Friday , March 29 2024

Eric Olsen

Career media professional and serial entrepreneur Eric Olsen flung himself into the paranormal world in 2012, creating the America's Most Haunted brand and co-authoring the award-winning America's Most Haunted book, published by Berkley/Penguin in Sept, 2014. Olsen is co-host of the nationally syndicated broadcast and Internet radio talk show After Hours AM; his entertaining and informative America's Most Haunted website and social media outlets are must-reads: Twitter@amhaunted, Facebook.com/amhaunted, Pinterest America's Most Haunted. Olsen is also guitarist/singer for popular and wildly eclectic Cleveland cover band The Props.

A Contrarian View of Bruce

Mark Gauvreau Judge does not like Bruce Sprinsteen – at all. He explains why in a Wall Street Journal editorial: Back in 1984, when I was a college student, I panned the album “Born in the U.S.A.,” Bruce’s breakthrough (coming years after the early so-called triumph of “Born to Run”). …

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Shortlist Music Project

Industry veteran and record producer manager Greg Spotts has a very cool project, called the Shortlist: The Shortlist Organization, LLC was founded in 2001 by music industry veterans Greg Spotts and Tom Sarig to create opportunities for left-of-center culture to cross over to the mainstream. The annual Shortlist Music Project …

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Beasties vs. Flutist

Complex copyright law is becoming de riguer for those interested in the music biz. This ruling is great for samplers, less so for composers: [James] Newton, a professor at California State University, Los Angeles, says that if he’d been asked, he never would have granted his permission. So in 2000 …

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Ira Robbins Part 2

Please see Part 1 here. EO: I just saw a thread on one of the meta-chat sites saying “Ira Robbins works for Clear Channel now” The response: “That’s okay, I love him anyway.” Any disconnect there for you that you would care to talk about? Any reward exchange issues for …

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Book Groups Support Congressional Demand For Patriot Act Data

Edward Nawotka writes today in the PW Daily Newsletter: A group led by the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, the Association of American Publishers and the PEN American Center has sent a letter of support to House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner (R., Wis.) and Rep. John Conyers (D., …

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3LW Probs

In a statement released by their record label, Epic Records, 3LW’s Adrienne Bailon and Kiely Williams recently responded to allegations by former band member, Naturi Naughton, that she was forced out of the group. Said, 3LW’s Adrienne Bailon, “We’ve been disappointed by the comments Naturi has made on radio and …

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Ira Robbins Interview Pt 1

Today my email apparently drifted off into the ether, then a thunderstorm came through and blew up a tree right across the street and killed our electricity for a while. But, it is finally time to begin our interview with the legendary Ira Robbins. A little background: Robbins, the co-founder …

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European Copyright Directive

From Andrew Orlowski in London: The UK’s take on the “European DMCA” – the European Copyright Directive – will make criminals out of ordinary computer users, according to a new critique by the UK Campaign for Digital Rights. And it will also fail to protect researchers, says Julian Midgley who …

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Sample and Hold

In response to our post on EMusic and Frank Black, Scott Rosenberg has some very telling thoughts that I would think the record biz would be encouraged to hear: I subscribe to EMusic’s service. I also just bought those two CDs at Amoeba here in Berkeley. Now, theoretically, I should …

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Soul Train Pops a Gonad

A high school kid started a campaign against Soul Train’s selection of Entertainer of the Year and got some serious shit in return: California high school sophomore Rommel Zamora is learning after launching an online petition criticizing the powers that be at Soul Train for selecting Ashanti as their Lady …

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