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Sun June 29, 2008
(Gawker) Spiffy David Bowie discusses the creative process behind some of his favorite songs and rewards himself for their obvious greatness by putting them together on a best-of compilation that will include no hits (31)
(YouTube) Video In honor of Geddy Lee's 55th birthday next month, here's one of his finest moments - "Spirit Of Radio" (52)
(YouTube) Video I call all your raises and go all in with Hayseed Dixie and "Ace Of Spades" (18)
(WTAM) Dumbass Miley Cyrus realizes that going out with someone seven years older than you doesn't always end well, writes angry song, is compared to Alanis Morrissette. The torch of sucky, angry female rock hacks has been passed (38)
(YouTube) Cool How did three keyboards, drums and a guitar make "the Robot" cool? (7)
(YouTube) Video If you want the ultimate bluegrass cover of a hip-hop classic, look no further than The Gourds take on "Gin & Juice". Laid back (21)
(YouTube) Video I see your "Hey Ya" cover and raise you this strangely captivating rockabilly interpretation of "Hot in Here" (with bonus Blues Brothers police car) (6)
(YouTube) Video The coolest country cover of "Hey Ya" you will see today (34)
(YouTube) Video Jay Z stuns Glastonbury crowd by opening set with a cover of "Wonderwall" (62)
(Daily Mail) Followup After having their first bath since the last Glastonbury festival, thousands of pale British hippies enjoy their first sunshine since, well, ever (13)
(YouTube) Amusing Today's "WTF?" interview brought to you by the late, great (and wasted) James Brown, and the hardest working interviewer in show business (11)

Sat June 28, 2008
(Perez Hilton) Scary Zombie Amy Winehouse made Nelson Mandela's tribute concert last night, you can watch the horror here (video) (43)
(TMZ) Dumbass DMX arrested. Again. This isn't a repeat of a repeat of a repeat (29)
(YouTube) Video Local H on "Good Day Atlanta" (with bonus mocking of clueless host) (33)
(Rolling Stone) Cool Live concert by Bjork and Sigur Ros in Iceland to be webcast today at 3 p.m. EST. It's to raise awareness of aluminum smelting in Iceland and will be a huge nexus of weird (45)
(Time) Spiffy Finally, the last GNR fan that didn't give up waiting for Chinese Democracy can read a review, but only after reading the Time gloatfest (26)
(YouTube) Video "Will I be pretty? Will I be rich?" You daily dose of Doris Day. Subby: "My lawn, off of it" (11)
(YouTube) Video "I am in the English Channel. It is cold, exceedingly wet. I am the voice of Britain, before the daily express. My name is Britannia. This is my song. It's called: Dancing With The Moonlit Knight" (21)
(Some Waitin' Guy) Video World premiere of Brad Paisley's new video. Bonus: Andy Griffith (28)

Fri June 27, 2008
(YouTube) Video I see anything you're going to submit today and raise you Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder performing Living for the City (20)
(Daily Mail) Obvious Rain pours down on Glastonbury festival giving hippies there their first shower since ... well, the last Glastonbury festival (9)
(Telegraph) Unlikely Sting on future tours: "Can you imagine zeppelins going around the world with tours underneath them, with a stage, the band, all the equipment and lights, and just lowering themselves into a car park somewhere? And then off they float" (31)
(YouTube) Video Dionne Warwick kicks ass on "Walk On By" live on "It's What's Happening, Baby" with Murray The K, June 15th, 1965 (12)
(ABC News) Amusing Apparently Christian music fans aren't too keen on hot girl-on-girl kissing action. Who knew? (60)
(Mojo In The Morning) Amusing 25 WORST rapper names EVER. All your favorites like "Peanut Butter Wolf" and " DJ Crazy Toones." But "Hawd Gankstuh Rappuh Emsees Wid Ghats" takes "Rappin' Ron" for the #1 spot (106)
(YouTube) Amusing Finally, a translation to what the hell Joe Cocker is saying (9)
(Conde Nast) Unlikely "Stairway to Heaven" is worth HOW much money?? (23)
(Wired) Interesting Radio stations may have to start paying singers and bands for the songs they broadcast (59)
(National Geographic) Followup You don't have to go to Iceland to see Sigur Rós after all. National Geographic will webcast the concert Saturday afternoon (6)
(YouTube) Video As if Alice was not trippy enough, someone sucessfully made it catchy as well (36)
(AP) Sad Master Japanese drummer Daihachi Oguchi, father of modern Taiko drumming, dead at 84 after car hits him in crosswalk. Good night, drummer man (8)
(Yahoo) Unlikely Charlotte Church wants six kids before marriage to guido boyfriend. Fark: "We want to have our babies young and then I'm going to get married and look fabulous for that." (69)

Thu June 26, 2008
(FMQB) Cool Zombie Ace Frehley joins Pearl Jam. Bonus: so does C.J. Ramone (28)
(Wired) Dumbass Copyright Crusader formerly known as Prince demands destruction of all copies of completely legal 81-song cover album celebrating his 50th birthday. Gracious appreciation, let me show you it (25)
(E! Online) Strange Clay Aiken would like to share his thoughts on the humanitarian crisis in Somalia with you. Stop laughing (13)
(Some Guy) Obvious Radiohead only touring in venues that have no on-site parking to encourage people to take public transit to shows. Hopefully on their next tour the whiners will only play venues with no seats (35)
(YouTube) Video For everyone who's had to deal with a lying, incompetent putz when they just wanted a simple repair done, here's Frank Zappa with "Flakes." (20)
(Starpulse) Obvious Singer Shawn Colvin to pen memoirs. "Sunny came home..." (13)
(Some Guy) Cool Live acoustic version of Weezer's "Miss Sweeney". Bonus, hot Kristin Bell look-a-like doing an interpretive dance (14)
(YouTube) Spiffy I'll see your NY Philharmonic and raise you the original classical Hendrix cover by KronosQuartet (10)
(Starpulse) Obvious Another Idol, Blake Lewis, gets dropped by its label. Could it be that American Idol produces nothing but flavorless, vacuous cookie-cutter artists, discarded in matter of months when it's discovered they can't do anything but sing well? (17)
(Canada.com) Amusing News: Music journalist publishes article which should finally get Jonathan Richman the worldwide claim he deserves. Fark: It's published in the Calgary Herald (14)
(Free Press) Amusing Kid Rock gets in and out of 18 holes without giving any of them hepatitis (58)
(Some Guy) Obvious Suge Knight forced to auction off Death Row Records for $24 million (19)
(Reuters) Sad Alas, how the mighty hath fallen: Slash reduced to working on "secret project" with Sebastian Bach (43)
(Starpulse) Unlikely DHS lowers current threat level to green on news that the feud between Fiddy and The Game is finally over (13)

Wed June 25, 2008
(Reuters) Obvious "It drives me nuts that John Mellencamp is a household name, and no one's heard of John Hiatt" (65)
(YouTube) Followup Ice-T replies to Soulja Boy's responce to Ice-T (Not safe for work or brain cells) (41)
(People Magazine) Hero Country Singer Tim McGraw LITERALLY throws out drunk, redneck concert-goer who struck a women. Concert-goer's girlfriend quoted as saying "Better her than me" (60)
(The Local (Sweden)) Obvious Yxmarder of Blodsrit axed from Hammargymnasiet in Vastervik (148)
(YouTube) Cool What would it sound like if members of Genesis, King Crimson, Asia, Yes and Weather Report formed a group for one night? Something like this performance of "Firth of Fifth," I presume (27)
(JSOnline) Obvious Latest album that will come out before "Chinese Democracy": The debut CD from Tasty Wonton (5)
(YouTube) Cool I see your "Invitation to the Blues," and raise you "The Piano Has Been Drinking" (14)
(Starpulse) Sad Top music biz metrosexuals: List includes Jay-Z, Sean "Puffy" Combs, Jon Bon Jovi, Justin, Usher. They are just like real men but they like to get pampered and have a good manicure once in a while (53)
(Starpulse) Interesting Born-again Christian who left Korn to pursue his faith now realizes that there are bills to pay, returns with a solo album titled "Save Me From Myself" which we thought Jesus took care of, but oh well (40)
(Castrol) Plug Syntec Power Trax, it's all about mixing your own beat (Sponsored Link) (34)
(Gawker) Amusing Kayne West is mad enough to break his MacBook Air on all those "UNGRATEFUL HIPPY BASTARDS" at Bonaroo, and he is not going to be shy with the caps lock (74)
(WCBS 880) Cool The New York Philharmonic played Jimi Hendrix on Tuesday night (22)
(YouTube) Cool Here is the sexiest string quartet evar (24)
(Contact Music) Interesting Bono waves his manager aside with his big glasses, calls Radiohead's sales technique "courageous" and "imaginative" in trying to find a new relationship with their audience. Metallica and Kiss seen growling in a corner (25)

Tue June 24, 2008
(Rolling Stone) PSA If you try to leak the new Guns N' Roses album, expect a visit from the FBI (75)
(Showbiz Spy) Obvious Just like the people at her concerts, Sheryl Crow needs massive amounts of alcohol to get through her show (40)
(Live4Ever.us) Cool Details of new Oasis album leak, next album called "Dig Out Your Soul." Gallagher brothers also hopes you'll dig out your wallet at album's release (9)
(Starpulse) Sad Staind ready to inflict us with the aptly-named new album "The Illusion of Progress." Also set to open for Nickelback this summer, it should prove to be a double-bill sadder than staring at a baby's coffin for an hour and a half (33)
(The Virginian Pilot) Unlikely R&B producer Teddy Riley's abandoned studio burns down in a completely non-suspicous manner (23)
(BBC) Scary Bee Gees threaten to reunite, despite the fact that their aging fans are no longer able to hear the frequency range in which they sing (127)
(Washington Post) Amusing Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder gives concertgoers an earful about Bush, corporate oil, and sundry conspiracies:"You expect a little passionate ignorance from a rock star" (109)
(YouTube) Spiffy Asian girls + string instruments = the sexiest version of "20th Century Schizoid Man" you'll see (43)
(YouTube) Video Curt Smith of Tears for Fears turns 47. "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" (1985). Bonus: check out the gas prices at 3:55 (43)
(Some Guy) Cool Björk, Sigur Rós announce open air concert. You have six days to get to Iceland (31)

Mon June 23, 2008
(Reuters) Interesting Boy George 0 - U.S. State Department 1 (9)
(Some Guy) Interesting Your prayers have been answered. Omarion signs new record deal with Timbaland (7)
(Celebitchy) Amusing Ice-T blames Soulja Boy for single-handedly killing hip-hop, calling his "Superman" song garbage. Soulja Boy responds on YouTube: "You were born before the Internet was created" (with Not safe for work language vids) (100)
(Telegraph) Sad Amy Winehouse to sing at Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday celebration. Hasn't the man been through enough? (12)
(Starpulse) Obvious Celine Dion tops the worst rendition list, her cover of AC/DC's "You Shook Me All Night Long" considered a "musical offensive" bad enough it could sink ships, or at least have us puking all night long (64)
(Some Guy) Obvious Phish threatens to reunite. EVERYBODY PANIC. AFTER THE 38-MINUTE BASS SOLO (64)
(Radar Magazine) Strange The Bare Naked Ladies have enough fans to fill a whole cruise ship? (110)
(YouTube) Video The Gap Band "Early In The Morning" -- a heaping dose of funk for your Monday (with plenty of flaming drumstick goodness) (14)
(Daily Mail) Cool Picture this: Blondie fans dreaming of seeing Debbie Harry in the flesh are in a rapture after her latest photoshoot. Call me (29)
(YouTube) Cool In honor of what would've been June Carter Cash's 79th birthday: "Ring of Fire" (15)

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