The Current Music Blog: November 14, 2008 Archive

The Stream 11/14/08

Posted at 8:47 AM on November 14, 2008 by Barb Abney

Patterson Hood of Drive-By Truckers to play a free in-store at Treehouse Records on Sunday afternoon.

Someone's selling a very rare copy of The Beatles' White Album on eBay.

Perfect time waster: name your top-five lists here.

The Raconteurs have gone bluegrass (at least for one single.)

Today In Music History:
1938 - Cornell Gunter (The Coasters) was born.
1954 - "Shake Rattle And Roll" became Bill Haley's first single to become a top ten hit.
1966 - Joseph 'Run' Simmons (Run-DMC) was born.
1972 - Douglas Payne (Travis) was born.
1990 - Rob Pilatus and Fabrice Morvan (Milli Vanilli) were fired when they insisted on singing on their new album.
1995 - 3,000 Blur fans gathered for a signing at a bookstore and brought traffic in an area of central London to a standstill.

Live Blogging 11/14/08

Posted at 9:20 AM on November 14, 2008 by Barb Abney

11:50 a.m. Passion Pit
Learn more about the Cambridge, Massachusetts 5-piece here.

11:30 a.m. The Hold Steady
They're playing First Avenue along with Drive-By Truckers both tomorrow night and Sunday night.
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11:20 a.m. Local Music - Solid Gold
Their limited edition Bodies Of Water CD is out now.
Buy it here.
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10:45 a.m. CD Of The Week - Ray LaMontagne
Gossip In The Grain is our CD Of The Week.
Get your copy when you support us online.
Listen to his recent in-studio performance/interview.

10:40 a.m. Local Music - White Light Riot
They're playing Glitter Ball 2.0 at The Varsity tonight.
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10:30 a.m. Good Old War
Learn more about the Philly trio here.

Song Of The Day Info - Local Music - Private Dancer
Today on our Song Of The Day Podcast we're featuring Private Dancer with the tune "Ain't Leavin' No More" from their Trouble Eyes release.
Catch them again this Sunday evening on The Local Show with Chris Roberts.
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9:20 a.m. Kaiser Chiefs
They're releasing a live DVD later this month.

9:05 a.m. Calexico
They're playing The Fine Line Music Cafe on November 22nd.
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"My 3 Songs" for Friday

Posted at 4:25 PM on November 14, 2008 by Steve Seel

Dain Larsen of Mpls writes today, "I recently moved back to Minneapolis from the cold, barren, cheese-infested land of Green Bay. For whatever reason, these very different songs have been haunting me (in a good way) since returning to this great city."

1) Cat Power, "Willie"
2) Cloud Cult, "Everybody Here Is A Cloud"
3) David Bowie, "Fame"

"Cheese-infested?" Love that phrase, Dain. Yup, that's a pretty diverse set. But who cares. Welcome home.

Guest DJ Set 11-14-08

Posted at 9:36 PM on November 14, 2008 by Mark Wheat

Thanks to Dave Campbell for filling in for me last week. Unfortunately we didn't post the set list but it was another jam filled extravaganza from our resident
First Friday Guest;
DJ ESP.
Perhaps the only DJ from the Twin Cities that has as big an international reputation is Freddy Fresh, who literally wrote the book on early hiphop records and now runs a label outta St.Paul called Howlin Records! He sent me a big parcel of goodies last month including this new cd from Myagi. It's his debut full length, all his own production but paced and mixed like a regular mix that you might hear him spin on the California and Australian beach parties that he's famous for. You can buy '3 Years of Sunshine' from Howlin and this is the segment that we played;

03 Heads N Tails
04 In Between
05 Payback
06 Relativity (feat The Conductor Crucified0
07 Stuck in a Box (feat Brittlestar)