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Review: Toby Keith's new album evokes American pride

Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009

If tea party-era America needs an anthem, it could do worse than Toby Keith's "American Ride," the rollicking title track of the country mainstay's new album.

MOVIE REVIEW: 'It Might Get Loud'

Page, the Edge and White develop in a unique film

Friday, Sept. 4, 2009

What happens when you drop rock-guitar gods Jimmy Page, the Edge and Jack White into the same cinematic petri dish? The answer, it turns out, is: Not much.

'Loud': The rock musician's rock documentary

Friday, Sept. 4, 2009

In place of a notoriously stodgy ex-pol, this one boasts three rock stars: Jimmy Page, the Edge and Jack White. If their ability to sell records and concert tickets translates at all into box-office returns, "It Might Get Loud" is a sure bet, right?

EDGE: Whither the superstar?

If cult phenomenon died with Jackson, let it be

Friday, July 3, 2009

Michael Jackson was popular music's "last superstar." So dormant is this period of cultural history that, indeed, "it's hard even to talk in 2009 about what the era of the superstar was like," noted former MTV News correspondent John Norris in conversation with CNN's Anderson Cooper.

Jay Bennett: Learning how to die

Friday, May 29, 2009

The bare facts of Jay Bennett's demise are sad enough: dead at 45; in terrible, debilitating pain — with the added psychic pressure of having no health insurance. Even sadder is the last major popular impression of the man — as found in the Wilco documentary "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart."

EDGE: Conservatives and 'Atlas Shrugged'

Together on Fantasy Island

Friday, May 15, 2009

How can you tell that conservatives have responded to the Obama presidency by retrenching rather than reflecting? By what they apparently are reading in droves.

EDGE: Copyright cannibals

Labels, broadcasters tussle over shrinking revenues

Friday, May 8, 2009

Major labels and the broadcast radio industry used to be a cozy caravan. But now they're snowbound in a formidable, jagged, pirate-infested mountain range known as the Sierra Interneta.

EDGE: Digitally feeding the hunger for new music

New download site aims to satisfy fans' demands for more fresh music content

Friday, April 10, 2009

If the business model of Brite Revolution, a music-download site launched last month by entrepreneur Winn Elliott and singer-songwriter Billy Cerveny, proves successful, the digitally mutating species known as homo musicus had better learn to produce on deadline.

EDGE: Rocking a new generation

Friday, April 3, 2009

Parents, at least for a time, are powerful — and, these days, they're seemingly more concerned than ever about just what kind of songs their children are going to remember in 25 years' time.