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Sun September 02, 2007
(Poughkeepsie Journal) Spiffy In what may be a record for closing the door after the horses left, grew old, and were sent to a glue factory that closed when zoot suits were in style, Pete Seeger writes a folk song denouncing Joe Stalin (5)
MSNBC Obvious Something that'll make your ears bleed this Sunday morning, Britney release new single entitled "Gimmie More" on the web. (w audio) (28)
(Some Guy) Strange What a fool believes when someone pretends to be a Doobie Brother (12)
YouTube Cool My Bloody Valentine -- Soon (13)
YouTube Video The Pogues - Sally MacLennane (15)

Sat September 01, 2007
The Sun Ironic Courtney Love says about Amy Declinehouse: "I’ve never seen anyone take as much coke as Amy. Even I wasn’t that bad.” With photos of both looking like ducks hit in the head (33)
(Some Guy) Unlikely Def Leppard singer: 'I don't necessarily think we've even written our best song yet." He continued, "So we'll keep churning out shiat until we do." (29)
YouTube Video The Beastie Boys when they really were boys...16 years old boys (11)
(Some Guy) Unlikely Led Zeppelin to reunite for a London gig this fall? (19)
YouTube Cool A butt-kicking version of "Amazing Grace." Och laddie, thass a wee bit of jammin' (10)
(Some Guy) Cool Harptallica? (5)

Fri August 31, 2007
YouTube Cool Attention class...on Friday, we learned about the pure primal goodness that is Link Wray. Today, we shall get even more evil with Hound Dog Taylor and his slide guitar from hell (11)
(www.nme.com) Interesting U2 has completed principal writing of its next album after enlisting help of Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno. Apparently, "help" consisted of making sure Bono didn't lose the damn notebook again (33)
YouTube Spiffy Zappa, Lennon and Yoko. Bonus: Zappa's band mocks Yoko. Extra bonus: Lennon flips off everyone. Extra extra bonus: Zappa flips off Lennon (48)
(Some Guy) Interesting Frank Zappa explains the decline and fall of the music business and comes to a surprising conclusion (30)
The Sun Obvious English cricketers take the field the day after Arctic Monkeys concert on their pitch, instantly discover that Arctic Monkeys fans are not what you'd call "toilet-trained" (17)

Thu August 30, 2007
YouTube Spiffy Gnarls Barkley. Abbey Road. Transformer (28)
YouTube Silly Cusack & Robbins film quintessential '80s music video. Devo smart enough only to provide song (20)
The Register Cool David Bowie to appear as evil alien on "Dr Who." No word on whether the episode will feature Martian arachnids (47)
Contact Music Weird Sonic Youth frontman Thurston Moore regrets not breaking the band up so they could have come back with a reunion tour (40)
(Shoegazer) Spiffy Indie band My Bloody Valentine to have a reunion tour. Fans of the band show their excitement by standing motionless and staring at the floor (61)
Idolator Dumbass Billy Corgan says "American girls are sluts" and still uses the word "alternative." Not exactly ahead of the curve, Billy (42)
(Some Guy) Cool "The Jimi Hendrix Experience Live at Monterey" DVD, CD, LP to be released in October (22)
YouTube Cool Link Farking Wray plays "Rumble" on Conan (39)

Wed August 29, 2007
(Some Guy) Strange Remorseful Amy Winehouse sends her dad an emotional text. Exactly how remorseful and emotional can you get in a text message? (30)
YouTube Video For those Classic Rock snobs hatin' on STYX, from the Cornerstone Album ~ "Boat On The River." Unplugged goodness (24)
Yahoo Interesting Station that plays nothing but Grateful Dead to debut on Sirus Sept. 7th, first song played on station expected to end sometime on Sept. 14th (28)
Yahoo Amusing "It is Keith who should apologize. After all it costs around $145 to see a rock star who can hardly handle the (guitar) riff to 'Brown Sugar' any more." Keith responds by snorting another rail of father (18)
The Tennessean Interesting Nashville composer wins Thor Johnson Award. Still awaiting news on Tor Johnson Award (7)
CBS New York Sad Hilly Kristal, CBGB founder loses his battle with cancer (23)
(Some Guy) Obvious 30 to 40 people injured in mosh pit at My Chemical Romance concert. It's only a matter of time before crappy music finally kills someone (59)
(NME) Amusing Cigarettes. It's what's for dinner (15)
YouTube Cool "True Men Don't Kill Coyotes" - The best Red Hot Chili Pepper's video you've never seen (28)
Yahoo Interesting Like most brilliant musicians, Beethoven killed by overdose (17)

Tue August 28, 2007
Boston Herald Sad Rock pioneer Bo Diddley suffers heart attack. Hey Bo Diddley (17)
AZCentral Cool Metal's rebirth results in big business for guitar manufacturers, especially those who make guitars to look like rotting flesh, distended eyeballs and protruding bones. Bow to me gracefully (70)
YouTube Cool The John Coltrane Quartet performs "Alabama" on the popular television show "Jazz Casual," circa 1963 (6)
YouTube Cool The wonder that is Stevie Ray Vaughan jamming on "Superstition" with Stevie Wonder (27)
Starpulse Spiffy This month's "album full of cover songs by a has-been 80s hair band' brought to you by Queensryche (30)
YouTube Cool Guns 'N Roses performs the theme from "The Godfather" in a Slash solo piece (19)
YouTube Strange Arcade Fire performs "Neon Bible" live in an elevator (15)
YouTube Video Ramones: "Blitzkrieg Bop" (47)

Mon August 27, 2007
YouTube Cool Plaid three-piece suit? Check. Big collars? Yep. Handing roses to the ladies? Indeed. Ladies and gentlemen, a stone gas: the Reverend Al Green, on "Soooooooooooooul Train" (12)
(570 Radio) Interesting Genesis considers working on new material. Tentative titles for the new album include "We Can't Dance (or Walk, or Feed Ourselves)" and "The Lamb Lies Down on the Shuffleboard Court at Del Boca Vista" (27)
YouTube PSA The Electric Light Orchestra does not want you to bring them down. Grooooss. Old Farkers: Ah, Jeff Lynne. Semi-old Farkers: Isn't that guy a Wilbury? Young Farkers: Who? (54)
YouTube Video Nice tats, shaved head and anger. Let this now-obscure 35-year-old Welsh band teach you how heavy heavy metal can be (37)

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