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Thursday, Nov 9 2023, 7AM
Good morning and welcome to the Morning Show!
This classic from The Kinks names several famous actors of 20th century film, and also mentions Los Angeles's Hollywood Boulevard, alluding to its Hollywood Walk of Fame. The actors mentioned are Greta Garbo, Rudolph Valentino, Bela Lugosi, Bette Davis, Marilyn Monroe, George Sanders, and Mickey Rooney.
Golden Brown was the most played song in the UK in 1982. #Facts. The most popular song in the US that same year? You guessed it, "Physical" by Olivia Newton-John. "Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor came in second and then, thank goodness Joan Jett released "I Love Rock 'n Roll" which came in third.
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Future Islands have announced their first album since 2020, titled "People Who Aren’t There Anymore" and it releases January 26th! - futureislands.bandcamp.com
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New (kinda) from Duran Duran! Off of their October 2023 Halloween inspired record "Danse Macabre" this is a new version of the 1981 track Nightboat.
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New from Drop Nineteen! Hard Light is Drop Nineteens first record in 30 years. Hear the band tell the story behind the album and why it took 30-years to come together this weekend on KEXPs Sound and Vision.
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New Chatham Rise song out of Minneapolis.
chathamrise.bandcamp.com
Its THURSDAY!
Hailing from Cambridge MA, the self proclaimed "low rock" group Morphine were a dynamic part of the 90's alt-rock movement. The trios' distinctive combination of saxophone, double bass and drums merged with the vocal stylings of lead singer Mark Sandman to create a truly original sound.
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Mark Sandman died of a heart attack during a performance in Italy in 1999. He was 47 years old.: www.nytimes.com
Damien Jurado from the 2017 Death and Music. Join your community at the Moore November 12th for this years death and music.
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Sara Cahoone will be at this years Death and Music performing with Tomo Nakayama. Together they will pay tribute to Low's Mimi Parker.
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Thank you Mimi Parker. Your band changed our lives.
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Bruce Springsteen's award wining song for the film "Philadelphia." The powerful film is an early depiction of the AIDS crisis.
Hurray for the Riff Raff has announced a new album called The Past Is Still Alive is due out February 23 via Nonesuch.
The lead single “Alibi,” is "...a last ditch effort to get through to someone you already know you’re gonna lose. It’s a song to myself, to my Father, almost fooling myself because I know what’s done is done. But it feels good to beg. A reckoning with time and memory. The song is exhausted with loving someone so much it hurts. Addiction separates us. With memories of the Lower East Side in the early 2000s of my childhood, mixed with imagery of the endless West that calls to artists and wanderers.”
3/30 – Seattle, WA – Neumos
Good morning John!
I'm about to start the long drive to another state to hopefully prevent a friend from committing suicide. I'm feeling a lot right now but it's an immense comfort to know kexp will be with me the whole way. Looking forward to hearing you say "you are not alone." If you want to play a request or something, The Oh Hellos is a band I often go to for comfort.
Forest
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Cleveland folk trio The Lighthouse and the Whaler have a new album, 'Talk' out now!
www.thelighthouseandthewhaler.com
John was the host when the band performed live in the KEXP studio in 2015: www.youtube.com
The opening track from Icelandic indie group of Monsters and Men debut studio album. Released in 2011.
Watch the music video here:
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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
Sleater-Kinney have released “Say It Like You Mean It," the second single from their forthcoming album, Little Rope, out January 19th. See them at the Showbox Apr 2nd and Apr 3rd 2024.
www.sleater-kinney.com
The Killers claim it only took them eight minutes to write this track. Released as the b-side to Mr. Brightside.
Released as a single yesterday (November 8th) in 1949. The A-side, "My Bucket's Got a Hole in It." #TheMoreYouKnow
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Hi John,
Would you play a song for my wife Lisa? She's missing her father, who died last spring unexpectedly. We've been planning our family holiday gatherings and remembering how he always gave his grandchildren, including our little boys, the most thoughtful presents. It just won't feel the same without him. Her dad, Bud, loved old-school country and Americana, and I bet a song in his memory would mean a lot to Lisa as she's mourning him today.
Thank you so much for being you.
<3 Kate
From the legendary O Brother, Where Art Thou. First written in 1913 and recorded in 1927! (This version is from 2000)
Where heeeeeeeee was born and rah-aiiiiiiiiised
Gillian Welch co-pproduced the O Brother Where Art Thou sound track. Here is her cover of Radiohead.
Radiohead's original version of Black Star from 1995's sophomore release "The Bends". Black Star is the only track on the album produced by Nigel Goodrich who would go on to produce "Ok Computer."
For the amazing team of Radiation Oncology Therapists at Fred Hutch. Thank you for the incredible work you do everyday.
Scott in Woodinville, WA
A little over one month ago a team of radiation oncology therapists from the Fred Hutch radiation oncology clinic went to work zapping the cancer cells in my body. They will administer my final treatment this morning and all indications are that they have been completely successful in eliminating that @#$%ing cancer from my body. I can't begin to express my heart-felt thanks to these lifesavers for all that they did for me and that they do EVERY day for the other patients that come to them for help. These kind, wonderful human beings and their co-workers are true heroes. Please dedicate a song to them.
Many thanks.
Good morning- Can you please play Talk Talk's "It's my Life," for my neighbor Regan? She just crushed one of the best/ hardest years of her life. Love her long time. - Mary in Edmonds
Big thief's Buck Meek will be here in Seattle, playing The Crocodile on Tuesday, January 23rd, 2024.
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Big Thief’s Adrianne Lenker recently explained the nexus of the 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.” Here's the lyric video: www.youtube.com
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Rochdale UK-born singer-songwriter Morgan Harper-Jones announces the February 23rd release of her debut album 'Up To The Glass' and shares its ace lead single "Boombox".
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New album from Middle Kids coming February 16, 2024. "Dramamine" is the latest single from it. middlekids.bandcamp.com www.middlekidsmusic.com
Happy Wu-Tang Day! Happy 30th anniversary to Enter the Wu‐Tang (36 Chambers)!
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What a day! Also released on this day 30 years ago 'Midnight Marauders'. To this day Award Tour is Tribe's highest charting single, with a peak of 47 on Billboards Hot 100.
Holy cow, also released on this day 31 years ago! "Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)" debut single form Digable Planets.
The song features samples from "Stretching" by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers (1978), "Blow Your Head" by Fred Wesley and The J.B.'s (1974), "Foodstamps" by The 24-Carat Black (1973), "Impeach the President" by The Honey Drippers (1973), and "On the Subway" by The Last Poets (1970).
Happy Birthday Pepa! Born on this day in 1969.
Before becoming Salt-N-Pepa, James and Denton were two college students who met at Queensborough Community College. While there, James invited Denton to start a new job making sales calls at a local Sears. Oddly enough, the pair weren't the only stars in the making who worked there. Future hip-hop duo Kid 'n Play also worked in the call center, along with aspiring comedian Martin Lawrence. Want to know some more interesting things about Salt-N-Pepa?: www.mylifetime.com
Hey John
So today is my birthday but it's a little different this year. What makes it different is that I'm turning 54, which is the same age my dad was when he passed away about 32 years ago. I'm having this strange jumble of thoughts. There are times when I definitely feel the years (standing for a live show gets a little tough these days) but I look back at my dad's brief 54 years and think "that's so young". My words are probably failing me but music never has. If you can fit it "Ooh La La" by the Faces because I'm sure we all wish we knew now when we were younger.
Thanks for the music.
Paul from Danbury
More Ooh La La! Ooh La La comes form Rune the Jewels 2020 critically acclaimed record RTJ4.
Another!
Fake Sugar is the debut solo album of Beth Ditto, previously of Gossip. "A total of 12 tracks long, whittled down from an impressive 80 contenders, power and strength seeps out from every song on this record both literally in terms of musicality, but also with the messages entwined in Ditto’s lyricism." bit.ly
When "More Light" was released in 2013, Bobby Gillespie said, " I wanted to convey coming out of a dark time and into a good one. We always knew it wasn’t going to be a straight -ahead, balls-to-the-wall, high-energy rock & roll, two guitars, bass and drum record. It’s sophisticated, layered, cinematic and orchestral..."
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In the video, the Scottish rockers hark back to another time with a vintage-looking black-and-white clip that finds them playing the euphoric, gospel-influenced tune in the studio.: www.youtube.com
Live tonight at Neumos!
www.neumos.com
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I'm seeing Genesis Owusu tonight, and I want to thank you for introducing me to his amazing new album! Would love to hear something off it this morning. Happy Thursday!
Carina in Seattle