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...people interested in music," says Jimmy Iovine, CEO of Farmclub.com and co-chairman of Interscope Geffen A&M Records. "With more people getting into music, you'll find that there are more people capable of becoming great artists and having great ideas." The Web hasn't produced the new Kurt Cobain yet, but--who knows?--Nirvana could be a click away...
...irony really is dead, you might mark its toe tag May 10, 2000, launch date of Inside.com Years before co-founding that high-profile media-news website, editor Kurt Andersen co-founded the satiric Spy, a magazine that in the '80s and '90s treated the media and entertainment businesses as sardonically as Inside treats them earnestly. Writing about the new venture in New York magazine, media columnist Michael Wolff argued that you couldn't pull off a Spy online if you wanted to, for the Web is an "irony-resistant environment...
...proximity of the selections, one wonders if it doesn't reflect a token vote from a panel with an apparent generational disconnect from post-'60s genres. Maybe it'll take a few years to see the likes of Aimee Mann, Elvis Costello, Prince, Andy Partridge, Steve Earle, John Hiatt, Kurt Cobain and Bruce Springsteen, not to mention...
...Kurt and others like him took great risks because they believed that if they could tell the "civilized" world what was going on in the most remote parts of the planet, the world would do something. Bosnia proved them right. If only Kurt had taken a different turn...
Those of us who went into war zones usually found Kurt waiting for us, casual yet intense, bearded in later years, his wire-rim glasses perched above an energetic smile, sardonic yet engaged. I would take him aside to find out what was really happening. He always knew more than the U.N. and the diplomats. Unlike many great war correspondents, he seemed oblivious to the lures of fame; when I asked him why he stayed with Reuters, he said, "They let me do what interests...