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Drowning Pool lead singer Dave Williams found dead in tour bus...

Courtney Love and Geffen face off...

We reported yesterday on the British plan to create an office to foster another British Invasion. Simon Warner thinks mightily on the matter: the British Invasion effect, which kept UK music in the fast lane from the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s, has pretty well run out of juice. In fact, …

I am so happy to see good bud and legendary rock journalist Ira Robbins’ Trouser Press site back up and rocking. Even though there’s nothing new since ’96, I STILL use my Trouser Press Guide to 90s Rock ALMOST EVERY DAY to look some obscure band or record up, and …

The Velvet's first album is still ahead of its time.

Fellow blogger and Salon editor Scott Rosenberg reviews Motavalli’s “Bamboozled at the Revolution” and Weinberger’s “Small Pieces Loosely Joined.”: So we know who got bamboozled. But who did the bamboozling? There really are no culprits — aside from one sad account of software hustlers actually defrauding the folks at the …

Do what we say or we will record you poorly – Ha Haaa!: Issues surrounding the music industry are heating up, and most stories revolve around the record labels, musicians, congress, consumers, and music pirates. Often lost in the noise is the importance of another major player in the business: …

Brad Hill comments on issues pertaining to classical music and the digital revolution: I’m a lifelong classical fan, and take a special interest in the digital distribution of this genre. Because of the length of its tracks, the demographics of its audience, and the relationship of orchestras to record labels, …

How’s this for a European sensibility, although I would have hoped for better from the British: The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Yes, Eurythmics, Culture Club: What do they all have in common? They’re British and they all topped the American charts, mid-’60s to mid-’80s, mop-top pop to camp …

Peculiar but interesting discussion of this site going on at Blogroots (see comments): people are having a hard time figuring out what we are. Are we a blog, a magazine, a community? I think we are all of the above. What do you think we are?