*Little Steven's Underground Garage Cheap Trick or Treat Halloween Ball featuring a rare performance by the cult-hero and horror song creator Roky Erickson will air on VH1 Classics today, 10/31 at 1am EST (10pm PST) and in prime time on Friday, 11/3 (exact time TBD). Hosted by Little Steven, this live concert at the Hard Rock Live also features performances by Cheap Trick, Shadows of Knight, The Romantics and The Charms.

*SpongeBob SquarePants' "Riddin' The Hook" is Little Steven's Underground Garage "Coolest Song In The World This Week". Check out Steven's hysterical Billboard column below.

*Plus, check out tour diaries from Shadows of the Knight, The Romantics and the Garage Girls A Go-Go dancers and other bands on the Rolling Rock and Roll Show Tour at http://billboard.com/bbcom/search/google/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003121845

Little Steven's Underground Garage Billboard Chart for November 4, 2006
Glub glub, baby: We're traveling to the Deep South this week. And I mean deep, as the pride of Bikini Bottom spews forth our coolest song in the world this week, "Ridin' the Hook." It's by a cat who's so hip, he's square; yes, Mr. Clean, the man whose conversation is never less than absorbing, the Spongester himself, SpongeBob SquarePants.

The new album, "Best Day Ever," is Bobby's first concept album. If you have kids, or live in a state of permanent arrested development like me, or occasionally like to smoke those funny cigarettes, you're going to love this.

The story's based around a radio station, WH20 and the star DJ on the station is none other than Jerry Blavat, the Geator with the Heater himself. One of the last of the truly legendary DJ characters in real life and an inspired choice by writer/producers Andy Paley and Tom Kenny.

It's not a one-hit album either, with additional future classics like "Doin' the Krabby Patty" (SpongeBob with Patrick, who also duets on "Hook"). Squidward's "Superior" lives up to its name and Plankton's "You Will Obey!" has a touch of Captain Hook meet Rocky Horror.

The label is Nickelodeon's, and somebody needs to be paying a little more attention to this thing. I couldn't find any hint of its existence on the SpongeBob homepage and I'd have to recommend they partner with somebody who cares: maybe Seymour Stein at Sire, since he turned me on to it, despite having no involvement in the record whatsoever.

And maybe this downloading thing has an upside. Universal, among others, is making older, out-of-print vinyl records available for downloading, since there is no packaging cost. Some cool things will be available again--like Brigitte Bardot's "Je T'aime...Moi Non Plus." I'll take a dozen, please. See you next week.