It’s Friday, and you know what that means at Axehole – sex, drugs, rock and roll and surviving 9 months at sea with the help of Jesus and air guitar.
Earlier in the week, we reported that Purdue University is the top school for stealing music. Some colleges are the best best business schools; some are [...]

The Recording Industry Association of America is promoting a new report that says that global piracy and counterfeiting cost Los Angeles-area companies $5.2 billion and the city at least $483 million in tax revenues in 2005. This is despite the fact that the number is nearly half the music-industry’s annual sales.
The study(PDF), conducted by the [...]

Purdue University appears to be a top school in the US for stealing music, based on the number of threats the school has received from the RIAA and the schools’ laissez faire response.
The RIAA has sent Purdue more than 1,000 complaints since last fall, a number beaten only by Ohio.
The Recording Industry Association of America [...]

The recordings of a British concert pianist who found fame in the last years of her life have been exposed as hoaxes – by iTunes.
Joyce Hatto, who died in June 2006, has become a cause célèbre with fans of classical piano. A series of recordings appeared to show her masterful command of a wide range [...]

It looks like the music industry has figured out a new way to piss off fans.
Suretone Records, a label distributed by the Universal Music Group, plans to start distributing video files featuring popular acts like Weezer and new bands like Drop Dead Gorgeous on file-sharing networks.
The music videos will not be wrapped in protective software [...]

It looks like Apple CEO Steve Jobs may be on a mission to piss off everyone in the world.
At an education conference on Friday, Steve Jobs blamed teachers’ unions for America’s educational problems.
“I believe that what is wrong with our schools in this nation is that they have become unionized,” Jobs said. “This unionization and [...]

Here’s the official trailer for Air Guitar Nation, which gets national distribution in the US in March 2007.

It’s WTF Friday, and you know what that means – we’ve got the most unusual music news of the week for you.
This week, we take a look at the 2007 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition.
This year, SI has shifted its emphasis off of babes in swimsuits in glamorous places, and instead is focusing on the world [...]