e a r p o l l u t i o n - issue 3.Ø5, may 2ØØ1

Rest in Peace, Joey Ramone; Henley, Morisette Speak to Congress on Artists Rights; Open Letter from Courtney Love to All Recording Artists; Charlie Pride on Bleeding Edge of Copy-Protection; Princeton Professor Breaks Digital Music Security; Universal Music Group Acquires Emusic; Guided by Voices Singer Turns Down Lifetime Achievement Award; Cadaver Advertises Norwegian Parliament Murder Clean-up Service; Thieves are Scum (Something Against You Remix); Quote(s) of the Month.

Earpollution has been playing electronic frisbee with Bill Kellum, the man behind one of the Doldrums' guitars, as well as VHF Records. We reckon Kellum, who endured a month of e-mails from eP's Edgar Ortega, is a very patient man, as well as one eager to talk about his ongoing projects. ¶On the cusp of the release of Juno's A Future Lived in Past Tense, Earpollution sits down with the band, and in-between our emphatic praise of their brilliant new album the conversation ranges from missing torsos, to the Witness Relocation program, to why "someone somewhere will always sing the words you need."

In exploring the realm of transitions in life and the emotive force of music that drives or describes such transitions, Earpollution's Jennifer Johnson uses herself as a subject, and elaborates on the exemplary music of the midnight hour. This is an hour of creativity, of demons and angels, of intense loss and mourning, of revelation and elation. In this, "The Hour of Transition," not only the day, but emotion and life's energy, are simultaneously extinguished and created.