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I feel much better knowing Kristy Swanson’s opinions on the following (click on “Expressions”): I am a huge football fan, and I am very psyched that the new season is finally underway. I don’t have a particular “team,” per se, but I like to follow the Rams and the Steelers, …

Perhaps the most profoundly loathsome songwriter of her generation, Diane Warren whines about P2P: As a kid, I listened to the radio all the time. I didn’t dream of becoming a rock star. I dreamed of becoming a songwriter. My dream has come true. Sadly, the growing epidemic of illegal …

The White Stripes have finished their new album, Elephant, according to singer/guitarist Jack White: we have finished the making, mixing, and mastering of elephant, but won’t let it out of it’s cage just yet, it needs to graze on the plains for a minute. perhaps it’s not what meg and …

Ringmaster Tolkien has been discussed much in these pages of late. Now, Publishers Weekly Daily newsletter has an interview today with Tolkien scholar Douglas Anderson, author of The Annotated Hobbit: PW Daily spoke with Anderson about juggling the roles of bookseller and author, and why reading an annotated Hobbit is …

Neil Portnow to be named: Portnow, an executive with Jive Records, was one of five finalists under review by the board, which voted Sunday, sources said. The Santa Monica-based academy is in charge of the Grammy Awards. He would replace longtime Grammy chief C. Michael Greene, who stepped down in …

It’s a big day for settlements: Rock music star Courtney Love and Universal Music Group on Monday said they have settled all legal issues between them, ending a widely watched industry lawsuit ahead of a trial scheduled for this week. Under the deal, Universal Music Group said it will waive …

According to Variety: Battered file-swapping pioneer Napster has signed a nonbinding letter of intent to sell substantially all of its assets to an as-yet-unnamed party in a move that should help the online company skirt a bankruptcy liquidation. Creditors’ attorney Rick Antonoff said the letter resulted from one of several …

This case is fascinating: from the original FTC investigation, the workings of MAP (minimum advertised price), the 42-state law suit on behalf of millions of consumers, to the settlement in the form of cash and a whole bunch of CDs – the distribution system of which will be a byzantine …

Grass-roots my ass.

Fall is hunting season. I’m not a hunter, never have been – unless you include a traumatic childhood episode that still stains my dreams on restless nights. When I was a boy in Southern California our Little League baseball field was located on semi-wild terrain adjacent to a cliff that …