The Current Music Blog: December 27, 2007 Archive

The Stream 12/27/07

Posted at 8:52 AM on December 27, 2007 by Barb Abney

M.I.A. will host a documentary to be aired in Canada.

Spend your New Year watching Radiohead.

Dream Of Life The movie 'portrait' of Patti Smith to premier at Sundance next month.

Today In Music History:
1961 - Youth (Killing Joke) was born.
1969 - Diana Ross and the Supremes' "Someday We'll Be Together" was #1.
1976 - Freddie King died.
1992 - Harry Connick Jr was arrested at Kennedy Airport when police discovered a pistol in his luggage.
1999 - Sean 'Puff Daddy' Combs and Jennifer Lopez were arrested after a gun was found in their car.

Live Blogging 12/27/07

Posted at 9:42 AM on December 27, 2007 by Barb Abney

11:10 a.m. Hot Hot Heat
They're playing at Fine Line Music Cafe with The Editors and Louis XIV on January 30th.
Here's their in-studio from earlier this year.
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10:20 a.m. Local Music - The Hard Left
They have a couple of dates on the horizon at The Hexagon and Stasiu's.
They're getting some airplay in Madrid!
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Song Of The Day Info - Wild Sweet Orange
Today on our Song Of The Day Podcast we're featuring Wild Sweet Orange with the tune "Wrestle With God" from the Whale EP which is in stores now.
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9:45 a.m. Magnetic Fields
Their forthcoming album, Distortion will be released next month.
Of course, you can pre-order it now.
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9:30 a.m. Bon Iver
For Emma, Forever Ago will be in stores on February 19th.
You can pre-order it here. .
Catch a live Bon Iver performance on January 17th at The Turf Club with The Pines and Roma Di Luna.
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9:10 a.m. Vampire Weekend
Their self-titled EP is available now.
You can pre-order their full length here.
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"My 3 Songs" for Thursday

Posted at 1:55 PM on December 27, 2007 by Steve Seel

Today we've got one that's a bit of a precursor to our Top 89 of 2007 that's coming up on New Year's Day: Tom Ragatz, who identifies himself as a resident of "Uptown, baby," says: "In a just world, these would have been the biggest three hits of 2007."

1) MIA, "Paper Planes"
2) Fountains of Wayne, "Someone to Love"
3) 1990s, "You're Supposed To Be My Friend"

Interesting melange of choices, Tom. Perhaps this is the one chance I'm going to get to say this about that particular MIA song: it's not one of my favorites (I try to avoid disparaging the music on the air -- all of us here at The Current play stuff that we don't necessarily like from time to time, because merely "playing what we like" personally is not what it's about). But I've gotta say, those gunshots and cash-register ka-chings in that tune make me absolutely cringe. My colleagues have pretty much labled me a wilting violet for this, claiming the song is merely "satire" -- but that argument hasn't budged my dislike of the tune one bit (the day I mentioned in a staff meeting that this song made my skin crawl, everybody looked at each other as if Michael Medved had just entered the room). Well, diff'rent strokes, y'all. (I do like the other tunes, though, Tom -- but the point is that it's called "My 3 Songs," not "Seel's 3 Songs").

This concludes today's episode of "One Man's Opinion." However, please proceed to the comments to weigh in on this if you so choose.

Either way, don't forget to listen New Year's Day starting at 10am for the Top 89 of 2007, as voted on by YOU -- not us, wilting violets or not. ;-)

Life as I know it has changed.

Posted at 5:36 PM on December 27, 2007 by Mary Lucia (7 Comments)

I got a dog.

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