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Thursday, Jun 11 2020, 6AM
New album from Sugar's Bob Mould coming this September, find more info here: bobmould.com
For our Barry, who is in the building to run the shower in our Prince bathroom, and hoping for no alarming alarmy alarms when the fire suppression system monthly test goes off around 8AM....
"Hi from NYC! My husband and I love everything about KEXP and are listening in our lock-down home office every day. Can't believe you just reminded me of the Goats! (grew up in Philly) Can you play anything from the Coup album Kill My Landlord too???" - We sure can, Yael!
Request from Chris for this one from the British duo's 2019 album. Vocal sample from El Coco's 1977 song, "Mad As Hell."
"Good morning, my daughter Kylee turns 18 today. Tomorrow she would have been going to her graduation from Ballard High but with everything going on... :( Any way you could play anything from Beyoncé as that is her 2nd mom. :) it would make her day. Thanks." -Lawrence
Beyonce double-shot for Kylee's 18th birthday today!
Writer Cherese Jackson explaining this early rap classic: "The reality in 1982 was that millions from the projects in Brooklyn, New York to the ghettos of Watts in California were given very little in the way of choices or opportunities in how they could live. Contrary to what the White House was saying or the news media were reporting, black and brown people were not just these unsavory characters addicted to drugs, crime, and unwedded pregnancies. They were children born into abstract devastation and were desperately looking for a way of escape..."
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An anti-apartheid protest song by English rock musician Peter Gabriel, inspired by the death of black South African anti-apartheid activist, Steve Biko, at the hands of police on September 12th, 1977.
This song lists the names of various African-Americans who died as a result of encounters with law enforcement and/or racial violence:
Walter Scott
Jerame Reid
Phillip White
Eric Garner
Trayvon Martin
Sean Bell
Freddie Gray
Aiyana Jones
Sandra Bland
Kimani Gray
John Crawford
Michael Brown
Miriam Carey
Sharonda Singleton
Emmett Till
Tommy Yancy
Jordan Baker
Amadou Diallo
Note that this song is from 2015, so many more names would need to be added by this point.
This has been The Morning Show, never stoop being you, Seattle! Gabriel Teodros will be in for you all tomorrow at 6:00 AM, so you're in for a treat on Friday. Take care of yourselves out there, friends.