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Tuesday, Aug 22 2023, 7AM
The sun is back out today - good morning.
A few words about this song from Sting: "I actually wrote the song in Ireland, where I was living at the time. It was during the hunger strikes in Belfast. I wanted to write about that but I wanted to show some light at the end of the tunnel. I do think there has to be an 'invisible sun'. You can't always see it, but there has to be something radiating light into our lives."
7:06 AM
32nd spin
Read KEXP's Rewind on Juno's This is the Way it Goes and Goes and Goes on, written in 2019 to celebrate it's 20th anniversary: www.kexp.org
"The longer I sat with it, I realized I was both the protagonist AND the narrator" - Ben Gibbard on Foxglove Through The Clearcut, Rolling Stone.
Death Cab for Cutie will be playing at Climate Pledge Arena Friday/Saturday, October 6/7, 2023 as part of The Postal Service/DCFC 20th Anniversary Tour. KEXP hosted Ben Gibbard In-Studio in July of last year - enjoy Live Video from the performance: youtu.be
7 a.m.
Dusty road
I'm gonna drive until it burns my bones.
The third solo album (and first in five years) from the LA-based producer.
Clanton said the song is "Softer than my previous efforts, but with an anthemic chorus. I feel like Liam Gallagher with this song, but no one I share it with gets “oasis” so I guess I don’t understand how it comes across." tinyurl.com
georgeclanton.bandcamp.com
ford. says the new album Guiding Hand is "9 songs, written over the last 2 years. A body of work dedicated to those forces, both seen and unseen, which motivate us to maintain purpose and persevere in spite of difficulty or circumstance."
www.fordsounds.com
From the Flaws in Our Design EP collaboration of ODESZA and Yellow House!
"Of the new EP, ODESZA’s Harrison Mills & Clayton Knight shared that “We discovered Emile/Yellow House on SoundCloud and were immediately drawn to his voice and delivery. After finding success working on a few demos we flew him over from South Africa to work with us in our Seattle studio. From the jump, the music had that unmistakable energy of having discovered something special." tinyurl.com
odesza.com
yellowhouseworld.com
"Dear John, Owen, and team,
Good morning from Mexico City! I hadn’t been outside of the United States in four years and I’m so happy to explore this complex, gorgeous city. It’s a birthday adventure as I turn 50, though I always feel about 12.
We’re listening to the morning show as we prepare for our day and I’m struck, as I am every time I listen, how special KEXP and your show both are. I’m grateful for you all every day. You keep me grounded and dancing, a surreal feat!
If you’re so inclined, would you play Jesus and Mary Chain’s “Just Like Honey”?
Thank you, wonderful people,
~Shannon"
Morrissey said in 1985 that this song was inspired by the music journalists who persistently mocked him for writing about "the unhappy side of life."
Morrissey added: "When I wrote the words for that, I was just so completely tired of all the same old journalistic questions and people trying, you know, this contest of wit, trying to drag me down and prove that I was a complete fake. And I was tired of that because it just seemed that, like, even the people within popular music, even the people within the music industry, didn't have that much faith in it as an art form. And they wanted to really get rid of all these people who are trying to make some sense out of the whole thing. And I found that really distressing."
The Drive That Fast EP followed the band's 1989 debut album Love Is Hell. Kitchens of Distinction formed in South London in 1986, and were considered to be part of the shoegaze genre. At the time, the band initially did not attain commercial success or widespread recognition because lead singer Patrick Fitzgerald was openly gay. The group disbanded in 1996 but 19 years later, in September 2012, Patrick Fitzgerald announced Kitchens of Distinction's reunion, followed by the 2013 release of their fifth album.
This EP was first teased during Aphex Twin's performance at Sonar 2023, as well as on posters with QR codes littered throughout Los Angeles on June 20, 2023. When scanned, it brought fans to an app called YXBoZXh0d2lu, which played Aphex Twin's music over visuals.
The track was initially teased on SoundCloud on the day of its release, before being officially released on streaming services before quickly being removed, only for it too gain popularity on major Demand-side platforms and a YouTuber uploading it, which quickly got taken down.
Around the same time, streaming service Deezer posted details for the EP the track will be on, which has also deleted, the EP and track was officially announced through Bandcamp through Warp Records.
Find it here:
aphextwin.bandcamp.com
'Blackoak' refers to the area where the bulk of this track was written over the winter of 2021, surrounded by snow covered woodland.
mariboustate.bandcamp.com
Watch Maribou State - Live in the KEXP Studio in 2019: youtu.be
This song is a collaboration with the French psych-pop singer Halo Maud.
The forthcoming album ("For That Beautiful Feeling," out on September 8th) will follow 2019’s "No Geography," which took home three Grammy Awards at the 2020 ceremony: ‘Best Dance/Electronic Album’, ‘Best Dance Recording’, and ‘Best Music Video’. The release was home to five singles, including ‘Free Yourself’, ‘MAH’, ‘Got to Keep On’ and ‘We’ve Got to Try’.
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Check out the official visualizer here, enjoy:
www.youtube.com
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www.thechemicalbrothers.com
Depeche Mode released the album Construction Time Again on this day in 1983!
This single introduced a transition in lyrical content for the group. "Everything Counts" specifically addresses the issue of corporate greed and corruption in Britain, as the chorus sings of "grabbing hands" that "grab all they can".
"We’ve gone full The Chemical Brothers” - says Yard Act's Sam Shipstone on the new comeback single. tinyurl.com
Yard Act will be performing at Iceland Airwaves in November!
Yard Act performed live in the KEXP studio last year. Watch the performance here: youtu.be
www.yardactors.com
New music from this 9-piece band out of Minneapolis. blackmarketbrass.bandcamp.com
Happy birthday Tori Amos, born on this day in 1963!
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.'" (British slang for unfashionable). "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."
Big Thief’s Adrianne Lenker explained the nexus of this song: “For me, it’s about getting out of toxic internal patterns — leaving the empire of energy drains that obscure pure essence, learning about what healthy boundaries are, and finding the power to implement them for the possibility of giving and receiving (both inwardly and outwardly) unbroken and infinite Love.”
tinyurl.com
Cherry Glazerr will perform at the R-Day festival in Georgetown on September 16, along with KEXP's own DJ Larry Mizell, Jr! - rainierbeer.com
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Check out the official visualizer for 'Soft Like a Flower' here, enjoy:
www.youtube.com
More on the new album here:
cherryglazerr.bandcamp.com
Happy birthday Vernon Reid, born on this day in 1958! The guitar hero of Living Colour.
For those who remember, this song featured on the playable soundtrack to the 2007 rhythm video game "Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock".
BRAND NEW MUSIC from Drop Ninetees!
"Scapa Flow” is the first single from the Boston shoegaze band's new LP Hard Light - www.dropnineteens.com
"We wanted to sound like a band killing their songs." - My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields, The Guardian.
From the depths of the KEXP archives...
Below is a KEXP interview with My Bloody Valentine's frontman, Kevin Shields, originally conducted back in 2009. The article is so dated, the original version had a link to the band's MySpace page: www.kexp.org
mybloodyvalentine.org
London's Dean Garcia and Toni Halliday formed Curve in 1990, and disbanded in 2005 after making five albums together. 'Doppelgänger' is their debut full-length album, released in 1992.
Hi John (and Owen),
Happy 7th best day of the week :) for me it’s the best day of this week - it’s my 25th wedding anniversary. Can you shoutout to my wife Jen and play some LCD Soundsystem.
Thanks for all you do, and have a wonderful day!
Jon in New Jersey
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This song sampled the vocals from "Planet Rock" by Afrika Bambaataa and Soulsonic Force. It also borrows the rhythm of Killing Joke's "Change," which was a favorite beat that James Murphy of LCD would play when warming up when DJing.
For Henry!
And wishing a happy birthday to Roland Orzabal of Tears For Fears, born on this day in 1961!
New Cold War Kids! Frontman Nathan Willet said, “We started “Run Away With Me ” with Carlos de la Garza (producer of Paramore, Linda Linda’s ) as this Sly Stone type of funky soul song that evolved into a more soulful pop tune about two desperate, down-and-out lovers.”
www.coldwarkids.com
New, lost single from The Last Splash!
For Seattle-based fans, The Breeders will be in town on October 25th, 2023 at the Paramount Theatre! For info & tickets: www.paramounttheatreseattle.net www.thebreedersmusic.com
"The Thermals were a post-pop-punk trio from Portland, Oregon. In ten years, the band released seven records and toured fifteen countries. www.thethermals.com
Watch The Thermals Live on KEXP session here: www.youtube.com
Rock band Flat Worms have shared a new song “Suburban Swans,” which is the second track to be shared from their upcoming album Witness Marks. This LP is due out September 22 via Ty Segall’s Drag City.
Brooklyn, NY-based band Geese will be at the THING Festival in Port Townsend, WA on Saturday, August 26th, 2023. thingnw.org
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They'll also play an all-ages show at Madame Lou's on Thursday, October 19th. geesebandnyc.bandcamp.com
New music from The Hives!
The band's first album in over a decade ‘The Death Of Randy Fitzsimmons’ is out now!
Hey John, thanks for always spinning the good tunes and being a positive voice in this complicated world. I was wondering if you'd play something from the band Television if it suits your fancy. Thank you!
James
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"Marquee Moon" was recorded in just two weeks.
“The Doors (debut) record was done in three days,” Television guitarist Richard Lloyd says. “Jazz records were recorded in the time it takes to play them. The thing about spending a year and a half on a record is more often than not, it’ll come out sounding like overdone pasta. The time did go into it, but it was before we went into the studio.”
consequence.net
At the beginning of September, Guided By Voices are celebrating their 40th anniversary with 2 shows in Dayton Ohio, where they are from.
guidedbyvoices.bandcamp.com
Scream, Dracula, Scream! is an album by the San Diego band "Rocket from the Crypt," released in 1995 and was the band's first major-label release.
The Chemical Brothers return with a new song from For That Beautiful Feeling, their upcoming album. “Skipping Like a Stone” features Beck on vocals, reuniting the two artists after their 2015 collaboration “Wide Open”.
Mary Jane Dunphe is a poet, songwriter, vocalist, performer and video artist from New York.
maryjanedunphe.bandcamp.com
LA Duo ill peach released their first love song "BLOOM."
Speaking on the new single, the duo explain, “‘BLOOM’ might be our only love song. A bittersweet one. It’s about testing the boundaries of a long-distance relationship. How can you love and be with someone if you can’t see them? In the flux of everything that happened these past few years, we saw friends and longtime relationships break up like a ripple effect. But also surprisingly, the ones that had it the hardest around us found love in the ashes, a beginning to an ending. Love can and will navigate anything if you believe it. So ‘BLOOM’ is our anthem to fighting for love.”
rollacoaster.tv
Lo Fidelity Allstars' 1998 single "Battle Flag" is a remix of American funk band Pigeonhead's song of the same name.
Have a great day everyone!
New music from Sea Lemon off their forthcoming EP out Aug. 25. Sea Lemon, AKA Natalie Lew, calls the project “Costco Cocteau Twins. . . a modern spin on classic dreampop and shoegaze.”
sealemonmusic.bandcamp.com