When Martin Luther King was assassinated 40 years ago, only one US city was spared the riots that followed. Ed Vulliamy tells the extraordinary story of a James Brown gig that changed history. (Observer UK)

Funny story. At record show in Boston last week. It’s being held by a particular promoter in conjunction with his regular comic book show. A regular NYC customer comes up to me and says “Did you you ever think that the record show guys would NOT be the geekiest people in the house…?” Nice one! I swear, one of the guys had a Dalek tattoo! (Which must be akin to having a yellow peel-off banana tattoo or something)

Published October 12 2007…. nice! Although, PoOPlist went for Wilco, from the “Not. Bloody. Likely” section. Unlike anybody else.

Grammy results. PoOpsters may (?) be pleased that Amy Winehouse seems to have done OK.

New poops up from Emilio Alicia Bill Still and others PS I am typing this on my friend’s iPod Touch.

Raissa St. Pierre and NEW PoOPster: Eric Steinman … welcome!!

How many can you spot…

Rev. Rich Allen Don Cohen Mike Miller Kent B Micheal “Johnny Jah” Hodgkiss Jeff Schwartz

Steinski (finally!) has a blog. A recent post gives a really interesting overview of the current DC go-go scene. Some really nice video clips too.

First PoOPs of the new year are in: Mike Jurkovic Andy Stewart Ken Beck And now, a word from our fearless PoOPmeister… ‘Tis the season [again] to write POOP lists, fa-la-la-la-la. The usual ground rules, which include: limit your swill to 2 sides of a page make it copy-ready by leaving at least a one inch margin on both sides deadline: NO LATER THAN JANUARY 31st!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Send to this email address AS AN ATTACHMENT, if you are able to do so Also send me a hard copy to the address below Toss in a few bucks. I never state how…

I just saw an American Express commercial on TV. The soundtrack was “Gimme some Money” by spinal Tap.

….. But in the middle I gave a brief, twenty minute presentation to some friends in the music industry about why it’s time we pay closer attention to consumer needs when it comes to digital music. I thought I’d share my presentation in case others were interested. Hello. My name is Ian Rogers. I’ve been building digital media applications since 1992, dropped out of a Computer Science PhD program to tour with Beastie Boys in 1995, and have been purchased by both AOL and Yahoo! in the ten years since then, with a stint running the new media department for…

with marti debergi http://youtube.com/watch?v=kxSvF8iNEPg on radio on breakfast tv the show itself http://youtube.com/watch?v=EXy0hZDIrmY

Today I spotted a disc by someone called John Ralston. It is called “Sorry Vampire” and is due in stores in the US on October 2, 2007. It was completely unremarkable except for a note on the back: This record is intentionally quieter than some to preserve the dynamics of the original performances. Visit TurnMeUp.com for more information. Apparently, the official copy now reads like this: To preserve the excitement, emotion and dynamics of the original performances this record is intentionally quieter than some. For full enjoyment simply Turn Me Up! (www.TurnMeUp.org) I’d be interested to see the list of…

The major labels wanted to kill the single. Instead they killed the album. The association wanted to kill Napster. Instead it killed the compact disc. Spinning Into Oblivion

GRAMMY.com – 49th Annual Grammy Awards Nominee List (with winners highlighted in orange…)

The copycats over at the Voice have their own PoOPlist out: village voice > pazzandjop06 Chris Ott wonders if we need it: The Sheep Take a Buffalo Stance (but i liked Timbuk 3)…

All PoOps are now up. See the rundown here: The Results: Pooplist 2006 And click on the links to the left for individual PoOPs.