The Current Music Blog: September 13, 2007 Archive

The Stream 09/13/07

Posted at 8:48 AM on September 13, 2007 by Barb Abney

Muse will fill in the White Stripes gap at this weekend's ACL Fest.

Sonic Boom Records to celebrate ten year anniversary with release of star studded 2-disk compilation.

Voodoo Fest schedule announced.

The full scoop on the Led Zeppelin reunion show.

Today In Music History:
1952 - Don Was (Was Not Was/ Producer) was born.
1955 - Little Richard recorded "Tutti Frutti".
1977 - Fiona Apple was born.
1991 - Geffen Records threw a party to launch Nirvana’s single "Smells Like Teen Spirit". Nirvana were thrown out after starting a food fight.
1996 - Tupac Shakur was shot to death.

Live On Air Blogging 09/13/07

Posted at 9:09 AM on September 13, 2007 by Barb Abney

Noonish - Tunes On The Telly Tonight:
Teddybears on Carson Daly
Kanye West on Craig Ferguson

11:30 a.m. Aesop Rock
None Shall Pass is in stores now. He'll be playing First Avenue on Sunday and will be dropping by for an in-studio on Monday.
Tour dates and news here.

11:20 a.m. VHS or Beta
Bring On The Comets is in stores now.
They played a unique accoustic performance during their in-studio with us last week.
Watch their "making of..." video series and get more info.

11:10 a.m. Local Music - Vicious Vicious
Their self-released album, Parade is available now. Learn more about them here and/or here.

10:55 a.m. Black Francis/Frank Black - CD Of The Week
Bluefinger is The Current's CD Of The Week.
Get your own copy when you support The Current online.
He dropped by for an in-studio appearance last fall.

10:50 a.m. Local Music - His Mischief
They have upcoming local dates with Ted Leo & The Pharmacists, The Deaf and Gito Gito Hustler. They'll also be touring along with Illinois and Menomena.
Full dates and more here.

10:40 a.m. LCD Soundsystem
Are playing Roy Wilkins Auditorium along with Arcade Fire on September 30th.
LCD Soundsystem to release 45:33 on CD and vinyl.

10:30 a.m. Beck
Grab the DRM-free tune "Timebomb".

10:20 a.m. Spoon
They'll be playing at First Avenue on October 10th and 11th.
More dates and backstage footage here.

10:15 a.m. The Go! Team
They have a brief US tour beginning one month from today.
More.

10:10 a.m. Song Of The Day Info - Kevin Drew
Today on our Song Of The Day Podcast we're featuring "You Backed Out On The..." from Kevin Drew's new solo effort, Broken Social Scene Presents: Sprit If. Kevin is one of the founding members of Broken Social Scene. The disk is due for release next week, but you can pre-order it here.
The video features members of Metric and Dinosaur Jr. Watch it here.
Learn more here.

10:00 a.m. Arcade Fire
Are playing Roy Wilkins Auditorium along with LCD Soundsystem on September 30th.
The two bands will also release split 7".

9:45 a.m. Local Music - James Buckley Trio
The Minneapolis band will play their Stitches CD release show next week.
Go here for more tunes and dates.

9:30 a.m. Manu Chao
La Radiolina is in stores now.
UK paper gives 10 reasons why he's global pop's most important star.
More.

9:20 a.m. Joe Henry
Civilians is in stores now.
Here's a nice write-up on the new release.
He will be playing a few select shows in the near future.
More dates/info.

9:10 a.m. Josh Rouse
His latest, Country Mouse City House is in stores now.
He'll be playing The Fineline on October 27th.
More.