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Tuesday, Aug 15 2017, 10AM
Watch the official video for Vancouver, BC band Pink Mountaintops' "Execution": www.youtube.com
Take a tour of multi-talented electronic musician Jane Weaver's studio and learn about the new release, "Modern Kosmology": www.youtube.com
Kevin Morby, formerly in Woods and The Babies, is playing The Tractor Tavern on Sunday, August 20th, and Monday, August 21st, 2017.: www.kevinmorby.com
Ride will perform in Seattle at The Neptune Theatre on Sunday, September 24th, 2017: www.stgpresents.org Be sure to listen for a live broadcast from Ride on KEXP at noon on Tuesday, October 3rd, 2017.
Sin Fang, Sóley & Örvar Smárason just released a new song, "Tennis." Learn more and hear it on their Facebook page:www.facebook.com
Here's the video for Diplo + Lunice's "stuttering remix" of Deerhunter's "Helicopter": www.stereogum.com
Don't miss the opportunity to hear Frankie Rose at Barboza on Friday, September 29th, 2017. Her new album, "Cage Tropical," was released last Friday, August 11th, 2017: frankierose.bandcamp.com
Sassyblack will, no doubt, perform this song at Neumos on Thursday, August 31st, 2017.
Learn a little more about Dev Hynes, aka Blood Orange: genius.com
Here's the video for "Setting Sun": www.youtube.com
You have two chances to hear Broken Social Scene in Seattle. They're playing The Neptune theatre on Sunday, October 22nd, and Monday, October 23rd, 2017.
Explore the politics in the video for Radiohead's "Burn the Witch": pitchfork.com
This is a fine live version by Depeche Mode in Paris in 2001: www.youtube.com
Thank you, WLIR Long Island, for your contributions to music discovery. They were one of the first stations to play artists like the Ramones, the Clash, Prince, Blondie, Talking Heads, the Cure, Duran Duran, The Police, U2, and many others. They also broadcasted over 2,000 live performance at local clubs between 1972 and 1987.
Read a biography of this "band of gloomy post-punkers": www.allmusic.com
This was the result of lead singer David Byrne trying to write an Alice Cooper song, but it came out much more introspective. It ended up being about the thoughts of a murderer. Part of the chorus and the bridge are in French. The verse translates to "What I did, that evening, what she said, that evening fulfilling my hope I throw myself towards glory." The chorus lyric "Qu'est-ce que c'est?" means "What is this?" The "Fa Fa" part comes from an Otis Redding song called "Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song)." Redding and other soul singers were a big influence on Talking Heads.
In this New Yorker article, poet and musician Patti Smith remembers her friend, playwright and actor Sam Shephard: www.newyorker.com
Produced by American musician Todd Rundgren, "Skylarking" is a loose concept album centered around various cycles in life, such as the seasons, days, and years. The title was chosen as a double entendre, referring to a type of bird (skylark), as well as the British navy term "skylarking", which means "fooling around". "Skylarking" later became XTC's best-known album and is generally regarded as their finest work.
Want to know more about Alex Chilton?: pitchfork.com
"Give me all your paper ma....Gimme all your jazz..." Hmmm.... Here are the lyrics: www.metrolyrics.com
Here's one critic's pick of Blondie's 10 greatest songs: www.billboard.com
There's a whole lot of energy in this live performance of this song in Ann Arbor in 1981: www.youtube.com
Learn more about the WLIR tribute documentary, "Dare To Be Different": www.salon.com
John Lydon said, “The 'Happy?' LP did have a doom, death and destruction feel about it, very crunchy, tanks rolling, very military in its approach.” “'Happy?' was much more militant in its approach, kind of pissed off at the world. That was the attitude...Bear in mind that 'Happy?' was the first album that we as a band had done, so we were sort of being very cagey with each other in the writing. Nobody really let rip.”
In 1987 Bono explained that everybody in the group knows what the line "And you give yourself away" means: "It's about how I feel in U2 at times - exposed. I'm not going to do many interviews this year. Because there's a cost to my personal life, and a cost to the group as well."
Frontman Michael Stipe references 19th-century poet Henry David Thoreau in the lyrics ("To throw Thoreau and rearrange"), completely by accident. He wrote: "My friend Chris told me that I was our generation's Whitman, I think because I was an ecstatic, and I liked men and women, and I was a poet in his eyes, even though I hated the word poet. Anyway I meant to write Whitman into the song, but I got mixed up and wrote Thoreau in instead."
Suzanne Vega ate at Tom's Diner. Arlo Guthrie sang about Alice's Restaurant. Siouxsie and the Banshees' inspirational eaterie was a Chislehurst takeaway, the Hong Kong Garden. Learn the story of the song:www.independent.co.uk
Some of the lyrics are based on a poem by Hugh Mearns called "The Psychoed":
As I was going up the stair
...I met a man who was not there
....He wasn't there again today
....I wish that man would go away.
Elvis Costello wrote, "I’ve always told people that I wrote the song “Alison” after seeing a beautiful checkout girl at the local supermarket. She had a face for which a ship might have once been named. Scoundrels might once have fought mist-swathed duels to defend her honor.
Now she was punching in the prices on cans of beans at a cash register and looking as if all the hopes and dreams of her youth were draining away. All that were left would soon be squandered to a ruffian who told her convenient lies and trapped her still further." Read more about "unfaithful music": www.vulture.com
"I would shed my skin for you...." songmeanings.com
Grizzly Bear will be performing songs from "Painted Ruins" when they play The Moore Theatre on Friday, December 8th, 2017.
The Seattle duo Golden Gardens will play The Cellar Door in Port Townsend, Washington on Thursday, October 12th, 2017.
Here's an interview with Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins of Poptone: www.youtube.com
Watch Curtis Harding singing this song live in Echo Park: www.youtube.com
Even though this song is on Slowdime (www.discogs.com), you can learn about Bluetip at the Dischord Records website: www.dischord.com
The video depicts Jawbox performing at a little girl's birthday party, where the birthday girl receives an assortment of unusual gifts, including weapons and dentures. The video shows the band dressed in formal suits, a change from their old video for "Cutoff". It was reviewed on Beavis and Butt-head in a positive form, but the duo talked about how the video reminded them of Stewart's birthday party.:www.youtube.com
Sheer Mag is going to bring this energy to Chop Suey on Tuesday, September 26th, 2017.
You can purchase "Remember Terry" at Terry's Bandcamp page: terryhq.bandcamp.com
Go hear these fine musicians at the Nectar Lounge on Saturday, September 23rd, 2017.
Ohhhh......watch him!: www.youtube.com
There will be a quiz on The Sonics!: thesonicsboom.com
Watch a live KEXP in-studio performance from 2014: www.youtube.com
Sloucher will be playing the Sunset Tavern on Sunday, September 10th, 2017.: www.facebook.com
Catch this New Zealand pop project at Barboza on Saturday, October 21st, 2017.
Nouvelle Vague performed this song in Stockholm in 2016: www.youtube.com
Here's a Past review of Woods' new album, "Love Is Love," the band's response to last year's election: www.pastemagazine.com