the day the music died

Are You Ready To Hear The Greatest Party For Your Ears?

10:30AM Clem Bastow | A week or so ago, something started rumbling in the Dashboards of bloggers using the Tumblr platform. Podcast and online ephemera Tumbelog Internet Enthusiast Daily posted an MP3 that will surely, when iMacs and old laptops are dug out of the rubble of the 21st century, come to be seen as the defining zenith of modern popular music; a piece of music so moving, so incredible, it surpasses everything we thought we knew about music itself – hell, about life. It was titled “David Lee Roth – Running With The Devil – vocal track – screaming only version“. Of the piece, they mysteriously said: Kia posted the original, but we felt that taking out all the gaps and actual “singing” was a moral imperative. It is pretty much the greatest thing you will hear in your lifetime. Prepare to update your ringtones and personal anthems, it’s Diamond Dave time over the jump. More »

Did Pete Wentz Just Get Engaged To Ashlee Simpson So He Could Try On Her Shoes All Day?

6:50AM Molly Friedman | Just in case he hadn’t officially lost all his “punk” cred already, Pete Wentz has successfully sealed the deal by getting engaged to lip sync queen Ashlee Simpson. And proving they’re the ultimate modern couple, Ashlee made the announcement via (of all things) the website friendsorenemies.com in a post last night: “Yes, we are thrilled to share that we are happily engaged…We consider this to be a very private matter, and we wanted to be the first to tell you.” Why exactly a “very private matter” is the sort of thing one willingly announces in the form of a blog post is beyond us, but one issue Pete feels more than comfortable discussing is his love of cross-dressing. As the bassist told Fox News recently, “I love Jessica Simpson’s stuff, especially the shoes. I dance around my house in them all the time.” More »