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Monday, Apr 26 2021, 7AM
Good morning, Monday Morning show listeners!
Jose Gonzalez announced his first album in six years! In a multi-tracked, reverbed voice, González harmonizes with himself over the sound of a guitar, and the track also features birdsong and other nature sounds. To read more or watch the accompanying video, go here...
www.stereogum.com
Experimental musician Josiah Wise, known professionally as serpentwithfeet, has released his sophomore album, 'DEACON,' via Secretly Canadian. Watch serpentwithfeet perform LIVE on KEXP at Home here: youtu.be
East Tennessee singer-songwriter Amythyst Kiah’s debut solo recording for Rounder Records. The original version of “Black Myself” appeared on the collaborative 2019 project Our Native Daughters, which featured Kiah alongside Rhiannon Giddens, Allison Russell, and Leyla McCalla.
Bills & Aches & Blues is 4AD's new compilation record of current 4AD artists covering past releases. This is a cover of Bon Iver.
First studio album from the band. - www.janesaddiction.com
'Gish' will be turning 30 years old next month.
This 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?"
Cover of the Waterboys 1985 song, featuring none other than Phoebe Bridgers on backup vocals.
For Warren from Raleigh, NC!
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In a 2020 interview, Mike Scott specifically rejected claims that this song was about Prince: he said that he wrote a message "on the record’s label saying, 'For Prince, U saw the whole of the moon'" as a reference to discussions between himself and Karl Wallinger about creating a Prince-inspired sound when they were recording the song.
Found on the third album from the Scottish group, released in 2010. See our tribute to Scott Hutchison of Frightened Rabbit, which includes several videos of live KEXP performances, here: www.kexp.org
Here is Julien Baker's Live on KEXP from home performance from earlier this year: youtu.be
julienbaker.bandcamp.com
7:54 AM
44th spin
Dan requests this song from the film Judas and the Black Messiah, the Oscar winner for Best Original Song last night
Found on the debut album from Badly Drawn Boy (Damon Gough), released in 2000
The Reds, Pinks, and Purples are a DIY kitchen pop project of Glenn Donaldson (Skygreen Leopards, Art Museums etc). His latest, "Uncommon Weather," which he describes as an "elusive portrait of San Francisco –– during one of its fluctuations as an untenable place for musicians and artists" comes out April 9th via Slumberland Records.
Preorder the new album: theredspinksandpurples.bandcamp.com
Chris Mars, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer of The Replacements and Golden Smog, born on this day in 1961. "Popular Creeps" hit #9 on Billboards alternative charts on June 13th 1992.
John! Congrats on your vaccination! In honor of the vaccine, will you please play "race for the prize" by the flaming lips? We listen to KEXP every morning to get our days started and to mellow out on the evenings too. Here's to all of you amazing folks staying healthy and getting your jabs!
-Anya and Andrew in Eugene
Beachy Head consists of Slowdive’s Rachel Goswell and Christian Savill, Flaming Lips drummer Matt Duckworth Kirksey, The Soft Cavalry’s Steve Clark and the founder of Graveface Records Ryan Graveface. Their debut album is out this week. bit.ly
Seattle band Sky Cries Mary is an American psychedelic rock/trance musical group formed in the late 1980s by Roderick Wolgamott and Ben Ireland. Notable band alumni include Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow of The Posies, vocalist Anisa Romero, Michael Cozzi of Shriekback, Jon ‘Juano’ Davison (later of Yes and Glass Hammer), and Gordon Raphael (producer for The Strokes).
Good morning! I would like to make a dedication request going out to my dearest-bestest-cousin/friend, Amy (from Fir Island)! She is a diehard Prince fan, so I thought I would do some searching through some of his catalog, trying to find that perfect song. One that would scratch that Purple Prince itch on her special day, as well as encapsulate my gratitude and love for this amazing woman. Happy 50th to Amy- Happy hour, dancing and testifying to all of the music we love is just around the vaccinated corner.
John, this woman loves kexp, loves music and loves life.
I thought Prince’s cover of “A Case of You” might be fitting. She also just lost her amazing grandmother, Granty Jean. F*#% cancer!
I hope you can squeeze in this request Monday morning. You’re the best and you are not alone!
❤️Holly from Burlington
This song was written as a tribute to the Pixies, a band that had an important influence over Radiohead at the time, hence the single CD art cover is similar to the Pixies' Surfer Rosa. "Stop Whispering" is also one of Radiohead's oldest songs; it was created when the band was still known as On A Friday, originally being on Dungeon Demo.
Dry Cleaning shared a live performance recorded exclusively for Live on KEXP at Home, including "Her Hippo", and spoke with Cheryl Waters. youtu.be
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drycleaning.bandcamp.com
Bachelor is Jay Som and Palehound. Their debut album ‘Doomin’ Sun’ will be out on the 28th of May.
www.polyvinylrecords.com
Panic On is the second album by indie pop band Madder Rose, released in March 1994 on Atlantic Records.
Brand new track from the Scottish band. Get a copy here: wewerepromisedjetpacks.bandcamp.com
Berlin duo Lea Porcelain's eagerly-awaited sophomore release, "Choirs to Heaven," comes out in May. www.leaporcelain.com
We fought for good, stood side by side
Our friendship never died
On stranger waves, the lows and highs
Our vision touched the sky
Immortalists with points to prove
“’Cain’s Heresy’ is a portrait of the world we’re headed to - where consumers lie sedated while ‘This Week’s Hot Trend’ and ‘101 Style Tips For Summer’ are forced down their throats by gloved hands,” the band explain. “It’s our way of saying ‘not on my watch’."
bit.ly
"...how’s the family? How’s your health been? How’s the church? How’s the job?”
Watch the live KEXP studio session, including "Beautiful Blue Sky": youtu.be
In "Fixer Upper, we follow Graeme's adventures in home renovations. He’s “not a bad man at heart, he just sincerely believes he’s from a country and generation that achieved the apex of everything so therefore can’t ever be wrong about anything.” vocalist James Smith explains. Purchase "Fixer Upper" from this new band from Leeds here: yardact.bandcamp.com
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
"Daddy's Home," Annie Clark's (St. Vincent) sixth studio album will be out on May 14th. According to a press release, St. Vincent began writing some "Daddy’s Home" songs in winter 2019, which is around the time that her father was released from prison after being incarcerated for nine years.
Preorder the album here: stvincent.bandcamp.com
Brand new music from Merril Garbus's tUnE-yArDs project. See the video here: youtu.be
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
Check out DJ Troy's discussion of this classic track with Angus of Liars in their in-studio from 2016: www.youtube.com
