The Current Music Blog: March 9, 2007 Archive

The Stream 03/09/07

Posted at 9:10 AM on March 9, 2007 by Barb Abney (1 Comments)

Freebase = Supergroup made up of bass players; Peter Hook (New Order), Andy Rourke (Smiths) and former Stone Roses/current Primal Scream bassist Mani. They'll be getting quite a bit of help from friends on debut release.

Ian Brown (Stone Roses) has recorded a song for the Russian movie Paragraf 78. Hear it here.

John Popper (Blues Traveler) busted for guns and drugs.

The View reschedule missed American dates.

The Little Ones are coming to town with The Walkmen and Kaiser Chiefs Apr 21 at Trocadero.

Neko Case is coming back to town Apr 7 at First Avenue.

Black Angels returning to town Apr 16 at 7th St. Entry.

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club in town May 22 at First Avenue.

Today In Music History:
1934 - Lloyd Price (1959 single 'Stagger Lee') was born
1942 - Mark Linday (Paul Revere & The Raiders) was born
1958 - Martin Fry (ABC) was born
1966 - The Beach Boys started recording 'God Only Knows'.
1977 - The Jacksons CBS show was aired for the last time on TV
1996 - Noel Gallagher walked off stage during a gig in New Jersey because his hands were too cold to play.
1997 - Notorious BIG was killed

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Live On Air Blogging 03/09/07

Posted at 9:13 AM on March 9, 2007 by Barb Abney

Noon-ish
Tunes On The Telly Tonight:
Norah Jones on Leno
The Decemberists on Conan
The Shins on Letterman

11:30am
Ben Kweller's Granny can dance!! See her in the new video for Ben's tune "Penny". The navigation is a bit screwy on the TRL site, but you should easily be able to scroll down to Ben Kweller (it's under B, not K) on the menu to the right.

10:55
Dance Band/BFF playing live tonight.10:25am

Tapes 'n Tapes 'n Klosterman Fakebook reminder. On air this Sunday night 6pm.

10:15am
Today on our Song Of The Day Podcast we're featuring the Minneapolis band Ice Palace. From their album titled Bright Leaf Left, we heard "Trampolining!". Hear them again this Sunday night on The Local Show with Chris Roberts. They're playing the Minneseries, a FREE weekly local music series taking place every Thursday night at the Nomad. Tour dates and more info on the band's Myspace page.

9:55am
Grizzly Bear cover "Deep Blue Sea"

Have you seen The Cinematics video that features Chris of We Are Scientists? You can see it here.

9:40am
Sondre Lerche's playing our SxSW gig! If you haven't viewed the whole line up yet, do so here!

Tracey Thorn (Everything But The Girl) solo info here.

9:15am
Takka Takka have a new ep available online. Download it here.

SXSW UPDATE: Who is Jamie T?

Posted at 9:33 AM on March 9, 2007 by Melanie Walker (1 Comments)

I'm thrilled to announce Jamie T to perform at 11:45am at The Current's Live Broadcast from Buffalo Billards in Austin TX.

Who is Jamie T you ask? NME has crowned him to be "the next big thing" and he proved that by recently beating out Jarvis Cocker, Thom Yorke and Lily Allen to win the Best Solo Artist Award at the Shockwaves NME Awards. Not bad for a 21year old from Wimbledon, South London who's been compaired to the likes of Mike Skinner of The Streets and coined the one man Arctic Monkey by his fans. Canvas Magazine best describes Jamie T as "the bastard lovechild of Billy Bragg and Mike Skinner doing his best Joe Strummer impression" Reguardless, with all his singing and swaggering I'm totally won over by the London rude boy. Hope you will be too.

Jamie recently signed with Virgin Records and has a new album releasing 3/13/07 titled Panic Prevention. Listen to Jamie T here. And please be sure to drop by Buffalo Billards if you're in Austin, TX
or tune in online to Jamie T's performance Thursday 3/15/07 at 11:45am at our Live Broadcast from SXSW!

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Get out there

Posted at 9:57 AM on March 9, 2007 by Christina Schmitt (3 Comments)

Here's a quick list of local music shows you should check out this weekend -- bands I respect playing at clubs with cheap-to-no cover charge

All the local critics are writing about tonight's CD release party at the Entry for These Modern Socks. Check out what Chris Riemenschneider thinks...

Also tonight, Dan Israel's birthday party. He's playing at the Mad Ripple Hootenanny in the basement of Java Jack's, 46th and Bryant in south Minneapolis. FREE.

Saturday, March 10
We're never going to get over Bob Dylan, so get used to it. Tonight is a particularly strong Bob Dylan Tribute at the Turf Club, with Superhopper, Andrew Broder (Fog), Rank Strangers, etc... In conjunction with the Weisman Museum's "Bob Dylan's American Journey, 1956–1966"

Also on Saturday at the Hexagon Bar
The always loud and heavy STNNNG; plus the new band of Sicbay's Dave Erb, The Yoleus. I will probably be at this show. FREE.

And one more for Saturday: This one has nothing to do with rock, but everything to do with independent artists. One of my favorite visual art galleries, Outsiders and Others, is closing. This is really sad, so stop by their gallery closing party and give them good energy. FREE. 7 p.m. Outsiders and Others, 1010 Park Ave S, Mpls.

One last note: Riot Grrls unite Sunday night at the Triple Rock. My favorite band from last year, Duluth's The Keep Aways, are a must see. With Baby Guts (think manic panic pink hair and Bikini Kill), with Dizzy Obstetrics and Poor Posture.

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My 3 Songs for Friday, 3/9/07

Posted at 2:46 PM on March 9, 2007 by Steve Seel (3 Comments)

Molly Walker of Minneapolis wished her sister Jenny a happy birthday today with her set -- one with some real twists and turns here ...

1) Queen: "Bicycle Race"
2) Frank Sinatra: "Fly Me To The Moon"
3) Beatles: "Rocky Racoon"

Happy birthday Jenny!

(P.S. I don't like Star Wars either, Freddy).

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