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The bitch can’t take a joke. Have I ever mentioned how much I dislike her? Canadian pop diva Celine Dion doesn’t like mockery, or maybe it’s her husband and manager Rene Angelil. Angelil sent a notice of claim to a popular Montreal-based radio station, demanding it stop playing a parody …

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And we’re not just talking about online competition, DVDs make CDs look like a bad deal: Most of the major music companies are starting to offer retailers limited-time rebates on some releases. As a result, many consumers paid just $10 for new albums by young performers including Ashanti and Vanessa …

The Festival returns after suspension last year in the wake of 9/11: In 2000, The New Yorker Festival was inaugurated to mark the magazine’s seventy-fifth anniversary. It was such a success that we decided to make it an annual event. Now, two years and thirty thousand visitors later, the Festival …

Grainger David writes: So what’s with all the savior talk? Forrester predicts that after one more year of depressing sales, labels will supply more content on the cheap; the story goes that by 2007 this will create a downloading wave of tsunamic proportions that will wash all this additional money …

I am just the kind of person all celebrities should avoid and fear.

This is terrible news, just in from Nancy Nall: Warren Zevon has been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. We met Warren at the LA Blogger Bash at Brain Linse’s house in July. Both Dawn and I thought he was pretty surly and uncommunicative. I guess he had more important things …

Nominations for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame were announced today: Last year the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame welcomed American punk rockers, this year it’s poised to induct the Brits. The Clash and Elvis Costello and the Attractions make their debuts on the 2003 Rock and Roll …

According to Launch: American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson, judges Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson, and hosts Ryan Seacrest and Brian Dunkleman will appear on the season premiere of Mad TV. Mad TV’s eighth year kicks off on Saturday (September 14) from 11 to 12 p.m. ET on Fox. It strikes …

Drowning Pool singer Dave Williams, who died on August 14 of still undetermined causes, spoke out on the subject of 9/11 prior to his death: “I think we should definitely think about the people that we lost and we should be very thankful that we’re still here, and how lucky …