The Current Music Blog: May 21, 2008 Archive

The Stream 05/21/08

Posted at 9:00 AM on May 21, 2008 by Barb Abney

Tom Waits is The Devil in the flick The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (see question #30.)

Eagles of Death Metal and and others have been asked to contribute to a menu for Denny's.

The National's new DVD documentary and The Virginia EP have been released.

Today In Music History:
1904 - Fats Waller was born.
1963 - Kevin Shields (My Bloody Valentine) was born.
1964 - Martin Blunt (The Charlatans UK bassist) was born.
1968 - Pete Townshend married designer Karen Astley.
1980 - Five Jimi Hendrix Gold discs were stolen from The Electric Ladyland studios.
2003 - James Brown was pardoned after serving a brief prison term for drug and assault charges.

Live Blogging 05/21/08

Posted at 9:09 AM on May 21, 2008 by Barb Abney

Tunes On The Telly Tonight:
Atmosphere on Conan
Al Green on Leno
The Kooks on Jimmy Kimmel

11:50 a.m. Gnarls Barkley
Next month they'll be playing the 150th MySpace Secret Show.
They're also playing one date on Thievery Corporation's upcoming Outernational Tour.

11:40 a.m. The Heavy
They'll be featured on Fuel TV's Daily Habit tomorrow.
More...

11:10 a.m. My Bloody Valentine
Happy Birthday to Kevin Sheilds!
Here's a recent Guardian article about the band.
More...

10:55 a.m. Sun Kil Moon
They're playing The Varsity on June 6th along with Retribution Gospel Choir.
More...

10:45 a.m. Santogold
Watch Santi on MTVu Backstage Pass here.

10:30 A.M. My Brightest Diamond
Her new album, A Thousand Shark's Teeth will be released June 17th.
Pre-order it here.
More...

Song Of The Day Info - Local Music - Mason Jennings
Today on our Song Of The Day Podcast we're featuring local musician Mason Jennings with the tune "I Love You And Buddha Too" from In The Ever which hit shelves yesterday.
Here's Mason teaming up with Matt Costa and Jack Johnson on a live version of this song.
Mason is part of the Yahoo Music Who's Next competition.
More...

9:45 a.m. Local Music - Tapes 'n Tapes
Here's what their tour has been like thus far...
More..

9:20 a.m. The Watson Twins
Their new album Fire Songs will be in stores on June 24th.
Here's their recent in-studio performance.
More...

9:15 a.m. Modest Mouse
They're playing The Xcel on June 5th with R.E.M. and The National.
More...

9:10 a.m. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! has been nominated for Best Album in Mojo Honours 2008.
Is that ironic considering Nick's previous letter to MTV?
The US tour is slated for September.
More...

"My 3 Songs" for Wednesday

Posted at 3:04 PM on May 21, 2008 by Steve Seel (1 Comments)

More spring fever today ... Patti Black observed the rain-bearing clouds of springtime looming overhead recently and wondered, "What happened to the sunshine?" She says, "I immediately played my favorite song by local band Atmosphere, 'Sunshine.' Two of my other favorite songs are also called 'Sunshine'."

1) Atmosphere, "Sunshine"
2) Orba Squara, "Sunshine"
3) Coco Rosie, "Sunshine"

Keep up the springtime celebrations, folks -- I'm all for it. Thanks Patti!

Comment on this post

United Musicians!

Posted at 7:41 PM on May 21, 2008 by Mark Wheat

The biggest soccer game of the European season was today in Moscow. It was the first time that two English clubs had played in the European Champions Final and although it wasn't an outstanding game, the drama was intense!
My fave team Manchester United won so I wanted to play a ton of Manchester music to celebrate and knew a few musicians who support them, like Rod Stewart, who once put their name in a song! But the NME was very helpful today making a great list of musicians who support the two sides!
Now we have to turn our attention to supporting David Beckham playing for LA, as he is an ex United phenom and our very own MN Thunder!!