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HITS Daily Double has the details of Don Ienner’s appointment to new Sony U.S. post: In an announcement that will surprise absolutely no one who’s been paying attention, recently appointed Sony Music Entertainment Chairman/CEO Andrew Lack has placed the crown on the head of Columbia Records Group Chairman Ienner, naming …

In a PW Daily interview, historian Niall Ferguson discusses his new book Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power. PWD: Can global empire be avoided? NF: I don’t think it’ll be possible for an even partial isolation. Globalization transforms economic and …

Bill Gates now looking at Universal music: Microsoft has expressed interest in buying Vivendi’s Universal Music Group, setting up a possible bidding war between the software maker and rival Apple Computer, according to sources familiar with the matter. Microsoft’s interest is said to be at the level of “poking around, …

First, read Michael Croft’s post here. I had a Latvian-born professor of philosophy at Wittenberg University – a brilliant, benign, sad, yet almost giddy man named Klive who saw ABBA’s “Dancing Queen” as the downfall of Western Civilization as we know it – who wrote the official philosophy of education …

Is it me, or is the Michelina’s TV ad the creepiest to air nationally in some time? First, a third-rate Ted Knight imitator newscaster (a bad imitation of a parody) comes on with breaking news about Michelina’s, then in a befuddling disjunction, a breeder-hipped woman on a treadmill in a …

What’s my problem? Our own Blogcritic Pieter K has created one of the great electronic albums of the last year (released last October) and I am just now telling you about it. Everything All the Time is a panoramic vision of electronica, centered on the skittery rhythms of drum and …

Opinions: everyone has them, and in a free society people are allowed, even encouraged, to speak theirs. But a big problem arises when individuals choose to use executive positions within organizations to forward their own views, coloring entire organizations with an individual’s view. That is the problem with the Tim …

Nothing to do with the war – this is about gospel and CCM music: Nichole Nordeman and Michael W. Smith were the big winners at the Gospel Music Association’s (GMA) 34th Dove Awards last night (April 10) at Nashville’s Gaylord Entertainment Center. Nordeman won seven awards, including songwriter, female vocalist, …

I’m not sure why this particular celebrity death bothers me so much: rock ‘n’ roll has been around long enough now that the first and second generation are dropping like flies from a combination of age and life style. Maybe it just seems wrong that someone named “Little,” the babysitter …

Late on Thursday (April 10, 2003) the Senate and House passed the Illicit Drug Anti-Proliferation Act (formerly known as the RAVE Act) as an attachment to the child abduction-related Amber Alert Bill. The Drug Policy Alliance provides background on the issue – they are very concerned, you should be too: …