That's one of the surprising discoveries to come out of an experiment by the British band Radiohead last week.

FORBES: Free? Steal It Anyway

Meanwhile, the People's Bank of China is guiding the currency higher and set the median point of its permitted daily trading band last week at the strongest level ever.

WSJ: New Zealand, China in Talks on Convertibility of Currencies

Aaron Freeman, better known as Gene Ween of the band Ween, is releasing an album of McKuen songs this week: "Marvelous Clouds" (Partisan), a loving review of Mr. McKuen's most familiar compositions, performed with charm and reverence.

WSJ: Rod McKuen | Gene Ween, Roses Are Red | By Jim Fusilli

Chart Analysis : The daily chart of the Sypder Trust ( SPY) shows that the daily Starc- band was tested early in the week while prices have been trying to stabilize over the past few days.

FORBES: Stock Rebound Comes into Question

Rock residencies are part of a national trend of club managers turning over their slowest night of the week to an up-and-coming band for a solid month.

NPR: No-Cover Mondays: L.A.'s Rock Residency Scene

That tiny minority of spotty youths who actually liked the band bought it in exactly the week that no one else in the country was buying records at all and so the band got their one and only No. 1 hit single.

FORBES: Iron Maiden's Daughter Slaughter Lesson for Apple's iTunes App Store

Last week the band suffered a blow with the untimely death of their guitarist and key songwriter Jeff Hanneman.

FORBES: Business Lessons from Slayer: A Reflection In Honor of Jeff Hanneman

The band members jiggled their legs but were otherwise immobile, and perhaps three smiles broke out onstage in the course of the week.

NEWYORKER: Sound Machine