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Sun December 07, 2008
(Guardian.com) Spiffy Epic, indeed: Faith No More possibly reforming for tour (25)
(AP) Asinine Nanny State blocks internet user's access to Scorpions Wikipedia page because it included a picture of one of their album covers (26)
(Daily Bulletin) Amusing Reporter investigates story with international implications; was Tom Waits really born in a taxicab 59 years ago today? (3)
(Billboard) Cool Black Eyed Peas' will.i.am working with U2, presumably on U2's new album. "I'm not supposed to talk about that" (8)
(YouTube) Video Scream for me Sunday Heavy Metal House Call - Iron Maiden "Powerslave" from Long Beach Arena, 1985 (18)
(News Of The World) Obvious Amy Winehouse's husband demands £1 million or he'll write a tell-all book, which would be a real blow to her stellar reputation (18)
(YouTube) Cool Tom Waits turns 59 today, here he is on Fernwood 2 Nite with 'The Piano Has Been Drinking' (27)

Sat December 06, 2008
(YouTube) Amusing Ed Sullivan at his hippest: "Now, for all you teenagers, the long haired Steppenwolf rock and rollers" "You're a most exciting combo" (13)
(YouTube) Video The Jesus Lizard performs "Bloody Mary" live. Surprisingly, no one gets hurt (12)
(YouTube) Video Jaco Pastorius (with Weather Report) - Portrait Of Tracy (30)
(Some Guy) Interesting Seven lost albums that should never be found; was eight until Chinese Democracy came out (40)
(YouTube) Video The Rolling Stones first toured America in '64 to half-empty auditoriums and mixed results. But they did record this first TV appearance on "Hollywood Palace," introduced by a tipsy Dean Martin with lots of hippy jokes (15)
(People Magazine) Strange Shania Twain on the town with ex-husband of her former best friend who is alleged to have been the "other woman" that broke up her marriage to Robert "Mutt" Lange. What do you know, maybe she really IS a country star now (21)
(Rolling Stone) Asinine Neil Young delays Archives Vol. 1 until "March or April" of 2009 because of additional "technical issues". In other news, Axl Rose seen giggling maniacally in corner (22)

Fri December 05, 2008
(AP) Obvious Warrant issued for DMX's arrest after he failed to show up to court. This is not a repeat from last month (10)
(Some Guy) Obvious Fifty years of popular songs condensed into single sentences. Who can forget the number one hit, "I want to do it with you". Or that Motown classic, "I want to do it with you" (14)
(SlyOyster) Video Vintage footage of Bob Dylan and John Lennon talking drunk gibberish in the back of a cab. Dylan, at the 2:34 mark: "I wish I could talk English, man." Lennon: "Me too, Bobby" (18)
(Billboard) Sad Tom Morello says not to hold our breath for another Rage Against The Machine album. Dozens of dreadlocked neo-hippies clutch tear-stained Che Guevara shirts in despair, planning misguided marches in protest (26)
(Spike) Amusing Top 10 road rage songs. War's "why can't we be friends" amazingly not listed (84)
(UPI) Followup Boy George guilty of false imprisonment, bad music (28)
(AccessAtlanta) Amusing 10 worst Christmas albums ever. You betcha the no talent assclown makes the list (121)
(Reuters) Interesting Guitarist suing Coldplay for plagiarism. Authorities baffled as to why he'd want credit (86)
(3 News New Zealand) Stupid Pete Doherty to join the Who, significantly increasing the chances of another member dying before they get old (13)

Thu December 04, 2008
(People Magazine) Misc Jonas Brothers, Katy Perry shocked, SHOCKED by Grammy nominations. Me too, since I thought you had to actually be talented to get one (45)
(Rolling Stone) Stupid Busta Rhymes angering the Arab community and gets DJ suspended for sampling the Qur'an in his new track "Arab Money." Calls in Diddy, Lil Wayne, Akon and T-Pain to help him with the "72 Virgins, Yo" remix (26)
(MTV) Amusing Soulja Boy says he doesn't expect to write a song as brilliant as "Crank That" ever again (55)
(UPI) Obvious Kid Rock named as this year's Grand Marshal of Mardi Gras Parade. Obvious tag chokes out Asinine tag with handful of foobie beads (29)
(Gigwise) Cool AC/DC's Bon Scott's life to be turned into a movie. Still in the writing process, it is to be titled either "Highway to Hell" or "Damnit, Shouldn't Have Had That Last One" (25)
(NME) Cool Sonic Youth to temporarily add a real musician to their band, Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones to join the band for live collaboration (32)
(NPR) Cool Wu-tang movie is in the house motherfarker (17)
(Gothamist) Sad Adding to their recent catalogue of worthless albums, Phish is back in the studio (48)
(LA Times) Stupid You know how I know you're gay? You gave Coldplay seven Grammy nominations. Oh, and you're also retarded because Lil Wayne got eight (117)
(YouTube) Hero 15 years ago, Frank Zappa shuffled off this mortal coil. So begins this year's Zappadan season. "Montana" ~ Live at the Roxy '73 (92)
(Some Cat on a Fence) Amusing Music producer talks about famous musicians in the recording studio. "I remember busting (Neil Young) for singing out of tune, and he shot back, 'Hey, man That's my sound'" (38)
(Cracked) Amusing The 25 worst rapper names of all time (129)
(Telegraph) Weird Students to study Amy Winehouse. Surprisingly enough, not medical students (11)
(9 News) Interesting Madonna postpones concert in Argentina. Now if only there was some famous Madonna production associated with Argentina to make a clever and snarky remark about (23)

Wed December 03, 2008
(Yahoo) Fail Ex-Thin Lizzy guitarist Gary Moore loses plagiarism case for lifting the main theme of Lionel Richie's 1984 song "Hello" for the solo of his 1990 song "Still Got the Blues". Achtung (17)
(Billboard) Cool Fleetwood Mac to go on tour in 2009. No word if Stevie Nicks will re-hire her "special" roadie who will help her administer cocaine just the way she likes it (38)
(Contact Music) Interesting Glasgow music fest kicks off this week with Human League, Heaven 17 and ABC. Rick Astley, Erasure, Talk Talk, BlancMange, The Vapors and Glass Tiger are feeling terribly left out and wish they could perform their one good song too (71)
(Idolator) Audio Way back there was David Lee Roth's vocal-only take of "Runnin' with the Devil." Some kind soul now brings us Dave's take for "Hot For Teacher." Look out for the perfect "WAUUUUUUUU" (41)
(Gigwise) Obvious Oasis' Noel Gallagher claims to have no recollection of anything between 94-98. Subby would like to refresh his memory with a pile of shoddy albums (31)
(YouTube) Spiffy This Mortal Coil - 'Song to the Siren'. Just in case you needed the chills tonight (48)

Tue December 02, 2008
(Independent) Stupid Say goodbye to live music, London (26)
(Starpulse) Strange The suck power of Ne-Yo to be catapulted to the stratosphere as he gets ready to collaborate with Marilyn Manson. Up next, Soulja Boy to record beats for Dragonforce (19)
(Contact Music) Cool The Specials are reuniting for 30th anniversary. You know that ska band that had that song... nope, that was Madness.. Erm, no that was The Selecter and not that song either, that was English Beat. That band with the black and white checks? Them (51)
(Contact Music) Dumbass Judge rules that Kid Rock will have to do actual community work, and not go on a trip to Iraq and play a few gigs for free. Kid Rock is pissed and indignant, troops relieved (19)
(Pitchfork) Interesting Morrisey trades his machine-gun for a baby for the cover of his new album. WTF is that thing on his arm? (21)
(News.com.au) Unlikely Axl Rose trying to bring back the original Guns 'N Roses line-up, turn water to wine (44)
(3 News New Zealand) Cool Kanye West uncut and uncensored: He loved this press conference so much he put it on his blog (31)
(Gigwise) Cool Green Day are in the studio with Butch Vig and "Pushing the power-pop boundaries" for new album, which means some songs will now have up to four chords and three different verses (41)
(Daily Mail) Amusing Britney is "not allowed to drive her car or choose her own meals, cannot leave her home without permission, has all her telephone calls monitored and is watched over day and night by guards" (26)
(The Sun) Interesting Wonder what Bryan Adams has been up to besides being stalked? Well he has taken nude pics of Kimberly Stewart, Leah Wood and Peaches Geldof for an actual magazine and not in a motel room [w/slightly unsafe entwined naked bodies pic] (34)
(Starpulse) Obvious Axl Rose blamed for poor sales of "Chinese Democracy": "You would have thought after spending 15 years on an album you might do a few weeks promotion" (30)
(Contact Music) Obvious 50 Cent hit by financial crisis, will rename himself "2 Bit" (14)
(3 News New Zealand) Fail Apparently, Chinese Democracy not so eagerly-awaited after all (59)
(WOAI) Interesting Duran Duran cancels cancels shows shows due due to to sick sick keyboardist keyboardist (37)
(Idolator) Fail Creed, the only band to have been sued by their own fans for sucking so bad live, are hammering out reunion details, with drunken wife abuser Scott Stapp back in the fold (53)
(Contact Music) Stupid The Clash's Mick Jones joins the son of Sex Pistols' ex-manager Malcolm McLaren, in a band called Dirty Stop Out. It is expected to be managed poorly and self-implode right after the first album (12)

Mon December 01, 2008
(The Smoking Gun) Obvious In a shocking turn of events, the backstage rider for Van Halen's 2008 tour stipulated that Dave's dressing room be as far away from Eddie's as possible. This must be just like livin' in paradise (32)
(YouTube) Followup I'll see your Tiny Tim's duet with himself.... And raise you his career defining track: Santa Claus Has Got The AIDS. YARLY (15)
(Geno's World) Fail Steve Perry responds to Journey's smash CD by releasing new CD with "Oh Sherrie", "Foolish Heart" and other old, tired tracks (34)
(Entertainment Weekly) Unlikely Paris Hilton finishes writing, recording second album, claims it's similar to Kylie Minogue. Which is like comparing Oasis to U2 (73)
(Starpulse) Spiffy Turbonegro guitarist Knut Schreiner beats cancer. It was lymphoma though, not knut cancer. Still no cure for crappy band names (38)
(Daily Mail) Obvious Fans are shocked, SHOCKED that Britney Spears lipsynched at the X Factor (64)

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