The Current Music Blog: September 14, 2006 Archive

It's TV on the Radio Day!

Posted at 7:00 AM on September 14, 2006 by Hans Eisenbeis

The fuse has been lit under TV on the Radio. Last night, they were on the Late Show with Letterman. And this Saturday, they'll be playing at the Austin City Limits festival. Backstage, they'll be interviewed by mtvU--and the questions will be coming from you, dear reader, by way of a special viewer submission form here.

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That's When I Reach For My... Radio Edit?

Posted at 11:00 AM on September 14, 2006 by Hans Eisenbeis

Mission of Burma, one of those seminal bands of the post-punk era that only managed to record one album, have reunited-- and the results have got many, many people in a positive dither.

But you know, these things don’t happen in a vacuum. When Moby recorded MOB's most famous tune, "That's When I Reach For My Revolver," a couple years ago, we were reminded of one of the great post-punk songs ever pressed on wax. Although the Great White One added nothing (and, to be fair, subtracted nothing--other than tweaking the lyrics in a kinda bizarre way: "That's when I realize it's over...") from the original, we felt we’d rediscovered a sort of personal manifesto. And we don’t even own a gun!

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