Fire Destroys Johnny Cash House

April 12th, 2007

Heard about it yesterday, read the article on the BBC website.

Another neighbour, Richard Sterban of country and gospel band, the Oak Ridge Boys, is quoted by the AP news agency as saying the fire may be “the good Lord’s way to make sure that it was only Johnny’s house”.

Wincing The Night Away

February 3rd, 2007

The sexy sixties, the suave seventies, the awful eighties, the neurotic nineties. Each preceding century seems to have an interesting musical character. Perhaps it’s just a symptom of youth–that things nowadays don’t seem somehow as exciting as “back then”:

Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair,
In 77 and 69 revolution […]

Why Do I Buy Music CDs?

February 1st, 2007

It’s (still) easy to acquire music illegally on the Internet. The usual suspects are P2P, music blogs, or BitTorrent. There has been a crackdown on P2P in recent years, but due to its inherently decentralised nature, you can never really stamp it out. This year I see the focus of the media giants resting on […]