Intermezzo: Headlines That Suck / Zac Brown Covers Panic

HT co-founder Slade “Ace Cowboy” Sohmer has spent the last year-plus working on the fantastic next generation news site HyperVocal. Slade and the HV team has always had a knack for finding unintentionally hilarious headlines from around the world and the latest part of the HyperVocal Network highlights these Headlines That Sucks. HeadlinesThatSuck.com gives readers a chance to “put a little polish on that turd” by submitting punchlines for each headline on HTS.

We’ve already wasted some of our work day poking around HTS and laughing, so we wanted to give our readers a heads up on Slade’s latest project.

Here’s six other stories of note this week..

• Rolling Stone looks at the new economics of the music industry
• Randy Ray chats with former Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman
• Real Estate stops by Bowlegs to lay down a solemn It’s Real
• A coroner report indicates Amy Winehouse died of Alcohol Poisoning
• Sammy Hagar offers to manage reunited classic lineup of GNR
• Act now if you want airbrushed image of Trey Anastasio on a guitar

Finally, the Zac Brown Band curated last weekend’s Southern Ground festival in Charleston, South Carolina. While we highlighted My Morning Jacket’s sizzling version of Off The Record from the event in yesterday’s video post, Jambands.com hipped us to some of the action that took place during the ZBB’s set of covers. Not only did Warren “The Hardest Working Man in the Jam Scene” Haynes sit in on Johnny Cash’s Folsom Prison Blues and Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd, but the Zac Brown Band showed off their cover of Ain’t Life Grand by jam titans Widespread Panic. Take a look.