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At Dawn was recorded at guitarist Johnny Quaid's rural family farm in Shelbyville, Kentucky, a city outside Louisville. The group converted an apartment above a three-car garage at the property into a home studio, which they called Above the Cadillac. Singer Jim James recorded his vocals in an abandoned grain silo, utilizing its natural reverb
In November, Kevin Morby graced our studio with live performances of songs from his great 2022 album "This Is a Photograph": www.youtube.com
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Of "A Random Act of Kindness," 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."
Slave Ambient is the second studio album by Philadelphia-based band The War on Drugs, released in 2011 - www.thewarondrugs.net
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The War On Drugs perform "Come To The City" live in the KEXP studio in 2011 - www.youtube.com
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Celebrating the music of 2011 & 50 years of KEXP! - www.kexp.org
From Deerhunter's fifth album, released in 2010 to universal critical acclaim.
"This was the most mesmerizing, invigorating indie record I’d heard in years — one that swirled together decades of rock history into something visceral and ephemeral all at once, dark and mysterious yet plainly accessible, structurally adventurous while maintaining an unmistakable stylistic imprint. It was the sound of a band ascending to the peak of its powers." Read a 10-year anniversary retrospective, written in 2020: www.stereogum.com.
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Enjoy an oral history of The Wrens' wonderful "The Meadowlands": bit.ly
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See The Wrens perform "This Boy Is Exhausted' live in 2009: www.youtube.com
Watch Lord Huron perform LIVE on KEXP back in 2015: www.youtube.com
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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Debut from this project by Blur's Graham Coxon and The Pipette's Rose Elinor Dougall is out in February! They had a baby together in 2022 too!
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Dear KEXP DJ,
I would like to request Loose Change by The Highwomen.
Please dedicate this song to all the nurses and staff in the blood draw and chemo infusion rooms at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance. Today is my last infusion. This part of my cancer treatment was made joyful as part of me looked forward to being with these compassionate humans. They continue to show up for us in snow, sleet and pandemic. My we treat them as the shiny Pennie’s they are. They certainly made me feel loved and shiny.
I’ll never see a group so appreciative of a box of oranges and apples. They are worthy of so much more. Music and fresh fruit is a start.
Sincerely,
Amanda from Bellingham
The fifth album from this LA artist (aka Natalie Mering) is the second in a planned trilogy that began with 2019’s Titanic Rising
Are you sitting down? This incredible song was released on this day 29-years old.
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Becky writes: I love the "I'm gonna stop, sit down, and listen to this song" moments I get w Kexp - especially on a Monday morning. Thanks for Protection
'Radical Romantics' is Karin Dreijer’s third album as Fever Ray -- it was written and recorded with Dreijer’s brother and former bandmate in the Knife, Olof Dreijer
Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross and others also contributed to the new LP due out March 10! Here is the video for the new single: youtu.be
DEBBY FRIDAY is a Nigerian-born, Canada-based artist. Watch the video here www.youtube.com
Good morning! It's my absolute favorite neighbor, Regan's birthday today. As morning listeners and amplifiers it would be amazing to hear some Lizzo this morning. She is the best and I'm excited for her in 2023. - Mary Zoe in Edmonds
The latest from South African artist Nakhane. The new single is part of a trilogy of songs inspired by the musician’s relationship with their mother.
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Dream Academy dedicated this song to singer Nick Drake.
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"Northern Town" started life with a different title. Nick Laird-Clowes told Mojo that he had befriended Paul Simon at one point and the two stayed in touch. He recalled: "I played him the song and he asked, 'What are you going to call it - 'Ah Hey Ma Ma Ma?' I told him that we intended to name it 'Morning Lasted All Day.' 'That's no good,' he said and so I came up with 'Life In A Northern Town.' which he thought was a great title." - bit.ly
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See an extended live version of the song: www.youtube.com
Weird Nightmare’s gloriously distorted cover of The Troggs’ 1966 classic bummer ballad, “Our Love Will Still Be There” is out now. “British Invasion is a really big part of my musical DNA” shares Weird Nightmare’s Alex Edkins. “The Kinks, The Troggs, The Pretty Things are my go-to comfort music."
Buy "Our Love Will Still Be There" today on Bandcamp Friday: weirdnightmare.bandcamp.com
Yo La Tengo will play all-ages shows at the Neptune Theatre on Wednesday and Thursday, February 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. Check out Live Video from Yo La Tengo's 2013 KEXP In-Studio: bit.ly | yolatengo.bandcamp.com
Pixies covering the great Leonard Cohen in 1991 with their version of, "I Can't Forget".
This track originally appeared on Cohen's 1988 release, "I'm Your Man".
The Breeders' history began when Kim Deal, bassist of the Pixies, began writing new material while the Pixies were touring Surfer Rosa in Europe with Throwing Muses. As neither band had plans in the immediate future, Deal discussed possible side projects with Throwing Muses guitarist Tanya Donelly. Rest was history! thebreedersmusic.com
The New Pornographers have just announced a new album called Continue as a Guest coming March 31 via Merge Records. The song was co-written with Dan Bejar (Destroyer), “Really Really Light” and is described as a refashioning of a cutting-room-floor track from the band’s acclaimed 2014 album Brill Bruisers. “Part of my process throughout the years has been messing with things I never finished. I really liked Dan’s chorus, and for a while I was just trying to write something that I felt like belonged with it,” A.C.
Newman shares. “I was thinking of the Aloe Blacc song ‘The Man’ which interpolated the chorus from Elton John’s ‘Your Song’ and thought it would be fun to interpolate a song that no one knows. Not trying to sound like Aloe Blacc, just doing some interpolating of my own. It became a game of writing a verse that felt like a part of the same song. In my mind, I was striving for a little Jeff Lynne–era Tom Petty, a classic go-to.”
Watch the band perform this amazing song live on Jools Holland. Literally on him. He was nearly crushed to death.
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The story of INXS is the story of life itself. A group of brothers start a band, meet a handsome singer and the rest is pure awesome.
...and so much handsome.
Peter Gabriel has just released a new single called “Panopticom" featuring Brian Eno on synthesizer and bells.
In a press release, Gabriel says: "(This) is based on an idea I have been working on to initiate the creation of an infinitely expandable accessible data globe: the Panopticom. We are beginning to connect a like-minded group of people who might be able to bring this to life, to allow the world to see itself better and understand more of what’s really going on."
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Good morning John! My son Lucas's 15th birthday is today and it would rock his world to hear anything by Nation of Language. He first heard them on your show about a year ago and hasn't stopped listening since. Happy Monday, keep up the great work!
Lynde of Baltimore
Look here, this is one of those strange special songs that you need to know. So let's get with it.
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The Golden Dregs will be at Treefort Music Festival in Boise this March!
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English songwriter Benjamin Woods is better known as The Golden Dregs.
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"On Grace & Dignity" came to be in winter 2020 when he lost his job in lockdown and moved back to his parents’ house. The only work he found find was as a worker at a building site outside of Truro.
From Woods: “It was such a bleak winter – waist-deep in mud digging holes and rolling out turf on top of building waste, really grim stuff, which became the backdrop to the stories I was trying to write." He cited Raymond Carver, Lydia Davis and Richard Hugo as influences for the album.
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Grace Love just released an EP last night called Work in Protest featuring four excellent songs and this is called "Broke." She says the collection of songs is "...about about finding comfort. It's about not quitting when you just couldn't see the light."
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Grace will be at the Tractor Feb 14 and yes, you should go!
"A Girl Like You," which is an Iggy Pop tribute, was Edwyn Collins' biggest solo hit. It was reported that Pop intended to record his own rendition of “A Girl Like You” but opted not to due to Collins’ own version blowing up.
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The song samples the drum track of Len Barry's single "1-2-3" (1965), and features The Sex Pistols' drummer Paul Cook on vibraphone.
This Copenhagen based artist says this song is about bringing the magic of childhood to the present. "When we grow up, we tend to forget our ability to listen to what our body and subconscious are trying to communicate," she explains. -- Go here to order this brand-new single: luckylo.bandcamp.com
Greatest video ever? Man, it's up there. Minimally it's the best video featuring bunnies doing bike tricks, ever. E.V.E.R.
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You can hear Quasi at The Tractor Tavern on Friday, March 3rd, 2023.
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"Breaking the Balls of History is Quasi’s tenth record, landing ten years after their last record, on February tenth. Three tens, which aligns with the thirty years they’ve played together. Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss have become Pacific Northwest icons, and Quasi has always felt so steadfast—": Read the story of this album that followed Janet Weiss' severe auto accident, the pandemic, and more: megamart.subpop.com
Check out this Vancouver artist Live on KEXP: www.youtube.com
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