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You can see the official video for See You At The Movies on J Mascis' bandcamp page
Smith explained, "It's not about the serial killer. I'm not sure exactly what it's about because it's just sort of like telling someone a dream you had last night. There are some destructive figures in it, 'Son of Sam', Shiva... but Shiva's also associated with creativity... I'm not sure... it's just an impressionistic song about destruction and creativity, I guess, if it's about anything."
Lead singer Curt Kirkwood said:
"A lot of times I don't remember writing songs, I can't remember anything about like, how did I come up with that? But 'Lake of Fire,' we were all living together and everybody decided to go to a Halloween party, and they were all getting in costumes. And I thought, 'Man, this is one of the stupidest things - adults getting dressed up like we did when we were little kids.' I had actually got pretty wasted on something and told everybody, 'No, I'm not going.' And then once I was alone, I just started messing around. I wrote a couple of songs that night. I wrote 'Magic Toy Missing' and 'Lake of Fire,' maybe one more. But I was just really trying to make fun of my friends for going out to a Halloween party."
"A lot of times I don't remember writing songs, I can't remember anything about like, how did I come up with that? But 'Lake of Fire,' we were all living together and everybody decided to go to a Halloween party, and they were all getting in costumes. And I thought, 'Man, this is one of the stupidest things - adults getting dressed up like we did when we were little kids.' I had actually got pretty wasted on something and told everybody, 'No, I'm not going.' And then once I was alone, I just started messing around. I wrote a couple of songs that night. I wrote 'Magic Toy Missing' and 'Lake of Fire,' maybe one more. But I was just really trying to make fun of my friends for going out to a Halloween party."
"magine an octopus: agile, stealthy, colors in flux. Now imagine the ink spreading out, the black fog of the disappearing act. Over the past 19 years, Matthew Dear has been a little like that cephalopod, flitting between aliases and sounds—bristly minimal house, thundering peak-time techno, shape-shifting electronic pop. " - Pitchfork's review of Bunny
Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails have been inspired by the fearlessness of David Bowie, an admiration that played out in a series of collaborations and an opening stint on Bowie's Outside Tour in the Nineties. Reznor and Co. are still honoring Bowie. Watch Nine Inch Nails open their show this summer with I'm Afraid of Americans here.
"That track actually started out with a concept," producer Mark Saunders remarks. "One day, about halfway through the sessions, Tricky came in and said he wanted to do a cover of this Public Enemy song. His ex-girlfriend was Indian, and although he'd split up with her he still got on well with her mother, and she used to send him tapes of material from India. He said, 'I've got this loop I want you to hear,' and when he played it to me it was a really bad quality recording; probably cassette-to-cassette. It wasn't an old, vibey Indian record; it was more like an '80s Indian track, complete with Linn Drum, and that was the starting point for 'Black Steel'.
Check out the video for Licking an Orchis and revisit Noid as well! Here
The new album is out in February and Cherry Glazerr will be at Neumos on March 7th! Tickets & info here
Fudge Sandwich is an entire album of covers. Here's the tracklist:
01 Lowrider (War)
02 I’m a Man (Spencer Davis Group)
03 Isolation (John Lennon)
04 Hit It and Quit it (Funkadelic)
05 Class War (The Dils)
06 The Loner (Neil Young)
07 Pretty Miss Titty (Gong)
08 Archangel Thunderbird (Amon Düül II)
09 Rotten to the Core (Rudimentary Peni)
10 St. Stephen (Grateful Dead)
11 Slowboat (Sparks)
01 Lowrider (War)
02 I’m a Man (Spencer Davis Group)
03 Isolation (John Lennon)
04 Hit It and Quit it (Funkadelic)
05 Class War (The Dils)
06 The Loner (Neil Young)
07 Pretty Miss Titty (Gong)
08 Archangel Thunderbird (Amon Düül II)
09 Rotten to the Core (Rudimentary Peni)
10 St. Stephen (Grateful Dead)
11 Slowboat (Sparks)
"It’s been four years since D’Angelo released his uber-popular return album, Black Messiah. Fans have been waiting for more music, and few would have guessed that it would come via a song in a video game. But that’s where you can year the amazing new song, “Unshaken.” It is part of the new video game Red Dead Redemption 2." soultracks.com
You can still hear Young Fathers Live on KEXP via the streaming archive! They were on The Midday Show November 16th @ Noon
This song, like many on the album, is a diatribe against the system. Guitarist and songwriter Kyp Malone explained to MTV News that it is about "dismantling civilization, about taking responsibility for the world that we live in and figuring out a way to tear it down."
You can get this album on 150 gram black vinyl.
Only 100 copies available and they're hand-numbered. Find it on Foxxxy Mulder's Bandcamp.
Ed Schrader's Music Beat performed live on KEXP in 2015. Check it out here.
Shaun Ryder told NME how the song's lyrics came about.
"My version of events was that Damon (Albarn, Gorillaz frontman) put a track on, it had no lyrics, it didn't have anything. I had the cans on and he said, 'Go in the studio and try and do something'. Freestyle off the top of your head, make it up 'cos he wanted me to basically write a song or write something. So I put the headphones on and there was no track. I started saying to them to turn it up and the track was very slowly turning up so I started going 'it's coming up, it's coming up, it's coming up' and when it got as loud as I wanted it, I said 'it's dare.' As in like text speak language - 'I will c u der.' I then tried to freestyle something, a right load of gibberish bollocks it was, and it ended in, 'I never did no harm'. Then I took the cans off after about 10 minutes and Damon said, 'Do that ["coming up"] bit again but a bit faster.' So I did, and that was it."
"My version of events was that Damon (Albarn, Gorillaz frontman) put a track on, it had no lyrics, it didn't have anything. I had the cans on and he said, 'Go in the studio and try and do something'. Freestyle off the top of your head, make it up 'cos he wanted me to basically write a song or write something. So I put the headphones on and there was no track. I started saying to them to turn it up and the track was very slowly turning up so I started going 'it's coming up, it's coming up, it's coming up' and when it got as loud as I wanted it, I said 'it's dare.' As in like text speak language - 'I will c u der.' I then tried to freestyle something, a right load of gibberish bollocks it was, and it ended in, 'I never did no harm'. Then I took the cans off after about 10 minutes and Damon said, 'Do that ["coming up"] bit again but a bit faster.' So I did, and that was it."
Check out Rolling Stone's review of Anderson.Paak’s new album ‘Oxnard’ which includes this single, Bubblin
From their Bandcamp: TOXIC PLANET is Cobra Man’s follow up to their 2017 debut album “New Driveway Soundtrack” and is their second for Memphis, TN based Goner Records. The band initially formed to create music for a series of skate videos for Thrasher Magazine, which is how Goner founder Eric Friedl (The Oblivians) discovered the band.
Cobra Man’s TOXIC PLANET is an album for a new way of life. The Los Angeles power disco duo blends the essence of classic disco funk, the raw power of warehouse punk, and the supernatural qualities of their favorite slasher films to create something unique.
Death Valley Girls Offer a Track-by-Track Breakdown of New Album Darkness Rains: bit.ly
Over the past few decades, musicians Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins have influenced generations with their work as Bauhaus, Love & Rockets, and Tones on Tail. With their latest project Poptone, they revisit the songs of their youth with Haskins' daughter Diva Dompé. Back in June, KEXP got the opportunity to interview them about it: bit.ly
It Won/T Be Like This All the Time is the band's 5th album and will be out in January!
Pedro The Lion will be at Neumos with Chris Staples on November 23rd! That's Friday!
They're in Portland tonight and in Seattle at the Neptune tomorrow!
She has a few US shows to close out the year... closest is Los Angeles on the 30th. Since her last solo album was 18 years go, when will your next opportunity to see her be?
Numan's The Pleasure Principle album broke new ground in its use of electronic music, and it has been lauded by Nine Inch Nails, The Foo Fighters, Marilyn Manson and many others as a classic. In a 2010 interview, he explained:
"I felt really proud to be part of the electronic thing, in general. You know, it did feel as if it was at the very front end of something new and exciting. The albums that were being made by the electronic people felt as if they were important records, because it felt like an important time - as if this is a new door opening to what music had to offer. And I felt really proud to be just a small part of that. So when I was making Pleasure Principle I didn't think much more than that."
"I felt really proud to be part of the electronic thing, in general. You know, it did feel as if it was at the very front end of something new and exciting. The albums that were being made by the electronic people felt as if they were important records, because it felt like an important time - as if this is a new door opening to what music had to offer. And I felt really proud to be just a small part of that. So when I was making Pleasure Principle I didn't think much more than that."
In May, Fontaines D.C. performed live on the Morning Show! Check it out here: bit.ly They're back in Seattle at Neumos on May 28th, 2019!
Cheryl got to host B.R.M.C. for their in-studio back in February... bit.ly
The Fall have been called "the most prolific band of the British post-punk movement." From 1979 to 2017, they released thirty-two studio albums, and more than three times that number when live albums and compilations (often released against Smith's wishes) are taken into account. They were long associated with BBC dj John Peel, who championed them from early on in their career and described them as his favorite band, famously explaining, "they are always different; they are always the same."
Find this single featuring Gabriel Teodros here: bit.ly
Talking to Q the band discussed the origin of "Michael" saying the original refrain was written as "me and my girl," but decided it was "so boring and cheesy" and decided to change it into "me and Michael." This "developed into this ambiguous story, and we really liked that – writing a catchy song that gets you pumped-up, but you have no idea what the message is."
Papercuts are at the Sunset on November 28th. That's next Wednesday!
Charles Bradley live on the Midday Show from 2016. Because Charles Bradley makes every day better. bit.ly
John Grant is coming to the Columbia City Theater on Tuesday, December 18th
KEXP premiered this track back in June. Read all about it here: bit.ly
The drums in this song were cut up from different parts of other songs from the sessions for the album.