So my buddy Alex Maiolo over on the east coast sent out an email making me aware of the battle going on in our own backyard here between Tanya Anderson, her 10 year old daughter Kylee and the RIAA. Alex writes “Have y’all seen this? – Suburban mom falsely accused of downloading violent lyric rap [...]
This week I was interviewed by our local weekly alternative newspaper, the Willamette Week, for a story about the closing of a branch of Music Millenium, one of our more storied music stores here in Portland. Of course, whenever a music store goes down anywhere in the country these days there’s the usual round of [...]
Ok, so call me late to the party but I just saw my first episode of Flight of the Conchords tonight on HBO and I have to say it’s the funniest thing I’ve seen in ages. Maybe because the premise of 2 Kiwis in a band of the same name, arriving in New York City [...]
The vinyl frontier
Fopp’s gone bankrupt. Prince is bypassing the stores completely to give away his new CD. But Adam Webb finds that the future of the record shop might not be as gloomy as the past week’s headlines suggest
Adam Webb
Friday July 6, 2007
Guardian
It’s 1.30pm on a Tuesday afternoon and, aside from the metal gates encasing [...]