The Current Music Blog: February 2, 2007 Archive

The Buffering Stream is raw and unpasteurized, 2/2

Posted at 7:03 AM on February 2, 2007 by Hans Eisenbeis

Gotten Under The Radar?

Posted at 11:21 AM on February 2, 2007 by Mark Wheat (3 Comments)

I promise this is the last time I am going to mention the year 2006!
But part of my end of year ritual is buying a stack of magazines to make sure I haven't missed anything about the past year. The best review of '06 this year,including Top Tens from some of our fave artists like Colin Decemberist and Tad Hold Steady, is in a magazine that I have missed reading until now. Ironically it's called;
Under The Radar!
It's a quarterly, so the present issue does look forward to this year and has articles on many of the big new albums that we're playing;
The Shins, The Good, The Bad & The Queen and cover stars Modest Mouse.
I have often been disappointed that even some of my fave maagazines have useless websites, not so with these guys, who keep a great archive and an updated site;
undertheradarmag.com

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Can You Bounce This?

Posted at 4:38 PM on February 2, 2007 by Barb Abney

Or would you prefer to Bounce That? Make a Girl Talk video.

A couple of artists have made new material available for your listening pleasure LONG before the release of their new albums.. Tracy Thorn (Everything But The Girl) and Kings Of Leon.

Today is your last chance to vote in the Plug Independent Music Awards.

Music on the tube tonight.. The Format on Carson Daly.

Here are a couple of good reasons to wake up early this weekend.. Sounds Eclectic will feature a live session with Corinne Bailey Rae and new tracks from The Shins and Jill Cuniff (formerly of Luscious Jackson) tomorrow morning at 5am. And then catch Sound Opinions at 9am with Lupe Fiasco as a live guest and new music from Norah Jones and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. Then on Sunday morning at 5am wake up for American Routes with a look at Small Town Hipsters: folks that started in small towns and made it big featuring Nancy Wilson & Dickie Landry

The Return of the Supergroup!

Posted at 9:25 PM on February 2, 2007 by Jacquie Fuller

This is, apparently, old news, but I'm gonna post it anyway. Why? Because it's exciting.

I've been a huge Wold Parade / Sunset Rubdown fan for a while now, but I just discovered Swan Lake. Talk aboot a Canadian supergroup: Dan Bejar from the New Pornographers, Spencer Krug from Wolf Parade, and Carey Mercer from Frog Eyes (great band, but I have to be in the mood.)

As my better half says: "Canadians are kicking our butts ... in rock and roll and healthcare."

I love Dan Bejar, well, for two reasons. 1) He sounds like a latter-day Robyn Hitchcock, and 2) the county in Texas I grew up in was called Bexar (an indigenous word pronounced "Bey-har.") And Krug? Oh, god--don't get me started. That warbling voice. Those overblown lyrics.

Here's a fun game. You, too, can produce your own Spencer Krug song titles. Find that Greek tragedy book still sitting on your shelf from college. Open to any page and find a line. Find nine more. Make up ten of your own Spencer Krug-esque song titles using these lines. Here's a few of mine, pulled from Euripides' The Trojan Women: "They Who Are Sad Find Somehow Sweetness in Tears--The Song of Lamentation and the Melancholy Muse," "How Strange a Way to Call On Gods," "Balestar of this Earth Now," "The Flame of the Clouded Sacraments," "I Shall Look No More on the Bodies of My Sons" and--one more--"The Multitudes of Our Children Stand." Okay, one more (I could do this all night): "In the Vile Marriage, The Sorrows," which I think was the ancient Greek version of "Grounds for Divorce."

Any new millenium supergroups rockin' your world?