The Current Music Blog: January 16, 2008 Archive

The Stream 01/16/08

Posted at 9:00 AM on January 16, 2008 by Barb Abney

Amy Winehouse is working on Christmas/Hanukkah album.

Clinic to release Do It! April 8th. A North American tour will follow (7th Street Entry on May 13th.)

Vote for the title of The Fiery Furnace's next album.

Today In Music History:
1946 - Ronnie Milsap was born.
1970 - Brendan O'Hare (Teenage Fanclub) was born.
1981 - Nick Valensi (The Strokes) was born.
1985 - Terry Burnes (David Bowie's half-brother) killed himself.
1988 - George Michael's Faith was the #1 album.
1996 - Jamaican authorities opened fire on Jimmy Buffett's seaplane, mistaking it for a drug trafficker's plane.
2004 - Michael Jackson pleaded not guilty to seven charges of child molestation.

Live Blogging 01/16/08

Posted at 9:32 AM on January 16, 2008 by Barb Abney (1 Comments)

Tunes On The Telly Tonight:
Betteye Lavette on Conan

11:40 a.m. The Fiery Furnaces
They're "caucus-ing" their next album!

11:25 a.m. The Raveonettes
Lust, Lust, Lust will be released on February 19th.
They're playing 7th Street Entry on St. Patrick's Day.
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10:40 a.m. Liam Finn
Late last year Rolling Stone named him an "Artist To Watch in 2008."
He's playing The 400 Bar along with Pela on March 1st.
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10:20 a.m. Local Music - The Owls
Daughters And Suns is in stores now.
They're playing at Fitzgerald Theater with Gregory MacGuire's What-the-dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy on February 3rd.
More here and/or here.

Song Of The Day Info - Marah
Today on our Song Of The Day Podcast we're featuring Marah with the title track from their new record Angels of Destruction which is in stores now.
On January 26th they'll be playing 400 Bar.
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9:50 a.m. Sons and Daughters
This Gift will be in stores on the 29th. You can pre-order it now...
They'll be playing The Varsity Theater on March 29th.
Here's the interview with Adele I talked about.
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9:30 a.m. The Hold Steady
They're currently having a "beard-off" while working on the new album.
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9:10 a.m. Willoughby
Learn more about this L.A. band here.

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"My 3 Songs" for Wednesday

Posted at 12:19 PM on January 16, 2008 by Steve Seel (2 Comments)

Purely coincidentally (really), today's set dovetails with a conversation that Mark Wheat already started about the art of cover songs, which you can join in on when you click that link. Harry LeBlanc of Mpls writes, "I thought it would be interesting to highlight the mysterious art of cool cover tunes. All three of these tunes are about various kinds of agony (I'll say, Harry), and so I think they hang together as a set. It was difficult to choose, as there are so many cool covers; the list could go on -- someone should have a show, or a feature, that was an hour of cool covers."

1) Johnny Cash, "Hurt" (originally by Nine Inch Nails)
2) The White Stripes, "Jolene" (made famous by Dolly Parton)
3) Gary Jules, "Mad World" (originally by Tears for Fears)

Harry also notes, "Other songs I considered are The Police's 'Walking on the Moon' done by Doug Wamble; Brian Eno's 'Third Uncle' done by Bauhaus; Patti Smith's 'Because the Night' done by 10,000 Maniacs; and the Beatles 'Dear Prudence' done by Siouxsie and the Banshees."

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