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Tuesday, Feb 23 2021, 7AM
From the 2000 American film soundtrack to "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" written, directed and produced by the Coen Brothers and starring George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, and John Goodman.
The Resistance Revival Chorus was founded in the wake of the 2017 Women's March and strives to center women in music and address how historically marginalized women have been in the music industry.
Get their debut album here:
www.resistancerevivalchorus.com
Check out local group Ladies' KEXP's Lawn In The Morning Session here: www.youtube.com
Folk group Mountain Man covering this Fiona Apple classic from her 2012 album "The Idler Wheel..."
www.wearemountainman.com
Check out Fiona Apple's great cover of this track from The Waterboys live here: www.youtube.com
Really struggling today. Can you please play Fisherman's Blues by the Waterboys?
-Brigid in PA
Just to remind you it is Tuesday since we're all thinking about Wednesday.
This song has been covered by a wide range of artists, including Rick Springfield, Kill Hannah, Sia, Metric, and Rogue Wave.
Here's The Church performing live in the KEXP studio in 2017, check it out after the show:
www.youtube.com
Peter Murphy wrote this song with his keyboard player/guitarist Paul Statham. Explaining the title in an interview with Songfacts, he said it is "an attempt to describe or evoke a conditional commitment to one partner".
www.songfacts.com
José González released his first new song in over five years last Wednesday with the track "El Invento." The song is the first in the Swedish singer-songwriter's career to feature lyrics in Spanish. González credits releasing his first work in Spanish to speaking the language with his young daughter in a statement: "Every now and then I try to write lyrics in Spanish - this time I succeeded! I guess talking to Laura in Spanish every day helped. I started writing "El Invento" around 2017 when she was born. The song is about the questions - who we are, where we’re going and why? Whom can we thank for our existence? Historically, most traditions have invented answers to these questions. Thereof the name of the song: The Invention (god)." www.pastemagazine.com
Katie Malco has toured the UK/Europe extensively, armed with only an old telecaster and her voice, with the likes of Julien Baker, Jenny Lewis, Bob Mould, Dawes, Kevin Devine, This is the Kit, BC Camplight, The Joy Formidable and We Were Promised Jetpacks. She released her debut album, ‘Failures’ in 2020 on 6131 Records.
katiemalco.bandcamp.com
Found on the 1988 debut album from the British singer, with an opening lyric that references the book "All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes" from poet Maya Angelou.
Stockholm-based artist Sibille Attar's new album "A History of Silence" comes out this Friday!
sibilleattar.bandcamp.com
Majical Cloudz was a Canadian music group from Montreal consisting of singer-songwriter Devon Welsh, and variously Matthew E. Duffy and Matthew Otto. The group disbanded in March 2016.
Brand new track from Wild Pink, who hail from the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens in New York City.
wildpink.bandcamp.com
John was the host when Amen Dunes performed "Blue Rose" and other songs from "Freedom" live in the KEXP studio in 2018: www.youtube.com
John & co.:
What a set! Can’t tell you where my soul was at 9:00 CST compared to where it is now at 9:30 CST.
Finally above freezing here in the Chicago suburbs, so how about some Icicle Works??
With love and appreciation 💗
Mark
"I Want Candy" is a song written and originally recorded by the Strangeloves in 1965. It is a famous example of a song that uses the Bo Diddley beat.
Check out Moses Sumney's 2017 Live on KEXP Session here: www.youtube.com
The music video for this Stones track is very literal - Mick Jagger is standing in a doorway, waiting for his friend (Keith Richards) to come by. Then they go to a bar and meet up with the rest of the band. Directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, who did their Rock and Roll Circus special in 1968, it did very well on MTV despite the very simple concept; the network launched a few months before the song was released as a single, and they were desperate for big-name rock act. Check it out here: www.youtube.com
I recently taught my seven year old son this song (We're going to be Friends), and he sings it while I play guitar. I learned to play it for my daughters, who are now 25 and 21, when they were his age. So many memories. Thank you!
Mike In Renton
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Good morning morning crew! This is an old morning faithful pal neighbor Jen. I thought 2021 was going to be so much better. Grandma passed of covid. My step sister passed a pancreatic cancer last week. And there's nothing that hurts more than hearing your mother say she's lonely. Anyhow would you please play Forever Young? I'm blanking on the band for some reason but the song, ... I'd like to belt it out about now. Thank you for everything you do and have a great day! It's only going to get better from here!
-Jen in Belltown
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Written as a lullaby for his eldest son Jesse, born in 1966, Dylan's song relates a father's hopes that his child will remain strong and happy. Not wishing to sound "too sentimental", Dylan included two versions of the song on the Planet Waves album, one a lullaby and the other more rock oriented: www.bbc.com
Check out Lord Huron's 2015 KEXP Live in Studio Session here www.youtube.com.
John,
I never hear Buffalo Tom played. If you have time, could you play Velvet Roof or Sunflower Suit. Two amazing underrated songs in my humble opinion.
Thanks,
Mike
Julien Baker's new album "Little Oblivions" is set to release this Friday, February 26.
In the meantime, catch Julien Baker sharing a live performance recorded exclusively for KEXP and talking to Cheryl Waters from this January: youtu.be
Check out Florence + the Machine performing Live on KEXP all the way back in 2010 here: www.youtube.com
“I want to make music that loves its listener,” said Middle Kids' singer-songwriter Hannah Joy in a statement. “Music that makes people feel seen, seen in the tiny little places that hide away in their hearts. I want people to hear our music, and feel a sense of love. And when I say love, it can be challenging, intense, and tough. But it’s in the guts.”
Middle Kids have a couple KEXP in-studio sessions you can catch up on, 2018 with DJ Cheryl Waters: www.youtube.com and 2017 with DJ Troy Nelson: www.youtube.com
IAN SWEET's new record "Show Me How You Disappear" comes out March 5th, 2021 on Polyvinyl Records!
IAN SWEET, the project of Jilian Medford, hails from Los Angeles, CA. Here's Live Video from IAN SWEET's 2018 KEXP In-Studio: bit.ly.
The Mercury Prize-winning fifth album from PJ Harvey: "I thought, no, I want absolute beauty. I want this album to sing and fly and be full of reverb and lush layers of melody. I want it to be my beautiful, sumptuous, lovely piece of work." bit.ly
Night Beats is the Texas-born brainchild of Danny Lee Blackwell. This is a single from their fifth album, "Outlaw R&B," due out on May 4th, 2021.
nightbeats.bandcamp.com
'Toward the Within' is the first live album from Dead Can Dance. It was recorded in Santa Monica, CA at the Mayfair Theatre in 1993. The theatre would be heavily damaged in an earthquake only two months later, and it has remained closed since then.
The guitar sound on Waiting on a Friend made me think of Don't Dream It's Over. Such a solid tune! - Dan
Crowded House lead singer Neil Finn wrote this song. He explained in an interview: "I wrote that on my brother's piano. I'm not sure if I remember what the context was, exactly, but it was just about on the one hand feeling kind of lost, and on the other hand sort of urging myself on - don't dream it's over. That one actually fell out literally, without me thinking about it too much.": www.youtube.com
Bono would mix in snippets of other artist's songs when singing this live. He left it alone for the Wide Awake In America recording because he did not want to get sued, as they did with "The Electric Company."
Public Service Broadcasting released "The Race for Space" on this day in 2015.
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
Howard Jones was born on this day in 1955 in Southampton, England.
Found on the seventh album from the San Francisco-based band. Frontman Mark Eitzel went on to release a bunch of solo work after the band originally split in 1995.
Remy Zero vocalist August Cinjun Tate talks about his cancer treatment, recovery, and never being the same again in this exclusive KEXP "Music Heals" interview: www.kexp.org
Bill Berry told Spin magazine in 1986 that the song was specifically about Acid Rain, which occurs when the burning of fossil fuels releases sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides into the atmosphere, causing rain to be acidic and threatening the environment.
This 80s classic came out in 1985, making up one of the iconic teen comedy/dramas from director "John Hughes". This track reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Tom Bailey on this iconic track: "I have looked at a song which was never released as a single but was very popular because it was in a film called Sixteen Candles. It's called "If You Were Here," and it's a song which originally addressed an unsureness about honesty in relationships. But when I looked at it again, I recognized a hidden meaning, as well, which was going back to this song after 30 years - nearly 32 years in this case. I thought, Well, what's happened in that time? What have we become? What have we done? It has that sense of optimism about the world being destined to be a better place. Has that borne fruit, or are there any disappointments to confess?"
www.songfacts.com
Recorded, as usual, at Amherst's Biquiteen, the sessions for Sweep It Into Space began in the late Autumn of 2019, following a West Coast/South East tour. The only extra musician used this time was Kurt Vile, who co-produced the album and played the lead 12 string on the upbeat “I Ran Away.” J Mascis’ voice is immediately catchy over soaring, electrifying guitar lines.
After recording with Kurt got disrupted, J Mascis “ended up just mimicking a few things he'd done. I was listening to a lot of Thin Lizzy, so I was trying to get some of that dueling twin lead sound. But the recording session was pretty well finished by the time things really hit the fan. When the lockdown happened in March, that meant I was on my own. But it was cool.”