The Current Music Blog: December 5, 2006 Archive

The Buffering Stream 12/05: Special Tuesday Non Sequitr Edition

Posted at 7:00 AM on December 5, 2006 by Hans Eisenbeis (2 Comments)

About the ten most annoying pop songs of 2006. And you can compare prices!

Franz Ferdinand, meet Nardwuar the Human Serviette. Huh?

Much O' Bliged: Mary J. Blige will need a lot of shelf space for all those awards.

Rock stars and their astonishingly self-indulgent radio shows.

Devotchka and My Brightest Diamond look real pretty in Chicago.

P.J. Harvey was more important than Nirvana, says the broken clock.

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Is that cat licensed? More bad news for local clubbers

Posted at 2:00 PM on December 5, 2006 by Hans Eisenbeis

A little birdie told us today that the Kitty Cat Klub in Dinkytown has, like its Nordeast counterpart the 331 Club, had its entertainment license revoked by the City of Minneapolis.

Is it just us, or has the world gotten colder and meaner in the last three months?

Unfortunately, the Kitty Cat's luscious website got locked in cryogenic suspension sometime in September, so we can't even tell you what shows you won't be seeing there from now on.

As our old friend Drudge likes to say: Developing. More news as it becomes available...

Image: Courtesy Kitty Cat Klub

Remember the Jesus and Mary Chain?

Posted at 3:00 PM on December 5, 2006 by Hans Eisenbeis (5 Comments)

Here's another great daily time-waster: This day in music. It's really just a breath of fresh air, rather than a full leave-your-cubicle-and-take-a-walk-in-the-park-with-a-can-of-beer-in-a-paper-bag kind of diversion, but still.

Barb pointed out one of today's items, which was especially sentimental to us:

December 5, 1987, The Jesus And Mary Chain were banned from appearing on a US music TV show after complaints of blasphemy when the group's name was flashed across the screen. The CBS show asked the band to be called JAMC but the group didn't agree.

If memory serves, the real blasphemy had to do more with the sound of the band, which was a brow-beating, tweeter-blowing wall of reverb from four diffident, big-haired young blokes in a squash court. Others reviled, we loved. (Were they the last truly great punk rock band, in terms of media manipulation? We think so...)

Still, we wonder: What CBS show in 1987 had the, um, cojones to book JAMC in the first place? It wasn't Letterman. He didn't leave NBC until 1993. WInning answer in the comments receives public adulation!

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