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Wednesday, Sep 7 2022, 7AM
Today KEXP celebrates the INCREDIBLE music of a long long time ago in a galaxy far far away (SFX explosions) 2019! Man, we were so innocent...so young.
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Watch the London trio perform LIVE on KEXP in 2016 here: www.youtube.com
According to James Chapman, 'Colours. Reflect. Time. Loss.' is deeply concerned with memories. “It’s ...about looking at how memories change over time. Everyone has a different perception of different times in their lives.”
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This song samples the 1971 song Oedipus by Improved Sound Ltd.
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The video for the original release, directed by Rian Johnson and starring Sissy Spacek and David Strathairn is pretty great.
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U.K. duo The Chemical Brothers released thier ninth studio album, titled 'No Geography' after a poem by Michael Brownstein. Vocals on this one are from Norwegian singer Aurora, who was with us at the KEXP Studio in 2019: www.youtube.com.
Psst, get a copy of Live at KEXP, Volume 10 here! All the proceeds go directly to the artists. kexp.bandcamp.com
Here's Sharon Van Etten live in the KEXP studio in 2014: www.youtube.com
Expert In A Dying Field will be out on September 16th!
“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.”
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The group celebrates (and, in some cases, directly reference) icons like Nirvana, Pavement, Smashing Pumpkins, Veruca Salt, and the Breeders’ Kim Deal, while weaving in their own perspective and experiences.
God we LOVE Aldous Harding.
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Look at all the peaches
How do you celebrate?
Can't appear inside of nowhere
Up here at the mountaineers lodge by the mt baker ski area with an awesome jobsite view of shuksan. Thanks for the tunes this morning! Any chance we can hear something off of sturgill simpsons 2019 album? Morning y'all!!!
Benny in Bellingham
From Destroyer Part 2, released in 2019 following The Destroyer 1 a few months prior. Robert Alfons stated that the recording of The Destroyer was largely delayed for "professional and personal" reasons. Remarking that the most challenging aspect of recording new material was "overcoming the voice that says this isn't good enough,"Alfons explained: "I knew I had material I was excited about, but I had to overcome the sort of cycle of darkness and disconnection in order to get to a place where I was going to feel strong enough to put this (music) out."
Robert Alfons AKA TR/ST stopped by KEXP after the release of The Destroyer - Part 1 early in 2019 and spoke with KEXP DJ Abbie. Watch the session on our channel here: www.youtube.com
Driving down to Oregon to catch NIN and Yves Tumor with a friend of 20 years today. Any chance you could slip a NIN song on this AM? -Brian in Ravenna
Happy Wednesday! It's the first day of 2nd grade in this house and we're ready to rock it. If you're able, Molly would love to hear Up All Night by Sault. Thanks for the consideration!
-Heidi
Happy 76th bday to Alfa Anderson, singer, Chic. If being a singer in Chic isn't cool enough, Anderson earned a second Master's degree in Educational Leadership from Bank Street College in New York, New York. In the 1990s, she became a principal at El Puente Academy for Peace and Justice High School in Brooklyn, New York
Easy E would have turned 58 today, his birthday. He passed in 1995 at the age of 31.
Here's The Budos Band doing this one live in the KEXP studio in 2019: www.youtube.com
When The Wind Forgets Your Name will be available worldwide on September 9th.
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Check out Doug Martsch's interview with KEXP's Jake Uitti from 2019 here: bit.ly
One of our favs from 2019 and first heard officially on KEXP during their live session back in 2017: youtu.be
Metric will be at The Moore Theatre on Wednesday, October 12th! - www.ilovemetric.com
Good morning, thank you for reminding me I'm not alone. Please play Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah for my brother Ross. He and his wife Lauren, son Remy and unborn son Luca were all in the plane that crashed this past weekend off of Whidbey Island.
Thank you
Justin
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According to the Coast Guard, the pilot was Jason Winters and the other nine passengers were Patricia Hicks, Sandra Williams, Lauren Hilty, Remy Mickel, Ross Mickel, Luke Ludwig, Rebecca Ludwig, Joanne Mera and Gabrielle Hanna. The USCG said Remy Mickel was the child on board.
Justin, you are not alone.
John, Sitting here in my home office, trying to focus on the days deeds needing to be done.
I awoke with sadness. Wasn’t sure why. Then I realized what it was. It’s what has come through my heart countless times. Especially in the last two years but well beyond. It’s mourning. Mourning of the loss of life. For the fragility of life. For our refusal at times to admit to it. For its inexplicable loss.
This morning was the mourning of the lives lost in the Whidbey plane crash. A story to some of us. Devastation to others whose lives are torn apart by the loss of their family and their friends. Still, fellow humans and worthy of our time to stop and note it; feel it.
The request for Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah put me over the edge. I just had to stop, close my eyes, and let a tear fall from my eye. But, I had company in the form of KEXP. And, I made it through. Felt what I needed to feel. No sooner had I, then old Dave plays, Ashes to Ashes. Mr. Bowie has always occupied a special place in my heart and consistently has popped up, just as he did today, just at the right moment, to put me back on the road.
Thanks, man. For both tunes and for being there doing what you and all the rest of you do. As long as I am of this earth and have anything in my pocket I will support KEXP. As I always have.
I’m going to take on whatever is next in this day. KEXP by my side. Bring it, world.
Steve on Beacon Hill
It's a good day, last day of my husband Dan’s chemo!! Cancer fucking sucks.. Can you play Perfect Day by Lou Reed please?
Sally in Denver
Released in 1991, Ten is Pearl Jam's debut studio album. Following the dissolution of their previous band Mother Love Bone, bassist Jeff Ament and guitarist Stone Gossard began rehearsing with new guitarist Mike McCready.
"Release" was one of the first songs Eddie wrote with the band, and it's one that helped them find common ground. "We were strangers, but we were coming from a similar place," said Vedder. - bit.ly
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Celebrating the music of 1991 & 50 years of music on KEXP! - www.kexp.org
Anne in St. Louis:
Thanks John, Owen & crew at KEXP. This mornings show is just what I didn't know I needed…Feeling all of the emotions, feeling comfort in your company and feeling grateful for the music to get me through it all.
Kristen:
Thx for taking us to Kexp Church and transmuting the grief and helplessness we feel with hard news of others and then also in all being human helping is tend to our own. With the past couple of hard years your Grief show will be powerfully healing and good medicine for all. 💜
Timothy Showalter says "Weird Ways has such importance for this record and more importantly my own personal journey. It was actually the last song I wrote for the album. It wasn’t intentional to come last but the significance of it being last is very important. I feel like Weird Ways echoes the entire tone of the album with just one song. It represent the entire arc of hopelessness to clarity. My buddies from My Morning Jacket played a crucial part in this. They were special for many reasons. First and foremost Tom, Bo, Patrick, and Carl are dear friends of mine and extremely empathetic soulful people."
Another GREAT song from 2019.
Speaking to NME, Foals frontman Yannis Philippakis said about being in lockdown: “One thing I’ve noticed is a pressure to be productive... everybody I spoke to was like, ‘Oh, it’s going to be a great time to write some music eh?’ I was like, ‘I don’t tell you when to do your job!’ I’ve got nothing inside right now. There’s almost like this sportsman-like pressure to seize the day. For the first few weeks, I’ve been perfectly content just resting. As time goes on, I’m sure that’ll change and I’ll start writing some music.”
Read more from the NME interview, where Yannis says "It's perfectly fine to just sit around and do f**k-all": tinyurl.com
Melbourne-by-way-of-Tasmania band Quivers is the project of Sam J. Nicholson, who started it to keep singing after losing a brother in a free-diving accident.
Nicholson said of this song, "“I wanted to write a simple song, just four quick chords and a slow realisation. I think I somehow stole the lyrical idea from Kylie Minogue’s “Can’t Get You Out Of My Head” – that a song might be trapped inside just one thought. And in that one thought there might be everything. That’s how good that Kylie song is anyway.”
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"You're Not Always On My Mind" was a KEXP Song of the Day: www.kexp.org
This song was based on a self help book entitled "Choose Yourself" by James Altucher, and Star Slinger (aka Darren Williams) who told KEXP that, “This song will help you get out of a rut. This song will help when you feel you’ve lost your way. This song will help guide you. This spoken word song condenses quotes from a very helpful book I read last year." Check out the whole Song of the Day profile from April 25th, 2019: www.kexp.org
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