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I still can’t believe classic rock writer and Billboard editor Timothy White died of a heart attack at the age of 50 in June: it’s a real tragedy and 50 sure sounds young. I met White on a few occasions and he was very gracious and encouraging of our work …

Gary Farber points us to the fascinating Infinite Matrix site, “a journal for people who love science fiction as a literature of ideas.” The site is having a “Fundraising Festival” right now, with some pretty amazing gifts for those who donate: Ursula K. Le Guin, Howard Waldrop, Vonda McIntyre, Leslie …

The Comics Journal site is running a series of audio interviews with Comics poobahs – the current feature is the final installment of a three-part interview with British comics writer Alan Moore by editor and publisher Gary Groth. Moore, fresh off of his success with Watchmen (and subsequent break with …

If you don't own the The Strokes Is This It then I have to ask you what the hell have you been doing?

Cool Tunes is a radio show in a magazine format Saturday nights at 10pm ET on WAPS, “The Summit,” in Akron, Ohio. I play new music, reissues, and preview shows coming to town each week. Musically it is among the widest-ranging 2 hours in the country: modern rock, punk, electronica, …

Melinda Newman interviews Mick and Keith for Billboard: It’s a little hard to imagine, but Keith Richards says he fears that playing live with his Rolling Stones bandmates may one day feel like just another day at the office. He pauses, slides into a hard guffaw, and adds, “Not that …

From Billboard: The debut album release by “American Idol” winner Kelly Clarkson has been postponed until early 2003. Sources say that the RCA album — which originally had been due Nov. 26 — was pushed back due to Clarkson’s commitment to this fall’s “American Idol” tour. Clarkson’s debut single, “Before …

David Kelly looks at Sopranos lit in the NY Times: Literary critics and historians, neo-Marxists and theoretical feminists, postmodernists and pre-post-post-structuralists are scrambling to stake their claims to David Chase’s series. The name-dropping in these books borders on the felonious — why stop at Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese …

Jeff Jarvis will be our latest Blogcritic! Very exciting news. While we are getting the paperwork straightened out, we will link his excellent review of the HBO lineup: The HBO Weltanschauung – or – Why we love The Sopranos There’s a reason the return of The Sopranos is getting so …

This Tuesday on live TV, a small robot will explore a shaft first discovered by explorers in the 19th century.