| Source | Fark Headline | Comments | |
| Jim Carroll has completed his diary (artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com) | (49) | ||
| Nine Inch Nails are finally getting stored back in the toolshed (starpulse.com) | (42) | ||
| Why we are being subjected to a wave of Beatles reissues now. Three words: sound recording copyright (huffingtonpost.com) | (67) | ||
| The 50 worst albums of the 2000s. Well, the list starts with Oasis and includes Nickelback, so we can clearly get behind this (gigwise.com) | (125) | ||
| Coldplay says they are "really nervous" about returning to Britain for series of concerts because they still "really suck" (news.bbc.co.uk) | (21) | ||
| Today is the one year anniversary of the Sunday Heavy Metal House Call so let's join Slayer for a trip "South of Heaven" to celebrate (youtube.com) | (33) | ||
| Mel Torme would've been 84 today, but somehow after all that velvet fog and all those Night Court episodes, subby had no idea until today that he also kicked ass on the drums. (And whatever happened to Harry Anderson, anyway?) (youtube.com) | (43) | ||
| (Some Guy) | "Many flinch away from Kid Rock's populist appeal, his attraction more primal than anything else. For women, he represents the guy who makes them lose all their inhibitions" (earvolution.com) | (38) | |
| Best Russian "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" cover with accordion, balalaika and female backing vocals you'll see today (youtube.com) | (35) | ||
| Mick Jagger is just as much of a hellraiser at 66 as he was at 26. Unfortunately, he's not the same songwriter or singer today as he was then either (contactmusic.com) | (29) | ||
| Damn...just plain damn. That is all (youtube.com) | (65) | ||
| A review of the new cover album from Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs. Yes, it's good, but what else would expect from these two? (huffingtonpost.com) | (25) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Sir Paul McCartney: "the Beatles went crazy on drugs" (digitalspy.com) | (75) |
| (Some 24-Hour Party Person) | Holy crap, Happy Mondays are back on tour. Double crap, they're touring with Psychedelic Furs (nme.com) | (26) | |
| In her desperate search for relevancy, Courtney Love is suing Guitar Hero creators for their depiction of Kurt Cobain. Bonus: "...i am NOT yoko [expletive] Ono no ofense to her, but i am a different person entirely and this is insane." (videogames.yahoo.com) | (50) | ||
| Due to spine injury, Phil Collins will never play the drums again. If this wasn't bad enough news, he added: "Don't worry, I can still sing" (dailymail.co.uk) | (103) | ||
| Graphical representation of Beethoven's 5th Symphony (youtube.com) | (57) | ||
| Steve Vai to be handed honorary doctor's degree in excessive guitar wanking from America's Musician Institute (contactmusic.com) | (45) | ||
| Daft Punk to bring beats, disguises and set designs to upcoming DJ Hero, for people who thought Guitar Hero required honing too many skills |
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| (NME) | Radiohead to UK government planning to cut off internet access to file sharers: "We'll give you a war you won't believe" (nme.com) | (30) | |
| Spandau Ballet's Gary Kemp says that Simon Cowell is ruining the music industry with American Idol and The X-Factor. Kemp then stopped his rant and asked if the table wanted to start with an appetizer |
(26) | ||
| (Some Canuck with health care) | They gave Bruce Cockburn a rocket launcher (albertalocalnews.com) | (20) |
| The duo you never thought you'd see: Barry Manilow and Michael Stipe (contactmusic.com) | (35) | ||
| (Megadeth) | New Megadeth album. Stream it for free on their MySpace page (myspace.com) | (47) | |
| (NME) | Reading Festival blames fan for not appreciating Kings of Leon's performance: "musically, it was flawless" (nme.com) | (30) | |
| (Pitchfork) | Billy Corgan launches spiritual website, is willing to look at your submission: "Mind-Body-Soul integration is the primary focus" (pitchfork.com) | (29) | |
| "The Beatles are the absolute curse of modern indie music, anyone who says they are influenced by The Beatles, alarm bells start to go off; it means they are going to be completely ordinary" (news.bbc.co.uk) | (80) | ||
| (Chronicle of Higher Education) | The hottest act on the college circuit this fall: David Cassidy (chronicle.com) | (11) | |
| (metromix.com) | Fourteen games that would totally rock... From the Stones to the Ramones, music acts that deserve their own 'The Beatles: Rock Band' treatment (stlouis.metromix.com) | (162) | |
| Dave Brubeck takes 5 in Seattle (seattletimes.nwsource.com) | (13) | ||
| Ticketmaster: Here's your tickets to the Teen Idols show. No, not those Teen Idols, the other ones, the old ones (startribune.com) | (11) | ||
| Yoko Ono isn't quite done ruining the Beatles (news.com.au) | (102) | ||
| (Blabbermouth) | Rush guitarist discusses his appearance in the aptly titled "Suck" (roadrunnerrecords.com) | (30) |
| (invisibleOranges) | KISS might have lots of useless merchandise, but what about Slayer? I mean, a handbag, really? (invisibleoranges.com) | (45) | |
| (Blabbermouth) | Metal band Dokken featured in software commercials as computer viruses wanting to blow up chickens (with vids) (roadrunnerrecords.com) | (35) | |
| (Some Guy) | Hey Sonic Youth: There are few things less rock 'n' roll than breaking your wrist playing tennis (slicingupeyeballs.com) | (30) | |
| Pete Doherty celebrated 30th birthday by drinking bottle of vodak and attempting to throw himself off hotel roof (celebitchy.com) | (26) | ||
| Lil' Wayne. Big Gross (reuters.com) | (45) | ||
| Former Korn guitarist turned Born Again Christian receives message from God to save rapper 50 Cent (contactmusic.com) | (28) | ||
| Birds sitting on electrical wires look like musical notes, inspire a beautiful song (myfoxdc.com) | (120) | ||
| Members of Papa Roach, P.O.D. and Chevelle to form new supergroup. If by "super" they mean "God-awful irrelevant mediocrity of epic proportions," then yes (contactmusic.com) | (47) | ||
| 46 essential rock reads: Lester Bangs, Henry Rollins, Legs McNeil, Michael Azerrad, Jon Savage, Chuck Klosterman, Nick Hornsby and Madonna. Wait, what? (latimesblogs.latimes.com) | (61) |
| Ways that bands completely screw up songs. Don't worry, the Ridiculously Long Intro makes it in at #7 (spike.com) | (85) | ||
| (Spinner) | Neil Diamond can't wait to see Limp Bizkit and Jonas Brothers in concert (spinner.ca) | (11) | |
| Bat For Lashes singer: "I'm getting f---ing tired of people saying that I sound like Tori Amos (contactmusic.com) | (58) | ||
| Chris Brown to perform at Michael Jackson tribute concert. Presumably the organizers wanted someone who'd help us remember a popular singer with a badly misshapen face |
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| "More than any other group, their sound can be described as 'Beatlesque'" (avclub.com) | (113) | ||
| Bee Gees to reunite ... well at least the ones stayin' alive (upi.com) | (26) |
| "High Fidelity" author doesn't miss vinyls or CDs: "The internet is one giant independent record shop... staffed by enthusiastic and likable young men and women who absolutely don't want to rip the artists off" (guardian.co.uk) | (70) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Still on the hunt for filthy lucre, John Lydon reactivates Public Image Ltd. for UK reunion tour (slicingupeyeballs.com) | (23) | |
| Giving away used cars to people so they can keep their jobs? That's Ludacris (accessatlanta.com) | (46) | ||
| Arctic Monkeys' tour bus struck by lightning; no one was injured. Better luck next time, God (contactmusic.com) | (16) | ||
| Warren Zevon died four years ago today. If he were buried, I'm sure an excitable boy would have made a cage with his bones (youtube.com) | (35) | ||
| (Some Rowdy Liberal) | Hank Williams Jr.: "If it wasn't for the Electoral College, Obama wouldn't be president." That and 10.5 million more votes (wvgazette.com) | (301) | |
| John Lydon upset Oasis has no future, no future, no future (3news.co.nz) | (17) |