This BBC story about a major music bootlegging bust in Scotland makes a big play out of Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page’s nominal role in bringing the pirate to justice, but I was more struck by the almost wistful way the article concludes, as it describes how the piracy game just ain’t what it used to be:
The West Babylon, N.Y., music store Looney Tunes, one of the few independent record stores remaining on the strip-mall-mined byways of Long Island, burned down last night, apparently the fault of a faulty electrical cord. More »
In a bizarre moment of quasi-feminism, 50 Cent comes out for Hilary Clinton as president in ’08, before becoming confused by a shiny object and lapsing back into predictable incoherence: “This is a way for us to have Bill Clinton be president again, and he did a great job during his term.” More »
So, hey, remember those Verizon Bob Marley ringtones that we told you about yesterday? Well, it turns out they weren’t very irie after all, because the Marley family is going after both Universal and Verizon for bringing you your new “Buffalo Soldier” ringback:
Those anti-piracy dogs have made it to America, and yesterday they helped crack a major piracy case in New York City–and not just in New York City, but in my home borough of Queens. That Stephen J. Cannell show is looking like more and more of a likely proposition. More »
ARTIST: Kanye West
TITLE: Graduation
WEB DEBUT: Aug. 30, 2007
RELEASE DATE: Sept. 11, 2007
The final release in the catalog of Tony Wilson’s Factory Records was numbered FAC 501; the number was given to Wilson’s coffin. More »
The U.S. was not pleased by AllOfMP3’s transmission from the great beyond this week, and it’s informed Russia that should the cheapo-MP3 site return to the Internet, it’ll likely doom Russia’s chances of being admitted to the World Trade Organization in 2007 (and maybe ever). More »
So as a friend pointed out to me recently, MTV has been launching a ton of blogs lately, and they range from the inane to the wrist-slittingly depressing. But then I found Remote Control, which I unearthed while researching, uh, Celebrity Rap Superstar (Sebastian Bach freestyles?!) More »
Queen’s Brian May and Roger Taylor are now among the musicians who will be kicking it at Nelson Mandela’s birthday party/benefit concert for Mandela’s HIV/AIDS charity. This couldn’t be part of their ongoing cosmic atonement for playing Sun City in the ’80s, could it? More »
