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Tuesday, Jan 26 2021, 7AM
The album Bridge Over Troubled Water was released on this day in 1970. It would be their last studio album together.
Here's Eels performing live in the KEXP studio 2014: www.youtube.com
Check out Julien Baker's Live on KEXP at Home Interview & Performance here: www.youtube.com. Her new album drops on February 26, 2021.
Check out London musician Nilüfer Yanya's Live on KEXP session from 2019: www.youtube.com.
Here's PJ Harvey on In The Dark Places: "You don't know where it is. I was wanting to show the way history repeats itself, really and so in some ways it doesn't matter what time it was, because this endless cycle goes on and on and on."
Beach House's third studio album Teen Dream dropped on this day eleven years ago.
This record was written after Jessica Dobson's experience with depression. She spoke with Emily Fox for KEXPs Sound & Vision about her journey on the album. Read/listen here: www.kexp.org
The latest release from the British duo of Simon Raymonde (Cocteau Twins) and Richie Thomas (Dif Juz) is the first part of their second album. The second part comes out February 26, 2021.
From the Australian duo 2020 album We Will Always Love You, this track features Texas singer Leon Bridges, as well as a sample of Alan Parsons Project’s “Eye in the Sky” and is inspired — like the album itself — by the story of astronomer Carl Sagan and his wife Ann Druyan capturing their romance on tape and sending it into space as part of the Voyager’s Golden Record. That's love.
Curious to see what the KEXP vinyl looks like for this iconic record? There are stickers with handwritten notes all over the cover. Read what the DJs had to say about the album on Review Revue for 'The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars': kexp.org
Having a garbage heap of a day too- your set is exactly what I need. Can you please fit in some Frightened Rabbit (maybe The Loneliness and the Scream, or anything else you'd prefer) if you have time. Wearing my Life on Mars shirt and trying to snap out of this doom spiral.
Jayme, NJ
Turner opens this track with these resounding lines: "We had a difficult winter, we had rough few months" and ends on this triumphant call: "I'm not gonna live the whole of my life indoors,
I'm gonna step out, and face the next storm".
You are not alone.
We're coming up on the ten year anniversary of Pete Yorn's debut album Musicforthemorningafter on March 27!
Mornin’ John-
I’ve been going through a period of struggle as of late, and this morning is proving especially difficult. Seeing the sunrise was uplifting, and to build on that, I would love to hear Catch the Sun by Doves. Absolutely love that track and it would be a nice boost.
Thanks-
Russell
West Seattle
Oasis' second studio album sold a record-breaking 347,000 copies in its first week on sale and spent 10 weeks at the top of the UK albums chart.
Hi John,
Since I live in Latvia your morning show is the best evening show for me! I am a chemistry teacher and distance learning has been tough, but KEXP helps me get trough all of this! I really feel that I am not alone. I really appreciate all that you do. I have discovered so many good music through you guys! Thank you!
Daniels, Latvia
Check out Of Monsters and Men perform Little Talks from October 2010 - one of our most popular KEXP videos: www.youtube.com
Watch The True Loves' live in-studio performance at KEXP: www.youtube.com.
Check out this 2018 KEXP interview with Chuck D of Public Enemy here: www.kexp.org.
Tricky gifted us with a KEXP Live at Home with Larry Mizell, Jr. in November 2020: www.youtube.com
This concept album from Portland's Aesop Rock follows a narrator through an alternate world, including "hallucinatory images of killer eels, magic spells, and people on the run" and "anecdotes, recipes, survival tips, warnings, maps, and drawings".
This track contains samples of "My Sharona" by The Knack, as well as the entire vocal structure from "Mickey" by Toni Basil. The Knack sued Run-DMC over the track in 2006, and the lawsuit was settled out of court.
"I Am One" was the Smashing Pumpkins' first ever release and remains the only single issued by the band with co-writing credits to both Billy Corgan and James Iha.
TV Priest's frontman Charlie Drinkwater shares: "'This Island' is about incoherence and inarticulate responses, both personal and political, in a time and place you don’t fully understand anymore. It’s an unrequited love letter, and a howl of frustration; a mea culpa and a call to arms."
www.tvpriest.com
Is it a Toadies day? Starting to feel like it. - Ryan
Sure is, Ryan.
Glitterer's sophomore album "Life Is Not A Lesson" drops on February 26, 2021.
glitterer.bandcamp.com
Smith often introduces this track live with the words: "Redondo Beach is a beach where women love other women..."
Here's Brittany Howard performing Live on KEXP last year: www.youtube.com.
Ahh, 2019, when '5' would be the first time SAULT surprised us. They've since dropped two more excellent albums since this release. We still don't really know much about them.
Released on this day in 1982, Berlin shot the clips for "The Metro" and another song, "Sex," back to back over two days. Lead singer Terri Nunn was not happy about shooting the subway scene over and over. Exhausted, she got frustrated and started crying, which was the footage they used. Her anger and tears were exactly what the director was looking for: www.youtube.com
The Brooklyn band noted to Stereogum about this new single: "Deliver Me From Wondering Why” is a bit of an exploration, rooted in a desire for something repetitious and a bit spacey — something that would make you really want to zone out or go for a long drive on the highway."
www.nationoflanguage.com
The distinctive purple on the album art of Duran Duran's sophomore album was painted by artist Patrick Nagel. The cover itself was designed by Malcolm Garrett.
The Weeknd, a three-time Grammy Award winner whose 2020 album "After Hours" is the most-streamed R&B album of all time, will perform during the Pepsi Super Bowl LV Halftime Show on February 7th, 2021: tinyurl.com
Simon & Garfunkel released the album, "Bridge Over Troubled Water" on this day in 1970.
"Nobody Speak" was first made available through the Run the Jewels Record Store Day release. It consisted of a special virtual reality cardboard viewer, which held a code that granted the purchaser a free digital download of the song
DJ Shadow said about the music video for this one: "We wanted to make a positive, life-affirming video that captures politicians at their election-year best. We got this instead.” - www.youtube.com
This track from Beastie Boys third studio album Check Your Head contains an unlicensed sample of "Choir", a 1982 composition by jazz flautist James Newton. Newton sued inn 2000; the judge found that the sample, comprising six seconds and three notes, was too small to require a license.
"Can I Kick It?" samples Lou Reed's 1972 song "Walk on the Wild Side." With just two verses in the lyric, Q-Tip takes the first one and Phife Dawg the second. Only 19 when he recorded it, Phife (who died in 2016 at age 45: n.pr) said in later years that he had a hard time listening to his verse because he didn't like the way his voice sounded back then - he thought it was too high-pitched. Here's the official video: www.youtube.com