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Ian Sweet’s Jilian Medford has put her own indie-rock spin on Coldplay’s “Yellow,” down to a video that replicates the band’s 2000 original.
“I’ve seen Coldplay live six times,” Medford said in a statement. “Parachutes was the first CD I ever rented from the library and it changed my life. I owe a lot of who I am and the way I write and perform music to Coldplay. I wanted to cover ‘Yellow’ because it is my go-to karaoke song, love song, breakup song, feel-good song…it’s everything.” bit.ly
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Porridge Radio have covered The Shins' single "New Slang." It's the b-side to the UK band's new entry in the Sub Pop Singles Club, with the a-side being a cover of Wolf Parade's “You Are A Runner And I Am My Father's Son.”
Porridge Radio's Dana Margolin:
“Sub Pop are a label I’ve loved for a long time, and when they asked if we wanted to release some songs with them this summer, I looked through their back catalog and chose 2 songs to cover that had a big impact on me as a teenager."
Fans can get the limited-edition 7” single by subscribing to the Sub Pop Singles Club Vol. 6. megamart.subpop.com
"Yellow" reached number four on the UK Singles Chart, giving Coldplay their first top-five hit in the United Kingdom. It was Coldplay's breakthrough hit internationally, reaching number one in Iceland, number five in Australia, number nine in Ireland and number 48 in the United States. Helped by heavy rotation and usage in advertising, the song thrust the band into popularity.
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The Stones recorded this during a three-day session at Muscle Shoals Sound Studios in Alabama from December 2-4, 1969. It was the last of three songs done at these sessions, after "Brown Sugar" and "You Gotta Move."
Muscle Shoals Sound Studios (actually located in Sheffield, Alabama) opened in May 1969 when Jerry Wexler at Atlantic Records (The Stones' label) loaned money to four of the musicians at nearby FAME studios so they could start their own company and install 8-track recording equipment (FAME was on 4-track). Wexler sent many of Atlantic's acts to Muscle Shoals, since the musicians were fantastic and it was a dry county with nothing to do, which meant the artists were more likely to stay focused. The studio also had a distinctive sound that can be heard on this track, especially on Jagger's vocals - you can hear a slight distortion that was caused by the console.
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Yesterday's 1986 set was great. As a follow up can you play something from 1987's The Joshua Tree. Running to Stand Still, Trip Through Your Wires, or the 2017 remix of Red Hill Town are my suggestions.
Jim
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Steve Lillywhite's 2017 mix of Red Hill Mining Town was a limited edition release on picture disc to mark Record Store Day 2017.
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The chorus line lyric "one day like this a year would see me right" had been in singer Guy Garvey's diary for several years before the song was written. Speaking in 2014 about the song, Garvey said, "We put the chords behind it and realised it was going to be the hook of all hooks. I was like, 'what do we think?'... It was, 'it's kind of similar to "Hey Jude", isn't it?' I was like, 'yeah, and it's also similar to "Loaded" by Primal Scream, and we like both those songs, don't we?' So isn't it just generous to do that, isn't it a satisfying thing for the listener?... And my God, how it changed our fortunes."
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“Feel Nothing” is the first new music from Amen Dunes (Damon McMahon) since the songwriter and producer released his fifth album "Freedom" in 2018. He is joined by Jason Williamson of Sleaford Mods on this single.: www.youtube.com
Songwriter/vocalist Ian Devaney explains:
‘Across That Fine Line’ is a reflection on that moment when a non-romantic relationship flips into something different. When the air in the room suddenly feels like it changes in an undefinable way. It’s a kind of celebration of that certain joyous panic, and the uncertainty that surfaces right after it.
Sonically, it’s meant to feel like running down a hill, just out of control. I had been listening to a lot of Thee Oh Sees at the time of writing it and admiring the way they supercharge krautrock rhythms and imbue them with a kind of mania, which felt like an appropriate vibe to work with and make our own.
Playing Thursday, October 14th at The Crocodile - www.nationoflanguage.com
The Haunted Youth is the band of Hasselt-based Joachim Liebens (27), playing mesmerizing psych pop reminiscent of MGMT, DIIV, Slowdive or, we dare even say, The Cure.
The songs – about despair, hope, and the feeling of being a misunderstood misfit – are coated in a rich and dreamy international sound that will sweep you off your feet.
www.maywayrecords.com
Check out a live version of "Coming Home":
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Hi John,
Our son Bryan lives there on West Seattle Island and unfortunately we can't be there to celebrate his birthday today. We ask if you would be so kind as to play California Stars (Wilco) or Reckoner (Radiohead)? You're not alone Bry. We're dancing with you thanks to KEXP.
Thank you John from Kate, Judd, and Bryan's brother Ted
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Happy birthday Bryan!
Saint Etienne have announced they will return later this year with their 10th album ‘I’ve Been Trying To Tell You’.
Set for release on September 10 via Heavenly Recordings, the latest from the London trio is described as “a concept album about optimism, nostalgia and the late nineties”.
A press release explains the album’s concept in more detail: “The album was made largely from samples and sounds drawn from the years 1997-2001, a period that was topped and tailed by Labour’s election victory and the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers. Was the optimism of that era a lost golden age, or was it a period of naïvety, delusion and folly? The collective folk memory of any period differs from the lived reality. I’ve Been Trying to Tell You is an album about memory, how it works, how it tricks you and creates a dream-like state. It also taps into the way we think of our youth, a sense of place, and where we come from.”
www.undertheradarmag.com
This is for Adam in Ohio who writes "I never get a song on the air, so this is like winning a radio contest!"
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The Guardian ranked the "50 Best PJ Harvey Songs" and put 'We Float at # 39
39. We Float (2000)
“It’s only pop according to PJ Harvey,” the singer said of Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea, “which is probably as un-pop as you can get by most people’s standards.” We Float bears that out: its melody is lovely, but its weightless, six-minute drift walks an odd, intoxicating line between blissed-out and sinister.
www.theguardian.com
Angel Olsen has shared another new track that’s set to appear on her new ’80s covers EP Aisles. This time she’s shared her rendition of Men Without Hats’ “Safety Dance.”
Aisles is out August 20 on Olsen’s Jagjaguwar imprint somethingscosmic.
“I felt this song could be reinterpreted to be about the time of quarantine and the fear of being around anyone or having too much fun,” Olsen said in a statement. “It made me wonder, is it safe to laugh or dance or be free of it all for just a moment?”
Check out Angel Olsen's KEXP in-studio from December 2019: www.youtube.com
Sleigh Bells' new album, Texis, will be released on September 10th. It’s their first full-length since 2016’s Jessica Rabbit and their first new material since 2017’s Kid Kruschev EP.
Sleigh Bells are set to embark on a North American tour later this year, with the run kicking off October 5th in Raleigh, North Carolina, and wrapping October 28th in Seattle at the Showbox!
“We’re living in a golden age of string quartets…It’s hard to disagree when you hear the vibrant young players in New York’s Attacca Quartet.” – NPR MUSIC
Yes, they're a string quartet on the Sony Classical label that dove head first into the electronic world... "turns out wasn’t as far away from modern classical as we thought when we started this project." www.attaccaquartet.com
The HU is a Mongolian heavy metal band formed in 2016. With traditional Mongolian instrumentation, including the Morin khuur, Tovshuur and Mongolian throat singing, the band calls their style of music "hunnu rock", 'hu' inspired by the Hunnu, an ancient Mongolian empire, known as The Huns in western culture. Some of the band’s lyrics include old Mongolian war cries and poetry. n.pr
Enjoy the music video for "Wolf Totem" by The HU featuring Jacoby Shaddix of Papa Roach: www.youtube.com
The latest release from this Miami-bred, Turin-based artist is a surprise six-song EP that sounds like a continuation of their last album (2020’s excellent Heaven to a Tortured Mind), with a densely textured sound blending moody psych-rock, driving post-punk and futuristic glam.
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Film School has just released the first two singles ("Isla" and "Superperfection") from their upcoming full length album, "We Weren’t Here," out September 24th.
With the band members spread out around the state and staying home due to the pandemic, the album was made remotely with the group trading files and working on songs on their own. The title We Weren't Here is a little nod to the conditions but also the way people avoid being in the present.
filmschoolmusic.bandcamp.com
www.brooklynvegan.com
New Age Healers did a Live on KEXP performance July 2019! Watch the electric video here-
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newagehealers.bandcamp.com
Spiral XP is a new project from Max Keyes, drummer from the excellent Seattle indie rock project Versing. Keyes takes center stage in Spiral XP, but retains the volume and some of the disaffected, feverish stylings of his other band with added fuzz and shoegaze aesthetics."
www.kexp.org
spiralxp.bandcamp.com
Adan and Eve was the fourth studio album by Catherine Wheel and released on this day in 1997. This was the band's last album to feature original bassist Dave Hawes.
Good morning friends! I was wondering if you could throw on some posies this morning. For my good friend Jeremy. He's needing some musical support right now. And possibly remind everyone they're not alone.
Ivan in San Antonio
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You're not alone Jeremy!
Harvey Danger's debut album was released 24 years ago today!
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Jeff J. Lin @jeffjlin
Thanks to @djjohnrichards for the reminder this morning that 24 years ago this album was "released" - iirc
@seantroversy, Aaron, Evan and I delivered some boxes of hand-screened, hand-assembled CDs to a few record stores in Seattle. Who knew?
Brittany Howard has announced Jaime Reimagined, a record featuring new versions of songs from her solo debut Jaime. The album includes previously shared remixes from Bon Iver, Michael Kiwanuka, Fred again..,and EarthGang. Reimagined also features Childish Gambino’s interpretation of “Stay High,” as well as new guest contributions from Common, Emily King, and the Internet’s Syd. Below, hear Little Dragon’s remix of “Presence” and BadBadNotGood’s remix of “Tomorrow.”
“Making Jaime was so much fun for me because I was able to explore so many different genres of music,” Brittany Howard said in a statement. “There were no rules. This reimagination project has been no different. I have been honored to have so many incredible artists from all musical worlds interpret my songs in such interesting and different ways.”
Jaime Reimagined is out digitally on July 23 via ATO; a vinyl edition will follow on September 24.
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New Jungle single! Listen and watch here:
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From Jungle's FB page:
"Wanna hear and see the album before everyone else? We will be screening the entire record and the visuals, mixed in Dolby Atmos® sound, as an exclusive for one evening only at Picturehouse Central on August 11th at 6.30pm and 8.30pm. We will also be there in person to introduce the film! Can’t wait to see you all.✌️ Tickets via jungle.ffm.to"
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Jungle will be in Seattle on Friday, October 22 playing The Paramount Theatre:
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This was a side project of the Bauhaus members Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins (who later went on to form Love and Rockets with David J), and the Bauhaus roadie Glenn Campling. The band's name was a reference to the way calibration tones were recorded on the "tail" of reel-to-reel tape.
Here's a 2018 KEXP interview with Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins of Bauhaus, Love and Rockets, and Tones on Tail.: www.kexp.org
"Stop! was primarily written in the warehouse of a clothing store in Venice, California called NaNa’s — which, back in the late Eighties, was one of the only punk-rock clothing stores in Los Angeles. We rehearsed in the warehouse where they kept all the boots and shoes, so it was wall-to-wall Doc Martens and creepers, and every variation of punk-rock shoe and clothing, all around us in this dingy little warehouse." - Dave Navarro to Rolling Stone in 2015
Queens-based duo the Forms, aka Alex Tween and Matt Walsh, have returned with their first material since 2011’s EP Derealization, which featured the National, Dirty Projectors, Pattern Is Movement, and Craig Wedren. New single “Southern Ocean,” was recorded by Steve Albini, who worked on Icarus and their self-titled.
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The frontman of The New Radicals, Gregg Alexander, decided it was time for the band to break up after one album because he essentially figured they'd never come out with another hit as good as "You Get What You Give."
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Shaun Ryder to Clash Music: “We was just a band of fuckin’ misfits, really!”
Read their interview, "Wrote For Luck: The Rise And Fall Of Happy Mondays"
www.clashmusic.com
Indianapolis foursome Chrome Waves have just announced the release of their Third LP, The Rain Will Cleanse, out in September via Transcending Records And Disorder Recordings.
Of the first single "'Sometimes,' the band’s Jeff Wilson tells Brooklyn Vegan that he wrote it in 10-minutes, at “2am, a dozen cocktails into a writing session, I think this was the fourth demo I had finished that evening. It was honestly almost too easy to arrange and begged for a better melody than I personally could have given it. James [Benson] totally murdered the vocals on this song and it's the perfect first single for this album as it sets the vibe for what's to come."
chromewaves.bandcamp.com
The band Garbage — known for hit songs “Stupid Girl” and “Only Happy When It Rains” — is out with their seventh album, No Gods No Masters.
“As a woman, a lot of the time you’re not judged for your work, you’re judged for your beauty and your youth,” Manson says. “For women there is a future beyond your 30s when you develop your first wrinkle.”
Frontwoman Shirley Manson discusses the album’s themes of racism and sexism on KEXP's Sound and Vision hosted by Emily Fox: www.kexp.org
The tragic news of Dusty Hill’s death is still reverberating around the rock community. The band’s last gig with Hill took place on July 18th. That show marked the end of one of the single most enduring lineups in the history of rock & roll. ZZ Top’s first album in 1971 was created by Billy Gibbons, Frank Beard, and Dusty Hill, and that trio remained rock solid for 50 years.
“It’s a cliché and sounds so simplistic, but it’s down to the three of us genuinely enjoying playing together,” Hill said in 2014. “We still love it, and we still get a kick out of being onstage. We also have enough in common to maintain a bond between us but sufficient differences to keep our individuality. And after all this time, we all know what winds up the others and what makes them the people they are.”
www.rollingstone.com
In a recent interview on KEXP's Sound & Vision podcast, Ambar Lucid talks about how a trip on magic mushrooms inspired the title track of her new EP, Get Lost in the Music. She also talks about a documentary about being reunited with her dad years after he was deported to Mexico, and how she hopes to heal her own and others' generational trauma through her music. bit.ly
Damon Albarn has released “Polaris,” the lead single from his upcoming solo album The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows, out November 12th via Transgressive Records.
Along with a digital release, Albarn is prepping a limited-edition color vinyl version of The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows, as well as versions on CD and cassette. There will also be a deluxe version packaged in a casebound book with additional photography, original scanned lyrics, original artwork, a copy of the album pressed on white vinyl, and a bonus seven-inch featuring an exclusive song from the recording sessions.
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An anti-apartheid protest song by English rock musician Peter Gabriel, inspired by the death of black South African anti-apartheid activist, Steve Biko, at the hands of police on September 12th, 1977.
It's Cheryl's Friday!!!
Here's Elton John covering the Beatles single in 1974.
The song was written primarily by John Lennon and credited to the Lennon–McCartney songwriting partnership. Lennon's son Julian inspired the song with a nursery school drawing that he called "Lucy – in the sky with diamonds". Shortly before the album's release, speculation arose that the first letter of each of the title nouns intentionally spelled "LSD", the initialism commonly used for the hallucinogenic drug lysergic acid diethylamide. Lennon repeatedly denied that he had intended it as a drug song. He attributed the song's fantastical imagery to his reading of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland books.
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