The Current Music Blog: May 6, 2008 Archive

The Stream 05/06/08

Posted at 6:03 AM on May 6, 2008 by Barb Abney (1 Comments)

Frank Black to open for Stone Temple Pilots.

Prince releasing 21 Nights a multimedia book based on last years 3 week musical residency in London.

Lily Allen writing a sitcom?

New Beck record before summer?

Today In Music History:
1958 - The Everly Brothers were #1 with "All I Have to Do Is Dream."
1960 - John Flansburgh (They Might Be Giants) was born.
1968 - Lætitia Sadier (Stereolab) was born.
1973 - Paul Simon began his first tour without Art Garfunkel.
1994 - Pearl Jam filed a complaint with the U.S. Justice Department against Ticketmaster.
1997 - Michael Jackson and The Bee Gees were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
2006 - Grant McLennan (The Go-Betweens) died.

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Live Blogging 05/06/08

Posted at 9:02 AM on May 6, 2008 by Barb Abney

11:50 a.m. Sun Kil Moon
They're playing The Varsity on June 6th along with Retribution Gospel Choir.
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11:40 a.m. Local Music - Atmosphere
When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That S#@! Gold is our CD Of The Week.
Get your own copy when you support The Current online.
They're playing Soundset 08 May 25th along with Dilated Peoples, Aesop Rock, Brother Ali, P.O.S. and many more.
Check out the recent in-studio interview/performance as well as the Fakebook appearance with Chuck D.
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11:30 a.m. Local Music - Dosh
Wolves and Wishes will be released next week.
Check out the in-studio interview/performance.
Dosh will be playing First Avenue along with P.O.S. on June 27th
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11:15 a.m. Local Music - Tapes 'n Tapes
Check out the video for "Hang Them All."
They've been asked to help with more charity events.
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11:10 a.m. The Wombats
They're playing a HUGE homecoming gig in Liverpool in November.
Here's the "Moving To New York" video.

10:30 a.m. The Black Keys
They're playing an upcoming MySpace Secret show.
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10:25 a.m.The National
They recently designed a t-shirt for The Yellow Bird Project.
A Skin, A Night, the DVD detailing the making of Boxer will be released on May 20th.
Tickets are on sale now for their June 5th date at The Xcel with Modest Mouse and R.E.M.
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10:20 a.m. Bob Mould
You can blog-stalk him here.

10:10 a.m. Amy Winehouse
Apparently, she won't be recording the next James Bond theme.
Back To Black has just become the biggest selling album on Amazon.

Song Of The Day Info - Local Music - The Plastic Constellations
Today on our Song Of The Day Podcast we're featuring The Plastic Constellations with the tune "Black Market Pandas" from their album We Appreciate You.
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10:00 a.m. Bon Iver
They'll be playing Rock The Garden which is now SOLD OUT along with Cloud Cult, The New Pornographers and Andrew Bird.
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9:50 a.m. Jim Noir
You can still listen to his SxSW performance in our archives.
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9:40 a.m. R.E.M.
Tickets are on sale now for their June 5th date at The Xcel with Modest Mouse and The National.
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9:35 a.m. Frightened Rabbit
They're playing The 400 Bar with French Kicks on May 31st.
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9:30 a.m. Local Music - Brother Ali
He's playing Soundset '08.
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9:20 a.m. The Young Knives
Superabundance is out now.
They'll be playing a couple of stateside dates next month.
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9:10 a.m. The Last Shadow Puppets
The band is made up of Alex Turner (Arctic Monkeys) and Miles Kane (The Rascals).
Their debut album The Age Of The Understatement hit the shelves today..
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"My 3 Songs" for Tuesday

Posted at 2:15 PM on May 6, 2008 by Steve Seel

We continue today to give some of our local music luminaries a chance to pick their 3-song sets, as part of our MN150 celebrations all week long. Today, we hear from Ian Anderson, president of both Afternoon Records (the label he started in high school) and Say Rah Records, and guitarist for local band One for the Team, which just signed to Militia Group. Ian also does press for Vitriol Independent Promotions and blogs for MFR (Minneapolis F-ing Rocks).

Ian's set:

1) Coconut Records, "West Coast"
2) Sloan, "She Says What She Means"
3) Weezer, "Across the Sea"

That was a a triple-play of some guitar-pop goodness, Ian. Delicious. Thanks!!!