The Current Music Blog: June 3, 2008 Archive

The Stream 06/03/08

Posted at 8:48 AM on June 3, 2008 by Barb Abney

NME pays tribute Bo Diddley with a collection of his greatest moments on video.

Jamie Lidell will open for Elton John on his European arena tour this fall.

Robert Pollard is SPIN's Artist Of The Day.

Manchester band records video via CCTV.

Today In Music History:
1924 - Jimmy Rogers was born.
1939 - Ian Hunter (Mott The Hoople) was born.
1942 - Curtis Mayfield was born.
1947 - Mickey Finn (T. Rex) was born.
1950 - Suzi Quatro was born.
1967 - Aretha Franklin's version of "Respect" was #1.
1974 - Kelly Jones (Stereophonics) was born.
1989 - Michael Damian's version of "Rock On" was #1.

Live Blogging 06/03/08

Posted at 9:13 AM on June 3, 2008 by Barb Abney

11:55 a.m. Nine Inch Nails
They're playing Target Center on August 2nd.
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11:45 a.m. CD Of The Week - Live Current Volume 3 - The Young Knives
Live Current Volume 3 is our CD Of The Week.
Get your own copy when you support us online.
The Young Knives tune "Here Comes The Rumor Mill" was recorded during their 2007 SxSW performance.

11:30 a.m. The Black Angels
Their new record Directions To See A Ghost is in stores now.
They're playing The Turf Club on June 18th with The Warlocks.
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11:25 a.m. Local Music - Cloud Cult
Catch them live on Carson Daly on the 17th.
They're playing the SOLD OUT Rock The Garden along with The New Pornographers, Andrew Bird and Bon Iver
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11:20 a.m. Lupe Fiasco
He's playing Target Center along with Kanye on June 11th.
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10:50 a.m. Bonnie Prince Billy
He'll be playing San Francisco's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 8 Festival.
His latest record, Lie Down in the Light was released last month.
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10:35 a.m. The New Pornographers
They're playing the SOLD OUT Rock The Garden along with Cloud Cult, Bon Iver and Andrew Bird.
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10:25 a.m. Local Music - The Glad Version
Check out the great video for "Ambulance."
They've got several noteworthy dates in the next few weeks, including Aviette's CD release show for The Way We Met on June 28th at The Triple Rock with Kid Dakota, and The Alarmists.
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10:20 a.m. Spiritualized
Watch the video for "Soul On Fire."
They're opening dates for Lenny Kravitz in the UK.
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Song Of The Day Info - Ladytron
Today on our Song Of The Day Podcast we're featuring Ladytron with the tune "Black Cat" from their album Velocifero which hit the shelves today.
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10:00 a.m. She & Him
They're playing First Avenue on August 7th.
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9:50 a.m. Local Music - Chris Koza
The Dark Delirious Morning is the new record.
Catch him live on The Morning Show tomorrow morning!
He'll be performing on Kare 11's Showcase Minnesota later this morning.
The Listening Party is tomorrow night at Transmission.
The CD release show is Saturday, June 7th at First Avenue with This World Fair, These Modern Socks, and The Parlour Suite.
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9:40 A.M. My Brightest Diamond
Her new album, A Thousand Shark's Teeth will be released June 17th.
Pre-order it here.
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9:30 a.m. Smashing Pumpkins
Yesterday was the 10th anniversary of the release of Adore.

9:20 a.m. The Dandy Warhols
Earth To The Dandy Warhols is the title of their new release.
You can learn more and stream it here..

9:15 a.m. Tori Amos
She's going indie.
Comic Book Tatoo will hit book shelves on July 23rd.

9:10 a.m. R.E.M.
This is the song I kept comparing to "Hollow Man" (now that I've heard them back to back, I don't really hear the similarities.)
They're playing The Xcel Thursday with Modest Mouse and The National.
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9:00 a.m. Cat Power
She's playing Montreal's Oshega Festival in August.

"My 3 Songs" for Tuesday

Posted at 1:07 PM on June 3, 2008 by Steve Seel

A belated anniversary set from Jacquie from Minneapolis today. Jacquie writes, "These three songs are for my husband, Philip, because today is our third wedding anniversary" (which was actually last week, but we're just getting around to airing her set today -- hopefully late is better than never Jacquie).

1) My Morning Jacket, "Golden"
2) Silver Jews, "I'm Getting Back Into Getting Back Into You"
3) Neil Young, "Harvest Moon"

First, "A song for yesterday (we courted a lot to My Morning Jacket)," followed by "one for today (that Silver Jews song - to me - represents the way we're constantly re-creating this relationship)," and finally, "Neil Young, and a song to take us into tomorrow. I hope to dance with Philip to 'Harvest Moon' at our golden 50th, if we're still standing then!"