The Current Music Blog: March 19, 2008 Archive

The Stream 03/19/08

Posted at 8:55 AM on March 19, 2008 by Barb Abney

Ryan Adams: New Album... New Blog

Constantines and Feist singing "Islands In The Stream" on limited edition 7" to be released April 1st.

New summer festival in British Columbia, Canada.

Today in Music History:
1946 - Paul Atkinson (Zombies guitarist) was born.
1957 - Elvis Presley bought Graceland.
1959 - Terry Hall was born (Specials, Fun Boy 3, Colourfield)
1968 - Donovan traveled to India to study transcendental meditation.
1974 - Jefferson Airplane became Jefferson Starship.
1982 - Randy Rhoads was killed in a plane crash.
1993 - Jeff Ward (Low Pop Suicide) committed suicide.

Live Blogging 03/19/08

Posted at 9:21 AM on March 19, 2008 by Barb Abney

11:40 a.m. John Doe
Listen to his SxSW performance in our archives.
He and the rest of the gang from X are celebrating their 30th anniversary with a tour!
They're playing The Cabooze on Saturday night.
More John Doe...

11:30 a.m. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
Real Emotional Trash was released yesterday.
They're playing First Avenue along with John Vanderslice tonight.
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11:20 a.m. Public Enemy
You can see a new Public Enemy video here.
Chuck D. will also be appearing at one of our upcoming Fakebook performances.

11:15 a.m. Tokyo Police Club
Listen to their SxSW performance in our archives.
They will be releasing Elephant Shell on April 22nd.
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11:10 a.m. Mountain Goats
Today they announced the cancellation of their Australian tour dates.

10:50 a.m. These New Puritans
The U.K. quartet released Beat Pyramid domestically, yesterday.
They have upcoming dates with The Kills and Lightspeed Champion.
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10:40 a.m. The Black Keys
Attack & Release will hit stores on April 1st.
Watch the "Strange Times" video.
They're playing First Avenue on April 11th.
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10:25 a.m. Doves
Spellbound, House Of Mirrors, Drifter, Kingdom Of Rust and Jetstream are all possible titles for new material from the band.

10:20 a.m. Basia Bulat
She's playing First Avenue with Devotchka on May 7th.
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Song Of The Day Info - Devotchka
Today on our Song Of The Day Podcast we're featuring Devotchka with the tune "Transliterator" from A Mad And Faithful Telling which is our CD Of The Week.
Get your copy when you support The Current online.
Listen to their SxSW performance in our archives.
They're playing First Avenue with Basia Bulat on May 7th.
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9:50 a.m. Hot Chip
The band are playing First Avenue on April 18th.
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9:40 a.m. Local Music - Cloud Cult
Feel Good Ghosts (Tea-partying Through Tornadoes) will be released on April 8th.
Listen to their SxSW performance in our archives.
They're playing First Avenue April 26th.
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9:30 a.m. Death Cab For Cutie
Narrow Stairs will be released May 13th.
They will be playing both Bonnaroo and Coachella this summer.
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9:25 a.m. Dean Wareham
He'll be singning copies of his book, Black Postcards next Wednesday at Book Court in Brooklyn along with recent guest John Sellers.

9:20 a.m. The Rascals
Listen to their SxSW performance in our archives.
They'll soon be heading our on MTV U's Spanking New Music tour.
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9:10 a.m. Mates Of State
We heard their tune from Live Current Vol. 2.
Keep up with the band on their Babble blog.

"My 3 Songs" for Wednesday

Posted at 2:11 PM on March 19, 2008 by Steve Seel

With the buzz from SXSW still hanging in the air, we have another set today that takes advantage of it. Lincoln Scully from Mpls writes, "I was at SXSW last week, and while checking out some bands and standing iin the sun, I neglected to wear sunscreen. Needless to say, I have quite a sunburn that has decided to start peeling today. In honor of (this fact), I want to play a set for the sun."

1) Rage Against the Machine, "People of the Sun"
2) They Might Be Giants, "Why Does the Sun Shine"
3) Emily Haines, "Reading In Bed" live in The Current's studios (she throws in a bit of "House of the Rising Sun" at the end)

Two words Lincoln: aloe vera. (By they way, that segue from RATM into TMBG was one of the most genius, oddball seques I've ever heard. Nice job).