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Tuesday, Apr 26 2022, 7AM
The Sunset Tree was released on this day in 2005.
"This is a song about how sometimes you are living in a house and you're in high school and your stepfather is abusing your mother and you, and it really sucks. You have to take a lot of drugs to deal with that, right, but you don't have to, I should say. But you probably do. And when you do, they make you feel marginally better but the main thing that makes you feel better is the company of other people who are as damaged as you are or will shortly become as damaged as you are, and you can sense it, because there is an internal sensor if you bear some damage, you have this sensor that says 'That person is either damaged or is getting there, and I think I will hang out with her until things get a little brighter.' I play this for a lovely person who wore a cape to school."
~ John Darnielle, 2011-03-30 - Bowery Ballroom - New York, NY
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For more entertainment, check out this article "“This Year” By the Mountain Goats No Longer Cutting It in 2020":
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The Mountain Goats performed live in the KEXP studio in 2019.
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How do you keep the dreams alive on Tuesdays? By hitting the snooze button.
Released in 1986, Private Revolution is the debut album by the British rock band World Party. At this point, singer-songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Karl Wallinger was the only member of World Party, and the only person pictured on the cover.
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Here's World Party performing live in the KEXP studio in 2012 - www.youtube.com
This song was written during the Vietnam War.
"It was a very moody piece about the world closing in on you a bit," said Mick Jagger to NPR. "When it was recorded, early '69 or something, it was a time of war and tension, so that's reflected in this tune."
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Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil were husband and wife (and future Hall of Fame) songwriters associated with the 1960s Brill Building scene in New York City.
Mann and Weil wrote and recorded "We Gotta Get Out of This Place" as a demo, with Mann singing and playing piano. It was intended for The Righteous Brothers, but then Mann gained a recording contract for himself, and his label Red Bird Records wanted him to release it instead. Meanwhile, record executive Allen Klein had heard it and gave the demo to Mickie Most, the Animals' producer. Most already had a call out to Brill Building songwriters for material for the group's next recording session (the Animals hits "It's My Life" and "Don't Bring Me Down" came from the same call), and the Animals recorded it before Mann could.
"White Rabbit" was written and performed by Grace Slick while she was still with the Great Society. Slick quit them and joined Jefferson Airplane to replace their departing female singer, Signe Toly Anderson, who left the band with the birth of her child. The first album Slick recorded with Jefferson Airplane was Surrealistic Pillow, and Slick provided two songs from her previous group: her own "White Rabbit" and "Somebody to Love", written by her brother-in-law Darby Slick and recorded under the title "Someone to Love" by the Great Society. The Great Society's version of "White Rabbit" was much longer than the more aggressive version of Jefferson Airplane.
“Fight The Power” opens with an incendiary quote from Chicago lawyer and activist Thomas ‘TNT’ Todd about Vietnam deserters who would rather “switch than fight.”
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This anthem, originally from the soundtrack to Spike Lee’s classic movie "Do the Right Thing" and later on PE’s seminal album Fear of a Black Planet, is perhaps the group’s best-known song.
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Official music video here: youtu.be
Peter Hook & The Light will be here in Seattle at The Showbox on Tuesday, September 13th, 2022. They'll be performing the "Joy Division: A Celebration" concert, where they will play both of that band’s albums in full.: www.axs.com
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Transmission has been considered as Joy Division’s first great song. The track was released as a single on 7 October 1979 following the release of the band’s legendary debut album "Unknown Pleasures" that summer, but it had been written some time earlier. -- Bassist Peter Hook said that the song was a milestone in the band's career. “The first time I noticed anything different was when we’d written a song that weekend. And we had a gig on the Thursday, so we thought we’d play that song at the gig, “We played the new song, which was Transmission - and everyone in the whole place stopped literally what they were doing to listen and to turn round and watch us. It was an absolutely bizarre moment. It really made the hair on your arms stand up and shivers down your spine.”
Belle and Sebastian say 'Unnecessary Drama' is “about a young person experimenting in being a human again after a forced hiatus."
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Belle and Sebastian play The Paramount Theatre on Tuesday, May 31st. belleandsebastian.com
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Writer's Block was the third and most successful album by the band. The record was made with a more experimental and 'indie' approach, and was influenced by the music of John Lennon and Elvis Costello.
The album title "Writer's Block" is allegedly a reference to a neighborhood in Stockholm, where the band is based, which has a high concentration of creative artists (hence 'Writer's Block').
Watch Peter Bjorn and John performing live at KEXP in August 2016, hosted by Cheryl Waters:
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"Hi John! Last night me and my wife Heather saw The Magnetic Fields here in San Francisco. Great show! Since "Andrew in Drag" is stuck in my head, can you play it and get it stuck in everyone else's head too? Thanks!"
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Aldous Harding released Designer on this day in 2019!
Aldous Harding will be performing at the Neptune Theatre on Tuesday, June 28, 2022.
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In case you missed it, here is her KEXP in-studio performance from October 2019: www.youtube.com
Björk explained the line, "There's definitely, definitely, definitely no logic to human behaviour":
"At the time I wrote it I was referring to my childhood and probably talking about how I felt more comfortable on my own walking outside singing and stuff than hanging out with humans... I experienced harmony with kids, the mountains and the ocean surrounding Reykjavik and animals I guess but found grown ups rather chaotic and nonsensical."
One influence for the video was Russian animator Yuri Norstein's classic cartoon The Hedgehog In The Fog. It was the first Björk video directed by Michel Gondry, who would later helm her videos for "Hyperballad," "Joga," "Bachelorette," "Declare Independence" and "Crystalline."
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This single was released on this day in 1993!
Pets is about humans goofing up everything, to put it lightly.
“Alive” is Poliça's latest single from their upcoming album, Madness, out June 3rd.
Poliça will be performing at Seattle's Neptune Theatre on Thursday, July 7th.
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Happy birthday to Roger Taylor, drummer of Arcadia and Duran Duran!
Taylor rose to fame alongside Duran Duran during the 80s. He played drums on the band's first three albums before departing from the group. Prior to his exit, he worked with bandmates Simon Le Bon and Nick Rhodes on their side project, Arcadia. 'So Red The Rose' was released in 1985.
"Hello! Today is my birthday and I'd love to hear Be Near Me by ABC." --Kate in West Seattle
Happy birthday, Kate! Thanks for spending part of your special day listening to the Morning Show!
Louisiana-based group, Seratones, will be releasing their new album Love & Algorhythms on April 29th.
In a recent press release, A.J. Haynes said she was inspired by the writings of the author Octavia Butler. “In ‘Pleasure,’ I wanted to emulate one of Butler’s aliens playing in a Giorgio Moroder Venutian soundscape, a gleaming creature designed for pleasure and multiplicity.”
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Black Cherry was the second studio album by English electronic duo, Goldfrapp.
The album cover features of photographs taken by Polly Borland featuring Alison Goldfrapp with two wolves. Goldfrapp explained in a statement that the wolves are a representation of might and mysticism and that she was "interested in the idea of metamorphosis and humans wanting to be like animals and animals wanting to be like humans." bit.ly
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I'm listening in Raleigh, NC 3 hours ahead and fading in the late morning waiting for lunch. Was wondering if a hit of Daft Punk could be thrown in soon?
Thanks,
Mason
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"Lose Yourself to Dance" is a disco and funk song in the key of B♭ minor with a tempo of 100 BPM. Daft Punk expressed that the song was the result of a desire to create dance music with live drummers. Thomas Bangalter elaborated that they wished to redefine dance music as "something lighter or something more [primal]", and that the song is meant to evoke the sense of being unified and connected on the dance floor. bit.ly Singer Pharrell Williams likened this track to David Bowie's classic mid-'80s cut with Mick Jagger, "Dancing In The Street."
"'Lose Yourself To Dance' makes me feel like walking down the street in the middle of the night in London and it's 1984, 1985," he told Vibe magazine. "I don't hear '70s in that at all. For me, it doesn't sound at all like a Bowie record, but I feel like David Bowie would have loved that record. He could actually sing it."
Jamie xx, who was the first xx member to break out on their own with 2015’s In Colour, is back with his first new single since 2020, a euphoric dance track called “LET’S DO IT AGAIN.” - bit.ly
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Robert Smith’s original plan for Mixed Up was to release a collection of already-existing remixes of Cure songs. However, the original multi-track tapes for “The Walk” had been lost, so the Everything Mix was re-recorded from scratch.
Next month, Desire, the duo of former Chromatics songwriter Johnny Jewel and Megan Louise, will release Escape, their first album in well over a decade AND have just shared a new song called “Love Is A Crime.” Escape, umm, escapes May 3rd via Jewel's label Italians Do It Better.
Hey John,
Hope you all are doing well this morning. I wanted to ask if you could play "Closer" by Nine Inch Nails. Or if that's too explicit or something, maybe 'Godless' or 'Hard on For Jesus' by the Dandy Warhols. Any of those would be awesome to hear this morning. If not, that's cool.
Have a good day! :)
- Tati
IDLES, the most polite punks of all time, brought such amazing energy to KEXP's Live Room in 2018. The set opens with "Colossus," which is SO fun to watch. Check it out! youtu.be
You should also check out their in-studio from November 2021:
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On this day in 2005, DJ Spooky & Dave Lombard released Drums of Death!
Spooky played some records with Lombardo playing along and interpreting his own rhythms. Spooky recorded the session and took the tapes to his New York recording studio, downloaded it onto his computer, and mixed the beats and drums incorporating scratching and other DJ techniques.
The B-52’s have announced their farewell tour which will start at McCaw Hall here in Seattle on August 22nd. Plus, they will play Kimmel tomorrow night AND have a Fred Armisen produced documentary in the works.
When recounting Channel Z, the B-52s said it's “probably our most straightforward political song up until then,” said Fred Schneider in a 2008 interview. “It was about the state of the country. And who knew nearly 20 years later it’d be worse?”
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And who knew that 14 more years later... never mind.
Heather in West Seattle:
Hi, We purchased a tile this morning in honor of Jonathan, who passed away from a heart attack at the age of 46 Sunday. Gone too soon. His wife Alanna wanted you to know that they were longtime amplifiers. Can you play a song for him this morning?
He loved Band of Horses, Kaiser Chiefs, Franz Ferdinand, Flaming Lips, Deerhunter, TV on The Radio, Mark Lanegan, Screaming Trees...
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Massive laser beams of unicorn fueled love to all of you from your morning show pals.
"Hey John,
Would love to hear Mountains of Your Head off of Let Me Come Over by Buffalo Tom.
Thanks,
Brian"
Drink some cranberry juice and listen to Dreams! #neverforget
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Stevie Nicks will be performing at The Gorge in George, WA on May 14, 2022.
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Florence + the Machine's fifth studio album, "Dance Fever," will be out on May 13th.
The Dance Fever Tour will be in Seattle at Climate Pledge Arena on October 6th, 2022.
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This latest single was first written as an acoustic “sad little poem” in the singer-songwriter’s kitchen before being transformed into a floor-filling anthem reminiscent of “Nick Cave at the club”. Welch explained: “Sometimes the biggest dance songs, I think, have a really sad core to them.”
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"Since we seem to be going old school this morning
Iggy Pop, The Passenger
having a great time listening as always!"
-Katherine
"Good morning John, you have always been kind enough to play Fearless on my birthday but this year I wanted to change things up a little ask for World Destruction by Time Zone. I have always felt younger than my age but waking up to 56, well I feel 56.:)
Thanks, Lawrence"
Happy birthday from us to you, Lawrence! Thanks for tuning in!