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Wednesday, Jun 28 2023, 7AM
Hey Wednesday, it's time for The Morning Show!
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This is the Icelandic band’s first album in 10 years (and eighth overall). "ÁTTA" is a beautifully crafted, cinematic blend of post-rock, neo-classical and other styles with accompaniment by the 32-piece London Contemporary Orchestra. The album’s lush, majestic sound combines celestial keyboards, strings and more with glacial tempos, bittersweet melodies and Jónsi’s heavenly falsetto vocals.
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Sigur Rós plays a sold out show at The Paramount on Thursday, August 24th - sigurros.com
Godspeed You! Black Emperor (sometimes abbreviated to GY!BE or Godspeed) is a Canadian post-rock band which originated in Montreal, Quebec in 1994.
Their second studio album, Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven, was released as a double album.
brainwashed.com
The song begins with an organ pedal point of an A note, accompanied by a recording of a monologue passage from a Bergen Student Newspaper, being recited by Mari Myren, referring to when Mogwai played a show on March 15th 1997 at the Hulen, in Bergen, Norway. Myren describes the band's music as "bigger than words and wider than pictures" and states that "If the stars had a sound, it would sound like this."
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Mogwai are a Scottish rock band, formed in 1995 in Glasgow. The band consists of Stuart Braithwaite (guitar, vocals), Barry Burns (guitar, piano, synthesizer, vocals), Dominic Aitchison (bass guitar), and Martin Bulloch (drums).
-mogwai.bandcamp.com - mogwai.scot
7:14 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: www.kexp.org
Joshua Paul Davis, better known by his stage name DJ Shadow, is an American DJ and record producer. He first gained notice with the release of his acclaimed debut studio album, Endtroducing......
He has a personal collection of more than 60,000 records. - djshadow.com
Never, Never, Land is the second album by the British electronic music act UNKLE.- unkle.com
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What's that? The Temptations' "Ball of Confusion"? Yes, UNKLE sampled them, plus the Terrence Malik film "The Thin Red Line" and more. - www.whosampled.com
The first single released off Depeche Mode's eighth album, 'Songs of Faith and Devotion'
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Depeche Mode will play Climate Pledge Arena on November 26! - www.depechemode.com
This is a new single from Kieran Hebden, a.k.a Four Tet, replete with drums and meowing cat: fourtet.bandcamp.com
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Four Tet was our guest DJ for Midnight in a Perfect World back in 2015. See what he selected: www.kexp.org
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.”
- dontforgetthesongs365.wordpress.com
- www.moby.com
The final track on Odesza's dazzling new record, The Last Goodbye. "If you continue to let Light Of Day play through the end you’ll find yourself at the beginning of This Version Of You. There is no Last Goodbye." - Odesza
odesza.com
From the fifth studio album by Irish rock band U2. It was produced by Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno.
www.u2.com
Intro is the first track from M83's 6th album, "Hurry Up, We're Dreaming". That's Zola Jesus as the guest vocalist. ilovem83.com
George FitzGerald is an English electronic musician. FitzGerald was an employee at the London record store Black Market Records in the mid-2000s, and began issuing records of his own after relocating to Berlin in 2010.
- www.george-fitzgerald.com
Massive Attack sampled both Horace Andy and the Incredible Bongo Band. -- Horace Andy is credited as Horace Hinds on Angel as this is has real name with “Andy” being his stage name --- "It is quite probably the most used Massive Attack song in both TV and movie soundtracks ever having appeared in countless different filmed media.": massiveattack.ie
From the latest and third record by London trio Bar Italia - baritalia.bandcamp.com
Prolapse formed in the summer of 1991 at Leicester Polytechnic's Friday night disco, "with the aim of being the most depressing band ever". Of the six members—vocalists Mick Derrick and Linda Steelyard, guitarists David Jeffreys and Patrick Marsden, bassist Mick Harrison, and drummer Tim Pattison—only Harrison and Pattison had performed together.
In a 1999 interview, Steelyard stated that the name was chosen "to indicate something undesirable in a miserable sort of way, rather than unsavoury. Unfortunately, we have come to realise that it makes some people think of arses."
-en.wikipedia.org
-prolapse2.bandcamp.com
Brooklyn, NY-based band Geese will be at the THING Festival in Port Townsend, WA on Saturday, August 26th, 2023.
They'll also play an all-ages show at Madame Lou's on Thursday, October 19th. - geesebandnyc.bandcamp.com
- geeseband.com
The Budos Band will be here in Washington state, playing the THING Festival at Fort Worden in Port Townsend, WA on Friday, August 25th.
thebudos.com
On this day in 1988, Public Enemy released their second studio album "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back"
- www.publicenemy.com
Vasos Vacíos is the 8th album by Argentine rock, ska, and reggae band Los Fabulosos Cadillacs. - fabulososcadillacs.com
"One Step Beyond" is a tune written by Jamaican ska singer Prince Buster as a B-side for his 1964 single "Al Capone". It was covered by British band Madness for their debut album.
madness.co.uk
Happy birthday to John Cusack! The American actor & maker of great movie soundtracks was born on this day in 1966.
"Mirror in the Bathroom" is on the soundtrack for the John Cusack movie "Grosse Pointe Blank."
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"Mirror in the Bathroom" is a single by British ska band the Beat released as a single in 1980 from their debut studio album I Just Can't Stop It. - englishbeat.net
Happy birthday to John Cusack! The American actor & maker of great movie soundtracks was born on this day in 1966.
Peter Gabriel's song "In Your Eyes" will forever be associated with John Cusack. In the 1989 film "Say Anything," Cusack's Lloyd Dobler courts Diane Court by holding a boombox playing that song over his head.
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Happy birthday to John Cusack! The American actor & maker of great movie soundtracks was born on this day in 1966.
"I Believe (When I Fall in Love It Will Be Forever)" is featured in the 2000 comedy-drama High Fidelity starring John Cusack and Jack Black, and is included on its soundtrack.
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Happy birthday to John Cusack! The American actor & maker of great movie soundtracks was born on this day in 1966.
polyrhythmics.bandcamp.com
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Seattle's Polyrhythmics will perform at the West Seattle Summer Fest on Friday, July 14th. They'll be at Seattle Center for Bite of Seattle on Friday, July 21st. - www.polyrhythmics.com
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Watch them performing live in the KEXP studio in 2020: www.youtube.com
On this day in 1975, David Bowie released the single "Fame," featuring John Lennon on backing vocals. It become Bowie's first #1 hit in the US.
John Lennon's cover of "Stand by Me" is a song originally performed in 1961 by American singer-songwriter Ben E. King and written by him, along with Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller.
This orchestral version of Sometimes is part of a new double album released in celebration of James's 40th Anniversary! The album is a collection of some of James’ most loved and rare tracks, reimagined with a 22 piece orchestra and eight piece choir. - wearejames.com
"Those creatures jumped the barricades and have headed for the sea She began to breathe, to breathe at the thought of this freedom Stood and whispered to her child, "Belong" She held the child and whispered, with calm calm, "Belong"....: - genius.com
Here is Quivers performing "You're Not Always On My Mind" live in the KEXP studio in 2019 - www.youtube.com
- quiversmusic.com
Bully will perform live at KEXP on Aug. 18 at 12 p.m! They'll also perform later that day at the Neptune Theatre: www.stgpresents.org --- bullythemusic.com
Catch Skating Polly live at the South Sound Block Party in Olympia on August 25th! skatingpollyofficial.bandcamp.com
"50ft Queenie" is the first single from second studio album Rid of Me by the English singer-songwriter PJ Harvey
pjharvey.net
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion performed live in the KEXP studio in 2011 -
www.youtube.com
- jonspencerbluesexplosion.com
On this day in 1988, Public Enemy released their second studio album "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back".
If I Only Had a Brain is the third track on "One Step Ahead of the Spider", which is the third album by MC 900 Ft. Jesus, released on this day in 1994.
1994-- MC 900 Ft. Jesus released "One Step Ahead of the Spider."
GHOST OF VROOM- the band comprised of Mike Doughty and his longtime collaborator Andrew "Scrap" Livingston have once again teamed up with legendary producer Mario Caldato Jr. to create "GHOST OF VROOM 3". A dozen tracks of hard hitting drums, hooks, flows and Doughty's signature brand of art pop. The full length drops this September on Mod y Vi Records. www.ghostofvroom.com
Lou Barlow and John Davis are the Folk Implosion, and they are releasing a new album of the music they made for Larry Clark and Harmony Korine’s 1995 film, Kids. The album, Music for Kids, is out September 8 via Domino. The record opens with “Natural One”—the iconic song that the band made for the Kids soundtrack—and also includes Unkle’s remix of the track. - bit.ly
- thefolkimplosion.bandcamp.com
New album by Monograms! monograms.bandcamp.com
- www.monogramsmusic.com
Here's Midlake performing live in the KEXP studio back in 2013 - www.youtube.com
- midlakeband.com