The Current Music Blog: October 9, 2007 Archive

The Stream 10/09/07

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

Win tickets to Vegoose (and an XBox 360.)

NME's tribute to John Lennon on the anniversary of his birth.

Trent Reznor leaves Interscope.

Thurston Moore solo dates.

Today In Music History:
1940 - John Lennon was born.
1944 - John Entwistle was born.
1944 - Peter Tosh was born.
1948 - Jackson Browne was born.
1961 - Kurt Neumann (BoDeans) was born.
1966 - The Rolling Stones released their first live album, Got Live If You Want It!
1969 - PJ Harvey was born.
1973 - Elvis and Priscilla divorced.
1975 - Sean Ono Lennon was born.
1999 - "Netaid" live internet concerts in London, New York and Geneva featuring The Eurythmics, David Bowie, Bono and others. Helped to raise money for global poverty.

Live On Air Blogging 10/09/07

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

Noonish - Tunes On The Telly Tonight:
The Black Lips on Conan
Blue Man Group on Leno

10:40 a.m. Jesca Hoop
Her debut, Kismet is finally available.
You can watch a slideshow from her performance last night at The Varsity Theater.
You can hear more of her music in her archived in-studio performance.
More..

10:30 a.m. The Aliens
They recently dropped by for an in-studio with Mark Wheat.
Blender recently "had a drink" with the band.
More dates and such.

10:20 a.m. Talib Kweli
Go here to demand that he plays at your college.
He dropped by our booth at The State Fair for a chat with Mary.

10:10 a.m. Song Of The Day Info - Band Of Horses
Today on our Song Of The Day Podcast we're featuring Band Of Horses with the tune "Is There a Ghost " from their latest, Cease To Begin which is in stores today.
They've been getting some attention lately for allowing Wal-Mart and Ford to use their songs in commericals.
exhibit a. exhibit b.
Cease to Begin is The Current's CD Of The Week. Get your own copy when you support The Current online.
They're coming to First Avenue on November 14th.
More here and/or here.

9:50 a.m. Aesop Rock
He was a featured artist on MTV recently. Watch all of his "feature" snippets here.
None Shall Pass is in stores now.
More.

9:40 a.m. Local Music - Happy Apple
The Twin Cities trio recently released Back On Top.
They've got some upcoming dates in California, as well as a few closer to home.
Dates and more here and/or here.

9:30 a.m. Black Francis/Frank Black
Bluefinger is out now.
He dropped by for an in-studio appearance last fall.
Some dates for an autumn tour have been announced.
More.

9:20 a.m. Stars
In Our Bedroom After The War is out now.
The band will be playing Pantages Theater on November 3rd.
More Stars.

9:10 a.m. Iron & Wine
Shepherd's Dog is in stores now.
Dates & news here and/or here.

Live Current Vol. 3! Monday and Tuesday Editions

Posted at 1:36 PM on October 9, 2007 by Steve Seel

As more evidence of my general brain-fog this week, I totally forgot to blog about this yesterday. All this week, we are unveiling the songs from our brand-spankin'-new disc of in-studio performances, Live Current Vol. 3. Every day this week at noon -- where we usually do "My 3 Songs" -- we're rolling out three songs a day (well, more or less; since there's a whopping 17 tracks on it, we're playing 4 tracks on both Monday and Friday). Needless to say, we're really proud of this latest edition to the Live Current series.

So what have we unveiled so far this week? Here's today:

1) Peter Bjorn and John, "Young Folks" (recorded live at The Current's broadcast at SXSW)
2) Michael Franti, "One Step Closer To You"
3) Storyhill, "Ballad of Joe Snowboard"

And yesterday:

1) Frank Black, "That Burnt Out Rock n' Roll"
2) The Young Knives, "Here Comes The Rumor Mill" (recorded live at SXSW)
3) Ben Lee, "Ripe"
4) Cloud Cult, "Pretty Voice"

We also have some extra web goodies for you this week: check out the homepage, as we're gonna be showing some in-studio video of various artists from the CD lineup. Also, when you pre-order the disc, you get a special secret bonus gift. Who doesn't like extra stuff?

Much more to come. Hope your're as fired up about this as we are.

Note: corrected for spelling.

Put Another Quarter Million in the Nickoledean

Posted at 3:17 PM on October 9, 2007 by Ali Lozoff (2 Comments)

So Mac Wilson shared the playlist that cost a Minnesota woman $220,000 in fines from the Recording Industry Association of America.

* Guns N Roses "Welcome to the Jungle"; "November Rain"
* Vanessa Williams "Save the Best for Last"
* Janet Jackson "Let's What Awhile"
* Gloria Estefan "Here We Are"; "Coming Out of the Heart"; "Rhythm is Gonna Get You"
* Goo Goo Dolls "Iris"
* Journey "Faithfully"; "Don't Stop Believing"
* Sara McLachlan "Possession"; "Building a Mystery"
* Aerosmith "Cryin'"
* Linkin Park "One Step Closer"
* Def Leppard "Pour Some Sugar on Me"
* Reba McEntire "One Honest Heart"
* Bryan Adams "Somebody"
* No Doubt "Bathwater"; "Hella Good"; "Different People"
* Sheryl Crow "Run Baby Run"
* Richard Marx "Now and Forever"
* Destiny's Child "Bills, Bills, Bills"
* Green Day "Basket Case"

Frankly, I think that "Don't Stop Believing" is both worth every penny AND such an important song to our collective pop culture that no one should ever have to pay to hear it - it should be free to everyone at all times, dangit.

Now, I'm not going to get into the merits of the case and whether the industry should be able to sue people for sharing music, but I am going to ask the following questions.

A. What song would you pay $250,000 for?
B. What song would you pay $250,000 never to have to hear again?

See more about the ground breaking, earth shattering, precedent setting case at Wired.

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