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Tuesday, Jan 21 2020, 6AM
The drum intro is quite famous; it was borrowed from "Be My Baby," a 1963 hit by The Ronettes and originally played by Hal Blaine. You know that one, it was in Dirty Dancing.
Saturdays = Youth is the fifth studio album by M83. The album was produced by Ken Thomas, known for his work with Sigur Rós, The Sugarcubes, Cocteau Twins, and Suede.
ODESZA performed live in the KEXP studio in September, 2017. See the performance here: bit.ly
Moby has announced a new album, all visible things, due out March 6th. The first single “power is taken” features Dead Kennedy's D.H. Peligro. All of moby’s profits from all visible objects will be donated to charity. Find out more at moby.com
Bonny Light Horseman are playing a sold out show at the Tractor on January 25th
Watch Aldous Harding perform "The Barrel" on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon here: bit.ly
Back in the 1980s, there were news stories about Japanese men killing themselves and their families by driving off piers because they had failed in business. Reading that probably didn't make you feel like writing a song, but that's why you aren't Black Francis. He wrote "Wave of Mutilation" about the phenomenon.
On February 16, 2014, Band Of Horses performed "Weed Party" live in the KEXP studio. You can see it here: bit.ly
CASPIAN are coming to Neumos on February 9th. Tickets and info here: bit.ly
In a 2018 interview, Verve frontman Richard Ashcroft said he hasn't written his definitive song yet, but this one sure comes close.
"The definitive Richard Ashcroft song will be when the cream of a particular emotion or a particular scenario in the human condition plays out, and that song mirrors it," He said. "So, if it happens to be 'Lucky Man' for that feeling of transcendence, of liberty within yourself, your body, your partner in life, you can actually fleetingly feel that moment and you want to put it in a bottle. And that's what music's about. It should be about capturing those moments for yourself and then the listener can put it on over and over again, if they want."
Postcards was formed in the summer of 2012 in Lebanon when cousins Marwan Tohme and Pascal Semerdjian met Julia Sabra through mutual friends while on a camping trip. They were joined by Rany on the bass a few months later. The band started off by playing the pub circuit across Beirut, performing a varied repertoire of both English and American folk-rock music.
Soccer Mommy are playing Neumos on April 27th. Tickets & info: bit.ly
Sophie Allison, aka Soccer Mommy, said of the new album’s sound:
“I wanted the experience of listening to Color Theory to feel like finding a dusty old cassette tape that has become messed up over time, because that’s what this album is: an expression of all the things that have slowly degraded me personally. The production warps, the guitar solos occasionally glitch, the melodies can be poppy and deceptively cheerful. To me, it sounds like the music of my childhood distressed and, in some instances, decaying.”
TMBG are celebrating the 30th anniversary of Flood with a tour. 28 of their 31 shows booked from January to May of 2020 are already sold out.
Violent Femmes are playing The Moore on February 9th. In the meantime you can watch the awesome live at KEXP performance with John Sparrow on BBQ. bit.ly
Bodies On The Beach are playing the Sunset with Edmund Wayne and Adam Williams Band on the 24th. Tickets & info: bit.ly
"INTERVIEW: POM POM SQUAD UNVEIL THE DEPRESSION & RAW DEPTH OF EP ‘OW’" Read the interview here: atwoodmagazine.com
Cuffed Up on French Exit:
“A lot of us deal with anxiety in social functions but it’s easy to get swept into the unhealthy act of labeling one’s self worth,” says vocalist Sapphire Jewel of their new release. “‘French Exit’ is kind of a love letter to all of the significant others who know the ‘real’ you and keep us all grounded”.
“Feeling lonely is one of the most common human feelings, right?” the band said in a release. “Well, being a musician doesn’t really help. Your whole life is constantly moving and the only thing that remains is yourself. And dealing with yourself. Oh gosh, we all know how boring and angering that can be. ‘Riding Solo’ is about this. About us. Perpetually on the move, being everywhere and nowhere at the same time. Surrounded by strangers most time of the day, being nines hours’ time difference from our people and what we call home, living and dying por y para la música.”
The Monkees' "Mary Mary" was not released as a single in the USA in the 1960s, although it was given away as a cut-out cereal box prize in 1969.
The Clash were unapologetically confrontational and champions of the oppressed, always striving for the possibility of a better world. That’s why in 2020 we’re using the holiday to Clash For Climate.
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Yo La Tengo preformed "Ohm" back at the old KEXP studio January 18, 2013. It looks even smaller now: bit.ly
Télépopmusik have announced a new single out March 6, 2020 and a new album out May 22, 2020. No more info other than they're coming...
Grimes' new full length, Miss Anthropocene, will be out 2/21 via 4AD.
Warpaint performed "Disco/Very" live in the KEXP studio in 2016.
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Siouxsie Sioux explained in an MTV interview that this song is about "the way that women are portrayed in our Fascist media." She stated that "Peekaboo" is a reaction against the conformist images that the media puts on women and equates it to The Stepford Wives film.
In a statement, Phantogram said “Into Happiness” “embodies the personal journey that both of us have taken since we released Three; it’s been a long path, coming out of the darkness and into the light.”
Dana Margolin of Porridge Radio:
“Whenever I was sad, I’d just go down [to Brighton beach], and stare out, or go for a swim if it wasn’t too windy,” she remembers. “It was a really helpful part of my life. You’re on the edge of everything when you’re at the beach.”
Violent Femmes are coming to the Moore February 9th. In case you're not winning tickets right now: bit.ly
Queen Latifa was just on the show "Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr" and learned about her family history including the woman that freed her ancestors from slavery. She said “People still think that one person can’t make a difference. One person made a difference to my whole entire family line.” Watch it here: t.co
Dan Snaith, aka Caribou, said in an statement:
“I’m always listening to lots of music and sometimes a loop just jumps out at me—it’s too perfect. That’s how it was with Gloria Barnes’ ‘Home’—I kept returning to it, meaning to do something with it but not knowing what. Sometimes making music feels like a process I'm in charge of... but there are other times when things just present themselves and my job is to follow their lead. It wasn’t until the circumstances of someone close to me mirrored the refrain of the original song that the track all came together.”
The drums were played by Hal Blaine and the intro was used by The Jesus and Mary Chain for "Just Like Honey," which we played in the 6am hour.
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Johnny Boy described their sound as "Church bells, boy-girl vocals, loops, twists, warps, walls of sound and edgy guitars combined to rekindle the idea of Sandinista!-era Clash having a shootout with Phil Spector".
Dizzee Rascal performed a version of this song in the Live Lounge on BBC Radio 1, changing the chorus to:
"They call me 'blood'/ They call me 'rude boy'/They call me oi/They call me mate/ ...They use the 'N-word' like it's a game/ That's not my name..."
Here's Johnny and June performing "Jackson" on The Johnny Cash Show: www.youtube.com
According to drummer Martin Chambers, the song was largely formed in the studio based on a rough sketch presented by Chrissie Hynde. Chambers explained, "We never really got into the studio without any rehearsal and record[ed] a song, [but] we have done that once and that was 'Message of Love'. ... [Hynde] likes to come to [the band] when she has [a song] finished in her mind ... but this time she hadn't really finished it and so we just ... rehearsed it already set up in the studio and it was on tape in two hours, basically."
Sons performed live on KEXP during Iceland Airwaves! See the full performance here: www.youtube.com
Songs include:
Family Dinner
Ricochet
I Need A Gun
White City
Tube Spit
Waiting On My Own
Do They See Me
Do you want to see the Violent Femmes at The Moore on February 9th? Are you texting in "Femmes" right now? You probably should be...
Bombay Bicycle Club are playing the Showbox on April 30th. Tickets & info: bit.ly
Say Hi is heading out on a living room tour in March, including Seattle March 20 & 21. Find out more about all the shows here: www.sayhitoyourmom.com
Formed in Brooklyn in 1999, Radio 4 claimed their music was "made in New York, is about New York, and sounds like New York".
"House of Jealous Lovers" became DFA's best-selling single, and the label sold 20,000 vinyl copies of it. Justin Timberlake and Timbaland have cited "House of Jealous Lovers" as an influence on their 2006 single "SexyBack"
Thrillhouse is a three-piece group from Brighton: littleindieblogs.blogspot.com