The NY Times reports today: Under the deal, KaZaA’s owner, Sharman Networks Ltd., will advertise high-speed Internet access provided by Tiscali, an Italian Internet provider, to its tens of millions of European users. In return Tiscali, which serves around seven million customers in 15 countries, will pay Sharman a “bounty” …

James Gavin discusses Baker documentary Let’s Get Lost in the NY Times: IN “Let’s Get Lost,” his 1989 documentary about Chet Baker, the fashion photographer and filmmaker Bruce Weber shows a photograph so erotic that his camera all but drools over it. There stands Baker, the jazz trumpeter and singer …

HBO’s “Six Feet Under” and NBC’s “The West Wing” were the top nominees heading into Sunday’s 54th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards. HBO’s macabre funeral home drama competed in six of the 27 categories presented during the televised ceremony. The White House drama competed in seven categories. “Six Feet Under” received …

Audioslave is Chris Cornell fronting former members of Rage Against the Machine.

Cool Tunes Cool Tunes is a radio show in a magazine format Saturday nights at 10pm on WAPS, “The Summit,” in Akron, Ohio. I play new music, reissues, and preview shows coming to town each week. Musically it is among the widest-ranging 2 hours in the country: modern rock, punk, …

Greatest Hits package out by Xmas - Novaselic's Eyes Adrift release CD and tour.

Eric Nuzum is the author of the fascinating Parental Advisory: Music Censorship in America: What we commonly refer to as “music censorship” (and what will be examined in this book) is actually implicit censorship: community, institutional, and corporate attempts to regulate society according to their personal standards of decency and …

I was just mentioning the Rod Argent-Colin Blunstone reunion tour, and this reminded me what a startling, even frightening song “She’s Not There” is. Released by the Zombies in 1964, it’s one of the great songs of the British Invasion, highlighted by Argent’s jazzy organ and Blunstone’s high, breathy vocals. …

What do the Drifters, Isleys, Solomon Burke, Garnet Mims, and Van Morrison have in common? Bert Berns.

Nicholas Kristof decried the publication of information of possible aid to terrorists in a NY Times column this week.