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ABC News
Circus Maximus in Rome, London’s Hyde Park and the Eiffel Tower in Paris are among the venues for Live 8, a series of concerts being organized by Bob Geldof, the driving force behind the Band Aid and Live Aid campaigns for African famine relief.
The July 2 concerts, which will be free, also will [...]

Yahoo! New
“Crazy Frog Axel F,” a ring tone based on the sound of a revving Swedish mo-ped, is the first tune being used on mobile phones to cross into mainstream music charts, said Gennaro Castaldo, a spokesman for HMV, the British music retailing chain.
Coldplay had hoped to go straight to No. 1 on this [...]

Yahoo! News is reporting that the cast of the Breakfast Club is reuniting for the MTV Movie Awards on June 5th. I liked the movie, but what are they going to do perform a skit?

Reuters Two veteran members of the Cure have exited the U.K. rock act, which has long featured a revolving door of musicians backing leader Robert Smith.

TIME.com If you’re a regular reader of blogs, or indeed of any kind of news website, you’ve probably been frustrated from time to time by information overload: the blogosphere creates way too much material for any human being to comfortably digest. Plus, there’s no way of knowing when your favorite sites are updated. Some [...]

Yahoo! News Eddie Albert, the actor best known as the constantly befuddled city slicker-turned-farmer in television’s “Green Acres,” has died. He was 99.

Next Thursday NBC is going start airing a series called “Hit Me One More Time Baby” where they bring back old musical acts and they perform their signature hit and then a current hit. The first week they are going to have Flock of Seagulls, Tiffany, Ce Ce Peniston, Loverboy and Arrested Development. Future [...]

BBC NEWS Japanese officials in the Philippines are interviewing two men who claim to be Japanese soldiers living in the jungle since the end of World War II. The pair, now in their 80s, were found on the southern island of Mindanao…… In 1974, a Japanese soldier, Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda, was found in the [...]

KSL NewsRadio 1160 There’s still a lot of snow in the Utah mountains — and one Utah ski resort plans to make the most of it. Snowbird announced today it will try to stay open for weekend skiing through July 4th.
Maybe I should head down to Snowbird before my barbecue at the house.

RollingStone.com Barenaked Ladies co-frontman Steven Page will release his first solo album under the name Vanity Project on June 21st. The Toronto-based Page wrote eleven of the twelve tracks with British musician Stephen Duffy (a.k.a. Tin Tin), best known for the Eighties club hit “Kiss Me.”
Page discovered Duffy — who was Duran Duran’s original drummer [...]

Though they are not calling it Live Aid 2 the BBC is reporting that Bob Geldof and Midge Ure are planning a concert to coincide with G8 summit in July.

RollingStone.com Joe Strummer often spoke of reissuing the lone album from his mid-Seventies pre-Clash band, the 101ers. But the punk legend’s untimely death of a heart attack in 2002 gave the project a new urgency that will finally land it in shops again on June 14th, almost twenty-five years after its original release.

scribe:NT Dashboard is Apple’s widget environment. Konfabulator is Arlo Rose and company’s environment for widgets. THe latter accused the former of having copied Konfabulator, but elsewhere on the web, you can read this isn’t so (Ars Technika, for example. So, what’s up with these two, then? If I would say they live perfectly together, [...]

Boston Globe – Bickering among the ‘Pod squad A high-bandwidth donnybrook has exploded onto the Internet, as two successful entrepreneurs are waging a hissy war over who deserves the credit for ”podcasting,” a new technology that allows computer users to create, and to automatically download, homemade sound files. The files can be played in [...]

Nokia 770 Internet Tablet I wonder how the wi-fi is in my bathroom?

MacMinute A new 75-page ebook is available by Jeff Mills that teaches new users the history of podcasting, as well as how to set up their own podcasts. In his new ebook, Podcast Secrets Revealed, the author shows “many more uses for people and businesses on how podcasting can help them enjoy their favorite topics, [...]

Playlist: Podcash: Follow the money This may come as a shock to those who believe that information should be freely distributed like so much wind-carried pollen, but a goodly portion of the information you consume—news as well as entertainment—exists solely so someone can make a buck. In biz-speak we’re talking about “monetizing assets.”

Wired News
IPod users are raving about a plug-in that makes the Winamp digital jukebox a better way to manage the iPod than Apple’s iTunes.
The plug-in, called ml_iPod, allows iPod users to bypass iTunes and manage music collections in Winamp instead. The iPod is supposed to work with iTunes only. A new version of the software [...]

Business Week Now it’s a lot easier to listen than it is to send your own audio programs into cyberspace. But stay tuned — this party’s just getting started

CNET News.com When you think of the folks who count as the early movers behind podcasting, Dave Winer and Adam Curry immediately pop to mind.