The Current Music Blog: September 17, 2007 Archive

The Stream 09/17/07

Posted at 8:52 AM on September 17, 2007 by Barb Abney

Amy Winehouse says she's recovered.

Common and Q-Tip to tour together.

Read all about the happenings at this weekend's ACL Fest.

Today In Music History:
1923 - Hank Williams was born.
1931 - The first 33 and-a-third LP players were launched by RCA Victor in New York.
1950 - Fee Waybill (The Tubes) was born.
1969 - Adam Devlin (The Bluetones) was born.
1969 - Keith Flint (Prodigy) was born.
1976 - The Sex Pistols played a gig for the inmates at a prison in Essex, England.
1991 - The largest shipment of new releases in pop history (over 4 million copies) of Guns N' Roses albums, Use Your Illusion 1 and Use Your Illusion 2 were simultaneously released.
1991 - Rob Tyner (MC5) died of heart failure.
1996 - A package containing bomb, addressed to Bjork was found at a South London sorting office. It was sent by Ricardo Lopez who had made a video of himself making the bomb and then killing himself.

Live On Air Blogging 09/17/07

Posted at 9:22 AM on September 17, 2007 by Barb Abney

11:40 a.m. Imperial Teen
The Hair, The TV, The Baby And The Band is in stores now.
They'll be playing First Avenue on October 5th.
More band info here.

11:20 a.m. The Aliens
They'll be playing The Varsity Theater on September 26th.
Get all of their dates and learn more about them here.

11:10 a.m. Zap Mama
Supermoon is available now.
She'll be playing The Fineline October 23rd
She'll be on Craig Ferguson tonight
More.

10:50 a.m. UNKLE
War Stories is available now. They recently announced their very first North American tour. More info..

10:45 a.m. Architecture in Helsinki
They're playing The 400 Bar next month.
More dates and such..

10:35 a.m. Interpol
The band are playing The State Theater on October 12th along with Liars.

10:20 a.m. Nick Lowe
Will be making a guest appearance on Prarie Home Companion later this month.
More info.

10:10 a.m. Song Of The Day Info - Thurston Moore
Today on our Song Of The Day Podcast we're featuring Thurston Moore with the tune " Friend" from Trees Outside The Academy which will be released tomorrow.
Dates and more here.

9:55 a.m. Prince
Unlike RHCP's, he's NOT a fan of "giving it away".

9:40 a.m. The Real Tuesday Weld
The London Book Of The Dead is available now.
Get podcasts and downloads here.
Dates and more.

9:30 a.m. Pinback
They'll be playing The Varsity Theater on October 17th.

9:20 a.m. Iron & Wine
The full length album, Shepherd's Dog will be released next week. Learn more about them and view all of their upcoming dates & news here and/or here.

9:00 a.m. Regina Spektor
She's coming back to town for a show at The Myth on October 6th.
She did an in-studio with us last year.
More dates and info.

"My 3 Songs" for Monday

Posted at 2:54 PM on September 17, 2007 by Steve Seel (4 Comments)

Greg Seitz has something for us today which is "straight from northern Minnesota to Studio M" (the unofficial name of The Current's big recording and on-air studio). "I'm a proud Twin Citizen," he says, "but somehow I've been finding myself drawn to these groups -- and others -- from latitudes north lately. Great, unique music that crosses a broad spectrum of influence, but all of it feels distinctly Minnesotan."

1) Cloud Cult, "Your Pretty Voice"
2) Low, "Breaker"
3) Trampled By Turtles, "Codeine"

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