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Steve Baltin tells the tale in the LA Times: One film crew is already shooting in the sparsely decorated Mulholland Drive home of Charissa Saverio–a.k.a. popular nightclub disc jockey DJ Rap–when a second crew arrives at the door. It’s a little before 4 in the afternoon, the start of her …

Mick Jagger was animated, Keith Richards less so according to reviewer Greg Frost in “Licks” tour debut in Boston: “There’s nothing so exciting as starting an American tour on the first night,” the 59-year-old Jagger told the audience. “And there’s nothing so exciting as starting it here in Boston.” The …

SYNFEST ANNOUNCES PANELS AND PANELISTS SynthCleveland presents SynFest, an electronic music conference and festival Saturday, September 28, 2002 at the Phantasy Complex in Lakewood, OH. This two-part event starts at 3pm with the conference portion, featuring panel discussions. The format of the panels will begin with a moderated discussion and …

Analysis from Reuters: Bertelsmann’s new “safe pair of hands” boss has taken just six weeks to kill off some of the wilder ventures in his far-flung media empire, but kicking what remains into shape will be a far greater challenge. By unpicking ousted CEO Thomas Middelhoff’s handiwork, Gunter Thielen is …

Petition signed by several hundred people: The Honorable John Ashcroft Attorney General of the United States Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20530 Dear Attorney General Ashcroft: We are artists, technologists, scholars and consumers…individuals on the Internet, united by the human will and the common bonds of …

Isaac Hayes was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this past March. He just turned 60, and has three shows coming up in September: Sept. 19, 2002 Alexandria, VA – The Birchmere; Sept. 20, 2002 Uncasville, Conn – Mohegan Sun; Sept. 21, 2002 Brooklyn, NY – Verizon …

Our very own Bitter Girl Shannon wants to get on the radio to improve it from within. She’s looking for help: Kirsten & some other people have said I have a total voiceover artist voice. Think I’d be a good DJ? WBCN is looking for a new one, and are …

There is an evocative review of the new Carter family bio in the NY Times: Today’s popular musicians, morbidly alive to the anxiety of influence, labor to manufacture strangeness. (Except in Nashville, where they labor to manufacture normality.) But the Carters’ strangeness was just them being them. Like Dock Boggs …

Per Declan McCullach in CNET: Duke University’s law school has received an anonymous $1 million gift to fund advocacy and research aimed at curtailing the recent expansion of copyright law. The school, which plans to announce the gift at a conference in Washington on Thursday, is using the money to …

Madster/Aimster shut down: An Illinois federal judge said Wednesday that he would order the Madster file-trading system, formerly known as Aimster, to halt song-swapping in the next few days. The decision marks the Recording Industry Association of America’s (RIAA) second substantial court victory against a file-trading company, just a day …