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Shaun Johnson on LMIA

The President who isn’t.

Right-Wing Ads On LMN Site

For those of you who notice that various rightists, including the odious female attack dog Ann Coulter, have ads on the LMN site, please note that those ads come via the Goolge Adsense systems, which we subscribe to. We do not solicit nor endorse these advertisements and, truth to tell, we should go check [...]

Collective Soul at 4th Street Live!ive!ve!e!

Business First called the series a “marathon of parties, concerts and celebrity sightings,” evidence that BF needs some staff retraining on the dangers of PR regurgitation.

Wal-Mart To Labels: Better Product or Less Shelf Space

Wal-Mart’s digital music sales remain flat.

Virgin Festival Lineup Announced

Lots of old, fewer new bands.

iTunes to offer DRM-Free Songs?

MacRumors.com reports that Apple sent out a notice to its iTunes partners that “that they would soon be able to offer DRM-free music and DRM-free music videos to customers through iTunes.”

The new, unrestricted format appears to be open to any publisher who is interested. Read more on the matter here.

Live Nation = Record Label?

A post at hypebot.com speculates that Live Nation (the former arena management arm of Clear Channel that operates The Louisville Palace) has bought music merchandiser Trunk, which makes the company “a major gatekeeper in the two arenas of the music industry that provide artists with the most revenue – touring and merchandise sales.” From [...]

Fine Arts Sunday

If this is Sunday, then the Courier-Journal will run Andrew Adler’s column about one or more of the groups supoorted by the Fund For the Arts. This week, he details the financial problems of the Louisville Youth Choir, which currently has a debt of some $70,000.

Adler also profiles Jason Weinberger, the newly appointed [...]

After a Good Night’s Sleep…

Arnett Hollow – impressive picking from the leader, Chris Rodahoffer.

Friday Media Wrap – Short: Sisto

Thomas Merton’s influence on Sisto has a big effect.