The Current Music Blog
< Mercury Prize shortlist announced | Main | Live Blogging 07/24/08 >

The Stream 07/24/08

Posted at 8:48 AM on July 24, 2008 by Barb Abney (2 Comments)

Bonnie "Prince" Billy to release the live recording Is It the Sea? later this year.

Feist is playing in NYC for free tomorrow.

Will they ban "emo" in Russia?

Today In Music History:
1961 - Gary Cherone (Extreme, Van Halen) was born.
1965 - Bob Dylan released "Like a Rolling Stone".
1967 - The Beatles signed a public petition to legalize marijuana.
1973 - Mecca of Digable Planets was born.
1978 - "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" was released.
1982 - Survivor's "Eye Of The Tiger" was the #1 song.
1993 - U2's Zooropa was the #1 album.

Comments (2)

Will Oldham puts out another record? He's giving Robert Pollard a run for his money!

Posted by Mac Wilson | July 24, 2008 1:52 PM

Umm... "Sgt. Pepper" was relased in 1968, not 1978, no?
Between "Revolver" and the soundtrack for "Magical Mystery Tour"?
Love the Current. Thanks.

Posted by Kevin | July 26, 2008 8:53 AM

Post a comment

The following HTML tags are allowed in your comments:
+ Bold: <b>Text</b>
+ Italic: <i>Text</i>
+ Link: <a href="http://url" target="_blank">Link</a>
Fields marked with * are required.


Comment Preview appears above this form upon pressing the "preview" button. Edit your comment and press "preview" again, until you are satisfied with your comment.

Your comment may not appear on the blog until several minutes after it was submitted.

E-mail this page
Print this page
Submit to Digg
Save to Delicious
Share
Audio help
July 2008
S M T W T F S
    1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28 29 30 31    


Master Archive
Recent Entries
Tools
Categories
Services
Become a Sponsor