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Mackenzie Phillips. Daughter of John Phillips, leader and one of the founding members of the Mamas and Papas claims John Phillips had committed insest having sexual relationships with her from 1979 to 1989. Mackenzie Phillips recent disclosure on the Oprah Winfrey Show comes as no surprise to those who know this family. Poor Mackenzie has been caught using harder drugs many times in her troubled life and it looks like she wants to clean up her closet.

The Music Industry has backed off it’s Royalty demands by 40 percent after killing off most small Internet streaming sites. The obscene royalties demanded by the rights organizations like ASCAP, PAMRA, and BMI, along with the 4 major recording companies took precedence with SoundExchange whose attempted royalty collection closed most small and intermediate sized Internet sites trying to make it with streaming. This leaves only the major players in control of legal streaming, like Pandora, Blip.fm and CBS owned Last.fm securing the monopolistic practices of the big 4 recording companies.

Sweden judge Tomas Norstrom, who convicted the owners of the Pirate Bay file sharing service for copyright infringement - ordering them to jail, has been found to belong to several copyright protection groups including one with the representative of the film and movie industry who participated in the trial against the defendants. The judge and the prosecution were in bed together before, during and after the trial.

Rock impresario Phil Spector, creator of the famous Philadelphia wall of sound has been convicted of murder in his second trial after the first deadlocked. Spector was convicted of putting a gun into a B-Grade movie stars mouth in his front foyer and pulling the trigger taking the young life of the woman.

Into the light of day came the long history of abuse Spector has heaped on woman throughout his life. A troubled musical genius whose riches and fame shrouded his intense problems until drugs, ego, and emotions took the best of him away.

It was not more than a year ago when we found a band called MonkeyGrinder embedded in the MusicTV Share site. The band has slowly gathered a following and we think it fitting to show off the new site here by placing them as one of the first we review.

What could be better when the economy hits the skids like horses in a mud-slide and your sister just married the school bully? Well, here it is a brand new website to play with.

After careful abuse of every substance known to man the site came together like the bag to the face of the local glue sniffers. No one should do these things without the consent and abuse of your parents. However, the site held and here it is in its crudest sense. Albiet why so crude.

It may not be the most horrible thing Yoko has done in her life, her art may take the award there, but Ono has sold out the song Imagine to a MIT scheme to foist laptops on starving Africans and other third world children. It is not the first time a scam hits the fan leaving nothing but the awful smell of burning motherboards behind.

TransMedia Group has been retained to publicize the overture of "Home Aid Concerts" the first series of all-star concerts that will be to troubled homeowners what Willie Nelson's "Farm Aid" concerts were to farmersMorgan Renee Entertainment Inc. hired TransMedia, the PR firm founded by former NBC Programming VP Tom Madden, to publicize the debut of more than a dozen monthly concerts featuring star performers in adult contemporary, country and Latin.

German Court Claims Thin Lizzy Plagiarized Guitar Riff They Never Heard

In an astounding affront to musicians, particularly guitarists, but basically all music, the German courts have claimed that German musicians have priority in guitar riffs. This all comes about from the recent case of Gary Moore with his Thin Lizzy hit “Still Got the Blues” and an obscure never recorded song of an obscure band Jud’s Gallery and a song called “Nordrach”.