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Tuesday, Jan 31 2023, 7AM
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Lonnie Holley's new record will be out March 10th - lonnieholley.bandcamp.com
On this song, Holley reflected, “My art and my music are always closely tied to what is happening around me, and the last few years have given me a lot to thoughtsmith about. When I listen back to these songs I can feel the times we were living through." (via Bandcamp)
Jason Swinscoe of The Cinematic Orchestra talks about Patrick Watson, writer and vocalist of this of this song, who was at the time a hockey goalie when this track was written.
Read the full interview here: daily.redbullmusicacademy.com
The band's name is based off "Clem Snide", a character in several novels by American writer William S. Burroughs, including Naked Lunch, The Ticket That Exploded, and Exterminator.
Eels plays the Neptune Theatre on Wednesday, July 14th, 2023 - eelstheband.com
This drum intro is quite famous; it was borrowed from "Be My Baby," a 1963 hit by The Ronettes.
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Read KEXP's Review Revue feature on the 12" single: www.kexp.org themarychain.com
The Afghan Whigs released Congregation, their third album, on this day in 1992!
Smokey Brights will be playing at Fisherman's Village Lineup Announce Party at Black Lab Village in Everett, WA on February 4th at 8PM!
www.smokeybrights.com
KEXP & Cloudbreak Music Festival Present: Smokey Brights 10 year Anniversary 2024
Friday, Nov 22, 2024
Event Info
Tori Amos released Under the Pink on this day in 1994.
Tori fought hard for the whistling that comes in over her piano at the beginning of the song. Everyone else - including her then-boyfriend/producer Eric Rosse - was in favor of a mandolin line that guitarist Steve Caton came up with. "Everybody really liked that," she told The Baltimore Sun in 1994. "And even in the mix studio, I was screaming at the top of my lungs that it had to be a whistle. I want the cowboys coming over the hill. Eric was laughing his head off, and the mixer, Kevin Killen, said to me, 'This whistle is naff, Tori.' And I said, 'Well, guess what, Kevin. When you make your own song, you can put your own mandolin on it. This is a whistle. F--king put it in. Put the sample in.' So I got my whistle, and I'm happy as a clam to this day."
Yeah Yeah Yeahs' released their single "Skeletons" from their third album It's Blitz! on this day in 2010!
The band say “‘Heavy Heavy’ could be a mood, or it could describe the smoothed granite of bass that supports the sound,” they said. “Or, it could be a nod to the natural progression of boys to grown men and the inevitable toll of living, a joyous burden, relationships, family, the natural momentum of a group that has been around long enough to witness massive changes."
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The ambient track's video was directed by Nigerian-Austrian filmmaker David Uzochukwu. You can find it here:
www.youtube.com
Hammock's new album Love in the Void is out now!
According to the band, it is their loudest album to date.
www.hammockmusic.com
The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place is an album about hope. Its cover, designed by Esteban Rey, bears its titular statement scrawled over and over in stark black handwriting, a defiantly positive mantra in the post-9/11 landscape. “That way we could kind of imagine that it was written by someone who sees all the horror and terror of the world, but who is also trying to look at all the wonderful and beautiful things,” explained drummer Chris Hrasky.
Read more:
guitar.com
When asked what’s the best song he’s ever written Moby replied, “God Moving Over the Face of the Waters.”
Moby explained, “Ironically enough it’s a song that doesn’t have any lyrics to it. It’s a song called God Moving Over the Face of the Waters, and it’s an instrumental piece of music that, when I was writing it, I had this vision, like at least according to the Old Testament, the creation story, at one point you know, what is it – the earth was without form and void and God was moving over the face of the waters. And this particular piece of music was written with that in mind.”
Greatest hits of 1813.
Our son, Evan, is 15 today. He's listened to your show his whole life. Any chance of some LCD Soundsystem?
If it pleases the DJ... and thanks!
Doug
Moscow, ID
Thom Yorke composed this first song from Radiohead's "Kid A" on piano. The song is said to be about how he felt following a show on their 1997 OK Computer tour in Birmingham, England. When Yorke exited the stage he went to the dressing room and felt burned out. While the band was becoming famous, but Yorke was feeling helpless.
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."
Mercy is the seventeenth studio album by Welsh musician and composer John Cale, released on January 20th.
Cale has hinted at a new album numerous times over the years following the release of M:FANS (2016), his previous studio album featuring reworkings of old songs, and Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood (2012), his last album with all new songs. When M:FANS was released in January 2016 Cale said that another new album with new songs would be released by the end of the year. According to a November 2017 interview, the album was set for a 2018 release. The album was subsequently completed before the COVID-19 pandemic, however its release was then delayed. A few years later, we've finally arrived!
Clark's upcoming album Sus Dog, due out May 26th, is produced by Thom Yorke.
clark.bandcamp.com
Tom Wolfe’s novel The Bonfire of The Vanities is one of Vek’s few direct reference points on the album, as "Sherman (Animals In The Jungle)" alludes to the character of the same name in the book.
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John Lyndon, better known as Johnny Rotten, was born on this day in 1956!
New Day Rising is the third studio album by Hüsker Dü, released on this day in 1985
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Minnesota PBS is running an excellent documentary series on the Minnesota punk and hardcore scene that evolved in the late 70's/early 80's. All the episodes are available on YouTube - here's a link to the first youtu.be.
The HuskerDu episode is absolutely incredible ------> www.youtube.com
"Building on the reaction to 2021’s collection of raw demos, ‘Fuzztapes Vol.1,’ the band documents their experience in the dirty underside of LA life, from sniping at the scene kids on the east side of LA to calling out the elites of the Westside beach cities – as well as critiquing surf conditions."
www.psychedelicbabymag.com
“I remember when we were recording ‘A Certain Romance’ and having a conversation with the producer about the final guitar solo,” said Alex Turner to NME when reflecting on the song.
“There’s something that happens at the end of that track where we break some rules in a single moment. We focused on the [emotional] effect of the instrumentals over the words – and I feel like we’ve been trying to do that again and again since then.”
www.nme.com
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."
The Argument is the sixth and final studio album from the post-hardcore band Fugazi released on October 16, 2001 through Dischord Records. It was recorded at Don Zientara's Inner Ear Studios in Arlington, VA and the Dischord House between January and April 2001. It was the band's last release (simultaneously with Furniture) before going on indefinite hiatus in 2003, until the release of First Demo over thirteen years later.
Written by Kurt Cobain, Breed was on Nirvana's second studio album, "Nevermind," released in September 1991. The song was performed for the last time live at Nirvana's final concert, at Terminal Einz in Munich, Germany on March 1, 1994, about a month before Cobain's death.
See Nirvana perform "Breed" live at the Paramount in 1991: www.youtube.com
Because today is the mother of all Tuesday mornings
"Voices Carry" was the debut single, from the debut album of the same name, and greatest claim to fame for 'Til Tuesday. The group came out of Boston, Massachusetts, after winning a radio contest, Boston's WBCN Rock & Roll Rumble. Til Tuesday's lead singer was Aimee Mann, who later emerged as a formidable solo artist.
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Watch a live performance by Aimee Mann in the KEXP studio in 2017: www.youtube.com
Even on Tuesdays, the sun comes out.
For Bill and Frank.
Nick Offerman covering Linda Ronstandt's Long, Long Time. The song was featured in this past weekend's new episode of HBO series, The Last of Us.
"I'm not sure if you've played Linda Ronstadt's "Long Long Time" since yesterday, but I just watched The Last of Us episode 3 last night and it was the perfect song for a perfect episode. If you can fit it in, I'd appreciate it. Thanks! Pete in Raleigh"
Thanks for spending the morning with us! Take care today. x