The Current Music Blog: October 9, 2006 Archive

The Buffering Stream: Your Monday Morning Dietary Metaphor To Go

Posted at 6:30 AM on October 9, 2006 by Hans Eisenbeis (1 Comments)

Another one bites the dust: Tower Records dies. [Pollstar]

The Brazilian Girl diet: Peaches, Goldfrapp, and Kinky. [NYTimes]

The Rolling Stone diet: No more pot, no more blogs. [Stereogum]

Bad back can't keep Scissor Sisters from blogging... about why they can't play the Twin Cities. [RXRW]

Our favorite new band name: Parts & Labor [Pitchfork]

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Monday Laundry: Friday Flashback

Posted at 8:01 AM on October 9, 2006 by Hans Eisenbeis (18 Comments)

We enjoyed last Friday's Fakebook festivities at the Fitz, and the local cognoscenti were out in full force: Hello, Michael Tortorello, the man who runs City Pages. Nice to see you, Jake Slichter drummer of Semisonic and celebrity author. How's tricks, world's greatest food and wine critic Dara Moskowitz? Life goes on after city and regional magazines, right Steve Marsh?

As for the official guests--John Hodgman, Jonathon Coulton, and Neil Pollack--well, they dropped more F-bombs than the 42nd Airborne and Burt Blyleven combined. And the warm-up band? Ames, Iowa's Poison Control Center. We haven't seen so much Indian leg wrestling since YMCA Camp Widjiwagan.

Photo courtesy Poison Control Center

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Signs of the Apocalypse, No. 4

Posted at 9:00 AM on October 9, 2006 by Hans Eisenbeis (18 Comments)

Nick Hornby's music-snob manifesto, the novel "High Fidelity", already suffered the indignity of being forcibly deported to Chicago and turned into a John Cusack film. (Sorry, but is Cusack not the most overrated, underperforming "movie star" of his generation?) Now it's being turned into a Broadway musical. Repeat: a Broadway musical. Well, that should be interesting, considering the embarrassment of riches that form the raw material of Hornby's hipster universe. Prepare for some Spiritualized b-sides, some Warsaw bootlegs, and some Big Black-- right? MSNBC tells us:

"The score is filled with referential riffs to the Beatles, the Who and Yes that plays like an insider’s game."

Uh... not to be snobbish about it, but this sounds rather like riding in a 3,000 seat elevator for two and a half hours.

Also this: YES?!

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