The Current Music Blog: December 19, 2006 Archive

Happy mash-ups at The Buffering Stream 12/19

Posted at 7:17 AM on December 19, 2006 by Hans Eisenbeis

Stax Records is back after thirty years. 23 Skidoo!

Afraid to play MTV Unplugged? Seven-string thugs Korn hire The Cure to help out. Wha?

Mark your new calendars: In 2008, AMC will remake "The Prisoner" TV series. Fully!

New Arcade Fire tune. You can listen to it on your phone (kinda lame), at a toll free number (cool).

New videos from The Shins and TV on the Radio.

Twin Cities Best Music Critic?

Posted at 8:31 AM on December 19, 2006 by Hans Eisenbeis (3 Comments)

The conversation continues below, and the off-site poll has been extended by a day or two. So if you haven't weighed in yet, you're pushing your deadline!

Right now, the voting stands thusly:

1 - Ross Raihala (Pioneer Press) 22.6 %
2 - Christopher Bahn (The Onion AV Club) 18.5 %
3 - Jim Walsh (City Pages) 16.9 %

Others follow...

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Strategies For Retirement

Posted at 2:01 PM on December 19, 2006 by Hans Eisenbeis (1 Comments)

The geezers are getting cranky: Led Zeppelin, the Doors, and the Grateful Dead are suing a website called Wolfgang's Vault. (Actually, to be more accurate but slightly cynical about it, the surviving members of those bands, and an army of lawyers, are suing the Vault.)

The site is selling memorabilia from the estate of legendary San Fran rock promoter Bill Graham. The bands are claiming that the sale of this junk infringes on their right to profit from their own images, recordings, merchandise, and... well, junk.

If the resale of this sort of material is illegal, it'll be a bitter pill to swallow to the nation's used record stores, who have been picking the pockets of super-rich, oversexed rock stars for decades.

More important, does this mean the garage sale circuit will finally be relieved of all those unwanted copies of "Brothers in Arms" and "Thriller"?

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