Today we have our final entry in our week-long Minnesota 150 edition of My Three Songs, where we've been inviting local music luminaries to submit their three-song sets. Today: Peter Mielech, partner at Modern Radio Records since 2005. Peter says:

"Would it be totally pretentious to choose 3 local songs from bands on Modern Radio? I've been spending some time revisiting the Modern Radio catalog in preparation for our 9 year anniversary event on May 31st at the Turf Club. I'd like to choose songs from past and present releases that sometimes get overlooked."

1) The Vets, "Equilateral Angel"
2) Cave Deaths, "Hysterical"
3) Jim and the French Vanilla, "My Teacher"

Congrats on the 9 years Peter, and thanks for helping to showcase some of Modern Radio's stuff for us today.

It's been a great week, and thanks to EVERYONE who pitched in with a special set on My Three Songs! Next week, the dancefloor is open to all once again.

Let's rock and roll!

The Impressions - "Same Thing It Took"
The great thing about the Impressions is how many of their songs have become standards to me without even knowing it. When listening to a compilation of theirs, I was stunned at the number of tracks I recognized.

The Alarmists - "New Romans"
Appropriately, a track from a local band I've been enjoying over the last few years. The synths make me think of some ancient AM '70s Gold song, which I mean as a compliment. [I have substituted another Alarmists song in lieu of the inexplicable absence of "New Romans" from the Imeem database.] The Alarmists' Eric Lovold submitted his own My Three Songs set earlier this week in honor of MN150, the state's 150th birthday. What are you doing to celebrate?

The Gothic Archies - "Dreary, Dreary"
One of Stephin Merritt's many side-projects teamed up with Daniel Handler and wrote a song for each of the Lemony Snicket audiobooks. The compilation, The Tragic Treasury, has piqued my interest for this book series (I've never read Harry Potter, either), and it's good to hear Merritt being depressing, but having fun while doing it.

Johnny Cash - "Hurt"
Speaking of having fun, Johnny Cash recorded this Nine Inch Nails cover for his American IV release; perhaps you've heard it. You may also be familiar with the accompanying music video, which is both catastrophically depressing and sadly uplifting: the former for its subject matter and depiction of the passing of time, the latter because of its technical virtuosity -- it may be the greatest video of all time.

Wilco - "The Late Greats"
In various other projects and forums, I've probably written a thousand words on this song. Let's just say I couldn't imagine A Ghost Is Born ending other way.

I'm disappointed, because song #6 that came up on the iPod was Elton John's "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road". But I suppose it's for the best, as that song warrants an entry all its own...

11:55 a.m. My Morning Jacket
Evil Urges is due in stores on June 10th.
They'll be on SNL tomorrow night.
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11:45 a.m. Nine Inch Nails
They're playing Target Center on August 2nd.
Grab the latest record Slip, for free.
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11:30 a.m. Martha Wainwright
I Know You're Married But I've Got Feelings Too will be in stores on June 10th.
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10:40 a.m. Local Music - Atmosphere
When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That S#@! Gold is our CD Of The Week.
Get your own copy when you support The Current online.
They're playing Soundset 08 May 25th along with Dilated Peoples, Aesop Rock, Brother Ali, P.O.S. and many more.
Check out the recent in-studio interview/performance as well as the Fakebook appearance with Chuck D.
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10:35 Local Music - The Plastic Constellations
You can still grab the tune "Black Market Pandas" on our Song Of The Day Podcast page.
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10:10 a.m. R.E.M.
They're playing The Xcel on June 5th with Modest Mouse and The National.
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Song Of The Day Info - Local Music - Polara
Today on our Song Of The Day Podcast we're featuring local music from Polara with the tune "Longest Day" from Beekeeping.
Thier CD release show is tonight at The Varsity. with Joe Werner of Strange Lights, Mercurial Rage, The Mood Swings and The Alarmists
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9:50 a.m. Weezer
Their 6th album will be released on June 24th.
If your pre-order it you can grab a limited edition red 7" single of "Pork & Beans."
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9:15 a.m. Rilo Kiley
They're playing First Avenue on May 22nd.
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9:10 a.m. Beulah (related)
Miles is recording again!

9:00 a.m. Tegan & Sara
They're coming back to town with the the True Colors tour along with Cyndi Lauper, The B-52's and others.
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Win tickets to see Coldplay for free.

Margot & The Nuclear So & So's former drummer has died.

Yaz (or Yazoo, if you prefer) are reuniting, touring and releasing a box-set.

Today In Music History:
1935 - Nokie Edwards (The Ventures) was born.
1950 - Tom Petersson (Cheap Trick) was born.
1962 - Dave Gahan (Depeche Mode) was born.
1962 - Paul Heaton (Housemartins, The Beautiful South) was born.
1970 - The Guess Who's "American Woman" was #1.
1980 - "I Don't Like Mondays" by The Boomtown Rats won the best pop song at the 25th Ivor Novello Awards.
1998 - Jimmy Page appeared on SNL with rapper Sean 'Puffy' Combs to perform a tune from the Godzilla soundtrack.

Another Minnesota music luminary today, as we continue with our week-long MN 150 edition of My Three Songs.

Andrea Myers is Music Editor at City Pages; she's contributed to Reveille Magazine, Howwastheshow.com, Vita.mn, Pulse of the Twin Cities, Rift Magazine, and Alarm Press. Andrea's songs (which are also two-thirds local):

1) Ani DiFranco, "Shy"
2) Brother Ali, "Forest Whitaker"
3) Sam Keenan, "That Was Then"

She says, "These songs are perfect for driving around with the windows down!" This is truly the theme that has emerged this week; I think it's just proof that when you combine our shared love of music with our love of springtime in Minnesota, we're all pretty much in heaven.

Thanks Andrea, and thanks for your writerly contributions to the local landscape.

11:20 a.m. The Kills
They're playing The Triple Rock Sunday night.
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11:15 a.m. Local Music - Cloud Cult
See the video for "Everybody Here Is A Cloud" here.
They're playing the SOLD OUT Rock The Garden along with The New Pornographers, Andrew Bird and Bon Iver
You could win tickets to Rock The Garden.
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10:45 a.m. Nine Inch Nails
They're playing Target Center on August 2nd.
Grab the latest record Slip, for free.
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10:40 a.m. Metric
Unveiled a new song at Coachella.

Song Of The Day Info - Our Side of Town: A Red House Records 25th Year Collection
Today on our Song Of The Day Podcast we're featuring Meg Hutchinson with the tune "Ready" from Our Side Of Town: A Red House Records 25th Year Collection.
More Red House Records here and/or here.
More Meg Hutchinson..

9:50 a.m. Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
They're playing 7th Street Entry May 24th.
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9:40 a.m. Martha Wainwright
I Know You're Married But I've Got Feelings Too will be in stores on June 10th.
Today is her 32nd birthday!
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9:30 a.m. Local Music - Polara
Thier CD release show for Beekeeping is this Friday evening at The Varsity. with Joe Werner of Strange Lights, Mercurial Rage, The Mood Swings and The Alarmists
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9:25 a.m. Portishead
Geoff blogged about their Coachella appearance.

9:10 a.m. The Submarines
Their latest effort is Honeysuckle Weeks.
They have upcoming gigs with Headlights.
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The Vaselines to reunite for two festival shows this summer.

Amy Winehouse has been arrested.

There won't be a Vegoose Fest this year.

Today In Music History:
1911 - Robert Johnson was born.
1940 - Paul Gadd (AKA Gary Glitter) was born.
1940 - Ricky Nelson was born.
1951 - Chris Frantz (Talking Heads) was born.
1967 - Gerry And The Pacemakers announced they were splitting up.
1976 - Martha Wainwright was born.
1976 - John Sebastian (former lead singer of the Lovin Spoonful) was at #1 with "Welcome Back" the theme to Welcome Back Kotter.
2006 - The Rolling Stones called off their European tour after guitarist Keith Richards underwent emergency brain surgery.

Continuing with our Minnesota 150 week here on My Three Songs as we give local musicians and music notables their crack at contributing three-song sets, today we've got Eric Lovold, of The Alarmists!

Eric says, "My theme is spring. We (The Alarmists) just put out spring singles because spring songs make people want to be outside and drive with their windows open."

1) The Zombies, "Care of Cell 44" ("best spring song ever?" muses Eric)
2) The Dandy Warhols, "Boys Better"
3) The Sleepy Jackson, "Come to This"

That's the second Zombies song that's been requested this week ... hmmm, could there be something about their sound that says "thawing"?

11:50 a.m. R.E.M.
Tickets are on sale now for their June 5th date at The Xcel with Modest Mouse and The National.
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11:00 a.m. Black Kids In-Studio Interview/Performance
They are the latest "darlings of the blogosphere." Their (Bernard Butler produced) debut album Partie Traumatic wil be released in late July.
They're currently out on the road with Cut Copy.
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10:55 a.m. Local Music - Mason Jennings
His new release In The Ever, will be released on the 20th.
You can pre-order it here.
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10:35 a.m. Greg Laswell
His new EP How the Day Sounds is available now. His forthcoming full length, 3 Flights From Alto Nido is expected to be released in July.
He's playing Fine Line Music Cafe on Jun 6th.
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10:10 a.m. Billy Bragg
He's playing The Cedar Cultural Center on June 13th.
You can still listen to his SxSW performance in our archives.
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Song Of The Day Info - Local Music - Dosh
Today on our Song Of The Day Podcast we're featuring Dosh with the tune "The Magic Stick" from the album Wolves and Wishes which will be released next week.
Check out the in-studio interview/performance.
Dosh will be playing First Avenue along with P.O.S. on June 27th
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9:50 a.m. Clinic
They're playing 7th Street Entry on May 13th.
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9:40 a.m. The Black Lips
They'll be opening for The Raconteurs on upcoming dates.
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9:30 a.m. The Kills
They're playing The Triple Rock on May 11th.
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9:20 a.m. Fleet Foxes
They're playing 7th Street Entry on Jul 20th.
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9:15 a.m. Peter Murphy
He's playing The Fine Line on June 16th.
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The Police announce their final concert date.

My Bloody Valentine announce more dates.

The Joe Strummer documentary The Future Is Unwritten will be released on June 24th.

Today In Music History:
1946 - Bill Danoff (Starland Vocal Band) was born.
1961 - Phil Campbell (Motorhead) was born.
1983 - Paul Weller unveiled Style Council at a gig in London.
1986 - Matt Helders (Arctic Monkeys drummer) was born.
1988 - Terence Trent D'arby's "Wishing Well" was the #1 single.
1998 - Eddie Rabbitt ("I Love A Rainy Night") died.