The Current Music Blog: March 5, 2008 Archive

The Stream 03/05/08

Posted at 9:05 AM on March 5, 2008 by Barb Abney

Disenfranchised with MTV? So was Pitchfork.

Damon Albarn is playing tomorrow night's Africa Exprez collective show in Liverpool.

Merge records has opened a digital store.

Today In Music History:
1955 - Elvis Presley made his TV debut.
1957 - Mark E Smith (The Fall) was born.
1962 - Craig and Charlie Reid (The Proclaimers) were born.
1963 - Patsy Cline was killed in a plane crash.
1971 - Badfinger kicked off their first US tour.
1982 - Russell Leetch (Editors) was born.
1983 - Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" was #1.
2000 - MC Hammer became a preacher at the Jubilee Christian Centre in San Jose.
2002 - The first episode of "The Osbournes" was shown on MTV.

Live Blogging 03/05/08

Posted at 9:46 AM on March 5, 2008 by Barb Abney (1 Comments)

11:50 a.m. Prince
The "official" hip-replacement discussion.

11:40 a.m. Local Music - Cloud Cult
They're playing our SxSW broadcast on March 13th.
Feel Good Ghosts (Tea-partying Through Tornadoes) will be released on April 8th.
They're playing First Avenue April 26th.
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11:30 a.m. The Kills
"U.R.A. Fever" is the first single from their forthcoming release Midnight Boom which is due in stores on the 18th.
They're playing The Triple Rock on May 11th.
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11:20 a.m. The Black Keys
Attack & Release will hit stores on April 1st.
They're playing First Avenue on April 11th.
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11:10 a.m. Bob Mould
He's playing First Avenue tonight.
He was in recently for an in-studio performance.
More info here and/or here.

11:00 a.m. Jim Noir
He's playing our SxSW broadcast on March 13th.
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10:50 a.m. Lightspeed Champion
Falling Off The Lavender Bridge is available now..
They're playing our SxSW broadcast on March 14th.
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10:45 a.m. The Who
They blog!!!

10:40 a.m. British Sea Power
They're playing Triple Rock on March 21st.
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10:30 a.m. Justice
The French band is in the states on the Myspace Music Tour.

10:20 a.m. Bruce Springsteen
He's playing The Excel Energy Center on the 16th.
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Song Of The Day Info - Grand Archives
Today on our Song Of The Day Podcast we're featuring Grand Archives with the tune "Torn Blue Foam Couch" from The Grand Archives.
They're playing 7th Street Entry on Friday night.
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9:50 a.m. Devotchka
They're playing our SxSW broadcast on March 13th.
A Mad And Faithful Telling will be released on March 18th.
They're playing First Avenue with Basia Bulat on May 7th.
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9:40 a.m.. Bell X1
These guys are former bandmates of Damien Rice (in the band Juniper.)
They're playing The Varsity on March 20th.
Learn more about them here.

9:30 a.m. Sons and Daughters
They're playing our SxSW broadcast on March 13th.
Then they'll be playing The Varsity Theater on March 29th.
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9:25 a.m. Peter Holsapple & Chris Stamey
Mavericks was re-issued with bonus material back in January.

9:10 a.m. Mike Doughty
See/hear his recent in-studio appearance here.
He'll be playing First Avenue on March 22nd and 23rd.
More here..

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"My 3 Songs" for Wednesday

Posted at 1:40 PM on March 5, 2008 by Steve Seel

Peter McKown of Lakeville MN didn't have to go far for an idea for his set today; he writes, "I make a mix of my current favorite songs each month and these are the first three songs of this month's mix."

1) Regina Spektor, "Hotel Song"
2) The Beatles, "Got To Get You Into My Life"
3) Arcade Fire, "Building Downtown (Antichrist Television Blues)"

What a nice surprise to get that Beatles tune between those two newer things. Thanks Peter!

Pssst - Wanna hear new Tapes 'n Tapes?

Posted at 4:09 PM on March 5, 2008 by Lindsay Kimball

You have until noon tomorrow to stream the new Tapes 'n Tapes album "Walk It Off." If I'm doing the math right (from Central Standard Time), you've got about 20 hours of unlimited streaming. Then you have to wait until April 8th in the US or the 7th in the UK.

Track Listing:
1. Le Ruse
2. Time of Songs
3. Hang Them All
4. Headshock
5. Conquest
6. Say Back Something
7. Demon Apple
8. Blunt
9. George Michael
10. Anvil
11. Lines
12. The Dirty Dirty

I'm on track two. So far so good.

Another New Local CD

Posted at 9:28 PM on March 5, 2008 by Mark Wheat

Cloud Cult's "Feel Good Ghosts (Tea-Partying Through Tornadoes)", the band's newest full length album is now available on their website only (it won't be available to the rest of the world until April 8, 2008).

AND if you'd like to make a video to be projected on their back stage screen on the forthcoming tour you can do that to on the website.

AND they'll be joining us at SXSW, we're blessed.