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Thursday, Dec 1 2022, 7AM
smOOch - a benefit created to help raise funds for uncompensated care at Seattle Children’s - featuring Pearl Jam's Mike McCready and an all star cast of Seattle musicians covering the Beatles. Plus the reunited Visqueen, and Sera Cahoone will perform during the smOOch VIP portion of the evening. Learn more about smOOch here smoochforkids.com
Brandi Carlile's incredible cover of the Fleetwood Mac classic...because Brandi can do no wrong.
World AIDS Day takes place on 1 December each year. It’s an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV, to show support for people living with HIV, and to commemorate those who have died from an AIDS-related illness. Founded in 1988, World AIDS Day was the first ever global health day.
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George Michael fronted Queen for a performance of “Somebody to Love” before thousands on April 20, 1992, at Wembley Stadium...during the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for AIDS Awareness.
"The performance most well known in my career," Michael said in the documentary Freedom, "was sung to my lover who was dying."
Anselmo Feleppa had just been diagnosed with AIDS, but Michael wasn’t publicly out – so his relationship with Feleppa was a secret. That left Michael to take the stage while enduring a very personal pain, even as he honored another of the disease's victims.
Read More: Why George Michael Sang 'Somebody to Love' to Just One Person | ultimateclassicrock.com
1971 - "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" by John and Yoko and the Plastic Ono Band with the Harlem Community Choir is released as a single. The b-side, Yoko Ono and the Plastic Ono Band "Listen, the Snow Is Falling."
Here's the b-side....or honestly, double a-side. Just amazing.
Katherine Paul (Black Belt Eagle Scout) has announced a new LP which is called The Land, The Water, The Sky and will be out February 10 via Saddle Creek.
According to a release, the 12-track album is about Paul’s 2020 journey from Portland to the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community. “‘My Blood Runs Through This Land’ is about the connection I have with my ancestors,” Paul adds about this single.: www.stereogum.com
For Aaron in Phoenix
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Two of the three members of the band, Matt and Lucy Board, are art college graduates. With a specific reference to the late 70s experimental electronic and alternative scene (Lucy wrote her thesis on Cabaret Voltaire), they define their musical roots as modernist. This hints at different elements, both internal and external. Bassist Aubrey Simpson is said to be a Motown fan.
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The song was inspired by an affair Christine McVie had with the band's lighting director, Curry Grant. "To avoid flare-ups", she told her then-husband and fellow band member, John McVie that the song was about her dog.
Yo La Tengo will play all-ages shows at the Neptune Theatre on Wednesday and Thursday, Feb. 15-16, 2023. The band's first new album in five years, "This Stupid World," is self-produced and will be released Feb. 10, 2023.
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From an unreleased recording session that finally saw the light of day in 2014.
Aptly dubbed “The 1969 Sessions”, the 14-track collection chronicles the band’s October 1969 session at the Record Plant in New York City. The band hit the studio with the intention of recording an LP as a means of getting out of their contract with MGM. Several of these tracks would later make their way onto Lou Reed’s debut solo album, including “I Can’t Stand It”.
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Young Fathers have revealed of this new song, "It’s a big bully ...swaggering. That pamphlet through your door blaming the establishment and immigrants for everything going wrong. The stench of long-dead empire, trudging along, a psychological hammer to your head in every step. The delusion."
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CHRISTINE MCVIE, THE longtime co-lead vocalist, keyboardist, and songwriter for Fleetwood Mac, has died. She was 79.
The band confirmed McVie’s death in a note shared on social media. “There are no words to describe our sadness at the passing of Christine McVie. She was truly one-of-a-kind, special and talented beyond measure. She was the best musician anyone could have in their band and the best friend anyone could have in their life. We were so lucky to have a life with her. Individually and together, we cherished Christine deeply and are thankful for the amazing memories we have. She will be so very missed.”
McVie, who began her career as a member of the band Chicken Shack, receivng a Melody Maker award for female vocalist in both 1969 and 1970. Chicken Shack had a hit with "I'd Rather Go Blind", which featured McVie on lead vocals. McVie recorded a solo album, Christine Perfect; following her success as a member of Fleetwood Mac, the album was reissued under the name The Legendary Christine Perfect Album.
"I'd Rather Go Blind" is a blues song written by Ellington Jordan and (for tax purposes) co-credited to Billy Foster and Etta James. It was first recorded by Etta James in 1967, released in 1967 as a single.
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Etta James wrote in her autobiography Rage To Survive that she heard the song outlined by her friend Ellington "Fugi" Jordan when she visited him in prison.
New single + video from this Leeds producer, singer, songwriter and visual artist.
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The song was the band's first top-forty hit on the US Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 17, which remains their highest-ever position on the chart. It was the only single credited to Reznor to reach the top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 until "Old Town Road" hit number one in 2019.
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Dutch record producer YoungKio composed the instrumental and made it available for purchase online in 2018. It features a sample of "34 Ghosts IV" by the American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails. The sample was placed behind trap-style Roland TR-808 drums and bass. Lil Nas X purchased the instrumental for US$30 and recorded "Old Town Road" in one day. At the time, he had been living with his sister after dropping out of college; his real-world struggles were an influence on some of the lyrics.
Debut from this project by Blur's Graham Coxon and Rose Elinor Dougall out in February! BTW, they had a baby this year!!!
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You may recall Rose from was a member of The Pipettes and has performed with Mark Ronson. She also performs and records as a solo artist.
Hey John!
Please please please play Living in Colour by Frightened Rabbit.
It's for the amazing cast of Doctor Doolittle’s Wild Adventures, which opens tonight over here in the UK!
I always listen to the morning show on KEXP while making their costumes…. And I’m currently in the theatre fixing up Nutty Jakes Giant Nut after he accidentally put his squirrel foot right in it! They are the best of people…. And I know they will love hearing a shout out and Frightened Rabbit!
Many thanks! Kitty in Cardiff Wales!
sending this one out to Grady in SF in tribute to Christine McVee
Thank you for playing my request Jon! I’m singing at the top of my lungs packing out house to move again- and falling in love with my partner- agian.
Ashley
La Grande OR
Brian Eno produced this great album.
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When asked, why Manchester’s often overlooked lyrical heroes James has survived all of these years, lead singer and lyricist Tim Booth responds with two words—and his name is Brian Eno. Booth explained his reasoning when he said, “When you’ve got Brian Eno you’re not going to give up. Everywhere I went, Michael Stipe would say ‘How did you get to work with Brian Eno, I’ve been trying to work with him for years’. Flea would say ‘How did you get to work with Brian Eno for five albums?’ We had that. Brian, God bless him, says we were his favorite band. We had an amazing time with him. He’s definitely the fifth Beatle. And we miss him!”
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Samantha writes: Hey John, if you have time to fit This Year by The Mountain Goats into the set, I would be so grateful. Either way, thanks for all you do to keep the music playing and help us all cope with being human. And special thanks for playing Dreams by the Cranberries, it's the song I didn’t know I needed today 💜
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Jason in Kingston:
My wife and i are both out of work, I'm downstairs playing with my daughter while she figures out how to pay the bills. I needed this song, John. We ARE gonna make it through this year.
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Dan writes: John, Owen - I still very clearly remember hearing that morning in the yard live with Ladies- it was magic. Now, every time I hear that version of Tunnels it automatically brings the tears. Happy? Sad? Both? Not sure. But good - and always a good reminder none of us are alone. Thank you
The Green Pajamas
The Story Of Kim The Waitress
by Joe Ross
Kim was a waitress at an all night diner called Mr. Ed's Coffee Shop in West Seattle where we used to hang out back in the summer of 1984. We would meet up with friends there after rehearsal/recording (there wasn’t much of a distinction in those days; we jammed when we rehearsed and we recorded when we jammed) to have a late night meal. There we’d sit for hours drinking coffee, joking and scheming, planning the next thing, sometimes writing little verses and doodling on the paper place mats. We wrote the lyrics to more than a few "Summer Of Lust" era songs at a booth in that coffee shop.
One late night in particular --just as the song says-- we sat in the corner booth drinking coffee and writing juvenile limericks which we would immediately crumple up after being passed around the table with all of us cracking up. Kim, who was very cute indeed, worked the graveyard shift and over the months had become the innocent object of our fancy; and I remember that one particularly dirty little poem was even titled, "Ode to Kim The Waitress".
The actual song was created in early January 1985, during a late night jam session at my house with just Jeff and me. I remember Jeff sat at the drum set tapping the kick drum and high hat with his feet while simultaneously plucking the bass and singing while I noodled around on an electric guitar. With our favorite waitress still on his mind his ad-lib lyrics and melody flowed effortlessly; very catchy and spontaneous. And as fortune would have it, I had a tape recorder rolling or we never would have remembered how the song went in the morning. Over the next few days Jeff refined the song and the band started rehearsing it.
Although it wasn’t yet part of our live repertoire we just knew "Kim The Waitress" was the song we had to do in a real studio. We had recently been approached by a producer named Tom Dyer (who ran Green Monkey Records) to record at his studio, so we booked a day there to record it. The session took place on May 4, 1985, in Tom’s claustrophobic basement studio at his house in Queen Anne. With Tom at the helm, Jeff played bass, I played electric guitar, Karl played drums and Steven played the sitar that I borrowed for the occasion --none of us had ever played a sitar before but Steven really did a fine job. (When I played the recording to the guy that I had borrowed it from, he was so impressed that he sold the sitar to me for $40) The master tape sat for a whole year before Green Monkey Records finally released it as our first single in May 1986.
A few years later I became better acquainted with Kim when she was going out with a good friend of mine. At first she didn’t know about the song, although it was becoming well known locally by then, and she was really thrilled (much to my relief) when she finally heard it. I still get Christmas cards from her signed, Kim The Waitress.
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"Kim the Waitress" was written by Seattle group The Green Pajamas. The 7" record 'Kim the Waitress' attracted regional college radio airplay in the mid-80s.
Seattle band Sister Psychic covered the song in 1994.
Steve writes: I am a tree!!!! Fruitless and free. Hey, that's a song by...never mind.
This was featured as a KEXP song of the day! -
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When asked about the music influences behind 'Freedom', McMahon said there were three kinds of music that went into Freedom. Freedom is like a mix of rock music, pop music, and electronic music, inspired by artists such as Michael Jackson, Tom Petty, Oasis, Aphex Twin, and Massive Attack.
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Dear GOD this song is lush. So good. RIP Christine McVie and thank you for all of your amazing songs.
Oh man, When 3 is 2 would be ideal as I do admin to wrap up this job that I hate.
Thank you!
Beth
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"Don't Stop" is a song by British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac, written by vocalist and keyboard player Christine McVie. The song was sung by guitarist Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie, peaking at No. 3 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in October 1977.
"The decisions underwritten by the cash in his hand
Bought a sweater for his weimaraner, too..."
Here are the lyrics to this 2008 song: genius.com
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TV on the Radio performed "Dancing Choose" on Late Show with David Letterman in 2008: youtu.be
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