual Joey Ramone Birthday Bash will be held Friday, May 16th in NYC, and will feature headline performances by The Misfits, Rocket From the Crypt, and a gaggle of newer bands (Slashtones, Collider, Coyote Shivers, Sick Fucks, Suffrajett, 5 Cent Deposit, Mickey Leigh & Friends, The Bullys). MTV’s …

Yesterday was May 4th. Reading Sarah Hollander’s dramatic report in the Cleveland Plain Dealer about yesterday’s anti-war march and arrests in Kent gave me a very disturbing sense of deja vu: The Kent State Anti-War Committee planned the separate rally to oppose the recent war and actions in Iraq. Last …