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This one was the first single from Doves' 2002 record "The Last Broadcast," but the band only released it for a day before deleting it.
When asked about it in an interview, singer-songwriter Jez Williams stated, "Why does a band release a limited edition of 800 records? It was to do something different from the norm. Just wanted to try something different really. I can’t remember exactly whose idea it was. It might have been the manager’s, but we were kind of into it. A kind of statement, in a way. We liked the fact that you could only get a hold of a certain amount of this or a certain amount of that. Especially in this day and age of readily available bits of music, it’s kind of nice: a physical copy that’s precious to you because you managed to get to the shop that day and actually own that."
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The album cover is highly reminiscent of the 1976 album A Trick of the Tail by Genesis, a group which is a major influence on Elbow frontman, Guy Garvey.
Composed by José González and Theodore Shapiro for the 2013 film "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," the song is about breaking free from one’s comfort zone and living life to the fullest.
Jose Gonzalez will be at the THING Festival in Port Townsend, Washington on Sunday, August 28th.
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TV on the Radio said it best: Everything is going to be okay.
Lea Porcelain shared a Live on KEXP at Home performance with John in 2019, where they ended the set with "I Am OK."
Find the performance and interview here: youtu.be
"The song describes a time in everybody’s life that make you lose faith in yourself, in someone else, or in life itself and you just need to hear from someone that one day everything will be OK again. That no matter what, with time and patience we all will be OK.”
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Thom Yorke believes Karma is important. The band members used to warn each other that the "karma police" would get them if they didn't behave.
According to Thom Yorke, the song is "for someone who has to work for a large company. This is a song against bosses."
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The Smile has just announced a North American tour. They will be at the WaMu Theatre on December 16th.: pitchfork.com
The Smile — the Radiohead side project featuring Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood alongside drummer Tom Skinner — played this song live last year, watch it here - www.rollingstone.com
During recording, Orchestral Manoeuvers in The Dark introduced a number of new instruments to their sound palette, including the Mellotron.
Porridge Radio will be playing in Seattle at Barboza on September 13th!
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Just Mustard recently performed live in the KEXP studio in May 2022. View the full session with songs from the latest album 'Heart Under':
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Just Mustard are a 5 piece band from Dundalk, Ireland.
'Heart Under,' is Just Mustard’s second album and their first for Partisan Records.
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The band says, "It’s a track about contrast, because life is contrast - pushing through, giving up, all at the same time. Wanting everything and then wanting nothing, then wanting everything again. It’s kind of reflective of where we are at the moment, trying to remember how to do this again...(t)rying to forget all the bad bits, just trying to get somewhere. And that’s where we are right now, trying to get somewhere."
The song title is a univerbation of hoppa í polla (the -a in hoppa is not pronounced), which is Icelandic for "hopping into puddles."
Near the beginning and at the end of the song, a field recording of fans in Liverpool's Kop singing "You'll Never Walk Alone" is superimposed over the music. This Rodgers and Hammerstein song became the anthem of Liverpool F.C. after Gerry & the Pacemakers had a number one hit with their recording.
'Their Satanic Majesties Request' is the 6th British and 8th American studio album by the English rock band the Rolling Stones. The album's title is a play on the "Her Britannic Majesty requests and requires..." text that appears inside a British passport.
Mike Scott began writing the songs for This Is the Sea in the spring of 1984. Scott recalls that in December 1984, "during The Waterboys' first American tour, he bought two huge hard-bound books... in which to assemble his new songs." For the following two months Scott worked on the songs in his apartment, writing the lyrics, and working on guitar and piano arrangements. Scott wrote between 35 and 40 songs, but felt that the nine songs that made it onto the album "were the ones that were intended to be there." Read an interview with Mike Scott about this song and this classic album: bit.ly
The Waterboys came to KEXP and played an inspiring set in 2013; catch it here: bit.ly
Break It Down Again song was Tears for Fears' second single released after the departure of Curt Smith from the band in 1993. Smith returned to the band in 2004.
"Morning John! Beautiful start this morning ❤️. I was thinking Aimee Mann's 'Wise Up' would fit in quite well....and it's just a beautiful song.
Thanks for all you do!
Erica in RI ☺️"
This acoustic song is a duet between two of the most distinctive voices of the '90s: Jeff Buckley and Elizabeth Fraser of the Cocteau Twins. It was intended to be only a demo, but was leaked online by unnamed sources after Buckley's death. Since, it's become an underground favorite of Buckley enthusiasts.
New music from Bonny Light Horseman.
“I think of ‘Summer Dream’ as the ultimate example of the ‘yes, and’ process we got into for this record,” Anaïs Mitchell said in a statement. “There was something we could all feel about this ‘ghost of a summer’s past,’ so the scene is true to each of us but somehow remains mysterious–a phantom. We could have sung that wordless outro for an hour, and in the rough track we basically did. We wanted it to ‘spill all over’ like a summer night.”
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ODESZA are playing three sold-out shows at Climate Pledge Arena, Friday-Sunday, July 29-31.
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This song includes the original vocal from Betty LaVette's 1965 track "Let Me Down Easy." Watch video of this great singer performing the song in 1990:
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WARNING: This video may potentially trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy. Viewer discretion is advised.
ODESZA - "The Last Goodbye" (feat. Bettye LaVette):
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"We Are All Made of Stars" was written by Moby in New York after the September 11 attacks to express a sense of hopefulness.
Tranquility Bass was the stage name of Michael Adam Kandel. Kandel was born and raised in Chicago, and he learned to play the guitar and keyboards at age 12. By age 15 he had begun to record experimental electronic music in his bedroom. He passed away in 2015.
This track celebrates the first human orbit of the Moon by NASA's Apollo 8 mission from December 1968 -- the mission which produced the famous image "Earthrise", called the most important environmental photo ever. en.wikipedia.org
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross of Nine Inch Nails recorded this version of David Bowie’s “Life on Mars?” for the HBO series 'Watchmen'. The instrumental appears in the seventh episode, “An Almost Religious Awe.” Reznor has referred to Bowie as a “mentor” and “fatherly figure” in a written memorial, has contributed to the singer’s 1997 single “I’m Afraid of Americans” and even appeared in the music video for the track.
"Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space" is the third studio album by English space rock band Spiritualized. The album's title is from the philosophical novel "Sophie's World" by Jostein Gaarder. The excerpt reads, "Only philosophers embark on this perilous expedition to the outermost reaches of language and existence. Some of them fall off, but others cling on desperately and yell at the people nestling deep in the snug softness, stuffing themselves with delicious food and drink. 'Ladies and Gentlemen,' they yell, 'we are floating in space!' But none of the people down there care"
"You can see the sun lighting up the moon...You can feel the stars shining down upon your back...You don't get that in Egypt...And you don’t get that at the pyramids..."
A fan cobbled together a number of clips to accompany this song and to show that "space is brilliant": www.youtube.com
This song from the album “Ultimatum” is about the destruction on reentry of the Space Shuttle Columbia in 2003.
Steve Kilbey wrote Under the Milky Way with his then girlfriend, Swedish musician Karin Jansson. The couple, who share twin daughters, were visiting Kilbey’s mother on the New South Wales central coast. After dinner, Kilbey snuck outside to dodge his washing-up duties and enjoy a smoke.
“Perhaps I looked up at the wonderful glittering heavens and was inspired – I don’t know,” he recounted years later. Kilbey drifted back indoors and began tinkering on the piano. Jansson sidled up and, before long, a melody had formed. “We agreed on the lyrics within three minutes,” he said.: bit.ly
The use of Richard Strauss's ‘Sunrise’ theme in 2001: A Space Odyssey made it one of the most popular pieces of classical music.
The piece is divided into nine sections played with only three definite pauses. Strauss named the sections after selected chapters of Friedrich Nietzsche's novel Thus Spoke Zarathustra
The Silverlake Conservatory of Music was founded by the bassist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
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Lead guitarist Paul Reynolds remarked on their 1984 video album "Through the Looking Glass" that, as the band could not come up with a title for the track, he suggested "Space Age Love Song" because he thought it sounded like a space age love song.
Back to the future... thanks for hanging out with us today, folks! Godspeed!