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Sun May 18, 2008
(YouTube) Video I see your Power Station cover of "Bang a Gong (Get it On)" and raise you T-Rex's original, with promo video (6)
(YouTube) Video Keep the Bueller goodness going with Yello - "Oh Yeah". They're no one-hit wonders and they're Swiss, too (6)
(YouTube) Video The 80's has its share of embarrassing failures, but these flamboyant, gun-toting one-hit wonders are pure win 22 years down the line: Sigue Sigue Sputnik' "Love Missile F1-11". Bueller? (23)
(Some Zeppelin fan) Cool They come from the land of the ice and snow to maybe play shows in Toronto (14)
(Starpulse) Asinine Bob Marley, John Lennon and Aretha Franklin head up a list of the most overrated performers ever (60)
(Slate) Interesting Pop songs are getting far wordier than they used to be: six songs on the top 10 for the week of Feb. 2, 2008 have more than 500 words in them. On the other hand, "Summertime" by George Gershwin has 92 words in it (28)
(YouTube) Video No one is bluer or cooler, no one is finer or mellower: for no good reason here's Billie Holiday singing "Strange Fruit" (9)
(YouTube) Video Your supergroup for this week: Power Station (19)
(YouTube) Spiffy If you've always wanted to see a 3-minute pop song performed under black light by people in neon, happy-face-people costumes, then here is the video for you, courtesy of Jimmy Kimmel (7)
(YouTube) Video George Strait turns 56 today; Get out of his chair (4)
(Boston Globe) Scary 80's Pop Stars: then and now. The hairspray. The hairspray (6)
(YouTube) Video Gypsies sing about string theory. That's right (6)
(YouTube) Video For you Sunday enjoyment, Stevie Ray Vaughan tackles not one but two Henrix classics (15)
(YouTube) Cool Stevie Wonder's been on Higher Ground 58 years, today. Bonus Sly Stone lookalike on drums (4)
(YouTube) Cool 43 years, on his way to hell. Trent Reznor turns another year older today. To celebrate, here's a live version of "The Great Below" (31)

Sat May 17, 2008
(YouTube) Video Robert Plant and Alison Krauss cover the Everly Brothers. Submitter would love to cover Alison Krauss (33)
(YouTube) Cool A music video for the Barenaked Ladies' "Big Bang Theory" featuring one guy drawing really fast (14)
(FMQB) Interesting MySpace will host their 150th "secret show" on June 8th somewhere in New York City. The band? Gnarls Barkley. They must be crazy (15)
(YouTube) Video Van Halen: "Me Wise Magic". The forgotten kick-ass VH tune from the late 1990's with Diamond Dave on vocals (22)
(that ringing in your ears) Cool American Tinnitus Association to auction Al Di Meola's guitar on eBay to raise money for research to help victims of Black Sabbath (29)
(The Sun) Sad ♫ Living would be easy if you liked the colors, of my tees. Red gold and green, red gold and greeeeen ♫ (18)
(AP) Spiffy Fun cable television series, successful concert tour, hosting the Academy of Country Music Awards for the tenth time... is there anything country music's favorite redhead can't do? (34)

Fri May 16, 2008
(New Zealand Herald) Amusing Amy Winehouse sends message to hubby, 'please don't divorce me' (42)
(City Pages) Asinine Bring down the record industry for $162.83--here's how (24)
(Some Old Kid) Obvious New Kids on the Block reunite, manage to run through entire catalog of "hits" in less than four minutes (21)
(YouTube) Cool In 1968, The Who put the Rolling Stones to shame in their own movie, forcing them to quit production. This is that performance (91)
(YouTube) Cool Peter Schilling performs "Major Tom" live in Martian, or some other weird language (25)
(Rolling Stone) Spiffy Metallica's James Hetfield says the new album is based on Master of Puppets. Just like every album since Master of Puppets was released (80)

Thu May 15, 2008
(People Magazine) Obvious Shania Twain and Mutt Lange separate after 14 years of not being seen together. That don't impress me much (96)
(I-Mockery) Amusing I-Mockery examines Queensrÿche's ultra-cheesy "Queen of the Reich" 80s music video (41)
(AP) Spiffy What do you think of when you think of American treasures? The Declaration of Independence, the Liberty Bell, the Statue of Liberty, Michael Jackson's "Thriller"... wait, huh? (36)
(Reuters) Interesting Dolly Parton "hurt and humiliated" over Howard Stern stunt; mulls lawsuit, back brace (129)

Wed May 14, 2008
(Riverfront Times) Followup My Chemical Romance railed against violence toward women. Then one of the band's security allegedly assaulted a female photographer at a St. Louis show. Oops (199)
(YouTube) Cool Robert Plant resurrects "The Battle Of Evermore" on current tour with Alison Krauss (47)
(YouTube) Amusing Madonna told you she was hardcore. Then she played the riff from "A New Level" by Pantera on guitar to prove it. Happens at the 6:20 mark (88)
(YouTube) Video Aldo Nova showcases his acting ability and leopard print jumpsuit in his 1982 video for "Fantasy" (47)
(Onion AV Club) Interesting Sixteen bands with more than one lead singer (138)

Tue May 13, 2008
(The Smoking Gun) Amusing Wow, rock stars ask for some stupid crap, by Dave Grohl (53)
(Rolling Stone) Scary This slide show of the Cure's opening show is so horrible it may make you want to cut yourself even if you're not emo (73)
(celebrityrush.com) Strange Coldplay's secret tour (13)
(Starpulse) Unlikely Slash says he's enjoying sobriety. Unlikely tag asplodes (30)
(MSNBC) Dumbass Female rapper Remy Ma sentenced to 8 years in prison, should have enough time to think of an original stage name. Bud Weis, Jack Dan and Crown Roy unavailable for comment (50)
(Some Guy) Interesting The Cult leaves Roadrunner Records (16)
(Rolling Stone) Stupid Metallica launches "Mission: Metallica" website where you can listen to every mistake they make writing the new album. They'll even let you pay their set price to download the album when it comes out (42)
(Relix) Cool No, you dumb hippie, that wasn't the Acid. Phish actually did appear on stage together last Wednesday at the Jammy Awards (33)
(WTAM) Obvious Funky Bunch reunites without Marky Mark. That's like the Banana Splits getting back together without Fleegle (44)
(Some Guy) Interesting Ozzfest down to one day of suckage (22)
(Some Guy) Sad Rush lose their (Pete) best drummer (49)

Mon May 12, 2008
(YouTube) Video Springsteen: "Thundercrack," live in 1973. For his 16-year-old girlfriend. Also stresses the importance of stretch socks (38)
(AP) Cool And you may ask yourself, what is that music coming from the Great Hall of the Battery Maritime Building? (30)
(Some Guy) Cool The Feelies are doin' it again after a 17-year break (12)
(YouTube) Video Happy 60th to Steve Winwood. Spencer Davis Group "Give Me Some Lovin'" from 1967 (9)
(YouTube) Video Ian Dury would have turned 66 today. "Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick" (18)

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