Wednesday Intermezzo: America, Fuck Yeah

We hope you are enjoying the day we told England to fuck themselves as much as we are. On the off chance you are stuck at a desk, we’ve got your back with some linkage to get you through the day:

• Sly Stone brings crazy to a whole new level
• Widespread Panic’s David Schools talks about the Blues with his father.
• Speaking of Panic, our friend at The Passion of the Weiss caught an LA WSP show last week and filed this report
• Smashing Pumpkins have announced their fall tour dates
• Billboard says the Van Halen reunion tour is goin’ down in September
• The Police have postponed their Unplugged taping. Also, Stewart Copeland hints at this tour being the end for The Police in a recent interview.
• Billboard’s Mobile Beat blog is off to a good start — great pics
• R.E.M. is debuting a bunch of new material in Dublin
• Looking back at Creem Magazine’s seminal Rock N’ Roll News section
• The New York Time summer concert preview
• Page Six just found out that Fleetwood Mac loved to do blow
• The story and music behind the Sex Pistols’ famous Winterland show
• Jefitoblog presents the Idiot’s Guide to Queen: Part One
• The Disco Biscuits have started a YouTube channel [via TheTube]
• Rock Music Daily shares some great acoustic Warren Haynes — but where’s my Soulshine?
• Quiltsryche sells heavy metal quilts
• Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds are releasing a DVD/CD set of their Green Apple gig

We’ll have one more Independence-related post following this one and then we’re checking out for the day. We’ll see ya tomorrow, folks…