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Catch Wigglepussy, Indiana at a show near you:

Fri 4/22 @ York Street Caf? in Newport, KY
(w/ Le Technopuss13s, 13s, The Sinners)

Sat 4/23 @ Short Street Lounge in Lexington, KY
(w/ Lucid Grey & Pron)

Fri 4/29 @ Madlab Theatre
(w/ Noctaluca & Downtown Brown)

Sat 4/30 @ Emerson Theatre in Indianapolis, IN
(w/ The Nancy School)

Fri 5/6 @ Howards in Bowling Green, OH
(w/The Brown Notes and Goiter Jelly)

Fri 5/20 @ PromoWest for Intl Body Art Expo

Sat 5/21 @ The Bucket
(w/ The Fierce Lime & Noctaluca (and a new Art Show)

Sat 6/4 @ The Legacy in Terre Haute, IN
(w/ Never is a Promise, Saints Never Surrender)

This line-up is officially completely out of control. In a good way.

Yoko Ono has been asked to headline Vincent Gallo?s ATP.

uk assignment

She joins her son Sean Lennon, DJ Ellen Allien, John Frusciante, Polly Jean Harvey (solo), Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Merzbow, Olivia Tremor Control, James Chance and The Contortions, Prefuse 73, Buck 65, Lydia Lunch, I am Kloot, Vitamin B-12, Kid Koala, Yuka Honda (Cibo Matto), Jayne County, Magik Markers, Afrirampo, Women and Children, The Tints, Suicide, John Foxx (Ultravox), Ted Curson, Peaches, Trapist, Nikolai Haas, Thread Pulls, Gang Gang Dance, Autolux and The Zombies + more to be announced. Vincent Gallo himself has also agreed to play at event on April 22nd ? 24th, 2005.

Think Chlo? Sevigny will be there?

New from the peeps at Downhill Battle—

The Participatory Culture Foundation is a new, funded non-profit organization with a mission to enable and support independent, non-corporate creativity and political engagement.

Their first project is “Internet TV”, consisting of both a software player and publishing tools (using RSS, XML, and Bittorrent)—all open-source and cross-platform—scheduled for a June release.

You can find the St. Louis Twangfest schedule here. Once again they’ve done a fine job.

Tomorrow the RIAA plans on filing 400+ lawsuits against college students for “illegally” sharing files over Internet2. From the histrionic press release—

A total of 405 lawsuits will be filed tomorrow against students at Boston University, Carnegie Mellon University, Columbia University, Drexel University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Michigan State University, New York University, Ohio State University, Princeton University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Rochester Institute of Technology, University of California ? Berkeley, University of California ? San Diego, University of Massachusetts ? Amherst, University of Pittsburgh and University of Southern California.

Statistics (of dubious veracity) are given:

Combined, the students being sued have illegally distributed more than 1.5 million total files, including more than 930,000 songs.

Found this online:

Elton John says that Eminem is on par with Jimi Hendrix and Mick Jagger. In the new issue of Rolling Stone, the rapper is listed in the magazine’s second “Immortals” edition, featuring another 50 of the greatest figures of rock ‘n’ roll with appreciations written by other artists. In his immortalizing of Eminem, John writes that he got goose bumps when he first rehearsed with him for their performance at the 2001 Grammy Awards.

“From the start, I’ve always admired Eminem’s thinking,” John writes. “That’s the reason I wanted to appear on the Grammys with him when I was asked, despite all the nonsense talked about his being homophobic.

“Let the Boy Georges and the George Michaels of the world get up in a twist about it if they don’t have the intelligence to see his intelligence.”

Other contributors include Dave Matthews writing on Radiohead, Trey Anastasio on Frank Zappa, Beck on Hank Williams, David Bowie on Nine Inch Nails and Mos Def on Miles Davis.

The original top 50 “Immortals” were listed by Rolling Stone in 2004. Topping the ranks were the Beatles, Bob Dylan and Elvis Presley.

Is it a good thing when a US media behemoth strengthens its footholds in the UK entertainment industry? I’m tending towards no.

“Mean Fiddler, the music festival and concert organiser behind the Reading and Leeds festivals, is being taken over in a ?38m deal by a group of investors that includes the UK division of the world’s largest concert promoter.

The company, which has a 39% interest in the Glastonbury festival, said last night it was backing an offer from a privately owned outfit controlled by the US entertainment group Clear Channel and the Irish music promoter Denis Desmond.”

Full story at the Guardian.

The BBC World Service has a piece with Jeff Tweedy where he talks about releasing artefacts, how home taping was going to kill music, and that the internet is “Just new technology, and it’s nothing to be afraid of.”

Now that’s just crazy talk.

Full story here.

It warmed our hearts to see Doug Gillard get the cover story of the Cleveland Scene this week. The article will teach you everything you ever wanted to know about Mr. Gillard but were afraid to ask.

Watch it and find out.