Profoundly cool guy, renowned record producer, musician, and Assistant Director of the Alan Lomax Archive, Don Fleming, has started recording a new album with singer Jenni Muldaur and has provided some insight into the project: “The story is that we have started recording tracks and will continue to do so …

Interesting story came up over the long holiday weekend: the 23 kids who sang “We don’t need no education/We don’t need no thought control/No dark sarcasm in the classroom/Teachers leave them kids alone” on Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick In the Wall Pt 2,” from the band’s ’79 monster The Wall, …

Roxy Saint — self-described “musician-performance artist-guerilla filmmaker” — has a new “line” of dresses fashioned from trash bags. The emaciated anti-fashionista is calling the limited line “TRASH COUTURE” – the first dresses are now available for view and order here, all priced at $55.00: rather pricey for a trash bag, …

New radio documentary tomorrow on famed NYC columnist and muckraker Jimmy Breslin, on KCRW, NPR’s flagship station for Southern California: “JIMMY BRESLIN: THE ART OF CLIMBING TENEMENT STAIRS” Documentary produced for KCRW TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30 at 2:30pm (PT) — A “Politics of Culture” Special Program Love him or hate him, …

We don’t have any reviews of the new SpongeBob Squarepants movie yet, although we have plenty of info on it here and Bill Lamb’s review of the soundtrack — with tracks from The Shins, Wilco, Ween, The Flaming Lips, Avril Lavigne and Motorhead — here. And we have glad tidings …

Is this shit fair? Hell no, but it is reality and even the mighty U.S. military cannot redefine reality as it sees fit. We must live and learn, refine, be flexible, get smarter as we go. Words of wisdom from Jackson Diehl in the Washington Post: Last week Arab satellite …

Much has been made of “American unilateralism” of late, particularly regarding the war in Iraq. We all know the war is not literally unilateral, although we also all know that the U.S. has called the shots, provided the vast majority of manpower and funding, and suffered a similar majority of …

Thanks & Giving: All Year Long is a book and CD project for the benefit of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Marlo Thomas has produced a thoughtful, exuberant volume for children and “the grown-ups in their lives.” An original collection from acclaimed writers, artists and performers, Thanks & Giving: All …

Do musicians ever play on land anymore? In addition to the ever popular Rock Boat and Jam Cruise series, we must add the Blues Cruise. In its fourth year, this year’s cruise finds its groove on January 22, 2005 from Fort Lauderdale, Florida destined for the Eastern Caribbean (Grnad Turk, …

Apparently operating under the assumption that he won’t whip out anything untoward, the NFL has signed Paul McCartney to play the halftime show at the Super Bowl in Jacksonvile on February 6. In case you have been spelunking or time-traveling for the last year, Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson had …