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Wednesday, Sep 29 2021, 7AM
Released on this day 24 years ago, Urban Hymns was conceived as a Richard Ashcroft solo album, as The Verve had broken up. As it moved forward, Ashcroft enlisted help from this former bandmates, and it ended up becoming a Verve album and re-forming the band. - bit.ly
Their 4th album was released 35 years ago today.
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New Order plays Seattle's Climate Pledge Arena on Friday, October 14 2022 - www.neworder.com
You can preorder their next release “Hindsight” from bandcamp. This album is a retrospective collection of out of print singles, unreleased material and brand new songs. - spectresvancouver.bandcamp.com
Breeze "Only Up" was written, recorded and mixed in 8 days by Toronto-based artist and producer Josh Korody in Toronto Feb 2021, and features rapper Cadence Weapon, psych pop artist Tess Parks, and an array of the Toronto music scene, including members of Orville Peck, Tallies, Vallens, Zoon, Sauna, Fake Palms, Rapport, Praises, Civic TV, Moon King, Blonde Elvis, For Jane, Ducks Ltd, TOPS and Broken Social Scene. - handdrawndracula.bandcamp.com
Hi John,
If it pleases the DJ, could you play Sharon Van Etten’s “Comeback Kid” this morning?
Thanks!
Shawn
Seattle
New music from the upcoming album! Parquet Courts plays The Showbox on Friday, April 22, 2022 - www.parquet-courts.com
Hey,
I don’t usually write this dark of a request, but my brother, Erich, died yesterday of A devastating heart complication far too young.
Will you please play You can Call Me Al? Or anything Paul Simon? He loved that.
Thank you,
Joni
Nation of Language play a sold-out show at The Crocodile on Thursday, October 14th, 2021. nationoflanguage.bandcamp.com
Morning all. Happy coffee day request: chemical brothers + beth orton, Sunday morning (and I'm waking up, can't even focus on my coffee cup)
Jessica ( a science teacher)
The third studio album by English alternative rock band the Verve was released on this day in 1997 (that's 24 years ago).
The sixth full-length release by Los Angeles band Film School -
filmschoolmusic.bandcamp.com
Hey John, my daughter Quinlan turns 10 today and I'd love to hear "Archie, Marry Me", the first "good" song she was really into.
Thank you,
Dave
South Orange, NJ
We've just got our hands on a new/old song by David Bowie song called "You've Got A Habit of Leaving" from The Previously Unreleased Album Toy was recorded following Bowie's triumphant Glastonbury 2000 performance. Bowie entered the studio with his band to record new interpretations of songs he’d first recorded from 1964-1971. David planned to record the album “old school” with the band playing live, choose the best takes and then release it as soon as humanly possible in a remarkably prescient manner. Unfortunately, in 2001 the concept of the “surprise drop” album release and the technology to support it were still quite a few years off, making it impossible to release Toy, as the album was now named, out to fans as instantly as David wanted. In the interim, David did what he did best; he moved on to something new, which began with a handful of new songs from the same sessions and ultimately became the album Heathen, released in 2002 and now acknowledged as one of his finest moments.
TWICE?!?!? Omg. I am in tears. Thanks John!!! - Cynthia in Seattle
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Pre-order here:
davidbowie.lnk.to
Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers are back with Wet Leg's second single, "Wet Dream."
www.wetlegband.com
New IDLES! The British band’s Crawler LP arrives in November - www.idlesband.com
Good morning John, how about a little Joy Division for the drive to work. Thank you, be well, you're not alone.. cheers Rob..😌
Dirt, the second studio album by Alice in Chains, was released on this day in 1992. -
aliceinchains.com
"The Passenger" is a song originally recorded and released by Iggy Pop on the Lust for Life album in 1977. Siouxsie and the Banshees covered "The Passenger" in 1987 for their all-cover-versions album Through the Looking Glass. Iggy Pop praised their version. Here's the video: www.youtube.com
The band's singer Caitlin says the song is "about a relationship I had where I was constantly berated and insulted. It got to a point where I fed off it, I wanted to be hurt because it was the only attention I got. At the time I thought it was better than nothing, though it made me greatly depressed. I wanted to be the one who was executed.”
Working hard behind the scenes towards this release, the band were handpicked by IDLES to support them on one of their sold out dates at O2 Brixton Academy in January 2022. They will also support duo JOHN on a handful of tour dates in October.
Whoa.
New music from Tori Amos - the first single from her upcoming album! - toriamos.com
Visions of a Life is the second studio album by English alternative rock band Wolf Alice, released on this day in 2017.
wolfalice.co.uk
Morning Captain John !
Thanks for navigating the ship into groovin' waters today.
I'm currently sequestered in a Bellingham Airbnb, feverishly trying to reach some End of Month deadlines.
KEXP has gotten me hooked on Goat recently and I can't get enough. If ya have the airtime, would love to hear "Fill my Mouth" or "Queen of the Underground."
Thanks John!!
-Brad
Debut EP was written during lockdown, and recorded with Al Doyle (LCD Soundsystem, Hot Chip - babaali.bandcamp.com
Sunflower Bean performed LIVE on KEXP in June of 2018: www.youtube.com
The fifth studio album by American hip hop group A Tribe Called Quest was released on this day in 1998. - atribecalledquest.com
From A Tribe Called Quest's second album The Low End Theory. -
atribecalledquest.com
This song's main sample is Eric Clapton's cover of Bob Marley's “I Shot the Sheriff”. Strictly Business is the debut album by hip-hop duo EPMD, an acronym for "Erick and Parrish Making Dollars". Parrish Smith stated that the name evolved from the original: "We were originally known as "EEPMD" (Easy Erick and Parrish the Microphone Doctor), but chose to go with EPMD because it was easier to say. - bit.ly
Originally released in 1973 by Jamaican reggae band Bob Marley and the Wailers.
From Q-Tip's second solo album, this song uses a sample from Ruby Andrews' "You Made a Believer (Out of Me)"
1969 release from the Chicago soul singer.
bit.ly
From the debut studio album by the hip-hop group founded in 1992 in Brooklyn.
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Samples both Dusty Springfield and Ruby Andrews...
....and scene.
This was written by John Hurley and Ronnie Wilkins. Dusty's version is the most popular, but it has covered and sampled by many artists. The song was originally offered to Aretha Franklin (who is a preacher's daughter), but she turned it down because she thought it was disrespectful. She subsequently changed her mind and did a cover version of it. - bit.ly
Sampling Dusty Springfield's "Son of a Preacher Man"
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Thank you Jenn in Fremont ❤️!
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Deep Sea Diver has just shared a duet with Damian Jurado, and it's a cover of Alanis Morissette’s “Hand In My Pocket,” Singer Jessica Dobson says:
One of my favorite things in the world is to cover a larger than life song and try and make it my own. Growing up in the 90’s, Alanis was one of the only female artists in the rock world that I had to look up to. I’ve always felt like someone that never finds a home in the middle. ‘Hand In My Pocket’ is a song that so perfectly captured the many juxtapositions in life while making me feel like it was completely fine to be whatever I wanted to be. This cover was recorded in my home studio and I asked Damien Jurado to sing with me on it because I’ve always loved the emotion in his voice. This year marked the 25th anniversary of ‘Jagged Little Pill’ and I wanted to honor this incredible song and I hope I did it justice. Much love to Alanis!
From the fourth studio album from Alanis Morissette who is currently on The Jagged Little Pill 25th Anniversary Tour - alanis.com
From their only studio album.
New Radicals broke up in 1999—just months after the release of their 1998 single “You Get What You Give," but reunited to deliver a one-time performance 22 years after at the Biden/Harris inauguration. - bit.ly
