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Wednesday, Oct 4 2023, 7AM
On this day in 2019, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds released their seventeenth studio album, Ghosteen - www.nickcave.com
"Wild Horses" was written by the Rolling Stones, but it was first released by Gram Parsons' Flying Burrito Brothers in 1970. It was later recorded by the Stones for their 1971 album Sticky Fingers. - rollingstones.com
From their debut studio album, "Everything All the Time", singer Ben Bridwell has explained that the song "The Funeral" was about the special occasions in his own life, the forced togetherness, the pressure to impress, to pretend that you’re excited, and to buy gifts - extrachill.com
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This song first appeared on the Echo & The Bunnymen compilation album Songs To Learn & Sing in 1985, where it was the only new song on the track list. The following year, it was used in the movie Pretty In Pink.
- www.songfacts.com
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- www.bunnymen.com
On this day in 1994, The Smashing Pumpkins release "Pisces Iscariot" - smashingpumpkins.com
"Lazy Eye" is the first single from Silversun Pickups' debut album Carnavas - silversunpickups.com
Film School plays the Tractor Tavern on Monday, October 23 - filmschoolmusic.bandcamp.com
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Karen O described this song as "a love song to despair." She added: "It's a feeling that you have that visits you time and time again. It's an incredibly uplifting song , though, about wanting to run away from certain darkness in your life." - www.songfacts.com
THIS IS NOT AN EXIT’s title is a reflection of something Jess Corazza realized during a period of personal and familial crises. “I kept walking into buildings and I’d try to exit somewhere and the sign would be like, ‘This is not an exit,’” she says. “It just felt like a metaphor for a hopeful thing—don't give up yet.” - illpeach.bandcamp.com
Torres will be here in Seattle on Tuesday, March 26th, 2024, playing at Neumos - torresmusicofficial.com
"Come Clean" is the third studio album by English alternative rock band Curve. - www.curve.co.uk
Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince have released the latest single from duo's first new album in seven years, God Games - www.thekills.tv
New Sleater-Kinney release! Sleater-Kinney have announced a new album, Little Rope, their follow-up to 2021’s Path Of Wellness and the second album they recorded after the departure of longtime drummer Janet Weiss.
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Sleater-Kinney plays The Showbox in Seattle on Wed, April 3, 2024 - www.sleater-kinney.com
Garbage cover of Siouxsie And The Banshees' 1985 song “Cities In Dust” - www.garbage.com
This song was originally released in 1979 by San Francisco synth-punk The Units.
British synthpop band W.H. Lung will play Barboza on Sunday, October 8th. - whlung.bandcamp.com
From the new third studio album by Brooklyn band Nation of Language - www.nationoflanguage.com
The debut solo album by the xx member Romy Madley Croft, aka Romy. -
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- romyromyromy.bandcamp.com
Ghost of Vroom's "Still Getting It Done" was recently selected as KEXP's Song of the Day by John Richards. Get it here: www.kexp.org
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"Rudy smashes obscure samples, spacey synths, and soulful vocals into epic funk burritos." - rudywillingham.bandcamp.com
Happy birthday to Chris Low.
The English singer and keyboard player (Pet Shop Boys) was born on this day in 1959.
- www.petshopboys.co.uk
Join KEXP for day parties at the KEXP Gathering Space prior to the Death Cab For Cutie and Postal Service anniversary shows at Climate Pledge Arena on Friday, October 6th and Saturday, October 7th from 3:30 to 7:00 PM.
This is a 21+ and free event featuring cocktails by Sunny Hill Restaurant, beer and food from Stoneburner Restaurant and KEXP DJs live on air. All proceeds benefit KEXP.
- www.kexp.org
New Wilco! The Chicago band’s 13th album was produced by Cate Le Bon.
“I’m cousin to the world,” frontman Jeff Tweedy confesses. “I don’t feel like I’m a blood relation, but maybe I’m a cousin by marriage.”
- wilcoworld.net
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Wilco plays Seattle's Paramount Theatre on Tuesday, Oct 17 & Wed, Oct 18 - wilcoworld.net
Happy birthday to Z!
On this day in 2005, My Morning Jacket released their 4th album, "Z" - www.mymorningjacket.com
From Air's debut album, "Moon Safari."
Air is French electronic duo Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel - www.airfrenchband.com
French artist/producer SebastiAn and UK's London Grammar have teamed up on the new track “Dancing By Night”.
- londong.lnk.to
- www.londongrammar.com
Found on the third album from Concrete Blonde, this hit single from the L.A. band is not actually about a Joey, but Marc Moreland from Wall of Voodoo.
- www.songfacts.com
"Left of Center" was written by Suzanne Vega and Steve Addabbo, and released as part of the soundtrack to the 1986 film Pretty in Pink. That's Joe Jackson on piano.
Sinéad O'Connor wrote some intensely personal songs for her debut album, The Lion And The Cobra, but this wasn't one of them. She told Record Mirror the song is "simply about shagging."
- www.songfacts.com
The beginning of this song, "All God's children need traveling shoes" is the title of a book by the writer Maya Angelou. www.tanita-tikaram.com
Kirsty Anna MacColl was a British singer and songwriter, daughter of folk singer Ewan MacColl. She recorded several pop hits in the 1980s and 1990s, including "There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis" and cover versions of Billy Bragg's "A New England" and the Kinks's "Days".
REM cover!
Quivers' recorded a re-imagining of R.E.M.'s Out of Time - quiversss.bandcamp.com
The Georgia EP is a five-track project that raised over $100,000 for Fair Fight Action, the Stacey Abrams-founded organization that combats voter suppression. - deathcabforcutie.bandcamp.com
It Happened Today features backing vocals by Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder and Joel Gibb of the Canadian band The Hidden Cameras!
"Collapse into Now" is the fifteenth and final studio album by R.E.M.
- www.remhq.com
New Gold Dream (81–82–83–84) is the fifth studio album by Scottish band Simple Minds. The album was a turning point for the band as they gained critical and commercial success in the UK and Europe.
- www.simpleminds.com
Genesis Owusu will play an all-ages show at Neumos on Thursday, November 9th! STRUGGLER is Owusu's second studio album, following up his 2021 debut, Smiling with No Teeth.
- www.genesisowusu.com
“Electric Avenue” was founding member of The Equals' Eddy Grant's response to the Brixton riots that took place in 1981.
"Killer on the Rampage" is the sixth and most successful studio album by Eddy Grant. - eddygrant.com
The initial idea for "This Is Radio Clash" apparently came from a conversation between singer Joe Strummer, aide Kosmo Vinyl and manager Bernie Rhodes about the band setting up their own radio station.
- www.songfacts.com
- www.theclash.com
Pre-Func parties at the KEXP Gathering Space prior to the Death Cab For Cutie and Postal Service anniversary shows at Climate Pledge Arena on Friday, October 6th and Saturday, October 7th from 3:30 to 7:00 PM.
This is a 21+ and free event featuring cocktails by Sunny Hill Restaurant, beer and food from Stoneburner Restaurant and KEXP DJs live on air. All proceeds benefit KEXP.
- www.kexp.org
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Here's Ben Gibbard performing "Recycled Air" live in the KEXP studio in 2018 - www.youtube.com
From the 2012 album, 'Bloom', the fourth studio album by Beach House. The album was written over two years of touring and was recorded at Sonic Ranch in Tornillo, Texas, over seven weeks. In 2013, the band produced a short film titled "Forever Still," of which included "Wild," "The Hours," "Wishes," and "Irene."
Here is the full video titled "Forever Still": youtu.be