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Monday, Jan 30 2023, 7AM
Good Morning and welcome to the Monday edition of the Morning Show with John!
Rest in Peace Television's Tom Verlaine, who died this weekend at 73 after a brief illness. From Pitchfork, Verlaine’s work with Television is punctuated by their landmark 1977 debut album Marquee Moon, regularly hailed as one of the best albums of the 1970s, Their intricate, airy compositions embodied the experimental wing of Manhattan’s fabled CBGB scene in the late ‘70s. He went on to release several solo vocal and instrumental albums as Tom Verlaine and as part of a duo interpreting silent films.
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A cover of the Television classic. RIP Tom Verlaine of Television, who died this weekend at 73.
Another cover of the beloved Television. RIP to Tom Verlaine, who passed this weekend at 73.
Will Sergeant, guitarist of Echo & The Bunnymen, said: "Tom Verlaine's playing meant the world to me. If I ever played anything that sounded like him I was happy. He set me on my path as a guitarist, thank you Tom."
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Another Television cover. Tom Verlaine passed this weekend at 73, but his guitar influence will live on.
Luna made this cover of the Television classic "Marquee Moon" remotely from LA, Austin, San Francisco, and New Zealand. Read more, and watch the video: tinyurl.com
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The first song John ever played on KEXP. And so began an incredible new journey!
The title of this song is a reference to the the 1978 recording by Suicide, “23 Minutes Over Brussels.” Lead singer Dean Wareham wrote the lyrics and Television guitarist Tom Verlaine guests on guitar.
Brand new music from London group HÆLOS. Per their Bandcamp, they fuse emotive melodies with cinematic soundscapes and evocative electronic production.
haelos.bandcamp.com
Cheryl had them in the studio back in 2016: www.youtube.com
Look for the new album, "My Soft Machine" at the end of May.
Parks described this new single: "'Weightless' surrounds the painful experience of caring deeply about someone who only gives you tiny breadcrumbs of affection. It's about suddenly realizing that a person has dulled your edges and embarking on the slow journey back to being a brighter version of yourself."
www.arloparksofficial.com
Shalom is "an alt-pop upstart born in Maryland, raised in South Africa, and currently living in Brooklyn (though she also has roots in the New Brunswick DIY scene, having attended Rutgers)." - bit.ly
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Released in anticipation of Brooklyn-based Shalom’s debut record due out on March 10th - okayshalom.bandcamp.com
"So Hard to Tell" is the first single from 'Good Luck," Nigerian-born, Canada-based artist Debby Friday's debut album.
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Watch the video here www.youtube.com
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Catch Debby Friday in Seattle at Barboza on April 13, 2023. Tour dates and more at debbyfriday.com
Bato Mato is the Welch post-punk's sophomore album.
The band’s memories of speeding through Russia on a trip to perform at UU.Sound in Ulan-Ude, Siberia have seeped into the fabric of their second record.
circuitsweet.co.uk
New live record from The Smile, featuring Radiohead members Thom Yorke (vocals, guitar, bass, keys), Jonny Greenwood (guitar, bass, keys) and drummer Tom Skinner. thesmiletheband.com
Technique is New Order's fifth studio album, released on this day in 1989
"Fine Time" was written and partially recorded in Ibiza; its title was inspired by an incident in which band member Stephen Morris's car was towed, and he had to remember to pay the fine.
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.”
www.stereogum.com
"Watched "White Noise" - the new Noah Baumbach flick on Netflix over the weekend. It's a trippy bit of colorful weirdness about life and death (sort of), and the closing credits featured an extended dance sequence in a grocery store set to New Body Rhumba from LCD Soundsystem.
If there's a chance of New Body Rhumba hitting the airwaves I promise I will try to recreate the dance in my work-from-home office.
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DJ Assistant Chelsea adds, Seriously. You gotta see this dance number.
Django Django's self-titled debut released on this day in 2012.
Django Django started off their live session in the KEXP studio with "Hail Bop." Watch the full performance here:
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This quartet met at Edinburgh College of Art, and formed Django Django in London in 2009.
www.djangodjango.co.uk
djangodjango.bandcamp.com
Steve Mason, the former leader of the Beta Band, has announced his new solo album Brothers & Sisters. Pre-order it here: stevemasontheartist.com
Brand new dream pop from London duo Deary. Check out their bandcamp: deary.bandcamp.com
"Kiss Them For Me" is a tribute to the '50s and '60s blonde bombshell actress Jayne Mansfield, and includes Manfield's famous catch phrase "divoon."
This song is the opening track of Superstition, the 10th studio album by Siouxsie and the Banshees, released in 1991.
Vocalist Dave Gahan explained that “Enjoy The Silence” began as a “very slow, ballad-y couple of verses” but bandmate Alan Wilder and producer Flood converted it into the danceable new wave hit it became. At first, songwriter Martin Gore was initially not on board with the uptempo rewrite.
"I thought the very nature of the song was, you know, enjoy the silence, so it ought to have a very serene atmosphere. It took me a while to get used to the idea, but as we took it further that way with the guitar riff, it really pulled together."
Check out the official music video for "Pushing Forward":
www.youtube.com
www.spiritawardmusic.com
New music from local act Spirit Award! Pre-order the new record here:
spiritaward.bandcamp.com
New music from this local Seattle band! Playing this Friday at the Sunset Tavern. oftheheavysun.bandcamp.com
Go check out the official video for "Almost Everything" here:
www.youtube.com
Mudhoney have announced their 11th album, Plastic Eternity, due April 7 via Sub Pop. The album was made with longtime producer Johnny Sangster, and this is the first single from it.
mudhoney.bandcamp.com
Watch this English band performing for KEXP at Bowery Electric in NYC in 2008 here: www.youtube.com
RIP Rev. Barrett Strong, one of the pioneering breakthrough artists on the Motown label. Ready about Barrett Strong and his life here: www.rollingstone.com
This cover version of Barrett Strong's "Money" by The Flying Lizards featuring Deborah Evans-Stickland on lead vocals, reached the UK and US record charts in 1979.
And yes, it was recorded for less than $30!
This is one of the best scenes in Empire Records: www.youtube.com
Ball of Confusion was a song was originally performed by the classic soul group The Temptations and written by Rev. Barrett Strong. The song's lyrics refer to the major political issues (corrupt politicians, higher taxes, race riots, broken promises, war, poverty, etc.) that were going on at that time (and some feel still exist today).
"Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)" is a 1970 hit single for The Temptations. It was released on the Gordy (Motown) label, and written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong.
Bob Babbitt of the Motown house band The Funk Brothers recalled to Mojo magazine February 2009 the recording of this track: Putting it together was simple, we just did that one song in the three-hour session and we had enough time left over to eat some BLT sandwiches. We didn't know it was going to be political, because the lyrics weren't written when the rhythm track was recorded. Although a nearly eleven minute long backing track was recorded, only slightly more than four minutes was used for the Temptations' version of the song. The full backing track can be heard on the 1971 self titled debut album of the Motown group The Undisputed Truth.
RIP to Rev. Barrett Strong.
This was written by the Motown songwriters Barrett Strong and Norman Whitfield, and produced by Whitfield. It was first recorded by The Undisputed Truth, but Whitfield also had The Temptations record it, with much greater success.: bit.ly
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The album version of this song runs 11:46. The single was released with the song split into two parts: the A-side was the "vocal" version and runs 6:58; the B-side is the "instrumental" and goes 4:49. Both sides of the single was Grammy awards. The A-side won for Best R&B Vocal Performance By A Duo, Group Or Chorus, and the B-side took the award for Best R&B Instrumental Performance.
Celebrating the life of Rev. Barrett Strong, who died yesterday aged 81.
A Rolling Stones cover of the Temptations classic song. RIP Barrett Strong.
RIP to Tom Verlaine, who passed away this weekend aged 73 after a short illness.
The band chose acclaimed English engineer Andy Johns to produce the Marquee Moon on account of his work on such early-’70s classics as Mott The Hoople’s Brain Capers and Goat’s Head Soup by The Rolling Stones. However, according to an insightful and neck-deep interview conducted with Lloyd by Scottish author Damien Love for Uncut, a lifestyle clash with Johns and Television produced studio tension from the outset.
"Andy is a real child of rock ’n’ roll," Lloyd tells Love. "He was used to being with people who are also rock ’n’ roll, and you can imagine whatever that means in the 1970s. He was used to people who didn’t mind taking it very slack in the studio. You know: you’ve got a 2 o’clock start, and the engineer shows up at 4.30, and the guitarist shows up at 5 and the singer rolls in at midnight. But Television were not like that. We were punctual. And serious."
"He’d say things like, 'Is this a Velvet Underground trip? What kind of trip is this?'" Verlaine recalled told writer and renowned New York avant-garde musician Alan Licht for the liner notes to Rhino’s 2004 expanded edition of Marquee Moon. "And I’d say, 'I don’t know; it’s just two guitars, bass and drums. It’s like every band you’ve ever done.' "So he said, 'O.K., I’ll come back after Christmas.' So he came back and all of a sudden he totally loved the record. He said, 'Jesus, this is great.'" bit.ly
One more Television show to remember Tom Verlaine who passed this weekend. Stay tuned for Cheryl Waters on the midday show!
“Tom Verlaine is the guitarist to mention these days if you’re a young rocker with some pretense to intelligence and originality,” Robert Palmer of The New York Times wrote in 1987. www.nytimes.com