Ongoing History Daily: Eddie the bootlegger
It’s a long and well-established tradition for Pearl Jam to allow their fans to record their concerts. This has driven
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Bootlegs
Ongoing History Daily: The album leak
One of the worst things to happen to an artist is to have an album leak before it’s supposed to
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How many live albums does Pearl Jam have now? We’ve officially lost count.
Pearl Jam’s egalitarian attitudes have always extended to allowing fans to record their gigs. They’ve also been very generous with
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UPDATED WITH MORE DETAILS AND AUDIO: 50 unreleased Rolling Stones tracks have suddenly appeared online. Why? And how?
Over the weekend, 50 unreleased Rolling Stones songs stretching back over almost 60 years appeared online. No one seems to
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Random music news for Tuesday, March 10, 2020
You know that things are weird when my visit to Costoco revealed that my local store totally out of antiseptic
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Back in 1971, Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin were on the trail of the “bootleg king.” Watch.
Illegally made recordings are as old as recorded music itself. In 1901, Lionel Mapleson, the librarian at the Metropolitan Opera
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Random music news for Tuesday, December 4, 2018
I understand why people back into parking spaces at the mall, but when it’s crowded and busy during the holiday
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Watch a 1972 Film of Neil Young Catching a Store Selling Neil Young Bootlegs
Unauthorized sharing of songs goes back further than Napster. Much further. As proof, here’s a short film Neil Young shot
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The Secret History of Bootleg Records
I confess: I used to buy a lot of bootleg CDs. And I mean a lot. They ran the gamut:
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Random Music News for Saturday, November 19, 2016
It was on this day in 1963 that the first-ever push-button telephone went into service. And now, some music news…
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A History of Stealing Music
Think stealing music started with Millennials. Nope. Noisey points out that this has been going on a lot longer than
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