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Tuesday, Jun 6 2023, 7AM
Williams' recording of the song was taken from one of his performances on the Shreveport radio station KWKH between August 1948 and May 1949. MGM released it in 1955, over two years after Williams' death. The song features only Williams' vocals and acoustic guitar. It explores themes of loneliness and desolation.
Watch The Jayhawks (from Minneapolis) performing live in the KEXP studio in 2016: www.youtube.com
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"After a hard-fought battle with a horrible illness, my dad Tom passed away a week ago with my mom and me by his side and Music for Airports playing on his portable speaker. As the memories of him wash over me, I am struck by how many of them revolve around music. Growing up, Saturdays were for playing records all day - the Rolling Stones, Van Morrison, The Pointer Sisters, Grace Jones, Blondie, Talking Heads, Depeche Mode - I could go on for days. He took our family to see Adam Ant, Billy Idol, Prince's Purple Rain tour, Buddy Guy, and PJ Harvey. We used to stay up late to watch Friday Night Videos, and once we got MTV, it was always on. Live Aid was an epic event in our house, and he recorded all of it on VHS, along with so many episodes of Unplugged and Austin City Limits. He gave me an amazing soundtrack to my childhood and a deep appreciation for music and live performance.
One of the best times he and I ever had was at a Bright Eyes show at Town Hall in NYC that I took him to when my husband couldn't go. He wasn't too familiar with the band, but he was so into it. By the end, they were doing a glorious, chaotic 20-minute version of Road to Joy with too many musicians onstage to count. My dad was dancing and laughing with glee - pure joy.
Today would've been my dad's 75th birthday, and it's my mom's first time waking up by herself in their apartment. I'd love it if you could play "First Day of My Life" by Bright Eyes, in honor of my dad and for my mom, Pat, and please let her know: you are not alone.
- Chanda"
Ben Gibbard spoke to NME about the meaning of this song:
“Death is an ever-present fear. If not a fear, then an impending reality in our lives. We like to think that when people leave this life, we will see them again some day. Writing a love song that deals specifically with the inevitable death of one’s partner and that you will follow that person into whatever the afterlife is or is not, that’s something that people can relate to.”
www.nme.com
Michael Stipe and Peter Buck wrote this song in about 20 minutes when their tour bus broke down and they were stranded in the middle of nowhere.
The Innocence Mission released their third album "Glow" on this day in 1995.
The album was recorded over a several-month period at Kingsway Studios, New Orleans, Louisiana and Bad Animals Studios, Seattle, Washington.
boygenius is officially on tour!
The supergroup consisting of Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus will be playing at the Gorge Amphitheatre on Saturday, July 29th!
xboygeniusx.bandcamp.com
First Aid Kit released "Stay Gold" on this day in 2014.
This song finds Johanna and Klara Söderberg imagining a simpler life away from this "dark, twisted road." Klara told The Sun: "I think we had this almost romantic idea of what it's like to be a waitress in an American diner.
The original recording of The Boxer is one of the duo's most highly produced, and took over 100 hours to record. The recording was performed at multiple locations, including St. Paul's Chapel (Columbia University) in New York City and Columbia studios in Nashville on a 16 track recorder.
Released on this day in 1960!
Roy Orbison's recording of the song was the first major hit for the singer, released as a 45 rpm single.
Astrud Gilberto was a Brazilian samba and bossa nova singer. She gained international attention in the 1960s following her recording of the song "The Girl from Ipanema." She passed away yesterday at the age of 83.
Nick Drake Cover
The Endless Coloured Ways is a collection of songs by legendary singer / songwriter, Nick Drake, performed and recorded by over 30 incredible artists from a range of different backgrounds, genres, age groups and audiences. From Fontaines D.C to Guy Garvey, and Aurora to Feist, each artist has offered their own incredible take on a timeless classic. The compilation will be out on July 7th!
Bell and Sebastian released their debut album Tigermilk on this day in 1996!
Happy birthday to the late Yukihiro Takahashi, Japanese musician, singer, record producer, and actor, who was best known internationally as the drummer and lead vocalist of the Yellow Magic Orchestra, and as the former drummer of the Sadistic Mika Band. He was also a member of the group METAFIVE. He passed away in January this year.
The Cars released their debut self titled album on this day in 1978!
Listener Scott also wrote in:
"Happy Tuesday, Owen/John! The Cars' debut album was apparently released 45 years ago today, and was the first CD I purchased (long after my first vinyl and cassette, sigh). If you could play Moving In Stereo + All Mixed Up or anything from that album, this aging dude would be obliged.
Thanks!
-Scott"
This one goes out to Marco!
And just so you all know, Genesis Owusu will play an all-ages show at Neumos on Thursday, November 9th.
The album, Struggler, is due out on August 18th. www.genesisowusu.com
Young Fathers performed this song and others live in the KEXP studio in 2015. Watch the performance here:
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Good morning. My son Liam and his club team recently won their soccer tournament in his first tournament ever. You would think he would want hear a song like "We Are the Champions" on the car ride home, but no, he wanted to hear "Burning" by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs lol. And yes, that trophy is almost 5 feet tall. Hope you all have a great day.
William
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The Yeah Yeah Yeahs will be at Marymoor Park on June 7th!
Dear John (and Owen!)-
Today is the final day at Seattle Children's for my wife (and fellow amplifier) Kathleen. It's been very emotional for her over the past few weeks. KEXP has been incredibly supportive, especially the Morning Show.
Today we're celebrating her final (crappy) commute, so it would be awesome if between 8:00 - 8:20 if you could play Grounds - IDLES or Dance Yourself Clean - LCD Soundsystem.
Please and thanks!
Greg
Blondshell will be Live on KEXP on Saturday, July 8th at 1pm and will also play an all-ages show at Madame Lou's later that same day.
Her debut self-titled album is out now!
blondshell.bandcamp.com
Lahey commented on this track: “Two of my exes got engaged within an improbably short space of time of one another. What are the odds? Couldn’t not write a song inspired by it.”
The latest single from Brooklyn, NY band Palehound. Their new record 'Eye On The Bat' will be out July 14th.
The album is billed as “a documentation of illusions shattering in the face of profound change,” on which the singer-songwriter examines “the tiny details that build or break a relationship, and the flood that comes after.”: consequence.net
palehound.bandcamp.com
“I think ‘Dying in May’ is the first Clientele song with no guitar,” the band’s Alasdair MacLean noted in a statement. “It also has no chords, as such — it’s a drone, with french horn, cello and Mellotron.”
www.stereogum.com
Howl Howl Gaff Gaff is the debut full length album from Swedish band Shout Out Louds. The original version released in Scandinavian countries on October 1st, 2003 contained a slightly different track listing from the international release. Their website advertises the international version as being "A collection of songs from all our Scandinavian releases. Everything from plastic to vinyl."
The band revealed that Daft Punk’s “Robot Rock” was one of the primary influences on the opening moments of “Young Folks.” bit.ly
Hey! Hello! Brand new music from Grouplove! Grouplove has announced a new album called I Want It All Right Now, but you'll have to wait until July 7th.
www.grouplovemusic.com
For Dan. You are not alone!
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"I woke up this morning to a meeting request from HR, sent out at 6:00AM, with a pretty generic title, for me, the head of HR, and my boss to meet at 7:30AM. This is ALWAYS good.
So, when my wife and I got back from our morning walk, I put on my IDLES T-shirt, my KEXP hoodie, and my stompy boots, and got online for the meeting. As expected, I was let go in a round of layoffs at my company.
Now, I've been in software for decades and had already seen the writing on the wall. I lost my entire team back in March and knew that some recent project impacts likely meant my position would be "made redundant" by the end of the summer. It came a little faster than expected, but I was about as ready for it as I could be.
In the end: This sucks, but my wife and I know we'll be okay.
I would love to hear Soup Dragons "I'm Free" if you could fit it in this morning. 'Cause music and laughter are a great antidote for (crummy) news.
Thanks,
Dan
P.S. I'm dancing myself clean already. :) "
From the second album by MC 900 Ft. Jesus, aka Mark Griffin, a classically-trained musician turned rapper and experimenter born in Dallas, Texas.
Ugly Duckling is an American hip hop group that formed around 1993 in Long Beach, California. The band decided to take the name Ugly Duckling because they felt like outcasts on the Southern California hip hop scene of the mid-1990s.
www.uglyduckling.us
uglyduckling.bandcamp.com
Aloe Blacc got the idea for this song after listening to field recordings from the Smithsonian. Hearing these recordings of people singing their tales of woe, Blacc decided to write one of his own, and came up with the title "I Need A Dollar." To develop the lyrics, he asked friends to trade verses with him and then join him on the chorus. bit.ly
www.aloeblacc.com
Cover of the El Michels tune from 2021's "Yeti Season."
bacaorhythmandsteelband.bandcamp.com
NYC indie singer/songwriter Tom D’Agustino made their debut as Homeschool in 2021. Their new EP "Just Now" is out now.
D'Agustino shared with Under the Radar Magazine:
“The bulk of these songs were written as one-off experiments where I tried to really question what it was I wanted out of music and out of my day-to-day experience of life.”
www.undertheradarmag.com
The Psychedelic Furs released their album Talk Talk Talk on this day in 1981!
They will be playing in Seattle at the Woodland Park Zoo on August 7th.
Also on this day in 1981, Siouxie at the Banshees released their album Juju.
Big day for music.
A Flock of Seagulls frontman Mike Score explained the meaning behind this song. "'Wishing' is about a real person," he said. "It was the eve of the first trip we ever took to America, and I had met a girl. We went out for the night, and I didn't want to forget her, so I said, 'We're going on tour and I'll be back. I'd like to get a photograph of you, if I could get one.' And she said, 'No, because you're going to go on to be famous and you'll forget me.' Score never saw her again.
Nation of Language will be playing on August 13th at Day In Day Out Festival in Seattle Center: www.nationoflanguage.com
The band's new album, "Strange Disciple," will be released Sept. 15th.
Here they are in the studio in 2021:
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Listener requested.
XTC recorded the album at The Manor Studio in Oxfordshire with producer Hugh Padgham, the engineer of their previous two LPs. Principal songwriter Andy Partridge was fatigued from touring and pressure from their management, and believed that pursuing a sound less suited for live performance would relieve the pressure to tour.
Wow! Read this!: LA-based singer/songwriter/guitarist NoSo says, "“I wrote this song when I was deep into learning intricate acoustic finger-style pieces and ended up composing the most difficult guitar part I’ve made yet. It’s about being treated kindly in a relationship for the first time after years of subjecting myself to mistreatment because it was all I knew, and frankly, it was what I thought I deserved. For many, many years, I genuinely believed something was wrong with me. I was disgusted by anyone who was caring and interested in me and I was only attracted to unkind people and hurtful behavior. I felt stiff, robotic, and incapable of loving. This song is ultimately a celebration. It’s about realizing I have the capacity to love, to feel accepted, and to not be repelled by safety, but to run toward it, and even when it feels like I’m regressing, I know I can do it again."