The Current Music Blog: August 23, 2006 Archive

Oh, Canada: The Hold Steady Edition

Posted at 7:10 AM on August 23, 2006 by Hans Eisenbeis (43 Comments)

This is old news, but when it comes to Canada-- well, it's all good. A few weeks ago, our favorite transplanted Minneapolis band, the Hold Steady, made a little sortie to Canada from their homebase of Brooklyn, New York. Seems the Canadian authorities were not exactly welcoming. According to the band's blog,

"We got fleeced getting into Canada. They charged Bobby 200 bones for a traffic ticket he got in Minneapolis 6 years ago. And then they proceeded to tear our truck apart, charge us tax AND duty on all our merch, and confiscate our case of Hold Steady lighters. There are kids all over Quebec and Ontario flicking their bics with below average fire power. Blame your government. We tried our best. And they took their f----ing sweet time, too. When I went back in to get a new code to be released from the holding lot, they were all having a good laugh. In French. To the Canadian authorities: My middle finger to you. On the bright side: To the Canadian people and bar owners: I put my hands together and say a prayer that you're there.

The Hold Steadies' prayers were answered, apparently. Nothing but positive notices from north of the heavily fortified border.

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With Friends Like These, Who Needs The Industry?

Posted at 8:08 AM on August 23, 2006 by Hans Eisenbeis

The Basement Jaxx have raised the ante nicely in the "free content" game. The British power-keypushing duo have posted their new album, due out in September, in its entirety. Of course, since it’s a stream you're not supposed to download-right-click-save… naughty naughty!

Jurassic Week, Day Three! Sightings in Boston

Posted at 10:22 AM on August 23, 2006 by Hans Eisenbeis

Your world frightens and confuses us; we don't know how the J5 manage to be on two TV stations and a dozen radio stations at the same time, but somehow they also teleported themselves yesterday to Boston for a dreary music festival... where they fully dominated. According to the Boston Globe's Jonathon Perry,

Jurassic 5 were the evening's biggest show-stoppers. The relentlessly charismatic five-piece took turns working the crowd and, on numbers such as ``I Am Somebody," ``What's Golden," and the new crossover single ``Work It Out," delivered a deluge of seamless rhymes that ranged from funny to boastful to inspiring.

If anyone has any information proving that the Jurassic Five are NOT clones, Martians, or insane overachievers, please emai us.