The Current Music Blog: July 14, 2009 Archive

Today In Music History: This Machine Kills Fascists

Posted at 6:38 AM on July 14, 2009 by Steve Seel (0 Comments)
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1967 - The Who began their first full North American tour, supporting Herman's Hermits.
1973 - During an Everyly Brothers concert in Hollywood, Phil Everly smashed his guitar and stormed of stage. Don finished the set by himself and announced that The Everly Brothers had split.
1982, The film version of Pink Floyd's The Wall, had it's movie premier in London.
1989, At The Peach Festival, South Carolina, 432 guitarist's broke the world record for the most guitarists playing in unison for the longest period of time, when they performed "Louie Louie" for 30 minutes.
2007 - A pair of glasses worn by John Lennon sparked a bidding war after being offered for sale online. The circular sunglasses were worn by Lennon during the Beatles 1966 tour of Japan, where the band played some of their last ever live dates. Anonymous rival bidders had pushed the price as high as $1,207,000.

On this day in 1912, Woody Guthrie was born. Guthrie was a major influence on Bob Dylan and American folk music in general. He died in October of 1967. Guthrie wrote hundreds of political, traditional and children's songs, and frequently performed with the slogan "This Machine Kills Fascists" inscribed on his guitar in keeping with his populist, left-leaning politics. Many of his recorded songs are archived in the Library of Congress. Easily his best-known song is "This Land Is Your Land." We played one of his less-often heard tunes today, "Hobo's Lullaby."

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Do you think they sound like Jane's Addiction?

Posted at 10:54 AM on July 14, 2009 by Barb Abney (1 Comments)

Middle Class Rut are also known as MC Rut. They are Zack Lopez and Sean Stockham from Sacramento, California. Years ago they were in a band called Leisure. That band dissolved in 2003 and these two have been working together for several years since. In that time, the band have released 4 EPs. Their latest, the 25 Years EP was released back in May. Today on our Song Of The Day podcast you can grab the tune "I Guess You Could Say" for free!

If you're a new subscriber, you'll also receive new music from Son Volt, Los StraightJackets, Jeffrey Lewis and The Junkyard, local music from Toki Wright and Magic Wands. Later this week we'll be giving away new music from Amazing Baby,
The Rural Alberta Advantage and new local music from Double Bird.

The band recently announced they had been recording material for their full length debut record.

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3 songs that represent Friday Night, Saturday Night and then Sunday...

Posted at 12:47 PM on July 14, 2009 by Barb Abney (0 Comments)
Filed under: My Three Songs

Tony Voda from White Bear Lake picked today's My 3 Songs set because...

"These songs are a great representation of a Friday Night, Saturday Night and then Sunday."

Lady Sovereign - "Let's Be Mates"
Kings of Leon - "Sex On Fire"
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead - "Another Morning Stoner"

Make your "My 3 Songs" requests here.

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