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Sun July 12, 2009
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(YouTube) Cool Sunday Heavy Metal House Call summons the most appropriate band for the scorching heat: Burnt By The Sun - Forlani  (youtube.com) (16)
(Metal Injection) Sad Ozzy Osbourne dumps guitar player, looks for new one. Confused Zakk Wylde gets on Twitter: "This is news to me"  (metalinjection.net) (74)
(YouTube) Video Your Sunday heavy metal housecall brought to you by Arsis \m/  (youtube.com) (41)
(WBIG-FM) Amusing Elton John storms off stage after his piano screws up in concert in DC. Then Billy Joel rolls up his sleeves and dives under the piano to try and fix it - in front of 40,000 fans  (idigbig.com) (41)
(YouTube) Video On this day in 1970 the "Woodstock" concert album hit #1, and here's the two minutes of that weekend in '69 that rocked people's faces off more than anything else  (youtube.com) (100)

Sat July 11, 2009
(LA Times) Sad Artist Tom WIlkes dead at 69. You may not know his name, but you probably own a piece of his work  (latimes.com) (35)
(Contact Music) Cool Noel Gallagher promises that he will never release a solo album, even though he's written Oasis-unfriendly material. But he won't share them with other artists, as he eloquently states in the article  (contactmusic.com) (16)
(Contact Music) PSA If you're thinking of covering a song, Leonard Cohen would appreciate it if you'd leave "Hallelujah" alone. "The Final Countdown," on the other hand, is perfectly acceptable  (contactmusic.com) (65)
(Starpulse) Obvious Papa Roach & Nickelback announce "Twice the suck for one low price" tour  (starpulse.com) (65)

Fri July 10, 2009
(YouTube) Cool Ram Jam - Black Betty, 1975  (youtube.com) (66)
(Newsday) Amusing Robert Plant honored with Commander of the British Empire and promises not to boss around Jimmy Page who is only a member  (newsday.com) (137)
(The New Yorker) Video Rolling Stones, rock's original sellouts, performing unmemorable jingle for Rice Krispies TV commercial in 1963  (newyorker.com) (36)
(Contact Music) Interesting Fourteen arrested at an Oasis concert. No word if the band continued playing after 2/3 of their fans were forcibly removed  (contactmusic.com) (20)
(Contact Music) Obvious Kings of Leon's drummer says American listeners are only interested in "hip-hop or kiddy pop," which explains the popularity of the Jonas Brothers, Miley Cyrus, and Jay-Z. God help us if they ever unite  (contactmusic.com) (109)
(Some Guy) Amusing Site translates classic rap songs into English. "My anaconda don't want none unless you've got buns hon" becomes "My large penis isn't interested in a woman without large buttocks"  (slangcity.com) (23)
(YouTube) Cool I see your Jelly Roll Morton and raise you John Lee Hooker performing "Boogie Chillin'" with The Rolling Stones and Eric Clapton  (youtube.com) (9)
(YouTube) Video As a rebuttal to great guitarist argument, here is Submitter's choice for best acoustic guitarist in the world. And, yes, there's only one guitar on stage  (youtube.com) (95)
(Daily Mail) Stupid Having last recorded in '82, even Abba's Benny Andersson doesn't understand their popularity: "There might be a little quality in one or two of the songs... but I honestly don't get it"  (dailymail.co.uk) (21)
(Contact Music) Interesting Jay-Z close to signing a book deal. It's got 99 chapters, but a page ain't one  T-Shirt  (contactmusic.com) (13)
(Some Duke) Cool Genesis to release a digitally remastered box set of all their live albums, representing the Gabriel and Collins eras of the bands, giving fans something to enjoy and something to biatch about  (nme.com) (59)

Thu July 09, 2009
(Guardian.com) Silly Science historians unearth 1970s-era academic theses and monographs on discotheques and disco dancing, indicating that all known scientific problems at that time had been solved by jive-talkin'  (guardian.co.uk) (25)
(Examiner) Sad Limping on, Aerosmith continues postponement trend  (examiner.com) (26)
(102.7 WEBN Cincinnati OH) Sad Limp Bizkit's comeback show to be free Anyone? Anyone?  (webn.com) (64)
(YouTube) Cool Just a little bit of happy. Let's see if this gets greenlighted  (youtube.com) (51)
(Telegraph) Silly Top ten pseudonyms in pop music. King Douchenozzle von Crunk surprisingly absent  (blogs.telegraph.co.uk) (51)
(YouTube) Cool See your Cab Calloway and raise you a Jelly Roll Morton  (youtube.com) (11)
(Rolling Stone) Followup Chris Cornell Says Soundgarden Talking B Sides, Box Set Releases  (rollingstone.com) (44)
(Contact Music) Sad Britiains economy is apparently hitting SAS veterans pretty hard; some of them have taken positions as Noel Gallagher's security guards  (contactmusic.com) (5)
(YouTube) Cool Cab Calloway performs "Minnie The Moocher", a song about getting hi-de-hi-de-hi-de-hi  (youtube.com) (35)
(YouTube) Cool There have been quite a few "who plays a helluva guitar" comment battles here on Fark. The next one starts to the right while the proof is on the left  (youtube.com) (140)
(Metro) Followup Lady Gaga dresses as ninja. Last seen fighting pirates while singing "Can't see my, can't see my, Butterface. B-B-B-Butterface"  (metro.co.uk) (43)
(Some Loser) Cool Conversation between Beck and Tom Waits: "All I remember was my sax player making a fire out of chop sticks and holding his horn over the flame to warm it up before we went on. Everyone was dressed up in moon gear"  (beck.com) (49)
(Contact Music) Interesting Lita Ford refuses to get involved with upcoming Joan Jett biopic. At least someone gives a damn about their reputation  (contactmusic.com) (69)
(Rolling Stone) Cool Richard Hell re-records the Voidoids' second album and follow-up to Blank Generation: "At the time of the original recording I was so debilitated by despair and drug-need that I was useless"  (rollingstone.com) (22)
(YouTube) Cool One-man-band on Casio/drums/trumpet + hot chick on sax + Zappa = WIN  (youtube.com) (29)

Wed July 08, 2009
(Some Music Journalist) Interesting Rolling Stone journalist details the rise of Twitter critics, death of "professional" music critics  (blip.tv) (61)
(Some Guy) Spiffy "Nine Inch Nails announce intimate US shows." Intimate like an animal, I hope  T-Shirt  (nme.com) (61)
(LA Times) Sad George Fullerton, the musician who helped Leo Fender create his guitars, dies at the age of 86. I'm gonna pick up my Rock Band Fender Stratocaster and play you a song. Red blue, green, blue, orange. That was for you, buddy  T-Shirt  (latimes.com) (45)
(Time Out New York) Unlikely Jonas Brothers quit music (Only for a day but heck, we'll take it.)  (timeoutnewyork.com) (20)
(NME) Obvious Industry statistics show that Oasis receives more airplay than Blur and, therefore, is the better band  (nme.com) (40)
(3 News New Zealand) Amusing Gene Simmons says wearing high heels keeps him fit. Richard Simmons too, probably  (3news.co.nz) (16)
(3 News New Zealand) Interesting Black Eyed Peas being sued for plagiarism over hit song "Party All The Time". Eddie Murphy wanted for questioning  (3news.co.nz) (21)
(3 News New Zealand) Spiffy New Rock Band game to have 'I Want You Back' by the Jackson 5, 'Song 2' by Blur, and 'The Final Countdown' by Deep Sunshine  (3news.co.nz) (57)
(SFGate) Hero Geraldo Rivera calls out the "99 percent" of celebrities who showed up for Michael Jackson's funeral but wanted nothing to do with him while he was alive  (sfgate.com) (144)
(LA Times) Unlikely Vinyl sales to hit another high point in 2009. This is not a repeat of 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000 and 1999  (latimesblogs.latimes.com) (48)

Tue July 07, 2009
(102.7 WEBN Cincinnati OH) Amusing 50 Cent dedicates new mixtape to Jackson. About the cover art, "There's a real human skull that's got diamonds embedded in it." Right. You stay classy Fiddy  (webn.com) (35)
(CNN) PSA Official Michael Jackson funeral trainwreck rubbernecking thread. Link goes to CNN, whose main page should change names to MJNN from the looks of things  (cnn.com) (1633)
(Chicago Tribune) Amusing The history behind "Freebird," the lamest heckle in rock music: "I hate those people, but not the song. It was a great song, a transformative song. And they ruined it"  (chicagotribune.com) (169)

Mon July 06, 2009
(YouTube) Video It was today in 1971 that Louis Armstrong went to the great night club in the sky. Here's Satchmo beltin out "A Lot of Living To Do" live in 1965  (youtube.com) (30)
(YouTube) Video 36 years ago today Queen released debut single in the UK - Keep Yourself Alive  (youtube.com) (76)
(Contact Music) Stupid Madonna delays "Sticky & Sweet" show because she was afraid she'd get too sticky  (contactmusic.com) (20)
(Contact Music) Obvious Oasis frontman slams Bono and Chris Martin for being preachy douchebags. "...there is always a message about poor people or people dying from hunger. OK, but can't we just have a nice evening? Do we always have to feel guilty?"  (contactmusic.com) (39)
(Contact Music) Dumbass Kelly Osbourne calls Lady Gaga a butterface. Hey, you're no prize yourself there, honey  (contactmusic.com) (166)
(Contact Music) Followup Jarvis Cocker regrets jumping onstage during a 1996 Michael Jackson performance and shaking his ass at the "King of Pop"  (contactmusic.com) (33)
(Bloomberg) Obvious Little Steven: A lot of new rock is "second-rate"; many fans have no idea of pop's history and music executives never discuss the music itself  (bloomberg.com) (71)

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