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Sun December 21, 2008
(Starpulse) Followup Amy Winehouse released from hospital again. No this is not a repeat. Of a repeat. Of a repeat. Of a repeat. Of a repeat (6)
(YouTube) Cool Hillary Jones makes it look easy (7)
(Onion AV Club) Amusing The best, lamest and strangest band names of 2008: Flock Of Steven Seagals, Kathleen Turner Overdrive, E=MC Hammer and Sobriety Starts Tomorrow earn points for creativity (71)
(Gigwise) Cool Scottish parliament to AC/DC: We salute you (11)
(Guardian.com) Spiffy Mark Ronson's 99 favorite bands/musicians. Subby doesn't care about 75% of them but just glad it's not another slideshow (23)
(YouTube) Video Sunday Heavy Metal House Call gives you Metal's absolute worst video, from one of its absolute best bands. Queensryche - Queen of the Reich (53)
(YouTube) Followup Frank Zappa born 68 years ago this day. Thus ends this 2008 Zappadan season. Link goes to one young Stevie Vai getting spanked by his master (37)
(Daily Mail) Scary Simon Cowell "earns" $370K a day thanks to owning rights to three different chart-topping versions of Cohen's "Hallelujah" -- the original, Jeff Buckley's cover, and some British pop tart's all-new cover (32)
(News Of The World) Scary The Western World has finally unleashed the ultimate weapon against the terrorists: Amy Winehouse topless. God help us all. (Not safe for work gallery in link) (76)
(Starpulse) Sad New website allows you to record a duet with Elvis Presley so that the rotting corpse of the King of rock n' Roll can be desecrated in perpetuity. Peanut butter farts and unintentional giggles optional (12)

Sat December 20, 2008
(YouTube) Cool "Cliffs of Dover" on electric violin (48)
(Washington Post) Followup About that wonderful news from the RIAA? Oh, they're just going to cut off your Internet instead (40)
(Some Guy) Interesting Belle and Sebastian looking for stuffy, pretentious photographers for a limited edition of their stuffy, pretentious album cover. Applicants must submit pictures of children looking morose and dejected, preferably in black & white (31)
(GuitarWorld) Cool Keith Richards picks his 10 favorite Rolling Stones riffs and discuss them. In related news, Keith still remembers recording 10 songs (17)
(Starpulse) Obvious Guns N' Roses ex-drummer Steven Adler ordered by court to follow a real rehab program, and not the "Celebrity Rehab" farce that he just graduated from (5)
(Defamer) Weird Christina Aguilera celebrates 28th birthday with tribute to ultra-violent gang rapists (18)
(Luxist) Spiffy Rare six-minute recording of John Lennon drunk and high to be sold. And this differs from all the other recordings how? (37)
(crazydays&nights) Unlikely Courtney Love stops taking her meds so she can make a better album: "I'm off antidepressants for the moment because my album producer wants me to feel the rage" (21)

Fri December 19, 2008
(London Times) Obvious Britain celebtrates golden age of prog rock: "a procession of big hair and improbable keyboard solos" (29)
(Stuff) Amusing Kings of Leon say touring with their preacher father taught them all about how to have guiltless sex with the groupies. It's good to be the Kings of Leon (25)
(Spike) Cool 20 most outrageous heavy metal album covers. Smell the glove (80)
(The Phoenix) Cool Petition to have Bad Brains play at Obama's innauguration gets 300 million signatures (31)
(Now Magazine) Silly We haven't heard much about Whitney Houston's family problems lately... What's that? Her stepmother is suing her for a million bucks? *BANG*, there you go (6)
(The Sun) Followup Status Quo frontman weights in on the warning against head-banging and the nanny state turning the music scene into a safe and boring place. And that ain't rock n' roll (5)
(Gigwise) Amusing Slipknot frontman shares his opinion of Coldplay: "That is one of the most self-celebratory pieces of ---- I've ever f--king heard in my entire f--king life" (76)
(Rolling Stone) Cool Iggy Pop, Alice Cooper, Moby and Henry Rollins to star in Vampire film "Suck." Moby:" I'm making a specialty of playing douche bags, I could spend the rest of my career perfecting the douche bag" (42)
(Wall Street Journal) Unlikely Merry Christmas from the RIAA. No, really (128)
(Idolator) Cool While music fans swear by Pet Sounds-era Brian Wilson, little known fact is brother Dennis Wilson had a solo album, 1977's "Pacific Ocean Blue." A more stripped-down, soulful album which just got a deluxe re-issue. Surf's up (13)
(Reuters) Amusing Metallica, apparently bored with death metal, coffin shaped rigs and music that 'goes to eleven', sets fire to stage (30)
(Contact Music) Asinine Queen's Brian May didn't know Freddie Mercury was gay for years, despite the tight white shorts, the moustache, the leather and the fact that he would say "I'm as gay as a daffodil" during interviews (40)
(London Times) Sad Song of the day: 'Hoochie Coochie Man", played by Stephen Segal. Even the reviewer admits, "this is the sound of a classic song being murdered but I can't stop listening to it" (22)

Thu December 18, 2008
(Starpulse) Cool U2's new album "No Line On The Horizon" to be released March 3rd. Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois are producing, but it's unclear which one will be appointed the task of not making every riff sound similar (48)
(Starpulse) Interesting Janet Jackson is back on the market. For all the interested farkers, Keep in mind: Those ninja stars are SHARP (11)
(Some Guy) Amusing Jingle Ballin': A History of Hip Hop Christmas Songs. Featuring the smash hit "All I Want For Christmas Is To Get Crunk." (22)
(Starpulse) Unlikely David Coverdale is urging Jimmy Page to use guest vocalists for a "Led Zeppelin" reunion tour. You know, instead of just urging Robert Plant to go back (45)
(Slate) Spiffy In news guaranteed to provoke a debate, provided that you think it's still 1962, the top 10 jazz albums of the year (46)
(Yahoo) Sad Cops say Country singer Mindy McReady attempted suicide yesterday. Apparently she sobered up enough in rehab to realize she'd voluntarily slept with Roger Clemens (17)
(Some Bizarre Woman) Interesting Björk finances BJÖRK, an Icelandic venture capital fund which will promote innovation, presumably in the waterfowl evening gown industry (28)
(Contact Music) Interesting No Doubt doubt that there will be a new No Doubt album before 2010. It's possible, but doubtful (13)
(Metro) Cool UK band The Ting-Tings surprised by their success around the world, except in Slovakia, and the fact that their band name means "small penises" in Japanese (15)
(YouTube) Video Apparently the divorce settlements have cleaned Phil Collins out so completely that there's no money left to help his son Simon make a decent video (38)
(Some Guy) Obvious Ten worst rap "songs" of 2008. Bonus: Not a slideshow (100)
(News.com.au) Interesting Researcher says it's okay to headbang in time to heavy metal, but just wear a neck brace. Metal health will drive you mad (17)
(SacBee) Stupid Papa Roach drummer sues Papa Roach, requesting immediate dissolution of the band, claiming that they shouldn't be on the road sucking without him (29)

Wed December 17, 2008
(Billboard) Sad Hootie confirms that Hootie And The Blowfish have not broken up. This is very good news for people who like incredibly crappy music (76)
(NYMag) Interesting He did great for Slayer and the Beastie Boys, but now that Johnny Cash is dead Columbia records is dumping expensive hippie producer Rick Rubin (36)
(Rolling Stone) Cool Joan Jett discusses Pete Townshend putting up the money for her first record, most of her hits including "I Love Rock N Roll" being covers and her days with The Runaways (37)
(NME) Interesting Members of Yes, Grand Funk, Guns N Rose, Stray Cats and Kiss to line-up in "Rock N' Roll Fantasy Camp," so young musicians can learn what it's like to record a meaningless track with rock stars past their prime (23)
(Contact Music) Sad Blue Oyster Cult might not fear The Reaper, but if one of them falls down a flight of stairs, the whole tour is cancelled (35)
(Starpulse) Spiffy Chris Cornell gets his guitar collection back from his ex-wife. Will begin making more crappy solo albums immediately (76)
(Sports by Brooks) Cool David Hasselhoff to sing national anthem at Las Vegas Bowl (36)
(Mojo In The Morning) Interesting NIN break-up (117)
(YouTube) Video One of the hot blondes from Bananarama has a birthday. The taller one, maybe. Used to be hot, anyway. Probably gone full cougar by now. Shiat, who knows - here's "Robert De Niro's Waiting" (20)
(Contact Music) Sad Anthony Kiedis's scar tissues battling kidney disease, Red Hot Chili Pepper added to list of blood sugar sex magic donors (74)
(AP) Interesting Rapper sued for a lil copyright infringement (20)
(Awards Daily) Interesting Here is the 49-member shortlist for the Academy Awards' Best Original Song category of 2008 (14)
(Mirror.co.uk) Cool "Hallelujah" indeed. Ten different versions of the Cohen classic - including the best one (89)

Tue December 16, 2008
(YouTube) Strange Swedish Lettuce Band (9)
(Paste Magazine) Interesting Arcade Fire DVD now available for download. You know, that band like Radiohead but from Montreal who sings about being depressed and trapped in snow? Them (49)
(Entertainment Weekly) Amusing Axl Rose trolls a GNR forum, gets in a flame war with fans (51)
(Spin) Cool Sex Pistols to possibly record new album in 2009. This is exciting news for Green Day, Fall Out Boy and Sum 41 fans (18)
(Contact Music) Cool Portishead discussing making 4th album, actual recordings expected anytime around 2017 (41)
(Starpulse) Interesting Snoop Dogg puts his "garden" shed for sale. Never mind the earthy smell of burning rope, it's in good condition (5)
(ABC Action News) Interesting That singer with huge tits is getting married (46)
(Yahoo) Interesting Real names of musicians revealed. Surprisingly, Buckethead is not a real name (53)
(YouTube) Cool The Vaughan brothers (Jimmie and Stevie Ray) show how to properly play a double necked guitar (35)
(NPR) Cool NPR listeners pick top 25 albums of the year, you haven't heard of most of them (201)

Mon December 15, 2008
(Some Guy) Interesting Rapper Doug E. Fresh's three homes are being foreclosed on. The smallest beat-boxing violin in the world plays for him (14)
(Contact Music) Obvious Shocking news story of the day: Slash and Duff McKagan are NOT rejoining Guns N' Roses (18)
(Guardian.com) Fail Axl Rose says "Chinese Democracy" is not completed and is destined to be a double album. Follow-up expected when your grandkids are old enough to play it for you (38)
(Contact Music) Stupid Paul McCartney gives the Dalai Lama a lecture about eating meat for health reasons. So he's got that goin' for him (52)
(NME) Obvious Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne doesn't like Arctic Monkeys or Oasis but prefers Radiohead, who are much more deserving of a Grammy. Turns around and puts more keyboards on a song that fans will find ultimately disappointing (35)
(Metacafe) Cool In the greatest drum battle in the history of percussion, it's clear who the winner was. Buddy Rich vs. Animal (47)
(NME) Cool After making us chuckle for years with his music, The Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas to appear on a comedy album, along with Andy Samberg and other SNL writers (26)
(Gigwise) Cool Depeche Mode's keyboards have completed work on a new studio album, to consider asking band members to add vocals to the new tracks (28)
(Some Guy) Amusing Keith Richards and other rockers who have aged terribly (79)
(YouTube) Cool From the criminally overlooked bands of the 90s department comes Hum with "The Pod", 1994 (41)
(News.com.au) Dumbass Rap group plays number about "cranky old man" at a concert. Cranky old man doesn't like it, opens fire, wounds five. That's pretty damn cranky (28)
(YouTube) Spiffy The Who invite Noel Gallagher onstage for nine minutes of classic rock 'n roll. Pete Townsend: "and thank god he didn't bring his brother" (26)
(Some Guy) Sad 100 worst guitar solos of all time (95)
(USA Today) Spiffy Awesome Metallica news to the left, disgruntled fans and Armanitallica pictures to the right (37)

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