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Sun June 22, 2008
(YouTube) Video Simon and Garfunkel with an inspiring performance of "America" (24)
(YouTube) Followup I 'call' all your raises ~ Tom Jones & Janis Joplin. Live. Epic stuff (24)
(Miami Herald) Obvious Indie rock musicians, unable to afford taking their gear from gig to gig, are being destroyed by skyrocketing fuel prices (84)
(YouTube) Cool Tom Jones isn't the only one with great pipes and awesome collaborators. Here's Shirley Bassey with the Propellerheads singing "History Repeating" (11)
(Daily Mail) Amusing News: Singer's estranged mom to write tell-all book claiming her daughter was a drugged-up prostitute and her daughter's husband tried to bang her. Fark: It isn't Britney Spears (35)
(YouTube) Cool I see your Tom Jones/Cardigans version of "Burning Down the House" and raise you Tom Jones with the Art of Noise singing "Kiss" (live) (4)
(YouTube) Cool The awesome coolness of Tom Jones' version of "Burning Down The House" (18)
(YouTube) Video Bread: This was some great stuff. Admit it (26)
(YouTube) Video The end of the Alice Cooper show. Bonus: His daughter is in the nurse outfit (52)
(YouTube) Cool Van Halen showing the way it used to be (25)
(Reuters) Obvious Amy Winehouse takes one more step towards death, complete with "quit your drugs or you'll die" doctor's advice (103)
(YouTube) Amusing Snoop Dogg makes his country debut (67)
(YouTube) Cool Todd Rundgren's a wizard, he's a true star, and today he's 60 years old. Couldn't I just tell you happy birthday? (with bonus bass player wipe-out goodness: no, you can't-can) (29)

Sat June 21, 2008
(C|Net) Asinine The RIAA's asshattery is our fault (101)
(Wired) Obvious R.E.M's Michael Stipe claims that although videos once changed the music industry, it is now a dead format replaced by the internet: "I think anyone who refutes that is an idiot in 2008" (33)
(YouTube) Video Remember back in 1984 when MTV touted this as the most cutting edge video ever? "You Might Think" I'm crazy, but I''m pretty sure it's shopped. I can tell by the pixels (55)
(YouTube) Cool Happy Bir - Bir- Bir - Bir- Birthday, Ray Davies is 64 today (21)
(YouTube) Video Bee Gees: "Jive Talkin'" music video. From 1977 (28)
(YouTube) Video The coolest hip-hop influenced violinists you're likely to ever see (28)

Fri June 20, 2008
(Daily Mail) Scary Old and Busted: Zombie Amy Winehouse. New Hotness: Vampire Courtney Love (37)
(The Business Sheet) Interesting Liz Phair on record-label heads: "God it's amazing who the @#$% they hire to be presidents of major labels. I've met so many @#$%y presidents of record labels. How these @#$holes get promoted I'll never understand..." (35)
(Contact Music) Spiffy The Motor City Madman will celebrate Independence Day by performing his 6,000th show in the city that gave him his namesake (17)
(YouTube) Video Something else great from 1995: "Sick of Myself" by Matthew Sweet (44)
(FMQB) Obvious Motley Crue upset that MTV plans to make a movie about the rise and fall of Motley Crue. "It's a channel that used to be hip and has now actually become unhip." (30)
(Celeb Stoner) Amusing Josh Homme strikes back at critics: "Homophobic? I'm in Queens of the Stone Age for crissake..." (76)
(MuchMusic) Interesting 10 Ways Musicians Piss Off Their Fans (133)
(Some Guy) Silly Ten music videos that should have been movies. Not one Weird Al song in the bunch (92)
(AP) Spiffy New Oscar rule limits Best Song nominations to two per film. Disney shakes its fist in anger (9)
(The Sun) Scary TB or not TB? That is the question (65)
(YouTube) Video Something great from 1995: "Natural One" by The Folk Implosion (33)

Thu June 19, 2008
(Contact Music) Amusing Old and busted: 50 Cent feuding with Ja Rule. The new hotness: 50 Cent feuding with Taco Bell (32)
(Idolator) Interesting Oasis sign deal for three more albums, all expected to channel The Beatles so harshly it will make John Lennon cringe in embarrasment from beyond the grave (29)
(Some Guy) Misc Toby Keith says his new movie "Beer for My Horses" is "a dream come true" (42)
(Contact Music) Stupid Get your favorite monster mask and prepare to grimace musically: Slipknot has a new album coming out this August (37)
(Contact Music) Stupid As if she hasn't been overexposed enough already, Janet Jackson is set to star in an MTV reality show (11)
(AccessAtlanta) Amusing Fourteen songs you should never play at a bar. Submitter respectfully disagrees with numbers 3, 9, and especially 10 (331)
(LA Weekly) Interesting J. Dilla: Still deep in debt, people ripping off his beats, and still very dead. Maybe he should hire Biggie and 2Pac's manager (8)
(Entertainment Weekly) Silly Radiohead: Free tickets. French: ne voulez pas (8)
(Starpulse) Dumbass Lil Wayne is financially illiterate? That's unpossible (19)
(Metro) Amusing You know how I know you're gay? You wrote a song plagiarised by Coldplay (40)
(The Business Sheet) Weird Recording artist Kid Rock refuses to shill for music labels, tells fans it's fine to steal music. And gas (244)
(CNN) Video Bruce Springsteen offers up an acoustic "Thunder Road" at Tim Russert's memorial service. Heaven's waiting on down the tracks (18)
(The Sun) Spiffy From the "FARK YEAH" Files: Motorhead's Lemmy to join forces with Jimmy Page (21)

Wed June 18, 2008
(Albany Times Union) Spiffy Trey Anastasio graduates from drug court, treats classmates to 46-minute version of "Pomp & Circumstance" (33)
(Idolator) Unlikely Nine fully mastered tracks from "Chinese Democracy" leak online, leading to speculation that the album actually exists (61)
(AJC) Dumbass Another day in Atlanta... another rapper arrested (25)
(Some Guy) Interesting "Get off my Lawnseats" Reunion concerts touring this summer (44)
(Contact Music) Unlikely Kid Rock boycotts iTunes, claiming to not get paid enough, compares his plight to Otis Reddings and all the black musicians of the 50's (72)
(News.com.au) Interesting Silverchair frogstomps three awards at the 2008 APRA Music Awards, including best songwriting. In related news Australia apparently hasn't had an interesting rock band since Midnight Oil retired (45)
(Starpulse) Cool Bono and Bob Geldof wag their accusing fingers at reports showing lags in Aid For Africa By Rich Nations. So the pompous, ego-driven singer has spoken again, but God forbid he leverages his notoriety to get things done. So why the Bono hate? (67)
(Sun Sentinel) Florida Fort Lauderdale tells music fest promoter: Streisand, not Metallica (23)
(Now Magazine) Interesting Eminem announces that he has run out of money (102)
(Real Tech News) Cool Four words: Open Source Guitar Hero (79)
(AP) Stupid Lil Wayne's latest album sells over 1 million copies in its first week. In other news, there are over one million people who listen to Lil Wayne (44)

Tue June 17, 2008
(YouTube) Video Nothing says narcissistic overblown productional windbaggery like the nine minutes of "November Rain" (69)
(MusicTap) Cool Your favorite album? Chances are this guy either mastered it or remastered it. Robert Ludwig waxes on his work, and looks to the future of musical recording (27)
(Contact Music) Interesting Bone Thugs-N-Harmony to reunite for "Bored Shrugs-N-Need-Money" tour (27)
(YouTube) Video "Metal gods" Judas Priest have a new album out today. Celebrate with this classic clip from the '82 Screaming for Vengeance tour (65)
(Some Guy) Scary Aretha Franklin to headline Newport Jazz Festival, eat the audience (40)
(Musicnews) Cool Good ol' Bob Dylan, still the voice of reason after all these years, blasts the music industry: "The music world's a made-up bunch of hypocritical rubbish. I know that the book people are a whole lot saner" (19)
(CNN) PSA Chicago releases "lost" 1993 album. Still lost: Chicago's musical relevance (145)
(Starpulse) Dumbass Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age needs a sense of humor: Having bottles thrown at you is no fun, but frankly, do you have to act like such a queen? (with NSFW language vid) (76)
(Music-News) Obvious Gene Simmons blasts fans and bands like Radiohead for giving their music away: "The record industry is dead. It's six feet underground and unfortunately the fans have done this. They've decided to download and file share" (108)
(Rolling Stone) Interesting Cool Rivers Cuomo interview, in which he lays out plans for audience to bring their own instruments. "We'll just jam out Weezer favorites. I won't even need a guitar, because there will be hundreds of people playing" (15)
(London Times) Obvious Pro tip: Doubling down your celebrity death pool bet on Amy Winehouse might be a wise investment (21)

Mon June 16, 2008
(E! Online) Amusing Bonnaroo doesn't care about black people (87)
(Starpulse) Obvious Linkin Park's lead singer denies that he's the new frontman of Velvet Revolver, states that such rumors are CRAAAAAAAAAAWLING IIIIIIIIIIIIN HIS SKIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN (35)
(Rolling Stone) Followup Behind the scenes at Weezer's "Pork & Beans" videoshoot, with interviews of Web-celebs Chris Crocker, Afroninja, and Tay Zonday (who does not move away from the mic) (10)
(Kingsofar) Interesting A good case as to why pop music has not necessarily gotten worse, but actually lost all its impact (78)
(Reuters) Followup Production issues to delay Coldplay tour. Damn (26)
(The Sun) Cool John Lydon announces there could be a new Sex Pistols album, takes a swipe at Coldplay: "I met them a few years ago, said hello and realised they were just men in anoraks. They looked like a gang of little poncy masturbators" (156)
(London Times) Obvious Average teen has 800 illegal MP3s. Bonus: Feargal Sharkey (remember him?) admits to starting it all (64)
(Stuff) Scary Two no-talent assclowns having two more no-talent assclowns (22)
(AZCentral) Obvious Mariah Carey calls off her second wedding to new husband Nick Cannon because no magazines were interested in buying exclusive photographs which would have funded the day (20)
(Some Guy) Cool Seattle teen channels Johnny Cash for television performance of "Ring of Fire" (31)

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