Jon Langford is responsible for way too much great art for you not to know who he is. To begin at the beginning, he’s one of two remaining original members of the Mekons, singing and playing guitar in the increasingly difficult-to-categorize onetime punk band he founded while studying art at the University of Leeds, England, in 1977. Their albums Fear and Whiskey and Edge of the World, from 1985 and 1986, respectively, were among…

Next month at Lisner Auditorium at George Washington University, the Future Music Coalition will host the fifth annual Future of Music Policy Summit. The Summit, a three day event taking place on Sept. 11-13, will be attended by representatives from the music, law and technology (yes, even us lowly bloggers) sectors and focuses on the critical issues facing the music industry as it tries to incorporate new technologies into it’s traditional business structure. Over…