The Current Music Blog: June 30, 2009 Archive

Today In Music History: George KO's Paul

Posted at 6:38 AM on June 30, 2009 by Steve Seel (0 Comments)

Birthdays:

Andy Scott (guitar, Sweet) is 57.
T-Pain (Faheem Najm) is 24.

1975 - The Jackson Five announced that they were leaving Motown Records for Epic Records. The brothers were forced to change their name to The Jacksons since Motown owned the other name.
1975 - Cher and rock star Gregg Allman were married. The marriage lasted ten days.
1976 - Police raided the home of Neil Diamond searching for drugs, they found less than one ounce of marijuana.
1977 - Marvel Comics released a comic book based on the members of the band KISS. The band members contributed some of their blood to the ink used in the books.

Today in 1973, George Harrison knocked Paul McCartney's "My Love" from the top of the US singles chart with "Give Me Love, Give Me Peace On Earth," It was Harrison's second US No.1.

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Rockin' youngins offer up a free tune for you!

Posted at 9:17 AM on June 30, 2009 by Barb Abney (0 Comments)

Tiny Masters of Today recently released their sophomore record, Skeletons. Today on our Song Of The Day podcast You can grab the tune "Pop Chart" from for free!

The young trio have had alot of buzz surrounding them since Russel Simmins (Blues Explosion) started work on their debut a couple of years ago. Catch them live at Siren Fest in Brooklyn later this month.

If you're a new subscriber to the Song Of The Day podcast, you'll also receive new music from Mos Def, British Sea Power, Little Man and Placebo.

Tomorrow we'll be giving away new music from Deastro.

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Evil Tunes

Posted at 10:22 AM on June 30, 2009 by Steve Seel (0 Comments)

The judge at Bernard Madoff's sentencing hearing used some unusually colorful language yesterday:

"One of the traditional notions of punishment is that an offender should be punished in proportion to his blameworthiness. Here, the message must be sent that Mr. Madoff's crimes were extraordinarily evil."

Can you see a 9:30 Coffee Break coming? Of course you can. Your suggestions for evil songs today:

1) Electric Six, "Rock n' Roll Evacuation"
2) Howlin' Wolf, "Evil"
3) Electric Light Orchestra, "Evil Woman"
4) Eartha Kitt, "I Wanna Be Evil"
5) Television, "See No Evil"

Thanks everybody!

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3 songs that might put you in a good mood too...

Posted at 12:16 PM on June 30, 2009 by Barb Abney (0 Comments)
Filed under: My Three Songs

Liz Kava from Minneapolis picked today's My 3 Songs set because...

"Because I'm at work, and they will put me in a good mood!"

Band of Horses - "Ode To LRC"
Kings of Leon - "McFearless"
Kool and The Gang - "Get Down On It"

Make your "My 3 Songs" requests here.

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First rock star diagnosed with H1N1?

Posted at 12:40 PM on June 30, 2009 by Barb Abney (0 Comments)

Jens Lekman recently posted on his blog about his peril.

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Best of the Year...so far!

Posted at 3:10 PM on June 30, 2009 by Mark Wheat (50 Comments)

Happy New Half Year!! Can you believe it's the end of June?!?! Did some one press fast forward on this year? Some of our colleagues in the music press are taking the opportunity of reviewing what they think are the best albums released so far this year, both nationally and locally.

Some that have been mentioned are; Dirty Projectors, The Decemberists,
Grizzly Bear, Animal Collective and Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

I would add Conor Oberst and P.O.S.
Who would you suggest? Have we missed anyone?

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