The Current Music Blog: September 15, 2006 Archive

Can You Identify The Whiskery Rock Star?

Posted at 7:00 AM on September 15, 2006 by Hans Eisenbeis (6 Comments)

Over at the Strib, Chris Riemenschneider looks into the Alarmists, the Twin Cities' hot young "suburban brit-poppers," and finds the band strangely obsessed with facial hair.

"'I think you sing better with a moustache,' guitarist Ryan McMillan jokes. There's jealousy behind McMillan's barb, though: The blond mop-topped guitarist can't yet grow so much as a decent pencil-stache. He has watched from the sidelines as three of the other four Alarmists simultaneously grew new facial hair over the past month."

Which of course got us thinking: Great moustaches of rock? There aren't that many that immediately spring to mind. Here's what we came up with last night, as we were getting into our jammies:1...2...3...4...5...6

(Identify and win self affirmation and public adulation on Monday! ).

Hungry Like An Animated Wolf

Posted at 10:00 AM on September 15, 2006 by Hans Eisenbeis (67 Comments)

Second Life is totally hot, right? And now the first rock band has commissioned their own avatars, who will eventually perform in the parallel world. And who is this superhip, superhot band? Duran Duran.

Did we say Second Life is totally hot? A thousand laptops suddenly close…

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The Kids Are All Uptight

Posted at 11:15 AM on September 15, 2006 by Hans Eisenbeis (3 Comments)

Remember when we told you that Paul Westerberg and Tommy Stinson had reunited? They recorded a couple of songs for "Open Season," the forthcoming animated children's movie.

The kids at Pitchfork have been granted the keys to Lost Highway's listening room, where they are streaming one of these new tunes. And the kids are not impressed.

"'Love You in the Fall' is exactly what you'd expect: feelgood, vaguely rootsy pop-rock that won't offend anybody. Westerberg sounds typically weathered, and Stinson's bass sounds, well, completely anonymous."

But y'know this is a democracy of the average, not a tyranny of the cool. Go listen to "Love You"--and two others--yourself.

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