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Sun November 15, 2009
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(YouTube) Spiffy 20 years ago Malcolm McLaren, Bootsy Collins, and Jeff Beck gave Johann Strauss a facelift. As if that wasn't weird enough, somebody made a video out of it  (youtube.com) (17)
(YouTube) Video SHMHC: 3 Inches of Blood - "Battles and Brotherhood" ... more like Boobs and Bloodshed  (youtube.com) (75)
(Contact Music) Sappy Keith Urban's "heart stretched" the day he became a father. He even returned all the Christmas gifts that he stole from Whoville  (contactmusic.com) (13)

Sat November 14, 2009
(Gigwise) Cool Star guitar, sea organ, hydraulophone and pig flute: The world's weirdest instruments  (gigwise.com) (39)
(Contact Music) Obvious Some would say Sting was a lost man in a lost world. You could say he lost his faith in talent shows on TV. You could say he lost his belief in our musicians. They all seem like game show hosts to him  (contactmusic.com) (23)
(Entertainment Weekly) Followup Full track listing revealed for Peter Gabriel's forthcoming covers album. It still won't be as good as, or sell as well as, a Phil Collins album  (music-mix.ew.com) (46)
(YouTube) Cool I hope you know that this will go down on your permanent record. Violent Femmes performing 'Kiss Off' from 1983  (youtube.com) (20)
(The Daily Swarm) Interesting Q&A with Steve Albini who recorded the Pixies, PJ Harvey, The Breeders, Jesus Lizard and of course, Nirvana: "I got beat up by their management and their record label after the fact. Geffen tried to put me out of business"  (thedailyswarm.com) (29)
(YouTube) Amusing Weird Al schools us on Autotune  (youtube.com) (44)

Fri November 13, 2009
(YouTube) Video Jerry Lee Lewis + Jimmy Page = TASTY  (youtube.com) (15)
(Idolator) Fail For his upcoming solo album, Slash re-recorded "Paradise City" with Fergie and Cypress Hill (with audio)  (idolator.com) (30)
(Some Guy) Spiffy The Pixies join Pavement as headliners at the Primavera Sound music festival. This is not a repeat from 1994  (primaverasound.com) (24)
(St. Petersburg Times) Interesting The lead singer of Missing Persons has been found in jail  (blogs.tampabay.com) (107)
(Rolling Stone) Cool Beck recruits Wilco, Feist, and Jamie Liddell to cover an obscure folk rock album from 1967 in one day  (rollingstone.com) (25)
(NME) Cool The Fall's entire back catalogue to be reissued, starting with "This Nation's Saving Grace," which will come with bonus tracks, notes and a letter from Mark E. Smith telling you to f--k off  (nme.com) (21)
(Spinner) Obvious Jello Biafra on labels and RIAA ripping off artists: "They say it's all going to what they call a charity organization of lawyers to fund more lawyers to sue more people. That's major labels' idea of charity"  (spinner.ca) (33)
(Some Guy) Hero Gibson releases Angus Young signature SG line; the guitar comes with a very slim neck, custom Gibson humbuckers, ebony "lightning bolt" inlays, and a PIMP red crushed velvet schoolboy uniform and beanie  (guitarworld.com) (55)
(Gigwise) Cool John Lydon thanks butter commercial for financing Public Image Ltd's return:"I'm promoting a British product which I'm very proud of"  (gigwise.com) (22)
(The Quietus) Interesting Alice Cooper to create a new character for next album, presumably cranky grandpa in makeup who'd rather be playing golf right now  (thequietus.com) (15)

Thu November 12, 2009
(Twenty Four Bit) Cool Turns out, Tom Waits' daughter is an accomplished painter, depicting politicians such as Hillary, Nancy Pelosi, Condoleezza and Margaret Thatcher as strippers (click link for paintings)  (twentyfourbit.com) (47)
(YouTube) Sad In memory of Berry Oakley passing on November 11, 1972, how about the Allman Brothers' 'You Don't Love Me', the last song played at the Filmore East  (youtube.com) (16)
(CNN) Dumbass Half the Who to play the Super Bowl  (sportsillustrated.cnn.com) (73)
(Contact Music) Dumbass Wynonna Judd says Taylor Swift should not have won any CMAs. Judd then returned to eating her fries, only to be scolded by her shift manager for stealing food  T-Shirt  (contactmusic.com) (116)
(Nerve) Cool From Kurt Cobain in a dress to The Doors on Ed Sullivan, the 15 greatest acts of rock 'n' roll rebellion  (entertainment.nerve.com) (40)
(Slate) Silly "Funny things rappers do with their hands" cements Slate's status as the single whitest site on the Internet  (slate.com) (30)
(Some Law-Talking Dude) Cool Bow wow wow, yippie yo, yippie yeah, Bow wow yippie yo yippie yeah (c)  (blogs.findlaw.com) (91)
(synthGear) Audio Not only was James Brown an amazing singer and performer, he was also a pretty wicked Minimoog player in this '74 track from Fred Wesley and the JB's  (synthgear.com) (15)
(Metro) Cool Red Hot Chili Peppers, Wilco, Norah Jones and Crosby, Stills & Nash to pay tribute to Neil Young, who turns 64 today  (metro.co.uk) (12)
(Entertainment Weekly) Obvious Whitney Houston will take a crack at performing at the 37th American Music Awards  (news-briefs.ew.com) (10)
(Contact Music) Stupid Hipster douchebags with lots of disposable income have caused the Weezer Snuggie to sell out. Just like the band  (contactmusic.com) (46)
(Contact Music) Sad Russell Brand and Katy Perry have recorded a duet. He's just rubbing it in our faces now  (contactmusic.com) (61)
(Telegraph) Obvious Eighties popstar Howard Jones muses on fate of his musical style, with its ironing-board synths and performers' outrageous clothes and hair. "It wasn't rock-and-roll, it wasn't macho, but it did take a lot of courage"  (telegraph.co.uk) (38)

Wed November 11, 2009
(FrogSoda) Video The best cover of "Help" you will hear all day  (frogsoda.com) (95)
(Some Oxford Comma) Strange Vampire Weekend reveal inspiration behind their new album. Strangely, pot, wine, and episodes of Friends had nothing to do with it; no, that would be Nicaraguan politics  (nme.com) (31)
(Contact Music) Silly Dave Grohl says that he found his newest group, Them Crooked Vultures, on a "Musical Blind Date." Really, we all wish we were able to hear them on a musical deaf date  (contactmusic.com) (52)
(PopMatters) Cool Insecurity, bulimia, infidelity, intra-racial discrimination, self-loathing and coked out, aspirational celebrities: welcome to Wale's coming out party  (popmatters.com) (17)
(Fox News) Interesting Pope to release Christmas album, meaning Lady Gaga now has the second weirdest wardrobe in music  T-Shirt  (foxnews.com) (17)
(Contact Music) Obvious Dave Grohl had a hunch that Kurt Cobain would die young. Call it a shot in the dark  (contactmusic.com) (46)
(YouTube) Cool I'll see your proto-synthesizer, and raise you a glass harmonica  (youtube.com) (15)
(Some Guy) Cool Check out the original synthesizer - roughly the size of two spinet pianos. With awesome audio link  (rotatingcorpse.com) (29)

Tue November 10, 2009
(YouTube) Cool Understanding that you're just going to download it off Pirate Bay, Them Crooked Vultures stream their entire album via Youtube a week before it is released  (youtube.com) (51)
(College Humor) Hero "This is what I do when I don't want to practice." Girl plays "Avenged Sevenfold" on expert on Rock Band on flute  (collegehumor.com) (95)
(Contact Music) Stupid Rihanna's "Umbrella" voted the best song of the decade by the Institute of People Who Don't Really Listen to a Lot of Music  T-Shirt  (contactmusic.com) (167)
(Contact Music) Hero Pete Wentz's son gives his father writer's block, earns a Hero tag  (contactmusic.com) (22)
(YouTube) Obvious This used to be a funhouse, but now it's filled with evil clowns  (youtube.com) (35)

Mon November 09, 2009
(YouTube) Cool Sure, we've all heard "Amazing Grace" before. But have you heard it like this?  (youtube.com) (45)
(Some Guy) Sick This week's sign of the apocalypse: Yngwie to cover Michael Jackson's "Beat it". Bonus - Tim "Ripper" Owens on vocals  (guitarworld.com) (49)
(Spike) Interesting The ten sexiest women of rock. You may disagree with #10, but the list redeems itself with #5  (spike.com) (349)
(Contact Music) Strange Lead singer for Franz Ferdinand said he wanted to die young like Sid Vicious. Well, he may not be as young as Vicious, but the option is still there  (contactmusic.com) (27)
(BBC) Obvious Duran Duran's John Taylor writes column on how Twitter and YouTube may ruin pop music worse than "Hungry Like The Wolf" and "Girls on Film" ever did  (news.bbc.co.uk) (37)
(YouTube) Cool One of the most awesome arraignments of Ghost Riders in the Sky you will ever see  (youtube.com) (59)
(Contact Music) Silly John Mayer defends Britney Spears, saying that lip-synching is okay. Concertgoers would have complained about having seen him lip-synching, but they tend to drift off to sleep after about twenty minutes  T-Shirt  (contactmusic.com) (73)
(Some Guy) Unlikely "My Hammer pants right now are being made by six or seven of the world's finest designers"  (heraldsun.com.au) (31)
(NYPost) Sad Drummer for the indie band Chk Chk Chk dead after falling down an elevator shaft. Pitchfork to give cause of death a "5.5", calling it "uninspired"  (nypost.com) (62)

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