Further Proof That the Music Industry Is Basically Run By Retards

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Back in September, we mocked and ridiculed ASCAP and BMI for seeking to charge consumers each time they previewed a song by listening to the 30-second previews provided by sites like iTunes. Now music industry executives, the fucksticks at Capital Records to be precise, are taking retardation to the next level by suing Vimeo for “copyright infringement” over the “lip-dub” videos posted to the site. Read more »

Brooklyn Musician’s Hoodie Implicated in His Death

Gerhardt Fuchs, a 34 year-old drummer from Georgia known as “Jerry” to friends who recently played on Letterman with the band MSTRKRFT and toured with Vineland, The Juan MacLean, Turing Machine, Holy Ghost! and Maserati, fell to his death over the weekend after the hood of his sweatshirt got caught on a piece of a stalled freight elevator he attempted to jump out of, causing him to fall to his death five stories to the bottom of the elevator’s shaft in the building he was attending a party at on Berry Street in Williamsburg. Read more »