April Fools’ Day may just be one day a year but in internet terms, the jokes live on. In the week proceeding April 1st, a keen web user encounters dozens of crazy and fake news stories which persist on websites after they’ve served their ephemeral one-day use. It’s best just to mark “read all” in your feed reader and be done with it or you could end up reading with interest, about Coldplay’s plan to launch a new fragrance called Angst (with a bottle designed by Brian Eno) or Indaba Music’s remix prank without realising it.
The remix community site Indaba launched a remix competition on April 1st which gave users the opportunity to remix “one of the most important musical works of the 20th century”, 4’33 by composer John Cage. The site purported to offer stems of the track for remix purposes but of course, 4’33 is in fact, four minutes and thirty three seconds of silence. So you’d be a proper April fool to fall for it. Continue Reading..»
Rock Star April Fools pranks
Find out how Kid Rock, Trent Reznor, Bjork and Metallica tried to dupe fans this April Fools.
http://tinyurl.com/aprilfoolsrock
Drum for the Smashing Pumpkins!
After Jimmy Chamberlain left the band a couple of weeks ago (again), Billy Corgan (the only original member left) posted an open call looking for his replacement. Hurry though, auditions are today in LA!
http://tinyurl.com/spdrummer
Picturegate
Reaction, photoshop parody and nudie postcard exhibitions referred to on Twitter show what most people think of the Brian Cowen picturegate incident.
http://tinyurl.com/picturegate
