If you can read this, either the style sheet didn't load or you have an older browser that doesn't support style sheets. Try clearing your browser cache and refreshing the page.
GoogleWeb Fark
These links may be stale and generate errors. Can't do much about it. Tastes like chicken.

(Headline T-Shirts are still available for archive links.)
Sun February 15, 2009
(Blabbermouth) Cool Q&A with Lamb Of God, discussing their upcoming album: "we don't want to write singles, we want to write songs that make us want to drive fast, headbang and punch things" (28)
(io9) Unlikely Blogger calles U2 Science Fiction's best band. Must not have heard of Yes, Rush, Coheed and Cambria, Monster Magnet, Muse, Radiohead, Tool, Powerman 5000, Daft Punk, etc (102)
(Contact Music) Sappy Spandau Ballet to reform for tour and new album. The Style Council, Godley & Creme, Eddie Brickell, Kajagoogoo, Honeymoon Suite and Modern English soon expected to record brand new insipid and annoying ballads (32)
(Guardian.com) Cool It's been 25 years since one of the worst hatchet jobs in music history. But the 'Tap is still standing, and has big plans (79)
(Now Magazine) Sad Britney Spears is "like a wound-up spring waiting to go off", is "taking medication to get through each day", and "frequently breaks down in tears". Here comes the head-shaving (24)
(YouTube) Video Sunday Heavy Metal Housecall shows us that bullet belts, white pants, and riffs are still cool. Megadeth - "Holy Wars... The Punishment Due" (39)
(Some Guy) Obvious After penning songs about kitties, peaches and lumps, singer of The Presidents of the United States of America releases album for kids under the age of 4. Obvious tag asplodes (24)
(YouTube) Cool Lest we forget just how great Chet Atkins was, here is a recording of him playing Yankee Doodle and Dixie on the guitar... at the same time (19)

Sat February 14, 2009
(YouTube) Video Beck plays "Clap Hands" on TV, while his band sits at the kitchen table, holding their spoons (33)
(Contact Music) Sad Prog band Yes cancel U.S. tour, realizing they are too old and unhealthy. Fans, subjected to the first tour without Jon Anderson, feel relieved and thankful (56)
(Contact Music) Sappy M.I.A. gives birth to baby boy, who immediately began speaking: "Galang, Galang, galang" (22)
(YouTube) Video Marvin Gaye with six minutes of "Let's Get It On" in all its live, sweaty goodness - if you'd paid attention to your dad and listened to this kind of thing more often you wouldn't be sleeping alone tonight (16)
(YouTube) Video I'm looking California and feeling Minnesota. Saturday Grungecall: "Outshined" from Soundgarden (34)
(YouTube) Video The married farker's Valentine's Day anthem: "She's No Lady (She's My Wife)" (16)
(YouTube) Video The Ramones + Lemmy - "R.A.M.O.N.E.S." live (28)
(Contact Music) Cool Alice In Chains join Motley Crüe to headline Rock On The Range in Ohio this May with Korn and Avenged Sevenfold. Infected and jaundiced Nikki Sixx trifecta complete (30)

Fri February 13, 2009
(Pitchfork) Cool Bjork to release deluxe edition "Voltaic" box set, comes with bonus DVD, a small cloud tied to a string, a pile of snow from the Himalayas, a whispered prayer dipped in vanilla and a pouch of baby elephant teeth painted purple (23)
(Dose.ca) Cool Nick Hornby doesn't just whine about music, he writes it, too. Ben Folds recording an entire album with the author this June (11)
(Blabbermouth) Sad Motley Crue sign three album and four tour contract, ensuring at least another decade of fading tattoos, herpes breakout and creepy-looking faces covered in guyliner (18)
(Spinner) Interesting Playboy unveils music issue with musicians such as Perry Farrell and Nikki Sixx designing shirts around the bunny logo. You'll buy this one "for the articles" (17)
(Blabbermouth) Cool If you're going to win all those Grammys, the next logical step is to go back in the studio: Alison Krauss and Robert Plant start recording follow-up to "Raising Sand" (46)
(Guardian.com) Obvious Japan's music moguls, charged with maintaining nation's production line of boy bands and pop idols, are exploitive, dishonest, and kind of creepy (29)
(Minneapolis Star Tribune) Followup Two of the victims in the Buffalo crash were members of Chuck Mangione's band, Meglomart's flag at half staff (25)
(UPI) Spiffy Hey neo-maxi-zoom-dweebies: break out your hypercolor shirts and acid-washed jeans ... Simple Minds set to release a new cd (28)
(UPI) Followup Michael Jackson's superbug infection may cause his nose to collapse. Good thing he has a drawer full of spares (34)
(Gizmodo) Cool This store goes to 11 (30)
(Cinematical) Misc Peter Gabriel backs out of Oscar ceremony after producers take sledgehammer to his "Wall-E" song (55)
(Ha-Ha Guy) Amusing Not News: Desperate radio station tries prank announcement that Jessica Simpson will be making a publicity appearance/performance downtown. Fark: Less than 50 people show up (17)

Thu February 12, 2009
(Contact Music) Sad Obvious: Your producer advises you not to collaborate with Amy Winehouse. Fark: You're Pete Doherty (12)
(CNN) Scary Nude photo of Madonna sells for $37,500--presumably to someone without internet access (80)
(Contact Music) Cool 30 Seconds to Mars completing their third album and considering pulling a Radiohead and giving it away for free. This is really good news for your little sister (48)
(Yahoo) Interesting David Letterman's Top 5 Musical Guests: Monday: U2. Tuesday: U2. Wednesday: U2. Thursday: U2. Friday: U2 (86)
(Pitchfork) Cool Sonic Youth reveal upcoming album title and cover art. Singer Kim Gordon also unveils clothing line, because when one thinks of Sonic Youth, Urban Outfitters comes immediately to mind (38)
(The Morning Call) Asinine If you had today as the day the first American Idol scandal would break, step up and collect your prize (49)
(Contact Music) Interesting Pearl Jam to wake the cranky carcass of Neil Young for a follow-up to their "Mirror Ball" collaboration from 1995, promise to make a "better record" this time (40)
(NME) Interesting Limp Bizkit "disgusted and bored with the state of heavy popular music" decides to look past their differences, reform for a world tour so they can save hard rock music. Or could be that they're doing it all for the nookie (80)
(Gigwise) Amusing Celebrate Darwin's 200th birthday with songs about evolution. Dylan: 'The Times They Are A-Changin' , Bowie: 'Changes', Pearl Jam: 'Do The Evolution' and, why not? Napalm Death: 'De-Evolution Ad Nauseum' (33)
(Contact Music) Sad Aretha Franklin puts her career "on hold for a while" so she can concentrate on pies. Lots and lots of pies (11)
(Rolling Stone) Cool Funk power approached maximum density last Tuesday, as Sly Stone and George Clinton wowed fans by teaming up for an impromptu jam. Later on, Clinton took Sly aboard the mothership to argue about who had the flashiest outfit (28)
(Contact Music) Stupid Drug dealer who sold Sid Vicious his last shot of dope says he feels "no guilt" in upcoming documentary: "If he hadn't got it from me, he would probably have got it from someplace else" (53)
(YouTube) Video A fairly cool song by Bob Welch, "Ebony Eyes - 1977", is quickly ruined when the video shows that anything over the neckline sucked in 1977 (24)
(The Sun) Strange This week's Michael Jackson illness: The Superbug, which is eating away his milky white skin. The Sun has the photos to prove it. Well, maybe (60)
(Google) Sad Molly Bee won't see Mommy kissing Santa Claus any more (7)

Wed February 11, 2009
(Rolling Stone) Scary The musical equivalent of dividing by zero is to happen in Utah, the vortex of suck most likely will split open and swallow us whole: Vanilla Ice and MC Hammer join forces for show (41)
(Contact Music) Interesting Valentine Day isn't looking good for Chris Brown; thousands of disgruntled Rihanna fans to stage protest, rip posters and destroy CDs in NY, if they can find someone who admittedly owns Chris Brown CDs (28)
(NYPost) Cool The Von Bondies are back with a tour and new album, now that their lead singer's face has finally healed up (8)
(Guardian.com) Cool Marvin Gaye sang "Anger can make you old ... Anger destroys your soul". That's all fine and good, but goes out the window the minute Black Flag, MC5 or Slayer starts playing really loud (19)
(Stuff) Scary Usher blames surgeon for almost killing his wife during liposuction operation, but clinic director says he's not taking the bad rap (15)
(Some Guy) Obvious Kenny Chesney tells Playboy magazine that he is definitely, without a doubt, 100% NOT gay, he's just the pink sheep of the family (19)
(Perez Hilton) Sad I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced to the news that Mandy Moore is engaged to Ryan Adams (67)
(Variety) Interesting Bruce Springsteen loses number one spot on the Billboard album chart, getting his ass kicked by some anonymous alternative band that had a song on "Grey's Anatomy" (12)
(Some Guy) Cool For his farewell episode, Conan O' Brien gets the best rock band available that aren't old farts yet: The White Stripes (66)
(Starpulse) Obvious Jessica Simpson claims to know "what works if you're curvy," plans to create new line of muumuus (43)
(Paste Magazine) Cool Serge Gainsbourg's "Melody Nelson" to get U.S. release. Question is, do Americans care about a dead, disgruntled chain-smoking French man who was the gutter equivalent of Frank Sinatra? (27)
(Gawker) Stupid Rapper M.I.A. attracting questions about her support for terrorist groups. A 5 foot pregnant woman with Bono glasses who gets checks from MTV is threatening us with... a tiger logo? (46)
(music-News) Cool The Buzzcocks perform their first two albums on free live broadcast tonight, proving that they're still orgasm addicts after all these years (26)
(music-News) Cool Hey England, remember when you sent us the Beckhams? Well, here's Courtney Love back to you. You can keep her (31)
(Gigwise) Cool Radiohead's Thom Yorke to write music for "Terminator: Salvation". Presumably by taking Danny Elfman's score and adding bleeds and noises to it (53)
(Wikipedia) Spiffy 46 years ago today, the Beatles walked into Abbey Road Studios at 10 in the morning. 10 hours later they'd made £22.50 each, and recorded Please Please Me. Not the song, the album (109)
(Variety) Interesting Scarier than watching aging Rolling Stones up close would be the New York Dolls. So unsurprisingly their next reunion was for a charity (17)

Tue February 10, 2009
(The Tennessean) Hero Toby Keith tries to put his foot in the ass of a fan (72)
(Onion AV Club) Interesting Black Lips covering Captain Beefheart? Yes. Disturbed covering Faith No More? Ok. How about Flaming Lips doing Madonna? uhm, ok. Adam Sandler doing Neil Young? WTF is this travesty? (with vid) (34)
(Contact Music) Interesting Good news: Kiss' Paul Stanley fathers another kid. Even better news: From his actual wife (11)
(Contact Music) Cool Death Cab For Cutie call for Auto-Tune ban, claiming that it's killing the art of singing by rendering everything soulless. Bob Dylan, Tom Waits and John Lydon: "Auto-what?" (144)
(Reuters) Cool Bob Marley's family to license the late Jamaican reggae legend's likeness, trademarks and themes on retail products ranging from apparel to video games. First up, the Wii bong (24)
(Blabbermouth) Cool Motorhead, Dragonforce, GWAR, Napalm Death, Lacuna Coil and Testament on one stage? That must be upcoming Wacken Open Air Festival, where no woman is to be seen in a 200-mile radius (57)
(London Times) Amusing Coldplay give interview. About how they never give interviews (20)
(Guardian.com) Sad Buena Vista Social Club's legendary string bassist Orlando Cachaito Lopez dead at 76 (19)
(Rolling Stone) Cool Green Day to release "21st century Breakdown" in May, which is said to be like "American Idiot," a rock opera spread across three acts: One for every chord they know (235)
(NY Magazine) Cool Columbia executive Rick Rubin wins producer of the year Grammy for records he's made for everybody except Columbia (23)
(Contact Music) Amusing Based on what they saw on "The Simpsons," Radiohead questions the importance of the Grammys (42)
(The Sun) Unlikely Paris Hilton to Paul McCartney: "I'd love to do a duet with you. I'm a singer, too and have had an album out." Paul: "How about no." (66)
(Contact Music) Cool The Who voted favourite to perform at next year's Super Bowl, followed closely by Pearl Jam and Guns N' Roses. Coldplay came last, right after Joaquin Phoenix, Ashlee Simpson and Vanilla Ice (62)
(MTV) Amusing Kanye West resents being called gay because of his wardrobe: "There's a lot of gay people who don't dress good at all. There's a lot of gay people that I dress way better than" (48)
(NME) Cool Slipknot, Prodigy and Motley Crue to headline Download 2009 festival. That's a lot of venereal diseases for one stage (18)
(LA Times) Followup Rihanna cooperating with police in assault investigation, ation, ation, ay ay ay ay ay ay (35)

Mon February 09, 2009
(Entertainment Weekly) Cool Good news, Hot Topic shoppers: Blink-182 reforms and possibly to go on tour with Green Day (132)
(MSN) Weird What classic songs would sound like if created by cold, soulless machines. Wait, how is this any different than now? (61)
(YouTube) Cool That's "Daft Punk's *Grammy-Winning* 'Harder, Faster, Better, Stronger'" to you. Live (90)
(YouTube) Video With all the mention of Anthrax and rap - Here's the holy grail. Anthrax/Public Enemy/Primus/Young Black Teenagers on Bring the Noise LIVE (33)
(YouTube) Strange Have you ever wondered if Motorhead had written Hanson's MMMBop for the ukulele? Yeah, me neither, but this guy did and filmed himself doing it and put it in the intartubes (12)
(Reuters) Obvious Coldplay* (72)
(YouTube) Video Diamanda Galás & John Paul Jones - Skótoseme (live 1994) (26)

Music Farkives:    Complete archives