The Current Music Blog: April 10, 2007 Archive

The Stream 04/10/07

Posted at 9:00 AM on April 10, 2007 by Barb Abney (6 Comments)

Download free John Vanderslice remix album.

Hold Steady jam with The Boss.

Now, That's What I Call Indie.

New Flaming Lips DVD.

The scoop on Common's 7th album.

Meat Puppets reform!

Details on new M.I.A. release.

Al Gore's Live Earth in New York?

Guess what? Location officially announced

Today In Music History:
1959 - Brian Setzer was born.
1959 - Katrina Leskanich (Katrina And The Waves) was born.
1964 - Alan 'Reni' Wren (The Stone Roses) was born.
1976 - Frampton Comes Alive was the #1 album.
1990 - Tom Waits took Doritos Chips to court for using a sound-alike on radio ads.
1999 - A charity tribute concert for the late Linda McCartney was held in the UK.

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Live On Air Blogging 04/10/07

Posted at 9:05 AM on April 10, 2007 by Barb Abney (2 Comments)

11:55 a.m. Ted Leo
Did an in-studio back in 2005.
Writes some hysterical material on the official website.
Is playing First Avenue later this month with Love of Diagrams.

11:40 a.m. Matt and Kim
They are getting quite a bit of attention these days. Learn all about them from this interview.

11:25 a.m. Brother Ali
The Undisputed Truth is officially availalble now! You can order it online.
The Undisputed Truth is also the Current's CD Of The Week.
If you like to plan ahead, mark your calender for the June 8th show at First Avenue. In the meantime, listen to his SxSW performance or an in-studio from December, 2005.

11:10 a.m. Cloud Cult
Played an in-studio for us a couple of weeks ago.
"Chemicals Collide" video.
More info on their Myspace page.

10:55 a.m. The Last Town Chorus
Have upcoming dates with Dean & Britta and Robert Randolph and the Family Band. They'll be coming to The Cedar with Michael Penn next month. More dates/info on their Myspace page.

10:35 a.m. Badly Drawn Boy
Played a very intimate show for us at The Fitz last month.

10:30 a.m. The legendary Jim Ruiz Group
Have a live date next month!

10:25 a.m. (as promised) Michael Franti Links
See live shows here.
Watch "Franti-V" here.

10:20 a.m. Antibalas
Antibalas are coming to First Avenue on April 24th. They played our SxSW showcase.

10:15 a.m. Song Of The Day Info - Au Revoir Simone
Today on our Song Of The Day Podcast we're featuring Au Revoir Simone with the tune "Fallen Snow". It's from the album The Bird Of Music. Here's a nice write up from The Tripwire. Here in the Twin Cities we'll have a couple of chances to see these gals live. They'll be in town with Peter, Bjorn & John and Fujiya and Miyagi next month. They'll return in June with Voxtrot. More info on their official site and/or their Myspace page.

10:00 a.m. Small Sins
Will be playing at Fine Line Music Cafe next month with Sloan.

9:50 a.m. The Alarmists & Voltage: Fashion Amplified
The Alarmists have been our in-studio guests before. Tomorrow they'll be playing Voltage: Fashion Amplified with The Plastic Constellations, Black Blondie, The Mood Swings, Dance Band and others at First Avenue.

9:45 a.m. The Shins
Have you heard their Van Halen cover? They played "Hot For Teacher" when they played an in-studio two years ago.

9:40 a.m. Owen
Owen was here for an in-studio last week.

9:35 a.m. XO As A Book
Read This 33 1/3 Blog Entry.

9:20 a.m. The Stills
Yep, they've been here.

9:15 am Gruff Rhys
His second solo album 'Candylion' was recently released. Learn to build a Candylion on his Myspace page.
SFA Q&A on MPR.

9:10 a.m. In-Studio Mania
Wow, each artist I have played so far this morning have been guests in our studio!
Alexi Murdoch in-studio.
Sia in-studio.
Josh Rouse in-studio.
Kevin Devine's in studio.

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Will Kong be Hooj!?

Posted at 10:53 AM on April 10, 2007 by Mark Wheat (2 Comments)

New Release Day is hooj again!! Tonight we will play a dozen tracks from cds that reach stores today. To prepare for tonights show I start here;
allmusic.com
The search engine at the top of the page is a valiant attempt at encyclopedic coverage of every style of music. It can be 'clunky' because of the logistics of massiveness on the web, but I like its newly revamped front page. Some of the same new releases as we play are highighted down the right hand side and today the "editors choice" on the left hand side featured a recent release by one of our homegrown talents who have just returned from a long hiatus ...Walker Kong.

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"My 3 Songs" for Tuesday, April 10th

Posted at 12:21 PM on April 10, 2007 by Steve Seel (4 Comments)

Christopher Goyette from Mpls provided today's '80s flashback. He says, "These are three songs to put on the soundtrack of my life. I'll be listening to them when I sam eighty."

1) Joy Division, "Transmission"
2) REM, "Talk About the Passion"
3) The Cure, "Just Like Heaven"

Thanks Christopher. Now, on a related subject:

I have to admit, I was trepidatious about playing the Cure tune -- not because it's bad; quite the contrary -- but because, like so many other great songs, most of the life has been simply pummeled out of it by corporate radio overplay. Everybody knows this. For me, it had been just long enough since I'd heard it that my ears could actually receive it anew and enjoy it ... and thus, recall how the song actually makes me feel (complete with all of the attendant flashbacks to 1987), rather than wanting to cover my ears in annoyance. But how about you? Is that tune irrevocably ruined for you (assuming you liked it at one time)? Are there other great songs that have been destroyed for you by radio overkill? And most importantly -- and interestingly, to me -- have we played anything here recently that you thought was "dead to you," to quote Stephen Colbert, but you now have discovered is not?

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