Conjunction Junction: The All-Music Guide Wants To Make Scrabble out of Babel
Report by Eric Weisbard, Village Voice, February 1999
THE ALL-MUSIC Guide bills itself as "an ongoing project to review and rate all music" – emphasis on the all. ...

Illin' Communication: The Beastie Boys and the Net
Interview by Jason Gross, Yahoo! Internet Life, August 1999
SEEMS LIKE A long strange trip for a band that started as a hardcore unit in 1980 to become a best-selling rap trio for a decade ...

New Tracks For Old Rockers
Report by Charles Bermant, The Seattle Times, February 2000
FACE IT: THE 1960s was the best time for rock 'n' roll. David Crosby, who was in the middle of it all, calls it "an explosive ...

Pete Townshend Online
Interview by Jason Gross, Yahoo! Internet Life, April 2000
2003 NOTE: WHILE IT'S commonplace now for artists to put their material up for fans to preview, it wasn't three years ago, which should show you ...

Keeping Up With the Napsters
Report by Eric Weisbard, Village Voice, May 2000
At Pho, a Thousand E-mails a Month Track the Great Digital Debate ...

Napsternomics: The Pop Solution to Downloading
Comment by Eric Weisbard, Village Voice, August 2000
HERE'S THE smallest of Napster's ironies: the service shut down last week by Judge Marilyn Hall Patel, then granted a stay of execution by the Ninth ...

Techno Beatnik: Thomas Dolby
Profile and Interview by Hank Bordowitz, unpublished, 2002
MY WIFE AND two-year-old huddle over my wife’s iMac. Billy, the two year old, giggles uncontrollably as the computer makes boinging and slide-whistle sounds, then ...

Out Of Tune With The Times
Comment by Louis Barfe, The Spectator, July 2004
Louis Barfe believes that record companies have only themselves to blame for falling sales ...