Dumbest news story of the day.
When I interviewed the band for this extensive oral history I put together at the A.V. Club, I spent a few minutes talking with Munaf Rayani, who plays guitar, about their previous 9/11 connections — namely, that their second record came out a few days before September 11, 2001, and had a picture of an airplane crashing on the cover — and how obnoxious they found the subsequent media attention. He had a good story about a similar outcry to the one in Idaho around a UK gig that they played on September 11, 2002, where straight-faced British journalists questioned the appropriateness of booking the Texas instrumental rock band on that day. I’ll see if I can find the tape when I get home.
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Seriously? Just because their name is “Explosions in the Sky”? NBC please start reporting real news again