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Friday, Apr 23 2021, 7AM
X is the first new music from Working Men’s Club since their acclaimed self-titled debut was released in the autumn of 2020. workingmensclub.bandcamp.com
Happy bday to our fav' David Gedge of The Wedding Present!!!!! Wait, Bizarro say birthday happy to Gedge David. BIZARRO SMASH!"
Just got our hands on this yesterday. Sooooooooooooooo good. One knows that when Wolf Alice have the word "smile" in the title of a song, it's gonna kick ass in the butt. For example here's "Moaning Lisa Smile" live on KEXP.
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Their new album 'Maximum Sorrow!' is out 7/2 on Fierce Panda. Pre-order it here: desperatejournalist.bandcamp.com
Released on this day 45-years ago. Changed music forever. Thank you Ramones.
Tacoma, Washington rock band Enumclaw have announced their first EP: 'Jimbo Demo' is out April 30.
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KEXP's Martin Douglas wrote about Enumclaw last month. Read the article here: bit.ly.
Toronto-based R&B pop artist The Weeknd was born in Ontario, Canada to Ethiopian immigrants. He credits his stage name to his high school drop-out status, claiming he left one weekend and never came home.
www.theweeknd.com
RIP Shock G of Digital Underground who we learned yesterday passed away at the age of 57. Your influence is immeasurable. Thank you.
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Our fav' note about him: Throughout Shock G's rapping career, he created several aliases, resulting in characters that were maintained with such reality, they were believed to be separate people by some music fans, even a few industry insiders. At most public appearances, Jacobs would show up as one person or the other, but at live shows and video shoots he would use a stand-in or camera tricks to maintain the illusion.
A fictional biography was constructed for Humpty, the story being that Edward Ellington Humphrey III, former lead singer of "Smooth Eddie and the Humpers," had become a rapper after burning his nose in a kitchen accident with a deep-fryer (the story was even told by Casey Kasem himself on his then countdown show Casey's Top 40).
Dear DJ,
Last year I was working as a travel nurse while applying to graduate school for Nurse Anesthesia. One of the requirements for these applications is usually "a letter of recommendation from a doctor whose patients you regularly care for". As a travel nurse, I was never in one place long enough to develop a connection with a Doctor who could write this letter so I didn't know what to do.
While living in LA for an assignment I was tuned in to KEXP on the app one morning. I heard a familiar voice of a doctor I had worked with in Maine months earlier talking about how KEXP's music brings people together in a time of social distancing. I couldn't believe my ears! I was reminded of the conversations about new music we'd had when we worked together and it all clicked! I reached out and asked her for the letter of recommendation. Fast forward to today --> I just found out I have been accepted to a very competitive program!
Since our connection sort of started through KEXP I was hoping to tell her I got into school through the same channel. If you could play "Sacred" by Blimes and Gab (she introduced me to their music) with the message, "From Luke in New Orleans to Jennifer in Ellsworth - I Got into CRNA school and I couldn't have done it without you! Thank you!". If this doesn't fit in with your current programming I know she always listens to "Early" on weekdays.
And thank you, KEXP, for bringing people together. In a way, you have changed my life.
Luke
Happy 85th to the late Roy Orbison.
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The famed Blimes and Gab, Roy Orbison segue. It's the triple-lindy of song-segues. Few have tried, none have succeeded, until today.
Good morning John and crew! If you are taking requests this morning, my 7 year-old twins Clara and Alex would love to hear something by their favourite band in the entire world, Queen, while they are getting ready for school. Ideally they would like Somebody to Love, but really, anything by Queen will do. Thank you and have a great day!
Ron on Vancouver Island
This album is five years old today. Does it have a job? Can it drive? Or it's own place to live? Nope. Like most five-year olds, total freeloader. #DadJokes
Maimouna Youssef aka "Mumu Fresh" is a Grammy nominated seasoned singer, emcee, songwriter and producer from Washington DC. She received a Grammy nomination for her contribution on the Roots hit “Don’t Feel Right” in 2007 for best rap song. maimounayoussef.bandcamp.com
John,
I am a social worker who has started commuting by car over the past year and listening to your show on mornings that I go into the office or the jail. I can't say thank you enough for getting me through some of the hardest moments of this past year with your reminder that we're in this together and the music you've played. I've listened to your show on my way to meet clients who will spend the rest of their lives in prison and days when I am driving to jail in Kent to meet the next new client, with the next sad story. I've sat in the car and cried some mornings because of the weight of the pandemic, social work and the heart-wrenching stories we hear day in and day out. That morning this past fall when you played the children's chorus that sang Space Oddity, I sat and cried from the weight of it all, the beauty of their sweet voices reminding me that there is hope.
I've never written to KEXP to say thank you, but this morning, after you played QUEEN and got me ready for the next few jail visits I have to do, I wanted to write and say THANK YOU. I don't know how I would have gotten through this past year without you all.
Vanessa
RIP Shock G of Digital Underground who we learned yesterday passed away at the age of 57. Your influence is immeasurable. Thank you. Thanks for letting us "get stupid." Peace and humptiness forever.
The video for this song from this French three piece is hilarious. www.youtube.com
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You need a Mad Foxes tshirt. madfoxes1.bandcamp.com
Hello Good People of KEXP :)
According to an article, I'm not depressed, I'm "languishing" - that explains my lack of focus, etc etc... Hmm. Fortunately, I'm languishing while WFH w/ KEXP.
If it fits, could you play anything by Jon Spencer Blues Explosion?
PS My son recognized Lauryn Hill from a sample in a song by Drake. Yes!
Have a great weekend!
Amy in Baltimore
(I) would love to hear one of your faves from Sons "Family Dinner" album.
I miss these Guys! Miss You Guys!
THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING,
Jeff
Watch Snapped Ankles in their natural habitat as captured by KEXP's Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom video team at International Clash Day in London, 2019. Note, as Marlon Perkins often did we literally sent Jim in to the crowd to capture this. www.youtube.com
Just an emo, dead stuff collector
Things come to the brain
Let's look at the geophase
Seriously, let's look at the geophase.
Morning John!
Pela never fails to hit an emotion chord. Can you please work in a Song That Writes Itself from their debut album?
Thanks and welcome back!!
Peter
'Sticky Fingers' is 50 today! Hi John, happy Friday! 'Sway' is my fave from that landmark disc, if it fits in the mix...
-Lou
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This song was on the flipside of "Wild Horses" and either I or my sister had the 45 RPM. Anyway, as an 8th grader fixin' to enter high school in 1971, I fell in love with the song and it's still my fave and it's a great "summer song".
-Fred
Happy Friday John and crew!
Before I started listening to the morning show about 12 or so years ago, I thought the Friday song was Friday by Joe Jackson. I know, .. my bad. But, still it's fun to hear that one every now and then on a Friday if you can fit it in.
Cheers,
Jay in Bellevue
This amazing album turns 30 today. This one goes out to Jim.
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Yes!!! Thanks for the Fishbone!! My day was starting kinda hectic- now I'm dancing and smiling!! ☀️
-Heather
Just got this note from KEXP DJ (and amazing musical artist) Gabriel Teodros. "I was thinking about it for hours yesterday... he made people a part of his group, recorded with them, toured with them, produced songs, and it seems like he always gave them enough to go out on their own... and he always checked back in on them as family. You can tell from the production credits years later, and the way he looked out for Saafir when he was having health problems a while back. With Shock it seemed like it always came from such a pure place.
His production credits are deep too. How many hip-hop artists can say they produced for Prince?!"
Great show. And the playlist entry for Apache – puts things in perspective.
Could I possibly suggest Quality Control, Jurassic 5?
Chris - Art Teacher Madison Middle School
Want to watch something great? Of course you do. Sly on the Ed Sullivan show. www.youtube.com
The title comes from the refrain, which is a sample of Steely Dan's 1977 hit "Peg": "I know I love you better." De La Soul also used the whistling from the Otis Redding song "(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay" on this track, along with much of the instrumentation from the 1969 song "Make This Young Lady Mine" by the Doo Wop group Mad Lads.
#TheMoreYouKnow (rainbow)
Samples from Average White Band, Minnie Riperton, Grover Washington Jr, and Dalton & Dubarri.
Dearest John…in honor of having slept 12hrs last night after getting my 2nd shot, can you pls the #1 song guaranteed to stop, drop & dance no matter what I’m doing: Whale ‘Hobo Humpin Slobo Babe’
-Jeff
A song about Friday...that John's dumb brain just thought of.
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Shouts to ...
Nick from Ann Arbor - Getting his second shot today
Veronica in Los Alamos, NM
Paul in Chicago
Mike from West Seattle
RIP Shock G. Reposting this note from KEXP's Gabriel Teodros.
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"I was thinking about it for hours yesterday... he made people a part of his group, recorded with them, toured with them, produced songs, and it seems like he always gave them enough to go out on their own... and he always checked back in on them as family. You can tell from the production credits years later, and the way he looked out for Saafir when he was having health problems a while back. With Shock it seemed like it always came from such a pure place.
His production credits are deep too. How many hip-hop artists can say they produced for Prince?!"