This is our first week, so we’re covering anything. But we can’t get down with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Hall of Fames work best with quantifiable products like sports. Baseball has reams of specialized statistics available to compare today’s players to their predecessors. For the most part, they [...]
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts five new members tonight. The honorees are:
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
The hall inducts its first hip-hop artist
Billboard interviews Flash
Flash of genius
The beginning of the rap era
Mad props to Grandmaster Flash
R.E.M.
Welcome to the club
A profile of a “25-year rockin’ role“
Twenty-five years [...]
NYT calls for the scalp of ‘The Failed Attorney General.’
Abandoned backpack in a trashcan disrupts Seattle ferry service.
Sen. McCain bites the hand he wants to feed him.
Newt Gingrich apologizes for his sins but not his hypocrisy
17 years late, Sen. Obama settles his outstanding balance with the Harvard meter maids.
More large-vote states consider early 2008 primaries. [...]
In an excellent post on the pressures facing his favorite internet radio station, Daily Kos diarist Nolan writes:
“[T]he Copyright Royalty Board has decided to increase the fees on internet radio from about 10-12% of Radio Paradise’s annual gross income to about 125% of their gross annual income.”
“And FM stations don’t pay a dime.”
That’s because [...]
Welcome to the Run Amok blog!
We’re a group of New York musicians and friends playing catchy, bouncy rock and pop with influences from the Beatles to Björk to the Replacements.
If you’d like listen to our debut EP or download our songs free, please visit the Run Amok on MySpace.com:
The Run Amok
1. Wrecking Ball
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