The Current Music Blog: September 19, 2006 Archive

Steve's Aggregator: Start Your Day With Knowledge, Yo!

Posted at 6:59 AM on September 19, 2006 by Hans Eisenbeis (1 Comments)

Willy Nelson. Oh, Willy Nelson. [the Beeb]

Ross and Chris, dueling Tool reviews. [Strib, PiPress]

What you should know about the new iTunes 7.0: It's fun! [DWBlog]

Ian McCulloch loses his, uh, cool in the toilet. Cleared of assault charges, tho. [NME]

Sugarcubes reunite--with Björk! Time to burn all those frequent flier miles. [Pitchfork]

Stolen or lost cellphone? Never mind the ringtones, make it scream like a small child. [Wired]

Getting Biblical--4AD's "plague songs" with Stephin Merritt, Brian Eno, and several other notable gentiles [Pitchfork]

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The Many Moods of Allmusic: Snowden Edition

Posted at 7:00 AM on September 19, 2006 by Hans Eisenbeis

As you know, when it's a quiet day in the world of music news, we like to shuffle over to the All Music guide--especially to hang out in their Moods area. Today, we learned that the reverby Atlanta quartet Snowden are, among other things,

Somber

Nocturnal

Brooding

Detached

You know the drill: Follow the Allmusic links to learn, by way of comparison, about similar bands with similar moods. We're feeling a little brooding ourselves, so let's seek out a few other brooding artists and albums. Allmusic points us in the direction of:

Bruce Springsteen, Nebraska

Radiohead, The Bends

Jesus and Mary Chain, Dark Lands

Richard and Linda Thompson, I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight

Does that put you in the mood sufficiently? Looking back, we think "reverby" works OK too, actually. In which case scratch all of the above, except Jesus and Mary Chain.

For what it's worth, when we think of "brooding," we think of missing last call, or hitch hiking to Duluth, or flunking art class, or mowing the lawn. What activity or band makes you brood? Let us know, in the comments.

Earlier: The laziest band in the world--revealed!

Continuing Thread Update: Moustaches, Grammar, and Local Narcissism Edition

Posted at 9:00 AM on September 19, 2006 by Hans Eisenbeis

So you want to stay abreast of developments here at the buffering stream. Well, try to follow along now:

Latest Great Rock 'N' Roll Moustaches addition: That guy from Gogol Bordello

Latest Band Names That Are Full Sentences addition: I'm From Barcelona

Latest Best Minnesota Albums Ever addition: Anything except "Gravedancer's Union"

Getting to Know... Persephone's Bees

Posted at 12:01 PM on September 19, 2006 by Hans Eisenbeis (3 Comments)

They're glammy, they're from San Francisco, their singer is Russian. At their official website, Persephone's Bees stick to sober realities, like the fact that Punk Rock and New Wave are what actually won the Cold War.

"Angelina Moysov while growing up in Russia was influenced by her mother who loved Russian Folk and Gypsy music, as well as her brother’s collection of British and American music and the underground Russian punk and New Wave that helped Russian youth through hard times."

But at the band's MySpace page, Angelina (we assume) lets down her jet-black hair:

"In the world we're living, all we need is sex."

Indeed. Without sex, none of us would have parents! And how effed up would that be?!

Photo: Michael Lavine/Sony BMG

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