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Covered, brilliantly (Jesse Walker is an alt radio guy himself), in Reason magazine here and Idolator here , the Performance Rights Act is a massive scam that'll screw over hosts of musicians. See, the idea is that radio stations should be happy, under this bogus Performance Rights Act, to pay copyright owners and the occasional performer (if you're lucky enough to retain your copyright) extra cash for giving their music promotion and rotation. And since this blog often covers things of an independent and punk variety, it only makes sense to talk about [...]

So I agreed to go with my father to see Phish at Red Rocks Ampitheatre on either their Saturday or Sunday show. I figured I'd dragged him to enough concerts I wanted to see that I should go to one he wanted to see! Now, he'd been unable to get pre-sale tickets as they'd sold out too fast. So I agreed to get on Ticketmaster's website at noon today and order the general sale tickets as soon as they were available. Well, predictably, they all sold out within ten minutes. So, what the fuck is [...]

Once their existing lawsuits pan out (read: once the shakedowns and extortion ends), the RIAA will cease its campaign of lawsuits . Good news for those among us who pirate, right? Maybe! The RIAA struck up a deal with various ISPs, whereby the RIAA will report to the ISPs any filesharing activity they find and ask the ISP to warn pirates about their activity. If the pirates don't stop, the ISPs will begin throttling the pirates' access to the internet. As the Mashable entry points out, this is terrible on a number [...]

Okay, when the Beatles did that "more popular than Jesus" thing or whatever, I could sort of see that, you know? But... But, Simon Cowell ? Maybe Wayne Coyne is on to something about the British...

Oh, Pat. I don't even know what to say . You gotta be livin' in a pretty cracked out world to come up with something like this, I have to say.

No lie! That is the statement of one purported Axl Rose on some Guns n' Roses fan board. Awesome, I know. For other genius tidbits (including the amazing: fan: Have you seen the movie The Aviator any thoughts it is my favorite of all time. Axl: I piss in jars all the time only I throw them at people!! j/k), check out Idolator . This, of course, does raise the important question: if you were in a band, would you hang out on forums defending your mother's integrity?

Oh, here's a disaster waiting to happen. A new startup called Bopaboo is claming they are legally allowed to act as a middleman for people selling MP3s under a so-called "first sale doctrine" that allows the reselling of CDs and vinyl records, etc. This is the genius of their TOS: If You sell any Used Published Item, you represent and warrant to the purchaser that your copy of the Used Published Item is a digital copy of the original work that You purchased directly from the applicable publisher or agent [...]

Words escape me! I don't know what she is. I do know that this conspiracy theory she has going for her is a little odd. God forbid I link to Perez Hilton, but apparently there's this whole thing about Tokio Hotel lipsyncing their American shows . Color me surprised. Cue Tokio Hotel fan girls defending the band because "they can't speak English well."

Once again, M.I.A. demonstrates her real humanity by declaring that she will " never diss the Grammys evr again ," should she win one. I really don't understand where her perceived credibility on anything comes from. She's a tool. She's always been a tool. And she'll likely always be a tool. She is the Anti-Flag of music made for white hipster males.

Oh yes. Creed may well return in the near future. Is this awesome or what? (Not really, but ok!) The greatest part of this story is the link ( found here ) to the LJ entry about the kid who claims he ran into Scott Stapp at Denny's. O lawd!

Paste Magazine calls out a magazine that's probably Pitchfork (or a for-once-in-its-life grammatically correct Hipster Runoff - God, I love that blog) for writing, wait for it, a really pompous and stupid review. The Paste article (found here ) even features a delightful parody of what's basically every glowing Pitchfork review ever. Some gems: [AlbumName], in fact, reminds me of the time - let's call it The Post-College But Pre-Grad School Years - when I fell in love with M. Of course it didn't - it couldn't - [...]

Boy George handcuffed a male escort to his bedroom wall after accusing him of hacking into his home computer, a court has heard .

If there are people more hell bent on saying asinine things than MIA in the music community, I can only think of the Gallagher brothers. And Johnny Rotten. The latest news on the MIA front is that she's marrying the son of the Warner Music CEO. As always, she stays classy and intellectual! "His dad is so 'the System.' But then, they're the most liberal family - they bootlegged alcohol, for God's sake. They're rich because they threw big, illegal parties, so I don't mind." Oh man, she's sure getting some cred there! That's [...]

A "proggy emo band" (It's all Rush's fault) known as Tubelord has recently written a song about wanting to kill the author of Our Band Could Be Your Life , Michael Azerrad. This news comes to us via Idolator . I'm now happier than ever that my name is completely without a "swing to it." Excellent. Here's the band's lyrics and their excuse: "I see today, I see you, Azerrad / I've read the clues, they lead me to your head / I'll kill today, I'll kill you, Azerrad." [...]

Following my experience at an Against Me! show earlier this month and Ted Leo canceling the rest of his dates with the band comes news of a "kerfuffle" at the Against Me! show in LA last night. Oddly enough, the LA Times has coverage of this! Did anybody else catch that kerfuffle at the end of Against Me!'s encore at the Wiltern last night? From my end in the middle of the floor, I heard singer Tom Gabel stop the set midsong to castigate a security guard for, as [...]

Thank you , Pharrell, for providing me with my new computer chair.

I'm not sure who I hate more in this situation: Carla "Pagan Woman" Bruni or Kimya Dawson. It's hard, because I always hate Kimya Dawson. On the other hand, Carla Bruni is so weird that she's almost admirable. Anyway, Carla Bruni kindly covered the cliche Anyone Else But You. It made Kimya Dawson happy, because, well, she really likes immature scatological humor? I guess.

Or maybe there's no content here. I don't know. This is going to be a little image heavy, so to reduce that a bit, here's a link to the album containing all the photos I took yesterday. Also, all of the pictures that I have posted here can be enlarged by clicking them. You may find you need to click some of the pictures, as you may notice a resemblance between the image in the picture and someone's ass. Fear not, this is most likely one of the members of Vampire Weekend and clicking the photo will solve [...]

News of Liz Phair's warped attempt at this thing we call ed "humor" (which a commenter on Idolator accurately described as Meet the Spartans' in quality. Yes, "Meet the Spartans" is now an adjective meeting "painfully unfunny." Furthermore, what's wrong with the people who think it's funny in the comments section there?) has been floating around the internet on music blogs for most of the day. I'm not a Liz Phair expert here, but I'm pretty sure that people don't love Exile in Guyville because of material such as that found in whatever the hell [...]

Nah, this isn't about T.I. or Busta or Fitty. This is about a chappie who decided to gun down a neighbor who just wanted to play his music, man! Why ya gotta be so cold, man? Can't a bro just enjoy his tunes without gettin' shot, man? This isn't news (well, it is, but not music news), but I'm doing an experiment for Sarah and setting up all the links in this entry to open in new windows and you guys can let me know whether or not you like it. If you make sure your [...]