The Current Music Blog: March 14, 2007 Archive

The Stream 03/14/07

Posted at 8:55 AM on March 14, 2007 by Barb Abney (2 Comments)

The dates for first part of Morrissey’s upcoming tour have been announced on his fansite.

Elvis Costello will play Myth on May 8th. Full list of dates here.

!!! will play Fine Line Music Café May 9th. More dates here.

Imagine Cyndi Lauper, Erasure, Debbie Harry, Dresden Dolls, Misshapes and Margaret Cho all on the same tour!

Courtney Love is being sued.

Travis Morrison (The Dismemberment Plan) to release a new disk. Preview a new track on his Myspace page.

Emily Haines and Feist hang out and Vice magazine was there.

Rick McCollum's Moon Maan will release their self-titled disk on June 5th. But pre-sale begins online next Tuesday right here.

If you happen to be in Nashville, see Flogging Molly do an instore performance and signing tonight at Grimey's Records! More info.

Today In Music History:
1933 - Quincy Jones Jr
1951 - Rick Dees
1952 - David Byrne
1971 - Rolling Stones left England and moved to France to escape taxes

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Live On Air Blogging 03/14/07

Posted at 8:59 AM on March 14, 2007 by Barb Abney (2 Comments)

Noon-ish
Trans AM will be playing Triple Rock on Friday April 27th. Full dates and more band info here.
Tunes On The Telly Tonight:
The Shins on Conan
Peter Bjorn and John on Carson Daly
Aqualung on Letterman

11:40am
The Good, The Bad & The Queen are playing SxSW and New Orleans this weekend. More info here. On a somewhat related note, Graham Coxon just posted a couple of cover tunes (Syd Barrett, Big Star) on his Myspace page.

11:10am
Bloc Party Blogs!

10:50am
If you live in Portland you can catch a screening of The Decemberist DVD this Friday night.

10:40am
Cibelle joined Steve Seel for an in-studio appearance last September.

10:15am
You'd think he'd have his hands full running Merge Records and scattered Portastatic dates. But Mac McCaughan finds time to blog. I found this entry particularly entertaining.

10:10am
Today on our Song Of The Day Podcast we're featuring Peter Bjorn & John, with "Young Folks" from their full length, Writer's Block. They'll be kicking off our SxSW broadcast tomorrow! See them on Carson Daly tonight. As there is always a balance, I have heard so many people going on and on about this band and this tune. There has to be a negative, right? This is it, a hate blog. I'm hoping it will all work out as good attention in the end. Learn more about the band on their official site.

9:30am
I've heard each of these bands compared to Joy Division and to each other. Do you think they compliment each other? The Editors tune was recorded during an in-studio appearance last year. Interpol have announced details about their latest effort. ANd the Norweigan band 120 days are coming stateside next week.

9:20am
Wilco's new album Sky Blue Sky will be in stores on May 15th. We just played the track "What Light". See the video here.

9:10am
Low's new release Drums and Guns wil be released on Sub Pop next Tuesday. They've announced a few dates on their official site including an appearance at First Avenue on Saturday April 14th.

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My Three Songs for Wednesday

Posted at 12:31 PM on March 14, 2007 by Bill DeVille (2 Comments)

Today's set was chosen by Nikki in St Paul. She apparently LOVES pancakes....who doesn't?!

she chose:

Atmosphere "Smart Went Crazy" (w/the line...Poison in the Pancakes)
Tori Amos "Pancake"
The White Stripes "Hardest Button to Button (w/the lyric...I had a brain that felt like Pancake batter)

Glad she didn't pick John Denver's "Thank God I'm A Country Boy"!

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