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Wednesday, Mar 31 2021, 7AM
Hey Wednesday, it's time for The Morning Show!
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Released on this day 35 years ago today!
"Sometimes It Snows In April" is the twelfth and final track on Prince's eighth album Parade. The song was recorded on April 21, 1985, exactly 31 years before the date of Prince's passing. - bit.ly
Experimental musician Josiah Wise, known professionally as serpentwithfeet, has released his sophomore album, 'DEACON,' via Secretly Canadian. In a press release, he explains that the new LP is "not only imagining but exploring a world wherein Black love is paramount." Watch serpentwithfeet perform LIVE on KEXP at Home here: youtu.be
In 2018, Swedish music archeologist and musician Karl Jonas Winqvist traveled to Toubab Dialaw, Senegal, a small fishing village turned hub of Senegal’s bohemian art scene. Over the next weeks, local musicians, percussionists, poets, and beat makers came together, sketching out ideas and recording free improvisation. - wauwaucollectif.bandcamp.com
Off the 2015 release from the Detroit-born singer, written after the death of his mother in 2012. Read the KEXP review of 'Carrie & Lowell' here: www.kexp.org
The 34-year-old composer-producer Sam Shepherd, aka Floating Points, has joined forces with Pharoah Sanders, the 80-year-old saxophonist and last direct musical heir to John Coltrane’s spiritual legacy, for Promises. A continuous 46-minute opus of luminous beauty spread over nine movements, Promises is composed for saxophone, keyboards, electronics, and 29 string players from the London Symphony Orchestra. - floatingpoints.bandcamp.com
New album by Swedish artist Sibille Attar - sibilleattar.bandcamp.com
"The Lion and The Cobra" was Sinéad O'Connor's debut album. The title of the album is from Psalm 91:13 "you will tread upon the lion and cobra". At age 20, she produced the album herself and wrote or co-wrote eight of the nine songs on it.
Morning show,
Today is the 26th anniversary of the theatrical release of Tank Girl. In addition to featuring strong women characters, it had an excellent soundtrack. Do you think you could fit a track in this morning?
Thanks!
Aaron in Sacramento
Cherry Glazerr (the Los Angeles-based band led by Clementine Creevy) have shared a new song titled “Big Bang.” It marks their first music release of 2021.
www.cherryglazerr.com
Watch a full performance live on KEXP: youtu.be
Phantogram performed live on KEXP at the Triple Door as part of KEXP's VIP Club concert series in 2013. Watch here: www.youtube.com
The debut full-length album from this New York band, formed in 2007. Their fourth and final album 'SVIIB' was completed posthumously after member Benjamin Curtis died of lymphoma in 2013.
Watch School of Seven Bells live on KEXP in 2009 here:
www.youtube.com
John and Owen and team,
Welcome back! In honor of the news about potential future My Bloody Valentine records, would you play whatever of their songs you might be inspired to play this morning? “Sometimes,” good things happen.
I hope you’re all doing okayish on the spectrum of okays. Or better.
~Shannon in Northampton, MA.
Arlo Parks said of "Hope": “The song surrounds isolation, being present in your pain and knowing that you’re not the only one on the planet feeling low. I think especially in times like these it’s important to focus on the inevitability that things will get better.” You can find "Collapsed in Sunbeams" here: arloparks.bandcamp.com
Watch this London poet-artist's recent KEXP Live at Home session: youtu.be
Lovin' the set this morning. Can you please play a little local legend Neko Case? It feels like a "Deep Red Bells" or "Lady Pilot" kinda morning.
Cheers,
"Dave in New Ballard" (Burien)
“It’s a journey through the city to meet someone, seeing all the good, bad and ugly of the city—the manipulative advertising, the needles on the floor, police sirens, a queue hoping to find love in a nightclub and so on,” says singer James McGregor. “All of this stuff makes the city what it is, and makes life what it is. That’s the reality underpinning the ideal, and that’s what feels real.” - bit.ly
Phrenology is the fifth studio album by American hip hop band The Roots.
Phrenology (and its cover) directly refers to the 19th-century pseudoscience used to justify slavery, but also proposes a new Roots-specific meaning: “Ph” for Philly, “re” for re-entering the scene, and “nology” for knowledge. - bit.ly
Janelle Monae says that Prince helped her with this "celebratory song." “Prince actually was working on the album with me before he passed on to another frequency, and helped me come up with sounds. I really miss him, it’s hard for me to talk about him," she said. - www.instyle.com
It’s my 49th Birthday and I’d love to hear when doves cry or just like honey or anything else you see fit from Circe 1987
I loved the sinead♥️
I’m having an emotional
Birthday and the music is helping as usual but even more today thank
You for being there.
Much love, Danielle
Can you play Kirby by Aesop Rock for my son Harben's birthday? He's 10 yrs old today 😊
-John
“Keep Moving” is the first single off the hotly anticipated, forthcoming record from the British electrosoul duo.
www.junglejunglejungle.com
New track from Australian singer-songwriter Chet Faker aka Nick Murphy!
loverepri.se
No one carries the double wide better than David Byrne...
And she was...
And how about with St Vincent "Who" there is some gender bending foot stomping right there
Or Take Me to the River, Take me to the River
Or Burning down the House.. or Everybody's Coming to My House (hopefully not to burn it down)
And apparently its Angus Young's birthday.. he is still alive.. a question I remind myself daily
Have a good day, on all levels, emotional intellectual physical.
Tanya
Good morning friends.
Today is both my wife, Leah, and my son Mayan's (pronounced like Aztecs “Mayan) birthday. What a lucky, lucky day for me. 🙂 They both love the show and they both love some Stevie Wonder. Mayan is 12 and has been diving into Daft Punk with his new dj board. If you play them a tune, while we sit down to some vegan cinnamon rolls, that would be cool. Hope you all have a great day!
-Armando
Austin rock duo Black Pumas cover of Tracy Chapman's 1988 classic, “Fast Car.”
www.theblackpumas.com
Black Pumas performed live on KEXP in 2019. Watch here: www.youtube.com
José González released his first new song in over five years in February. 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.
josgonzlez.bandcamp.com
For Sean from Columbus, OH.
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The song originated with a lyric inspired by a line in Kurt Vonnegut's 1963 satirical postmodern novel, Cat's Cradle.
"Who were you to ask for anything more?
Do you wait for your dancing lessons to be sent from God?"
Roswell explained: "I had written the line 'Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God' in my notes. But then I thought: 'Uh, your peculiar travel suggestion isn't a dancing lesson from God, it's just a travel suggestion! Why does everything need to mean something more.'" - bit.ly
Zimbabwean-born Australian singer-songwriter and rapper Tkay Maidza released this Pixies cover for "Bills & Aches & Blues," an upcoming compilation celebrating record label 4AD's 40th anniversary. The release drops on April 2nd and will feature bands like Big Thief, Tune-Yards, Future Islands, Dry Cleaning, Jenny Hval, and many more.
Here is Tkay's Live on KEXP at Home session with DJ Morgan: bit.ly
"There Was a Man," is inspired by and dedicated to the late Charles Bradley, who passed away in 2017 and whose voice is sampled on the track. - bit.ly
The soul-jazz organist and the punk frontman worked together on a pair of covers and discovered a musical kinship. Pop, who turns 74 next month, had collaborated with artists on the fringes of jazz before - and true to jazz form, there was essentially no rehearsal. - nyti.ms
Cover of "Why Can't We Live Together", a song written by Timmy Thomas for his debut album Why Can't We Live Together released in 1972. It was historically the first record to fully replace drummers with a drum machine. The album reached number ten in 1973 on the US R&B albums chart on the strength of the million-seller single, "Why Can't We Live Together".
Bachelor is the new collaborative project of Californian indie rock artist Jay Som and Palehound’s Ellen Kempner.
At the Drive-In is an American post-hardcore band from El Paso, Texas, formed in 1994.
www.atthedriveinmusic.com
New music from Seattle-based band!
"While "Lunatic House" does resemble a haunted house of everyday horrors, there is a hope and light at the end of the hallway - a call to others to get active and motivated to make positive changes in themselves and in communities around them..."
- spiritaward.bandcamp.com
John,
Glad you’re on the air this morning, the last morning I’ll have mostly free to listen to your show for a few months. Tomorrow is the start of our hybrid learning at school, so it’s back to half days with half a class in my room until the end of the year. I still hope to listen before the school day starts, but I’m definitely going to miss being able to catch longer portions of your show. They’ve definitely been helping keep me going through all of the challenges the past year has show us.
If you’ve got time to fit a request in at this late moment, I’d love to hear something from either Dry Cleaning or Michael Kiwanuka.
I’m still not sure how this third new regime of teaching and learning in a year is really going to work, but that’s what we’ll get to figure out soon enough. For now, I’m going to do my best to enjoy KEXP streaming through my speakers and the sun shining through the window.
Happy Wednesday to all the crew up there in Seattle today!
Andy
PDX
Tacoma, Washington rock band Enumclaw have announced their first EP: Jimbo Demo is out April 30. -bit.ly
Hi John! Happy Transgender Day of Visibility! I'm so happy we have a POTUS who wants to uplift Trans folks 💗
I've been working on earning my MSW. Grad school is hard, during a pandemic extra. I'm doing my internship at Seattle VA. I learned that the VA is likely the largest provider of healthcare to transgender people in the world. And they don't cover gender-affirming surgery, which they should because it treats gender dysphoria which is linked to suicide. Suicide rates for trans and gender diverse Veterans is 20 times higher than overall VA population. So I formed a team to advocate for the VA to cover gender-affirming, medically necessary, life saving care.
I started out this text wanting to praise POTUS for posting about Trans Day of Visibility. And being grateful to you for helping reduce stigma about mental health. It's all connected, through love.
And I wanted to request a song... So could you please play something by Ezra Furman? My fav.
Chris in Olympia