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Sun September 07, 2008
(Contact Music) Interesting Slash blasts modern rockers for their lack of integrity: "Everybody else is making compromises and concessions so that they can make it big and get their picture on the cover of Teen Beat or Us Weekly" (39)
(YouTube) Video All these bass players and we snubbed Bootsy? 'Sokay, there's a month of sweet, greasy funk in this here clip (2)
(YouTube) Video John Entwistle's isolated bass track from "Won't Get Fooled Again" blows shades clean off Horatio's face, wins bass battle (17)
(YouTube) Video Dire Straits - "Walk Of Life" (26)
(Billboard) Cool Since Gustav didn't tear the stage in half, the 2008 Voodoo Experience, to be held at New Orleans' City Park can go on with R.E.M., Nine Inch Nails, Stone Temple Pilots, Mars Volta and Butthole Surfers headlining (16)
(International Herald Tribune) Amusing The Pope questions his faith after Madonna dedicates "Like a Virgin" to him (8)
(YouTube) Cool A late entry in the Best Bass Line of the Weekend contest. Geddy Lee and Rush "Leave That Thing Alone" (16)
(Telegraph) Interesting Scientists determine that Beatles music more than "auditory cheesecake" (11)
(700 WLW) Silly Beyonce announces she is over being a pop star and no long wants to be seen as the hot girl. Boo hoo (26)
(YouTube) Video And now for something completely different--Pantera's "Cowboys From Hell" on violin and cello (17)
(Google) Cool Sunday bass lines, you say? How about Steve Harris and Iron Maiden "Wrathchild" Bonus: Insane Brazilian metal fans (11)
(YouTube) Video Three time (consecutive) "Bass Player of the Year" award winner, Victor Wooten: Norwegian Wood (18)
(YouTube) Amusing Worst guitar solo ever. Complete with devil horns at the end (228)
(Some Rapper) Sad Only God can judge him. Tupac fatally shot twelve years ago today (22)
(YouTube) Cool I'll see your bass player and raise you the lady that played on "Good Vibrations" by the Beach Boys, and "I Was Made To Love Her" by Stevie Wonder...the great Carol Kaye (17)
(The Scottish Sun) Sad KT Tunstall officially off the market. Woo-hoo, indeed (16)
(I-Mockery) Amusing I-Mockery takes an in-depth look at Dokken's classic "Dream Warriors" music video (17)
(YouTube) Spiffy Hope your birthday is special, so special, Chrissie Hynde. LGT to her using her arms, her legs, her style, her sidestep, her fingers, her, her, her imagination (14)
(Contact Music) Fail Marilyn Manson rocker John 5 rode his bicycle really well and 1 much acclaim 4 his biking skills. Just kidding, he 8 it on a turn and went right 2 a hospital (14)
(Some Guy) Asinine Amy Winehouse demands 48 bottles of Jack Daniel's as part of her backstage refreshments (32)
(YouTube) Video I'll raise your slap-heavy Primus cover with the nonstopness that is "Hysteria" by Muse (30)
(YouTube) Video An amazing short film reflecting the life of a farker, set to a wonderful song by Gnarls Barkley (36)
(YouTube) Sad Happy birthday to Buddy Holly; LGT him and the Crickets performing "Peggy Sue" live in 1959 (17)

Sat September 06, 2008
(YouTube) Video I see your Level 42, and raise with another hell of a bass-line; Primus, doing a bit of "Master of Puppets" at Woodstock'94 (25)
(Music-News) Interesting Lou Reed chooses the most depressing album of his career, "Berlin" and turns it into a seven piece performance, which is now set to be released on DVD in October and to come with a rope and a set of razor blades (20)
(AP) Scary It's as simple as ABC, 123, Jacksons unite on cable TV (7)
(Some Guy) Obvious Music critic raves about Mötley Crües rockin' concert. Just kidding, he rips them a new one. "Looking at Mick Mars, you can almost imagine that Mötley Crüe's wretched career has eaten away at him," (20)
(NME) Interesting After Noel Gallagher listed his personal "10 greatest bands of all time," NME's staff turn in their own and one thing is for sure, them British boys sure love The Smiths (26)
(Telegraph) Cool The new Metallica album does not suck: "the best metal album of the new millenium so far" (158)
(YouTube) Video Early REO Speedwagon from 1971 before they sold out to the man. London Branch is there (16)
(Guardian.com) Silly Rick Astley grades various infamous Rick-rolls (108)
(YouTube) Video Ewwwww, it's overslick 80's British synth-pop and thus it's everything a right-thinking hipster should flee - but it's overslick 80's British synth-pop with one hell of a bass line. Level 42's "Love Games" (21)
(Reuters) Interesting Study shows heavy metal fans are "gentle and creative." Dethklok inconsolable (23)

Fri September 05, 2008
(Contact Music) Interesting Alice In Chains return to the studio for their first album since Layne Stayley's forced retirement, then to join The Doors, Queen, INXS, Sublime and Blind Melon for a "The Magic Is Long Gone" world tour (36)
(Some Guy) Cool Top 10 female artists who could kick Oasis' ass (46)
(YouTube) Cool The absolute best version of "Jane Says" ever. EVER (45)
(Guardian.com) Ironic "Will we be able to play the shiat we do when we're 65? I don't know. When it becomes a joke, we'll stop." (26)
(TBO) Amusing Cuban punk rocker fined $28 for song telling Fidel to "stop performing sex acts on men" (28)
(Starpulse) Strange Not news: Carey Hart joins Pink for a music video shoot. Fark: it's for a song in which Pink sings the following lyrics about Hart: "I'm gonna show you tonight / I'm all right, I'm just fine / And you're a tool" (27)
(BBC) Interesting How the music you like reveals your personality. For example, you like Coldplay, so you suck. Here comes the science (147)
(Some Guy) Spiffy Upset by missing the illegal downloading years, Motley Crue to re-release back catalogue (17)

Thu September 04, 2008
(Rolling Stone) Interesting Michael Jackson photo essay: what was and might have been, if nor for all the plastic surgery and random encounters with children (30)
(MTV) Stupid Beer googles alert: Britney Spears to open MTV's VMAs, once again trying for a comeback. Hopefully this time she'll put down the Cheetos and Beer before hand (46)
(The Tennessean) Unlikely Kellie Pickler to co-host CMA special, chosen for her quick wits, not her big........ personality (60)
(BBC) Sad After a re-count, "Slipknot" took the #1 billboard 200 spot away from "The Game" with their album, "All Hope is Gone." Yes, yes it is (41)
(Rolling Stone) Obvious U2, realizing they have 50-60 fillers but no real hits, push back next album until 2009: "we've hit a rich songwriting vein and we don't want to stop." Bono, that tapped-out vein has receded a long time ago (56)
(News.com.au) Obvious If you picked Cliff Richard as "gay man in a long term relationship with a Catholic priest", please claim your Festival Of Light Family Values Button (19)
(Music-News) Cool The Pogues to reunite for a Christmas tour, If Shane McGowan's liver can make it till then (19)
(Q Daily) Cool Kim Deal would like to dispel rumours of a new Pixies album, horrified at the prospect of having to work with Frank Black again: "Oh god no ...I'd rather record with my mother" (40)

Wed September 03, 2008
(Starpulse) Interesting Not pleased with regular ticket prices, Peter Gabriel considers turning upcoming recording session into intimate gig and charge hundreds for the "opportunity" to watch him nod out on meds in a recording booth (15)
(Some Guy) Cool Slipknot lands No. 1 album after Billboard does first recount in history (52)
(Music-News) Cool Hardcore punk legend Bad Brains to reunite on election night for their first show with original line-up in 10 years, and new album. No word if they are still banned in D.C. (48)
(YouTube) Cool Sometimes subby wonders where all the good rock n' roll has gone. Here's Danny Kirwan's beautiful guitar on "Sometimes" (16)
(Some Guy) Unlikely Guns N' Roses album leaker hoping that, since he shared his files, you'll share the defense cost with him (31)
(NYPost) Cool American Idols: Where are they now? (67)
(Now Magazine) Obvious Britney Spears says her dad saved her life after he was made her conservator. If he hadn't banned her from having Cheetos, she would be looking at an early heart attack (9)
(Some Guy Named Ben) Cool ♫ Well I thought about reuniting/Dad said "Son, you're farking high" ♫ (29)
(AP) Sappy Letterman talks about Warren Zevon's last appearance: "He puts the guitar into the case and he flips the snaps on the case and says, 'Here, I want you to have this, take good care of it.' And I just started sobbing" (115)
(YouTube) Cool "One Percent," Jane's Addiction. Eighties music wasn't all synthesizers and Phil Collins (30)
(The Business Sheet) Amusing Right Now: Van Halen can't agree on whether John McCain can use their song (59)
(Reuters) Cool Smashing Pumpkins to release new single via "Guitar Hero." In other news, Smashing Pumpkins are still making songs (23)
(Starpulse) Interesting Tougher than leather, hard times or not, you be illin' if you think Reverend Run will reunite Run-DMC back from hell. It's like that, so walk this way, king of rock (11)
(Rolling Stone) Hero Rolling Stone reviews new Metallica album: "Death Magnetic is the musical equivalent of Russia's invasion of Georgia -- a sudden act of aggression from a sleeping giant" (90)
(Some Anarchist) Video Concert shut down? If you're Rage Against the Machine, you just sing through a bullhorn to 4,000 violent protesters (71)
(Billboard) Interesting Scott Weiland releases second solo album entitled "Happy," nods out on the mixing board and electrocutes himself (9)
(Idaho Statesman) Amusing With nothing else going on in the world, newspaper covers 80s glam rockers Poison leaving a $25 tip for a waitress in Boise (127)

Tue September 02, 2008
(USA Today) Interesting Brian Wilson on new album, no future Beach Boys reunion and drugs: "I should have passed on the LSD and marijuana and all that, It kind of screwed my mind up" (24)
(Starpulse) Cool In 1941, fed up with audiences unable to hear him play, Les Paul builds the first solid-body electric guitar--67 years later, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will pay tribute to "The Father of Electric guitar" (46)
(Contact Music) Ironic The man who brought you "Electric Avenue" would like you to know that real music is back (42)

Mon September 01, 2008
(NYPost) Cool In "Watch You Bleed: The Saga of Guns N' Roses," Stephen Davis recalls GNR early days, opening for Aerosmith: "It was like Led Zeppelin f - - - ed the Sex Pistols and this was their bastard love child" (33)
(London Times) Interesting John Lydon recalls the Sex Pistols days and Sid Vicious' alleged murder of girlfriend Nancy Spungen: "One of the very few people who came in with any kind of help was, oddly enough, Mick Jagger, who came up with a lawyer" (13)
(NYPost) Interesting Billy Idol interview, promoting new "Idolize Yourself" CD: "you gotta find ways to trick yourself to go on. If I told myself, "Jesus, this stuff is just so cliched and '80s," I'd have to go hang myself" (11)
(Contact Music) Dumbass At long last, esteemed political analyst Sean Combs finally weighs in on John McCain's running mate selection (78)
(Contact Music) Strange Slash criticizes the bootlegger who leaked music from an album he had nothing to do with from a band that he no longer performs with (17)
(Starpulse) Interesting Aretha Franklin is afraid of A-I-R C-O-N-D-I-T-I-O-N-I-N-G (28)
(Showbiz Spy) Weird Black Flag's Henry Rollins says being pen pals with Charles Manson was "intense and heavy": "His letters would always have swastikas on them so they were easy to spot" (51)
(Sign On San Diego) Obvious Stopping pot smokers at concerts would be hard, but some believe the drunks are the real problem; "I'd much rather be around a group of people smoking a joint at a concert than even one person who may have had one too many" (98)
(TV Squad) Obvious "Flight of the Conchords" to end after upcoming second season, as the guys found out writing a shiatload of songs at once was harder than they thought it'd be (49)
(Contact Music) Amusing Duran Duran banned from Los Angeles hotels for putting shampoo in a fountain: "News travelled fast and we soon discovered that no other decent hotel in town would take us" (17)
(Globe and Mail) Amusing Young hipsters in 16-25 age range lead comeback in vinyl music sales. Again (44)
(Starpulse) Interesting Paul McCartney's next adversary is... *shakes up the Magic 8 Ball* ... Chef Gordon Ramsay (51)
(Contact Music) Cool Motley Crue's Nikki Sixx says Kat Von D is the perfect girlfriend, since she's touching up his old tattoos and new ones for free: "I'll just look like an old, wrinkled, wet, soggy comic" (8)
(The Sun) Scary Amy Winehouse's crystal meth binge and 36-hour pot marathon might have left her with drain bamage (84)
(Starpulse) Obvious Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher hates "Wonderwall." Join the club, Liam, join the club (45)

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