Phenomenal Phriday

And so we begin a holiday weekend. I hope everyone will enjoy their three-day weekend, and if you have to work (like yours truly...all weekend long...), then I hope you can make it to Tuesday without blowing your fingers off with a firecracker.

Just a quick note, I will still post my concert calendar on Monday. I will not be taking the day off from you, my loyal blog-viewers.

Now I'm rambling. Here are the top stories from the week.

Michele Bachmann was denied usage of a song by multiple Grammy Award winning group Katrina & The Waves.

Danzig was forced to cancel their South American tour. Sadly, it's not because he plans on rejoining The Misfits.

This is the revised transcript of The Boss's eulogy to the Big Man.

Happy 48th birthday to Roddy Bottum, keyboardist of Faith No More. Here's "Midlife Crisis".

Vince Neil gets a lifetime achievement award. For what? Breathing heavily on stage? Not being able to hold a note since the '80s?

Hey, Morrissey, how about a Smiths reunion already???

Chuck Berry has a statue erected in his honor, presumably for being Goode.

Ooh, look at Lenny Kravitz. How avant-garde of him! What a rebel!

Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic play "Smells Like Teen Spirit" for the first time in seventeen years. In those seventeen years, 72,000 musicians have tried and all have failed.

Justin Bieber says he will not 'limit himself' on his next album, and says he just wants to make music. Okay, so what has he been doing the past two years, then?

Guilty Pleasure Song of the Week

The All-American Rejects - "Gives You Hell"

I first saw The All-American Rejects back in 2003, and again in 2005. And both by complete accident (Warped Tour). Not saying they put on a bad show, mainly because the screams of teenage girls drowned out the music.

Putting a Bow on This Week

Is it Friday again? Thank heavens. Here are the headlines, yo.

Earth, Wind, and Fire cancel a performance due to earth, wind, and fire.

Blink-182 plans to finish their new album soon. All three fans stand up and applaud.

Happy 64th birthday to Mick Fleetwood, drummer from Fleetwood Mac. Here's "Rhiannon".

To commemorate the twentieth anniversary of Nirvana's Nevermind, a four CD/one DVD box set will be released later this year. Translation: Courtney Love smoked/drank her money away. Again.

Paris Hilton plans on releasing another album that will be used to torture inmates at Guantanamo Bay.

Amy Winehouse cancels part of her European tour. Still, I'd rather see her in concert than The Mars Volta.

Kings of Leon honored the life of Ryan Dunn at a recent concert in London. No word if they covered Sammy Hagar's "I Can't Drive 55".

Katy Perry began praying for breasts when she turned 11. Now, I don't want to say you can't have too much prayers, but...

Glen Campbell is suffering from Alzheimer's. He'll still be a rhinestone cowboy in my eyes.

MTV plans to ruin Footloose forever.

Guilty Pleasure Song of the Week

Monifah - "Touch It" (NSFW)

In order for me to post this song, I had to find out who recorded it. This was, like, a three-year search for this semi-popular song from 1998.