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"Light of Day" is the 6th single from The Last Goodbye, out July 22nd. ODESZA shared a message alongside the single’s release:
“‘Light Of Day’ was one of the first songs off the record we finished…It served as a bookend for the record—and really, a guiding light for the project as a whole.”
Odesza are playing Climate Pledge Arena three nights July 29th - 31st!
odesza.bandcamp.com
The band have stated that "Elegia" was written in memory of Ian Curtis, lead singer of New Order's former incarnation, Joy Division. Elegia is Greek for elegy.
While the album version is ~5 minutes, it is a cut of a full 17 minute track... hear all 17 minutes here: youtu.be
Saudade is a Portuguese word which means (approximately) nostalgic longing. This definition does sort of kill the romance behind the term, but it's hard to describe in English. It's not just nostalgia. It can be longing for a loved one or place. It can be the melancholy accompanying the realization that you will never know everything the world has to offer. It looks back at what has been and forward at what may never be. And that pretty much sums up the mood of Saudade by Love and Rockets.
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When This Is the Sea was presented to Island Records, Mike Scott suggested holding back the release of "The Whole of the Moon" as a single in favour of "Don't Bang the Drum" or "Medicine Bow" first. He felt that "The Whole of the Moon" was a "demanding song [with] lyrics crucial to people's appreciation of it" and so releasing a rockier track first was more likely to "arouse the public's attention". However Scott was unable to convince the label and "The Whole of the Moon" was released as the first single.
Elliott Smith's debut album, Roman Candle was released 28 years ago today. Read how Roman Candle "Lit The Spark For Elliott Smith"
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Kevin Morby is playing at The Showbox on Friday, November 11.
Of this song, he says "It’s a song about the menacing nature of the sun rising during a dark time in one’s life only to further illuminate their pain and suffering — and how during these periods it is often the selfless acts of strangers that keeps a person going."
kevinmorby.bandcamp.com
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Playing Day In Day Out Festival on Friday, August 12th: www.dayindayoutfest.com.
Enjoy Live Video from Soccer Mommy's November 2021 KEXP In-Studio: bit.ly.
Soccer Mommy worked with the producer and composer Daniel Lopatin, whose recent credits include the Uncut Gems movie score and The Weeknd's Dawn FM.
sopharela.bandcamp.com
To Kris, Thank you for a lifetime of love and friendship.
-Martin
Fiona Apple's cover of The Waterboys’ 1985 hit “The Whole of the Moon” - Apple replaces synths with warm piano work but ultimately, it’s Apple’s voice that gives the track such dimension—and new life.
in honor of International Non-Binary People's Day which is observed each year on 14 July and is aimed at raising awareness and organising around the issues faced by non-binary people around the world.
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Covering "Freedom 90" by George Michael! Chris performed this at Global Citizen Live in Paris! 'Global Citizen Live calls for action to halt climate change and for wealthy countries to deliver on the $100B climate pledge..." www.globalcitizen.org
Frontwoman Karen O told the New Musical Express January 17, 2009, with a grin: "I figured if we were going to write a dance song it should be about heads bouncing on the floor and murder and slaughter."
Hey John - I am in the midst of final packing up and moving my family of five (including 1-month old) back to my hometown after a 3-year stint in Rhode Island. It’s been an absolute roller coaster of an experience and was wondering if you could play Talking Heads Naive Melody. Thanks!
Dan
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MTV ordered a shot of a grinning Petty while Alice gets served edited out of the video before they would air it. "They said it was just too lascivious," he told Billboard. "They were like, 'Well, you can do it, but you can't enjoy it that much.'"
See the video: www.youtube.com
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The Beths are releasing Expert In A Dying Field later this year, and today they’ve unveiled the resonant title track.
“I really do believe that love is learned over time,” explains Elizabeth Stokes in a statement. “In the course of knowing a person, you accumulate so much information: their favorite movies, how they take their tea, how to make them laugh, how that makes you feel. And when relationships between people change, or end, all that knowledge doesn’t just disappear. The phrase ‘Expert in a Dying Field’ had been floating around my head for a few years, I was glad to finally capture it when writing this tune.”
thebethsnz.bandcamp.com
Kate's "Big Sky" is a nod to the simple pleasures enjoyed by children that most no longer find the time for, such as spending the afternoon looking at the sky, watching the clouds take on shapes.
Michael Hutchence wrote the song with Andrew Farriss - they were the songwriting dynamic duo in INXS. The song has all the group's hallmarks: a big, catchy guitar riff; a prominent saxophone part (played by group member Kirk Pengilly); and an inspirational vocal from Hutchence.
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Andrew Farriss had already made a demo tape with a song whose working title was "Funk Song No. 13," which evolved into "What You Need." Producer Chris Thomas listened to the demo for "Funk Song No. 13" and two other tapes, and picked this one because "it was great. I thought, 'I could listen to that groove for 10 minutes!' I said, 'Let's work with that groove.' So we went with that and in just two days it turned into the song that eventually broke them, 'What You Need.'"
Formed in 2016 from the ashes of some of the UK’s best hardcore bands, High Vis are a London 5-piece punk band. Frontman Graham Sayle says the song is “”a sobering reflection on endless conversations without resolution. Temporary chemical optimism and subsequent hopeless introspection. A song born out of late nights waiting your turn to shout your struggle that no one will listen to.”
highvis.bandcamp.com
"If it’s nigh on impossible to do The Verve justice in any short form the fact remains that they are a key element in the development of British rock music, and not just in the period when they were extant. Formed in 1989 in Wigan by Richard Ashcroft, Nick McCabe, Simon Jones and Peter Salisbury they fine-tuned their early psychedelic forays on a sequence of highly treasured EPs and soon became firm darlings of the independent and mainstream pop press as well as an influence on their peers – Oasis, in particular, were champions. "
Read how The Verve shaped British rock: www.udiscovermusic.com
Foals will be performing at Showbox SoDo on Saturday, November 12th!
Frontman Yannis Philippakis had this to say about the album in a press release: “We wanted to refocus and do something that shared a DNA throughout the songs: a physicality, a danceability, and with energy and joyousness. It’s definitely the poppiest record we’ve ever made. I feel that with Everything Not Saved… we touched upon all of the facets of our sound up until that point. This time we wanted to find a new way to express ourselves.”
Foals stopped by the KEXP studio back in 2013. Check out their full performance here: www.youtube.com
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The second single, and the KEXP Song of the Day for May 30th, is from the band's upcoming album Fear Fear, out tomorrow! workingmensclub.bandcamp.com
Listen and download: kexp.org
Lead singer Syd Minsky-Sargeant says, "The first album was mostly a personal documentation lyrically, this is a blur between personal and a third-person perspective of what was going on. I like the contrast of it being happy, uplifting music and really dark lyrics. It’s not a minimal record, certainly compared to the first one. That’s because there’s been a lot more going on that needed to be said."
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Here's Working Men's Club live on KEXP At Home - www.youtube.com
Seattle's Mt Fog is playing @ Nectar on Saturday, August 6
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"Behind a Silent Door" is the first track from 'Spells of Silence.' Inspired by Gothic literature and the hemmed-in feelings of these times, this song is about dancing at the edge of existence and happily choosing to vanish from its horrific manifestations.
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Simple Minds lead singer Jim Kerr wrote this song after reading a story about Polish political prisoners who had been in Russia since the end of WWII. Kerr said "There was an interview with wives of guys that had been away for a long time, taken away, and some of the beautiful quotations that the women had used became sort of the background for that song."
Operators performed live at The Triple Door as part of KEXP's VIP Club concert series back in 2016. Watch the full set, including "Cold Light" here: youtu.be
You can also see their KEXP in-studio performance from 2019: bit.ly
Operators are Dan Boeckner, Sam Brown, and Devojka.
operatorsband.bandcamp.com
Want Want is the second single from Maggie Rogers' new album, "Surrender," due for release on July 29th.
“Want Want” comes with a video directed by Warren Fu, featuring Rogers performing the song in a Koreatown karaoke bar in New York.: www.youtube.com
Death Cab For Cutie are playing October 26th & 27th at the Paramount!
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Death Cab for Cutie have released ‘Here to Forever’, the latest offering from their upcoming album Asphalt Meadows.
“It’s a song both about our impermanence and the anxiety of these times,” Ben Gibbard explained in a statement. “It’s also about wanting to believe in something bigger even when it feels like nothing is out there.”
Death Cab for Cutie’s new album arrives on September 16 via Atlantic.
deathcabforcutie.bandcamp.com
The band performed "Bastards of Young" and "Kiss Me on the Bus" on Saturday Night Live on January 18, 1986. It was the most television exposure the band had received up to that time, but the band's behavior on the show, including swearing during the broadcast, resulted in a lifetime ban from Saturday Night Live. However, Westerberg would later perform on the show as a solo artist. bit.ly
You can see them perform "Kiss Me on the Bus" on SNL right here: www.dailymotion.com
It’s KEXP’s 50th anniversary! To celebrate we’re playing songs you know and love from 1985! kexp.org/50/
Named after a train that travels through the south, "Driver 8" was the third single from R.E.M.'s 1985 LP Fables of the Reconstruction. It was one of their earliest hits, though in a 1991 interview Peter Buck said it represented a simpler sound for the band. "I can write that kind of stuff in my sleep," he said. "I can write 'Driver 8' every day of the week. We all can. In rehearsal it's always easy to fall back on a midtempo, minor-key rock thing. And we try not to rely on that."
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Archers Of Loaf will be back this fall with their first new album in 24 years. Reason in Decline is due Oct. 21.
Vocalist/guitarist Eric Bachman:
“The pandemic was bad for a person like me, who has always used music as therapy but also to make a living. I knew that an angry rock record was going to come out, but I didn’t know it was going to be Archers until the third or fourth song with the tempos all above 120 beats per minute.”
archersofloaf.bandcamp.com
Between the Eyes is the debut single by Seattle-based rock band Love Battery, released in 1989. In 1990 and 1991. The single landed at #36 on Paste's list of the "50 Best Grunge Songs"; Paste called the LP "a stripped-down, gut-churning collection of gritty guitars and vox." The Stranger wrote that the LP, and its follow-up, Dayglo, "remain psychedelic twin towers" in the catalog of Sub Pop.
Here's Love Battery performing "Between the Eyes" Live on KEXP in 2018!: www.youtube.com
Many songs need to be cut down before radio stations will play them, but this was the opposite. The song was only 2 1/2 minutes long, so they spliced together an extended version for FM radio. If you listen to that version, you can hear some really bad edits.
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts covered "Crimson and Clover" on their debut LP in 1981. In 1982, they reached #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 with their rendition
This was one of the first songs lead singer Michael Stipe wrote after the death of friend and actor River Phoenix on Halloween 1993.
Hmmm..... "a musical tale of a man who loses his prized package while drunk at a party, only to find it later being hawked by a street vendor in New York’s East Village."
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Here's the...uh...oral history of this song: www.spin.com
Lead singer Thom Yorke was drunk and improvising when he recorded the vocals. The band came to the studio after drinking a lot of wine, and Yorke reclined on the floor and sang. He did only one take.
The original title was "Planet Xerox," but Xerox is a copyrighted name and would have caused problems if they used it.
Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip are Daniel Stephens (aka dan le sac; production, programming, keyboards, guitars and backing vocals), and David Peter Meads (aka Scroobius Pip; vocals/rapper).
The name "Scroobius Pip" is an intentional misspelling of the Edward Lear poem, "The Scroobious Pip."
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"So I apologize for any mistakes I made...
And when my words misconstrued....
But this apology's to Mother Nature...
Cause I created you....": genius.com
The title comes from Jewish poet Paul Celan, who wrote: "Poetry is a sort of homecoming."