The Current Music Blog: May 8, 2008 Archive

The Stream 05/08/08

Posted at 8:53 AM on May 8, 2008 by Barb Abney

The Vaselines to reunite for two festival shows this summer.

Amy Winehouse has been arrested.

There won't be a Vegoose Fest this year.

Today In Music History:
1911 - Robert Johnson was born.
1940 - Paul Gadd (AKA Gary Glitter) was born.
1940 - Ricky Nelson was born.
1951 - Chris Frantz (Talking Heads) was born.
1967 - Gerry And The Pacemakers announced they were splitting up.
1976 - Martha Wainwright was born.
1976 - John Sebastian (former lead singer of the Lovin Spoonful) was at #1 with "Welcome Back" the theme to Welcome Back Kotter.
2006 - The Rolling Stones called off their European tour after guitarist Keith Richards underwent emergency brain surgery.

Live Blogging 05/08/08

Posted at 9:31 AM on May 8, 2008 by Barb Abney

11:20 a.m. The Kills
They're playing The Triple Rock Sunday night.
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11:15 a.m. Local Music - Cloud Cult
See the video for "Everybody Here Is A Cloud" here.
They're playing the SOLD OUT Rock The Garden along with The New Pornographers, Andrew Bird and Bon Iver
You could win tickets to Rock The Garden.
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10:45 a.m. Nine Inch Nails
They're playing Target Center on August 2nd.
Grab the latest record Slip, for free.
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10:40 a.m. Metric
Unveiled a new song at Coachella.

Song Of The Day Info - Our Side of Town: A Red House Records 25th Year Collection
Today on our Song Of The Day Podcast we're featuring Meg Hutchinson with the tune "Ready" from Our Side Of Town: A Red House Records 25th Year Collection.
More Red House Records here and/or here.
More Meg Hutchinson..

9:50 a.m. Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
They're playing 7th Street Entry May 24th.
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9:40 a.m. Martha Wainwright
I Know You're Married But I've Got Feelings Too will be in stores on June 10th.
Today is her 32nd birthday!
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9:30 a.m. Local Music - Polara
Thier CD release show for Beekeeping is this Friday evening at The Varsity. with Joe Werner of Strange Lights, Mercurial Rage, The Mood Swings and The Alarmists
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9:25 a.m. Portishead
Geoff blogged about their Coachella appearance.

9:10 a.m. The Submarines
Their latest effort is Honeysuckle Weeks.
They have upcoming gigs with Headlights.
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"My 3 Songs" for Thursday

Posted at 12:32 PM on May 8, 2008 by Steve Seel

Another Minnesota music luminary today, as we continue with our week-long MN 150 edition of My Three Songs.

Andrea Myers is Music Editor at City Pages; she's contributed to Reveille Magazine, Howwastheshow.com, Vita.mn, Pulse of the Twin Cities, Rift Magazine, and Alarm Press. Andrea's songs (which are also two-thirds local):

1) Ani DiFranco, "Shy"
2) Brother Ali, "Forest Whitaker"
3) Sam Keenan, "That Was Then"

She says, "These songs are perfect for driving around with the windows down!" This is truly the theme that has emerged this week; I think it's just proof that when you combine our shared love of music with our love of springtime in Minnesota, we're all pretty much in heaven.

Thanks Andrea, and thanks for your writerly contributions to the local landscape.