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| 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) | ||
| SHMHC: 3 Inches of Blood - "Battles and Brotherhood" ... more like Boobs and Bloodshed (youtube.com) | (75) | ||
| 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) | ||
| Star guitar, sea organ, hydraulophone and pig flute: The world's weirdest instruments (gigwise.com) | (39) | ||
| 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) | ||
| 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) | ||
| 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) | 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) | |
| Weird Al schools us on Autotune (youtube.com) | (44) |
| Jerry Lee Lewis + Jimmy Page = TASTY (youtube.com) | (15) | ||
| For his upcoming solo album, Slash re-recorded "Paradise City" with Fergie and Cypress Hill (with audio) (idolator.com) | (30) | ||
| (Some Guy) | The Pixies join Pavement as headliners at the Primavera Sound music festival. This is not a repeat from 1994 (primaverasound.com) | (24) | |
| The lead singer of Missing Persons has been found in jail (blogs.tampabay.com) | (107) | ||
| Beck recruits Wilco, Feist, and Jamie Liddell to cover an obscure folk rock album from 1967 in one day (rollingstone.com) | (25) | ||
| (NME) | 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) | 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) | 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) | |
| 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) | 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) |
| (Twenty Four Bit) | 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) | |
| 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) | ||
| Half the Who to play the Super Bowl (sportsillustrated.cnn.com) | (73) | ||
| 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 |
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| 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) | ||
| "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) | Bow wow wow, yippie yo, yippie yeah, Bow wow yippie yo yippie yeah (c) (blogs.findlaw.com) | (91) | |
| (synthGear) | 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) | |
| 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) | ||
| Whitney Houston will take a crack at performing at the 37th American Music Awards (news-briefs.ew.com) | (10) | ||
| Hipster douchebags with lots of disposable income have caused the Weezer Snuggie to sell out. Just like the band (contactmusic.com) | (46) | ||
| Russell Brand and Katy Perry have recorded a duet. He's just rubbing it in our faces now (contactmusic.com) | (61) | ||
| 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) |
| (FrogSoda) | The best cover of "Help" you will hear all day (frogsoda.com) | (95) | |
| (Some Oxford Comma) | 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) | |
| 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) | Insecurity, bulimia, infidelity, intra-racial discrimination, self-loathing and coked out, aspirational celebrities: welcome to Wale's coming out party (popmatters.com) | (17) | |
| Pope to release Christmas album, meaning Lady Gaga now has the second weirdest wardrobe in music |
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| Dave Grohl had a hunch that Kurt Cobain would die young. Call it a shot in the dark (contactmusic.com) | (46) | ||
| I'll see your proto-synthesizer, and raise you a glass harmonica (youtube.com) | (15) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Check out the original synthesizer - roughly the size of two spinet pianos. With awesome audio link (rotatingcorpse.com) | (29) |
| 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) | ||
| "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) | ||
| 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 |
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| Pete Wentz's son gives his father writer's block, earns a Hero tag (contactmusic.com) | (22) | ||
| This used to be a funhouse, but now it's filled with evil clowns (youtube.com) | (35) |
| Sure, we've all heard "Amazing Grace" before. But have you heard it like this? (youtube.com) | (45) | ||
| (Some Guy) | This week's sign of the apocalypse: Yngwie to cover Michael Jackson's "Beat it". Bonus - Tim "Ripper" Owens on vocals (guitarworld.com) | (49) | |
| The ten sexiest women of rock. You may disagree with #10, but the list redeems itself with #5 (spike.com) | (349) | ||
| 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) | ||
| 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) | ||
| One of the most awesome arraignments of Ghost Riders in the Sky you will ever see (youtube.com) | (59) | ||
| 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 |
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| (Some Guy) | "My Hammer pants right now are being made by six or seven of the world's finest designers" (heraldsun.com.au) | (31) | |
| 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) |