The iconic comedian’s first U.S. tour stop is the Internet. We get a first look at unreleased material from the open road. Eddie Izzard: veteran surrealist, long-lost Python, free-associater, and funny person, stated last year that he’d like to go on tour. As in around the world. As in three languages. As in here. America….

The FCC’s new proposal for Net Neutrality rules include effectively abolishing it: proposing preferential treatment for certain traffic. In the wake of February’s Netflix and Comcast deal, it becomes obvious that only companies willing to pay for access have traffic worthy of preferential treatment. The open Internet has been paywalled shut. How did we get…

The Public Enemy Bundle has been downloaded by more than a million fans. The group’s new remix collection, created by BitTorrent listeners and curated by Public Enemy, debuts on iTunes and as a BitTorrent Bundle. Public Enemy rewrote the rules of hip hop. They pioneered a socially-aware, sonically-dense brand of rap that still reverberates today….

In this edition of Staff Picks: Great Expectations, a new mixtape that might just live up to its name. Irangeles (Iran X Los Angeles) lyricist Malkovich’s album was written around the world. And it sounds that way. Unlike a lot of hip hop, it’s defiantly anti-regional: not East Coast or West Coast; a sound that’s…

Friday Download is dedicated to curating the best download-able objects on the web, courtesy of BitTorrent Bundle Publishers. In this edition of FDL: style is the king (kong), (obviously). The new BitTorrent Bundle from STONEDGIANT (Batsauce and MC Qwazaar) is a hip hop throwback to the tight songcraft of sixties pop, with eight original tracks…