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Paul McCartney is set to release a 14-minute Beatles piece, “Carnival of Light,” recorded during the Sgt Pepper sessions: – Paul McCartney is to release a Beatles track unheard for 35 years as the soundtrack to a film montage of his late wife Linda’s photographs, The Sunday Times said. ….Beatles …

While the majors persist with their “smash hit” model, where anything less than platinum equates to failure, niche indies like blues label Blind Pig make a living from modest sales: Michael Jackson’s last album “Invincible” sold 2 million copies but was considered a commercial flop by Sony. So where does …

Solid state reprogrammable storage at about $5 a gig: Nüp2 Incorporated will revolutionize the electronic memory business. Using our patented memory technology and our patent-pending “Topolithographic” manufacturing process, we will develop and produce solid-state electronic memory having gigabytes of storage in a tiny package for just a few dollars per …

New study says many watch TV and surf the Internet at the same time: Where do TV and the Internet meet? The answer, according to a study released today by comScore Media Metrix, is that it’s often in the same room. The survey of 45.1 million Americans finds that 48% …

Here is the Digital Consumers Bill of Rights in the opinion of DigitalConsumer.org: 1. Users have the right to “time-shift” content that they have legally acquired. This gives you the right to record video or audio for later viewing or listening. For example, you can use a VCR to record …

Edna Gunderson delineates the conflict between artists and labels: What started as a classic David-and-Goliath skirmish over contractual terms could be tilting toward a level battlefield as opposition on a wide range of issues swells against an industry mired in a sales slump. “The record business is in rough enough …

Epic is pissed about writers, radio people, etc – people like us dammit – trading files from records before they are released: Writers receiving review copies of two soon-to-be-released albums — Tori Amos’s “Scarlet’s Walk” and Pearl Jam’s “Riot Act” — are finding the CD’s already inside Sony Walkman players …

MSNBC’s Jan Herman is an excellent reporter. He was outraged by the Beastie Boys’ sampling case, which, as a sampler, I am of two minds upon. But being an excellent reporter, he followed up with the Beasties and received this statement from the group: “For the last year,” the statement …

Great news: Radley Balko (damn, I love that name) is joining Blogcritics, and he will be doing a running commentary/review of The Sopranos season episode by episode. Here’s the first installment from his site: One murder, some coke, an orgy with Icelandic flight attendants, loads of manipulation, and a capo …

I still can’t believe classic rock writer and Billboard editor Timothy White died of a heart attack at the age of 50 in June: it’s a real tragedy and 50 sure sounds young. I met White on a few occasions and he was very gracious and encouraging of our work …