The Current Music Blog: March 7, 2007 Archive

The Stream 03/07/07

Posted at 9:00 AM on March 7, 2007 by Barb Abney

The new Kings Of Leon video "On Call" can be seen here.

Sloan have recently posted their tour dates which include an opening slot for The Police.

Dears guitarist, Patrick Krief has released his debut solo ep. More info on his official site or his Myspace page.

Paul Weller, Ian Brown, The Charlatans and Echo & The Bunnymen to play Versus Cancer show.

OMD to reunite on stage. More info about their homecoming gig here..

LCD Soundsystem contest for the UK.. if you're given a flag at the beginning of a show you'll want to go here to win something from the band.

Today In Music History:
1944 - Townes Van Zandt was born
1945 - Arthur Lee, rocker was born
1946 - Peter Wolf (J Giels Band) was born
1953 - Jules Shear was born
1976 - Madame Tussaud's in London unveils a wax statue of Elton John.
2006 - Ali Farka Touré died

Live On Air Blogging 03/07/07

Posted at 9:00 AM on March 7, 2007 by Barb Abney (4 Comments)

Noon-ish
Bjork info on the new album, awards show appearance and upcoming dates right here.
Tunes On The Telly Tonight:
The Rapture on Conan

11:30am
Dan Israel will be celebrating his birthday on stage this Friday night at the Mad Ripple Hootenanny in the basement of at Java Jack's. More info here.

11:10am
I was just reading his blog on Myspace, such a nice way to keep up with an artist. I played the tune "Be Here Now" from the Boneclouds disk and remembered that we have an exclusive version of that tune on our Flash Drive, as well.

10:40am
Low's new release Drums and Guns wil be released on Sub Pop on March 20th. They've announced a few dates on their official site including an appearance at First Avenue on Saturday April 14th.

10:20am
Benjy Ferree will be playing SxSW. Those dates and more on his Myspace page.

10:05am
Today on our Song Of The Day Podcast we're featuring !!! with the tune "Heart of Hearts". It's from their third release Myth Takes, which is officially in stores now. They're currently touring internationally. Dates and more info on the official site or MySpace page.

9:35am
My Brightest Diamond, Sufjan Stevens, Clogs and others to appear at Music Now Festival.

9:15am
Right now we're spinning the new Air tune "Once Upon A Time". See the video here.

9:04am
Be Good Tanyas have been nominated for a Juno award. The awards show takes place April 1st. It just seems like the perfect time for a prankster to come out. "..and the award goes to... Oh, we're just kidding, you didn't REALLY win."

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The Current SXSW Live Broadcast Update!!!!!!

Posted at 10:04 AM on March 7, 2007 by Melanie Walker (2 Comments)

If you haven't yet heard, The Current is having a live broadcast at the South By Southwest music conference direct from Buffalo Billiards in Austin TX Thursday 3/15 and Friday 3/16 from 11am-7pm. That's next week! It's going to be some crazy, fun times!

We have already posted our current roster of artists to appear. You can now add Mando Diao to the list as well as Lily Allen!

More updates to come. Hope you will all tune in and for those of you attending drop by...

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Warning! It's a...LIST!!

Posted at 11:35 AM on March 7, 2007 by Mac Wilson (5 Comments)

So the National Association of Record Manufacturers and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame got together and compiled a list of what it deems "the definitive 200" -- apparently the most essential 200 albums in pop history. You can find the full list here, at PopMatters, but the enclosed article also muses on how the list only underscores how important the song is to pop music. Mark Wheat ominously rang the death knell for the album on a recent episode of Musicheads: is this an important question, or not?

And perhaps most importantly of all, in ranking Kid Rock's Devil Without a Cause ahead of Johnny Cash's At Folsom Prison, has the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame proven once and for all that it is completely irrelevant?

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"My 3 Songs" for Wednesday, 3/7/07

Posted at 12:18 PM on March 7, 2007 by Steve Seel (4 Comments)

Marcus Frost of Wayzata thought it would be "a good time to pay my respects to three bands/artists that did it right," he said. "Old school, yes, but still completely relevant. All three were uncompromising and were done with still so much music left in them." He adds, "Get back together Talking Heads!"

1) John Lennon, "Oh Yoko!"
2) The Band, "To Kingdom Come"
3) Talking Heads, "This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)"

Nice choices, Marcus. I too wish Talking Heads would give us at least one more record; although I'm not sure of the likelihood of that ... I've read some pretty scathing things that Tina Weymouth has said about David Byrne. I mean, the kind of things you'd think would preclude any possibility of detente. But who knows? Stranger things have happened in music. The Van Halen thing imploded again, but they got as far as posing for a picture. With all that hate between David and Eddie, that's crazy enough, isn't it? So maybe there's hope for The Heads.

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Mister Mercer Speaks

Posted at 2:44 PM on March 7, 2007 by Steve Seel (1 Comments)

James Mercer of The Shins sat down with Salon.com for their "Audiofile" feature for a cool conversation. There's also a podcast version of the chat that you can check out -- the link is underneath the photo of James' nicely unshaven mug.

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The Sights are coming to our SXSW broadcast!

Posted at 5:32 PM on March 7, 2007 by Melanie Walker

It is true...just got off the phone with their managment and The Sights are scheduled to play our Live Broadcast from SXSW in Austin, TX! Wish you could be there too? Tune in Thursday 3/15 at 2:15pm central time to hear their performance and interview at www.mpr.org juck click on The Current!