The Current Music Blog: April 2, 2008 Archive

The Stream 04/02/08

Posted at 9:00 AM on April 2, 2008 by Barb Abney

Watch a deleted scene from Juno where Ellen Page sings a Diablo Cody penned tune.

When April Fool's jokes go bad.

The Who to play an acoustic set for Teenage Cancer Trust

Today In Music History:
1939 - Marvin Gaye was born.
1947 - Emmylou Harris was born.
1961 - Keren Jane Woodward (Bananarama) was born.
1977 - Fleetwood Mac's "Rumors" was #1 (where it stayed for 31 weeks.)
1987 - Buddy Rich died.
1998 - Rob Pilatus (Milli Vanilli) was found dead in a German hotel.

Facemelter Season Finale!

Posted at 3:31 AM on April 2, 2008 by Jill Riley

Brett and I had referred to Eddie Van Halen wailing on "Eruption" as the granddaddy of all facemelting guitar solos. Jimi Hendrix was blowing music minds with his guitar work way before Eddie's time! We thought it would only be appropriate to feature Jimi Hendrix on the last Facemelter episode of the season!

Brett and I got caught up in the rock and roll lifestyle, so we're taking a break from melting faces. Thanks for listening to our podcast, we had a blast. You can still go back and listen to all thirteen episodes of Facemelter.

May the shred be with you. If you enjoyed this podcast, let us know!

Live Blogging 04/02/08

Posted at 9:10 AM on April 2, 2008 by Barb Abney

Tunes On The Telly Tonight:
The Bravery on Conan
R.E.M. on The Colbert Report

11:25 a.m. Death Cab For Cutie
Narrow Stairs will be released May 13th.
They're playing The Orpheum on June 2nd.
They will be playing both Bonnaroo and Coachella this summer.
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11:15 a.m. Local Music - Atmosphere
Slug will be appearing at our next Fakebook performance.
They'll be releasing their new album, When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint... on the 22nd.
Here's the new video.
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10:45 a.m. The Rolling Stones
A remix of one of their classics isn't getting favorable reviews.

10:30 a.m. She & Him
Listen to their SxSW performance in our archives.
Last week they announced a few more dates.
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Song Of The Day Info - Wye Oak
Today on our Song Of The Day Podcast we're featuring Wye Oak with the tune "Warning" from their album If Children.
Listen to their SxSW performance in our archives.
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9:40 a.m. The Kills
They're playing The Triple Rock on May 11th.
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9:30 a.m. Tokyo Police Club
Listen to their SxSW performance in our archives.
They will be releasing Elephant Shell on April 22nd.
They're playing The Varsity Theatre on May 6th.
Their "tour/bathroom" blog.
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9:20 a.m. Andrew Bird
The Plug Independent Music Award winner has recently been blogging for The New York Times.
He will be playing Rock The Garden along with Cloud Cult, The New Pornographers and Bon Iver.
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9:10 a.m. The Heavy
Listen to their SxSW performance in our archives.
Something else they did while at SxSW.
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My 3 Songs for Wednesday April 2, 2008

Posted at 12:04 PM on April 2, 2008 by Bill DeVille

For today's set Rick Linsk of St. Paul decided to keep it simple...pale, odd white guy segment...

Iggy Pop - Lust for Life
Tiny Tim - Tiptoe Through the Tulips
David Bowie - Heroes