The Current Music Blog: February 19, 2007 Archive

The Stream: 02/19/07

Posted at 8:47 AM on February 19, 2007 by Christina Schmitt

The Jam WITHOUT Paul Weller?

Preorder new Stooges disk.

June Carter Cash tribute in the works.

February 19 history bits...
* Birthday of Smokey Robinson (1940)
* Birthday of Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi (1948)
* David Gilmour joins rock group Pink Floyd in 1968
* In 1991, Rap group Public Enemy joins Irish singer Sinead O'Connor in boycotting the 1991 Grammy Awards. PE protested that the rap award would not be presented during the live TV ceremony.

Dre Day update: The fifth annual Dre Day down at the Triple Rock Social Club in Minneapolis last night (Sunday) was packed. When the ladies of the Black Blondie took the stage around midnight, they were rocking a full house. Dr Dre turned 42 yesterday.

Locals Maps of Norway jump up to #66 this week in the CMJ Top 200 airplay list.

The Stream: 02/19/07 was compiled by DJ Barb Abney and Christina Schmitt.

A Sugary Sweet Suite

Posted at 12:30 PM on February 19, 2007 by Steve Seel (23 Comments)

Well, I'm among those who are digging the new one from Sloan, "Never Hear the End Of It." (Today's My 3 Songs featured a tune from the disc that blew me away for all it's pop-sugary sing-along-ness -- "Last Time in Love"). The extra-special conceit of the disc, though, is that all the songs are strung together as one continuous suite. All 30 of them. Pretentious or ingenious? I'm going with ther latter. Especially as it dovetails with Mark Wheat's prediction that the album as we know it is going to die in the next year or so, unless artists come up with something that makes their albums distinct concepts. What's original about this to me is that it's the first such concept album I can think of that's pure bubblegum. Who else can claim that mantle?

(P.S. Sloan's "Never Hear The End Of It" will be dicussed further on this week's Musicheads).

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Presidential Links..

Posted at 1:48 PM on February 19, 2007 by Barb Abney

.. I dunno, I thought it might be a bit funny if someone was to google "presidential links" and wind up here! Perhaps I should have stuck with "Presidents Day Links".

Today on the Song Of The Day we featured a tune from RJD2's forthcoming new release The Third Hand (due in stores March 6th). You might want to consider pre-orderring this one. If you do pre-order you'll get an exclusive digital ep and you'll also have the chance to have Rjd2 DJ a party for you!

If you missed the Grammys but wanted to see Dan Wilson accepting his with The Dixie Chicks go to Dan's site for Youtube footage.

Radio 4 have been asked to record some songs for an upcoming movie based on Joe Strummer.

Tunes On The Telly Tonight..
Silversun Pickups on Leno
The Holmes Brothers on Conan