TGIF: Patti Smith, Head Banging and the NRA

This weeks TGIF is a long one to make up for last week. Happy Easter, all!

• The Music Industry Is Finally Turning Around!

• Patti Smith Announces New Album - Hell yes! If there is one woman in music I aspire to be like, it’s Patti Smith. Can’t wait for new music from her.

• Dr. John’s Unlikely New Partner I saw them together at Bonnaroo, so I can’t say I’m surprised. This is gonna be awesome.

• LISTEN: Zeus, “A Strong Mind” If you don’t have their album yet, here’s another reason why you should.

• WATCH: Three guys paint a room by head banging That must have been fun to wash out of their hair.

• Worst Album Covers of All Time

• The 20 Best Indie Rock Madonna Covers I like these better than her originals.

• ‘Shameless’ Music Supervisor on the Show’s Devotion to Indie Rock Love hearing about the process music supervisors have for choosing songs (this was once my career goal in life). Shameless is a fucking funny show too.

• My life is ‘hell’: Robert Wilkinson, Bohemian Rhapsodist LOL. This guy, oh man.

• New exhibit tracks the rich history of cinema in Toronto Love it.

• Toronto Street Food Project Support this, please!!!

• An open letter to those who elected Rob Ford You tell em.

• CBC to cut jobs, programs over next 3 years This sucks, but I guess it’s true that it could have been even worse.

• 5 Things Remarkable Bosses Never Do

• 5 Harsh Realities of Making a Living Online So much truth.

• Six Reasons Small Talk Is Very Important and How To Get Better At It I’ll be the first to admit I suck at small talk, but it is so damn important. I’m working on it.

• The Commitment of Success

• 15 Things You Should Give Up To Be Happy Solid advice.

• How Yoga Teaches Us To Multitask Better This reminds me of why I’m getting back to practicing after putting it off for far too long.

• Wanted: people who can write, edit It’s interesting to see how short form blogging like Tumblr and Twitter have created a lack in full on bloggers, it’s certainly easier to just stick to 140 characters, but if you’re looking for a job, blogging is a great skill to have.

• I Hereby Resign Great letter about why asking to see an employees Facebook is a very bad idea.

• Small Apartment People Problems: My Kitchen Is Next to My Bathroom My bathroom is beside my kitchen, not within it, so I don’t have quite this bad a problem (especially since I don’t really cook), but I do understand and relate to the peril of a small apartment, it is annoying.

• 5,000 Books Pour Out of a Building in Spain Awesome exhibit.

• The Incredible Apartments That Have Swimming Pools Instead of Balconies I dream of living there.

• Maxim’s “Cure A Feminist” Spreads the Sexism Even Farther Than It Dared to Hope Ugh.

• The Most Hilariously Paranoid Things You Can Buy on the NRA Website HAHA.

• WATCH: 15 Cats Grooming Dogs

• Finally, this Google April Fool’s prank was pretty damn funny (especially LL Cool J’s cameo):

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