The Experience Music Project in Seattle will hold a tribute to Jimi Hendrix [ tickets ] from Nov. 26 to Dec. 2.

Cnet.com printed an excerpt from a letter from Hillary Rosen, president of the Record Industry Association of America, to Hank Barry, CEO of Napster:

"I think the band [Metallica] and their team feel very undermined by the deal announced (Tuesday) even though many of us support it...You guys have fostered the abuse that Lars [Ulrich] and the band have taken for standing up for their rights, rights which you have acknowledged in theory in the past but now have a financial interest in supporting since you are taking Bertelsmann's money. Metallica took a stand on behalf of artists...They have been my heroes in this thing, and I am determined to make sure that if this thing turns out to benefit everyone, they are not left out."

Spinal Tap [ tickets ] is selling action figures of the band's members for $75.

Inside.com reported on new website Rock's Back Pages.com, a subscription archive of rock criticism. The article quotes one of the site's founders as saying the timing of the website's launch--or "soft launch," which we think means a launch without fanfare--is benefited by the recent release of the movie "Almost Famous," a movie about a music journalist.

You know how a lot of young people wanted to be Navy fighter pilots, or whatever it was, after they saw Tom Cruise in "Top Gun"? What if "Almost Famous" inspires more young people to be music journalists? God save us.

This is kind of fun: a website into which you enter the day you were born and you find out what the No. 1 song for that day was.

"Last Train to Clarksville" by the Monkees.