Mann had previously filed a cease-and-desist complaint claiming Le Tigre’s “Deceptacon” infringed on the copyright for the 1961 hit Mann cowrote, “Who Put the Bomp (in the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp ...

Le Tigre’s Kathleen Hanna and Johanna Fateman have filed a countersuit against singer/songwriter Barry Mann after being sent a cease-and-desist notice by Mann claiming that their 1999 track ...

Who woulda thunk. My 'Now Playing' artist featured at the end of this column, the brilliant and ragged, Ducks Deluxe, have a song they wrote called 'Daddy Put the Bomp.' It's a slow moving burn in ...

Imagine a pair of young, little-known musicians walking into the offices of a music publishing firm and trying to pitch a wacky song called “Who Put the Bomp” to the ...

Who Put the Bomp? Recently I wrote my editor, one Gustavo Turner, and asked if he had any ideas he wanted me to write about. Gustavo sent me an interesting list that I will no doubt be pounding ...

Mann sent Hanna and Fateman a cease-and-desist letter, claiming “Deceptacon” (the opening track on Le Tigre’s 1999 debut album) violated the copyright of his 1961 hit “Who Put the Bomp ...