Here's a pic of Andy Sartori for Jessica.

 

An article from The Washington Post outlining what's happening with the most recent case before the Supreme Court.

Supreme Court Weighs File Sharing

 
Ryan Pound with "The Stone Roses"

Another crappy digital camera photo -- this one from last night at Kings, where Ryan Pound, Erik Sugg and a couple of other guys I don't know (the bass player was from The Weather, I know that) reprised their Stone Roses performance from The Great Cover-Up.

I got to check out most of the Ramones documentary, End of the Century, last night during a preview showing at Kings (I didn't get off work in time to catch the beginning).

Two quick impressions: The early live footage is so incredibly powerful, and really, the epitome of rock 'n' roll; I truly wish I could have been at that July 4, 1976 show in England.

Secondly, they could have gone back and included an epilogue on Johnny Ramone. After spending so much time on Johnny's and Dee Dee's deaths, to not even mention Johnny was a glaring error and left me seriously disappointed with an otherwise engaging and well-done movie.

Here's an article, originally from the Washington Post, about Creative Commons licensing and the artists (notably Chuck D) who are benefitting from it.

What's up these days with Morpheus.

Here's what to do when you get bored with just playing music, or transferring files, with your iPod

Related:
Creative Commons Is Rewriting Rules of Copyright

Morpheus takes a stand -- again

You can teach the ol' iPod some nifty new tricks

Now listening to: The Mars Volta, Frances the Mute

Nick Mamatas writes about his experience being suied by the RIAA in the Village Voice.


A good USA Today explainer on how P2P networks are servicing niche music fan communities that mainstream labels can't -- or don't want to -- reach.

Here's a link to The Fire Ant Gazette, a cool blog that I just now stumbled upon. Haven't had a chance to really look at it, but the first few posts I read look interesting.

I found it by looking for an article that was in today's N&O on "Godcasting," which is a term for the proliferation of religion-themed podcasts out there. Unfortunately, the N&O doesn't carry Cox News articles, so I'm still looking elsewhere for it. Scroll down to Feb. 16 in The Fire Ant Gazette and you'll find two interesting posts on podcasting -- one on The Godcast Network and the other on Pale Groove Studios, which offers a place for people to go and create their own podcasts. One day I'm going to get on the ball and do a local club podcast -- that is if I get over the flu, quit stressing over my Flash class and actually get the energy to leave the house.

In other news, I purchased my first iTunes download the other day. Though I'm a big supporter of digital music, most of what I've downloaded sounds terrible, which isn't a problem if I'm not paying for the music. Therefore I've still been buying CDs and uploading them to my iPod. My desire to get hold of The Mars Volta's new CD, "Frances The Mute," made me go ahead and give it a try. It sounds OK, but I wish I'd gone ahead and bought the CD. I'll give a full review of the CD at some other point (quick take -- it's not as good as "Deloused in the Comatorium").

I will say that I vaguely approve of the whole prog-rock/concept album resurgence. I love King Crimson (specifically the "Starless and Bible Black," "Larks Tongues in Aspic" and "Red" trio), and The Mars Volta really sounds like a cross between King Crimson and Santana, with "Deloused" having more Zeppelin overtones. I'm also still trying to gather my thoughts on last year's Iced Earth Civil War concept album "The Glorious Burden," which I really want to like, but so far it hasn't really stuck with me.

Washington Post article on artists who see legitimate uses for file-sharing services like KaZaa and Grokster.

Artists Break With Industry on File Sharing