The Current Music Blog: April 30, 2007 Archive

The Stream 04/30/07

Posted at 8:50 AM on April 30, 2007 by Barb Abney (1 Comments)

Some great Coachella photos.

Vote on the best Indie Anthems.

Built To Spill announce more dates. They'll be playing First Avenue on June 30th.

The Shortlist finalists have been announced.

Today In Music History:
1933 - Willie Nelson was born
1948 - Wayne Kramer (MC5) was born.
1971 - Darren Emerson (Underworld) was born.
1976 - Keith Moon paid nine cab drivers to block-off both ends of a New York street so he could throw the contents of his hotel room out of the window.
1982 - Rock critic Lester Bangs died of a heart attack.
1983 - Muddy Waters died.
1991 - Nirvana signed with Geffen's DGC label.
2005 - The Dave Matthews Band paid $200,000 after their tour bus dumped human waste on a boatload of tourists in Chicago the previous year.

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Live On Air Blogging 04/30/07

Posted at 9:09 AM on April 30, 2007 by Barb Abney (5 Comments)

Noon-ish - Tunes On The Telly Tonight
*wow, what a coincidence*
Silversun Pickups on Jimmy Kimmel
Silversun Pickups on Carson Daly
Dinosaur Jr. on Letterman
Noisettes on Craig Ferguson
Kaiser Chiefs on Leno
Arctic Monkeys on Conan

11:40 a.m. Low
Their in-studio from late last month.

11:25 a.m. Maria Taylor
We heard a cut from her new album, Lynn Teeter Flower. She has a few shows in the near future. More info on here. She did an in-studio last April.

11:20 a.m. Black Angels
Played an in-studio back in October.

11:10 a.m. Arctic Monkeys
Have 17 singles in the UK's top 200 this week.

10:50 a.m. Kate Havnevik
Learn more about her on her official website. She'll be opening for Air at First Avenue Wednesday.

10:20 am The Pipettes
You 've just heard the tune "Pull Shapes". Now see the video.

10:10 a.m. Song Of The Day Info - Fountains Of Wayne
Today on our Song Of The Day Podcast we're featuring Fountains Of Wayne with the tune "'92 Subaru" from Traffic & Weather. They were also featured last week on Musicheads. Tour dates and more info on their official site.

9:50 a.m. Jarvis Cocker
Was one of the featured artists last week on Musicheads. Don't forget, he'll be curating the Meltdown Fest this summer.

9:40 a.m. Feist
Her new album, The Reminder, will be released on tomorrow. She'll play along with Grizzly Bear at Pantages Theatre on June 20th. Listen to her in-studio from July, 2005.

9:30 a.m. The Sea And Cake
Are releasing Everybody, their first album in four years, on May 8th. They have upcoming dates with The Zincs and Loney Dear.

9:10 a.m. Rufus Wainwright
Has a couple of in-store signings/apperarances in the next two weeks.

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"My 3 Songs" for Monday

Posted at 2:30 PM on April 30, 2007 by Steve Seel

"My theme is three amazing groups who only released music during the 90s and each happened to only release three albums," says Mike Calvo of Edina. "They've left me wanting for more." He adds, "I'll count the Portishead live album for the purposes of this request."

1) The Sundays, "Skin & Bones"
2) Portishead, "Numb"
3) Electronic, "Vivid"

Champagne eyes

Posted at 4:35 PM on April 30, 2007 by Christina Schmitt (4 Comments)

Mary Lucia just played a song from Kelley Stoltz, "Are You Electric," that made reference to a lady with "champagne eyes." Which of course reminded me of Neil Young's "Farmer John," whose daughter, of course, also had champagne eyes.

Now when I see champagne listed as a color in, say, a J Crew catalog, it refers to a sort of yellow. I don't often see yellow eyes, so what does champagne-colored eyes mean in these songs? Champagne eyes must be sexy, but why? Do their eyes sparkle? Do these ladies drink so much champagne that you can see it in their eyes? What do you think? Know of any other songs with "champagne eyes" referenced?

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