Bluesman Jimmie Lee Robinson will begin a hunger strike on Friday (8/18) to have Chicago's historic Maxwell Street listed on the National Register of Historic Places, thus protecting more than 40 buildings from being demolished to make way for University of Illinois construction.

San Francisco-based artists including Chris Isaak and Faith No More have been evicted from their rehearsal space Downtown Rehearsal. The largest collection of rehearsal spaces in San Francisco, Downtown has been sold and will be demolished. The San Francisco Bay Guardian says that local musicians in that exclusive city now have virtually no place to rehearse.

According to Reuters, Garth Brooks [ tickets ]' neighbors are unanimously against the singer's idea of turning his Tennessee home into a museum.

Ministry [ tickets ] is due to release "Tapes of Wrath," a collection of its videos, on Sept. 19.

The BBC reported that the surviving members of the Quarrymen, John Lennon's first band, are doing a show at the Liverpool school that they attended in their youth.

EMI Music Publishing sued Global Music One--which has a website from which one can download melodies for use as the "ringing tone" for one's cell phone--for $45 million for copyright infringement, Billboard reported.

Is it unreasonable to hope that that car alarm that apparently everyone in liveDaily Briefly's neighborhood has--

ENH! ENH! ENH! ENH! OOO-EEE! OOO-EEE! WEOOOWEOOOWEOOOWEOOO!

--was lifted from, like, a Primus [ tickets ] song or something, and could be sued out of existence?

From staff reports, compiled by James Woster.