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Sun October 21, 2007
Starpulse Hero Toby Keith records his first Christmas TV special. Finally there's Christmas music that will have you tapping your toes while putting a boot in Santa Claus's ass because that's the American way (15)
Fox News Obvious To those that say there's no such thing as bad publicity I present to you Kid Rock arrested after Waffle House brawl (21)
(Some Guy) Obvious Janet Jackson accepts the fact that she'll always be 10 pounds of sausage stuffed into a five-pound casing (6)
YouTube Video And now this week's video to confuse the hell out of you: Radiohead's "Just" (18)
YouTube Video RIP Paul Raven -- In his honor here is Killing Joke's "Money is Not Our God" (4)
YouTube Video Steve "The Colonel" Cropper turns 66 today. Groove to "Green Onions" from 1966 with Booker T and the MGs on Shindig (15)
Yahoo Dumbass Always on the ball, the British music press reports Peter Gabriel will not be joining the Genesis reunion tour that ended last weekend (3)
(Some Guy) Spiffy Swervedriver to reunite for world tour. That sound you hear is seven Farkers gazing excitedly at their shoes (13)
Sky.com Obvious Amy Winehouse attempts to go for the trifecta before her corpse is found in a public restroom as she is arrested for pot possession in Norway (10)

Sat October 20, 2007
CNN Hero At age 70, Merle Haggard continues to kick the asses of the candy-asses and redneck soft-rockers who are making mainstream "country music" now (19)
(Some Guy) Obvious Fans file class-action suit against Aerosmith for canceling concert in Hawaii. In related news, Aerosmith fans are morans (12)
YouTube Sad Tuesday's Gone and so are they. Today marks the 30th anniversary of Lynyrd Skynyrd's plane crash (28)
(FMQB) Interesting Radiohead planning to kick off a world tour in May. No word on whether you'll get to name your own ticket prices (30)
St. Pete Times Amusing .38 Special's enduring place in history? It's what Toto would sound like if they were from south Georgia (15)
(Some Nerd) Unlikely B.B. King on Weird Al's "Generic Blues": "One of my top 10 favorite blues tracks." Lucille rolls eyes, says nothing (9)
YouTube Video Happy 57th birthday, Tom Petty. Keep runnin' down a dream (17)

Fri October 19, 2007
Breitbart.com Interesting Johhny Marr, guitarist for The Smiths, is now a professor. Who knows what's next? A Queen guitarist becoming a doctor? (28)
(Some Guy) Obvious Britney Spears new single "Gimme More" is dead (28)
AFP Sad Courtney Love to smear her disgusting bile over Kurt Cobain's memory once again, as Universal names her executive producer of his biopic (38)
Yahoo Obvious Nas confirms his new album title will be: "Attractive and Successful African-American" (40)
Boston Globe Interesting UMass offers Grateful Dead history class. Each class expected to sound just like the last one (72)
YouTube Amusing Nirvana accidentally plays "Territorial Pissings" instead of "Lithium" to an unsuspecting British talk show audience (32)
YouTube Cool Ween covers Zeppelin's "All My Love." And it's pretty good (38)
IOL Sad Reggae star Lucky Dube shot and killed during carjacking in South Africa (21)

Thu October 18, 2007
YouTube Cool If I could be any rock star ... I think I'd be Peter Gabriel (61)
YouTube Spiffy The Man. The Mustache. The Guitar ~ Frank Zappa shreds (62)
Toronto Star Spiffy Neil Young's "Harvest" named the best Canadian album of all time (91)
(Johnny B. Goode) Cool Chuck Berry is 81 today. Roll over Beethoven, tell Tchaikovsky to get off his lawn (42)
(Some Guy) Strange Ryan Adams does not play requests (76)
YouTube Cool The ULTIMATE drum battle. Don't even try to link a better vid. It can't be done (59)
SeattlePI Asinine Fighting terrorism wherever it may lurk, DHS guards at Canadian border seize hard disk containing master tracks from Death Cab for Cutie guitarist's new solo album (21)

Wed October 17, 2007
Forbes Followup If it's free, can it be contraband? Radiohead album pirated more than purchased (51)
YouTube Video Smoothest cover of The Beatles evar ~ Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 "Fool on the Hill" (9)
(my.rawkus.com) Cool Nelly’s new joint finally released - features Chuck D (21)
(ktul) PSA Garth Brooks final concert in KC will be simulcasted in theatres. No word on if any are going to be drive-ins in case you wanted to take your mobile home to the theatre (25)
UPI Stupid Today's most gruesome music news: Kid Rock's 'Rock N Roll Jesus' tops U.S. album charts (48)
St. Pete Times Amusing REO's Kevin Cronin has stopped trashing hotel rooms: "The new flat-screens, they're just not as much fun to throw out windows anymore, so why bother?" (19)
(Some Guy) Cool Jimmy Page has hinted that Led Zeppelin may begin working on new material following their one-off reunion gig (23)
(Some Guy) Amusing Drunk moments in music history. Oh yeah, there's video for this (25)
YouTube Cool The Ramones perform "53rd and 3rd" with Lars Frederiksen and Tim Armstrong of Rancid (11)
YouTube Obvious Ted may be insane, but "Stranglehold" rocks (26)
YouTube Video Music that makes you want to pick up your sword and run around the woods (35)

Tue October 16, 2007
Stuff Unlikely Julian Lennon claims his father's ghost has visited him from beyond the grave (35)
(Guitar Site) Cool Radiohead sells 1.2 million copies, maybe making millions off "In Rainbows." Suck it labels, RIAA and everyone else in the music business (64)
UPI Cool Debbie Harry is back with a new album and tour (37)
(Some Guy) Cool Anthony Kiedis names his son Everly Bear Kiedis (47)
YouTube Video Nick Cave and PJ Harvey to remind us that you should never break up with a lady that has a knife (26)
Guardian.com Scary Slash has an autobiography coming out and judging from this excerpt it will make Motley Crue's "The Dirt" seem like "Finding Nemo" (45)
The Sun Amusing Pete Doherty wants to create an artsy getaway location where he can collaborate with fellow musicians such as Amy Winehouse. What could possibly go wrong? (12)

Mon October 15, 2007
(Click2Houston.com) Sad Rapper "Big Moe" dies during the last stage of a triathalon. Just kidding, he had a McDonald's sized heart attack (29)
YouTube Video Maybe you never listened to the Afghan Whigs. After watching this clip, you'll wish you had (36)
(Some Guy) Cool Led Zeppelin catalog to go digital (46)
YouTube Video True musical talent that is practically unimaginable in this day and age ~ John Coltrane's "My Favorite Things" (49)

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