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Petition signed by several hundred people: The Honorable John Ashcroft Attorney General of the United States Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20530 Dear Attorney General Ashcroft: We are artists, technologists, scholars and consumers…individuals on the Internet, united by the human will and the common bonds of …

Isaac Hayes was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this past March. He just turned 60, and has three shows coming up in September: Sept. 19, 2002 Alexandria, VA – The Birchmere; Sept. 20, 2002 Uncasville, Conn – Mohegan Sun; Sept. 21, 2002 Brooklyn, NY – Verizon …

Our very own Bitter Girl Shannon wants to get on the radio to improve it from within. She’s looking for help: Kirsten & some other people have said I have a total voiceover artist voice. Think I’d be a good DJ? WBCN is looking for a new one, and are …

There is an evocative review of the new Carter family bio in the NY Times: Today’s popular musicians, morbidly alive to the anxiety of influence, labor to manufacture strangeness. (Except in Nashville, where they labor to manufacture normality.) But the Carters’ strangeness was just them being them. Like Dock Boggs …

Per Declan McCullach in CNET: Duke University’s law school has received an anonymous $1 million gift to fund advocacy and research aimed at curtailing the recent expansion of copyright law. The school, which plans to announce the gift at a conference in Washington on Thursday, is using the money to …

Madster/Aimster shut down: An Illinois federal judge said Wednesday that he would order the Madster file-trading system, formerly known as Aimster, to halt song-swapping in the next few days. The decision marks the Recording Industry Association of America’s (RIAA) second substantial court victory against a file-trading company, just a day …

From PW Daily For Booksellers: On the Eve of September 11, Bookstores Plan Commemorations With the anniversary of the September 11 attacks approaching rapidly, Hillel Italie of the Associated Press spoke to a handful of bookstores about their plans for commemorating the event. Borders, which had a store in the …

The fiercely peculiar Residents have been gracing the world with their unique form of music/performance art for 30 years. In celebration, the anonymous Bay Area eyeballs have much in store, including the release this week of one of their most accessible records ever: Demons Dance Alone. Demons is a (relatively) …

I just mentioned Elliptical, our (Mike Crooker, me) electronic music project. The parallels between music-creation software and blogging are unmistakable: both enable “ordinary people” to enter into areas of creativity and, equally important, distribution, that were only previously available to select professionals: those who were allowed to pass through the …

Napster’s farewell.