The Current Music Blog: May 9, 2007 Archive

The Stream 05/09/07

Posted at 8:54 AM on May 9, 2007 by Barb Abney

Jack White talks about musical project multi-tasking.

Smashing Pumpkins studio robbed!

Cee-Lo Green (1/2 Gnarls Barkley) to launch Radiculture, his own record label.

The Fiery Furnaces to play a few dates this summer.

Today In Music History:
1939 - Nokie Edwards (The Ventures) was born.
1950 - Tom Petersson (Cheap Trick) was born.
1962 - Dave Gahan (Depeche Mode) was born.
1962 - Paul Heaton (Housemartins, The Beautiful South) was born.
1980 - "I Don't Like Mondays" by The Boomtown Rats won the best pop song at the 25th Ivor Novello Awards.
1998 - Jimmy Page appeared on SNL with rapper Sean 'Puffy' Combs to perform a tune from the Godzilla soundtrack.

Live On Air Blogging 05/09/07

Posted at 9:21 AM on May 9, 2007 by Barb Abney

11:50 a.m. The Nightwatchman
Tom Morello's solo debut One Man Revolution is in stores now.
Listen to his session at our SxSW Showcase.

11:40 a.m. Mark Ronson
Listen to his new album, Version here.

11:30 a.m. Joseph Arthur And The Lonely Astronauts
Have you ever read his blog?
He stopped by last month for an in-studio. He was here in the very early days of our station, March, 2005, and again last autumn.

11:20 a.m. Fountains Of Wayne
They were recently featured on Musicheads. Tour dates and more info on their official site.

11:10 a.m. The Cinematic Orchestra
They just released their album, Ma Fleur . Learn more about them and order the album "bundle" from their official site.

10:50 a.m. Kaiser Chiefs
Are coming to the states for three dates next month.

10:40 a.m. ZeroDB
Everything you need to know about them.

10:30 a.m. Sea Wolf
Their debut ep Get To The River Before It Runs Too Low is available now. They have upcoming dates with Devotchka and Elk City and they're currently appearing with Silversun Pickups. More info.

10:20 a.m. Joan As Police Woman
She's been a member of The Dambuilders, Those Bastard Souls and appeared on stage with Rufus Wainwright.
Now get to know her solo work.

10:10 a.m. Song Of The Day Info - The Bad Plus
Today on our Song Of The Day Podcast we're featuring The Bad Plus with the tune "1980 World Champion" from their album, Prog which is in stores now. Hear more tunes from the album and find out how you can save a few bucks on the purchase of Prog here. Tour Dates and more here.

9:50 a.m. Bjork
Volta is The Current's CD Of The Week. Get your copy when you support The Current online.
Delve deeper into Volta here.

9:45 a.m. Damien Rice
Note the announcement from March about he and Lisa Hannigan parting ways.

9:40 a.m. Koop
Looking for an excuse to travel to Scandinavia? Howzabout seeing the Sweedish duo on stage?

9:30 a.m. The Veils
The New Zeland band is one of the topics of discussion on this week's installment of Musicheads.
They're coming to the states in June and will be playing 7th Street Entry on June 18th.
Their site has a wealth of information and a complete list of their upcoming dates.

9:20 a.m. Rufus Wainwright
Has an in-store signing/apperarance in New York next week.

9:10 a.m. Bright Eyes
This might make you chuckle.
More up-to-date official info here.

"My 3 Songs" for Wednesday

Posted at 2:22 PM on May 9, 2007 by Steve Seel (4 Comments)

Our dedicated listener Bill Fricke submitted today's set as a "surgery set," as he was originally supposed to go under the knife today for back surgery. We got late notice that his date with the doc was postponed, but hey -- Dr. Rock always keeps his appointments.

1) Luna, "Anesthesia"
2) Peter Murphy, "Cuts You Up"
3) Dar Williams covering "Comfortably Numb"

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Local band lives up to their name

Posted at 3:47 PM on May 9, 2007 by Mark Wheat (15 Comments)

Shatterproofare one of the local bands that could have gone on to bigger and better things, one feels, if they had not gotten mixed up in the major label mayhem that blew up in the mid-nineties. They have survived and return Thursday night at the Varsity, with a barrel full of big Britpop tinged tunes on a new cd 'Splinter Queen'. I just played a mellow one called "Calm Down" and you might remember another 'obvious single' which we have played before under the band name Lunar 9 called 'Prozac Melody'? There's even ' mum's the word' which is a fave old English phrase of mine and will double as a special song for YOUR Mom...don't forget Sunday is her day!

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Keep up with the charts here

Posted at 5:57 PM on May 9, 2007 by Mark Wheat

There's been several nice surprises for the artist we play hitting the national charts this year and our friends at Filter magazine do a good job of tracking the artists we love, it's good week for Feist and Tori!