Friday’s Leftovers

After a couple of three-day weekends we’re back to the old-fashioned two-day version. Whatevs, Fridays are awesome. It’s been a busy week at Hidden Track Headquarters, yet believe it or not we still have plenty to tell you about. Forget about your job and relax with some linkage:

• Guitar Magazine presents a list of the top 40 guitar tones. No Frank Zappa? That’s borderline criminal, Guitar Mag…
• Check out this awesome video of Keith Richards administering swift justice to a fan who rushed the stage
• Filter Magazine honors the birthday of REM’s Michael Stipe with a list of his best videos on YouTube
• The producers of Bonnaroo are in the final stages of purchasing the land on which the festival is held
• Grateful Dead News live-blogged the Nancy Pelosi benefit last night
• Not to be outdone, the Senate Majority Leader is also a Deadhead
• Sly Stone’s funky catalog finally gets the re-issue treatment
• Bela Fleck and Chick Corea plan a tour…under-the-radar sickness
• Billy Corgan sounds pretty damn excited about the Smashing Pumpkins’ upcoming reunion tour and album
• Modest Mouse, which recently added Smith’s guitarist Johnny Marr to the mix, releases a new single on January 16th
• Double J Jesse Jarnow drops his latest edition of his podcast, The Frow, for your listening pleasure
• Neddy has been busy this week with his best of the “best of” lists and review of Widespread Panic’s New Year’s Eve show in Atlanta
• Ace’s boy Passion of the Weiss reviews My Morning Jacket’s New Year’s Eve show at the Fillmore, with some mp3s available
• An interesting interview with Janis Joplin and The Big Brother Holding Company’s drummer David Getz
• Best of luck to Relix as they launch Concert.TV
• The reporting of Trey Anastasio’s arrest in December has led to a controversy amongst the Albany media
• Keller Williams has kangfirmed a northeast run

Did you have any luck with snagging Arcade Fire tickets this morning? Any grandiose plans for this weekend? Talk to me, folks, I’m pretty bored.