YouTube find of the moment

Cowboys From Hell... on cello.

Thought some of you might like this

Just got an email-the kiss fan-routed tour balloting is officially over, the itinerary will be announced next month

Jacko and farrah fawcett die on my brother's birthday, billy mays dies on my birthday, which celebrity death will herald my son's birth?

There will be TEN nominees for best picture at next year's oscars

For those of you wondering about Virgin Festival 2009...

...Washington, DC's DC101 will have the full scoop tomorrow. It will be a one-day event, 20 August, at Meriwether Post Pavillion, so the lineup will certainly not be as awesome as previous years, but here's to hoping for quality triumphing over quantity.

In other news, the Rock and Roll Jesus is working with God Himself on his next album.

Where are they now: Evanescence

So I missed this entirely, but Evanescence had for all intents and purposes broken up--since we last heard from them in 2006, the rest of the band had been replaced EXCEPT for Amy Lee. Well the rest of the band reformed... with Carly Smithson, former American Idol contestant, on vocals. They're going to call themselves The Fallen; a press conference is scheduled for Monday, with their first single available for download at their website (which won't be active until then). One problem they might have is that there are entirely too many bands with that name--just do a quick Googlesearch and see it's a pretty popular name.

Interesting thing from the article--on releasing new music:

The Fallen plans to tour in September and initially will release its songs in small doses every few months, Moody says, "so there's always new music and new reasons to come to another show."

Weird Al has taken a similar approach, realizing that he can now release more relevant parodies through internet singles as opposed to waiting until he has a dozen or so and releasing an album, by which point the oldest one might be completely irrelevant. This is the neat thing about the digital music revolution--after taking a back seat to albums over the last couple decades, now singles are as relevant as they've ever been in the last 40 years.