October 23, 2007

Tuesday? Ensues Music News Day

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  • Police in England shut down today what they called “the primary source worldwide” for illegal, prerelease music downloads. The invitation-only “OiNK” site turned out to be run by a 24-year-old dude in Middlesbrough, northeast England. Look, they caught the kid in his bathrobe:

    OiNK’s servers in Amsterdam were shut down as well, but here’s an OiNK memorial site if you’re feeling sad.

  • Def Jam chairman Antonio “L.A.” Reid confirmed his support for Nas after the rapper announced his new album would be called Nigger, saying “Anything Nas wants to do, I stand beside him.” The Rev. Al Sharpton, on the other hand, condemned the choice, saying “We do not need to be degrading ourselves… we get degraded enough.”

  • Lance Bass describes life in the closet during his years in ‘NSYNC to MTV News, saying he had people close to him sign non-disclosure agreements, and that the band’s management and publicists didn’t advise him against coming out, because, he says, even they didn’t know. Huh.

  • The BBC has been criticized for allowing a racist remark by Iggy Pop to go uncensored and unacknowledged during the network’s live broadcast from Glastonbury in June. Pop told a story about visiting “Paki shops” in Camden, using a term that the BBC said has now passed out of “polite usage.”

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