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Sun August 31, 2008
(St. Petersburg Times) Amusing Dale Bozzio of Missing Persons no longer wears a metal bikini (but that's the only normal thing about her) (16)
(Some Guy Eaten Alive) Amusing Rob Halford talks about his encounters with unidentified flying objects (10)
(Starpulse) Cool Hank Williams III releases "Damn Right Rebel Proud," a mix of disturbingly dark rock and good ol' country, which will contain the 10-minutes symphony in three movements "P.F.F." dedicated to toilet rocker G.G. Allin (33)

Sat August 30, 2008
(PitchforkMedia) Cool As president of his own fan club and obsessed with 13, creepy middle-aged man in makeup Robert Smith announces The Cure 13th album to be released on Sept 13th, and to be entitled "4:13 dream" (36)
(Fox News) Dumbass In a story that reads like an Onion article, Diddy grounds his jet due to high gas prices, calls on "Saudi Arabia brothers and sisters" to help out (39)
(RedNova) Stupid "Pink Floyd were rubbish" ... says David Gilmour. If he is referring to when he took over in 1987, Subby agrees (53)
(MTV) Interesting Wizard Rock? A cauldron full of it (38)
(Sky.com) Obvious Michael Stipe on what will happen if McCain gets elected: "Well I'd have to move to England. It is unfathomable to me as an American and a world citizen that anyone would vote for that man" (141)

Fri August 29, 2008
(Toronto Sun) Obvious In an attempt to reduce STD's, alcohol is banned backstage at Toronto Motley Crue show (11)
(NFreview) Amusing Jessica Simpson's transition to country going as well as expected: "It might be unfair calling Jessica Simpson's show at the Avalon Ballroom Wednesday a train wreck. At some point, a train knows where it's going" (29)
(London Times) Strange The five most difficult instruments to play. List includes "vegetables" (40)
(Reuters) Obvious Kenny Rogers releases new Greatest Hits compilation that is available only at Cracker Barrel. Toss a five-spot on his regular table and he'll probably perform the whole damn thing in the back of your pickup (18)
(Fox News) Cool Dead resurrected by Obama (54)
(Some Guy) Interesting Hootie splits from The Blowfish. In other news, Hootie and The Blowfish were still together (48)
(Some Guy) Cool Paul Westerburg teams up with Tom Waits. In other news, Aging Hipster Post-Emo douchebago supremos just experienced a Level 14 indiegasm (61)
(Some Guy) Interesting Lars Ulrich credits Oasis frontman with helping him kick cocaine (30)
(Music-News) Weird Oasis' Liam Gallagher commissions SpongeBob SquarePants painting: "I'm having a huge painting done at the minute, a proper Andy Warhol-style portrait of SpongeBob. He'll be facing Elvis and Hendrix" (17)
(LA Times) Interesting Trent Reznor on surviving addiction, touring and the uncertainties of the current music business: "It's obvious what record labels are doing is wrong, but it's not entirely clear what the right thing is to do" (45)
(700 WLW) Silly Kellie Pickler announces she hates wearing makeup. Luckily for her, makeup isn't necessary to work at Waffle House (19)
(Lancashire Evening Post) Interesting Is this Meatloaf imitator the unluckiest tribute artist ever? (17)
(YouTube) Video How to play "How Soon is Now". And even after seeing it you still won't be able to play it (51)

Thu August 28, 2008
(Contact Music) Sad Gloria Estefan and the Rusting Sound Machine (12)
(Contact Music) Sad It turns out that Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett retired from music after an LSD "explosion" in his head failed to leave him comfortably numb (74)
(Starpulse) Interesting Jordin Sparks to have a duet with Leona Lewis... right after she's done with her duet with that Double Whopper (18)
(BBC) Followup Guns 'N Roses album leaker's Bail set at $10,000. GNR pissed that people heard the suckage before they could pay to hear the suckage (21)
(Daily Mail) Amusing Scientists try to discern what Michael Jackson would have looked like had he lived to be 50 (46)
(YouTube) Video Canada's best-paid lap dancer celebrates her 43rd birthday. "Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?" (1995) (24)

Wed August 27, 2008
(Billboard) Sad The replacement for The Replacement's drummer has been permanently replaced (28)
(Breitbart.com) Followup FBI implements chinese democracy on blogger for prematurely unleashing the atrocities of GnR (151)
(Rolling Stone) Obvious Kid rock outsells Kid Rock (26)
(TMZ) Amusing After Britney declines to the attend VMAs, MTV digs up Michael Jackson to make a special appearance (32)
(CNN) Dumbass DMX drops the F-bomb in court (LGT Video) (113)
(Rolling Stone) Cool Five Genesis albums from their Peter Gabriel era re-released in a 7-CD/6 DVD box, Which represents the best era creativity-wise for Genesis: The one where Phil Collins keeps his mouth shut (123)
(NewsBusters) Hero Kid Rock feels that entertainers should stick to entertaining, and not offer their opinion on politics (182)
(News.com.au) Interesting US rapper dogged by Aussie cops snooping into his criminal history (15)
(YouTube) Hero 18 years ago today, the sky was crying & created a Texas flood when Stevie Ray Vaughn left us (80)
(Music-News) Sad Iggy Pop injures his leg badly during performance in Longon, after falling from a speaker stack. But it sure isn't the first time: "All these little kids were looking at me thinking, 'Who is this weird old man?'" (24)
(The Sun) Sad Pete Doherty to premiere movie about his troubled life, having spent months recording his innermost thoughts and, presumably hours of nodding out and drooling on himself. The movie has limited release: it's playing in one porn cinema only (13)
(E! Online) Cool Good News: Britney won't be performing at the MTV VMAs. Bad News: She's in the middle of recording her next album (21)

Tue August 26, 2008
(Showbiz Spy) Amusing Loser band pretends to be Foo Fighters playing a secret gig at Reading festival, presumably hoping for free publicity. Empty bottles, mud, shoes and hilarity ensues (18)
(Contact Music) Cool Patti Smith's "Easter" was almost banned, due to a song title and armpit hair: "I was warned if I didn't airbrush the hair and retitle the song, the album wouldn't sell... I was never interested in compromise" (20)
(Starpulse) Interesting Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and Jason Bonham currently working on new material -- without Robert Plant. Which is a problem, since the band needs his irreplaceable expertise to sing "baby baby baby" ad nauseum, on every track (32)
(Spike) Interesting Because 10 is too much, the Top 7 baddest women in rock (216)
(Some Guy) Cool Metallica releases track that sounds like vintage Metallica...in other words it's good (144)
(Contact Music) Sad Annie Lennox won't be able to walk for six months after undergoing spinal surgery, will endanger her recovery by walking on broken glass (39)
(EurWeb) Strange Wayne Brady to release an R&B album, with performances whiter than when Pat Boone covered "Tutti-Frutti" (14)
(Yahoo) Spiffy The 25 best blues-rock bands of all time. Bonus: The list is all on one page (112)

Mon August 25, 2008
(Starpulse) Stupid Canadian hoser pays $25,100 on eBay to join The Who's road crew for a day. Winner gets to bring Daltrey his medications personally and must remember to delete Townsend's hard drives regularly (16)
(Rolling Stone) Interesting Jack Osbourne feels that MTV's "The Osbournes" discredited who Ozzy really is as the perpetual senile, bumbling punchline but hope to repair the damage by producing his own Ozzy documentary: "My dad's not an idiot" (45)
(Idolator) Dumbass Kid Rock feels everyone having a voice on the Internet could ruin the return of Jesus to Earth: "They'd put him on a Web site like TMZ, and the first comment would be 'Jesus is a douche bag'" (63)
(Telegraph) Cool This is the last week of George Michael's final tour. VIP seating in men's restroom stalls has been sold out for months, but lawn seating still available (5)
(Idolator) Video Jimmy Page and Leona Lewis performing "Whole Lotta Love" at closing ceremony: "You have to admire the subtle genius of choosing a song about the size of Robert Plant's dick as the theme for the handover to London 2012" (68)
(Rolling Stone) Cool Sonic Youth becomes indie again, after 18 years with Geffen and many records that "were just so compromised," the band is now in the writing-stage, no word yet as to whether the guitars will be tuned this time (64)
(Starpulse) Dumbass Sad: Issac Hayes died. Dumb: Relatives think this means they get all the rights to his music from the label he sold them to (63)
(Some Guy) Misc Omarion done with his former bandmates. Pray for him (18)
(Some Guy) Followup Suge Knight's forced sale of Death Row Records falls through. If you ever wanted to buy Dr Dre's masters, now's your chance (23)
(Reuters) Cool Allman Brothers plotting star-studded 40th anniversary. Duane will not be in attendance (45)
(San Diego Reader) Cool Ginormous list of bands' backstage catering-and-such requirements. I never knew Public Enemy kept Kosher (47)
(New York Sun) Asinine Oh, thank GOD Avril Lavigne's Malaysia concert will go on after all. (who gives an eff tag not available) (18)
(BBC) Cool Bob Marley statue unveiled in Serbia to promote tolerance, not bogarting (16)
(Toronto Sun) Scary Barenaked Ladies frontman survives plane crash. No, not the cokehead - the other one (32)
(Canoe) Obvious Huey Lewis, mostly-retired fly fisherman, welcomes Canadian where-are-they-now reality TV show to his Montana property. "I think the Canadians do a better job at this sort of stuff" (54)
(YouTube) Video Happy 54th birthday, Elvis Costello. "God's Comic" live and acoustic (21)

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