The Current Music Blog: June 20, 2008 Archive

The Stream 06/20/08

Posted at 9:07 AM on June 20, 2008 by Barb Abney (1 Comments)

My Bloody Valentine re-issues to be delayed a bit.

Members of The Charlatans UK, The Libertines, Primal Scream and Klaxons to record together as The Chavs.

Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes) talks "name change" and new record/website.

Today In Music History:
1924 - Chet Atkins was born.
1942 - Brian Wilson was born.
1949 - Lionel Richie was born.
1953 - Cyndi Lauper was born.
1955 - Michael Anthony (Van Halen) was born.
1985 - Johnny Marr married Angela Brown.
1987 - Teddy Pendergrass married Karen Still.
1995 - George Jones and Tammy Wynette released a reunion album.

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Live Blogging 06/20/08

Posted at 9:21 AM on June 20, 2008 by Barb Abney

Tunes On The Telly Tonight:
Alejandro Escovedo on Conan
Ben Harper on Carson Daly
The Fratellis on Craig Ferguson

11:15 a.m. She & Him
They're playing First Avenue on August 7th.
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10:50 a.m. War On Drugs
They're Paste's band of the week.

10:45 a.m. Alejandro Escovedo
His new album, Real Animal will be out next week.
Catch him on Conan tonight.
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10:30 a.m. Local Music - Mason Jennings
He's playing at a mall in Michigan today.
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10:20 a.m. Styrofoam
A Thousand Words is in stores now.
He/They're going to be touring Europe with DCFC.
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Song Of The Day Info - Local Music - Strut & Shock
Today on our Song Of The Day Podcast we're featuring Strut & Shock with the tune "Mean Pants."
Hear from them again this Sunday evening on The Local Show with Chris Roberts. Their CD release show is at Hexagon Bar with France Has the Bomb, Chambermaids and more.
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10:00 a.m. Local Music - Solid Gold
Help send them to Lollapalooza!
They have dates in town next month at The Varsity with White Light Riot and at The Nomad for The Battle of the bands.
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9:50 a.m a.m. Bittersweet
They're playing The Varsity on August 5th.
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9:40 a.m. Nas
His new will be released on July 15th.
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9:20 a.m. Local Music - Tapes 'n Tapes
They're playing Download Festival as well as an upcoming date with The Black Keys at McCarren Pool in Brooklyn and Majestic Theater in Madison.
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9:15 a.m. Steve Earle
He's playing Mitchell Auditorium in Duluth next month.
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9:00 a.m. Adele
You can listen to her recent in-studio interview/performance here.
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"My 3 Songs" for Friday

Posted at 1:31 PM on June 20, 2008 by Steve Seel

A couple of local faves here (one from a tremendous in-studio performance), and a dependable go-to band to round things out, from Zach Eustice today.

1) Low, "Murderer"
2) Trampled By Turtles, "Valley"
3) TV On The Radio, "Wolf Like Me"

Thanks Zach! Happy Friday everybody.

Guest DJ Set 6-20-08

Posted at 10:06 PM on June 20, 2008 by Mark Wheat

The Orb are a pioneering band in the art of electronic music and performance formed in the UK in 1988.
The only constant member has been Alex Paterson, indeed on the sleeve of the new album they list the members as The Orb (this week) are;Alex, Youth and Tim Bran.
But there is an awful lot of Steve Hillage on there too. He's a legendary guitarist and producer who started in the band Gong and put out one of my fave electronic collages ever under the name System 7. Perhaps most famous for their track "Little Fluffy Clouds" which featured the vocals of Rickie Lee Jones, much to her consternation (she sued them!) they also put on some of the biggest live electronic musical festival events in the UK throughout the 90's, raising the bar for everyone with visuals and light show extravagnzas. This new album "The Dream" revisits some of their earlier work, even sampling themselves and is sequenced beautifully which I hope was evident in the section that we played ;

6. "The Truth Is..." (Guitar by Steve Hillage, vocals by Roberts)
7. "Phantom of Ukraine" Paterson, Glover, Bran 0:30
8. "Mother Nature" (Guitar by Hillage, mixed by Greg Hunter, vocals by The Copral,)
9. "Lost & Found" (Vocals by The Corpral)
10. "The Forest of Lyonesse"
11. "Katskills" (Mixed by Hunter, performed by Dr. D, programmed by Pickard)