Brad Barrish

And it ain’t to the funny farm. 4 students have been sued by the RIAA for allegedly hosting between 75,000 and 1 million files. Wow, that’s quite a gap!

[T]he music industry has been slow to adapt to the changing patterns of music consumers, many of whom want their music on an a la carte, or song-by-song basis, as opposed to buying an entire CD.

Slow?! They downright just haven’t adapted. Give the people what they want and they will pay for it. Rumor has it, Apple may be up to something good. In any case, the longer the industry takes to change it’s ways and embrace the Internet as a tool by which to promote bands, the longer people are going to get used to eating for free. Know what I’m sayin?

UK import, Mull Historical Society will be playing a handfull of dates in the US. His latest album, Us is fantastic and should be acquired immediately.

04.21 - Cambridge, MA @ The Bear’s Place 04.22 - Hoboken, NJ @ Maxwells 04.23 - New York, NY @ Fez Under Time Café 04.24 - Philadelphia, PA @ North Star 04.26 - Seattle, WA @ Green Room (early show) 04.28 - San Francisco, CA @Café du Nord 04.29 - Los Angeles, CA @ Largo 04.30 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Knitting Factory

What’s laughable about the efforts of the labels trying to to curb the piracy of music is that it simply cannot be done. Try as they might, every single copy protection scheme that they have come up with has failed. It’s like I’ve said before, for every technology that they develop, there’s a 12 year-old kid that’s ten steps ahead of them.

I started reading it and about three pages in, I started feeling nauseous and dizzy. All of the sudden my head hit the keyboard. I woke up to “My Name Is Jonas.” Weird.

Several people have emailed me with information regarding a leak of the new Radiohead album to the net. No one seems to be able to confirm if it’s the finished product or not, but it sounds like it to me. Want to give it a listen for yourself? Try combing the forums on ateaseweb.com. And no, I’m not going to post it here or send it to you.

In most cases, anyone with the twelve dollars to get in the door can rock. This does not mean just because you feel the frat boy next to you lacks the depth and sensitivity to appreciate Ben KwellerÂ’s tortured soul, or the drunk chick attending with her three identically dressed friends who collectively only know one Ethyline song because it was once on DawsonÂ’s Creek (while naturally you were into Sludgeworth back when you were 15) that they have any less right to be in attendance than you.

From A Brief Catechism of Rock Shows, Part I by Leslie Harpold. [via The Morning News]

I’m so rich. Exactly how rich am I you ask? If everything goes as planned, I’ll be making around $20,000.00 per day. You do the math.

I’m not sure what the name of the album is they’ll be supporting on this tour, but judging from the size of the venues, I guess they’re planning on it being a big hit. I’m all for big hits, but why do they have to play the Hollywood Bowl? Why? I’m so not going (unless I’m really close to the front).

09.01 - Bumbershoot Festival , Seattle , WA 09.03 - West Valley Amphitheater , Portland , OR (w/Wilco) 09.06 - Shoreline Amphitheatre , San Francisco , CA (w/Wilco) 09.07 - San Diego Street Scene , San Diego , CA 09.10 - The Hollywood Bowl , Los Angeles , CA (w/Wilco) 09.11 - Thomas and Mack Center , Las Vegas , NV (w/Wilco) 09.13 - Red Rocks Amphitheatre , Denver , CO (w/Wilco) 09.14 - Red Rocks Amphitheatre , Denver , CO (w/Ed Harcourt) 09.16 - Xcel Energy Center , Minneapolis , MN (w/Ed Harcourt) 09.17 - Starlight Theatre Kansas City , MO (w/Ed Harcourt) 09.19 - NextStage at Grand Prarie , Dallas , TX (w/Ed Harcourt) 09.20 - Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavillion , Houston , TX (w/Ed Harcourt) 09.21 - Austin City Limits Music Festival , Austin , TX 09.23 - Lakefront Arena , New Orleans , LA (w/Sparklehorse) 09.24 - Oak Mountain Amphitheater , Birmingham , AL (w/Sparklehorse) 09.26 - United Center , Chicago , IL (w/Sparklehorse) 09.27 - Blossom Music Centers , Cleveland , OH (w/Sparklehorse) 09.28 - Palace of Auburn Hills , Detroit , MI (w/Sparklehorse) 09.30 - Air Canada Centre , Toronto , ON (w/Sparklehorse) 10.01 - Mann Center for the Performing Arts Philadelphia , PA 10.03 - Liberty Park , New York , NY 10.04 - Liberty Park , New York , NY (w/Sparklehorse) 10.05 - Tweeter Center , Boston , MA 10.08 - MCI Center , Washington , DC 10.09 - Dean E. Smith Center , Chapel Hill , NC 10.11 - Philips Arena , Atlanta , GA

Joey, lead singer of Wild Gift, will be playing a solo acoustic (?) show at Molly Malone’s - 575 S. Fairfax Ave tomorow night, March 26 at 8:30pm. $5 will get you in to see what will be a very special evening. And no, this doesn’t mean Wild Gift is breaking up. As a matter of fact they’ve been working on some recordings lately.

The Sydney Morning Herald (amoung others) is reporting that a unit of Haliburton, a company once run by Vice President Dick Cheney, has received a contract to extinguish the oilwell fires. The clincher is that the contract was given to the company by the U.S. government without any outside bidding.

Read for yourself.