The Current Music Blog: January 2, 2009 Archive

The Stream 01/02/08

Posted at 8:13 AM on January 2, 2009 by Barb Abney

We'll get a triple dose of Prince in 2009 (he's releasing 3 albums.)

Kings Of Leon made some big $$$ for a one hour gig earlier this week.

Start your New Year with some free tunes.

Today In Music History:
1936 - Roger Miller was born.
1954 - Glenn Goins (Parliament Funkadelic) was born.
1963 - Keith Gregory (The Wedding Present) was born.
1975 - Chris Cheney (The Living End) was born.
1977 - Errol Garner died.
1979 - Sid Vicious went on trial for murdering his girlfriend Nancy Spungen.
1981 - David Lynch (The Platters) died of cancer.
1996 - Arrested Development announced they had split up (The group reunited in 2000.)

Live Blogging 01/02/08

Posted at 9:58 AM on January 2, 2009 by Barb Abney

11:45 a.m. The Pretenders
They're playing First Avenue on February 20th.
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11:10 a.m. Bon Iver
The Blood Bank EP will be released on the 20th. You can pre-order it here.
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10:55 a.m. Local Music - Cloud Cult
They're playing Papa Charlie's • Lutsen tomorrow night.
They're also playing A Benefit for Chad Weis along with Mason Jennings, Haley Bonar and The Pines on the 17th.
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10:35 a.m. Local Music - Hyder Ali
Hear more from their forthcoming Careless Talk EP here.

Song Of The Day Info - Local Music - Western Fifth
Today on our Song Of The Day Podcast we're featuring Western Fifth with the tune "Hello, Goodnight" from their latest, Stand Like A Thief.
Catch them again this Sunday evening on The Local Show with Chris Roberts.
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9:50 a.m. The Bird And The Bee
Ray Guns Are Not Just The Future will be released January 27th.
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9:45 a.m. Local Music - Kid Dakota
They'll be kicking off a European tour later this month.
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9:15 a.m. Raphael Saadiq
His new album The Way I See It was named as Best Album of 2008 by the iTunes Editorial Team.
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My Three Songs Friday

Posted at 12:09 PM on January 2, 2009 by Jill Riley

Justin advocates girl power. In a musically, good way. That's just my assumption from his three song set he submitted for My Three Songs.

1.) St. Vincent "Paris is Burning"
2.) Bat For Lashes "What's a Girl to Do?"
3.) Feist "I Feel it All"

Guest DJ Set 1-2-09

Posted at 10:08 PM on January 2, 2009 by Mark Wheat

Apologies to our First Friday resident DJ ESP, a technical glitch stopped his set from making it tonight, he'll be back in Feburary.

Tonight's set from Rory Hoy also has a local connection, it's released on Freddy Fresh's Howlin Records. Rory just turned 21 and has already made over 30 films, his latest, "Autism & Me" was shown on the BBC earlier this year. This is his first full length, a beautiful ambient session called 'Cosmic Child' we played;
2. Life on other planets
3. Sunandt hest ars
4. The journey
5. The final frontier
6. Twilight