DeWitt Clinton

In 1981, four kids from Boston released what is arguably the the best indie rock 12″ of all time. Simply 20 minutes of impossibly catchy pop hooks twisted around barbed-wire basslines, sandpaper guitars, and battlefield drumming, each note, each word just one notch beyond the breaking point. It was punk, but it was unexpectedly competent [...]

An insightful article over at Progressive Trail discusses the implications of a “Jane Doe” lawsuit in which a French company was able to file a discovery lawsuit against Time Warner Cable to obtain the name of an individual suspected of posting defamatory comments. So while the recent court decision regarding Verizon and the RIAA shows [...]

As reported last Friday at the New York Times, News.com is carrying a reprint about how the Motion Picture Association of America is acting considerably more reasonably than the RIAA when it comes to file sharing. As has been widely covered, the RIAA has been employing the tactic of suing file-traders suspected of sharing copyrighted [...]

Most people probably associate independent music with indie rock and shoe-gazing college kids who wear their hair in their eyes and their hearts ironically thumbtacked to the sleeves of their academy blazers as they debate the etymology of the word “emo” while trying to get the perfect lo-fi sound out of a homemade stompbox built [...]

Issue #59 of Punk Planet has a short piece on old-school subversives Negativland and their light-hearted attack on a Clear Channel radio station in Seattle. As if Clear Channel’s monopoly over the airwaves, concert venues, and outdoor advertising wasn’t enough, apparently one of the stations they own in Seattle (KJR-FM) has been guilty of a [...]