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Good morning and welcome to the Monday edition of the Morning Show with John!
Tiny Changes features contributions from Lauren Mayberry of Chvrches, Aaron Dessner of The National, Josh Ritter, this track from Julien Baker, and more, and shares a name with the mental health organization launched by the family of Scott Hutchison, Frightened Rabbit's late lead singer who died in May 2018 at the age of 36.
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This 1994 single was written by lyricist Hope Sandoval and composer David Roback, who also served as producer. Read an in-depth exploration of this hauntingly beautiful song: ourculturemag.com
Woody Guthrie's estate approached Billy Bragg in 1995 to set Guthrie's handwritten, unrecorded lyrics to music -- and "California Stars" was the result
Wilco performed this song for KEXP as part of a live set at the Columbia City Theater in 2015: youtu.be
This oft-covered song was inspired by a Beatles performance Alex Chilton had seen a few years prior. When asked if there was a version he was especially fond of, lead singer Alex Chilton mentioned Garbage's cover of this song. Check it out: youtu.be
Read more about Alex Chilton: tinyurl.com
Check out Ben Harper's 2016 KEXP Live In-Studio Session:
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Local indigenous musician Katherine Paul has announced her third full-length album, The Land, The Water, The Sky, out February 10, 2023! blackbelteaglescout.bandcamp.com
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"Good morning, morning peeps. Would you please play Goodbye by Patty Griffin. The line "you can't make somebody see with the simple words you say all their beauty from within, sometimes they just look away." Gets me every time. For all those who couldn't see their own beauty to hang on another day. Thank you. ❤️
Helen on Bainbridge"
New collaboration between Waxahatchee's Katie Crutchfield and Jess Williamson! plainsband.bandcamp.com
"Dear John,
I'm one of the thousands of people whose lives are made better because of you, even though we've never met.
My dad died suddenly yesterday, and I've flown far from Seattle to be with my family but streaming you and crying as we try to figure out what to do next.
His name is Dan.
He's a dreamer. Passionate. Loving. Loud. Activist. Proud lefty. He saw his role as being our protector. And of course he loved a good dad joke.
Hard to summarize him. The house is way too quiet without him, and I can't believe he's not about to walk into the room.
Can you please play Do You Realize?
Thank you for the community you've made here. It's lifesaving.
-Geoffrey"
In 2012, the duo performed the song in front of Paul Simon at the Polar Music Prize, and he rewarded them with a standing ovation. It was officially released in 2014.
Watch First Aid Kit performing this Simon and Garfunkel cover live at KEXP in 2012 right here: www.youtube.com
"We wrote this song last year together with songwriter and producer Björn Yttling. It was the first time we wrote for First Aid Kit with someone else and it was very inspiring. The song was written in the spur of the moment, almost like a stream of consciousness. It's about feeling stuck inside your own thoughts and desperately wanting to escape." bit.ly
Here is First Aid Kit performing in the KEXP studios back in 2014: bit.ly
Catch them in Seattle on Wednesday May 24th at The Paramount. www.firstaidkitband.com
For Jimmy in Olympia!
Field School's Bandcamp describes them as "Lo-fi jangle fuzz pop overemotionalism from Olympia, Wash."
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"There She Goes" is a song with one crazy story, so hang on. It was written by the Liverpool singer and guitarist Lee Mavers, and recorded by his band The La's. The La's released it on their only album, titled The La's. "There She Goes" was released as a single, not once, not twice, but four times!
The first release scratched the UK Singles chart in 1988 at #51. The second release in 1990 was the peak, with #13 on the UK Singles and also charting in the US. The third release was in 1999, and it charted the UK Singles at #65. The fourth release was in 2008, on vinyl only for the song's 20th anniversary, and charted again at #181. - bit.ly
Released on this day in 1980. In an interview with Absolute Radio Paul Weller said of "That's Entertainment": "I wrote it in 10 mins flat, whilst under the influence, I'd had a few but some songs just write themselves. It was easy to write, I drew on everything around me."
Released on this day in 1980, and required by law to play today for *obvious* reasons.
Support The Jam: www.thejamofficial.com
Check out the London artist's Bandcamp: thegoldendregs.bandcamp.com
Released in 2000, The Hour of Bewilderbeast is the debut studio album by British musician Damon Michael Gough, known by the stage name Badly Drawn Boy.
"I've Got a Feeling" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1970 album Let It Be. It was recorded on 30 January 1969 during the Beatles' rooftop concert. It is a combination of two unfinished songs: Paul McCartney's "I've Got a Feeling" and John Lennon's "Everybody Had a Hard Year". The song features Billy Preston on electric piano.
John was the host when Tanya Donelly and Belly performed live in the KEXP studio in August, 2018.: www.youtube.com
New single + video from this Leeds producer, singer, songwriter and visual artist.
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Björk initially wrote the vocal melody in 1988 when she was still the lead singer of the Sugarcubes, but they couldn't come up with the music to fit it. Producer Nellee Hooper found the solution in a tinkered sample from "Go Down Dying" by Brazilian musician Antonio Carlos Jobim.
Pets is about humans goofing up everything, to put it lightly.
In 1997, on the Howard Stern Show, Perry Farrell talked about his belief in aliens and then performed an acoustic version of "Pets": www.youtube.com
"From The Hill" is the Brooklyn trio’s first new music since 2021’s "A Way Forward." The track will appear on a new 7″ single set to come out on December 9 alongside vinyl exclusive B-side ‘Ground Control’. -- On their new track, singer Ian Devaney said: “‘From the Hill’ is a song reflecting on times when friendships fall apart over romantic entanglement, accompanied by the sensation that you’re somehow watching it happen from above with a more zoomed-out perspective."
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Memory Gospel was originally released as the B side of Honey.
Then in 2000, it was part of "Play: The B Sides" a compilation album by Moby. The album's songs are all outtakes from his 1999 album Play which were subsequently released as B-sides across various singles from the album.
Moby explains: "The B Sides is a collection of songs that weren't quite appropriate for Play, but that I still love enough to release as B-sides.
In the liner notes, Moby admits that the songs would not have been given a wide release if not for the overwhelming success of Play.
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Seattle's ODESZA on the early stages of the band: "I remember working in Clay’s basement on our first record. Then taking a year living with our parents and having them come in the room and say, “Turn that sh*t off. It’s too loud!” Read more from our 2018 interview with them here: www.kexp.org
Brand new music from London artist Daniel Avery and featuring James Massiah: danielavery.bandcamp.com
“Every Day Is Exactly the Same” was the third of the three successful singles released from "With Teeth," Nine Inch Nails' fourth studio album.
The song reached the number one spot on Billboard’s Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart and was nominated for Best Hard Rock Performance at the 2007 Grammy Awards.
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Check out John's exclusive KEXP interview with Trent Reznor: www.kexp.org
From Peak Park's bandcamp: "Peak Park is a multi-faceted art-rock project from Naarm/Melbourne. The group of multi-instrumentalists pride themselves on their eclectic soundscapes and ability to blend genres. Ethereal vocals deliver vulnerable and honest lyricism, centred on identity, existentialism and mental health. The earnest and wholesome three-piece is entirely self produced." peakpark.bandcamp.com
Special Interest is a four-piece punk band emerging from New Orleans, Louisiana.
This song was inspired by the Angola Three, Black revolutionaries who were held in solitary confinement for more than 40 years while imprisoned at Louisiana State Penitentiary (also known as Angola Prison). bit.ly
See the official video for "Herman's House": www.youtube.com
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This song by Toronto producer Josh Korody features Cadence Weapon (the musical pseudonym of rapper/writer Rollie Pemberton) jumping in halfway through for an unexpected verse of nonsensical but clever as hell lines like, “On the web I surf like Brian Wilson.”
The track was one of KEXP's songs of the day late last year:
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Shaun Ryder to Clash Music: “We was just a band of fuckin’ misfits, really!”
Read their interview, "Wrote For Luck: The Rise And Fall Of Happy Mondays"
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US Dates announced this morning!! Feb 14th at the Showbox!!! LOUD NOISES!!!
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Comprising Guido Minisky, Hervé Carvalho, Pierrot Casanova, Nicolas Borne and Kenzi Bourras, the mighty French-Algerian collective have been setting fire to clubs and festivals worldwide ever since the release of their debut album Musique de France (2016). Their second album, Jdid, came out in 2019. The band have performed hundreds of shows in over fifty countries on four continents. acidarab.bandcamp.com
The film "White Noise," an adaptation of Don DeLillo's novel of the same name, will come out December 2, 2022. This LCD Soundsystem track, their first since 2017's "American Dream," plays during the closing credits.
In a recent Facebook post, Murphy outlined the band’s likely future, saying they would continue to play shows here and there and drop the occasional single.
“It’s not overwhelming, so I can work on new music and we can all be human beings,” Murphy continued. “Maybe we’ll just play other places next year, moving around to cities we like to play, where we’re wanted, etc.”
Check out a trailer for the film here: bit.ly
Happy birthday to Matt Cameron, born on this day in 1962
Temple of the Dog is the only studio album by the Seattle supergroup Temple of the Dog, released in 1991. It is a tribute to Andrew Wood, the former lead singer of Malfunkshun and Mother Love Bone, who died on March 19, 1990, of a heroin overdose.
“Making this record was a long journey,” explains Mike McCready. “It was emotionally dark and confusing at times, but also an exciting and experimental road map to musical redemption. Collaborating with my bandmates on ‘Gigaton’ ultimately gave me greater love, awareness and knowledge of the need for human connection in these times.”
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All four members of Soundgarden are credited with writing "Jesus Christ Pose"; Chris Cornell wrote the lyrics. For guitarist Kim Thayil, it’s still a personal favorite. “I still love that song,” he says. “I’m pretty sick of hearing a lot of Soundgarden songs, but not Jesus Christ Pose.” Read the story about how this "dig at rock star excess helped turn them into rock stars themselves." at Rolling Stone: bit.ly
"Good morning! As always, The Morning Show is a great way to start the day. It is even sweeter as my husband and I sit here with our week old baby boy, Fremont.
It has been a true joy to fall in love deeper an deeper with our boy AND watch my husband grow into an amazing father. Although sleep deprived we know this must be the place.
We would love to hear - This Must be the Place by the Talking Heads.
Thank you for making the world a better place with music! ❤️
- Leah, Ben and Fremont (Livingston, Montana)"