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Sun September 21, 2008
(YouTube) Spiffy Time to celebrate the 21st night of September with this Earth, Wind & Fire classic (12)
(Guardian.com) Interesting After 42 years the truth comes out: Israel banned The Beatles out of fear they would corrupt the country's youth with "sex, alcohol and rock'n'roll" and not, as commonly believed, because they so blatantly ripped off Oasis (8)
(YouTube) Silly "You Can Call Me Al" -- Paul Simon (w/ Chevy Chase). Older Farkers may remember a time when this was funny and cool (71)
(YouTube) Sappy Wishing Faith Hill centrifugal motion and perpetual bliss on her 41st birthday (20)

Sat September 20, 2008
(MTV) Amusing Metal band Stryper coming to "Guitar Praise," a Christian clone of "Guitar Hero." It works just the same as Guitar Hero, except the bands are much lamer and the game refuses to boot on Sunday mornings (54)
(FMQB) Interesting Is the Elvis Presley of the hip-hop world ready to record a new album? (47)
(The Sun) Obvious Amy Winehouse's friends doubt that she will be able to get a third album released: "Unless she sorts herself out and gets some focus, it might never happen." How in the world do you suppose that they came to that conclusion? (10)
(Wall Street Journal) Interesting What author Stephen Davis did decades ago for Zeppelin with "Hammer of the Gods", he's doing today for GNR with "Watch You Bleed" (12)
(Showbiz Spy) News Former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker is critically injured, and 4 people are killed as his jet crashes in South Carolina (434)
(YouTube) Cool The Who? Nope. Just Pete Townshend with an acoustic guitar at his absolute best (14)
(Billboard) Obvious Gene Simmons figured out a way to kompile another krappy KISS box set (20)

Fri September 19, 2008
(The Sun) Cool Led Zeppelin give Robert Plant an ultimatum: Either come out of your old age stupor or we're auditioning for a new singer: "Jimmy, Jason and John are determined a tour will go ahead next year" (74)
(Some Guy) Obvious LL Cool J threatens to quit rap after his new CD sells even fewer copies than the abysmal Jessica Simpson foray into country music. Those quiet cash registers are the consumers calling your bluff, LL (40)
(Some Guy) Obvious Rush releases cover art for upcoming 'Snakes and Ladders' live DVD. And yeah, it's as pretentious and as pointless as any of their songs (50)
(The Hollywood Reporter) Stupid AC/DC embraces paperless ticketing, which means that if you forget your ID at home or lost them or got them stolen, you can kiss your entire evening goodbye. But rest assured, the band and Ticketmaster will still profit from this (20)
(Contact Music) Stupid Britney Spears' comeback track leaks online. Actually, it's more of an oozing than a leaking, but still (14)
(Wired) Sad Wesley Willis ahead of his time: Company sells product placement in pop songs. "Rock over London. Rock on Chicago...it's not news, it's Fark." (31)
(PitchforkMedia) Spiffy Belle and Sebastian to release "The BBC Sessions" spanning from 1996-2001, for people who feel Radiohead and Coldplay is just hooligan noise and prefer to listen to their refined music wearing a jacket and tie (26)
(Chud) Misc First look, er, listen of Jack White & Alicia Keys' new 007 theme song. It's no "View to a Kill" (88)
(NHL) PSA Def Leppard to ruin the Detroit Red Wings Stanley Cup banner-raising ceremony (51)
(Starpulse) Obvious Britney Spears a shoo-in to receive a nomination for Best Trial for Driving Without a Valid California License at the MTV Superior Court Awards (13)
(Starpulse) Interesting Martina McBride unveils plans for a retirement home for aging musicians. There's at least 85 country songs to come out of this, I'm sure of it (9)
(Now Magazine) Obvious Britney Spears looking for new dancers, Cheetos handlers (14)
(Some Guy) Interesting New Journey singer Arnel Pineda cries on tour and calls his new job a curse..... He understands why Steve Perry quit (20)
(London Times) Followup Pink Floyd's Rick Wright: The final interview (48)
(Hartford Courant) Cool Matt Damon insults Sarah Palin but Ted Nugent is there to defend her honor, invite her moose hunting (130)
(Starpulse) Scary Jessica Simpson will be performing her new country album at a rape support charity concert in Las Vegas. As if being raped wasn't bad enough (25)

Thu September 18, 2008
(BBC) Cool Amadeus, Amadeus. Amadeus, Amadeus. Amadeus, Amadeus - oh oh oh Amadeus (30)
(BBC) Asinine In today's second sign of the Apocalypse, the Spice Girls beat out Led Zepplin for the year's best reunion (27)
(SFGate) Obvious Asked if he liked teenage girls, R. Kelly responded with a question of his own: "When you say teenage, how - how old are we talkin'?" (60)
(NBC13) Obvious BMI names Hank Williams Jr a music icon, unfairly warns he could be clinically obese (34)
(Starpulse) Scary In another subtle yet unsettling sign of the Apocalypse, The Jonas Brothers are planning a duet with Britney Spears (20)
(Telegraph) Amusing In 2006, a Metallica fan vowed not to shave until the band released a new album. At long last, he can stop looking "like a tomato with hair" (34)
(The Earth Times) Interesting Mick Jagger advises EU on on-line music sales (11)
(PopEater) Sad I heard it through the grapevine that Motown legend Norman Whitfield has died (7)
(Idolator) Amusing Ted Nugent sends Sarah palin his forthcoming book "Ted, White, & Blue: The Nugent Manifesto" accompanied by a letter, handwritten in deer blood: "Godspeed for the best hunting and fishing season of your life" (66)

Wed September 17, 2008
(People Magazine) Obvious Paul McCartney makes first public appearance with his future ex-wife (22)
(Contact Music) Obvious Noel Gallagher on Oasis' songwriting process: "The whole of the first three albums were written on drugs. I remember being off my nut and going into the back room and setting the goal of writing a song in 10 minutes" (20)
(Billboard) Interesting Metallica's Death Magnetic opens at Number One on the Billboard charts; in other news at least 500,000 people don't have access to a computer (116)
(Some Guy) Florida Trace the evolution of Florida's greatest export... booty music (32)
(AP) Cool It's not unusual......well, actually it is: Tom Jones to release his first album in 15 years (28)

Tue September 16, 2008
(Smells Like Music) Cool Exclusive Tegan and Sara interview (47)
(NME) Interesting The Cure's Robert Smith is in despair, urges fans not to buy new album from iTunes, claiming wrong pricing. sends desperate letter to label, who put him on special suicide watch over the matter (40)
(Rolling Stone) Obvious Noted hippies Widespread Panic to play a benefit show with gourmet munchies cooked at the venue. Duuuuuude (30)
(New York Daily News) Stupid Among her many diva demands, Celine Dion requires 11 onstage bodyguards during her shows, presumably to shield her from music critics (21)
(Helsinki Notes) Sad Guitar belonging to R.E.M.'s Peter Buck stolen after concert in Finland. It's not the end of the world, though (28)

Mon September 15, 2008
(some Guy) Amusing Christian singer Ray Boltz shocks his fans by announcing that he is one-a-them-there "Homer Sexuals", to much wailing and gnashing of teeth (98)
(Idolator) Interesting Surprisingly, one of the first pop songs to employ a Moog synthesizer was "Daily Nightly" by The Monkees, Micky Dolenz seen here using the 3rd moog ever to come off the assembly line (46)
(Gigwise) Amusing Swedish publication angers Metallica, who cancel interview over a journalist's claim that a better version of their new album is available on BitTorrent (315)
(BBC) Sad Pink Floyd's Richard Wright has gone to that great gig in the sky (384)
(Now Magazine) Interesting Fatboy Slim says he can see dead people (16)
(Spike) Cool The Top 10 greatest driving albums (265)
(Contact Music) Stupid When you think about all the clowns that keep Britney Spears company, it seems only natural for her next album to be titled "Circus" (8)
(Contact Music) Obvious Former Nirvana manager says Courtney Love was a toxic presence among the band. For those of you playing along at home, it turns out that Yoko Ono was a disruptive presence among The Beatles (19)
(Now Magazine) Amusing The Jonas Brothers say the only bush they're familiar with is George W (46)
(Contact Music) Obvious Roger Daltrey to postpone plans for a Keith Moon biopicoontil he can find someone better than Uwe Boll and Michael Bay to write the screenplay (40)

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