Pop quiz

Q: Should Washington, DC

a) welcome the Clear Channel-owned House of Blues to the Mt. Vernon neighborhood, or

b) help other well-meaning Americans hunt down Clear Channel executives like so many rabid badgers?

This will be 25% of your grade.

Pitchfork interviews Steve Reich

Say what you want about the 'fork, but in between the excessive praise they heap on Clap Your Hands in Helsinki or whoever, they're interviewing the likes of Prurient, Asunder, and Mr. Reich. The last of those may be read here. I gotta find the Hungarian recording of "Music For 18 Musicians" he mentions...

Death to false Idols

Elsewhere on CNN...

Blah blah, elections, yadda yadda... The really juicy stuff is nestled in the nether regions of the CNN website:

It [an Us Weekly magazine story] claimed Spears and Federline, feared the release of a secret sex tape, which they had viewed with their estate planning lawyers.