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Sun January 18, 2009
(Daily Kos) Hero Pete Seeger agreed to sing "This Land is Your Land" today at Barack Obama's concert, but only if he could sing the original version (31)
(YouTube) Video Arguably T.Rex's best song before Marc Bolan's sports car went flying off a cliff: "Jeepster" (17)
(YouTube) Amusing Finland: Home of saunas, Santa Claus, and choirs of senior citizens singing heavy metal (17)
(YouTube) Obvious Jaco Pastorius. Greatest electric bassist evar. Nuh-uh line forms to the right (74)
(Some Album Lover) Spiffy From Pink Floyd to The Mars Volta, your band hasn't really made it until Hipgnosis does your album cover art. Some of them may surprise you (41)
(YouTube) Video Sunday Heavy Metal House Call thinks the Yiddish translation for this bands name must be Metal Gods. Meshuggah - "Bleed" (67)
(BBC) Amusing France surrenders wrong music award to Katy Perry (15)
(Some Boy) Fail Artwork for U2's new album released. Sea + Air = suck (38)
(Billboard) Cool Pet Shop Boys releases new album, former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr guests on several cuts. What have we done to deserve this?  T-Shirt (18)
(Geno's World) Cool Peter Gabriel and U2's The Edge to form old guy, bald supergroup (33)
(Some Guy) Spiffy How the Black Crowes request for marijuana on their rider has led to thousands of hungry people being fed. Pot, is there anything it can't do? (98)

Sat January 17, 2009
(FMQB) Interesting Metallica wants all their former members to be present for their induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Well, except for Dave Mustaine. And the dead guy, of course (84)
(FMQB) Spiffy Beyonce set to sing the "first dance" song for Barack and Michelle Obama. Let's hope it's "Crazy In Love" and not "Beautiful Liar"... although subby is secretly hoping for "Flaws And All" (53)
(Reuters) Cool Booker T and the DBTs -- with Neil Young thrown in (7)
(Contact Music) Sad Russian conductor Dudarova dead at 92, wasn't into that whole brevity thing  T-Shirt (9)
(Lancashire Evening Post) Amusing Watch this video footage of (probably) the funniest Freddie Mercury impersonator ever (19)
(YouTube) Dumbass DMX whines about having to wear pink jumpsuit in prison, claims "ya'll gon' make me act da FOOL" (22)
(YouTube) Cool Not news: the new Franz Ferdinand music video: "Ulysses". Fark: it's actually pretty cool (22)
(NME) Cool Bob Mould set to release new solo album. Finally, a Husker do something right (17)

Fri January 16, 2009
(MTV) Sad MTV's wish list for 2009: Linkin Park, Blink-182, No Doubt and Velvet Revolver: Can we have a sharp, pointy stick in the ear instead? (35)
(NME) Weird Queens Of The Stone Age's Josh Homme discusses taking peyote while producing upcoming Arctic Monkey album: "I didn't think it was weird, I just said the word 'Ham' 4,000 times" (31)
(Google) Followup Boy George sentenced to 15 months for gratuitous violence, senseless sax, superfluous harmonica (12)
(NME) Cool Legendary rock band Mott The Hoople to play 40th anniversary show in London, Despite its members looking more like a pair of old leather shoes than actual humans (24)
(Guardian.com) Sad Neil Young's new album is so awful even his most hardcore fans are urging music label not to release it. If only Rush had fans this dedicated (72)
(Rolling Stone) Spiffy Obama requests the presence of the Dead. Not Bobby and John, the other ones (31)
(Some Little 15) Cool Depeche Mode's "Sounds of the Universe" to be released April 20th (37)
(The Sun) Stupid Courtney Love: "Every time you buy a Nirvana record, part of that money is not going to Kurt's child, or to me, it's going to a handful of Jew loan officers, Jew private banks, its going to lawyers who are also bankers" (89)
(NYPost) Spiffy Whitney Houston plans to take another crack at live performing at Clive Davis' pre-Grammy party (8)
(Starpulse) Cool Phish announces tour and releases 7-DVD live box set documenting "The Clifford Ball" concert, the predecesssor to the Bonnaroo and Coachella concert. Box set is said to contain almost three whole songs (30)
(The Hollywood Reporter) Amusing BWAHAHAHAHA ... *sniff* Casey Affleck to film documentary on Joaquin Phoenix, actor-turned-rapper (44)
(YouTube) Spiffy A young and very hot Emmylou Harris covers "Pancho and Lefty" (54)
(Seattle Weekly) Amusing Not news: Middle-aged guy blogs about not being able to play "Rock Band". News: It's Krist Novoselic from Nirvana Fark: The song was Nirvana's "In Bloom" (88)
(YouTube) PSA Bela Fleck performing "Dueling Banjos" against an old Mac on an old Lonesome Pine PBS special. Tag is for the pitch that PBS won't be interrupting this video with (21)

Thu January 15, 2009
(Stuff) Spiffy Nas finally dumps his milkshake in Kelis' yard (32)
(Starpulse) Obvious Def Leppard & Poison to headline this year's "Monsters of Suck" tour (44)
(Daily Mail) Dumbass Bryan Ferry's son Otis freed after spending four months in jail for "nobbling witnesses" after judge decides he been nobbled enough (15)
(Rolling Stone) Interesting One of the best radio stations in the U.S refuses to play pattycake with The Man, moves to web-only format (101)
(Spinner) Weird Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler discusses his first sexual experience at age seven with twins and about the band's code of not accepting oral sex the last days on tour: "So you'd be sure to go home with a full cup of chowder" (31)
(Spinner) Strange Combining the suckfest of Oasis with Weezer on a world tour? OH, THE HUMANITY (38)
(Prefix) Stupid Pitchfork founder turns to ABC Evening News to talk about "5 albums to watch out for in 2009" on "New Music Monday." Segment to soon be re-titled: "Why On Earth Would Anyone Care What Men In Their 50s Listen To?" (53)
(Blabbermouth) Sad Queensryche are done recording guitar parts for new album, just needs to lay down the high-pitched vocals without someone breaking a hip (15)
(Daily Mail) Sad Boy George transformed into scruffy, bloated guy a day before his scheduled jail sentencing. It's almost like he's some kind of chameleon (33)
(YouTube) Video Because you need more Estonian platinum blonde goth baby doll singers, here's "Walking On Air" by Kerli (25)
(AZCentral) Asinine Tucson punk band looking forward to years of being pulled over for full-cavity body searches after using a photo of a dying local policeman on the cover of their new album, "Kill a Cop for God" (38)
(Boston Herald) Stupid Many artists are selling their records exclusively through Wal-Mart but it takes a special douchebag to do so while claiming to be pro-union and then refusing to answer any questions about it. Looking at you, Bruce Springsteen (49)

Wed January 14, 2009
(Gawker) Unlikely Quincy Jones apparently lobbying to become Obama's "Secretary of Culture." More likely he'll be needed for more important "Secretary of Has-Beens Who Trade On Past Glories" position (38)
(Starpulse) Obvious Stevie Nicks looking forward to Fleetwood Mac tour, buffets (25)
(Contact Music) Spiffy McCartney praises Ringo's balls (21)
(Daily Mail) Spiffy Baby Spice has lost her baby weight naturally, after breastfeeding the luckiest kid in the world (28)
(Paste Magazine) Cool 74-year-old Loretta Lynn, vying for Willie Nelson's spot as hardest workin' country singer, to release two albums in 2009, while rest of world urges her to contact Jack White again (10)
(Pitchfork) Interesting Sick of fans screaming "Summer of '69" during his gigs, Ryan Adams mercifully quits music, claiming loss of hearing and dignity. Dozens of prepubescent girls said to be devastated (83)
(The Sun) Dumbass Amy Winehouse is cut off by her vacation resort, is now stealing drinks from other guests. With awesome "Shh, I'm hunting cocktails" pic (55)
(Some Guy) Cool On his 41st birthday, here's Zakk Wylde getting down with his funky Stillborn self (73)
(FMQB) Spiffy If you've been impatiently waiting for the Neil Young boxed set or the promised new Crazy Horse album, we have some bad news for you. However, the reason why is actually quite good (15)
(Daily Mail) Strange The credit crunch: It's all David Bowie's fault. Wait... what? (42)

Tue January 13, 2009
(Contact Music) Interesting Cheap Trick, running out of songs that people recognize, plan a Sgt Pepper's tribute by performing the entire album backed by an orchestra. Never will "When I'm 64" be performed with such authenticity and earnestness (31)
(Contact Music) Cool Leonard Cohen, one of the only notable musicians to come out of Canada aside from Neil Young, Guess Who and Skinny Puppy, to tour the US for the first time in 16 years. And no, subby did not forget to include Barenaked Ladies (102)
(ABC Action News) Amusing Coming to a cruise ship near you: New Kids on the Block (21)
(Gigwise) Cool Sonic Youth hope to release an album in June, as soon as they find someone to tune their guitars for them (39)
(NME) Cool Pavement to possibly reform for Coachella 2009, also to write another song about Billy Corgan and revive the feud, just as if it was 1994 (41)
(Spinner) Dumbass If you want to make rock band Vampire Weekend really angry, just yell "PAUL SIMON" during one their shows (49)
(Starpulse) Interesting Five new bands you've never heard of, but should; so at all the music awards shows in 2010 you'll actually have heard of the bands that win the awards for a change (97)
(Gigwise) Unlikely Like The Byrds and Jimi Hendrix, My Chemical Romance are set to cover a Bob Dylan song and elevate it to new heights that even Dylan himself couldn't attain (28)
(Some Guy) Followup New Britney Spears song may be banned from radio play, and not just because it sucks. Bonus "think of the children" quote included (57)
(Some Guy) Interesting Peter Gabriel Shocks the Monkey, starts more Genesis reunion rumors (32)
(Some Guy) Cool Atlanta musician flying to LA to perform on Carson Daly show helps subdue crazy dude who claimed he had a bomb. Unfortunately, he'll still have to perform on Carson Daly show (4)
(LA Times) Interesting "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down","And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda," and "All Along the Watchtower": Songs about disaster. No, this is not a Nickelback album review (67)
(LA Times) Ironic Bizzy Bone of Bone-Thugs-n-Harmony beaten, mugged, robbed of his bling. By an anti-gang outreach worker. Ruthless (13)

Mon January 12, 2009
(MTV) Interesting Green Day, My Chemical Romance, Tokio Hotel and Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Biggest rock albums coming your way in 2009? Bunch of guys wearing waaaaay too much eyeliner (64)
(Futon Critic) Stupid Taylor Swift will guest star on an upcoming episode of CSI. Probably as someone who was dumped or cheated on by a boy (56)
(TMZ) Strange Step aside, Benjamin Button. Here's the (not so) curious case of Debbie Harry (47)
(Rolling Stone) Followup Iggy Pop remembers Ron Asheton: "Musicians were influenced by what Ron pioneered. The most obvious would be Sonic Youth... bands that use dissonance and overdrive. I hear a little bit in Smashing Pumpkins... also in Nirvana" (18)
(MSNBC) Obvious Amy Winehouse's husband wakes up, rubs eyes, looks at Amy, runs screaming to file for divorce (31)
(Contact Music) Stupid Blink-182 frontman says reunion is a "big if." Rest of world tries to give a "big f" about it, fails miserably (42)
(Washington Post) Cool Springsteen to headline free concert at Lincoln Memorial (14)
(Punk.bz) Strange Kanye West admits he wants fewer fans, wants to be like like Björk (39)
(Guardian.com) Unlikely The source of recent economic instability has finally been located: it's all Beyonce's fault (66)
(Blabbermouth) Fail Alice in Chains usher in phase 2 of their career, start fresh with a guy with a huge afro. Layne Stayley to roll over in his grave (47)
(Daily Motion) Video Yeah, you've heard "Bennie and the Jets" a million times - but never on "Soul Train" (18)
(YouTube) Cool Happy 42nd birthday to everyone's favorite Zombie (31)
(Contact Music) Sick Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne used to dump cigarette ashes into people's coleslaw. If you think that's bad, you should see what he did to the taaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAngerines (60)

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