It’s sad people rarely stop to acknowledge all the good Twitter/MySpace has done for the world. And by “good” we really mean weird and by “world” we really mean rock writers. Folks used to have to interview Courtney Love to get crazy-ass quotes. Now they’re just one lazy click away. Strange times we live in.

Anyway, over the past year Love has used both Internet mediums to berate Ryan Adams for a number of things, namely being owed a ridiculous lump sum for paying for the production of his Rock n Roll album and regretting “very safe sex with him.” Well Adams has gone old school on her with a response, releasing a statement to Gawker through his publicist responding to the many varied accusations in one clean paragraph with no ridiculous tangents, misspellings or exclamation. We didn’t even know people still did that. Says Adams…

“I have never had any romantic, personal or financial involvement with Courtney Love. She is confusing me with her ex, who produced my Rock n Roll record, which was financed solely by Universal Music.”

The end? Yeah, probably not. (Via: Gawker)

The 100-year-old man in a pale, young man’s body known as Jack White recently stated his beef with MySpace and the internet in general in a cantankerous interview with The Ampersand about his new supergroup the Dead Weather:

“Do I really need a MySpace page for this f–king music? Do I really need to do that? There’s a part of me, that just out of spite, says I don’t want to do it because it’s so antithetical to what I do,” Mr. White said.

“I just question what it all means. If a million people see your webpage, how many people actually buy something, buy a record or a song? Feels to me, if you give them a chance to fast forward, rewind, or click off to the next web page, they will do it. But if you take away that opportunity, you will frustrate a percentage of people, but others will get off the couch and go buy the vinyl at the store.”

We question it too, Jack. Oh wait, no we don’t because we just read that quote on the internet. The internet also told us that the Dead Weather is playing on old-timey television on Conan O’Brien’s program The Tonight Show tomorrow night. The internet also puts millions of pictures of adorable kittens at our fingertips. And it allows us to talk to grammy through live video. So does the Dead Weather need a MySpace page? Maybe not. But the internet is definitely neat.

We all know Tom. He’s the most popular guy on the world wide Web, but don’t get used to seeing that smiling, friendly face on your friend’s list much longer. The famous frontman of the social networking site MySpace might be disappearing from your friend feed soon, and no, it’s not because he’s joined Facebook or Twitter instead. According to reports, Tom and the rest of the MySpace Executive Team are most likely being terminated from their positions within the next week.
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He’ll be seeing the old gang at Glastonbury and he’s got a new album coming out next week — if Neil Young fans weren’t already salivating, they will be when they find out they can stream his upcoming LP live from MySpace tonight.
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In light of the recent news that Facebook’s ongoing effort to launch a free streaming music service has stalled, we figured to help them come up with a viable solution that will pay out long term dividends instead of the instant gratification they were looking to receive via a deal with the four big labels.
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