The Current Music Blog: September 22, 2008 Archive

The Stream 09/22/08

Posted at 8:49 AM on September 22, 2008 by Barb Abney

News on the upcoming War Child compilation.

Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth) as fashion designer.

Vote for your favorite "murder themed" tune.

Today In Music History:
1951 - David Coverdale (Whitesnake) was born.
1957 - Nick Cave was born.
1958 - Joan Jett was born.
1985 - The first Farm Aid concert took place in Illinois featuring Joni Mitchell, Willie Nelson, Neil Young, Bob Dylan and Tom Petty.
1986 - The Smiths signed to EMI Records.
1992 - Def Leppard were forced to cancel two US shows when the driver of their sound-equipment truck attempted to rob a store. The driver was later charged of possessing drugs and criminal damage.
1999 - Diana Ross was arrested after an incident at Heathrow Airport.
2005 - Jimmy Page was made an honorary citizen of Rio de Janeiro.

Live Blogging 09/22/08

Posted at 9:08 AM on September 22, 2008 by Barb Abney

Tunes On The Telly Tonight:
Hot Chip on Carson Daly
My Morning Jacket on Leno

11:55 a.m. Lucinda Williams
Her latest, Little Honey will be released on October 14th. It will feature Elvis Costello, Matthew Sweet, Susanna Hoffs, and Tim Easton.
She's playing First Avenue on October 23rd .
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11:45 a.m. Friendly Fires
They have a few North American dates with Lykke Li next month.
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11:35 a.m. Snow Patrol
A Hundred Million Suns is the title of their new record which will hit shelves on October 27th.
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11:25 a.m. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
They are currently touring together.
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11:20 a.m. Local Music - Maps Of Norway
Their Die Off Songbird CD release show is October 10th at The Turf Club with Gospel Gossip, Unicorn Basement and Strut & Shock.
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11:05 a.m. Jolie Holland
Her forthcoming album, The Living And The Dead will be released on October 7th.
She's playing The Cedar Cultural Center on October 25th.
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11:00 a.m. Local Music - Cloud Cult
They're playing Chambers: The Luxury Art Hotel of Minneapolis Thursday.
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10:55 a.m. Delta Spirit
They're playing The Fine Line Music Cafe with Nada Surf on November 28th.
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10:35 a.m. The Rumble Strips
They're playing 7th Street Entry with Birdmonster on October 23rd.
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10:30 a.m. Local Music - Melismatics
Their forthcoming album The Acid Test will be released September 30th.
Their CD Release show is at The Fine Line Music Cafe on Oct 11th.
They're playing The Turf Club with Dressy Bessy on October 29th.
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10:25 a.m. Beck
He's playing Roy Wilkins Auditorium with MGMT on September 30th.
Remember to listen all week from 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. for your chance to win tickets and to enter a drawing to appear on stage with Beck at the show.
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10:20 a.m. Luna (related)
Dean & Britta are playing 13 Most Beautiful... Songs for Andy Warhol's "Screen Tests" at The Walker Art Center on Saturday February 28th.
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10:15 a.m. Calexico
Watch the "Two Silver Trees" video.
They're playing The Fine Line Music Cafe on November 22nd.
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Song Of The Day Info - Sebastian Grangier
Today on our Song Of The Day Podcast we're featuring Sebastian Grangier with the title track of his American Names EP.
The full length, Sebastien Grainger & The Mountains hits shelves on October 21st.
If you pre-order it here you'll get it earlier.
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9:55 a.m. The Hold Steady
They're playing two nights at First Avenue along with Drive-By Truckers on November 15th and 16th.
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9:45 a.m. Mates Of State
They're playing The Fine Line Music Cafe next Monday.
I love their babbel blog!
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9:40 a.m. Elvis Costello
His Spectacle will debut on Sundance in December.

9:30 a.m. Conor Oberst
He and The Mystic Valley Band are playing First Avenue on October 29th.
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9:10 a.m. Sigur Rós
They're playing The Orpheum Thursday night.
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9:00 a.m. Eddie Vedder
You can download the Chicago Cubs inspired tune "All The Way" here.

"My 3 Songs" for Monday

Posted at 3:15 PM on September 22, 2008 by Steve Seel

Boy, I wish I'd had parents as hip as this young fella's. Anna Berend writes in today, "My 22 month-old son, Carsten, loves The Current. It and MPR's classical station is all we ever listen to. Carsten loves to pretend he is playling a guitar or drums while jamming out to The Current. These are his favorite songs. He loves to 'sing' them and have us play them for him. Please make our day and play Carsten's favorite three songs!"

1) The Kills, "Getting Down"
2) Queen, "We Are the Champions"
3) The Flaming Lips, "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song"

WOW. Eat your heart out, Raffi! Take that, Radio Disney! Hit the road, Barney!

By the way, Anna -- and all parents of younguns' like Carsten -- have you checked out Wonderground Radio?

Vote for the Hall of Fame!

Posted at 5:50 PM on September 22, 2008 by Mark Wheat

Of course we cannot give you access to the real ballot, but on 4/4/08 in Cleveland 5 more acts will be added to The Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame, which would you pick?;

Run-D.M.C. Metallica, The Stooges, Jeff Beck, Wanda Jackson, Little Anthony and the Imperials, War, Bobby Womack, and Chic, the only nominee back from last year's ballot. (My votes are in bold)

Mogwai were one of many acts playing at the big All Tomrrow's Parties gig in Monticello NY over the weekend, which featured the return of shoegazing legends, My Bloody Valentine. Unfortunately their drummer had a recurrence of a heart problem, his pacemaker got infected?!?! So they've cancelled the rest of the tour, including the show next week at First Avenue.

A couple of TV highlights for the week;

Monday, September 22:
Late Show With David Letterman: TV on the Radio
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno: My Morning Jacket

Tuesday, September 23:
Jimmy Kimmel Live!: Atmosphere
Late Show With David Letterman: Kings of Leon

If you'd rather watch a dvd about music, try 'Control' the dramatized version of the story of Joy Division's lead singer Ian Curtis. I only just saw it this weekend and was mightily impressed, especially when we watched the "making of..." in the extras. The actors who played the parts of the band all looked really good, i.e...like the characters really did then AND they sounded great! Apparently they played together to learn the parts and were planning on miming the live band scenes, but they got so good that they played themselves and sounded better than the original band did back in the day!