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Sun August 03, 2008
(Contact Music) Scary Wild crowds bring a Rage Against the Machine performance to a screeching halt. I LOLLapalooza'd (9)
(Boston Globe) Sad Asexual, inscrutable, self-conscious worrywarts: meet the new breed of rock-n-roll frontmen. "Hero" tag trumped, easily (21)
(Daily Mail) Strange ABBA Gold - Greatest Hits grabs the number 1 spot in UK album charts. No, this is not a repeat from 1992 (7)
(YouTube) Video Fred Schneider sings about his favorite crustacean. Bonus: Fred has a massive pr0n stache (8)
(Toledo Blade) Unlikely The Nuge claims to, "remember every concert I've ever performed, and believe me, there have been no bad ones." (42)
(Contact Music) Interesting Trent Reznor feels Johnny Cash' interpretation of his song "Hurt" is his proudest accolade, but considered it invasive at first: "Hearing it was like someone kissing your girlfriend" (41)
(YouTube) Video Jerry Garcia's birthday is this weekend. Here he is playing "Tangled Up in Blue" (16)
(YouTube) Video Great 80's song with a lead singer who may be even more awkward than Rick Astley (29)
(Contact Music) Obvious Kanye West denies rumors that he'll be producing Britney Spears' next album, insists that he'll be busy enough with his own trainwrecks (6)
(YouTube) Spiffy All these shreddas and flamencobeans gettin' greens, what about the true masta of da telecasta, James Burton. He could smoke 'em all and leave change for cigarettes (15)
(LiveLeak) Cool You know you're one lucky SOB when you stumble across Wynton Marsalis and Wycliffe Gordon jazz dueling from their hotel windows (10)
(Fox News) Misc Shots fired at party attended by Usher, Jermaine Dupri, Sean Combs and Nelly. Pray for Omarion (41)
(YouTube) Video The only one allowed on my lawn is "The Man on the Silver Mountain" (13)

Sat August 02, 2008
(Wired) Spiffy Music Biz 101: Class is in session with Prof. David Byrne of the Talking Heads. He spells it out and names names. Bonus audio clips of conversation with Brian Eno. Oh, and record companies? Suck it, your days are numbered (28)
(Reuters) Misc Fonsi thrilled to have his music used during Olympics. Still inconsolable that jumping sharks not a medal event (9)
(Now Magazine) Obvious Justin Timberlake denies rumors that he's engaged to his beard, says she just sort of grows on him (5)
(Idolator) Interesting After Madonna and Nickelback, Depeche Mode tells Warner Music Group to enjoy their silence, claiming they felt "underserved." This is another major loss for Warner whose death rattle is getting louder than the music they put out (17)
(YouTube) Cool For the first time in 35 years, and perhaps the last, Neil Young plays the title tune of his failed 1973 album "Time Fades Away" to a crowd in Oberhausen, Germany (25)
(Reuters) Scary Gary Glitter to be released from Vietnamese prison later this month, says he feels like a kid again (45)

Fri August 01, 2008
(Contact Music) Interesting Velvet Revolver may choose Liv Tyler's ex-husband as new lead singer. So naturally article contains Liv Tyler pictures (23)
(YouTube) Video Here's another video of guitarists who have no feeling because their playing is somewhat technical and is not based around 12-bar blues. Enjoy (60)
(Gawker) Spiffy In an outpour of sympathy, Australian teens are baring their bosoms in a show of support to lead singer of The Veronicas, who had unfortunate topless pictures of hers "leaked" on the net earlier this week (80)
(People Magazine) Interesting David Archuleta debuts his new single, "Crush". It's about what happened to his spirit once his father discovered he had talent and become the stage dad from hell... or it could be about a girl (15)
(YouTube) Video Happy 45th birthday, Artis Ivey, Jr. -- I mean, Coolio. "Fantastic Voyage" (14)
(YouTube) Video 12:01 a.m., August 1, 1981: MTV goes on the air. Bonus: original commercials (77)

Thu July 31, 2008
(The Tennessean) Ironic Black Crowes accuse Gretchen Wilson of copyright infringement (w/video comparison) (92)
(Celebitchy) Dumbass Avril Lavigne forces her dancers to dye their hair, so she can be the only blonde on stage: "I wanted my girls to look really punk rock with like black hair" (67)
(Some Guy) Obvious Members of Megadeth wearily push their walkers into the studio to start work on a new album (41)
(YouTube) Spiffy Original REM drummer Bill Berry turns 50 today. Here's the band 25 years ago making its national television debut playing "Radio Free Europe" on Letterman (31)
(The Sun) Scary Avril Lavigne hates her fans. Wait, hold on a second. (What's that? Her FANGS?) Oh. Hmmm. Well, she hates her fangs, too (29)
(Billboard) Stupid Butthole Surfers' lead singer Gibby Haynes escorted off-stage after pegging soundman with beer bottle, transgender industrial rock pioneer Genesis P-Orridge takes over, to equally disastrous results (45)
(Some Guy) Sad Paul and Ringo block release of "Let It Be" documentary, ostensibly because they don't want us to see Paul bossing everybody around, John's fascination with Yoko, or Ringo's ridiculous sideburns (62)

Wed July 30, 2008
(Daily Star) Sad New survey finds iPod generation doesn't know the words to songs because they've never held a CD insert with the lyrics on it. In related news, we built this city on the wrong damn road (170)
(Washington Post) Dumbass Ludacris recorded a positive, uplifting and inspirational Pro-Barack song, if you ignore all the negative stuff (51)
(YouTube) Cool Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller and Victor Wooten showing what a bass group can do without Stonehenge (12)
(MTV) Unlikely Perry Farrell says he doesn't know if Barack Obama will show up at Lollapollooza to introduce Kanye West, but "that's definitely been the rumor, and it's been coming from their camp" (19)
(USA Today) Cool Bob Dylan proudly releases "Tell Tale Signs," the long-rumored eighth installment of his Bootleg Series: "Ima zoprod toha vit releaz vinelly, afta zucha langweet, hobs davans vwil lakit" (39)
(Now Magazine) Interesting Amy Winehouse's dad says she did not take a deliberate overdose. After all, that would be giving her too much credit over how much control she has on her life (20)
(YouTube) Spiffy Alt-rock hottie Kate Bush turns 50 today. Let's all go Running up that Hill (102)
(Blabbermouth) Stupid Vinnie Vincent tribute album in the works. The bottom of the barrel has been scraped (21)

Tue July 29, 2008
(LA Times) Stupid "A new multi-year, multi-release concept album": How Billy Corgan plans to ruin all the positive buzz he's getting from the "Watchman" trailer (40)
(Pollstar) Scary Bad: You have an all night drive back from a gig. Worse: Your tour bus gets rear ended by a drunk kid with no license, who's doing 100 MPH. Fark: Your tour manager gets stuck changing a flat on cop's car, while he takes a report (13)
(FMQB) Spiffy Proving the adolesence can last for well over forty years, AC/DC ready to embark on an 18-month jaunt around the world. School shorts and club ties packed and ready to go (22)
(YouTube) Video Your WTF video of the day: Japanese ska band performing "Baby Elephant Walk." With bonus Rob Halford bandleader lookalike (28)
(YouTube) Video John Sykes turns 49 to... screw it, who needs a reason to rock out to Lizzy. "Cold Sweat" from Thunder and Lightening '83 (11)
(YouTube) Spiffy Geddy Lee turns 55 today and you Rush fans are OOOOLLLLD. Rock out to this bass solo from Driven, but be careful not to break a hip (54)
(YouTube) Video Your dose of kick ass guitarist you've probably never heard of for the day: John Petrucci playing "Glasgow Kiss". Bonus: Dude Love sitting in drums (73)

Mon July 28, 2008
(Contact Music) Spiffy Eric Clapton to take a break from meandering, weariful ballads and reform Cream with Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce and all it took apparently, is to throw Baker a tribute. It's not fresh Cream anymore, but we'll take it (29)
(YouTube) Cool Geoff Tate does his best to shatter any champagne glasses you may have nearby in this video from 1984 (35)
(Contact Music) Ironic Alanis Morissette got over devastating breakup by having lots and lots of sex. Just thought you oughta know (78)
(Contact Music) Interesting Alice Cooper claims Barbarella and Emma Peel of the Avengers as inspiration for his onstage persona: "Wearing long black leather gloves with switchblades coming out of them, I thought, 'That's what Alice should look like'" (18)
(Gawker) Amusing Snoop Dogg named America's musical Ambassador to India: Jain and juice (13)
(Contact Music) Unlikely From the "Blind Leading the Blind" Files: Paris Hilton claims that Good Charlotte's Benji Madden helped her grow up (23)
(Jimmy Rage) Amusing Led Zeppelin puts rare memorabilia on display. Includes Willie Dixon's lawn mower, Howlin' Wolf's wallet and Sonny Boy Williamson's GPS (35)
(Rolling Stone) Amusing Stones sign new record deal. Rider calls for them to be fed their dinner promptly at 4:30 p.m., with corn carefully removed from cob (63)
(Rolling Stone) Asinine Bill O says Nas' only protesting because his album is "a disaster." Fark: It's No. 1 on Soundscan. Malmedy (61)
(Starpulse) Followup Sheryl Crow says that reports of her collaborating with Fleetwood Mac were just *ahem* rumours (33)
(Starpulse) Unlikely Tommy Lee wants Johnny Depp to play him in Motley Crue biopic. Unlikely tag lights its own fuse and asplodes (35)
(YouTube) Cool Early Ramones and Spinal Tap are all well and good. But how 'bout early Simon and Garfunkel? (11)
(YouTube) Cool Instruments? Who needs instruments to be metal? (15)

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