“There’s nothing nicer than a tune playing in your head — until you can’t turn it off. The phenomenon has spanned the ages. In 1882, Mark Twain wrote in a short story of an annoying ‘jingling rhyme’ that became indelibly lodged in the author’s mind until he passed the curse along to another hapless victim.”

“A decade after their chart success, Jesus Jones are a hit on the corporate gig circuit. Frontman Mike Edwards explains why cashing in isn’t selling out.”

“Welcome to Adtunes.com! We hope this ad music weblog serves as a great source of information on songs and music used in television commercials, movie trailers, tv shows, and much more. If you’re looking for information on a song or ad, a great place to start is in our user forums.”

“We take people’s vintage slides that we purchase at estate and yard sales and turn them into pop rock exposes. A concept, that if applied correctly, will change the future of entertainment”

“Taken from the shelves of the Archive Music Department we’ve gathered albums that, while not on many ‘classic’ lists, should be recognized for great music, interesting artwork/photography or their own inherent strangeness.”

“The Shortlist Music Project honors today’s most creative and adventurous albums, focusing on emerging artists rather than established hitmakers. ‘We needed something different, and it had to be artists and people who care about the music to pull together and organize it,’ explains Talib Kweli, one of ten Shortlist Finalists for last year’s inaugural award. ‘The idea is for everybody to check out all of the [nominated] records and explore a little bit,’ explained returning Listmaker Beck at the Shortlist Awards Concert last November.”

By John Densmore: “Dread ripples through me as I listen to a phone message from our manager saying that we (The Doors) have another offer of huge amounts of money if we would just allow one of our songs to be used as the background for a commercial. They don’t give up! I guess it’s hard to imagine that everybody doesn’t have a price.”

“Welcome the the Ziggy Stardust 30th Anniversary Site. Make sure to contribute your Ziggy Stardust memories, reflections, photos and imagery to be featured in this new site.”

“Beck’s backing band for his October tour will look familiar, but not because they’re the guys who’ve played behind him on past tours… In addition to playing alongside Beck, the Lips will open the show with their own set.”

“What we’ve assembled here, for a start, is the old website’s contents (the first four Trouser Press Record Guides, those highly opinionated review books of ’70s and ’80s alternative music) plus The Trouser Press Guide to ’90s Rock, which has never before been online. While the good news is that the latter’s discographies have been updated, the reviews haven’t — virtually nothing since 1996 has gotten our critical attention… yet. But it will.”

This link goes straight to a RealAudio file. This Royksopp video, for “You Remind Me,” is made entirely of animated and morphing information graphics. They’re pretty good, too. It’s fun to watch, but the song is lame. (UPDATED 19 Nov 2006: Here’s a new link to the video on YouTube: Royksopp’s “You Remind Me” — thanks Dutch Driver!)

“Alan Lomax, the legendary collector of folk music who was the first to record towering figures like Leadbelly, Muddy Waters and Woody Guthrie, died yesterday at a nursing home in Sarasota, Fla. He was 87.”

The big tour featuring The Flaming Lips, Cake, De La Soul, Modest Mouse, Kinky and The Hackensaw Boys. And St. Louis is the first stop!

This is a great music and MP3 site. “Epitonic.com is a site for sore ears. We are a campaign — a group of individuals who share a zealous lust for music — music that invades our thoughts, music that propels our bodies — music that allows us to revel in passion and pleasure… We want to bring the scenes of music we hold dear to the Internet and subsequently to the world after having our own ears inundated by a glut of mediocre music. We want to create a site that leverages technology to do what we demand that it does — bring us closer to things we crave.”

“The Flaming Lips have wrapped up work on their next record, ‘Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots,’ which is set for a July 16th release. The album will be the band’s first release since 1999’s ‘The Soft Bulletin.’”