The Current Music Blog: July 11, 2008 Archive

The Stream 07/11/08

Posted at 9:08 AM on July 11, 2008 by Barb Abney

Set times for Pitchfork Festival have been announced.

Tricky is touring.

Details on Cold War Kids' forthcoming album and tour.

Today In Music History:
1937 - George Gershwin died.
1957 - Peter Murphy (Bauhaus) was born.
1959 - Suzanne Vega was born.
1969 - David Bowie released Space Oddyssey.
1975 - Rick McMurray (Ash) was born.
1995 - Mike Mills (R.E.M.) underwent emergency surgery in Germany.
2000 - Lars Ulrich (Metallica) testified at a U.S. Senate hearing over copyright law concerning file sharing on Napster and MP3.com.

Live Blogging 07/11/08

Posted at 9:37 AM on July 11, 2008 by Barb Abney (1 Comments)

11:35 a.m. Fleet Foxes
They're playing 7th Street Entry on July 20th.
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11:20 a.m. Hercules and Love Affair
Learn more about them here.

11:10 a.m. Sigur Rós
They're playing The Orpheum on September 25th.
You can learn all of the necessary pronunciations here.

10:50 a.m. Nine Inch Nails
They're playing Target Center on August 2nd.
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10:40 a.m. CD Of The Week - Beck
You can watch the video for "Gamma Ray" here.
Modern Guilt is our CD of the week.
Get your own copy when you support us online.
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10:30 a.m. Local Music - Soul Asylum
They're playing St. John's Block Party in Rochester tomorrow.
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10:25 a.m. Local Music - Cloud Cult
They're playing St. John's Block Party in Rochester tomorrow. This will be their last live performance for a while.
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Song Of The Day Info - Local Music - Patches And Gretchen
Today on our Song Of The Day Podcast we're featuring Patches And Gretchen with the tune "Warrior Way" from Music from The Little Big Pink.
Hear from them again this Sunday evening on The Local Show with Chris Roberts. More...

9:50 a.m. Local Music - Doomtree
They have some upcoming dates with Flobots.
The CD release show is August 1st at First Avenue along with I Self Devine & Kill The Vultures.
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9:40 a.m. Local Music - The Glad Version
They're playing Macy's Day of Music today. Catch them on the WCCO stage from 3:15 - 4:00 p.m.
In related news, Adam will be releasing Enemy Swimmer very soon.
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9:30 a.m. Supergrass
They'll be spending the majority of this month in North American.
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9:20 a.m. My Morning Jacket
Jim James will join M. Ward and Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes) to record an album together.
They're playing The Orpheum on October 2nd.
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9:05 a.m. Coldplay
They're playing Excel Energy Center on November 14th.
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9:00 a.m. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
They are currently touring together.
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Do the Shuffle - The Return

Posted at 1:05 PM on July 11, 2008 by Mac Wilson (3 Comments)

After a brief hiatus, I'm pleased to announce the return of Do The Shuffle to the Current Music Blog. However, in the biggest twist since No Way Out, I'll be going through my fiancee's iTunes collection today instead of my own. We've been going through the premarital counseling lately, so I figured this was one more way of getting to know my future wife. This could get interesting.

Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra - "Boccherini: String Quintet In E Major Op. 13/5 - Minuet In A Major"
I vaguely remember this one from a commercial back in the '90s, anyone want to help me out?

Wilco - "I'm Always in Love"
This was one of the first songs of mine I ever gave her! Yes, it's about spousal abuse and infidelity, but I intended it as an example of the power and exuberance that Wilco was capable of, in addition to being a great pop song. I talked about Summerteeth's power on Musicheads a few months back; if you can't make someone fall in love with Wilco after playing them this song, there's no hope for them. My first mix for her, incidentally, was called SUPERHITS! I obsessed over the damn thing, back when mix tapes were still an art. Steve Seel had a nice M3S post about this yesterday.

Evanescence - "My Imaginary"
Back at my college station, just before our spring concert my senior year, the sound guy was playing this album over the PA. Our live music coordinator came up to me and said, "You know, we should really get the guy to turn this off...I don't want the bands to get offended!" We had listened to Fallen three times in a row at that point.

Blur - "Song 2"
About two years ago, my fiancee asked me to put a bunch of my albums on a data disk so she could put them on her computer and familiarize herself with more of my music while she was at work. Blur's 1997 self-titled release was one of them (it's certainly in my top 25 of all time). We hear this one when we go to Wild games; it's kind of a sad irony that Blur's uber-pastiche/tribute of American '90s indie rock got mistaken for a hokey ripoff of the real thing. Blur is so much more than just "Song 2", which I guess makes it all the more ironic that it's the one that came up in Do the Shuffle.

Guster - "Silence"
This one is pretty much what it sounds like.

If you have a 5-song Do the Shuffle, why don't you post it here with your thoughts? Even better, sneak onto the computer of your coworker/spouse/roommate (with permission of course) and try it that way?

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"My 3 Songs" for Friday

Posted at 2:23 PM on July 11, 2008 by Steve Seel (1 Comments)

Oh, the beautiful 90s. It seems like just yesterday, but then so long ago too. Jennifer Baker writes today, "I'd like to dedicate this set to my husband, Patrick, because it reminds me of when we first met and we'd stay up all night listening to great music."

1) Guided by Voices, "As We Go Up, We Go Down"
2) The Rentals, "Freinds of P"
3) Soul Coughing, "Screenwriter's Blues"

The memories, the memories. Thanks Jennifer.

Don't forget, this is a great time to submit your own perfect three song set, and be entered to win a $400 gift card from Erik's Bike Shop all month long.

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Guest DJ Set - 7/11

Posted at 10:00 PM on July 11, 2008 by Mac Wilson

Tonight's Guest DJ Set comes to us courtesy of DJ Yoda. Make easy jokes I will not. Tonight's mix is the exclusive radio edit of his mix for London club and label 'fabric'. He describes the mix as a fairly accurate representation of how he sounds in the club. He is full of ideas as to how a mix should function, and how many songs a DJ should play at a time -- if he had it his way, he'd put 200 songs on a mix, as opposed to CDs, which can usually hold (at most) 25 songs. Read more about DJ Yoda here.