The Current Music Blog: March 17, 2008 Archive

The Stream 03/17/08

Posted at 8:52 AM on March 17, 2008 by Barb Abney

Abba's former session drummer, Ola Brunkert has died.

Nine Inch Nails has launched a video competition (and Trent dissed Radiohead, as well.)

Check out the latest Spoon video.

Today In Music History:
1944 - John Sebastian (The Lovin Spoonful) was born.
1951 - Scott Gorham (Thin Lizzy) was born.
1967 - Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins) was born.
1968 - The Bee Gees made their US television debut on The Ed Sullivan Show.
1975 - Justin Hawkins (The Darkness) was born.
1997 - Jermaine Stewart ("We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off") died of cancer.
2002 - The O Brother, Where Art Thou? Soundtrack was #1.
2006 - The Smiths turned down a five-million dollar deal to reuite for the Coachella Festival.

Live Blogging 03/17/08

Posted at 9:38 AM on March 17, 2008 by Barb Abney

11:40 a.m.. Bell X1
They'll be on Letterman tonight.
They're playing The Varsity on March 20th.
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11:05 a.m. Carbon/Silicon
Listen to their SxSW performance in our archives.
They're playing The Varsity March 30th.
Mick Jones recently joined A3 on stage to perform (The Sopranos Theme) "Woke Up This Morning."
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10:45 a.m. The Duke Spirit
Listen to their SxSW performance in our archives.
They have an upcoming North American tour with BRMC.
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10:30 a.m. The Kills
Midnight Boom will be in stores tomorrow.
Check out their In Bed With The Kills interview.
They're playing The Triple Rock on May 11th.
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Song Of The Day Info - Local Music - Gary Louris
Today on our Song Of The Day Podcast we're featuring Gary Louris with the tune "True Blue" from his Vagabonds album.
He's playing State Theater on the 25th.
Here's his recent in-studio appearance.
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9:50 a.m. The Raveonettes
They kicked off our SxSW broadcast last Thursday.
Listen to it in our archive.
They're playing 7th Street Entry tonight.
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9:35 a.m. British Sea Power
They're playing Triple Rock on March 21st.
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9:20 a.m. Basia Bulat
She's playing First Avenue with Devotchka on May 7th.
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9:10 a.m. She & Him
If you missed their SxSW performance with us..
Listen to it in our archive.
Read about it here and/or here.

"My 3 Songs" for Monday

Posted at 2:38 PM on March 17, 2008 by Steve Seel

Jacki Di Gregorio of Mpls cleary has some kind of demon, or demons, to purge ... it's not for us to understand. "This is a public exorcism," she says, "I hope it works!"

1) CSS, "Let's Make Love and Listen to Death From Above"
2) LCD Soundsystem, "Someone Great"
3) Bon Iver, "Skinny Love"

Well, thankfully we got through that without levitating beds, spewing pea-soup or any sort of preistly defenstration. Hope it worked too, Jacki!