RIAA Takedown Strategy Backfires
The recording industry has sent its 25 millionth Google takedown notice, trying to kill links that sprung up because of earlier takedown notices.
John Dingell And The Problem With Long-Term Incumbency
As of today, John Dingell has been a Member of Congress for 20,997 days, a new record. That’s not something to celebrate.
Reggae Turns 40 (In America, At Least)
Jimmy Cliff’s “The Harder They Come” popularized reggae in America 40 years ago this month.
Joe Scarborough Answers the “Is our Pundits Learning?” Challenge
Seems that the answer continues to be “no.”
Who Owns Your iTunes Library When You Die?
Technically, you don’t own your digital music files. That means you can’t transfer them to your heirs after you die.
Are The Good Times Really Over For Good?
Watching the news and reading the op-eds makes it clear: America is doomed.
Blaming Extreme Rhetoric for Extreme Acts
News that Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik was a fan of anti-Islamist sites, including Robert Spencer’s Jihad Watch and Pamela Geller’s Atlas Shrugs has opened a big can of schadenfreude.
Rock Hall Of Fame Running on Empty?
They’re letting anyone into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame these days.
Is iTunes Killing the Album?
The Atlantic’s Dave Thier laments that, “The Beatles on iTunes Means Your Kids May Never Hear ‘Her Majesty’
Jagger Responds to Richards
An imaginary letter from Mick Jagger to “the journalist Bill Wyman” in reference to Keith Richards’ new autobiography has been making the rounds. Oddly, everyone seems to think Jagger actually wrote the piece.
Beatle Economics: Hard Day’s Night
The blogosphere spends more time dissecting the lyrics of a classic Beatles song than John Lennon did in writing them.
If John Lennon Had Lived
A Vanity Fair piece imagines what John Lennon’s life would have been like had he survived an assassin’s bullet.
Rock is Dead They Say . . .
All great rock music was recorded by the time John Bonham died. Or was it?
