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Our super good bud and ace Blogcritics contributor Ed Driscoll is the new Radio Free Blogcritics artist. Ed Driscoll has been playing guitar for over twenty years. Inspired by Pete Townshend, in the mid-1980s, he began to “write” his own compositions using a four-track cassette recorder, a drum machine and …

Very clever scheme from Robert X. Cringely to legally subvert the current music distribution model – he calls it “Snapster”: First the law. Snapster is built on the legal concept of Fair Use, which allows people who purchase records, tapes, and CDs to make copies for backup and for moving …

Paul McCartney joins PETA in complaining about KFC’s treatment of chickens – they kill them: An open letter from McCartney to David Novak, chairman and chief executive officer of KFC’s Louisville-based parent company, Yum! Brands Inc., was to appear in a full-page advertisement in Thursday’s edition of The Courier-Journal. McCartney, …

In what has turned into an illuminating series of posts and comments on Public Enemy, Elvis (P and C), race (naturally), and other related topics, I brought up the issue of black anger as reflected in the music of PE (see comment #6 on this post). I said such anger …

A scenario such as the below would resolve the question of whether or not to show images of the blowed-up Hussein brothers for the purpose of assuring the doubt-prone Iraqi and Arab masses of their demise. But alas, in the real world, I fear only the gory details will do …

History’s most famous stoners reunite after 20 years in the straight desert: The comedy duo is reuniting after 20 years for a new feature set up at New Line Cinema that will catch up with Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong’s wacky stoner personas in the present day. The untitled project …

This is a strange story: the Chicago police issued a community alert describing a man suspected in a series of sexual assaults as looking like Ice Cube. I guess if he does he does, but then a local TV station relayed the alert over the air and played an Ice …

James Brown, 70, separates from 30-something wife Tomi Rea Brown. They have a two-year-old: “Godfather of Soul” James Brown has announced his breakup from his wife, Tomi Rea Brown, with a full-page ad in the show-business trade newspaper Variety. In the July 21-27 weekly edition of the paper, the ad …

FCC chairman Michael Powell defends the controvertial media ownership ruling even as the House prepared to block it: “We are confident in our decision” FCC Chairman Michael Powell said in a written statement. “We created enforceable rules that reflect the realities of today’s media marketplace. The rules will benefit Americans …

Useful summary of the FCC-Capitol Hill conflagration over media ownership rule changes by Eric Boehlert in Salon: Following the Federal Communications Commission’s controversial decision on June 2 to ease media ownership limits, supporters in Congress were so sure they had momentum on their side that Rep. Billy Tauzin, R-La., announced …