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For Steely Dan it was twenty years between Gaucho and Two Against Nature. The wait this time was only three years for the new one Everything Must Go. Neil Strauss interviews Becker and Fagan for the NY Times: Were you surprised, after making all those jokes about the Rock and …

We have been following the yeoman work of the noble California State Senator Kevin Murray to rein in the most egregious indiscretions of the record industry. Now, his Bill 1034 requiring labels to account accurately for artist royalties has passed the Senate: The Bill 1034 passed by a 22-15 vote. …

Even though Lily is only 3 1/2 she loves her “Harry Potters.” We picked up the new DVD of the second movie, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, about a week ago and have watched it three or four times. I’ve concluded it doesn’t hold my attention as well …

Sony Music Nashville slashes artist roster in half from the company’s four imprints – Columbia, Epic, Monument, Lucky Dog – as industry cost-cutting continues: Dropped were Pam Tillis, Mark Chesnutt, Tammy Cochran, BlackHawk, Billy Gilman, Michael Peterson, Cledus T. Judd, Brad Martin, Clint Daniels, Little Big Town, and Wynn Varble. …

As most of you know, Warren Zevon announced last September that he was dying of lung cancer. He has handled life since with uncommon grace and good mordant humor, including an exceptional NY Times Magazine interview, and a profound but light visit with David Letterman highlighted by this exchange: Dave …

Okay let’s have a concert with all of the best roots-derived bands in the world. We will call it the Austin City Limits Music Festival. We will have it Sept. 19, 20, & 21, 2003 at Zilker Park in Austin, Texas. More than 75,000 will attend – it will be …

I am deeply saddened that Adam Ant, who should know better at 49, can’t keep it together. He clearly has real problems: Adam Ant was arrested on Wednesday after he went on a rampage and exposed himself at a café near his North London home. Ant, given name Stuart Leslie …

TV news giant David Brinkley dies at 82: For nearly half a century, Brinkley was one of the dominant faces in American broadcasting, first as a co-anchor of NBC television’s evening news program and later as host of the Sunday current affairs program on ABC, “This Week with David Brinkley.” …

Another great from Hollywood’s Golden Age gone – coincidentally, Peck’s Atticus Finch character from To Kill a Mockingbird was just chosen as the greatest hero in film history by the American Film Institute. AP’s obit: Peck, who won the best-actor Academy Award for playing the noble Atticus in 1962’s “To …

The Golden Arches tweaking slogan: McDonald’s will launch a new ad campaign that is different, but not too different from the old campaign, and which continues to tap a universal theme: love. As with the old campaign, words like unsaturated fat and cholesterol will generally be avoided. The new theme …