Edna Gunderson interviews Carlos Santana in USA Today in front of his new album release next week: Collaborating, Santana says, requires more courage than solo work, because defenses tend to obscure talent. ”The only obstacles to the goodies are male egos and women’s insecurities,” he says. ”You dismantle the ego …

MusicNet and Pressplay appear to be close to offering music from all five majors: THE DEALS WILL FILL one of the major gaps that both operations have faced in competing with free, unlimited peer-to-peer song-swapping outfits. Despite their ties to the top names in the music business, the two services …

The U.S. is finally making inroads into young Arab psyches via their ears: Results of the latest listeners poll, released last week, caused a ruffle of excitement in the Radio Sawa studios in Washington. After six months of broadcasts, it seems that the station, which is owned by the U.S. …

Via Pocket Litter, onanism for the conflict averse: Attack your crack, not Iraq! You Can’t Beat Off with Nuclear Arms War is Mean, Flick Your Bean War is wrong. Whack your schlong. If you pound it, peace will come Give bush the finger My ‘friendly fire’ harms no-one Semen cleans …

First Bobby Brown, now Saddam leeching off of Whitney’s good name. Hussein, 65, who has run Iraq since the mid-1970s, has not done any campaigning in person. In fact, he has not been seen in public by diplomats or foreign journalists since December 2000, when he stood in the cold …

So I am looking at this guy Scott’s site, and I check out his blogroll to get a sense of his constellation placement in great virtual universe, and I recognize about two: one of which is this site (yay!!), and the other is Michael Moore (boo!!). Who are the rest …

I received a notice from Mrs. Fat Guy, the ever effervescent Cindy Chaffin, about the Rockzillaworld Music Awards: Sunday, February 16, 2003, 7pm at the Top Rail Ballroom Dallas, Texas The first 2 were successful beyond anything we ever expected, and we’re planning on this one being even better. We …

We neglected Columbus on Columbus Day (other than a discussion of Mayor Bloomberg’s decision not to march in NYC’s parade). Gary Farber points us to a rather grim assessment of Columbus in the New Yorker: Columbus was one of history’s great optimists. When he read in Marco Polo that the …

The all-Cal World Series is here. Variety reports that the value of the Angels may have gone up as much as 25%, from $200 to $250 million, with their impending appearance in the Fall Classic: Behind the scenes, Disney has made no secret of its attempts over the last three …

Bowie double DVD to accompany new hits collection: David Bowie’s often groundbreaking videos have been collected for a new DVD, Best Of Bowie, due out November 19. The 47-song, two-disc set is designed to complement the two separate Best Of Bowie CD releases–one single-disc set and one double-disc set–coming out …