Archive for February, 2004

Corgan pins Pumpkins Demise on Iha

Friday, February 20th, 2004

Billy Corgan decided to reveal the true reason for the breakup of the Smashing Pumpkins in his blog in his February 17th entry. Corgan puts the blame squarely on James Iha. He’s quick to say that it wasn’t Jimmy or D’arcy’s fault. Which is interesting, because James seemed to be one of the more stable [...]

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Car Talk Dumps Real

Sunday, February 1st, 2004

A few posts ago I was lamenting the fact that This American Life, as well as most of the programs on Chicago Public Radio, only make their streaming audio available in the RealMedia format. Well, I’m not the only one who is annoyed with RealNetworks. The guys over at Car Talk have dumped RealMedia in [...]

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