The Current Music Blog: March 8, 2007 Archive

The Stream 03/08/07

Posted at 9:00 AM on March 8, 2007 by Barb Abney (2 Comments)

Robert Smith teaming up with Orbital’s Paul Hartnoll for forthcoming 7” single. More info here.

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists new album, Living With The Living will be in stores on the 20th. But you can pre-order it now. There's also a nifty little competition you can take part in to try and win an Epiphone 550 DOT guitar (just like Ted's). Find the "Competition" section of this e-card for details.

There's a "secret" Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players show tonight in NYC at The Sidewalk Cafe at 6th Street and Avenue A in the East Village. More details via their Myspace page.

Pretty Girls Make Graves Farewell tour dates announced. Sadly, they're not saying "Goodbye" to the Twin Cities. Here's the complete list of dates.

After taking a year off, The Shortlist has returned!

SxSW is almost here and it's already time to start planning CMJ.

Johnny Marr to guest on new Crowded House release.

Today In Music History:
1945 - Mickey Dolenz (The Monkees) was born
1958 - Gary Numan was born
1971 - Radio Hanoi broadcasts of Jimi Hendrix's "Star Spangled Banner"
1973 - Paul McCartney is arrested for growing marijuana.
1993 - Billy Eckstein dies of complications from a stroke.
1993 - Fela Kuti arrested on suspicion of murder

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Live On Air Blogging 03/08/07

Posted at 9:05 AM on March 8, 2007 by Barb Abney (5 Comments)

Noon-ish
Robbers on High Street to tour with Fountains of Wayne. More dates here.
Tunes On The Telly Tonight:
Madeline Peyroux on Conan
Razorlight on Craig Ferguson

11:48am
The View to release new single.

11:30am
Info on Ouija Radio and info on Matt & Kim.

11:05am
More details about the forthcoming Afghan Whigs collection.

10:45am
Roxy Music ..band or genre? I just got an email asking this question and I answered "I suppose it could be both, couldn't it? I hope the set I am playing right now is decidedly "Roxy Music". I like it. Way to name a genre, Tim! On a couple of related notes.. Bryan Ferry has released an album of Dylan covers.
Pulp reunion may never happen.

10:05am
Today on our Song Of The Day Podcast we're featuring Malajube in a collabortation with Pierre Lapointe with the tune "Montréal -40ºC". It's from Trompe-l'Oeil, which is officially in stores now. They're playing tonight in Salt Lake City, Utah. More info on their official site or MySpace page.

9:45am
Andrew Bird is coming to town. He'll be stopping by First Avenue on May 11th. Full list of tour dates on his Myspace page.

9:35am
I could spend HOURS on Mike Doughty's blog! I don't read it that often. So, when I do it always seems like I have to catch up with everything he's doing! Are there artist's blogs that have this effect on you?

Amy Milan stopped by The Current's studios on Sept 29, 2006. You can listen to the complete performance here.

9:10am
FYI Aqueduct is from Seattle.. just don't ever ask him where he's from.

9:05am
The Pipettes have recently posted a new video on their site. While you're there you can view all of their upcoming tour dates and more.

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Library Goodies

Posted at 9:42 PM on March 8, 2007 by Mark Wheat (3 Comments)

There's been many news stories recently about our library system struggling to survive.
It almost seems ridiculous to suggest that there are many great reasons to use them...
books are good, it's that easy! But they also do a good job of supplying other forms of entertainment and education, moral or musical, in tape and DVD form.
This winter we have seen a bunch of classic movies and BBC TV series and last week the missus scored big time with 'Man in the Sand' a documentary that follows Wilco and Billy Bragg as they try to decide which songs to record for their 'Mermaid Avenue' collaboration. Woody Guthrie's family had discovered a pile of over 1,000 songs that he had finished writing lyrics for before he died, Billy and Wilco 'just' added the music. You'll learn a lot about Woody 'the Okemah prophet' and see how he has influenced so many of the artists we play.
Many of these rentals are free, we can help support the system to keep them that way.

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