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Tuesday, Jan 24 2023, 7AM
7 a.m.
Dusty road
I'm gonna drive until it burns my bones.
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
“Celestial Shoegaze that reflects the cold beauty of the Austrian Alps.” - Stereogum
The Austrian duo MOLLY's new album Picturesque is out now!
wearemolly.com
wearemolly.bandcamp.com
Death Cab for Cutie will be playing at Climate Pledge Arena Friday/Saturday, October 6/7, 2023 as part of The Postal Service/DCFC 20th Anniversary Tour!
KEXP hosted Ben Gibbard In-Studio in July of last year - enjoy Live Video from the performance: youtu.be
“‘Foxglove’ is by far the most personal song on the record,” lead vocalist and guitarist Ben Gibbard said in a statement. “While I was writing it, I thought I was merely the narrator. But the longer I sat with it, I realized I was both the protagonist AND the narrator.” bit.ly
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7:22 AM
32nd spin
Back in 2019, writer Ian King reflected on Juno's This is the Way it Goes and Goes and Goes on KEXP's Rewind to celebrate it's 20th anniversary:
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The music video released for "Classic Girl" featured clips from the film Gift, directed by and starring band frontman Perry Farrell and his then-girlfriend and muse, Casey Niccoli.
Casey Niccoli, aka the 'Classic girl', dated Perry Farrell from 1982 to 1993, and through those years witnessed first-hand the evolution of Jane's Addiction as both girlfriend and creative muse.
"I was 18, and I really wanted to move," she recalled. "L.A. was so exciting to me. I had $250 to my name, packed up my car and moved to L.A. I felt like I belonged here. I got into the punk scene, and three or four years later I met Perry. My boyfriend's band played a benefit show with Psi Com (Farrell's former band). I just showed up, and I was immediately just mesmerized, fell in love."
Nicolli and Farrell began dating a year later.
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Underworld released "dubnobasswithmyhead" on this very day in 1994!
"Behind The Sun" samples a song recorded by Simin Ghanem, an Iranian classical singer born in 1944.
Of the song, ODESZA said “While digging through old records we came across a song by the legendary Iranian singer, Simin Ghanem. It was such a beautifully haunting vocal that we couldn’t really get it out of our heads. Slowly we started to build these symphonic elements around her and piece by piece it started to become this big anthemic track. We wanted to incorporate pieces of live drumming in a new way and ended up running various snare drum elements through a resonator and modulating them to each hit. Overall we really love how this song came together, bringing the past into the present is something we find really exciting and inspiring.” bit.ly
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My Ma Was Good was featured on Nakhane's EP: Leading Lines. The single, according to a press release, is part of a trilogy of songs inspired by the musician’s relationship with their mother. “Although she is no demure wallflower, she was still f*cked over by a problematic masculinity,” Nakhane explained. “Here I was asking myself the question: ‘If my ma was good and she still got a raw deal, then why should I be good? Why should I behave? This was at a point in my life when I was toying with the villain in me.”
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Their new album Bastard Jardon will be out March of this year!
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This track references John Cale's times in 1970s New York with David Bowie.
"There was this period around mid-late ’70s when David and I would run into each other in NY. There was plenty of talk about getting some work done but of course we’d end up running the streets, sometimes until we couldn’t keep a thought in our heads, let alone actually get a song together! One night we managed to meet up for a benefit concert where I taught him a viola part so we could perform together. When I wrote “Night Crawling,” it was a reflective moment of particular times. That kind of NYC that held art in its grip, strong enough to keep it safe and dangerous enough to keep it interesting." - Cale
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Dear has listed Talking Heads, David Bowie, Adonis, Nitzer Ebb, and Roman Flügel as inspirations.
When asked who he is influenced by Dear replied, "Definitely I'm influenced by Brian Eno and a lot of his work. I've said it before but he is one that is so interesting to listen to on all formats whether it be his production with other bands, whether it's his solo work or whether it's his collaboration work with other artists. He's probably the number one."
matthewdear.bandcamp.com
M83 will be playing in Seattle at Showbox SoDo on Wednesday, May 10th and Thursday, May 11th!
A new album is also on the way, titled Fantasy, and will be out on March 17th.
“I wanted this record to be very impactful live,” Anthony Gonzalez said in some press material. “The idea was to come back with something closer to the energy of Before The Dawn Heals Us. The combination of guitars and synths is always in my music, but it’s maybe more present on this new record than on the previous ones… I wanted to be more present lyrically and vocally even if that was daunting at first. “I thought if I could achieve that, this album will be more personal than those that came before.”
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Hey John,
Good morning, thanks for being here today. I recently voted in the KEXP poll for 1989 as the best year in music. I am curious if you can play a song (or set) that you love from that year.
Brian
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Robert Smith has given different stories about what inspired the song. One is that it was written after a fire at Smith’s house and he found pictures of his wife, Mary Poole in the wreckage – so the song was written in response to his nostalgia. Another story is that he once threw away all of his personal photos and home movies.
Aaaand another favorite from the year of 1989, as requested by Brian.
In a 2009 interview, Stone Roses lead singer Ian Brown explained that he "didn't actually want people to adore me. I was trying to say then, if you want to be adored, it's like a sin, like lust or gluttony or something like that."
Ladytron's new album Time's Arrow is out now!
Ladytron are an English electronic band formed in Liverpool in 1999. The band's name was taken from the song "Ladytron" by Roxy Music. Former Roxy Music member Brian Eno said in 2009, "Ladytron are, for me, the best of English pop music. They're the kind of band that really only appears in England, with this funny mixture of eccentric art-school dicking around and dressing up, with a full awareness of what's happening everywhere musically, which is kind of knitted together and woven into something quite new."
The Joy Formidable released The Big Roar on this day in 2011!
Gossip released Standing in the Way of Control on this day in 2006!
Fontaines D.C. performed live at Kex Hostel in Reykjavik during Iceland Airwaves 2018. This is one of the songs from the set! Recap it here: youtu.be
They will be going on tour this year and have a showed lined up in Seattle at Climate Pledge Arena on September 24th!
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Hey John & Owen, hope you guys are good & well?
Any chance of a request please this morning for my good friend Violet who's not had the best couple of days.
If possible it'd be cool to hear the Sex Pistols 'Holiday In The Sun' as a reminder that better days are just around the corner.
Thank you both. Appreciate all that you do :)
Simon the Mancunian in Manchester
Vocalist and lyricist Valentine Caulfield says of the song, “‘Injury Detail’ was inspired by the idea of being trapped in a liminal space, with the guitars creating a seemingly limitless and undefined landscape. The vocals act as a guide to possible salvation, or perhaps something of a more sinister intent.” The pulsating single foregrounds industrial, rave-ready beats alongside Valentine's dark-toned French vocals.
Requested by Russ!
This song is based on a real-life encounter Steve Kilbey had with a reptile.
M83 released their third album, "Before the Dawn Heals Us" on this day in 2005!
They are releasing their new album Fantasy in March and will be playing two nights in Seattle at Showbox SoDo May 10th and 11th!
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This Seattle four-piece band consists of Bailey Melton (vocals, guitar) and Kell Jacobson (guitar) along with Chris Hansche (bass), and Christ Glaser (drums).
"“Wrong Side” is laced with dramatic lyrics that confess feelings of alienation, fear, and anger at the hands of a stale relationship."
touristactivities.bandcamp.com
KEXP's Rachel Stevens spoke to Kristin Hersh about her book "Seeing Sideways: A Memoir of Music and Motherhood", and what it's like to tour with four boys and navigate an industry she hates in order to do what she loves.
You can find the interview for Sound & Vision's "Apparently" mini-series: kexp.org
Caution was formed in 2019 by songwriters Cash Langdon and Nora Button. Since 2020, the duo has collaborated almost exclusively sending tracks back and forth, as Langdon lives in Alabama and Button in Minnesota.
cautioncaution.bandcamp.com
Imperial Teen is a San Francisco-based pop group made up of Roddy Bottum on guitar/vocals, Will Schwartz on guitar/vocals, Lynn Truell on drums/backing vocals, & Jone Stebbins on bass/backing vocals.
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Fuzzy is the debut studio album by American rock band Grant Lee Buffalo, released in 1993.
R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe praised Fuzzy as "the best album of the year hands down".
"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
"This Time Tomorrow" is the eighth track from the Kinks' 1970 album. It was written by Ray Davies.
Ray Davies said of the song's inspiration:
"I felt that I'd lost contact with my family. Because I'd been in a pop music bubble for five years, and I didn't know the people around me anymore. 'This Time Tomorrow' was about transience, and an ephemeral world. Clouds, and where do we play tomorrow, and what am I doing as a person tomorrow? It's a floating song, and I was floating into a different era. Going with the flow for a while, until I work out where I want to be."
The Tubs are a London 4 piece who say that this song is “about meeting yourself in a mysterious setting and telling yourself a lie.”
thetubs.bandcamp.com
"Need You Around" is a song by the Chicago-based pop punk band the Smoking Popes, released as the second single from their 1994 album Born to Quit. The album was originally released by Johann's Face Records in 1994, and "Need You Around" received radio play on Chicago's Q101 and Los Angeles' KROQ.
Rubberneck is the first studio album by American rock band Toadies, released in 1994.
Why does the guy in this song rummage through the refrigerator and find a beer? Todd Lewis explained: "There's a moment sometimes when you're writing where you're like, 'I don't have any idea what this line is going to be. I've got these lines before it and these after it and I have no line to go in this one spot. I'm thirsty, so he's going to get a beer now, that's what he's going to do.'"
You can find Screaming Females in Seattle at Madame Lou's on Wednesday, April 12th, 2023.
From New Brunswick, New Jersey, "Desire Pathway" is their first new album in nearly five years. The trio recorded "Desire Pathway" at Pachyderm Studios, the same Minnesota space where Nirvana recorded 1993’s "In Utero."
Helmet was formed in 1989 by vocalist/guitarist Page Hamilton after he left the alternative rock group Band of Susans. Hamilton would recruit guitarist Peter Mengede, bassist Henry Bogdan, and drummer John Stanier. Having not settled on a name yet, Mengede's then-wife Reyne Cuccuro suggested the Germanic name of "helmuth", meaning spirit, protector, or courage. Having misinterpreted her, Hamilton thought she was referring to the helmet protective gear. Thinking it was "a pretty cool name for a band", Hamilton went with the Anglicized spelling and the band was named Helmet.
MSPaint have announced that they will be releasing their debut full-length album, It is called Post-American and will be out March 10th! The band has also released this new song called “Delete It” which features Ian Shelton of Militarie Gun.
mspainthattiesburg.bandcamp.com
Greatest saxophone song of 2011.
Don't miss M83 at Showbox SoDo May 10th and 11th! Have a great day everyone!