The Current Music Blog: March 5, 2007 Archive

Better Than a Cruise Missile

Posted at 8:51 AM on March 5, 2007 by Dale Connelly (2 Comments)

This just in: Disney can chase you around their theme parks with new audio animatronic characters than can be controlled "from thousands of miles away".
How long before the CIA recruits Imagineers to create a lifelike Whitney Houston to lure Osama Bin Laden out of his cave?
Or would the wheels make him suspicious?

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The Stream 03/06/07

Posted at 8:54 AM on March 5, 2007 by Barb Abney (7 Comments)

Want Ben Folds to come to your town? Then stop by this site and demand it!

Birdmonster are out of seclusion and have posted more tour dates on their MySpace page.

D-Plan to reunite for Callum Robbins benefit! Pitchfork has the whole story.

Today In Music History:
1955 - Elvis appears on television for the first time.
1955 - Penn Jillette was born
1957 - Mark E. Smith (The Fall) was born
1958 - Andy Gibb was born
1963 - Patsy Cline passed away
1970 - John Frusciante (Red Hot Chili Peppers) was born
1982 - John Belushi passed away
2003 - Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks provoked controversy when she said that the band was "ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas."

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Live On Air Blogging 03/05/07

Posted at 9:07 AM on March 5, 2007 by Barb Abney (6 Comments)

Noon-ish
The View. Are they the new "Bad Boys" of the UK scene? They've had a run in or two with "the law" recently. But should we expect that the lead singer is suddenly going to turn into Pete Doherty? I guess for now it's wait-and-see. In the meantime, they just refreshed their Youtube page.

Tunes On The Telly Tonight:
Solomon Burke on Leno
Alexi Murdoch on Carson Daly
Patti Griffin on Letterman

11:40 am Best Friends Forever
We're spinning the in-studio performance of the tune "Eisenhower is the father". The local band Best Friends Forever stopped by the Local Show with Chris Roberts back in January. See what the band have planned over the next few qweeks on their MySpace page.

10:50 am
New Elliott Smith!! NME reports on a new 2-CD collection to be released.

10:25 am
For today's Song Of The Day podcast we're featuring Albert Hammond Jr.'s "101" from his debut solo release titled Yours To Keep. The disk will be in stores tomorrow. There's more info about his release, upcoming live shows and Conan O'Brien appearance here.

9:50am
Mark Mallman has several upcoming tour dates posted on his official site.

Here's a link to Menomena's dance/performance art soundtrack.

I just played a track by Fujiya & Miyagi and mentioned that they'll be playing for us at SxSW. More info here.

Nicolai Dunger's forthcoming release is titled RÖSTEN OCH HERREN which roughly translates to THE VOTE AND THE GENTLEMAN according to World Lingo. You can get more info about the disk here.

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My 3 Songs for Monday, 3/5/07

Posted at 1:22 PM on March 5, 2007 by Steve Seel (1 Comments)

Haley Swope of St. Paul likes the British indie. Her set today bounced along with the best of it:

1) Patrick Wolf, "The Magic Position"
2) The Libertines, "Time For Heroes"
3) Guillemots, "Trains to Brazil"

Thanks Annie! I hadn't heard of Patrick Wolf before you suggested this set. And I'm always thrilled to know when somebody is into Guillemots.

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"Sabbath" tour Dates!

Posted at 4:28 PM on March 5, 2007 by Danny Sigelman (4 Comments)

As if last week's amazing Wolfmother show at the(much to be desired) Myth Nightclub(my waitress had never heard of PBR before?!) wasn't enough I am just giddy to see today's announced Heaven and Hell tour dates. The tour will be bringing the evil to the Target Center May 6.

This is the reunion of the Dio-era Black Sabbath that put out a few ridiculously dark and strange records in the early 80's. Ozzy's best lady won't let them tour as Black Sabbath, of course, so it's appropriate they would go by the name of the first record created by this version of the band.

I never got to see Dio or Sabbath in my metal days of youth so I am look forward to this one.

I often wonder how after over 20 years of listening to this music I am not a total satan-obsessed, lunatic, violent, worshipper of the dark side like everyone warned we'd become back then?

Maybe I still have all that to look forward?

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Missed it the first time around..

Posted at 5:10 PM on March 5, 2007 by Mary Lucia (23 Comments)

Anyone else stoked that Bad Brains have made a new record with Adam Yauch producing..
Legend has it that back in the day they "played" at Goofy's Upper Deck in MPLS and H.R just stretched the mic chord into the dressing room and sang from back there.

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