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Wednesday, Apr 28 2021, 7AM
Hey Wednesday, it's time for The Morning Show!
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"Biko" is an anti-apartheid protest song by English rock musician Peter Gabriel.
This Brownswood compilation, ‘Indaba Is’, celebrates the creativity of the current South African improvised music and jazz scene.
indaba-is.bandcamp.com
"Yaral Sa Doom” is a Wolof phrase that means “educate the young.” Central to the album is this theme of education, with songs that directly address social issues facing contemporary Senegal, education, and immigration. -
wauwaucollectif.bandcamp.com
Ladysmith Black Mambazo are a South African male choral group singing in the local vocal styles of isicathamiya and mbube.
- mambazo.com
Here is Ladysmith Black Mambazo performing live in the KEXP studio in 2016: www.youtube.com
The title of the song means "your tears" in the Tuareg language of Tamasheq, Moctar said in a press statement. - bit.ly
Nashville-based label Dualtone Records is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year with a special collection of songs called Amerikinda: 20 Years Of Dualtone. The compilation album is being released on Aug. 6, and features Dualtone artists and alumni including The Lumineers, Brett Dennen, Gregory Alan Isakov, Mt. Joy, Hayes Carll, Shovels & Rope, Langhorne Slim and others, all covering each other's songs in celebration of the label's landmark birthday.
From Dualtone Records upcoming compilation called Amerikinda (coming out August 6th). It’s Dualtone’s finest covering each other’s work. As they write in the press release, “...despite the one-two punch of a tornado and a global pandemic hitting within weeks of each other last year, Dualtone isn’t just surviving, it’s thriving…”
Watch The Lumineers performing "Stubborn Love" live for KEXP at Columbia City Theater in 2016: www.youtube.com
The latest full-length from Valerie June, The Moon and Stars: Prescriptions for Dreamers emerged from a long-awaited revelation on the part of the Tennessee-bred singer/songwriter. “With this record, it finally became clear why I have this dream of making music,” June says of her third album for Fantasy Records. “It’s not for earthly reasons of wanting to be awarded or to win anybody’s love—it’s because dreaming keeps me inquisitive and keeps me on that path of learning what I have to share with the world. I think when we allow ourselves to dream like we did when we were kids, it ignites the light that we all have within us and helps us to have a sort of magic about the way we live.”valeriejune.bandcamp.com
Hi John, your show is really getting me through this morning. Any chance you could play some First Aid Kid? Much love to KEXP from North Carolina.
-Abigail
‘Blackest Blue’ will be the UK band's 10th studio album in a discography that spans three decades.
morcheeba.bandcamp.com
New music from The Chemical Brothers! www.thechemicalbrothers.com
Off his new Ronin 1 Mixtape which features Michael Kiwanuka, Tom Smith (Editors), Dhani Harrison, The Big Pink & More! www.nme.com unkle.info
"I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad
I got sunshine in a bag
I'm useless but not for long
The future is coming on"
Here's the official video: www.youtube.com
Got my second shot already this morning and feel like an anthemic song is appropriate — like (We are) Augustines. Any chance I can hear them this morning before the side effects hit and I'm out 💤?
Sara
IDLES have announced their Beauty From Ashes US tour - playing The Showbox on Tuesday, November, 9th!
www.idlesband.com
The name of the song comes from a Time magazine article Iggy Pop saw about the Vietnam War. - bit.ly
Hey John,
Thanks for being awesome and getting me through the last year plus of pandemic madness. I just got my second vaccine dose from the Yakima FEMA site yesterday and I'm moving a little slow. I was wondering if you could play a little something for me? I'd love to hear The One to Wait from CCFX.
Thanks for everything you do,
Helen
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Here's CCFX performing "The One to Wait" live in the KEXP studio in 2018: www.youtube.com
A Place to Bury Strangers' first single “End of the Night," from the Hologram EP, out this summer - aplacetoburystrangers.bandcamp.com
By request for Arnie!
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From sixth studio album by French electronic music band M83
ilovem83.com
From the new album by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard! Watch their 2019 full in-studio performance here: www.youtube.com
Hi John,
I outsourced this request to my lovely son Thor, who is 11, and sent you the most cryptic of cryptic emails. It is my beautiful wife, Kristina’s 50th birthday. We’ve been listening to your show together for the last ~15 years and it is one of the glues of our marriage. We live in Oslo, Norway now and have really journeyed the world together. Her favorite bands are the Grateful Dead, Fleetwood Mac (or any Stevie Nicks)...really 70s/80s hippie music is her thing. If you could play a song for her, it would mean the world to her. She’s had a rough pandemic year and you’ve really helped her cope. A bit much for an 11-yr old to write, for sure!
Anyway, take care and thanks for being there!
David
John!
Can you squeeze Elephant Gun by Beirut in today?
One of the few songs i ever heard while i was driving someplace that prompted me to drive straight to sonic boom (fremont!) and buy it.
thank you!
Aaron
Morning John!
Just dropping a line to say that I’m finally retiring my 14-year old car (named Irv) after having to jumpstart it every time I need to use it for the last year...
Finally giving it up, which is sad because that was our first “grow-up” car which we bought shortly before our son, Charles Wallace, was born.
But now I’m sliding into a brand-new SEVEN-year old hybrid (named Yvette). So I’m happy that Irv will help power a drop of KEXP, and he is as well.
Thanks, as always, for doing all you do! Aaand...I dunno, “No Cars Go” request? Or is that too easy? You may have a better idea.
Love/Respect,
The Murray Fam
"It was the last song we wrote for the album. It plays with the meaning of duality, the connection between action and consequence, between who we really are and how we try to come off, and how we sometimes end up fooling ourselves." - newcandys.bandcamp.com
Tune-Yards' cover of 'Cannonball', originally by The Breeders!
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In honor of my boyfriend and I getting our first vaccine shot (and cafe vitas new lavender latte), can you please play I Just Want to Dance by Sault?? Thank you!
Sage in Fremont
Until they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, this was the last song The Police played together; after breaking up in 1986, they performed it at Sting's wedding to Trudie Styler in 1992. - bit.ly
Today the nation lost a true pioneer and lifelong advocate for exploration in astronaut Michael Collins.