We’ll get right into things today since you’re probably trying to get in that last blast of summer and shouldn’t be sitting around looking at a computer screen. So let’s check out what’s been going on with a lengthy batch of links…

• List Time: Top Ten Hair Metal Gods
• Neil Diamond offers refunds for those who attended his Ohio show
• Rolling Stone give a comprehensive guide to a Decade Of The Dude
• CoS interviews with Silver Jews’ frontman David Berman
• Find out how ZZ Top’s Eliminator changed the ’80s
• The Weight checked out Strange Design at Sullivan Hall
• Is Sam Champion the next big thing? WNEW thinks so
• The boys from Coventry share some great pics from Outside Lands
• Wilco & Fleet Foxes join forces for a cover of I Shall Be Released
• The recently reunited Beachwood Sparks will head into the studio

Now go outside and enjoy your last day off till Columbus Day. Go!