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Revisit the album with a KEXP review of What is This Heart? on the KEXP blog : www.kexp.org
"SPELLLING released her first full length Pantheon of Me in September 2017 and it was self written, performed and produced in her apartment in Berkeley, California. She began experimenting with music production in 2015 in effort to carry on the creative legacy of a lost loved one." Learn more about the artist here: www.sacredbonesrecords.com
Among direct influences on the album, Pink cited the Mothers of Invention, the Cure, and Todd Rundgren.
"Ghanaian guitarist Ebo Taylor emerged from 1950s highlife big bands Broadway Dance Band and Stargazers before a prolific solo career fusing highlife with soul, funk and jazz." ebotaylor.bandcamp.com
The backing track was built around many samples, primarily the main riff from Herbie Hancock's track "Bring Down the Birds" from the Blowup soundtrack and Vernon Burch's "Get Up", which provided the drum track and also formed the basis for the famous breakdown featuring a slide whistle. Parliament-Funkadelic legend Bootsy Collins provided guest vocals, and the rap is provided by Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest.
The video, which is an excerpt from the short film Whateverest, is centered a Norwegian man named Marius Solem Johanson, known by his internet alias "Inspector Norse", and his passion for music and dancing. www.youtube.com
Playing Neumos on March 7th and earlier Live on our KEXP studios earlier the same day at 1:30, the event is open to the public www.kexp.org
During the recording sessions, Farrell stated he wanted 50% of the band's publishing royalties for writing the lyrics, plus a quarter of the remaining half for writing music, adding up to 62.5%, creating a rift in the band.
Cooke's version appeared in the 1978 classic Animal House, the 1987 film Innerspace, and the 2011 film The Green Hornet.
Check out a Live on KEXP with Okkervil River: www.youtube.com
Just announced the National will be playing 08/29 @ Marymoor Park w/ Alvvays
Electric Lady Sessions is the third live album by LCD Soundsystem. it was recorded over a three-day span at Electric Lady Studios in Manhattan, New York, during their American Dream Tour.
Check out the band Live on KEXP: www.youtube.com
he record’s title was inspired by the 1970s ITV variety show “The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club,” which was set in a fictional working men’s club.
The album is named after the Columbia, Maryland venue, Merriweather Post Pavilion. A plan to perform at Merriweather Post Pavilion after the album's release in 2009 was ultimately discarded, though the band eventually did perform there on July 9, 2011
According to Numan, the song's lyrics were inspired by an incident of road rage: “I was in traffic in London once and had a problem with some people in front. They tried to beat me up and get me out of the car. I locked the doors and eventually drove up on the pavement and got away from them. It's kind of to do with that. It explains how you can feel safe inside a car in the modern world... When you're in it, your whole mentality is different... It's like your own little personal empire with four wheels on it."
"Never Catch Me" received a nomination for Best Dance Recording at the 58th Grammy Awards.
Kehlani is originally from Oakland, California, where she achieved initial fame as a member of the teen group Poplyfe.
"A Long Walk" was sampled on the track "Stimulation" from Disclosure's 2013 album Settle.
The accompanying video centres on a collection of papier mâché characters crafted by the Norwegian art collective Narves1Biblioteke. www.youtube.com
Playing in Tacoma on March 8th at Fawcett Hall at Alma Mater. KEXP LOVES Thunderpussy, check out one of out Live sessions with the band www.youtube.com
On mixing the tracks Bowie later recalled: "...the most absurd situation I encountered when I was recording was the first time I worked with Iggy Pop. He wanted me to mix Raw Power, so he brought the 24-track tape in, and he put it up. He had the band on one track, lead guitar on another and him on a third. Out of 24 tracks there were just three tracks that were used. He said 'see what you can do with this'. I said, 'Jim, there's nothing to mix'. So we just pushed the vocal up and down a lot. On at least four or five songs that was the situation, including "Search and Destroy." That's got such a peculiar sound because all we did was occasionally bring the lead guitar up and take it out."
Check 'em out live during KEXP's New Home Ground Breaking at Seattle Center. Recorded January 28, 2015--www.youtube.com
Lizzo is headling Capitol Hill Block Party on July 20th. Check out the whole line-up here: www.capitolhillblockparty.com
Speaking of ‘Wednesday’s Child’, the frontman James Cox has said: “This is one of the songs that got me into a really strange head space to write. When writing; I quite often go heavily into research worm-holes - going really deep into subjects I’m curious about until it’s so uncomfortable I’ll have to shelve it for a while.
“Wednesday’s Child is fundamentally about our communication with others, focusing on misunderstandings - not only between loved ones but also how we treat strangers.
“While I was in this weird research hole I became really obsessed with the idea of mass hysteria - especially in Puritan colonial America and the witch-hunts. Shifting blame onto someone else because you are too afraid to take responsibility is an age-old phenomenon that we will never learn from. I feel that happens today with our society and especially with how the press can demonise the innocent to protect the real evil. People are so easily convinced to attack the defenseless and defend the powerful.”
Such a good interview with Jenny via Rolling Stone: www.rollingstone.com
Minor Poet is the brainchild of Richmond, VA's Andrew Carter, who holed up in his basement for two months and played every instrument on Minor Poet's debut and is releasing his second on Sub Pop.
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Here's an interview with The Replacements from 1987 in which they appear with shaved eyebrows: www.youtube.com