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Live at the Gorge 05/06 is a seven-disc live box set Pearl Jam released back in 2007. The box set documents the band's 2005 and 2006 shows at The Gorge Amphitheatre. Between the three concerts there were sixty-nine individual songs performed!
Prince originally recorded "Raspberry Beret" in 1982, but re-worked it with his newly re-formed Revolution backing band, which had just crystalized into what would become the fan favorite lineup: Brown Mark on bass, Bobby Z on drums, Wendy Melvoin, Lisa Coleman and Doctor Fink on keyboard, backing guitar, and backing vocals. If you blinked in the mid-'80s, you missed it, because this incarnation of the Revolution broke up by 1986, with Prince firing everybody but Doctor Fink.
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Watch the official music video: www.youtube.com
Trouble is a band formed specifically for their performance in "Part 5" of Twin Peaks, consisting of Riley Lynch on guitar, Alex Zhang Hungtai on tenor saxophone, Sam Smith on bass, and Dean Hurley on guitar.
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troubletwinpeaks.bandcamp.com
Treat Her Right was a rock group formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1985. Features Mark Sandman talking about experiences in (presumably dive) bars. Probably how he met Thursday afternoon.
This 1994 release is a poem Soul Coughing's Mike Doughty dreamed up about L.A. while actually living in New York. We are all in some way or another, going to Reseda.
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Sadly, Dead Can Dance had to cancel their tour, including two nights at the Paramount in March. for health reasons.
"Into the Labyrinth" was the first album where Perry and Gerrard played all instruments, without guest musicians. It was written while they were living far apart and writing music independently (Perry was living on an island in the middle of a river in Ireland, while Gerrard lived in Australia with her husband and daughter) -- Want to see a live performance of "The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove"?: www.youtube.com
Diamond performed this on The Johnny Cash Show, where he explained: "This song was written about a revival meeting I was at in Jackson, Mississippi. I went there because I was curious, and also because I was a college kid who had all the answers - no one was going to teach me anything and I could lay a few answers on them. I sat in the back of this tent meeting and I got really caught up in the music - clapping, the singing - tremendously exciting.
Released on this day in 1966!
Simon talked about this song in a 1990 interview with SongTalk magazine: "That was written in Liverpool when I was traveling. What I like about that is that it has a very clear memory of Liverpool station and the streets of Liverpool and the club I played at and me at age 22. It's like a snapshot, a photograph of a long time ago. I like that about it but I don't like the song that much. First of all, it's not an original title. That's one of the main problems with it. It's been around forever. No, the early songs I can't say I really like them. But there's something naive and sweet-natured and I must say I like that about it. They're not angry. And that means that I wasn't angry or unhappy. And that's my memory of that time: it was just about idyllic. It was just the best time of my life, I think, up until recently, these last five years or so, six years... This has been the best time of my life. But before that, I would say that that was."
See First Aid Kit with Hurray for the Riff Raff at Paramount on May 24th!
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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.
Watch First Aid Kit performing this Simon and Garfunkel cover live at KEXP in 2012 right here: www.youtube.com
The track was inspired by a difficult time in Los Angeles, where the sisters spent five weeks in spring 2017 penning songs for their fourth studio album. The pair discovered the city of angels is not all just fun in the sun. They said:
"It was a tough time for the both of us. We were in this beautiful sunny place, but mostly felt sad and lonely. 'It's A Shame' is a song about the emptiness and desperation you feel after a relationship has come to an end. How you will go to great lengths just to numb the pain and feel less lonely."
Thanks for the heads up that it's Dolly Parton's birthday. Had to go change into my Dollywood shirt for the occasion. Thanks for the excellent music so far today - Jen
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Thanks Jen! Happy birthday to Dolly Parton!
"Hello, I'm Johnny Cash" was released 53 years ago today!
"If I Were a Carpenter" is a folk song written by Tim Hardin in the 1960s, and re-recorded with commercial success by various artists including Bobby Darin, The Four Tops and this great version by Johnny Cash
Carpenters cover! But not the kind of carpenter Johnny Cash was singing about. This is the Karen and Richard kind of Carpenter.
Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth paid tribute to Karen Carpenter in 2015, telling Mojo: "Her voice was amazing. And her death made you look back at the lyrics. She didn't write them, but she made them her own. How did they pick a song like Superstar?"
"Really Really Light," co-written by AC Newman and Dan Bejar, is The New Pornographer's first single off their forthcoming album, Continue as a Guest, out March 31!
This track was originally written for the band's 2014 album 'Brill Bruisers'-- “Part of my process throughout the years has been messing with things I never finished,” Newman said of this song. bit.ly
The New Pornographers are no strangers to the KEXP studio! Check out their most recent in studio performance: www.youtube.com
www.thenewpornographers.com
Brand new song from the trios upcoming album out March 31st!
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Check out their KEXP live session from Avast studios: bit.ly
Brand new song from the upcoming album, due out April 28th. americanmary.com
The album it features guest appearances from National pals Taylor Swift, Sufjan Stevens, and Phoebe Bridgers!
See them at Marymoor park on June 4th!
This song arrived in Bob Mould's mental inbox in the summer of 1991. “It was this dream song that just turned up as I was waking up one morning,” Mould recalls. “It came to me fully formed, and then it’s just all the baubles that make it that crazy baroque band thing. All that was pretty much in my head too, but you have to sit down and make these baubles shine. That’s the production stuff.”: www.loudersound.com
Check out Bob Mould performing "Hoover Dam' Live on KEXP in 2013: youtu.be
Latest from Parannoul (parh-ah-nole), a South Korean anonymous, bedroom shoegaze musician who told Pitchfork that they are too embarrassed to identify themselves on the internet or even tell their parents they make music. They have also released music as Mydreamfever, as well as several now-deleted albums as laststar. parannoul.bandcamp.com
Lead singer Ali Genevich on some of the themes in the song, “I wished I could make all the bad people disappear so they couldn’t drag down the ones I cared about with them.”
The new album, 'A Place We Grew Up In' is out this spring
lavedamusic.bandcamp.com www.lavedaband.com
"The third full-length from Deep Sea Diver, Impossible Weight is a work of sublime highs and mesmerizing lows, its restless intensity both unsettling and transcendent. For bandleader Jessica Dobson, the album’s sonic and emotional expanse stems from a period of sometimes-brutal self-examination—a process that began not long after the Seattle-based four-piece finished touring for their acclaimed sophomore effort Secrets. "
In October, 2021 they performed this track in the KEXP studio! bit.ly
www.thisisdeepseadiver.com
Gary Smith, the producer who owned legendary Boston studio For Apache Studios and worked on records by Pixies, Throwing Muses, Billy Bragg, Blake Babies and more, has died following a short illness. Among the albums Gary produced: Pixies' first EP, Come on Pilgrim.
RIP Gary Smith, the legendary producer who owned Fort Apache Studios. He produced a huge list of albums and artists including Buffalo Tom's first three albums
In tribute to producer Gary Smith, owner of Fort Apache Studios who has passed following a short illness. Among the albums Gary produced: Pixies' first EP, Come on Pilgrim, Throwing Muses' House Tornado, Blake Babies' Earwig and Sunburn, The Chills' Submarine Bells, The Connells' Fun & Games, and The Feelies' Time for a Witness, and he also worked on records by Billy Bragg, Scrawl, 10,000 Maniacs, and more.
Another great album recorded at Fort Apache Studios. RIP Gary Smith
A Rhode Island native, Gary Smith gave supportive early guidance to Newport, Rhode Island's Throwing Muses group, advising them to move to Boston's burgeoning alternative music scene in 1986. RIP Gary Smith
Submarine Bells was the band's first album on a major label and is another produced by Gary Smith. The album won Best Album at the 1990 New Zealand Music Awards, and "Heavenly Pop Hit" won Single of the Year.
The Chills stopped by the KEXP studio back in March 2019! Check out their full performance here: www.youtube.com
Radiohead's Pablo Honey was mixed at For Apache. RIP Gary Smith
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Ed Obrien described this song as being “about people not standing up for their rights: Stop whispering and start shouting.” - bit.ly
So many albums and artists recorded at Fort Apache Studios, including Mission of Burma's Forget!
Even though it was the lowest selling Cure album in 12 years, Robert Smith has said 'Wild Mood Swings', The Cure's 10th album, is "one of his favorite Cure albums"
"Natural One" by The Folk Implosion was released as a single in 1995, and featured on the soundtrack to the Larry Clark film Kids, but does not appear in the film itself. - thefolkimplosion.bandcamp.com
This review calls Lush' "Lowlife" "a feminist antidote to Britpop’s dude overload.": music.avclub.com
The list of albums recorded at Fort Apache is neverending! So many great ones recorded there - including Papas Fritas. RIP Gary Smith
New Ladytron! "City of Angels" is the first single from Ladytron's new album 'Time's Arrow," due for release on January 20th.
Pre-order album here - ladytron.bandcamp.com
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Ladytron will play The Neptune Theatre on Wednesday, May 10th
Guitarist Ben Curtis died on on December 29th, 2013 at age 34 of T-cell lymphoblastic lymphoma. Curtis cited guitarists such as Michael Rother, Yoshimi P-We, and The Edge of U2 as some of his primary influences on guitar. He played a heavily effects-laden spacy style of guitar, reminiscent of late 1960s and early 1970s psychedelic rock, which you can really hear on this track.
From the movie "In the Name of the Father," a 1993 biographical courtroom drama film. It is based on the true story of the Guildford Four, four people falsely convicted of the 1974 Guildford pub bombings, which killed four off-duty British soldiers and a civilian. Bono along with Gavin Friday and Maurice Seezer wrote three songs for inclusion in the film.
"When asked about the guitarists who inspired him, Hendrix cited Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochran, Elmore James, and B.B. King. But Muddy Waters was the first musician who truly made him aware of the instrument. “The first guitarist I was aware of was Muddy Waters,” Hendrix said. “I heard one of his old records when I was a little boy and it scared me to death because I heard all these sounds.” '
“Take Me With U” wasn’t originally intended as a Prince and the Revolution song. The plan had been for the track to make its debut on the self-titled album by the Prince-created group Apollonia 6. Instead, Prince sang the track on "Purple Rain" as a duet with Apollonia.
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You know not to miss this 1985 live performance: www.youtube.com
Seattle band Sky Cries Mary is an American psychedelic rock/trance musical group formed in the late 1980s by Roderick Wolgamott and Ben Ireland. Notable band alumni include Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow of The Posies, vocalist Anisa Romero, Michael Cozzi of Shriekback, Jon ‘Juano’ Davison (later of Yes and Glass Hammer), and Gordon Raphael (producer for The Strokes).
Yukihiro Takahashi, the drummer and lead vocalist for electronic music trailblazers Yellow Magic Orchestra, has died at the age of 70.
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Originally formed in 1974 in Catford South London, they soon transitioned toward an art school interpretation of synth-pop, which earned them a conflicted following through the '90s.