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Sun March 09, 2008
(AL.com) Sad Gordon Lightfoot's voice has gone the way of the Edmund Fitzgerald, but he still tours anyway (11)
Daily Mail Strange Fan of rock group Status Quo hangs himself after his wife leaves him for band's Skeletor-like guitarist and he doesn't get invited to the backstage parties any more (pics) (23)
AJC Cool Forget your ipod, mp3 or CD player: vinyl records are making a comeback (291)
Washington Post Spiffy The bright side of corporate consolidation in the radio industry: "smooth jazz" is disappearing off the radio dial (35)
YouTube Cool Trippy mirrored seasonal time lapse video set to a totally groovy Brian Eno song (13)
YouTube Cool A blonde (possibly due to mustard) Michael Stipe and R.E.M. cover "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?" (6)
YouTube Hero Let's mosey down to the Heartbreak Hotel and wish the incomparable John Cale a happy 66th birthday. Can I get a "Hallelujah"? (12)
YouTube Cool David Bowie's first TV appearance, 1970, before his glam days. Nice pants anyway (19)

Sat March 08, 2008
Rolling Stone Interesting Radiohead, NIN to revive the rotting carcass that is Lollapalooza this summer (45)
YouTube Cool Did Husker Du kick ass in 1981? You betcha (56)
YouTube Cool Gary Numan's 50th birthday seems like as good as excuse as any to enjoy "Cars" (29)
(FMQB) Amusing Today's confusing music headline: Janet Jackson planning "upbeat" discipline tour (1)
YouTube Cool Your daily dose of the cool: The Afghan Whigs perform "Blame Etc." on 120 Minutes (17)
Seattle Times Strange Dave Matthews Band to appear in Seattle with the Dalai Lama. Had to find a way to balance out the suck somehow (47)
YouTube Spiffy 1 drummer + 1 fingerstyle guitar player + 1 washboard player = The Reverend Peytton's Big D@mn Band (24)
YouTube Video Entire Beatles rooftop concert from 1970. The cool is strong with this one (44)

Fri March 07, 2008
YouTube Cool She's hot, she's sexy and she can sing. Grace Potter lights up the Boston Music Awards with "Nothing But the Water" (23)
Google Amusing Icehouse fits all the cliches of the 80's into one video: Mullets? Yep. Cheesy blatting sax solo? Sure. Hexagonal synth-drums? Yup. Keytar? Obviously. Moodily-lit brick wall? Indeed. Hot chick in the video for no reason? Certainly (50)
Google Survey Your lost or forgotten album loves; show them to us. LGT gem of an album (271)
Guardian.com Interesting How to lose 3 millions fans in one easy step. In other news, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark had 3 million fans (30)

Thu March 06, 2008
Starpulse PSA For those of you keeping an eye on the Doomsday Clock, you should know that Ashlee Simpson has announced release dates for her new single and album (13)
Rolling Stone Cool Hollywood finds the right actor to play Notorious B.I.G. in upcoming B.I.O.P.I.C. - he raps, is a former drug dealer, and has had caps busted in his ginormous ass (45)
(Thebestwho.com) Strange Avril Lavigne thinks her fans are weirdos (42)
(NYT) Cool Wilco's Jeff Tweedy on migranes, music, and the story behind some of their songs (43)
Starpulse Silly Blind Melon's new singer has a large tattoo of original singer Shannon Hoon, who died of a drug overdose, on his back; making the rest of the band believe he's the second coming (68)
MSNBC Misc MSNBC readers shock music business by claiming they'll buy CDs if the music is any good, leading the industry to completely rethink its strategy of "all suck, all the time." (18)
(Some Guy) Unlikely Ace Frehley is on tour, rejects drugs and booze, but craves sweet delicious BRAAAIIIIIINNNNSSS (18)
YouTube Video David Gilmour turns 62 today. Here's "Comfortably Numb," from Live8 (62)
Entertainment Weekly Spiffy Pavement to reunite? Jenny and the ess dog wants two states (22)
Starpulse Amusing Kanye West: "Connect Four - SERIOUS BUSINESS" (46)
The Sun Obvious Joy Division's "Unknown Pleasures" voted best album cover of all time. See kids, 'albums' used to be what music came in and you didn't need to put on your bifocals to see what the cover art looked li ... ah, forget it (82)
SMH Obvious For some odd reason, a fan-made video of unknown Brazilian band Cansei De Ser Sexy getting 40 million views on YouTube (and taking the #1 all time video spot) is making some people suspicious (52)

Wed March 05, 2008
Canada.com Followup Rock icon Chad "Don't Call Me Turton" Kroeger of Nickelback suffers setback in DUI case after a BC judge throws out his ridiculous defence argument (36)
Guardian.com Video Bjork begins shouting "Tibet" during live concert in China. Chinese authorities reportedly highly angered until someone explained that shouting out random non-sequiturs is pretty much her entire act (49)
(Boing Boing) Interesting Nine Inch Nails makes $750k in two days, music industry caught in a downward spiral (77)
Rolling Stone Obvious The Rocklahoma lineup confirms that Oklahoma is in fact 20 years behind the rest of the country in all aspects of life (67)
YouTube Video The Queers, "Punk Rock Girls". Yummy, yummy (25)

Tue March 04, 2008
Contact Music Amusing Gnarls Barkley's latest music video banned from TV after failing an epileptic test. I seize what they did there (55)
St. Pete Times Amusing They Might Be Giants on winning a Grammy: "They give you one so you'll stop mocking them." (53)
AP Spiffy Kenny Chesney leads ACM nominees with 11, including entertainer of the year, top male vocalist and worst marital screwup (28)
(Some Guy) Dumbass Velvet Revolver to resume suckage: Scott weiland out of rehab. Again (22)
Fox News Followup Eddie Van Haywen's tung canter may haff retawned (45)
(Iceland Review) Followup Cöntrary tö previöus repörts, Björk's Serbia cöncert still ön as planned (6)
(Some Guy) Survey "Suckin' on a chili dog, outside the Tastee Freeeeeeeze" What popular song lyrics confound you? (272)
Reuters Obvious Bob Marley's widow to produce movie about his life. Like Bob Marley songs, expect it to be boring, repetitive and go nowhere (70)
Globe and Mail Interesting Canada's CRTC aboat to define "hit song" in order to enforce quota of radio airplay for new Canadian artists (39)

Mon March 03, 2008
(Some Guy) Followup Update: Van Halen tour not being canceled after all. Might as well jump (jump), go ahead and jump (21)
(Some Guy) Caption Caption what Mick Jagger is yelling (255)
(FMQB) Scary Good news: Mariah Carey getting away from hip-hop on new album. Bad news: She's going disco instead (20)
Contact Music Followup The Game to begin The Sentence (25)
(Some Guy) Amusing Valerie Bertinelli schedules a book signing in Cincinnati the same day Van Halen play there (62)
Variety Satire The Rutles to come together for a 30th anniversary reunion (24)
(Some Guy) Weird The bizarre world of the Jackson family nose (16)
YouTube Sad In memory of Jeff Healey, here is his cover of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (34)
YouTube Spiffy In honor of Alexander Graham Bell's birthday, Blondie and "Keep Me Hangin' On The Telephone" (7)
Independent Sad Legendary reggae figure Joe Gibbs dead at 65. Football and NASCAR fans said to be baffled by his secret life (7)
(Some Guy) Cool Trent Reznor is trying to kill the music industry (111)

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