2008

The New York Football Giants shocked the world by pulling off an incredible victory over the heavily favored Patriots in what was one helluva game — it was actually kinda hard to sleep last night in New York City thanks to the roar of the fans celebrating in the streets. Guess you can’t win ’em, all Boston fans. We rank Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers’ rapid fire parade of hits atop the non-football highlights, followed by the Prince Caspian commercial and the talking Tide stain.

Let’s see what’s cookin’ as we pretend we don’t have the world’s worst hangover:

• Four More Albums: U2 avoids free agency by resigning with Universal
• Lefsetz isn’t down with the Vampire Weekend hype machine
• NMAS’ Luther Dickinson sure knows how to make a room shake
• Ted Rockwell shares his thoughts on a recent Mars Volta show in Boulder
• moe.’s Rob Derhak speaks to the Boston Herald about Sticks and Stones
• The Duo wouldn’t sound like The Duo without Dirty Jerz
• As always Neddy delivers a list of the NYC shows of the week

Finally, Filter Magazine sent Pat McGuire on the road with Band of Horses to document one of their recent tours of the West Coast. The road journal McGuire came back with features many interesting anecdotes and factoids from the road.

Some 10 or 11 hours from now we’ll find out whether the New England Patriots celebrate as the first 19-0 team in professional football or whether they’ve blown a golden

This year’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival didn’t really feature that much bluegrass, but this week’s episode of Austin City Limits focuses on some of the best traditional style performances from

You’ll see this all over the place today, and with good reason: It rocks. [youtube]4KUowJzpgxs[/youtube] Man, that is just funny shit. Silverman fan or Silverman hater, that’s comedy.

I depart for the United Kingdom two weeks from tonight, and I can barely contain my anticipatory excitement. I’m trying not to pee my pants, though that plan failed once

Did you ever wonder what happened to the stars of classic music videos from the days when MTV actually played music? You know the bee girl from the No Rain video, the janitor from Smells Like Teen Spirit and Rosanna from well…Rosanna. The guys over at YesButNoButYes went about finding out where are they now.

Let’s end the week right where we started with a hot batch of links:

• The Roots have recruited one helluva lineup for their new album
• Les Claypool looked to some jamband legends for help with material for his Quest For Festeroo soundtrack
• The Green Apple Festival expands to eight cities in 2008
• We finally get to hear Jerry Garcia as a sideman 30 years after he recorded an album with Bill Cutler
• Paul McCartney denies media reports that he had angioplasty
• Booker T and the MGs, Issac Hayes and other classic soul artists deliver Stax Does The Beatles on the 26th
• We’d like to wish Largehearted Boy a very Happy Sixth Birthday. How does David keep on doin’ it?
• Download Wisely: Lifehacker’s Top Ten Bit Torrent Tools and Tricks
• Breakfast On Tour reviews a Cornelius/Benevento Russo show

Finally, when we heard that the Black Crowes produced a video for Goodbye Daughters of the Revolution, we were excited to see what the camera-shy Robinson brothers came up with. Let’s just say we weren’t expecting a photo collage reminiscent of one of those video yearbooks they sold at my high school. Take a look after the jump and judge for yourselves…