Music Buzz Happy World Goth Day! Here's a special goth rock playlist to help you celebrate. Subcultures, Yay!
Culture Buzz Not cool. Benjamin Rutkowski and Kai Christensen were arrested in Utah for Reckless Endangerment when it was discovered they had set trip wires, sharpened sticks and a swinging rock in Provo Canyon Park.
Culture Buzz No, really…it looks like a mountain fell on this poor car. This isn't an Allstate “Mayhem like me” ad, it's a gosh derned big rock that just had its way with a house and car in Athens, Ohio.
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For only $100 dollars Wayne Coyne will include your name in the next big Flaming Lips gimmick epic production. The money will be donated to the Humane Society and a music program at the University of Central Oklahoma, so that's good.
(via pitchfork.com)
Impressive. Most impressive. But Eclectic Method still holds the crown for SW riff of the month. (via.)
Has Memorial Day weekend already got you sniffing around for this year's Song of the Summer? Making Friendz might have a contender on their hands with “Situation” and its hot music video.
Says the artist: “My tribute to the proud American ass kickers who killed bin Laden dead.” Move over, 50 Cent and Hot Rod, you just got served a hot slice of slightly ghoulish jingoism pie.
Culture Buzz A comprehensive compendium of canonical coiffures in pop music. You can buy the poster over at Pop Chart Lab.
You can play rock, paper, scissors with a machine now! That's cool and everything, but that machine could not even comprehend this logic. Duh, rock is superior. Winning!
A 911 call in which a 4-year-old Florida boy wants Santa to punish his father with basement boulders. The police did a follow up and there was nothing amiss at the boy's home, aside from the really weird stories his parents were telling him about Santa's geology-based superpowers.
Celebrity Buzz Hotness seems to run in the Indie-Rock genre. If you thought the guys were hot, then brace yourself….here come the ladies! They rock, and look hot while doing it.
Metallica cover band + Gallagher, the prop comic = Metallagher! They will rock your watermelons.
A weird correlation appears when you compare the last 60 years of U.S. oil output to Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 greatest rock songs of all time. And no amount of drilling in Alaska is going to bring back the music of the ’70s.
A rock hard penis in Utah’s Arches National Park. It’s not as cold as the Penis Iceberg, but it’s certainly not going flaccid for global warming!