I put together a little playlist to showcase that, despite what you may think by listening to “country music” radio, watching CMT or seeing the CMA Awards. Honky Tonk & Outlaw Country are alive and well.

These kids are from the O’Keefe Music Foundation, the same place as the kids who covered Tool’s “Forty-Six & 2,” are from. While I’m not so sure the lyrics and subject matter of this song (addiction and only someone being to express oneself artistically while under the influence,) are appropriate for kids under the age of 16 — these kids did an amazing job.

So VH1 has a series called, The Complete History Of Heavy Metal. The first episode featured the godfather of heavy metal himself, the master of the riff, Tony Iommi, It’s narrated by Iommi, animated by Paul Blow and discusses the industrial accident that saw the Black Sabbath guitarist lose the tips of his fingers, and launch the sound that would become synonymous with the genre.

Anthrax has released the video for “In The End,” a song about lost heavy metal icon’s Dimebag Darrell Abbott and Ronnie James Dio. It’s from their new DVD/Blu-ray release “Chile On Hell,”  out now buy it here.

There are an untold number of musicians as well as want-to-be musicians who post videos daily of their a capella singing, playing a few notes on the piano, tuning their guitar, or what have you. The vast majority of these videos are pretty damn lame. One YouTube user decided to do something with some of those videos.

Kutiman, took 23 random YouTube videos of different people from all walks of life preforming, sliced and diced them together — and made a pretty damn good song out of it.

Kutiman, apparently is planing a whole “album” of songs from unrelated videos.

Well at least it was cultured, it could have been 90 minutes of just a bare ass & fart noises.

Hattip: Robert Rule Show

Loving this record. Queensryche is back!

Because I saw someone else post their’s, I thought I could grab a more eclectic mix from my CD collection.

Jane’s Addiction – 1% (by boubix)

The gang, and the government, no different