The Current Music Blog: April 4, 2008 Archive

Current Song of the Day for Friday 4/4/08

Posted at 10:01 AM on April 4, 2008 by Bill DeVille

As usual on Friday's it a local tune! Today we feature veteran Twin Cities rockers, Rank Strangers w/a new tune from their new release, Tucke Des Objekts, Die....sorry I don't speak German!

Rank Strangers - The Vampire March

They will be special guests on the Local Show w/Chris Roberts this Sunday at 5pm.

Do the Shuffle

Posted at 7:25 PM on April 4, 2008 by Tony Lopez (9 Comments)

Sorry for the late post, fellow Shufflers...

"Emma, Get Me a Lemon," The Walkmen
The New York City band is working on the proper follow-up to A Hundred
Miles Off, a yet-to-be-titled disc slated for release later this
spring. In the meantime, they released a song-for-song cover of Harry
Nilsson's 1974 album Pussy Cats to mostly tepid reviews. Did anybody hear
this thing?

"So Far to Go," Common
Co-starring D'Angelo. We first heard this beat on J Dilla's 2006
disc Donuts, which was released just three days before he died of
complications from lupus. "So Far to Go" was also featured on Dilla's
posthumously released album The Shining. Common explains Dilla's
influence. The sample is "Don't' Say Goodnight" by the Isley
Brothers.

"Hallelujah," Jeff Buckley
Is there a better cover of this song?

"Cherry Chapstick," Yo La Tengo
One of my favorite YLT songs, this is from And Then Nothing Turned
Itself Inside Out. Here's a cool live video.

"Roda Viva," Chico Buarque w/ MPB-4
A little samba for your Friday. Buarque was a little more conservative,
musically, than some of his Brazilian peers like Caetano Veloso,
Gilberto Gil, and Gal Costa. Of course, that didn't stop Brazil's
military dictatorship from harassing him. It was hard out there for a
Tropicalista!

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Guest DJ Set 4-4-08

Posted at 9:42 PM on April 4, 2008 by Mark Wheat

Finally the weather feels like April...so it must be time for another set from our resident
First Friday of the Month DJ ESP aka Woody McBride, all new stuff released on his label Communique;

1. the push featuring dave wesley and casey borchért from rural minnesota and wisconsin - intention experiments

2. d + d (diego ro-k and diego cid0 from buenos aires - rewinder

3. james fusion from connecticut - escape from the elm city from

4. dj vic from sydney australia - inside job

5. dakota veer from madison wisc - proxy

6. k larm and j raninen from finland - plastic pudding

7. esp woody mcbride from planet lovetron - karmonic

8. noumenon aka skytree from st croix falls, wi mind at large

you can find out more about dj esp and communique records on www.woodymcbride.com