The Conquering Of OiNK Was Just The Beginning: Behold, Some New RIAA-Backed Legislation [The Law] 2008-09-12 16:00:00 I wouldn't describe myself as being comforted by the fact that a new piece of RIAA-backed legislation is heading through Congress, particularly since the bill would create an office within the White House for someone called the "IP Enforcement Coordinator." But even though I'm a voter, the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights Act made it through the Senate Judiciary Committee today by a vot Read more:Conquering
, Behold
, Legislation
For your pre-weekend reading, here's the ... [Read Me] 2008-09-12 15:45:00 For your pre-weekend reading, here's the lightning-smart Daphne Brooks on Amy Winehouse and how she engages in racial drag (when she's able to stand up long enough to perform, anyway): "Winehouse has been lauded for essentially throwing Holiday along with Foster Brooks, Louis Armstrong, Wesley Willis, Megan Mullally's Karen on Will and Grace, Moms Mabley and Courtney Love into a blender and pressi
The End Of The Innocence, Cont'd. [Quotable] 2008-09-12 14:45:00 "There was no YouTube, no MySpace, no TMZ. In the '60s and early '70s, most artists weren't willing to 'ho' to get their fifteen minutes of fame. Peoples' lives were not an open book, their foibles not public property. We did our fair share of debauchery, but there was nobody there trying to film it." Is this the first time I sort of agree with one Mr. Don Henley ever? It very well may be! (Altho Read more:Innocence
Yahoo! Tries To Drag Its Music Strategy Back Into The Portal age [Web 2.no] 2008-09-12 14:30:00 As if there wasn't enough excitement in the digital-music space about Monday's launch of the probably dead on arrival groundbreaking fusion of social-networking and music that is MySpace Music
, Yahoo
! has announced a redesign of its Music section, since the whole paid downloads thing didn't quite work out. What's the brand-new Yahoo! Music going to do, you ask? Why, it's going to suck up content f Read more:Strategy
, Portal
New "9 To 5" Musical Not Just A Step On The Boss Man's Ladder [Broadway-related Content] 2008-09-12 14:00:00 Popbytes has an extremely enthusiastic review of the Dolly Parton-assisted musical based off the workplace comedy 9 To 5, which is now playing in Los Angeles and scheduled to hit Broadway
this spring.
i was so very impressed and being a huge fan of the movie i was worried it might get lost in musical translation but dolly parton did an INCREDIBLE job with the all the music & lyrics (plus the plot Read more:Musical
, Ladder
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You Can Own "Friends In Low Places" (Sort Of) [The New Model] 2008-09-12 13:30:00 Another day, another startup company trying to find a revenue source in the current music economy. However, all you really need to know about SongVest and what the company offers can be summed up by songwriter Mark Hudson: "No one is buying records. This to me is just another angle."
Tired of representing your affection for a musical act with T-shirts, wall calendars, and cruises? Want to get b Read more:Friends
, Places
Ruth Vs. Maris, meet "Twist" Vs. "Smooth": All-Time Hot 100 Pits Old Against New [100 And Single] 2008-09-12 13:00:00 Baseball is such a rich sport for data geeks, what with every move made by a player having a number attached to it. But the inconsistencies and outright mistakes in the sport's long history, from the number of games in a season to the exclusion of the Negro Leagues, make the sport even moregeek-friendly—those missteps become something else to debate, at least when fans aren't mulling the cur Read more:Maris
Jack White Loses Quantum Of Dignity [Endorsements] 2008-09-12 12:45:00 If there's one thing we know about Jack White
—besides his penchant for ugly facial hair—it's that he loves money. Lucky for him the Coca-Cola corporation has plenty where that came from, and a massive cross-promotion deal with the new James Bond movie Quantum of Solace. White composed the music for a new Coke Zero/Quantum commercial, proving his corporate cred once and for all to the n
Contrarian Rock Writing Hits A Heretofore-Unseen New Low [I Don't Even Know Anymore] 2008-09-12 12:15:00 From a blurb for the forthcoming book I Hate New Music, which sets out to "celebrate a time when Foreigner, Frampton, and Foghat fought for total chart dominance" and push for Thin Lizzy to be inducted to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: "Author Dave Thompson examines the sacred cows of the past 30 years - from U2 to Days of the New, from Radiohead to The White Stripes—and then slaughters them
Name Fight! Deerhunter vs. The Dear Hunter! [Two Bands Enter, One Band Leaves] 2008-09-12 11:45:00 Yesterday, while I was listening to a stack of singles that I've been ignoring for awhile, I came across a track from Boston act The Dear Hunter
. While the song wasn't bad, the entire time it was playing all I could think about was how at some point, there's going to be a conversation when I'm forced to distinguish between The Dear Hunter and Atlanta act Deerhunter
. The similarity in names is to Read more:Bands
M.I.A. Would Like To Dress You Up (And Take Your Money) [Look Book] 2008-09-12 11:00:00 As promised, M.I.A. has launched her limited-edition clothing line, and the "Okley Run" store is open for business on her Web site. While the prints are pretty much as outlandish as you expect, the prices for each individual piece are a bit insane—and not in the "clashing colors that actually look better and better the more you focus on their dissonance" way, or even the Crazy Eddie way*. A Read more:Money
Hey Internet: Thanks For Nothing [Now I'll Never See Jerome Work That Mirror] 2008-09-12 10:30:00 The Time played fifteen shows in Las Vegas over the course of the summer, following their reunion at the Grammys, and that wasn't something worth letting me know about, Internet
? I spend my days looking for music-related information, and at no point could you be bothered to tell me that the original lineup of the Time—with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis—was performing five hours from my ho Read more:Thanks
, Nothing
, Jerome
Operation: Winecrime [Sadly, He Didn't Go For 'jet City Winery'] 2008-09-12 10:00:00 Following in the footsteps of Maynard from Tool andLil Jon, Geoff Tate from Queensrÿche is now producing wine, and his reasons for starting the project were somewhat amusingly told to the Salt Lake City Tribune. Plus, Friday seems like an excellent day for some "Silent Lucidity"!
Hush now, wine drinker, don't you cry: you can be assured Geoff Tate has only the most oenophilic intentions with Read more:Operation
, Winery
Is Ciara Mad That "Vibe" Opened Her Up To A Lot Of "Goodies"-Related Puns? [Truthmongerer] 2008-09-12 09:30:00 Like the Timex Social Club, I spend a lot of time lamenting the rumors that surround me every day. How do they get started? And where do they get crazy? In Truthmongerer, I'll try to suss out the kernels of truth in the rumors that are taking up airspace in gossip columns, blogs, and our tips inbox.
THE RUMOR: Ciara
is contemplating a lawsuit against Vibe, saying that her nude pics in the mag&mdas Read more:Opened
, Goodies
Kanye West is out of jail and back in the ... [On The Blogs] 2008-09-12 08:30:00 Kanye West is out of jail and back in the studio, and he's promising loyal readers of his blog that he'll "rant later" about the paparazzo he got into a scuffle with yesterday, saying that while he's normally OK with people taking his picture, "this guy wasn't cool." I bet he was a total squid brains! [kanYe West: Blog]
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Fake Ne-Yos Apparently Running Wild In New York City [Know Your Entertainers Dept.] 2008-09-12 08:00:00 At the end of last month, smooth singer Ne-Yo was allegedly scheduled to play the New York
club Mansion on Aug. 31 for a show sponsored by the promotion company Party at NYC—even though they apparently hadn't booked him, and he was actually performing at another club on the city's noxious West Side that night. So what did the Party at NYC folks do when the audience started agitating? Well, f Read more:New York City
The Apple-C, Apple-V Is Intentional [Yay, Journalism!] 2008-09-11 15:00:00 Pretty Goes With Pretty calls on all those writers out there who are being "unnecessarily manipulated into poor grammatical choices" by the possible comma appended to the title of TV On The Radio's new album to rise up and cast free the shackles of oppression via press release. Could this be a call to... revolution? One hopes. [Pretty Goes With Pretty]
Read more:Apple
, Intentional
Kanye West Vs. Annoying People With Cameras, Continued [Yay, Journalism!] 2008-09-11 13:30:00 In case you want to see Kanye
West and his tour manager Don C. go all-out on a photographer at LAX, the TMZ-lensed video, in which the cameraman becomes part of the story thanks to his eternal dedication to "the truth" or whatever, made it to the Internet. (Don't these people know how 'Ye feels about being photographed?) And on the bright side, since someone ripped it to YouTube, you don't have t Read more:Kanye West
, Annoying
, Cameras
Hey Asshole, The After-Aftermath: Oasis Cancel New York Show [Cancellations] 2008-09-11 13:00:00 Oasis' show tomorrow night in New York
City has been scrapped because Noel Gallagher is still recovering from injuries to his midsection suffered Sunday night, when he was body-checked by a Canadian "fan." This would seem to contradict Noel's blog post in which he said that his band would probably get a couple of extra days in NYC as a result of the incident. I'm guessing this means that the band' Read more:Aftermath
, Cancel
Stay Hungry [Cameos] 2008-09-11 12:30:00 Dee Snider is going to appear on the restaurant-makeover show Kitchen Nightmares tonight. Expect the "We're Not Gonna Take It" jokes to fly even faster than Gordon Ramsay's f-bombs! [Reality TV Magazine]
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