The Current Music Blog: June 13, 2007 Archive

The Stream 06/13/07

Posted at 9:00 AM on June 13, 2007 by Barb Abney

Cat Power first female Shortlist Music Prize winner.

MTV is streaming Icky Thump. The album will also be available on USB drive.

Daft Punk's new silent movie, Electroma coming to US theaters.

Today In Music History:
1969 - Mick Taylor left John Mayall Band to join The Rolling Stones.
1975 - John Lennon makes his last TV appearance.
1986 - Benny Goodman died of a heart attack.
2000 - Sting filed a complaint over the rights to the domain name www.sting.com, alleging that a man had registered the URL and offered to sell it back to him for $25,000.

Song Of The Day - Telly Tunes Info 06/13/07

Posted at 11:30 AM on June 13, 2007 by Barb Abney

Song Of The Day Info - Boom Bip
Today on our Song Of The Day Podcast we're featuring Boom Bip with the tune "Rat Tail" from The Saccherlige EP. It was released in the UK in April and will be available in stores next Tuesday.
He's also been working with Gruff Rhys on the Neon Neon project.
Upcoming tour dates and info here.

Tunes On The Telly Tonight:
Patti Griffin on Conan
Satellite Party on Carson Daly
Elvis Perkins on Letterman

*Live On Air Blogging will return Monday morning.

Sonic Youth go backwards?

Posted at 10:01 PM on June 13, 2007 by Mark Wheat

It's kinda strange to see a band that has always been forward thinking, trying to push musical barriers away and do things in a new way, looking back at their past and spending a lot of time embellishing their own history. Daydream Nation is nearly 20 years old and in my All Time Top 20 and apparently many others too. The band have been asked to perform the entire double album at several festivals this summer including the Pitchfork / All Tomorrows Parties event this July in Chicago. Daydream was also re-issued this week, remastered and with a full cd of all the tracks LIVE, which is amazing. You can hear Lee and Steve from the band chat about this process and our friend from Sound Opinions Greg Kot give his reasons why this is a seminal album on a program from WNYC called Soundcheck