The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced the 2005 inductees just a bit ago – it’s a very solid and substantial list: U2, the O’Jays, the Pretenders, Percy Sledge, Buddy Guy, and nonperformers Frank Barsalona and Seymour Stein. This March’s induction ceremony at the Waldorf in NYC is going …

Time to take stock and evaluate the best, worst, most, least and variations thereof for 2004, and look ahead to 2005: A Roundup of Film Reviews for 2004 Despite dozens of respectful, worshipful reviews, I’ve been hearing very mixed reactions on the street for the new Eastwood film, Million Dollar …

From the Vinnie and Dime.com site, a message from “J,” purported to be related from Philip Anselmo, former Pantera lead singer, estranged from murdered former guitarist of the band, Dimebag Darrell: I don’t have a big official statement. I do have a lot of inside knowledge on the Pantera feud …

How did a guy with a 9mm stroll into a club, walk on stage and shoot the band? As a guy with a son in a metal band this is more than a rhetorical question. And what are clubs going to do about it, if anything? concert bookers and bar …

First, information has started to come in on Nathan Gale, the killer of Dimebag Darrell Abbott and three others in Columbus Wednesday night. The Cleveland Plain Dealer: When he heard on the radio that Gale was killed, following a murderous rampage in which he shot and killed four others, Daniel …

The tragic hail of gunfire that killed five people, including metal guitar legend Dimebag Darrell Abbott, in a Columbus, Ohio rock club will have ramifications for some time to come. We will continue to follow the story: Witnesses to Damageplan Shooting Speak Since the idiotic Columbus Dispatch isn’t available without …

Projekt30 — the online gallery, run by artists, designed to expose artists to “brick and mortar” art galleries which may be interested in presenting their work — has its juried December exhibition up now, featuring the work of Adam Long Adriene Hughes Anna Delis Charlotta Hauksdottir Christina Neofotistou Debbie Angell …

Last night we watched a jewel of the TV Christmas show crown, 1965’s A Charlie Brown Christmas, with its search for the meaning of Christmas amidst commercialized children (some gleefully, some reluctantly so) and innocence lost, most pointedly symbolized by a garish Christmas tree lot filled with neon-colored aluminum trees, …

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Pew’s Internet and American Life Project has just released the first large-scale study of musician and artist views of the Internet, called, strangely enough, “Artists, Musicians and the Internet.” A national survey of self-described artists and an online survey of 2,755 musicians find: Artists and musicians on all points of …