The Current Music Blog: March 21, 2008 Archive

The Stream 03/21/08

Posted at 8:51 AM on March 21, 2008 by Barb Abney (1 Comments)

The rebirth of vinyl?

Vote for The Greatest Rock 'n Roll Band Ever.

Of Montreal's Kevin Barnes and MGMT's Andrew Wyngarden have formed new sideproject, Blikk Fang.

Today In Music History:
1902 - Eddie James "Son" House was born.
1950 - Roger Hodgson (Supertramp) was born.
1976 - Iggy Pop and David Bowie were busted for drugs in New York.
1984 - A portion of Central Park was named Strawberry Fields in honor of John Lennon.
1987 - Club Nouveau was #1 with their version of the Bill Withers tune "Lean On Me."
2000 - Soul Coughing reportedly disbanded.

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Live Blogging 03/21/08

Posted at 9:13 AM on March 21, 2008 by Barb Abney

Tunes On The Telly Tonight:
Shiny Toy Guns on Conan
Lupe Fiasco on Craig Ferguson

11:45 a.m. Devotchka
Listen to their SxSW performance in our archives.
They're playing First Avenue with Basia Bulat on May 7th.
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11:40 a.m. Local Music - Glorious Monster
They're playing at the Quarter Acre Lifestyle CD release show at The Nomad tonight.
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11:30 a.m. Fleet Foxes
They're playing 7th Street Entry on April 9th with Blitzen Trapper.
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11:25 a.m. Portishead
Pre-order the Third boxset here.

11:20 a.m. The Rascals
Listen to their SxSW performance in our archives.
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11:10 a.m. Basia Bulat
She's playing First Avenue with Devotchka on May 7th.
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10:50 a.m. She & Him
Listen to their SxSW performance in our archives.
Read about it here and/or here.

10:45 a.m. Radiohead
Check out this 4 hour long remix on VHS!
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10:40 a.m. Hot Chip
The band are playing First Avenue on April 18th.
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10:30 a.m. Santogold
Here's the Rolling Stone Artists To Watch article.
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10:20 a.m. CD Of The Week - The Kills
Midnight Boom is our CD Of The Week.
Get your copy when you support The Current online.
They're playing The Triple Rock on May 11th.
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Song Of The Day Info - Local Music - Askeleton
Today on our Song Of The Day Podcast we're featuring Askeleton with the tune " In The Basement We All Think The Same" from their forthcoming release, The Personalization due in stores on April 1st.
The record release show is at The Triple Rock on Friday, April 4th.
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9:50 a.m. White Williams
Listen to his SxSW performance in our archives.
Learn more here or here.

9:40 a.m. Art Brut
The story about the unknown release of "Pump Up The Volume."

9:30 a.m. South
They will be releasing You Are Here next month.
They'll also be touring North America again soon.
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9:20 a.m. Carbon/Silicon
Listen to their SxSW performance in our archives.
They're playing The Varsity March 30th.
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9:10 a.m. R.E.M.
They will release Accelerate on April 1st.
Listen to their SxSW performance.
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Do the Shuffle

Posted at 12:01 PM on March 21, 2008 by Tony Lopez (4 Comments)

I got more game than Parker Brothers!

"Drown in My Own Tears," The Smithereens
Ok, so, maybe The Smithereens weren't fashion plates, although you have to admit that Pat DiNizio had a way with a chapeau. And maybe they're weren't exactly easy on the eyes, either. But, dammit, I know killer hooks when I hear them! Their first two albums are really good. Come on, people! Who's with me?

"Breather," Laika
You are getting very, very sleepy...

"Butter," A Tribe Called Quest
The Low End Theory has been well-represented in the Shuffle, lately.

"The Lie and How We Told It," Yo La Tengo
From I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One. Well, another baseball season is upon us and many of you might know that YLT are lunatic New York Mets fans. In fact, they name-check Shea Stadium on "Moby Octopad," another track from this album. Ira Kaplan, with the help of Mets legend Ed Kranepool, explains the baseball origin of the band's name. In other sports news, Twins fans get to suffer through a season of watching Johan Santana in a Mets uniform.

"Tropical-Iceland," The Fiery Furnaces
You just never know what you're going to get with these two. In a case of democracy run amok, the band has decided to let fans chart the direction of their next album.

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My 3 Songs for Friday

Posted at 12:15 PM on March 21, 2008 by Mark Wheat

Ali from Mpls dropped a set of feel good music for feel good Friday!
She's ambivalent about cover songs but linked this set nicely with
covers of songs made famous by the previous artist in the set;

Led Zeppelin - "Hey Hey What Can I Do?"
Ike and Tina Turner - "Whole Lotta Love"
Nina Simone - "Funkier Than A Mosquito's Tweeter"

Ali adds; "I could hear that Zep song every day and never tire of the
bluesy melancholy and Robert's incredible scream at the end!
Ike & Tina hit me in the gut every time, as good as the original and just
as heavy....I love Tina doing 'Mosquito' too but Nina's is stunning.
It's a pretty old school funktastic triple play that I can't stop myself
from including on most of the mix CDs I make for people.

Make your own 3 song mix tape for us and send it our way!

Happy Snow Day and have a safe and happy Easter weekend.

Guest DJ Set 3-21-08

Posted at 10:29 PM on March 21, 2008 by Steve Seel

The Balance series frorm EQ Recordings is one that Mark Wheat has featured before on the Friday Night DJ set. This time we're going to dip into one featuring a mix by Jimmy Van M.

Born in Belguim, he got his career start in Orlando FL, making his name playing gigs at Orlando's Beacham Theater, alongside other pioneering American trance DJs such as Kimball Collins. Orlando proved a pretty fertile ground for him, being an area pretty supportive of the trance genre. Eventually he was making all kind of connections, some through the DJ booking agency that he founded there as well ... and one of his big breaks came with his production work on such things as Sasha and Digweed's Communicate album.

Excerpts from "Balance 10.1"
Mixed by Jimmy Van M

Mouse Down - Sexy 4 All
James Figurine -555566688833 (The Field Remix)
Mauro Picotto - Maybe, Maybe Not (Smith & Selway remix)
Umek - Carbon Occasions
Steve T - There Were Lights (Moonbeam remix)


www.jimmyvanm.com
www.myspace.com/jimmyvanm
www.myspace.com/balanceseries