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Tuesday, Jul 18 2023, 7AM
Dearly beloved.. on this day in 1984, Prince & The Revolution’s “Let's Go Crazy” single was released.
It is the opening track on both the album and the film Purple Rain, regarded as one of Prince's most popular songs. It contains a long instrumental section and has two guitar solos both performed by Prince.
Joy Division released "Closer," their second and final studio album on this day in 1980. It was released two months after the death of the band's lead singer and lyricist Ian Curtis.
The album reached No. 6 on the UK Albums Chart, and was named NME Album of the Year.
It's Blitz! is the third studio album by American indie rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs, released in March 2009. It was originally set for release on April 2009. However, after being leaked to the Internet prior to the date, the release was pushed forward. It's Blitz! was nominated as Best Alternative Music Album at the 2010 Grammy Awards.
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The Jesus and Mary Chain released the single "Sometimes Always" featuring Hope Sandoval (Mazzy Star) on this day in 1994!
Slowdive will be playing in Seattle at Showbox SoDo on Tuesday, October 10th, 2023.
"Everything Is Alive" is their first album in six years. It's dedicated to vocalist and guitarist Rachel Goswell’s mother and drummer Simon Scott’s father, who both died in 2020.
Here is Slowdive's KEXP In-Studio from 2017: bit.ly.
slowdive.bandcamp.com
On this day in 1980, Echo & the Bunnymen released "Crocodiles" in the United Kingdom. It was later released in the States on December 17th, 1980.
bunnymen.com
A little dose of history: There's controversy regarding who created the trench coat. Invention of the trench coat is claimed by two British luxury clothing manufacturers, Burberry and Aquascutum, with Aquascutum's claim dating back to the 1850s, while Thomas Burberry had invented gabardine fabric in 1879 and submitted a design for a British Army officer's raincoat to the War Office in 1901.
From LCD Soundsystem's debut album. The video for "Tribulations" was first aired in August 2005. It was directed by Dougal Wilson and produced by Colonel Blimp. It features James Murphy walking around through various screens, sometimes walking out of a screen into the real setting just to walk back into the next screen.
Watch it here: www.youtube.com
lcdsoundsystem.com
Bully will perform live at KEXP on Aug. 18 at 12 p.m, then later that day at the Neptune Theatre in Seattle.
www.stgpresents.org
bullythemusic.com
Good morning! Today is my partner Christa's birthday. We live in the Udistrict. If you can squeeze "Angelica" by Wet Leg into the set it would mean a lot to her. Thanks so much for trying to squeeze in this request! Bringing lasagna to a party (like in the song) is totally something she would do.
Jake
Zonoscope is the third studio album by Australian electronic music band Cut Copy.
The album was recorded over a six-month period in a warehouse space in Fairfield, Melbourne, which was littered with discarded vintage recording gear and instruments. "There was no Internet in there, barely any heat, nothing, just f*cking industrial Melbourne", said guitarist Tim Hoey. "We just knew we could kind of go into there and not feel pressured. We were just kind of locked in there by ourselves, and we couldn't have had it sounding how it sounds without us going in there."
Zonoscope was nominated for Best Dance/Electronica Album at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards in 2012.
cutcopy.net
New Release from the Chemical Brothers, in collaboration with French singer Halo Maud. www.thechemicalbrothers.com
"Hi, I'm Barry, and I Can't Swim" - Barry's Bandcamp Page Bio
Scottish producer Barry Can’t Swim shares ‘Dance Of The Crab’, as part of the incoming debut album ‘When Will We Land?’ – out on October 20th, 2023.
barrycantswim.bandcamp.com
Joy Division released Closer on this day in 1980! "Isolation" explores synth pop and electronic music, based on an electronic drum beat by Stephen Morris, accompanied by a thin, trebly keyboard part by Bernard Sumner.
This song by Toronto producer Josh Korody features Cadence Weapon (the musical pseudonym of rapper/writer Rollie Pemberton) jumping in halfway through for an unexpected verse of nonsensical but clever as hell lines like, “On the web I surf like Brian Wilson.”
The track was previously one of KEXP's songs of the day: www.kexp.org
Collaboration of French artist/producer SebastiAn and UK’s London Grammar. This track is part of a brand-new remix collection from London Grammar; London Grammar – The Remixes will be out July 21.
“It was a total joy writing and creating this track with Sebastian,” London Grammar comment on their joint track. “We are so excited for you to hear it. He is a total genius and it really has been an honour.”
www.stereogum.com
Garbage's take on Siouxsie And The Banshees' 1985 song “Cities In Dust”. The cover is from the band’s Record Store Day release, the ‘Witness To Your Love’ EP.
PJ Harvey's album 5th album, Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea (2000) contains themes of love that are tied into Harvey's affection for New York City.
pjharvey.net
Spirit Award performed Live on KEXP earlier this year. Watch the performance here:
www.youtube.com
They'll also be playing in our front yard at Bumbershoot in Seattle Center on Sunday, September 3, 2023!
Seattle’s Spirit Award is the project of Daniel Lyon, with Chris Jordan of Sunny Day Real Estate on bass. The album is an exploration of the supernatural, love, dreaming/waking, and most of all facing the things that scare you or you think you can’t do.
tinyurl.com
spiritaward.bandcamp.com
www.spiritawardmusic.com
West Coast producer Buddy Ross (also a member of Tacoma electronic folk/R&B outfit Motopony).
soundcloud.com
FIRST ALBUM IN OVER A DECADE! The Hives have released new single “Rigor Mortis Radio,” from upcoming new album "The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons", out August 11th,
"55 years young today and loving the mix so far. Maybe squeeze in some Hold Steady for me?
Cheers,
Mike G
Kamloops Amplifier"
via Bandcamp: "Kristin Hersh’s new album is a cinematic road trip; a series of personal vignettes from a fiercely independent auteur, sitting plush with layers of all-consuming strings and mellotron. It’s a watershed moment in a career overflowing with creative firsts and inspirational thinking; an elegant piece of personal reportage, a home movie caught in time. The album releases August, 8 2023."
kristinhershfire.bandcamp.com
A Song for Leon (A Tribute to Leon Russell) comes out Sept. 8th, which includes Margo Price’s version of “Stranger in a Strange Land.”
“I’ve always loved Leon Russell’s vibe and approach to music and life in general,” Price says in the announcement. “I completely fell in love with him after watching the documentary by Les Blank called A Poem Is a Naked Person. I had the pleasure of briefly meeting him at a show many years ago in the hallway. I always remember what he said during the live interview that day, which was that ‘It was his job to misinform the press.’ He was an old man at the time, but I’ll never forget how mischievous he seemed.”
After recording “Stranger in a Strange Land” for this project, Price says, she’s been including it in many of her live shows.
www.nodepression.com
Brandi Carlile performed live in the KEXP studio in 2015 and opened with "Mainstream Kid." Watch the full session here:
youtu.be
brandicarlile.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.
Formed in Seattle in 1984, you can find The Green Pajamas albums on local label Green
Monkey Records at Bandcamp here:
greenmonkeyrecords.bandcamp.com
Material Issue was the project frontman Jim Ellison, who also played guitar, sang lead vocals, and wrote most Material Issue songs. "Valerie Loves Me" is about a neighbor girl that Ellison had a crush on when he was 11 years old.
The music video for "Valerie Loves Me" was in heavy rotation on MTV's 120 Minutes program in early 1991.
bit.ly
Video for "Valerie Loves Me":
youtu.be
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
This album was NOT released on this day. What kind of person makes something like that up? A devious criminal playing evil mind games, that's who!
"Raising Hell." became the first rap album to go multiplatinum en route to hitting the Top 3 on the Billboard 100.
-www.rundmc.com
Explosions in the Sky have announced their seventh studio album "End", out in September. The new single "Ten Billion People" was released yesterday.
Here’s what the band says about the album in a press release:
Our starting point was the concept of an ending — death, or the end of a friendship or relationship. Every song comes from a story, or an idea one of us has had that we’ve all expanded on and made its own world. Maybe it’s our nature, but we kept feeling that the album title was ultimately open to a lot more interpretation. The end of a thing or a time can mean a stop, but it can also mean a beginning, and what happens after one thing ends might pale in comparison to what it becomes next.
www.stereogum.com
Another from Closer, released on this day in 1980! Closer was recorded between 18 and 30 March 1980 at Britannia Row Studios in Islington, London, and was released two months after the death of Ian Curtis.
Hey John -
My wife Tripti (trip tea) and I have been on an 80's alternative kick this year and went to see our first ever Tears for Fears show last night in Austin. We're still on a high, any chance to hear your favorite Tears for Fears song?
Thanks,
Brent in Austin