Aside from holidays where major news events happen, thus disrupting one’s chance to actually get away from her laptop and have a life, April Fool’s Day is probably the most annoying 24-hour stretch on the professional blogger’s calendar, thanks to everyone on the Internet thinking they’re funny. Despite that not really being true! After the jump, a running tally of pranks from various music-related entities; it’ll be updated throughout the day, because Lord knows I need to do something with all the “comedy” clogging up my RSS reader right now.
Bjork joins Led Zeppelin. Points for the sorta-convincing Photoshop of Lady B with Page, Bonham, and Jones. Extra points for claiming that she inserted an “only songs from I and IV” clause in her contract. And bonus extra points for being something I would actually want to hear. This wins the Internet for today, I think. [Bjork.com]
Nine Inch Nails‘ new album. “To download NIN’s new full-length album Strobe Light, PRODUCED BY TIMBALAND, enter a valid email address in the fields below. A download link will be sent to you immediately. Your credit card will be charged $18.98 plus a $10 digital delivery convenience fee. Your files will arrive as windows media files playable on quite a few players with your name embedded all over them just in case you lose them. You will also receive an exclusive photo and a free email account with our partner Google’s Gmail service.” Chris Cornell’s Twitter unavailable for comment. [nin.com, although be warned: I think the <blink> tag usage is going to give me a seizure.]
Comerica Park is being renamed Kid Rock Field. Not going to lie: If a friend of mine hadn’t sent me this in a “hey, did you see this April Fool’s joke?” context, I would have believed it, what with the home of the Detroit Tigers currently being named in honor of a bank and all. (If only an enterprising Mets fan had thought of this first…) [KidRock.com; HT Pat]
Peter Bjorn And John Shreds. 5.5? [YouTube]
Marty Friedman joins Limp Bizkit. Had me going there for a second, thanks to the excellent mimicry of Fred Durst‘s Twitter “style.” [MetalSucks]
“Warner Bros. Acquires The Pirate Bay.” “when i first read this it scared the shit outa me but then i looked at my calender and was sooooooooooo relived when i saw that it was april 1st. i almost had a heart attack you guys! come on not cool!!!! lol oh yeah, and 13 billion dollars??? in this economy??? yeah right WB’s aint doing shit lol” See what happens when you indulge geeks? Do you see? [The Pirate Bay]
“Deicide Frontman Converts To Christianity.” Not all that original in the grand scheme of Crazy Confessions; claim that the conversion was announced “on the band’s Web site” would have probably been a little funnier if the actual Deicide site wasn’t currently redirecting to a domain squatter. [Metal Underground]
Ethan Hawke profiles Kris Kristofferson for Rolling Stone. Oh, wait, that isn’t a joke? Huh. [RS]
What about Kid Rock buying the rights from Comerica and renaming the Tigers’ stadium “Kid Rock Field”?
@Mendle: well, it is detroit…
Not just an annoying day for pro bloggers, but for readers as well. I figure I’ll just be hitting “mark all read” in my reader about every hour and not waste any more time on it. April 1st and the internet have destroyed each other.
@revmatty: You can take refuge here!
@revmatty: What’s even more annoying is when sites apply a “web format flip” in that they totally change direction, editorial style, etc. for a day. It’s not funny, we all know what’s going on, just stop already… (except for Maddox’s site of course)
Has there EVER been a funny, online April Fools Day joke?
Twitter + TinyURL = oh, people are still doing that Rickrolling thing, greeeeat.
Please, please, please, please, please someone make Bjork join Led Zeppelin.
@MayhemintheHood: This year’s google joke is pretty great. Well, CADIE’s website at least…
Because this week’s Idol theme is “top donloads from the iTunes Store”, the group-sing tonite will be a medley composed of songs by Flo Rida, Lady GaGa, Soulja Boy Tell’Em, and Nicole Scherzinger.
@lastclearchance: That website song is great. Somebody got really excited making that thing.
I see the Deicide hoax has made its routine April Fool’s appearance. Like clockwork.
Gotta say I like Trent’s April Fools:
[www.nin.com]
Why is anyone still thinking about Kid Rock?
@natepatrin: It remains pretty funny if performed properly
April Fools’ Day is, undoubtedly, and without any sort of competition, my least-favorite day of the entire year. If I don’t want to celebrate Valentine’s Day, I don’t have to; if I don’t feel like going out on my birthday, I can stay in. But even if you do everything possible to avoid stupid, pointless, unfunny articles and videos, people will still send them to you ad nauseam. It’s as annoying as it is idiotic, which is incredibly.
I will definitely head out to see it this winter.
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Good story! GA can be my biggest earning. Yet, it is not a a lot.