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EMI is doing very well on the charts, but having nothing but trouble as a corporation: There should be a party atmosphere at the headquarters of Britain’s biggest music company this Sunday as the weekly album and singles charts are released. In a rare double for the industry, the number …

Daniel Clowes’ Twentieth Century Eightball (Fantagraphics Books) is an entertainingly slapdash collection of rant comics and surreal misanthropy from the title that also yielded Ghost World and Daniel Boring. It’s probably safe to say that if Clowes had produced nothing but strips like the selection in this book, he’d still …

I should have gone to law school – maybe I still will. Verizon vs. RIAA: The recording industry and the nation’s largest telephone company are crossing legal swords in what could be a test case of how far big record labels can go to track down computer users who swap …

If you’re in the NY area on 9/11/02, consider this show at CBGB featuring the Fleshtones and about 15 other bands.

deviantArt’s Angelo Sotira on the demise of Napster: While we all knew Napster was probably not going to be making a strong come-back, many of us wanted it to live on. Same with Audiogalaxy, Scour.Net and others centralized, fast, efficient and quality P2P networks that gave us a glimpse of …

Per the ever-penetrating and perspicacious Declan McCullagh in CNET: Sen. George Allen, R-Va., said he could no longer support a proposal titled Anticounterfeiting Amendments of 2002 because of changes that came just before a committee voted in July to send it to the Senate floor. The bill originally targeted the …

Most famous Blogcritic Glenn Reynolds is on a roll of late with digital/entertainment goodies. He is following the conceptual music/digital exploits of prodigy Aimee Deep: Here are the dirty details of how Big Media plans to attack us in our homes: First, serve millions of secret subpoenas to get our …

As everyone who gives a fig knows by now, Kelly Clarkson won the American Idol competition last night. She is now in the hands of the 19 Group of Companies (scroll to bottom): A Brief Introduction Simon Fuller has had a profound influence on current British pop culture. At 21, …

The Electronic Music Defense and Education Fund (EM:DEF) is holding a national protest against the RAVE Act this Friday: On Friday, September 6th thousands of voters will be calling their Senators and urging them to oppose the RAVE Act, a bill that is a danger to free speech and public …

Royalty fees to turn webcasters to talk or silence: Jupiter Research said royalty fees could bankrupt Web radio stations by forcing them to pay more to play songs than they could ever make up in advertising revenue–a prediction that’s already come true for dozens of stations that have ceased their …