The Current Music Blog: October 16, 2006 Archive

The Buffering Stream: Your Music News Sunny Side Up, With Sausage Links

Posted at 7:02 AM on October 16, 2006 by Hans Eisenbeis

Radiohead making radioheadway on new album. [NME]

After all these beers, CBGB's finally closes. [BBC]

Freddy Fender shuffles off this mortal coil. [Pollstar]

Cat Power: The queen of the little screen. [AOL]

Cat Stevens: The bean that can't get back in the star machine. [NYDN]

Last Call on the Bowery

Posted at 8:00 AM on October 16, 2006 by Hans Eisenbeis

The alt interweb is awash with photos from the closure of CBGB's this past weekend, and we have a couple of observations:

First, Debby Harry doesn't look a day over, um, thirteen.

Second, the Patti Smith/Men's Warehouse look--you gotta respect someone whose sense of style has not changed in 40 years, but we fear that old suitcoat is just about toast.

Photo: Getty Images

Get a Job in the Glamorous Music Industry, Today!

Posted at 12:00 PM on October 16, 2006 by Hans Eisenbeis

Who doesn't like to spend a rainy Monday morning fantasizing about Friday night at First Avenue? Or at least, uh, Thursday afternoon in Seattle...

Jam with a tuba player! Don't ask: He cannot play any other brass instruments, not even trombone.

Play First Avenue this Friday! "Screamo/metal" bands need not apply.

Join the street team of some anonymous UK rock band!

Give an academic paper to a roomful of rock critics in Seattle.

Apply to be a music editor or ad sales executive (but not both) in Seattle.

Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Like Digging For Potatoes, No. 4: Completely Random YouTuber of the Day

Posted at 5:00 PM on October 16, 2006 by Hans Eisenbeis

This song is one of our favorite guilty pleasures. And seeing the video, we're thinking Sarah really ought to have that slightly elevated mole looked at.

Photo: Courtesy Sarah McLachlan