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Wednesday, Feb 10 2021, 7AM
Hey Wednesday, it's time for The Morning Show!
Brandi Carlile is back with a new cover of John Denver song “Take Me Home, Country Roads.” This new interpretation of the song is for the show Clarice, a sequel to The Silence Of The Lambs.
Brandi Carlile also has a book coming in April!
book.brandicarlile.com
Muzz covers Mazzy Star! Muzz is a supergroup trio featuring Interpol's Paul Banks, Josh Kaufman (the producer and multi-instrumentalist in the folk group Bonny Light Horseman) and Matt Barrick (drummer of Jonathan Fire*Eater, the Walkmen, and Fleet Foxes' touring band) - muzztheband.com
According to Interpol's Daniel Kessler, the album's opening track, "Untitled" was written specifically to open their live shows. He said, "'Untitled' was a piece of music that was cultivated to open shows, well before we had any designs to make a record. It was a way to introduce the band live. And then by virtue of having performed it so many times, it became clear that this was our theme music to announce the band, and it felt appropriate to include it as such on our first album." - bit.ly
This song, which finds him singing about "running out of time," was one of several tracks on Disintegration where he ruminates on feeling washed up. "The biggest frustration (of getting older) is not being able to feel strong emotions anymore," Smith said when discussing the album's lyrics. "Cynicism enters your world and you get numb." - bit.ly
Nilüfer Yanya played live in the KEXP studio in the pre-pandemic days of 2019. Check it out here: www.youtube.com
Final track to New Orders incredible "Power, Corruption, & Lies"
Childhood friends Andrew Ferguson and Matthew McBriar hail from Belfast, and formed Bicep in 2009. "Sundial" features a sample of “Jab Andhera Hota Hai” from the 1973 Bollywood film Raja Rani, recorded by Asha Bhosle and Bhupinder Singh and written by Anand Bakshi and R. D. Burman.
bicepmusic.com
Closing track off The Chemical Brothers debut album Exit Planet Dust, with Beth Orton on vocals.
www.thechemicalbrothers.com
"The Besnard Lakes Are The Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings" is the sixth album from this Montreal-based band.
www.thebesnardlakes.com
Directed by Tim Pope, it may have been the first video to feature a band's lead singer not performing. Hollis was likely making a statement about lip synching. Here's the video: www.youtube.com
@confucianbrewer: You know what song I don't hear on the radio all that often. Waterfront by Simple Minds. Can you do something about that @loserboy?
Lead vocalist Nini Fabi shares, “The song came from this organ groove Benny came up with and the onomatopoeic quality of the word “Shivering” itself. It’s about the obsession and attraction of the things which give us anxiety and disturb us. In a way it’s our soundtrack to a panic attack.” The song certainly features the word; lyrics are simple and conceptual, mostly comprised of short phrases containing the word “shivering.” - bit.ly
Nicholas James Murphy, also known by his stage name, Chet Faker, is an Australian singer and songwriter.
loverepri.se
Night Beats is the Texas-born brainchild of Danny Lee Blackwell. Blackwell says of the album: “Outlaw R&B is music for the borderless, the free, the outcasts and the forgotten. The outlaw is the runner. Those whose minds aren't sold by perfect pitch and clean fingernails. Through this medium you can escape the confines of mental feudalism and bask in the euphoric glow of psychedelic R&B.” - nightbeats.bandcamp.com
Edwyn Collins is a Scottish musician who grew to fame as frontman of the post-punk band "Orange Juice." "A Girl Like You," which is an Iggy Pop tribute, was his biggest solo hit. Paul Cook, drummer of the Sex Pistols, played the vibraphone on this track.
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Peter Matthew Bauer shared his newest single "Mountains on Mountains" exclusively with KEXP: www.kexp.org. The song is the first of a series of singles and a larger full length down the line.
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah's new album, "New Fragility," due for release on February 12th, is now available for pre-order: clapyourhandssayyeah.bandcamp.com
"Ten, ten, ten, ten for everything, everything, everything..."
Remember that time the Violent Femmes came and played a show for us in the Gathering Space: www.youtube.com
"Black Coffee in Bed" is one of Squeeze's biggest hits and a fan favorite at their concerts to this day. For the sixth installment in the Swindles series, (interesting and magical versions of the Squeeze canon done by other artists), Bilal & Nikki Jean navigate this soulful, iconic song from 1982. As always, the release was produced and engineered by Swindles curator and Squeeze aficionado Steve Mandel. yeprocrecords.bandcamp.com
Carole King's Tapestry was released 50 years ago today! After its release, it was the Number One album in the country for 15 weeks straight
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Off the Weather Station’s fifth album!
www.theweatherstation.net
Kate Bush has been nominated for the Rock Hall of Fame 2021
From South London post-punk band Dry Cleaning's debut studio album. In a press statement, lead vocalist Florence Shaw explained the meaning behind ‘Strong Feelings’. “It’s about secretly being in love with someone who doesn’t know it,” she said, while also noting the song touched upon “Brexit’s disruptive role in romantic relationships.” - bit.ly
A Flock of Seagulls was started by Mike Score in late 1979 in Liverpool. The band's name was taken from the song "Toiler on the Sea" by punk rock band the Stranglers and the book Jonathan Livingston Seagull, according to Mike Score.
New music from Brighton's indie-rock three-piece Thrillhouse
New Alaskan band for Sub Pop called Ya Tseen, fronted by the Indiginous musician and contemporary artist, Nicholas Galanin.
www.subpop.com
20-year-old Nigerian-French artist Arlo Parks describes herself: "Arlo Parks is a poet/singer from London. In her words she spent most of school feeling like that black kid who couldn't dance for shit, listening to too much emo music and crushing on some girl in her Spanish class. Her songs are confessional and tender, mainly inspired by Portishead and Earl Sweatshirt.": arloparks.bandcamp.com
Good morning! Can you play Birthday by The Sugarcubes for my wife Christine's 50th birthday today. And maybe wish her a happy birthday. Thank you.
-Jerry on Beacon Hill
Good Morning,
Long-time listener here, now living in Southern Oregon.
As a teacher grading before Zoom class, I'm listening to John Richard's play Violent Femmes "Kiss Off", it reminded me of another stand-up song from the 80s by Blondie called "Rip Her to Shreds".
Would it be possible to play that song?
Thank you, kindly,
Heidi
Singer Merrill Garbus says of "hold yourself.": “This song is about feeling really betrayed, by my parents’ generation, and at the same time, really seeing how we are betraying the future."
Here's tUnE yArDs Live in the KEXP Studio in 2018: youtu.be
British psych-rock provocateur Nancy, known also as Jamie Hall, singer and guitarist in the Brighton noise-pop trio Tigercub, celebrates survival in this anti-suicide anthem, which samples the melody of MGMT’s “Time to Pretend.”
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This song was written by Russ Ballard and originally released by the English band Hello in 1975.
In 1978, each member of KISS released a solo album, and this was the highest-charting single of any of the songs released from those albums.
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El Michels Affair is an American funk and soul group founded by New York-based musician Leon Michels.
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KEXP recently celebrated International Clash Day on February 5th - www.kexp.org
Ian Matthias Bavitz, better known by his stage name Aesop Rock, is an American hip hop recording artist and producer residing in Portland, Oregon.
aesoprock.com
Debut album from this electropunk duo from Stockholm -
ghlow.bandcamp.com
Found on PJ Harvey's fifth album, reflecting Harvey's affection for New York City.
pjharvey.net
I'm celebrating my birthday today and I'm on a bike ride to ride 50 miles - one mile for every year Ive been alive. I was diagnosed with leukemia 2 years ago and was pretty sure I wouldn't make it to today but here I am! would you please play Weird Ways by Strand of Oaks? Thanks for always being there.
Bob in St Pete
Local music by Kim Virant who has playing around Seattle since the 90’s- initially with the band Lazy Susan.
Seattle band The Rockfords were a side project for Carrie Akre, Chris Friel and Danny Newcomb (of Goodness); Pearl Jam's Mike McCready and Rick Friel (of Jodie Watts).