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Happy 61st bday to the AMAZING Tracey Thorn best known for Everything But The Girl.
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“It was always a little hard to know whether they [Massive Attack] liked what I’d done," said Thorn. "I did get the feeling that Mushroom especially was a little bit suspicious of why I was there. I think 'Protection' was one of his tracks. I’m not sure he was ever convinced.”
Um, that's not Massive Attack football, Mushroom.
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Hoover. It is Hooverphonic's only album with lead singer Liesje Sadonius who is now, according to Wikipedia a "spiritual life coach."
Mmm, the warm caress of three amazing trip hop songs in a row. Will there be more this morning? Why yes, yes there will.
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DJ Morgan spoke with Portishead’s Geoff Barrow and Adrian Utley back in 2019 for the 25 year anniversary of their debut album 'Dummy'. Read all about it here: bit.ly/3AgOLcj
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Happy 78th birthday to the incredible Bryan Ferry. Besides influencing many of our favorite singers, he also is likely the reason why you were born.
We love this collab' by Little Dragon and Washington D.C. duo April + VISTA. Duo Little Dragon explain: “On a recent trip to the US we got to hang with April + VISTA and we couldn’t resist their sound. This EP represents an intense week of diving deep into the musical universe together with them.”
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Wed, Oct 04, Neptune Theatre, Seattle, Washington, USA, Earth, Milky Way, yada yada yada.
We said more Trip Hop was coming. You doubted us. Now do you see the plan?
Mid-Aier was produced by Romy in collaboration with Fred Again and Stuart Price, and consists of dance-pop influenced by the likes of Everything but the Girl among others. Hey, didn't we start the show with Tracey Thorn? Yes, yes we did and now the circle is complete. Live long and prosper.
Wilson worked on Realms throughout the pandemic and says "It’s [like] a slow baking cake, which sometimes is better,” she says. “And because you were so tense during COVID times, it was definitely a relief to be able to be creative. It’s a psychological thing. I like working—I feel like it’s an important thing to do because I enjoy it, and it’s healthy for me to do it.”
Checkout the full album from Seattle's Lusine here. lusine.bandcamp.com
Polaris is a star in the northern circumpolar constellation of Ursa Minor. It is commonly called the North Star or Pole Star. With an apparent magnitude that fluctuates around 1.98, it is the brightest star in the constellation and is readily visible to the naked eye at night.
The band originally booked studio sessions for April 2020 that were cancelled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. During the pandemic, the band suffered the loss of Rachel Goswell's mother and Simon Scott's father. Neil Halstead, who wrote all of the album's songs, said that the music was more of an "escape" from the darkness that the band's members were going through. Goswell struggled with alcoholism in the wake of her grief before entering sobriety. "I thought it was going to be quite a dark record but once we got together as a band, I think some of that darkness lifted and some of the tunes became a bit lighter."
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Catch Slowdive at the Showbox SoDo for an all-ages show on Tuesday, October 10th! --- Here they are playing Live on KEXP. www.youtube.com
Film School will perform at Seattle's Tractor Tavern on October 23 @8pm.
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any one could play the single version, but only one man, in a booth, asking you to love him, could play the extended version. That man, Richards, DJ John Richards.
Playing Neumos Nov 16th! tvstar.bandcamp.com
== Watch a full live performance by TV Star in our studio back in April: www.youtube.com
Luna came to our studio in February, 2020 and performed tracks from their 1994 record, "Bewitched." www.youtube.com
Lou Reed fun fact 37: After quitting The Velvet Underground, Reed got a job at his father’s tax accounting company. He earned $40 a week working as a typist for around a year before signing with RCA and releasing his first solo album.
The Dandys will be at the Neptune with the Black Angels Tuesday, Oct 17th. Let's goooooooooo!!!!
According to DJ John Richards, this album features Sam the Butcher, Alice, Marsha, Greg, John Boy, Mary Lou Retton, and Mario Batali in a (looks at notes) Susan Powter costume. Huh.
South Africa-based artist Desire Marea's new EP, out on November 9th, 2023 via Mute, will follow a rare tour that will see Desire and his band in the UK and Europe for the first time since an appearance at Grace Jones’ Meltdown festival in London.
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On this day in 1975 The Rocky Horror Picture Show has its US premiere at the UA Westwood Theater (now called Mann Festival Theater) in Los Angeles, CA.
New music!
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Catch their 2019 in-studio here:
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Hey John and Owen! It’s Mae, tuning in from Florence, Italy! Today is my 26th spin around the sun (and my golden birthday!); Would love to hear Talking Heads, Once In A Lifetime. It somehow became my anthem this year. Appreciate all you do and see ya next week!
Grazie, Mae
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Hae, Mae, Happy BIRTHDAE!!!
On this day 54 years ago in 1969 The Beatles' released "Abbey Road." For the first time on a Beatles album, the front cover contained neither the group's name nor the album title - just that iconic photograph taken on the zebra crossing near the entrance to the studios in London in August 1969.
BTW, Kurt Steiner once threw a stone that skipped on the water 88 times. Yeah, 88 skips. That's the Guinness World Record.
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"The Chemical Brothers have a great predilection for exploration," Beck said of his experience collaborating with the duo. "They kind of sit in an unusual place between different eras of electronic music and DJ culture. It’s like they have one foot in multiple decades at the same time in a way that is utterly unique among their peers." tinyurl.com
You can order the new album here: thechemicalbrothersstore.com.
The band wrote the album on the tour for their previous album, Loving in Stereo (2021), and began recording it in an Airbnb rental in Los Angeles before returning to Studio B of Metropolis Studios in London. Josh Lloyd called it "the most honest record [the band has] made."
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Jungle live in the KEXP Studio a few years ago was pure magic: youtu.be
This track off the third album from the Swedish band is based off a real person. Andrew Wyatt of Miike Snow told Notion in 2016 that this album, "kicked off with the first time anyone’s really ever broken my heart and it was a long process of recovery, much longer than I thought it would be." Back in 2009 Mikke Snow performed "burial" live in the old KEXP studio! bit.ly
Today is my 25th wedding anniversary. insane how fast it went. Anyway, at our reception, my wife Alison and I had a list of songs "to" play and some "not to" play. On the "to" play list, one song the DJ said "no don't do this not enough people know it!". We said screw off, play it anyway.
So, if you have time today, could you please play Rockafeller Skank by Fat Boy Slim as a request to my wife, my best friend Ted, and his sister Sharon, who were the only ones to join us rocking out to this on the dance floor.
Ray/Milwaukee
Dear GOD this is amazing.
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“I wrote and recorded the demo in my bedroom in one day, during my final year of university in 2018,” frontwoman Lily Fontaine commented on the inspiration behind ‘The World’s Biggest Paving Slab’ in press materials. Adding: “Moving to a city for university forced me to reflect on how my experience of growing up in and around Pendle, how witnessing the social, economic and political issues that exist around there in juxtaposition with the beauty of the landscape and the characters that live within in it, has shaped me into the artist and person that I am.”
This single was released on this day in 1980. Here's the band playing live on KEXP in Austin www.youtube.com
On June 6, 2008, “Bright as Yellow” was played as the official NASA wake-up call for the crew of Space Shuttle mission STS-124 on flight day 7.
Second single of 2023 from the Australian three-piece Middle Kids - middlekids.bandcamp.com
Is there nothing First Aid cannot do? They could cover the music to a 70s commercial and make it great. They could make We Built This City by Starship into an epic journey. Give them the theme to Threes Company and WATCH OUT!
Today on the morning show...
It's been a long dark night
And I've been a waitin' for the morning
It's been a long hard fight
But I see a brand new day a dawning
I've been looking for the sunshine