The Current Music Blog: October 18, 2006 Archive

The Buffering Stream: Converting Metric Music News to Standard Music News

Posted at 7:03 AM on October 18, 2006 by Hans Eisenbeis

U2's new cause: promoting onlne advertising. [NME]

Sorry, but is Panic at the Disco not the dumbest band ever? [NME]

Gorillaz to publish a book, Rise of the Ogres. [Filter]

Jeff Tweedy returns the love by throttling an exuberant fan. [Pitchfork]

Goldfrapp: You know, "electronica" is an anagram for erotica. [BrooklynVegan]

A Fix For Apple Geeks

Posted at 8:02 AM on October 18, 2006 by Hans Eisenbeis (15 Comments)

If you love your iPod so much, prove it: Read this long and marginally interesting story about who invented it. Then come back here and tell us: Whatever happened to the Diamond Rio?

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Joseph Arthur: The Anti-Commercial

Posted at 9:30 AM on October 18, 2006 by Hans Eisenbeis (7 Comments)

There's a new song on the terrific new Joseph Arthur album, "Black Lexus." While Joe has licensed several songs to movie soundtracks, he gave into temptation only once. In conversation with Mark Wheat the other day, he admitted selling a song for commercial purposes just once, over in Europe, but he regretted it--even though he was, at the time, in desperate straits and thought he might "get in on a little of that Sting money."

"Black Lexus" is hardly an endorsement of Toyota's luxury line, but did Joe discuss the tune with the company? Joe said,

"No, I didn't talk to them or anything. What does 'Lexus' mean? Is it just a car? That sounds like something from mythology. 'He strode forth and carried a Lexus...' like a sword or something."

Well, we're here to help, Mr. Arthur: Actually, the vaguely Latin-sounding name doesn't mean anything. It's one of those silly made-up words like Accenture or Ameriprise or Quisp. All of these words have the same meaning: "Stop asking so many questions and just buy me!"

Also this: According to Joseph Arthur, his new guitarist Kraig Jarret Johnson, has an alcohol-fueled alter-ego named "Chupey." How about you tell us who you become when you're into your cups?

MPR Photo/Derrick Stevens

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Like Digging For Potatoes, No. 5: The Black Keys!

Posted at 4:00 PM on October 18, 2006 by Hans Eisenbeis (2 Comments)

In this installment of Digging for YouTubers, our heroes take multiple gun shots to the chest, some lousy little kid steals that weird secret orb dealio (pictured at right), Lindsay Lohan vomits a whole, uncooked egg, and the Beatles "Let It Be" is subtly parodied. Does it get any better than this?

Our favorite scene, in a coffee shop:

DAN AUERBACH (guitars/vocals): "So how does it feel being dead?"

PATRICK CARNEY (drums): "I don't know. My neck hurts."

As they say, at least the Black Keys died doing what they love: Making an awesomely crappy video!

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