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Tuesday, Aug 11 2020, 7AM
Off 'Into the Labyrinth,' the sixth album from Dead Can Dance, the duo composed of Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry.
The most recent entry from Nick Cave's Red Hand Files speaks to a fan about what he does when lyrics aren't coming: "But the thing you must hold on to through these difficult periods, as hard as it may be, is this — when something’s not coming, it’s coming. It took me many years to learn this, and to this day I have trouble remembering it.
The idea of lyrics ‘not coming’ is basically a category error. What we are talking about is not a period of ‘not coming’ but a period of ‘not arriving’. The lyrics are always coming. They are always pending. They are always on their way toward us. But often they must journey a great distance and over vast stretches of time to get there. They advance through the rugged terrains of lived experience, battling to arrive at the end of our pen."
www.theredhandfiles.com
Cover of the Nick Lowe song he wrote in 1974. Watch the video for this one, filmed while in quarantine from Sharon Van Etten and Josh Homme's respective homes, here: www.youtube.com
Is Bat for Lashes also a member of Sparkle Motion or just in a terrifying situation here?? www.youtube.com
If you ever get close to a human
And human behavior
Be ready, be ready to get confused
There's definitely, definitely, definitely no logic
Bjork just putting it out there at the start of her debut album, released in 1993.
This one's for Chef Jonny! - "A year ago, almost to the day, you played Billy Bragg “Handyman’s Blues” to mark the passing of my father from cancer. Last night, his grandson was born. Mom and baby are fine. Would you play the Brandon Summer’s KEXP inspired song “You are not alone” to welcome Arthur to the world?"
The German band have returned with their first new song in six years. Notwist's new EP (also titled Ship) will be here on August 20th: linktr.ee
Request for Lars in Missouri. Watch the band doing this one live at KEXP in 2013 here: www.youtube.com
David Bowie cover that Brazilian musician Seu Jorge recorded in Portuguese for the 2004 film, "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou." Bowie himself said about this cover, "Had Seu Jorge not recorded my songs in Portuguese, I would never have heard this new level of beauty which he has imbued them with.”
Written with Lou Reed/The Velvet Underground in mind, who was a big influence on Bowie.
For Aaron in Sacramento, who just requested Bowie doing this cover of the Pixies song that appears on their 1988 album 'Surfer Rosa.'
Closing track found on 1987's 'Come On Pilgrim', technically billed as a mini-LP.
Get yourself a Budos Band face mask, or pre-order this new album 'Long in the Tooth' in glow-in-the-dark vinyl (out on October 9th!) here: shopdaptonerecords.com
Our Song of the Day back on November 20th, 2017. Check it out here, and watch for a new free song from us every Monday-Friday: www.kexp.org
New album from Fantastic Negrito is out this Friday, August 14th! Find pre-order and much more here: fantasticnegrito.com
Aloe Blacc in an 2011 interview with BBC on how this song came to be: "I was working as a business consultant and […] the company wanted to downsize and I was part of the chopping block. I figured I’d just focus on music until I had to get another job but I haven’t had to do that since then […] it was probably the best thing that happened to me."
Happy 50th birthday to A Tribe Called Quest's Ali Shaheed Muhammad, who turns 50 years old today!
Ali Shaheed Muhammad (who turns 50 years old today!) is a collaborator on this new one from Roy Ayers, found here: royayers.bandcamp.com
Watch when the Brooklyn-based Afrobeat band stopped by KEXP to play live for us in 2018 here: www.youtube.com
Joe Strummer penned this tune after a night out at a show at Hammersmith Palais, expressing his disappointment that what he saw was more of a performance than a revolution of rebellion.
Frontman Grian Chatten to Steregum on the dark nature of "Love Is The Main Thing" from their new album: "The sense of isolation when you come home from tour is … remarkable. You come home and you’re so not used to asking people how they are, or being able to listen to other people talk about how they are. Because all you do is talk about you, and if you’re not talking about yourself directly you’re talking about your schedule or something. It just puts a gulf between you and the people you return to. I think that sense of distance and isolation definitely influenced the album."
Formed in 2018, the self-titled debut album from L.A. band SPICE is out now here: spiceispain.bandcamp.com
Request for Saulius, who wrote in asking for some The Fall this morning!
This new band out of Leeds only managed to get three shows in before COVID caused everything to crash around them. They've only got a couple singles right now, but you can find them here: yardact.bandcamp.com
8:43 AM
8th spin
This is the Australian band's first new song in 18 years. Their forthcoming new album (out in October) will feature collaborations between Midnight Oil and several Indigenous artists: “Hopefully this song and ‘The Makarrata Project’ mini-album we’ve created alongside our First Nations friends can help shine a bit more light on the urgent need for genuine reconciliation in this country and in many other places too.”
First top 10 hit in the U.S. for the Australian band, released in 1985. See the rotoscope style video for "What You Need" here: www.youtube.com
Song found on the fifth album from XTC that Record Collector magazine described as, "an anti-racist mini-opera, telling the story of a middle class couple's inability to face up to the reality that their darling son has turned into a violent racist."
Request for Emma and her co-workers, saying goodbyes due to a layoff this morning
Happy 50th birthday to Ride's Andy Bell, born on this day in 1970!
Josh wrote us in this morning: "My friend, listener, and backpacking enthusiast, Marc shattered his leg skiing in January and was extremely motivated to get back out on the mountain as soon as possible. He has just returned from a successful backpacking trip in the Sierra Nevada in California. Early on, he chose Fearless by Pink Floyd as his recovery song. If you could play that for him this morning, that would be pretty cool."
A frequent closing song for the band at live shows, which had lyrical inspiration from Psalms 40. Bono said in concert in 1987: "We wrote this song in about ten minutes, we recorded it in about ten minutes, we mixed it in about ten minutes and we played it, then, for another ten minutes and that's nothing to do with why it's called "40"
Tonight
You just close your eyes
And I just watch you
Slip away
We were playing the demo for this one early on, but now there's this official recorded version between R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe and The National's Aaron and Bryce Dessner: michaelstipebigredmachine.bandcamp.com
Off the third soundtrack in the Twilight Saga film series, which also features Florence + The Machine, The Black Keys, The Dead Weather, and Vampire Weekend (HA! You see what they did there)
Found on 'The Eraser,' the debut solo album from the Radiohead frontman, released in 2006.
The forthcoming third LP from The Avalanches is still untitled, and doesn't have a release date yet, but watch this space: www.theavalanches.com
The London trio stopped in to the KEXP studio back in 2016 to perform this one live for us. Watch it here: www.youtube.com
Off the London trio's debut LP, released in 2016. Watch them performing at KEXP that same year here: www.youtube.com
The Morning Show has decided to do the show in reverse today.
"Monday Mourning" from Seattle band Black Ends was selected as a free KEXP Song of the Day. Download this song and subscribe to the Song of the Day podcast here: kexp.org