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Italian composer Lucian Berio has died at 77: Luciano Berio, an Italian composer whose many compositions, ranging from chamber music to large-scale orchestral works and from operas to songs, combined innovative imagination and analytical depth with a richly sensuous feeling for sound and form, died yesterday in Rome. He was …

More whiny-ass musing on the indelibility of youth and dangers of overabundance. This What Do I Know dude is worn out physically and emotionally by packing 5,000 CDs and wondering if he has gained anything over when he had 60 cassettes he knew by heart. He’s a flipping piker: I …

STUN singer stage dives in the wrong direction: Christiane J, lead vocalist for Geffen’s ultra-hot new band S.T.U.N., is already noted as somewhat of a mad man while onstage, but last night was the first time he suffered injuries severe enough to take him to the emergency room. On tour …

New tax package bonanza: Among the provisions of the tax package just approved by Congress is an increase in the deduction allowed for small-business equipment purchases, which rises from $25,000 to $100,000. That means real estate agents, lawyers, doctors — anybody who files a Schedule C or corporate tax return …

Kick the heinous RAVE Act in the jimmies this Saturday.

CodePink, United for Peace and Justice, and other organizations are rallying today to protest the apparent loosening of media ownership rules by the FCC. We have been covering this action extensively, of course. Dawn Olsen womped on the state of commercial radio a couple days ago, conservative NY Times columnist …

I have never heard a larger pile of crap than what I just subjected myself to a few minutes ago. On NPR’s “Talk of the Nation”, host Neal Conan had on guests discussing commercial radio and the transformation it has gone through since deregulation in 1996. One of the guests …

Moody’s reviews Bowie’s bond rating: Moody’s Investors Service says it may downgrade about $55 million of bonds backed by music royalties of rock music icon David Bowie in light of the sales slump in the recording industry. In 1997, Bowie was the first musician to sell bonds supported by future …

Liza Minnelli spazzes, breaks kneecap in Italy, but THE SHOW MUST GO ON: Singer Liza Minnelli broke her right kneecap in a fall in Italy but still plans to sing at a charity concert for Iraqi refugees with tenor Luciano Pavarotti, a spokeswoman said on Monday. Minnelli tripped on a …

The repackaging of the history of recorded music in the CD era has had the great side benefit of resurrecting forgotten or underappreciated work and some of the musicians who made them. Do you remember this story from last year? James Carter recorded a version of “Po Lazarus” for rambling …