The Current Music Blog: November 1, 2006 Archive

The Buffering Stream 11/1: Special Sugar Crash Edition

Posted at 6:57 AM on November 1, 2006 by Hans Eisenbeis (3 Comments)

CMJ Fest starts with a punch in the face. [NME]

Grandaddy's Jim Fairchild identifies "the world's greatest rock 'n' roll band."[P4K]

You didn't know you didn't care until now: Top 100 musicians who play golf. [Stereogum/Golf Digest]

If your favorite rock star was a dog, what breed would he or she be? [RS]

Oy vey, Yo La Tengo! No Hannukah this year for Ira and his thugs. [BV]

Flaming Lips get a street in OK City named after them. [NewsOK.com]

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Coming Down From Halloween With Ouija Radio

Posted at 9:00 AM on November 1, 2006 by Hans Eisenbeis

Yesterday while we were raiding the candy stash and splashing fake blood around the place, we hooked up with Ouija Radio, currently on a nationwide tour. In the hopes of getting some REAL horror stories, we wanted to hear how the tour is going. More important we wanted to know how the band spent the holiday--getting in touch with The Departed? Holding a seance?

Christy fills us in... after the jump.

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A Man, A Plan, A Strange TV Appearance

Posted at 3:00 PM on November 1, 2006 by Hans Eisenbeis

Zak Sally--former bassist for Low, graphic artist, publisher, and prematurely old man--tells the story of how, a couple months ago, he landed on the ABC Nightly News singing the praises of prog-rock band Tool. It all started with an article for City Pages (yay, Sarah!) which got picked up by the Village Voice, which then presumably got left in a bathroom somewhere at ABC World Headquarters on a slow news day. See, there you go: We're all just one stall away from our fifteen minutes of superstardom! Or at least our fifteen minutes of network television punditry.

Salient point being that Zak never wanted all that attention. He merely wanted to rock out, at the largesse of the local alt-weekly:

"I pitched [City Pages] because it was something I've been thinking about and wanted to write about at some point," Sally explained. "But...I really wanted to get into the show for free. And then I couldn't! I couldn't go see them! Which I'm still kind of fuming about."

Somebody find a way to get Zak Sally into a Tool show, will ya? The man is pure gold.

Photo courtesy Chairkickers Records publicity