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Sun August 05, 2007
(Some Guy) Unlikely Peter Criss wants to be paid what Gene Simmons makes (9)
Starpulse Unlikely New Village People singer wants to play down the whole "gay thing" (6)
Starpulse Scary David Coverdale was scared to death when a black bear invaded his home, which is strange considering he was once married to Tawny Kitaen (4)
(Some Guy) Interesting Why yes, it is another Top 50 drummer list. Flaming begins to the right (154)
YouTube Interesting Sunday Morning Music Club with Feargal Sharkey (9)
Yahoo Sad Before there was Derek Smalls, Art Davis ruled the double bass. Jazz great dead at 73 (4)
YouTube Video The Undertones - There Goes Norman - 1980 (4)

Sat August 04, 2007
YouTube Cool One of the all time great rock songs: Born to Run, live 1975 (26)
Reuters Cool The Eagles are finishing up their first studio album since the 70’s (37)
YouTube Spiffy Let's all go on a summer holiday with Cliff Richard. C'mon everyone (11)
News.com.au Asinine Strict Islamic law requires Gwen Stefani to wear modest clothing, minimise exposed skin, refrain from shouting, jumping and kissing, and generally sell no tickets for Malaysian concert (65)
Yahoo Amusing DNA testing reveals that James Brown has two more children. Ow, that doesn't feel good (7)
YouTube Spiffy 911 is a joke (14)

Fri August 03, 2007
Boston Herald Interesting All-female tribute band named "Lez Zeppelin" will perform at a Catholic religious festival (24)
Gawker Asinine Weezer's Rivers Cuomo may have memoirs released. Now fans will finally get to find out "May 1998, I've decided to ruin this band" (52)
Starpulse Spiffy "Black Dog" tops "best guitar track" list. For those unaware, that's the Led Zeppelin song that goes "da nuh nuh nah nah dididdly da nah nah nuh nuh wah waaah" (58)
YouTube Amusing Stairway To Heaven, circa 1964 (32)
Yahoo Weird Marilyn Manson sued by former keyboard player. Suit alleges Manson spent the claimants share of money on Hitler memorabilia and an intact 4 y/o girl's skeleton. Manson responds that suit is preposterous; the skeleton is a boy, not a girl (50)
YouTube Weird Todd Rundgren performs "Hello, It's Me" as a bird (22)
YouTube Cool You wish you were there at this great gig in the sky. Floyd live, 'nuff said (30)
YouTube Cool The Association performing "Along Comes Mary" live on the Smothers Brothers Show in 1967 (17)

Thu August 02, 2007
YouTube Video Emerson Lake & Palmer rehearse the song "Karn Evil 9" of their hit album "Brain Salad Surgery" (28)
YouTube Spiffy I'll see your Thelonius Monk and raise you one Sonny Blount (aka Sun Ra, measly earthman) (12)
Yahoo Spiffy Tribute to Ted Nugent's mom is unveiled. Tribute to submitter's mom has to wait for the police to release the evidence (7)
Starpulse Spiffy Stevie Wonder planning a U.S. tour. No one saw that one coming (28)
YouTube Sad Today's the 10th anniversary of the death of Afropop pioneer and Nigerian political activist Fela Anikulapo Kuti. One million people attended his funeral (24)
YouTube Cool Thelonious Monk performs "'Round Midnight" live in Norway. Not safe for squares (9)
YouTube Video Joni Anderson -- AKA Joni Mitchell -- performs on Canadian television in 1965 (11)
Reuters Interesting It only took five years, but Cook County, Illinois finally gets around to setting trial date for R. Kelly (16)

Wed August 01, 2007
Slate Amusing Christian rock was started by a gay guy who died of AIDS in the early Nineties (69)
PCWorld Cool AC/DC gives iTunes the Finger, says salute this, you money hungry whores. Gives 'Givin the Dog A Bone' new meaning (47)
Yahoo Misc Queensryche working on its new album in Seattle. It will not be another retread of "Operaton: Mindcrime," no matter how many times they bring it up in the story, no siree (14)
(Heavy Metal News) Amusing Problem: Advice columnists are boring. Solution: Hire Oderus Urungus of GWAR to give powerful advice to the young emo kids (56)
iWon Interesting For 30th anniversay of Elvis' death, Graceland to get overhaul. First step: Removing washer and dryer from front porch (20)
St. Pete Times Cool Scorpions release new album (just in time for rock-ya-like-a-hurricane season) (13)
(Some Guy) Cool Twenty-seven years ago today, MTV launched with "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles (67)
(Deseret Morning News) Asinine Governor declared July 30th to be Dream Theater Day in Utah. Thank goodness we missed it (45)

Tue July 31, 2007
Contact Music Dumbass 4/5ths of Guns N' Roses is amenable to a reunion marking the 20th anniversary of the release of "Appetite For Destruction." Take a wild freaking guess who the lone holdout is (45)
YouTube Spiffy Just when you think you've heard everything... Krokus' "Screaming In The Night" unplugged. W/bonus egg shaker percussion, since it's just so awesomely metal (19)
(Some Leeches) Asinine Music industry douchebags are now suing Apple for actually SELLING their client's music downloads. Which makes them money. For doing nothing (39)
(Metal Hammer) Sad Emo overload: My Chemical Romance singer to pen comic book about seven super-human kids who need to "learn to get past their spectacularly dysfunctional childhoods" to save the world (47)
CBS Chicago Ironic Man goes to concert by right wing gun-nut rock star, is surprised to find thug in audience who beats him up (27)
(Central Scrutinizer) Spiffy Berlin renames street for Frank Zappa. Entire street will now be designated for loading and unloading (37)

Mon July 30, 2007
(Some Guy) Cool I'll see your influential punk bands list and raise you the top ten bands that never existed (91)
YouTube Amusing In honor of Tom Synder's passing, here's a clip of him giving some kid named "Weird Al" his national TV debut (12)
YouTube Strange Incontrovertible proof the French were all on acid in the 60s. With bonus Bardot goodness. RAWR (9)
(Some Guy) Interesting The bidding war for Keith Richards' memoirs is now up to $7.3 million. Which is just about what he spent on blow on the '73 world tour alone (second article) (4)
(Tech Digest) Interesting Classic Nirvana tracks have been licensed to an EA console game and a Gameloft mobile game. It's what Kurt would've wanted. Or it's why he shot himself (38)
(Some Guy) Interesting The 25 most influential punk bands (with video goodness) (219)
YouTube Cool "Video Killed the Radio Star" performed live for the first time ever outside the studio. Simply awesome (49)
(SunJournal.com) Silly I'm hot-blooded, check it and see, I'm still doing concerts at 73 (15)
YouTube Cool Watch these four fab guys create one of the greatest songs of all time (24)

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