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“Line dancing is fascistic,” I said to the bride over the phone. Silence for several beats. “I’m a dental technician,” she replied. That about sums up the wedding I DJ’d last night. I also asked her if the party center was east of west of the freeway. “I’m not good …
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“Let’s Lynch the Lead Singer”
After three years of appeals, virtually nothing changed in the Jello Biafra-Dead Kennedys legal dispute over (what the hell else is new?) royalties, songwriting credits, all the usual depressing crap you would hope a bunch of old idealistic punks could avoid. But no: Former Dead Kennedys lead singer Jello Biafra …
Read More »Pam, Kid, On Rocks
Looks like Pamela Anderson’s relationship with another lanky freak may be over: Anderson wasn’t wearing her engagement ring last week during a promotional appearance for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals in Florida. “The word that best describes me now is ‘free,'” the 35-year-old told People magazine for its …
Read More »“I Used to Work in a Record Store”
A second look at the new Fountains of Wayne release
Read More »“Enter the Matrix” Still Exiting Stores
Infogrames/Atari’s “Enter The Matrix” game sold more than 2.5 million copies in the first month of its launch in North America, Europe and in the Asia-Pacific region (excluding Japan): “It is very satisfactory to see a title become a true success from its launch but it’s even more exciting to …
Read More »Lou Reed Inducted Into Hollywood’s RockWalk
The great iconoclast Lou Reed will be latest inductee to Hollywood’s RockWalk Tuesday, June 24, at noon. Sweet Lou Reed will also appear at Tower Records Sunset for an in-store signing on Monday, June 23 at 7 p.m. and will perform at The Wiltern Theatre on Tuesday, June 24. The …
Read More »Another Revolving Door
RIAA head Hilary Rosen to become talking head on CNBC: Rosen, who will officially step down from her powerful RIAA post at the end of the month, has inked a deal to be a commentator for CNBC, she recently told music industry executives in an e-mail, a copy of which …
Read More »Senate Commerce Committee Votes to Overturn FCC Rule Changes
FCC’s monkey spanked: The Senate Commerce Committee voted Thursday to overturn parts of a Federal Communications Commission decision freeing media companies from decades-old ownership limits and allowing them to buy more outlets and merge in new ways. The proposal … would roll back changes that allowed individual companies to own …
Read More »Warren Zevon’s Bright Twilight
I had the great fortune of getting an early advance of the new, fateful, final Warren Zevon CD, “The Wind.” Besides being a fan for over 25 years, we also met Zevon at the big Blogger Bash at Brian Linse’s last summer. We even had some pics Dawn took. So …
Read More »Harvester of Eyes (and Ears)
Hatch isn’t satisfied with your computer – now he wants your eyeballs. As satire maybe it’s a tad heavy-handed, but then again the real story reads like The Onion: Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today introduced legislation authorizing the use of high-powered microwave lasers to burn out the eyes of non-paying …
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