The Swarm

December 28, 2009

The Daily Swarm's Top Headlines of the Year...

Andrew Flanagan


Our Top Ten Favorites:

Courtney Love Banned From Using Hole…

Lame Internet Fight Now a Real Lame Fight… Black Lips Dude and Wavves Guy Tussle in New York…

Austin Shitty Limits: Yes, Those People are Actually Partying in Poop…

Harry Connick Jr. Bamboozled Into Judging Blackface ‘Comedians’ in Australia…

Rock Crits Determine That Creed Actually Rules…

Kings Of Leon’s Jared Followill: ‘If I wasn’t involved, I can’t imagine liking us’...

Rolling Stone to Open a Restaurant: Everything Is Served Stale…

Lil Wayne’s ‘Rebirth’ Leaked… 500 Copies Suffer From Premature Distribution…

Sieg Heil Taylor Swift!


People and Power:

Musicians Seek Secret Docs On Guantanamo’s ‘Jukebox of Torture’ Featuring David Gray, James Taylor & Meow Mix Jingle…

The Most Pandering Topical Remix of this Second’s Blogosphere Zeitgeist: Animal Collective ‘My Girls’ (Special Obama Inauguration Remix Edition)…

Are Jay-Z, Bloomberg & The Yankees Basically The Same Thing?

Vladimir Putin Advocates a Hip-Hop Lifestyle… Says Graffiti is ‘fine and delicate’... Breakdancing Hard and Not for Dopers…

Hipster Runoff’s Jesus Christ (The Indie Band) Meme For Alt. Bros To Authentically Empathize With…

Tupac, Fleet Foxes, Muse, and Some Monk… The Vatican’s Playlist is Short…

WATCH: Hitler Reacts Poorly to the Oasis Split…

The Pope Signs To Interscope…


R.I.P. Idolator:

Meet Idolator’s New Editors ‘Robbie’ and ‘Becky’...

Idolator 2.No: Where did Buzznet find these morons?

Idolator 2.No Blind Item: What British Bandmember Bagged Buzznet’s Bartending Blogger Becky Bain?

Meet Hipster Runoff’s New Blogger: Becca!


Teleprompters:

When I’m 64 (I Forget My Own Lyrics)... Paul McCartney Rocks The Teleprompter…

Not Playing Live: The E Street Band Was Faking It At The Superbowl… ‘Only Springsteen’s vocals were live’...

Jane’s Addiction Rocks the Teleprompter


The Other Favorites:

Lady Gaga: Poster-Girl for Illuminati Mind Control?

Target Deal Passes Pearl Jam’s ‘Moral Barometer’...

Coolio Plays Colorado Deli for ’$3,000, a bucket of chicken and a bottle of Petron’...

Lost Your Job? Become a DJ!

Did Frank Zappa Come Up with a Business Plan for File Sharing in 1983?

NSFW… Making Love In An Alt Bathroom… Indie Blog Label Dim Mak Does Porn…

Phish Fry Live Nation’s New TIcket System…

50 Cent Develops ‘Diddy Syndrome’, Looks to Launch Dietary Supplements…

…And Justice For All: Drunken Cop Who Urinated On Metallica Fan Suspended, Charged With Trespassing…

Man Buys Used iPod, gets 60 Pages of Sensitive Military Data…

Lara Lavi: The ‘Jewish Soccer Mom’ Who Bought Death Row Records…

Andrew W.K.: J-Pop Artist…

David Hasselhoff Really Likes Daft Punk…

WATCH: Naked Wizard at Coachella Tased by Reality… NSFW…

Boyfriend of The Future: The Emo Sex Doll…

Soldier Killed Over Jimmy Buffet Song…

‘Rock & Roll In My Butthole’ vs. ‘Tinkle Time’ in Adult Video Awards Best Song Race…

Zac Efron as Billy Joel: ‘And I’ll put my balls right on your tongue’…

Courtney Love Gets ’$30 Million’ from Tequila and Tampon Sponsors for Delayed Album…

Twitter Hacked: Britney’s Vagina Not 4 Ft Wide, Nor Has Teeth…

Limp Twizkit…

Bank Bailout Money To Musicians? Sheryl Crow, Chicago, Earth, Wind and Fire Take Your Money To Serenade Bankers…

Homeless Man Claims to be Foreigner Drummer, Steals Car…

Date Matt Pinfield!

Asher Roth Album Out 4/20: ‘Will be wrapped in clear, plastic joint paper, so that you can actually smoke the CD’...

The Decemberist Death Count… 0.92 deaths per track…

Radiohead Porn: Thom Yorke Topless…

The Music Bra: Each Breast Gets Eight Different Sounds…

Win Butler vs. Wayne Coyne: ‘I hope I was less of a Prick than telling Rolling Stone that a bunch of people I don’t know at all are really a bunch of assholes’...

Brian Eno/Alan McGee Twitter Fight!

Lars Ulrich on Illegally Downloading A Metallica Album For The First Time:‘I was like: Wow, this is how it works’...

Labels Suing Guns ‘N Roses for Copying Ulrich Schnauss Songs…

Peter Hook Admits to Faking Ian Curtis’ Autograph, Selling It…

Watch: Slim Thug Feels The Recession: Fewer Video Ho’s, Can’t Throw Bills At Strippers, Fires Hype-Man…

Rock And Roll’s Unfortunate Public Urination Problem…

Even Richie Hawtin Denied Entrance To Berlin’s Berghain…

Last Night a DJ Took My Life: Miami Disc Jockey Pulls Up to Police Station with Girlfriend’s Body in Trunk…

Kill Yr. Idols (Please): Watch Sonic Youth on Gossip Girl…

Puff Diddy Throws Fake Dollars, Loses Real Ring Worth $20,000… Then Frisks The Audience to No Avail…

Beyonce Delays Malaysian Show Due to Hotness…

U.K. Music Industry Says It’s Okay To Sing To Yourself Without A Performance License…

DJ Your Own Orgasm With The OhMiBod Vibrator…

Simply Rod: Faces Reunite With Mick Hucknall Instead of Rod Stewart…

Unbeknownst To His Entire Field Of Study, Guy Who Invented Pop Culture Dies…

Coyotes Kill Folk Singer…

Superchunk/Bob Mould Drummer Jon Wurster Celebrates the Very Alive Chuck Biscuits…

From Harvard Grad to Selling Skin… Tom Morello’s Hard-Knock Stripper Life…

Dear American Airlines, Can You Please Fucking Stop With The Onboard Jesus Music?

Owl City D-Bag Sets Himself Up Perfectly for That Postal Service Lawsuit…

Rebecca Glasscock, Holly Caust, Spicky Hilton: 2009 Glammy Award Nominees…

Court Rules in Favor of George Clinton in Far-Reaching ‘Bow wow wow yippie yo yippie yay’ Case…

Watch: Wayne Coyne’s Junk…

Today In Overhyped Music Streaming / Subscription News: MySpace to Charge, Spotify Delayed, Mog Not As Sucky As Once Thought…

Offal Idea: New Matthew Herbert Album To Be Made Of Pig Samples…

Poor Neil Young: Dave Matthews, Sheryl Crow, Norah Jones, Josh Groban, Mellencamp, Chili Peps, James Taylor To ‘Honor’ Him…

Perry Farrell Celebrates His Ten Year Sexiversary…

WATCH: Christian Rappers Warn of the Dangers of Full Frontal Hugging…

Why Would Anyone Pay Money To Find REO Speedwagon’s Kevin Cronin?

George Michael On Anonymous Sex In Public Places On ‘Nice Summer Evenings’...

Middle-of-the-Road White People Rejoice: NPR Compiles Listeners’ Top 50 of 2009…

How Un-Dischord: Minor Threat Drummer Ebays ‘Out of Step’ Test Pressing For $6K…

Louis Armstrong’s Pot Habit…

Pitchfork Intern #FAIL… Brags To the Village Voice About Doing Shows In Damon Dash’s Basement… Press Attention Gets It Shut Down…

Overwhelming Weed Stank Prevents Weezy from Selling House….

Don’t Watch: Rapper Fucks While Rapping…

JS Bach: The Father of Techno?




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