10 Most Recent Links

Amy Winehouse Turns To Poetry (Music-News):
Leading to the all-important question: will her's be better or worse than Jewel's?

Ben Folds Readies A Capella Disc (Aversion):
As the article suggests, somewhere Andy Barnard is getting very excited.

America's 15 Best Indie Record Stores (Spin):
The best places to spend next year's Record Store Day in style.

Daft Punk: The Game (Pedestrian):
Collect the samples, win the level, kill time at work

The eight most pretentious lyrics from the new Decemberists album (Slate):
One of our favourite music writers tears a strip off one of our favourite indie bands. This is exactly how we felt just before our parents got divorced.

Map Of Area Codes In Which Ludacris Claims To Have Hoes (Funk Jelly):
Ludacris has hoes in Milwaukee?

Kanye Says 'South Park' Put Him In Check (Billboard):
We're already printing the "Free Kanye's Ego" t-shirts.

Courtney Love vs. Twitter (Drowned In Sound):
The 21st century provides so many different ways for Courtney Love to get sued.

PETA Asks the Pet Shop Boys to Change Their Name (Prefix):
The veggie-chewing association's latest stunt has them asking for the band to rename themselves "The Rescue Shelter Boys."

Is Hannah Montana A Modern Day Ziggy Stardust? (CBC):
Hold on a second. Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus are the same person?!! Mind = blown.

10 Most Clicked Links

The 10 Weirdest Things You Probably Didn't Know About the Beach Boys (Entertainment Weekly):
We can't decide if our favourite entry is the one about Charles Manson, or the other one about Charles Manson.

Tourism department providing $100,000 for Alanis concert (CBC):
Well now, that's just embarrassing.

Lost Jimi Hendrix Record found (Digital Spy):
It's not actually quite as cool as it sounds, because it's really more of a lost Stephen-Stills-record-that-Jimi-Hendrix-happened-to-play-on, but still. Cool.

Grow Op: The Real Reason Pop Stars Grow Facial Hair (CBC):
No, it's not just because they're lazy. It's because they want you to think they're as cool as Sam Beam.

Is Hannah Montana A Modern Day Ziggy Stardust? (CBC):
Hold on a second. Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus are the same person?!! Mind = blown.

Daft Punk: The Game (Pedestrian):
Collect the samples, win the level, kill time at work

Snoop Dogg as German folk singer legend Roy Black (YouTube):
Dude has to be the most loveable pimp ever. And this German cell phone commercial certainly does nothing to change that.

New $1M US classical music prize announced in Sweden (CBC):
Time to learn the clavichord.

The Day Louis Armstrong Made Noise (New York Times):
Plenty of people called Armstrong an Uncle Tom for not having done more in the name of civil rights. But maybe they can stuff it.

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