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Tuesday, Jan 16 2024, 7AM
Hello, Tuesday. Kicking it off with an album birthday.
Brandi Carlile released the album By the Way, I Forgive You, featuring "The Joke" on this day in 2018.
Australian alt-rock trio Middle Kids' new album, "Faith Crisis Pt. 1," will be out on February 16th.
middlekids.bandcamp.com
www.middlekidsmusic.com
Australian artist Angie McMahon will play at Madame Lou's in Seattle, on Monday, March 11th, 2024 - angiemcmahon.com
Latest single by Suki Waterhouse from her upcoming sophomore album.
“We started half the song and then put it to the side,” Waterhouse told Rolling Stone of the song. “We were like, ‘It’s not working.’ And then two months went by and we were back in the studio, and suddenly this chorus came out with this energy around it.”
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Watch the music video here:
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The album was written entirely by the band's lead singer Dolores O'Riordan and guitarist Noel Hogan, both of whom were 21 years old at the time.
Katie Crutchfield, aka Waxahatchee, has announced a new album, Tigers Blood, to be released on March 22nd.
This first single is a duet with MJ Lenderman. Regarding the song, Crutchfield said, “I’m really interested in writing love songs that are gritty and unromantic. I wanted to make a song about the ebb and flow of a longtime love story.
pitchfork.com
waxahatchee.bandcamp.com
Frank Black co-wrote "Gigantic" with Pixies bass player Kim Deal. In an interview from October 1997, Black discussed the song’s provenance: “A good chord progression, very Lou Reed influenced. I’d had the word ‘Gigantic’ in my mind just because the chord progression seemed very big to me.”
The song also made a big impression on Kurt Cobain. Cobain said in 1992, "I wish Kim was allowed to write more songs for the Pixies, because 'Gigantic' is the best Pixies song and Kim wrote it."
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Throwing Muses released University on this day in 1995. It was recorded in 1994 at Kingsway Studio in New Orleans, LA.
Kristin Hersh of Throwing Muses spoke with KEXP's Rachel Stevens on the 'Sound & Vision' podcast. Find the episode here: www.kexp.org
Happy 2024 John and crew! Heading into work- if possible could you play tugboat by Galaxie 500. Thanks for being awesome and playing awesome music!
Eleanor in Mountlake Terrace
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The lore is that this song is an ode to The Velvet Underground’s guitarist Sterling Morrison, who was the captain of a tugboat in the 1970s and 80s. Morrison was a major influence on Galaxie 500's Dean Wareham.
IDLES are releasing a new album, TANGK, on February 16th.
Frontman Joe Talbot said in a press release about Gift Horse: “Look at us go! Music and movement for you and yours. Be bold and ride us like the disco donkeys we are.” tinyurl.com
Breeze's new album Sour Grapes released back in December.
“You’ve Decided” is "all about watching someone alienate themselves due to their overreliance on ego and a blind adherence to their own idea of what is right." www.handdrawndracula.com
handdrawndracula.bandcamp.com
Recorded and released in 1989, “Fools Gold” became the Stone Roses' biggest commercial hit at the time. It was their first single to reach the UK Top Ten.
www.thestoneroses.co.uk
Liam Gallagher and the Stone Roses guitarist John Squire have shared this single, marking the Manchester musicians’ first collaboration. More new music is said to be on the way this year.
"I think John’s a top songwriter," shares Gallagher. "Everyone always bangs on about him as a guitarist, but he’s a top songwriter too, man, no two ways about it as far as I’m concerned. There’s not enough of his music out there, whether it’s with the Roses or himself. It’s good to see him back writing songs and f**king good ones. The melodies are mega and then the guitars are a given. But I think even when you take all the f**king guitars off, you can play the songs all on acoustic and they’ll all still blow your mind." tinyurl.com
From The Rolling Stone's 1967 album, Their Satanic Majesties Request.
The album title is a play on the "Her Britannic Majesty requests and requires" text that appeared inside a British passport.
New record due out later this month on January 26th.
Watch Future Islands' Live on KEXP at Home performance from 2020:
youtu.be futureislands.bandcamp.com
Black Love was Afghan Whigs 5th studio album. Prior to this album's release, lead singer Greg Dulli had explored film production in the noir genre. Dulli's ideas for a potential soundtrack led to the songs recorded on this album.
The Afghan Whigs played live in the KEXP studio back in 2017: www.youtube.com
Gossip's first album in eleven years will be out on March 22nd.
Real Power was produced by Rick Rubin. “Getting to work with Rick again was a true gift,” the band told NME. “He doesn’t remotely care about outside opinions around what you could or should be making. He creates calm, positive, open spaces—emotional space and the actual physical vibe of his studio—that make you free to experiment.”
Here is the video for "Crazy Again": www.youtube.com
When Heart of Glass was initially released, it was buried near the end of side B on Parallel Lines.
"When we did 'Heart Of Glass,' it wasn’t too cool in our social set to play disco. But we did it because we wanted to be uncool. It was based around a Roland Rhythm Machine and the backing took over 10 hours to get down," Debbie Harry once said.
Debbie Harry and Chris Stein wrote an early version of "Heart of Glass", called "Once I Had a Love", in 1974–75. This original version was inspired by The Hues Corporation's hit disco song "Rock the Boat" (1974).
"Like Eating Glass" is the first track on Bloc Party's debut album Silent Alarm, released in '05.
Relationship of Command is the third studio album by At the Drive-In, released in 2000.
BBC Music revered "One Armed Scissor" as one of the "most invigorating rock songs released in the last 20 or 30 years, let alone the past 10."
Frontman James Smith said about “We Make Hits”: “We Make Hits” started like most Yard Act songs do these days, in Ryan’s spare bedroom. He’d recorded a couple of basslines and I went round to throw some words on top just to see what might happen. I was reflecting on how things had changed so much for us over the last few years when I realised that sat round a laptop trying to make each other laugh, necking black coffee and craning our heads out of the window to smoke cigs every hour or so, all that had really changed within the writing process was that, thanks to my baby, we were at Ryan’s house rather than mine and that Ryan had a place of his own now, which was nice. Despite the outside blowing up, behind closed doors, we were the same, and I’m grateful for that. You can see the cynicism and the silliness on the surface of “We Make Hits” without much effort, but at its core, for me, it’s really an ode to friendship and the unfiltered joy you feel when you’re making music with the people you hold dear in your life."
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Debut from Dublin four-piece, SPRINTS. They will be playing at Madame Lou's in Seattle on March 6th
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Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth) has announced a new album, The Collective, due out on March 8 via Matador and has just shared the first single, called "Bye Bye." She also has a series of shows planned in late March on the East Coast and California.
Robocobra Quartet from Belfast.
Every lyric comes from a UK newspaper about the daily routines of influencers.
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www.robocobraquartet.com
See Art Brut touting "My Little Brother" live at Kingston in 2011: www.youtube.com
According to band member Tyler Spencer, the idea for the song came up from incorrectly hearing the lyrics of DEVO's "Girl U Want" as "it's just a girl, it's just a girl at a gay bar" while the song was playing in a very loud nightclub. (The actual lyric is "She's just the girl, she's just the girl, the girl you want".)
The first single released from the band's fourth album Beelzebubba.
“Punk Rock Girl,” is a tale of two musical cities—the Dead Milkmen’s hometown of Philadelphia and Austin, Texas, where producer Brian Beattie is based. Learn about the story behind this song here: www.mixonline.com
www.deadmilkmen.com
Sunsick Daisy, band that formed in Adelaide, Australia late in the year 2021. "Away From Me" is a track off their debut EP that was released on November 24th of last year.
sunsickdaisy.bandcamp.com
Listen to John's interview on KEXP's Sound and Vision podcast with Sky Cries Mary, local Seattle grunge band from the 90s:
then.www.kexp.org
The Black Keys have shared the lead single ‘Beautiful People (Stay High)’ from new album, out on April 5th.
Watch the music video to the new song here:
www.youtube.com
ill peach's debut full length album THIS IS NOT AN EXIT is out now on Hardly Art.
Explaining the album title, Jess Corazza said, 'I kept walking into buildings and I’d try to exit somewhere and the sign would be like, "This is not an exit". 'It just felt like a metaphor for a hopeful thing—don't give up yet.'”
- illpeach.bandcamp.com
Memento Mori is Depeche Mode's first album since the death of founding member Andy "Fletch" Fletcher in 2022.
Martin Gore said of the album, "We started work on this project early in the pandemic, and its themes were directly inspired by that time. After Fletch’s passing, we decided to continue as we’re sure this is what he would have wanted, and that has really given the project an extra level of meaning." Dave Gahan added, "Fletch would have loved this album." pitchfork.com
Sugar was formed in 1992, led by singer and guitarist Bob Mould, alongside bassist David Barbe and drummer Malcolm Travis.
Here is Bob Mould performing at the KEXP Bumbershoot Lounge session in 2013: www.youtube.com
New music from Ride, who just announced their upcoming album 'Interplay,' out on March 29th!
“‘Peace Sign’ started life as a jam recorded at Marks’ OX4 studio, in early 2021,” guitarist and singer Andy Bell said in a statement. “We called it ‘Berlin’ and initially it featured Loz on drums, Steve on bass, and myself on a prophet 5 synth. About six months later I got hold of the recording and wrestled it into song form. Lyrically I was inspired by a film called The Alpinist about the visionary free climber Marc-André Leclerc. www.stereogum.com
www.thebandride.com
In a 1970s concert, Cat Stevens introduced the song with the revelation that he wrote the song whilst on a train, and was thinking about Alfred Hitchcock, who had several films set on trains.
Groovy Train was the follow-up single to The Farm's cover of The Monkees' "Stepping Stone".
Read how the band made "Groovy Train": bit.ly
Featuring the vocals of Q-Tip! This was Deee-Lite's hit; the group was composed of DJ Dimitry, DJ Towa Towa, and vocalist Lady Miss Kier. Before they recorded this, DJ Dimitry wrote to Bootsy Collins and sent him a tape. Collins, a funk pioneer who recorded with George Clinton, liked it and flew in to play bass and provide backing vocals.
"Dyslexic Heart" was in the original motion picture soundtrack from the film 'Singles'.
Lead Singer Andrew Wood passed away a few days before the release of Mother Love Bone's album Apple in 1990.
Apple peaked at number 34 on Billboard's Top Heatseekers chart in 1992. Rolling Stone said that the album "succeeds where countless other hard-rock albums have failed, capturing the essence of what made (Led Zeppelin) – dynamics, kids! – and giving it a unique Nineties spin."