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"Stand by Me" has been covered so many time that Rolling Stone has put together a 20 Best Covers list - Tina Turner, U2, John Lennon, and even Muhammad Ali! www.rollingstone.com
Jimi wrote this in 1967 for Are You Experienced?; it was inspired by his girlfriend at the time, Kathy Mary Etchingham. He'd gotten into an argument with her about her cooking. She got very angry and started throwing pots and pans and finally stormed out to stay at a friend's home for a day or so. When she came back, Jimi had written "The Wind Cries Mary" for her.
Kathy Mary recalled, "We'd had a row over food. Jimi didn't like lumpy mashed potato. There were thrown plates and I ran off. When I came back the next day, he'd written that song about me. It's incredibly flattering."
In 2020 Lennny Kravitz's wrote an autobiography by the same title, "Let Love Rule."
In the memoir, Lenny Kravitz talks about growing up in New York as the child of an interracial couple, his loving relationship with his mom, actress Roxie Roker, best known for playing Helen Willis on "The Jeffersons," and the difficult relationship he had with his dad, Sy Kravitz, a TV news producer. It's also about living in LA as a teen and struggling to find his musical voice while getting kicked out of his home by his dad.
Family Statement on the Passing of Ronnie Spector:
Our beloved earth angel, Ronnie, peacefully left this world today after a brief battle with cancer. She was with family and in the arms of her husband, Jonathan.
Ronnie lived her life with a twinkle in her eye, a spunky attitude, a wicked sense of humor and a smile on her face. She was filled with love and gratitude.
Her joyful sound, playful nature and magical presence will live on in all who knew, heard or saw her.
In lieu of flowers, Ronnie requested that donations be made to your local women’s shelter or to the American Indian College Fund.
A celebration of Ronnie’s life and music will be announced in the future.
The family respectfully asks for privacy at this time.
Check out KEXP's Sound & Vision interview with Kiwanuka where he talks about exploring identity through music and why the album was named after him. www.kexp.org
From all the caregivers out there, we appreciate you! Thank you for keeping us going. We’ve got this and I couldn’t be more amazed by your empathy. If you have a chance, anything by frightened rabbit would help a ton for me today.
Hearts hearts (I’m bad at emojis)
Autumn
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Thank you Autumn!
Good morning! I just wanted to let you know I started watching Ted Lasso this week. Now I'm counting that as a tool in my coping box! The soundtrack is great -- would she's a rainbow fit in this morning's mix? Peace, love, music, rainbows!
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Chris in Olympia
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R.I.P., Veronica Greenfield, known as Ronnie Spector, who died yesterday at age 78 after a brief battle with cancer.: www.theguardian.com
The drum intro to "Just Like Honey" was borrowed from "Be My Baby," a 1963 hit by The Ronettes and originally played by Hal Blaine.
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Another track sampling Hal Blaine's iconic "Be My Baby" beat. - Find a list of 30 songs that sample the drums: bit.ly
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Vocalist Katie White states that the song was written by "playing a D chord on the guitar for hours, because that's all I could play. And then I put my finger on the wrong string, and got what I discovered was an augmented chord. And that was the riff!"
"Grand" was recorded entirely in the Vermont home where Matt grew up. Fun fact: Matt & Kim are a couple! www.mattandkim.com
The Magnetic Fields will be playing The Moore on April 18th!
www.houseoftomorrow.com
Built to Spill are playing two nights at the Crocodile -January 26th and 27th! That's next week! bit.ly
Blonde Redhead are vocalist Kazu Makino and the instrumentalists and twin brothers Simone and Amedeo Pace. The Pace twins were born in Milan, Italy, and grew up in Montreal, then moved to the states to study jazz in Boston. Meanwhile, Kazu Makino was a Japanese art student. They all met by chance at an Italian restaurant in New York. bit.ly
Sigue Sigue Sputnik was formed by Tony James, ex-bassist of the defunct Generation X, and Neal X (Whitmore), who recruited singer Martin Degville. Degville was a clothes designer and supplied the band's wardrobe, and YaYa, the store where he worked, became the band's base. Their first gig was in Paris, supporting Johnny Thunders, with James' former Generation X colleague and then drummer for Thunders, Mark Laff, on drums. en.wikipedia.org
This single was released in 7", 10", and 12" formats, each with a different edit of the song.
"Biting My Nails" is a cover of a song by Genevieve Waite off her 1974 album "Romance is on the Rise".
It wasn't just rappers who were sampling anything and everything in the late '80s/early '90s - Ministry was putting lots of movie clips in their songs. At the time, there was no legal precedent for clearing samples, so they dropped in bits of dialogue from movies wherever it fit. The line "Just One Fix" comes from Frank Sinatra in The Man With the Golden Arm. You can also hear the line "Never Trust A Junkie" from the movie Sid and Nancy, as well as short clips from Hellraiser II and The Trip (the 1967 one).
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The song opens with the tolling of a bell, which rings throughout the first minute of the song before gradually fading out. It's the second-most famous rock song to do this, placing behind AC/DC's "Hell's Bells," from their 1980 album Back In Black.
The bands got their bell sounds in very different ways; AC/DC ordered a custom, one-ton bell from a foundry and recorded it using a mobile unit and 15 microphones. Metallica used a sound effects reel.
"We edited in the bell effect so it would fit and be in tempo," Flemming Rasmussen told Songfacts. "I copied it and cut it in where it was supposed to come. So, once we got that tape started at the right spot, it simply played itself, and then dumped it into 24-track."
www.songfacts.com
With samples from James Brown and Funkadelic (among others) "Straight Outta Compton" helped define the West Coast scene for an entire generation of artists and listeners. The track has been selected for preservation by the Library of Congress in the National Recording Registry for being "culturally, historically, or artistically significant". Of course this was also the title track for the 2015 biopic of the same name.
Welcome to the Terrordome samples Jungle Boogie, the Temptations, and three James Brown tracks.
The voice that opens this song with the words, "Come on, let's rock and roll with the Ramones" is Sean Donahue, a disc jockey who worked at radio stations in San Francisco (KSAN) and San Jose (KOME, KSJP). The intro is meant to elicit the sound of a DJ enthusiastically talking up the song at a radio station.
Hi this is Brian from Magnolia. If there's time, I'd love to hear an Orville Peck song this morning. Thanks for waking us up with positive vibes every day!
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Accompanying the 10th anniversary edition of Gaga's second album ‘Born This Way’, featuring new takes on the album’s tracks by artists who are representative of the LGBTQIA+ community. Peck said: “I am so honoured and excited to be a part of the iconic legacy of this song and album. Thank you @ladygaga for askin me and Happy Pride y’all !!” bit.ly
A video wasn't made for this song until 1997 when it was re-released as a single. The video was directed by Carter B. Smith and recorded during the band's Relapse tour that year. Smith was working on a documentary of the tour called Three Days, but took time off to edit the new "Jane Says" video once they had enough footage. www.youtube.com
Oh this day in 1968 Johnny Cash performed two shows at Folsom State Prison backed by June Carter, Carl Perkins, and the Tennessee Three. Despite little initial investment by Columbia, Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison was a hit in the United States, reaching number one on the country charts and the top 15 of the national album chart.
Mornin'! Would you please play Rid of Me by PJ Harvey? Thanks either way, diggin' the Ministry ;) cheers! -Adam
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"When I wrote 'Rid of Me,' I shocked myself," Harvey explained to Spin magazine. "I thought, 'Well, if I'm shocked, other people might be shocked.' The sound of the words was powerful, and the rhythm felt clean and simple to roll off the tongue. I knew that this was the type of song I was trying to write."
One Melody Maker writer was so startled when the quietly seething tune exploded into a screaming ball of fury, she crashed her car while listening to it.
www.songfacts.com
A 2009 article in Magnet called this album a "lost classic", and said that on the album, "the Fibbers' warped alt-country twang haunted the City of Angels like ghosts of California country’s past, full of grinding violin and poisoned tales of junkies, madness and lost innocence."
Led by fiery vocalist Carrie Akre, Hammerbox was one of the few Seattle grunge bands fronted by a woman in the early '90s. Today she is also a life coach - www.carrieakrecreative.com
Spoon has announced a new album called "Lucifer on the Sofa." The group's tenth studio effort will arrive February 11, 2022. As frontman Britt Daniel explains, "Lucifer"will be a more straight-rock record compared to the last Spoon album, 2017's dance and electronic-oriented "Hot Thoughts."
Britt Daniel says of this second single from the album, 'Wild' is "a song I started with my buddy, Jack, years ago. We came up with some music, mostly he came up with some music. And, I tried to do my part and sing as we went, but the vocals didn't come together that day, I was just, I just had this great bit of music and there it sat for years, until I got inspired one day in 2020 and pulled it together on my couch. Finally came up with a good melody and some good words. And it's a song about living a regimented life, but still hearing the call of a more beautiful world, a wilder world."
Phil Collins' "Face Value" is *41* years old today. Ooof.
This is based on the pain and anger Collins felt after his first wife Andrea left him. The original demo was entitled "I Miss You, Babe" and the lyrics were originally much sadder. He subsequently re-wrote the song in an effort to make it funny as opposed to sad. Collins told The Mail on Sunday: "This song was written with a large dose of humor, with theme a little like the Basil Fawlty scene which goes something like, 'That was your life mate.' 'Do I get another chance?' 'No mate, that's it."'
Lucius is playing with Brandi Carlile at the Gorge on June 11 bit.ly
"Second Nature," due out on April 8th, is described as a "shared reflection," tracing singer and songwriters Holly Laessig and Jess Wolfe's journeys through the waters of motherhood, divorce and unplanned career pauses.
Wolfe says of the album, "It is a record that begs you not to sit in the difficult moments, but to dance through them. It touches upon all these stages of grief...I think you can really hear and feel the spectrum of emotion and hopefully find the joy in the darkness. It does exist. That's why we made Second Nature and why we wanted it to sound the way it did..."
"The Raw and the Cooked" is the second and final studio album by Fine Young Cannibals, released on this day in 1989. That's 33 years ago!
en.wikipedia.org
Hi John!
I’d like to request “Learning to Fly” by Tom Petty. Of “Kiss them for me” by Siouxsie & Banshees. Because somewhere in between those two songs is where I’m at today. ;)
Thank you for being open, inspiring, fighting the good fights- and the music. One of the best parts of every day is listening to KEXP!
Kelly
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Thanks Kelly!
In 2003, Q Magazine ranked "Groove Is in the Heart" at number 323 in their list of the "1001 Best Songs Ever". VH1 placed it at No. 67 in their list of "100 Greatest Songs of the 90s" in 2007. Pitchfork named it the 59th best track of the 1990s. They wrote: "With their sass-tastic frontwoman and kitsched-to-death fashion sense, Deee-Lite probably seemed like a good bet at a time when pop's future was still up for grabs. If you were a kid in the 'burbs, they almost resembled a Daisy Age hip-hop group (the day-glo/flower-power look, the Q-Tip guest rap) as much as a house act (a strange urban subculture we had little access to in junior high)."
en.wikipedia.org
Ronnie Spector, the lead singer of the Ronettes, the 1960s vocal trio that gave a passionate, bad-girl edge to pop’s girl-group sound with hits like “Be My Baby” and “Baby, I Love You,” died on Wednesday. She was 78.
With high-piled hair, tight outfits and seductive looks, the three young women of the Ronettes — Ronnie, born Veronica Bennett; her sister, Estelle; and their cousin Nedra Talley — transformed the virginal model that had defined female pop groups since the 1940s.
“We weren’t afraid to be hot. That was our gimmick,” Ms. Spector wrote in her 1990 memoir, “Be My Baby: How I Survived Mascara, Miniskirts, and Madness, or, My Life as a Fabulous Ronette.”
www.nytimes.com
Rolling Stone wrote, “The tune is more pensive and plodding (and therefore more George Harrison–y) than the Ronettes’ music, but Ronnie’s voice fits in perfectly as she sings about opening her eyes and falling in love (with God this time, since Harrison wrote it).”
Later, George recorded the song himself and placed it on Living in the Material World. After that, David Bowie recorded the tune for his 2003 Reality album.
www.cheatsheet.com
"Try Some, Buy Some" was one of several Harrison compositions left over from the sessions for his 1970 triple album All Things Must Pass. The song's austere melody was influenced by Harrison composing on a keyboard instrument rather than guitar.
"It was just sunny and it was all just the release of that tension that had been building up on me," Harrison said in a 1969 BBC Radio interview. "It was just a really nice sunny day, and I picked up the guitar, which was the first time I'd played the guitar for a couple of weeks because I'd been so busy. And the first thing that came out was that song. It just came. And I finished it later when I was on holiday in Sardinia."
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Nina Simone's album of covers, "Here Comes the Sun" included covers of Bob Dylan, Jerry Jeff Walker, Chip Taylor, and Paul Anka, in addition to this iconic Beatles track written by George Harrison.
In the liner notes of this album Biograph, Dylan wrote: "I wanted to write a big song, some kind of theme song, with short, concise verses that piled up on each other in a hypnotic way. This is definitely a song with a purpose. I knew exactly what I wanted to say and who I wanted to say it to."
Brand new music from Father John Misty. His fifth studio album 'Chloë and the Next 20th Century' is out April 8th.
Nicholas Ashe Bateman directed the video for "Funny Girl". youtu.be
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