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Monday, Jun 28 2021, 7AM
A cover of the Don Henley classic.
It is somehow going to be hotter today than it was at this Pearl Jam performance at the Gorge!
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"It's getting harder and harder to say 'it's okay'" - Eddie Vedder asking for help from the audience during this performance at The Gorge. Don't forget you can ask for help too! For a list of resources, you can go here: www.kexp.org
Blind Melon bassist and songwriter Brad Smith said, "The song is about not being able to get out of bed and find excuses to face the day when you have really, in a way, nothing." At the time, Smith had been dating a girl who was going through depression (she would sleep through sunny days and complain when it didn't rain), and for a while he told himself that he was writing the song from her perspective, though Smith later realized that he was also writing about it himself.
We're all a little afraid of summer today... From the Portland artist. lostlander.bandcamp.com
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.
A cover of “The End of the World” (popularized by Skeeter Davis)
Self explanatory
Watch Marissa Nadler's KEXP in-studio performance from 2018 here: youtu.be
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Check out Scottish post-punk/indie rock group The Twighlight Sad's 2018 KEXP Live In-Studio Performance here: www.youtube.com
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Watch a live version from the Tokyo Dome in 1990. One person comments, "30 years ago, when Keith was only 98... I hope they live forever." Another says, "Maybe if we can get a DNA swab off Keith we might synth a Corona virus killer and live FOREVER!": www.youtube.com
Squirrel Nut Zippers is an American swing and jazz band formed in 1993 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
The music video was directed by Brian Simmons, and shot in New York City in the summer of 1983. "It was August, over one hundred degrees. Our HQ was a tavern under the Brooklyn Bridge..."
After an exhausting morning shooting in the city in brutal August heat, the band returned to the tavern for lunch. They made the acquaintance of some local dockworkers, who, upon learning of their situation, shared vials of cocaine with them. "That was our lunch," said Fahey, who had never tried the drug before. "When you watch that video, we look really tired and miserable in the scenes we shot before lunch, and then the after-lunch shots are all euphoric and manic." www.youtube.com
From their 2004 debut album. Do not stare at the sun today. Maybe try to avoid the sun altogether. www.tvontheradio.com
Merriweather Post Pavilion celebrated its 10th anniversary earlier this year. The eighth studio album by American experimental pop group Animal Collective was released in January 6th, 2009 on Domino Records.
Robert Smith told Les Inrockuptibles about this one in 1987: "As most of the voices, I did this in one take. Everyone was laughing while hearing me sing on it, I knew therefore that it was good."
Songwriter Robbie Grey divulged the meaning behind this song recently to American Songwriter americansongwriter.com
"And now I'm trying hard to think of something
meaningful and worthy, kind of earthy
to make everybody ask themselves just
What are we doing here?
and what are we doing to her?"
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Watch a re-imagining of the original 1991 video: www.youtube.com
U2 played this when they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005. Bono introduced the song by saying it was, "A little pop diddy - a conversation between Jesus and Judas."
Watch this classic R.E.M. video for "It’s the End of the World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine)": youtu.be
Hüsker Dü was an American rock band formed in Saint Paul, Minnesota, in 1979. The band's continual members were guitarist/vocalist Bob Mould, bassist/vocalist Greg Norton, and drummer/vocalist Grant Hart. Hüsker Dü first gained notability as a hardcore punk band, later crossing over into alternative rock
It's possible KISS wrote this song about today
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Hey! Can you play Hotter Than Hell by KISS? Sending cooling vibes from the armpit of the midwest, Ohio! - Teresa
Originally written by the Meat Puppets, Nirvana performed this track for their MTV Unplugged appearance in 1993, and were joined by the Kirkwood brothers.
Endless Summer of the Damned / Bauhaus would be cool. Much love and appreciation from southern Michigan. - Jeff
After Midnight Oil toured through the Outback in 1986, playing to remote Aboriginal communities and seeing first hand the seriousness of the issues in health and living standards, Peter Garrett, Jim Moginie and Rob Hirst wrote "Beds Are Burning" to criticize how said populations were often forcibly removed from their lands, highlighted by the pre-chorus lines "it belongs to them, let's give it back". Considering such a local affair inspired a worldwide hit, Garrett commented "Who would have thought an Aboriginal land rights song would travel that far?"
This song was based on a poem Love's Ring Of Fire, and it was originally recorded in a more folksy manner by songwriter June Carter's sister, Anita Carter. Cash later recorded and released it in 1963 on his album Ring Of Fire: The Best Of Johnny Cash.
Here's Bob Mould performing "Hoover Dam' live for KEXP listeners in 2013: www.youtube.com
Martha Reeves, the alto voice of Martha and the Vandellas, was born July 18, 1941, in Eufaula, Alabama (where today it is 88 degrees Fahrenheit). www.allmusic.com