response 1 of 32:

Aug 23 03:54 UTC 2001

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48576-2001Aug22.html
 
This is a lengthy feature about the pop music scene in Iran, where 
religious authorities, trying to maintain control, have people flogged
for distributing bootleg recordings of Western pop/rock/rap.
(And you thought the RIAA was tough!  :)  )
 
Besides the Western popular music which we know, there is also 
an Iranian pop music created by an exile community centered around
Los Angeles, and the authorities see that as dangerous too.
 
Recognizing that trying to bar music isn't working too well, the 
Iranian government is trying to develop its own Islamic-sanitized
pop music industry -- similar to Contemporary Christian Music, 
maybe?

((This touches on one of my recurrent thoughts; that the musics
of jazz, rock and rap have been among the most powerful elements 
of America's rise to world dominance.  It echoes stories of 
jazz and rock music behind the Iron Curtain.))

response 3 of 32:

Sep 24 23:18 UTC 2001

  C-Net reports that Napster has reached a settlement with music publishers
  (*not* the record companies..)

  I found the story in the New York Times, at:

     http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/CNET_0-1005-200-7283716.html

  Unfortunately the Times requires a (free) registration.  If you don't have
  one and don't want to create one, the story's probably on C-Net's site
  somewhere..

response 5 of 32:

Oct 29 21:50 UTC 2001

  The story doesn't live up to the promise, but my favorite music-related
  headline of the week:

     "Courtney Love Ends Show in Bathroom"

  On another topic:  there don't seem to be many high-profile stories
  coming out of the music industry lately (other than benefit concert
  after benefit concert..) Is it just me, or does everyone else suspect
  that somewhere out there, at this very moment, there's an industry
  lobbyist trying to interest a sponsor in some sort of Defense of Music
  "anti-terrorism" act or sneaking very scary amendments into sure-to-pass
  "patriotic" legislation?  :-O

response 7 of 32:

Jul 5 07:11 UTC 2002

  KRJ and others may be interested in an article in one of the weekend
  sections from the New York Times -- it claims to be their fourth annual
  world music round-up.

  I haven't had time to read the whole thing but they like a number of 
  albums Ken has already mentioned (such as the recent live double album
  from Natalie MacMaster..)  

  Like everything else in the NY Times, (free) registration required:
  
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/05/arts/music/05WORL.html?8iwea

response 9 of 32:

Nov 16 05:23 UTC 2002

Here's a BBC story on a very retired Grace Slick, with a current
photo:
 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,840824,00.html

response 11 of 32:

Nov 18 07:00 UTC 2002

And a list of the all-time top twenty rock songs about drugs, too.  
What? No "With a Little Help From My Friends"?  Spiro Agnew himself 
certified that as a drug song.

response 13 of 32:

Dec 12 05:21 UTC 2002

resp:10  I'm not sure if that's always been 100% the case-- her VH1 
airtime showed the years.  This picture, however, is quite flattering.

resp:9  Interesting article.  I don't agree with her sentiments, 
however, that the favored drugs of the 60's are more benign than many 
pharmeceutical drugs.  I tend to favor the opinion that any drug can be 
life-threatening, and medical assistance is important.  People have 
unique enough body chemistry individually that reactions can vary.  One 
drug my psychiatrist had me try yielded potentially fatal side effects, 
and I was knocked for a loop for two months.  Not everyone will have 
that result, however; I was the one in 20 with those side effects.

response 15 of 32:

Jan 3 05:10 UTC 2003

I forget-- you'd have to read the article.

response 17 of 32:

Jan 13 22:13 UTC 2003

  I cut the article off after the first few paragraphs, figuring that anyone
  who wanted more details could check the URL or search their own preferred
  news source, but in fairness to Townsend I should have included his 
  response, presented later in the article.

    >  Townshend said in his Saturday statement that he was not a
    >  pedophile and only used the porn site once while doing research
    >  for an autobiography dealing with his own suspected childhood
    >  sexual abuse.

response 19 of 32:

Jan 14 22:32 UTC 2003

  Another interesting music-business story:  apparently a police crackdown
  on a piracy/bootlegging operation in Holland has recovered a number of
  long-lost unreleased Beatles master tapes, recorded during the sessions
  for an aborted album between "The Beatles" (aka "The White Album") and
  "Let it Be"

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2646921.stm

  The story describes the tapes as containing "dozens" of entire songs.

response 21 of 32:

Jan 18 00:03 UTC 2003

And it wasn't "an aborted album", it was unused material from the 
sessions which eventually produced "Let It Be".

response 23 of 32:

Feb 3 22:22 UTC 2003

  Wire services are reporting that Phil Spector has been arrested
  on suspicion of murder.

  > (AP) Legendary record producer Phil Spector was arrested Monday
  > for investigation of homicide after the body of a woman was found
  > at a home in this Los Angeles suburb, authorities said.