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Wednesday, Feb 19 2020, 6AM
Klara Soderberg started writing lyrics for "Stay Gold" after reading Robert Frost's classic poem, 'Nothing Gold Can Stay.' "I had this collection of poetry, and I thought, 'I'll open this and see if there's anything in here that inspires me,' and I came upon the line 'Nothing gold can stay,'" she said. "That was literally the first thing I saw, and it was perfect."
Bonny Light Horseman formed when Fruit Bats singer Eric D. Johnson heard his friends Josh Kaufman and Anaïs Mitchell were getting together to revisit ancient folk songs. “This record is about timeless humanity,” Johnson says. “These 500-year-old lyrics are so deeply applicable. ‘The Roving’ could be the plot of an ’80s teen movie."
Singer/songwriter Eef Barzelay, aka "Clem Snide" tells the story of this new album. "About ten years ago, everything just seemed to fall apart," he explains. "The band bottomed out, my marriage was crumbling, I lost my house, and I had to declare bankruptcy. That started this process of ego death for me, where I realized the only way to survive would be to transcend myself and to try to find some kind of deeper, spiritual relationship with life and with being. Once I committed myself to that, miraculous things started to happen."
Check out this amazing performance from Sera on the morning show in March of 2017. www.youtube.com
The War On Drugs performed live in the KEXP studio on the 1st of August 2017! Enjoy here: bit.ly
BTW, Nixon's war on drugs worked. No one takes them anymore! High five! (Sarcasm emoji).
John sat down with the man behind Strand of Oaks, Tim Showalter, in 2019 for a wide ranging, fascinating interview. www.kexp.org
“The album is a record reflecting human feeling in the current state of affairs — economy and politics on the individual, while the latter still has to deal with the basic struggles of finding meaning of their existence."
Frontman Ian Devaney says "I was listening to a version of OMD’s “Electricity.” They were wielding this technology as a blunt instrument, and it felt like I had been given permission to do the same."
Inspired the Nation of Language song below...
LA-based Moaning's vocalist, Sean Solomon said of new album, "Uneasy Laughter," “Men are conditioned not to be vulnerable or admit they’re wrong. But I wanted to talk openly about my feelings and mistakes I’ve made.” They'll be playing at Chop Suey on April 9th.
Oh, we have heard the full album, and it's glorious. Everyone know this band. waverecords.bandcamp.com
Released on this day in 2003, which is unpossible.
The band has a number of dates slated, but none in Seattle yet. Hurtful. 4ad.com
Spanish indie rock band Hinds plays Neumos on Sunday, May 31st! www.hindsband.com
Their in studio is amazing. And Morgan is dressed as the waitress from Twin Peaks. You're welcome. :) www.kexp.org
“Ceremony is what Phantogram is to us,” Sarah Barthel says. “Everyone has their own ceremony and they don’t have to relate to anyone else’s, but Phantogram is our ceremony: our process, our ritual. Playing shows is our ceremony for everyone. And for us.”
As it turns out, this song was performed...while they were in disguise. Or was it even them? I guess we will never know. So, there's that.
#WeMadeThisUp #Hashtag
We were lucky enough to be asked by the band to debut this amazing new music. www.kexp.org
This song is about "Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists." Oh wait, that's a Noam Chomsky quote. This song is actually about, well, sex...on wheels.
KEXP & Cloudbreak Music Festival Present: Smokey Brights 10 year Anniversary 2024
Friday, Nov 22, 2024
Event Info
No Seattle shows yet, but heck, you deserve a vacation. www.thepsychedelicfurs.com
Hotels' "Sides" is a KEXP favorite and was selected as a Song of the Day in 2019!
Download the song here:
bit.ly
You can also stream more of their music here:
hotels.bandcamp.com
Georgia will be live on KEXP Friday, April 3rd at 12:00 PM! This session is free and open to the public. You can also see her live at Barboza on Thursday, April 2nd.