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• As if Bonnaroo didn’t attract enough hippies, we revealed that Phish will likely headline two nights at the Tennessee festival in 2009. Let’s just hope Trey Anastasio refrains from calling anyone “squid brains.”

• We learned Prince has a new album but doesn’t know what to do with it. Rather than just letting it collect dust, the Purple One played four songs on a Los Angeles indie rock station, then a fifth song appeared on a blinding, mysterious Website.
• While pundits debated whether the wave may be crashing for rock video games, Guitar Hero announced an all-Metallica game, then Rock Band struck back with Pearl Jam’s Ten.
• U2 announced No Line on the Horizon would be out March 3rd and then filled their wallets with the $19 million that Live Nation owed them. The whole thing made our readers extremely excited… almost too excited.
• Axl Rose blogged, so we analyzed his rants and Chinese Democracy continued its descent down the charts. Perhaps Axl would’ve been better off signing with Wal-Mart rather than Best Buy.