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Tuesday, Jul 19 2022, 7AM
Good morning!
Starting off this morning by wishing a happy birthday to Ramin Djawadi, born this day in 1974. Ramin Djawadi is a German score composer. He is known for his scores for the 2008 Marvel film Iron Man and the HBO series Game of Thrones, for which he was nominated for Grammy Awards in 2009, 2018, and 2020.
This this cover of Radiohead's 1997’s OK Computer track, recorded for the HBO series 'Westworld'.
Just another day in the life on this Seattle Tuesday morning!
According to author Ian MacDonald who wrote 'Revolution in the Head: The Beatles Records and the Sixties", "A Day in the Life" was strongly informed by John Lennon's psychedelic-inspired revelations.
In musical history, the term plainsong has been associated with the genre of liturgical chants used in Western Church music since the 6th century AD.
M83's Anthony Gonzalez’s comment on the use of the saxophone:
"Sometimes a song needs an element to be finished. You know that this element has been overused in the past and is considered clichéd or cheesy, but the song needs it. With this album, the whole idea was to do something and have no regrets." bit.ly
ilovem83.bandcamp.com
Sudan Archives will perform at Capitol Hill Block Party on July 22nd and return to Seattle later this year at Neumos on Saturday, October 1st!
She said of this song: "I feel like there’s an American standard of what beautiful hair is, and I wanted to show in this video that’s not what all beauty is; to showcase different hairstyles and different types of women and their hair. I was inspired by India.Arie’s “I Am Not My Hair,” one of the first songs I heard about this subject. She talks about extensions and weaves and natural hair and nappy hair, and that she’s not her hair; she won’t conform to the comparisons that would come up if you had a weave or sew-in or natural hair or Afro—that doesn’t represent her."
“I see the younger generations staring down this threat, and they’re standing on the edge of a precipice, confronting what’s coming with anger and defiance,” Karen O said of the new song, "Spitting Off The Edge Of The World," featuring Mike Hadreas (Perfume Genius). “It’s galvanizing, and there’s hope there.” bit.ly
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yeahyeahyeahs.bandcamp.com
Fever to Tell was the Yeah Yeah Yeah's debut studio album. By 2002, Yeah Yeah Yeahs had achieved a respected reputation for their live performances and critical acclaim for their debut EP, leading to several overtures from major record labels. The band wanted to finance their debut album themselves and chose to record at the low-budget Headgear Studio in Brooklyn. "It was really important for us to do it on our turf, on our terms", lead singer Karen O later told Spin. "We were all living together, and all the money we used to fund it came out of our pocket."
Hey John!
I know this is very corny, but any chance you could play some Vedder today, Pearl Jam or otherwise, in honor of Eddie Shedder's first day home? I KNOW! VERY CORNY! But I just want my dog to appreciate the beauty of his namesake.
Dogs >>> People.
You are never alone (with dogs).
THANKS either way!
Katie
"Swoon" was the first official single from The Chemical Brother's 2010 "Further." (They sampled themselves, using "Nude Night' from 2003.).
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The name "Chemical Brothers" came about in 1995 after they dropped their original name "The Dust Brothers" bc another band had the same name. "The Chemical Brothers" refers to the duo's 1993 groundbreaking "Chemical Beats", which epitomized their genre-defining sound. www.thechemicalbrothers.com
Happy birthday to Brian May, English singer-songwriter, lead guitarist of Queen, musician, producer, and author, born on this day in 1947.
Life is Yours is the 7th studio album by British rock band Foals. Life Is Yours is also the group's first album as a trio, following the departures of keyboardist Edwin Congreave in 2021 and bassist Walter Gervers in 2018.
Hi John... Hospice has put us on "watch and wait" for my awesome, incredible Dad. I think it's finally time for Snow Patrol. (How very Tuesday of things...)
Music has helped me get through everything up to now, I know it won't let me down at the end, Thanks, friend.
Kristin
From U2's classic 1987 album 'The Joshua Tree,' and written in response to the National Union of Mineworkers' 1984 strike in Great Britain.
Death Cab For Cutie are playing Wednesday/Thursday, October 26th & 27th at The Paramount in Seattle!
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
Hello John in the Morning,
I'm glad that you are back today!
Last Friday we started the process of getting emergency mental-health care for our youngest child (who is a trans boy). I have definitely been in the mode of dealing and assuring that he has everything that he needs, filling out endless forms, talking to rounds of mental-health professionals and such, so it wasn't until I started listening to your show today that I let myself cry.
I'm proud of him for getting help---he voluntarily entered a behavioral health facility. But I wish that I could have done something sooner to help him to understand that he is not alone.
He loves the Cure. Could you please play "Boys Don't Cry"? Thank you. Heather
Hey John,
It's my first week back to work, and I miss little Hazel so much! Could you play Three Little Birds by Bob Marley & The Wailers for me. Thanks,
Josh
You Are My Sunshine dates back to being first recorded in 1939, and has been covered by a-many since. This version from Ray Charles is from 1962.
Chaise Longue (French for "long chair") is a type of sofa imported from France in the late 1700s.
Wet Leg is playing THING the weekend of August 26-28, 2022 at historic Fort Worden in Port Townsend, WA.
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wetleg.bandcamp.com
New Beths out September 16th! Playing Capitol Hill Block Party on July 22nd. thebethsnz.bandcamp.com
Catch the Beths' Live on KEXP at Home Session with Troy here: www.youtube.com
"Supernova" is from 'Whip-Smart,' released on this day in 1994. Phair described Whip-Smart as particularly difficult to make because at the time she didn't have many songs that weren't about the music industry, which displeased her manager. In total, Whip-Smart took about one month to record. The album was recorded in two distinct sessions: the first in August 1993 in Chicago, and the second in February 1994 in the Bahamas. bit.ly
Here is the video for "Supernova": youtu.be
Morning John and Owen, just back from a week and a ½ in Italy with the family to celebrate my dad’s 75th and step mom’s 70th bday. Didn’t get to listen much there due to time diff so will be on heavy archive rotation this week. In Sienna, saw this cool scooter in front of a small restaurant with a ska sticker ala the Two Tone record art. I stopped to admire and take a pic, and the owner came out and asked if I liked it, and we started talking ska, the Specials, the Beat, etc. He was so happy that I noticed it and stopped and we have a lovely conversation in broken English/Italian. Made me think of you KEXP, and was a reminder that music connects us all, throughout the world, and is a force for goodness. With that, would love to please hear something by the Specials or the Beat this am to ease the transition back to the US – grazie mille!
Salute’!
Ian
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English Beat singer/guitarist Dave Wakeling said of this song: "I wrote it when I was a teenager. I wrote it before The Beat started. And it was about turning from a teenager to someone in their 20s, and realizing that the effortless promise for your teenage years was not necessarily going to show that life was so simple as you started to grow up."
Rolling Stone's description of this song's music video in 1983: "Fronted by a singer-synth player with a haircut stranger than anything you'd be likely to encounter in a month of poodle shows, A Flock of Seagulls struck gold on the first try."
Official Video here: www.youtube.com
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Playing Climate Pledge Arena on Monday, September 12th! gorillaz.com
New Gorillaz, featuring Thundercat! The fictional band has lately been asking fans to join something called "The Last Cult," and cartoon bassist Murdoc Niccals is the cult’s "self-appointed Great Leader," according to a press release.
"It’s nice to be back, I’m well into our new tune, it brings back weird and scary memories of stuff that hasn’t happened yet," singer 2-D shared. bit.ly
The latest single - featuring Michael Kiwanuka - from the highly anticipated collaboration between Danger Mouse & Black Thought 'Cheat Codes' is due out next month - August 12!
"Aquamarine" Video!!
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Emancipator, aka Doug Appling, was born and raised in Virginia, where he studied violin from ages 4 to 12, progressing to electric guitar, drums, and bass as a teenager. He cites his father's "eclectic music collection" as sparking his interest in electronic music, while his mother "who'd volunteered in the Peace Corps," exposed him to "African thumb pianos and sounds from beyond the Western palette."
emancipator.bandcamp.com
“Porcelain” was the sixth single off Moby’s commercial breakthrough Play. The song was based on particularly painful breakup. Moby recalled:
"I was involved with this really, really wonderful woman, and I loved her very much. But I knew deep in my heart of hearts that we had no business being romantically involved. So, it’s sort of about being in love with someone but knowing you shouldn’t be with them."
L.A. trio Automatic will perform at Neumos on Saturday and Sunday, September 10th and 11th!
“It’s about spending your life making money and then spending it to fill the void created by said job,” explained bassist/vocalist Halle Saxon, with bandmate Lola Dompé cheekily adding, "Kind of like going to LA to live your dreams." Download this KEXP Song of the Day from May here: www.kexp.org
Sending a happy birthday to Kevin Haskins, born this day in 1960, English drummer, songwriter, composer, and member of Bauhaus, Love and Rockets, and Tones on Tail.
Formed in 1985, Love and Rockets was guitarist/vocalist Daniel Ash, bassist/vocalist David J, and drummer Kevin Haskins, all former members of the pioneering goth band Bauhaus. "Yin and Yang the Flower Pot Man" is ecstatically upbeat, offering a propulsive rhythm, flailing guitars, and insistent bass -- a compulsively danceable and bliss-inducing track.
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Watch the video here:
youtu.be.
Bandmember Pete Fijalkowski said of "Homeboy":
This was written pre-Adorable when we were called the Candy Thieves, which I had formed in 1988 with my friend Wayne Peters on guitar, when we were on a Film Studies course together at Warwick University. I can still remember the day we wrote it. Wil started playing the bass line, and Kevin joined in on the floor tom. I sang a whole load of lines culled from other discarded songs, Wayne picked some notes, and then when it felt right I stepped on my distortion pedal to make it start feeding back, Kevin sensed it was time to move onto the snare and we all crashed in – it was beautiful.
www.creation-records.com
John,
Been a long time listener and love your music as a born & raised West Seattleite. Living in the Midwest for the last 3 years and listening to your show every morning at work is what helps me feel so connected to the community I love and miss dearly. Thank you for having a continued positive impact on me and for reminding me I’m not alone always.
Please if you have time play: this is the sea - the waterboys. Fell in love with that song from your shows and would be a great addition to my morning!
Thanks always!
Sam
Small Paul came to be in a Seattle basement during the early days of COVID as a happy accident between housemates Kevin Murphy from The Moondoggies, Chris King and Malcolm Roberts from Chris King & The Gutterballs with Seth McDonald from All Star Opera.
They released 'Strangeland' EP earlier this month.
smallpaulband.bandcamp.com
Hi John,
Getting pumped up for The National with Lucy Dacus at Brewery Ommegang tomorrow night. Brewery Ommegang makes great beer and hosts cool shows just outside of Cooperstown, NY (home of the Baseball Hall of Fame, of course).
If you have time to play something by either of them, that would be great.
Thanks!
Brian from Syracuse
Behind “Brimheim” is Copenhagen based musician and songwriter, Helena Heinesen Rebensdorff. Her stage name is an homage to her Faroese roots, translating to ‘home of the breaking waves’.
brimheim.bandcamp.com
Porridge Radio will be at Barboza on September 13th!
Here’s what Porridge Radio member Dana Margolin had to say about the song:
At the beginning it was a song about a power dynamic where I was in control, by the end it was about one where I had none. My friends always accuse me of making up idioms and using them like they are well known phrases and I think this song is full of those. I love the idea of something being sick at the seams, like it’s disintegrating from its core. I like things that are so simple they are universal. I wanted it to sound like when your heart breaks so badly that your entire body aches. I wanted it to feel like your soul is dropping out of your body.
porridgeradio.bandcamp.com
porridgeradio.com
"I was surprised at people's positive reaction to Rid of Me. I liked it but I thought it was a very...difficult album. I thought people who had the first album wouldn't like it." - PJ Harvey for the Guardian
The latest from Alvvays, who will be at The Moore Theatre in Seattle with Slow Pulp on Saturday, October 22nd.
The band ran into multiple obstacles over the past few years -- global pandemic, a basement flood that ruined almost all of their gear, a theft of their demos from Molly Rankin's apartment, and border closings that prevented rehearsals. Nevertheless, they are back!
Learn more about the new album here: alvvays.bandcamp.com
A new one from Tacoma band Enumclaw, aka "The best band since Oasis," as described on their bandcamp page... which you can find here:
enumclaw6.bandcamp.com
In a 2005 interview, lead singer Eric Bachmann reflected on this album: "When we first came out we had that energy. It's a weird thing that you can't put your finger on... I listened to Icky Mettle, and I almost cringe when I hear it. But what the people probably liked when they heard that record was the energy we were putting out."
Icky Mettle ranked number 32 in Pitchfork's original Top 100 Albums of the 1990s list
archersofloaf.bandcamp.com
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
The Juliana Hatfield Three performed live in the KEXP studio in 2015. They opened the set with this classic track. Check out the full session here:
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julianahatfield.bandcamp.com
Good morning, a very happy Tuesday, and welcome to The Midday Show with Cheryl Waters! Thank you so much for being here today!
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This title track to MorMor's debut album features a visual that is a tribute to his Toronto hometown. He said, "I made a conscious decision to not show any of Toronto’s major landmarks. The spaces featured in the video are places you’d only know if you’ve walked the city.": www.youtube.com
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Toronto artist Seth Nyquist (MorMor) joined Cheryl Waters for an interview and a KEXP Live at Home performance last October. He started off his set with this song! youtu.be