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"Right Here, Right Now" is from Doubt (1991), the second studio album by Jesus Jones.
Inspiration for this song struck in 1989 when Mike Edwards was listening to the Simple Minds' version of "Sign O' The Times," which they recorded on a 1989 EP titled The Amsterdam. The song, written and originally recorded by Prince, is his perspective of the troubling events of the late '80s.
While Edwards listened to the music, he watched the Berlin Wall coming down on television.
"I never thought that I'd see such a thing in my lifetime," he told The Guardian in 2018, "and I wanted to write a sort of updated but positive 'Sign O' The Times' to reflect what was happening."
Jesus Jones originally sampled Prince's "Sign O' The Times" for the song and constructed a guitar solo out of "lots of Jimi Hendrix samples mashed together." None of this sampling made it onto the record, because of fears of being sued. -bit.ly
Did you know that EMF stood for Epsom Mad Funkers? Read the "unbelievable" story behind the band: rockandrolltruestories.com
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God Fodder is the debut studio album by English rock band Ned's Atomic Dustbin - www.nedsatomicdustbin.com
Brian Eno produced this great album! When asked, why Manchester’s often overlooked lyrical heroes James has survived all of these years, lead singer and lyricist Tim Booth responds with two words—and his name is Brian Eno. Booth explained his reasoning when he said, “When you’ve got Brian Eno you’re not going to give up. Everywhere I went, Michael Stipe would say ‘How did you get to work with Brian Eno, I’ve been trying to work with him for years’. Flea would say ‘How did you get to work with Brian Eno for five albums?’ We had that. Brian, God bless him, says we were his favorite band. We had an amazing time with him. He’s definitely the fifth Beatle. And we miss him!” - bit.ly
wearejames.com
Catherine Wheel formed in 1990, comprising singer-guitarist Rob Dickinson, guitarist Brian Futter, bassist Dave Hawes, and drummer Neil Sims. They took their name from the medieval torture device, since Rob Dickinson's cousin Bruce was in the "torture device-named" Iron Maiden. Chrome is their second studio album.
The Eight Legged Groove Machine is the debut album by the Wonder Stuff.
thewonderstuff.co.uk
Let Me Come Over is the third album by Boston band Buffalo Tom.
Its principal members are guitarist Bill Janovitz, bassist Chris Colbourn, and drummer Tom Maginnis. The band's name is derived from the band Buffalo Springfield and the first name of the drummer.
www.buffalotom.com
Copper Blue is the debut album by Sugar, released in 1992. During the 1980s, Bob Mould was the guitarist and a lead vocalist. When Hüsker Dü disbanded in 1987, Mould continued as a solo artist, and released two albums in 1989 and 1991. bit.ly
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Sugar's Bob Mould performed live during KEXP's New Home Grand Opening in April 2016. youtu.be bobmould.com
Dramarama singer John Easdale to Vice about this one in 2017: "Couples often tell me it's "their" song, and I'm flattered that they feel the emotion and passion of it, but I am always a bit reluctant to mention that it is essentially an ode to a bitter break-up."
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Girlfriend is the third studio album by American alternative rock musician Matthew Sweet. - www.matthewsweet.com
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Sweet recorded this song in 1990 as he was going through a brutal divorce. Around the same time, he met someone new, giving "Girlfriend" layers of emotional turmoil. - bit.ly
Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus are boygenius.
boygenius plays The Gorge on Saturday, July 29th! - www.xboygeniusx.com
The debut Blondshell album from LA-based artist Sabrina Teitelbaum.
www.blondshellmusic.com
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Playing Madame Lou's on Saturday, July 8 with Hello Mary: www.ticketweb.com
Alice Suki Waterhouse is an English model, actress and singer. Mixed by Alan Moulder, produced by Jules Apollinaire and Natalie Findlay “‘To Love’ is a song that I wrote really recently that I was going to wait to put out on my second album, but I felt like it is a very distinct portrait of my heart right now that I wanted to share,” Suki says. “I started performing it on tour and got so excited that I wanted to share it with everyone.” sukiwaterhouse.bandcamp.com
This song is about someone sitting and watching the clouds change, like many of us have done as a child. Sometimes the clouds will change into shapes that remind you of a person or object. "I think we forget these pleasures as adults," Bush explained in a 1985 fan club newsletter. "We don't get as much time to enjoy those kinds of things, or think about them, we feel silly about what we used to do naturally. The song is also suggesting the coming of the next flood - how perhaps the 'fools on the hills' will be the wise ones." - bit.ly
www.katebush.com
"The third Fever Ray album from Swedish artist (and one-half of The Knife) Karin Dreijer is a potent set of adventurous electro-pop combining dark, squiggly synths, atmospheric guitars and more with their eerie, pitch-shifted vocals and lyrics of love and desire." www.kexp.org
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Opening cut from the new Yves Tumor record! - yves-tumor.bandcamp.com
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Larry Mizell Jr., host of the Afternoon Show on KEXP, chose "God Is A Circle" by Yves Tumor as a KEXP Song of the Day. Get it here: www.kexp.org
"This Maryland-born, South Africa-raised and Brooklyn-based artist’s debut album is a strong set of emotive, hook-filled indie-pop. Produced by Ryan Hemsworth, the album combines fuzzy guitars, punchy rhythms, synths, piano and more with brutally honest lyrics of regret, substance abuse, heartache and alienation." www.kexp.org
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Released on this day in 2019!
The Destroyer (Part 1) is the third studio album by Canadian electronic music project TR/ST, fronted by Robert Alfons. It is the first half of the two-part album with the same title.
trstmusic.bandcamp.com
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TR/ST performing live in the KEXP studio in 2019 and ended the set with this song. Watch it here - www.youtube.com
April is National Poetry Month and the ninth studio album by The Chemical Brothers takes its name from a line in the poem "Geography" by the New York poet Michael Brownstein, whose reading of it is also sampled on the title track.
www.thechemicalbrothers.com
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Norwegian singer Aurora co-wrote this song with The Chemical Brothers and is featured on vocals. The duo said, "Aurora really made this by coming up with these amazing images. Sonics-wise, there are a lot of ideas and a lot of movement. There are moments where it almost feels that whole thing has gone too far, the way it builds and then you’re back down. It's a rolling psychedelic journey, for want of a better word." -- Aurora was live in the KEXP studio in 2018: www.youtube.com
Performing at Showbox Sodo on Wed May 10 & Thurs May 11! ilovem83.com
The #2 song in 1986 was 'Manic Monday' by The Bangles, which Prince wrote under the pseudonym 'Christopher.'
The song has a definite Prince influence. The late Minneapolis star was both a friend to and a heavy influence on Monáe, remixing The Electric Lady's lead single "Q.U.E.E.N" and appearing on another of its tracks "Givin Em What They Love."
The Purple One worked closely with the songstress on Dirty Computer prior to his death in April, 2016. "It's difficult for me to even speak about this because Prince was helping me with the album, before he passed on to another frequency," Monáe said.
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1999 was Prince's fifth album. It became his first album to be recorded with his band the Revolution.
This was Prince's his first Top 10 US hit. It helped propel him to superstar status, a title he lived up to with electrifying live shows and a startlingly prolific output of material, including music, movies and videos.
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Prince co-wrote ‘Stand Back’ with Stevie Nicks after she’d flown the Fleetwood Mac coop and was a chart star in her own right.
Even crediting ‘Little Red Corvette’ as the track’s inspiration, Nicks reached No.5 in the Billboard Hot 100 on its release.
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"So whenever I play 'Stand Back' from this day forward, Prince will be standing next to me," Nicks said. "That is always going to be a joy."
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What's your power song?
Composed by José González and Theodore Shapiro for the 2013 film "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," the song is about breaking free from one’s comfort zone and living life to the fullest.
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The opening track of Yeah Yeah's Fever To Tell album is a swipe at critics who pegged them as retro. Vocalist Karen O told NME when the record was released: "The press still portrays us as a garage band, so we wanted to open up the album with a track that could in no way be mistaken for a garage track."
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The fourth full-length from Fishbone was the last album to feature all six original members. Read more about Fishbone on their KEXP artist profile page here: kexp.org
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This was the single that put TV on the Radio on the map en route to the huge success that was their second album, "Return to Cookie Mountain," in 2006. Tunde Adebimpe tells the story of becoming a werewolf as an allegory for the uncontrollable desire that he has for the recipient of the song. - bit.ly
www.tvontheradio.com
Nothing's Shocking is the debut studio album by Jane's Addiction. "Mountain Song" was the first song written by the band in 1985, before a band name had even been decided upon. - janesaddiction.com
Harvey said of her debut album: "Dry is the first chance I ever had to make a record and I thought it would be my last. So, I put everything I had into it. It was a very extreme record. It was a great joy for me to be able to make it. I never thought I'd have that opportunity, so I felt like I had to get everything on it as well as I possibly could, because it was probably my only chance. It felt very extreme for that reason." - bit.ly
pjharvey.net
In the late 1980s, Hammerbox formed in Seattle, where they amassed a cult following and played shows with Iggy Pop, Joan Jett, L7, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and others.
"Numb" is the second and final studio album by Hammerbox, released in 1993. Led by fiery vocalist Carrie Akre, Hammerbox was one of the few Seattle grunge bands fronted by a woman in the early '90s. Today she is also a life coach - www.carrieakrecreative.com
According to author Nicholas Pegg, "The Jean Genie" originated as an impromptu jam, at this point titled "Bussin'," on the tour bus between the first two concerts in Cleveland and Memphis. Bowie completed the song in Autumn 1972 during his 1972 US tour, completing the song in New York City, where he spent time with the Warhol set's Cyrinda Foxe. Bowie later asserted, "I wrote it for her amusement in her apartment. Sexy girl." Bowie later in the 1990s described the song as "a smorgasbord of imagined America" and "my first New York song." bit.ly