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• How Hasselhoff's 'Looking For Freedom' Toppled The Berlin Wall...
  Huffington Post: We took photos. We hammered out our own pieces of the Wall. We celebrated with folks from East and West. At the end of the day, we were but tourists in the whole charade. Yet one American fit right in: David Hasselhoff. His “Looking for Freedom” may have been an unlikely anthem for such an auspicious moment in history, but I […]
• R.I.P. Art D'Lugoff, Village Gate Impresario, Booked Coltrane, Hendrix, Duke Ellington...
  N.Y. Times: Art D’Lugoff, who was widely regarded as the dean of New York nightclub impresarios and whose storied spot, the Village Gate, was for more than 30 years home to performers as celebrated, and diverse, as Duke Ellington, Allen Ginsberg and John Belushi, died on Wednesday in Manhattan…. …Though most often thought of as a jazz space — amo […]
• Michael Eric Dyson's New Book On Nas's Illmatic...
  ba.. Looks like Michael Eric Dyson wrote an unauthorized biography of Nasir. Available December 28th, here’s a description courtesy of amazon.com: The best and brightest writers of the hip-hop generation reflect upon the era’s landmark album: Nas’s Illmatic. From the moment then nineteen-year-old Nasir “Nas” Jones began recording tracks for his debut album t […]
• Are Jay-Z, Bloomberg & The Yankees Basically The Same Thing?...
  N.Y. TImes: Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg was working hard yesterday to burnish his credentials as a Yankee fan. Outfit? Check. The mayor wore a navy blue Yankees pullover. Tough talk? Check. He called for the arrest of Pedro Martínez, the Boston pitcher who tangled with the Yankees’ bench coach. Socks? Uh-oh. Slight hitch…Mayor Bloomberg, a son of […]
• Watch: Amazing Inside View of an A Capella Song...
  Boing Boing Read and comment. From thedailyswarm.com.
• Nuzzling Up to the Lion of Google Music, Myspace Gives Away Some Middling Music to Celebrate...
  Myspace Part of Google’s discover music launch in partnership with iLike, and today we’ve teamed up with some amazing artists to demonstrate the power of the MySpace content syndication platform. To celebrate this milestone in online music discovery, we’re excited to announce that compelling, never-before-released content from dozens of major art […]
• LA Weekly is Not Scared of Marilyn Manson or His New Video...
  LA Weekly: ​A few months ago, Marilyn Manson got upset about a story we published and used his MySpace to rant and threaten our reporters (and journalists in general) with the wrath of his minions. Here’s an excerpt: “But if one more “journalist” makes a cavalier statement about me and my band, I will personally or with my fans help, […]
• After the Jump: Bloggers, Journos to Discuss, Cavort and Bitch this Weekend in Austin...
  Austinist: By now you know the lineup for this year’s Fun Fest, and you’re already planning your schedule. Once again, the festivities kick off on Friday night at the Mohawk and Club Deville, where Austinist hosts our annual Local Music Is Sexy party and the After the Jump Blogger’s Panel along with the Austin Convention & Visitors Bure […]
• A Great Look at the Record Store Business, Through the Lens of Ann Arbor...
  The Michigan Daily: Walking into Encore Records is like stumbling into a corn maze, a disheveled college bedroom and a natural history museum all at once — just 20 times more overwhelming than any of those places. The walls are practically crawling with musical artifacts from the past century, teeming with an otherworldly sort of life that’s completely missi […]
• Ahem... Puerto Rican Rappers Calle 13 Dominate at Latin Grammys...
  The New York Times: …at this year’s awards, two leading contenders — Calle 13, from Puerto Rico, and Mercedes Sosa, from Argentina — were generations apart but linked by idealism. Calle 13, a duo made up of the rapper Residente (René Pérez) and the producer Visitante (Eduardo Cabra), has brought political critiques, raunchy fantasies and globe-hopping […]