I would imagine not, but Ray Ozzie votes “yes“: PUBLISHING IS DEAD. Gone, a relic of the past, dead as a doornail, breathless, buried. According to police reports, one-way publishing was killed off by a technology – Weblogs – that has reshaped journalism forever. According to observers, there was formerly …

NY Times: Disturbing Tha Peace is on the road promoting its coming album, “Golden Grain,” much as generations of musicians have before, performing their hottest songs and submitting to softball interviews. But instead of appearing on radio stations or MTV, they are taping a segment for Sessions@AOL, a series of …

Are they forgetting the Ladies Man? According to the NY Times: “Pass the Courvoisier. Everybody sing it now. Pass the Courvoisier.” So goes a refrain of the popular song, “Pass the Courvoisier Part Two” by Busta Rhymes, featuring Sean Combs, who is known these days as P. Diddy. It became …

According to the Financial Times: Bertelsmann, the privately owned German media group, is considering the outright sale or closure of its online books and music operations – the second largest in the world – in the latest phase of its restructuring. The move signals a strategic U-turn following the resignation …

Cool site for instrumental and ambient music reviews and resources: The Instrumental Weekly was started in 1997 as a way to expose little-known artists in the contemporary instrumental and ambient music genres. The original site was doing well until late 1999, when a server crash caused the loss of over …

Just in time to remind fans how old and decrepit the Stones are now, ABKCO has released 22 remastered albums from the ’60s in the Super Audio CD format: Patience is finally paying off for Rolling Stones fans who have been driven out of their heads over the years by …

Those Canadians are a strange lot, and they evidently love their Elton John more than seems natural: An Elton John fan collected 38,000 grasshoppers to win concert tickets for a performance Friday (August 30) in Regina, Saskatchewan. Brandy Elliot went into action after local radio station Z-99 announced the contest, …

The anti-Springsteen, Jon Bon Jovi, and his band of a similar name, will headline a free concert this Thursday in Times Square: The members of Bon Jovi say their upcoming performance in Times Square will not only kick off the football season but celebrate New Yorkers’ resilience after Sept. 11. …

Expanding his media reach to film, Eminem’s debut will be shown for the first time in Toronto: “8 Mile,” filmed entirely in the Detroit area, will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival as a work in progress, with Eminem and director Curtis Hansen expected to attend. “Detroit is an …

In an apparent dispute over noise levels, Unwritten Law (who are actually pretty good) guitarist Steve Morris was injured by an alleged bomb blast last week: The homemade device was allegedly planted by Morris’s neighbor, a security guard and local police officer, according to a statement released by the band’s …