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So it finally happened: somebody with legal authority finally figured out that record labels were paying programming directors and other radio station employees for airtime. Who woulda thunk it? NY Attorney General Eliot Spitzer just got a $10M USD settlement out of SonyMusic Group for “payola”. The big bopper had nothing on the resources that…

Doctor Dark, in a quartet form, made the trip to Buffalo, NY for the weekend to play a gig with Zappa-philes Voice of Cheez. We were “hospitalitized” by the lovely and talented Kilissa Cissoko. After our 7 hour, 400+ mile road trip she hooked us up with some amazing “gumbo variations” with rice, and we…

Drummer/Percussionista Stephen Chillemi and I are playing at the Buttonwood Tree in Middletown, CT for a night of all duo acts. Steve will be on drum kit and I will be playing bass and looping, making funny noises… Currently the lineup is the Sawtelles (without me), Lys Guillorn/Ryan Blessey, a band from Middletown/Weslyan (name?), and…

Well, we got a little action on Johnny “Handout” Rowland, and his guilty plea last week, As usual he loved burying his crimes in things like rah rah statements about all the “good” he has done, and things like slow news days and holidays. His Christmas surprise of 3,000 layoffs comes to mind. But to…

Go point one at the Democratic legislators in the 11 states that managed to get measures on the ballot banning gay marriage. If there was no strategist at the DNC that didn’t see this trap and move to stop it, then the entire staff should resign, en masse. My feelings are that the banning of…