The Current Music Blog: July 23, 2009 Archive

10KLF Update: The Art of Making a Campsite

Posted at 10:46 AM on July 23, 2009 by Lindsay Kimball (0 Comments)

It's been interesting to watch campsites pop up around the campgrounds. Everyone is creating mini-homes for the next four days. The following is a tour of a few campsites at 10KLF - lifestyles of the music festival loving campers!

One of the most high-tech options is the recreational vehicle - the RV. Check out this Coachmen from 1985 named "The Mollie Trixie."

And there's the uber awesome Westfalla.

Of course, there's the traditional tent making up the domes and triangles dotting the landscape.

But a tent isn't just a tent. The folks at 10KLF have been pretty creative about decking out their campsites. Check out the "porch."

...and set up a kitchen.

Now line them up, and you've got 10KLF!

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Today In Music History: Happy Birthday Andy Mackay

Posted at 6:21 AM on July 23, 2009 by Steve Seel (0 Comments)
Filed under: Music History

Birthdays:

Martin Gore (keyboards, Depeche Mode) is 48.
Slash (Saul Hudson) is 44.
Alison Krauss is 39.
Fran Healy (vocals, Travis) is 36.

1966 - Frank Sinatra went to No.1 on the Billboard album chart with Strangers In The Night.
1977 - Drummer Keith Moon joined Led Zeppelin on stage during a gig at The Forum in Los Angles playing a duet with Zeppelin drummer John Bonham before taking to the microphone and attempting to sing.
1983 - The Police went to No.1 on the Billboard album chart with Synchronicity. The album spent a total of seventeen weeks at No.1.
1988 - After forty-nine weeks on the US album chart, Hysteria by Def Leppard finally went to the No.1 position.
1999 - Woodstock '99 began in Rome, N.Y. The three-day festival started off peacefully but ended in fires, lootings and accusations of rape.
2008 - Kid Rock was sentenced to a year on probation and fined $1,000 for his part in a fight in an Atlanta Waffle House the previous year. He also received 80 hours community service and six hours of anger management counselling.

Andy Mackay, saxophonist for Roxy Music is 63 today. Over the years he's played parts ranging from the raucus to the lovely (the latter particularly on Roxy's final album Avalon), but this morning we went with a tune featuring some of his edgier playing: "Do The Strand."

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Get in the key of "E Minor" for free...

Posted at 10:07 AM on July 23, 2009 by Barb Abney (0 Comments)

The members of Other Lives got together about five years ago in Stillwater, Oklahoma. They released an instrumental record as Kunek. Since then they've changed their name and added vocals to their recordings. They got Joey Waronker of Walt Mink to produce their eponymous debut as Other Lives and released the record in late March. Today on our Song Of The Day podcast you can grab the tune "E Minor" for free!

Watch a video of an acoustic version of this tune.

If you're a new subscriber, you'll also receive new music from Moby, Eugene McGuiness, The Fiery Furnaces and Double Bird. Tomorrow we'll be featuring new local music from Eyedea and Abilites.

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Breathe Deeply, Count To Ten ...

Posted at 10:47 AM on July 23, 2009 by Steve Seel (0 Comments)
Filed under: 9:30 Coffee Break

Today being the one-year anniversary of Kid Rock's sentencing for starting a fight at an Atlanta Waffle House (see Today In Music History, below), we made other rock stars who could benefit from anger management counseling today's topic on the 9:30 Coffee Break. Your requests that we chose:

1) Oasis, "Don't Look Back In Anger" (you get two band members for the price of one here!)
2) Bjork, "Army of Me" (see video, below)
3) Ryan Adams, "Nuclear" (don't call him "Bryan")
4) Amy Winehouse, "You Know I'm No Good"

Everyone listed above has become notorious for an explosive temper, but only one of the four is the subject of some specific and oft-viewed video evidence.

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10KLF: Going green in the land of sky-blue waters

Posted at 11:33 AM on July 23, 2009 by Julia Schrenkler (1 Comments)
Filed under: Live Events

Ginny Black, and Organics Recycling Specialist for the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, was on site at the 10,000 Lakes Festival. When I caught up with her, she was elbows-deep in a recycling bin, making sure the right recyclables were in the correct holder. She politely declined shaking my hand upon introduction, for obvious reasons.

WE Fest and 10KLF (as produced by Face) is in it's final year of a 2-year, $75,00 grant from the MPCA. The efforts are specific to composting and plastic/paper/cans recycling. Baker explained nearly everything in the VIP hospitality tent, which supplies meals to hundreds of campers, is recyclable or bio-degradable. The plates are paper, the "silverware" a compostable corn-based PLA plastic - even the Summit beer cups are PLA.

On inquiry Baker noted a few exceptions: the chip & nut bags are not recyclable, and the sanitary hand wipes come in a foil-based package. She went on to say recommendations on alternatives are in the works, and that the organizers are trying to work with the other vendors to make the entire event more green.

Baker's dedication to that is obvious, since she's willing to dig through music festival garbage bins to sort and recycle. (Seriously... consider that for a moment.) We leaned forward to shake hands at the end of our conversation and both stopped at the last moment, laughing. Ginny Black is hands-on, and I expect to find more people just like her here.

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3 "summertime" songs...

Posted at 11:59 AM on July 23, 2009 by Barb Abney (0 Comments)
Filed under: My Three Songs

Erin Dunn from Roseville picked today's My 3 Songs set because...

"These are some of my all time faves that just so happen to have the word "summertime" in the title."

Eddie Cochran - "Summertime Blues"
Husky Rescue - "Summertime Cowboy"
Animal Collective - "Summertime Clothes"

Make your "My 3 Songs" requests here.

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10KLF Update - A Family Show...Akron/Family

Posted at 5:39 PM on July 23, 2009 by Lindsay Kimball (1 Comments)
Filed under: Live Events

The day's first band on this second day of the festival was Akron/Family. I got to the Barn stage a bit late after helping some of the folks from Cloud Cult into our campsite. I arrived to find a captive crowd that seemed to be slowly taking in the day. Much of the audience was lounging in the grass with several eager fans up front. One of my favorite parts of this stage is that it's covered with a huge sun screen - you're able to enjoy the outdoors, but you're not going to fry. I figure this is the smartest part of the concert. If you expect to make it until 2 a.m. or 3 a.m., you're going to need a little shade.

The set was high energy and complete with solos and a cool breakdown/freestyle. The last song they played was "Everyone is Guilty" from their new record, "Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free." I absolutely LOVE that song, so I was getting my dance on until I was taken aback by the intense (and amazing scream) that the bassist and singer let out a massive scream. Mixed with the cacophony of sound, it was an epic end to the show.

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