Bloggy Goodness: Welcome To ’09

We hope that you rang in 2009 with style last night. I spent mine with My Morning Jacket as they ripped the roof off the Garden with a monster three and half hour show that included some fantastic covers. So, as you manage to shake off your first hangover of the year I figured we’d cut right to the chase and unload a batch of links to get you through the day…

• List Time: Best Album Cover Art Of '08
• The Boss to release a Wal-Mart only Greatest Hits disc
• A cassette tape of a drunk John Lennon sells for $30 K
• Amander Palmer is pissed that her videos are gone from YouTube
• Cover Alert: Lykke Li tackles Kings Of Leon
• Paul's Boutique will get reissued for its' 20th anniversary
• An Apples In Stereo song is featured in a new Pepsi ad
• Zooey Deschanel and DC4C' Ben Gibbard got engaged
• Give a listen to the demo that got Biggie Smalls signed
• AD kicks down a Jeff Magnum solo show from '96
• Merl Saunders estate is suing Jerry Garcia's over unpaid royalties

We here at HT want to wish you all a very Happy New Year and are looking forward to big 2009. READ ON for the full setlist and some videos from MMJ's Monumental New Year's show at the Garden...