Tom Lachecki

I went to Nottingham's Riverside Festival today, and it was astounding. Not just from the number of individuals present — from all walks of life — but from the talent that it demonstrated.

Briefly exploring the world of the music business and how record labels don't tend to embrace on-demand access to music across the internet. Is the solution really to sit back and allow unfettered access to IP?

Russell Brand publicly threw his support behind Barack Obama at the MTV Video Music Awards in LA this weekend with some colourful language.

I briefly discuss the music video for the third single released off of Toy-Box's debut album "FanTastic".

Whilst Microsoft fights to make Vista as cross-compatible with other stuff as it has to in order to avoid various lawsuits, inter-department communication apparently failed when it came to ensuring that the brand new media player would work with the brand new operating system.

For those of you not already aware, the RIAA remains inexplicably unaware of any existing reason that they should not have total, uncontrolled access to the hard drive of a defendant accused of intellectual property violations.

I've gone on a couple of times about how the recording industry on the whole needs to get used to the idea that embracing the internet as a free medium is a positive thing.

Yay, Weird Al! Everyone's favourite parody artist has taken to "happily crediting the internet for his latest album htiting the top ten on the Billboard charts (his first ever top ten hit)".

Over the past few months we've seen more and more examples of attempting to brainwash kids into believing that all the new-fangled spy technology destined to restrict our freedom is actually a good thing.

Shan from "noise to toaster" posted this entry about a new joint musical endeavour by Greg Kurstin and Inara George. I'm a bit of a fan of Inara George's through her work on Grey's Anatomy, so I figured I might as well mention it, although I haven't yet found the spare bandwidth to download the […]