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Friday, Feb 16 2024, 7AM
The title for this song is the name of a racing greyhound.
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"I'm watching from your bed returning to you
Rioja Rioja, Reverend Al Green
Deep blue Morocco..."
You're probably wondering what Karl Hyde is saying here (Aren't you?): genius.com
Kieran Hebden (Four Tet) will release "Three," his first full-length in nearly four years, on March 15th. It's an eight-track album and features this hypnotic new single, "Daydream Repeat."
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Toronto-based electronic musician Jacques Greene is actually named Philippe Aubin-Dionne.
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In this 2020 interview, he talks about the collaboration that led to "Dawn Chorus": www.ableton.com
This song was written while English electronic musician George Fitzgerald traveled around Germany and France last summer.
“I was thinking back to the continental house records that I loved so much in the 00's, and the hours spent in record shops in Paris and Berlin discovering them,” FitzGerald said about the song. “This is my take on those memories.”
This song marks Justice's first new music in almost eight years.
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Justice said, “We wanted this track to sound as if a dark/techno iteration of Justice had found a sample of a disco iteration of Kevin Parker. Kevin has a sense of melody that’s fascinating in the sense that he manages to write melodies that feel both simple and natural, but very peculiar at the same time. ": www.spin.com
LCD Soundsystem will perform at Seattle's Paramount Theatre, Thursday-Sunday, May 16th-19th, 2024.
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James Murphy wrote "One Touch" with Rayna Russom and Nancy Whang. Russom voiced the whispers on the song and Whang the yells.
A transgender electronic music producer and DJ, Russom has toured with LCD Soundsystem, playing synths and percussion. Portland, Oregon-born keyboardist Nancy Whang joined LCD Soundsystem in 2002.
mega cat was first discovered in a basement home studio in the Central District of Seattle, Washington by audio chemists Aaron Benson (drums, percussion, guitar) Kim West (synthesizer, piano) and Ryan Devlin (bass, guitar).: itsmegacat.bandcamp.com
Did you know that he worked as a hairdresser and a chef before he began his musical career?
Here's a biography for Belfast composer and producer David Holmes: www.allmusic.com
Bre Morell is the vocalist for the band Temple of Angels. Enjoy this 2023 interview with the artist: newnoisemagazine.com
TR/ST(pronounced Trust) is the musical alias of producer, singer, and performer Robert Alfons. He has just dropped a surprise self-titled five-track EP, "Run" features Montreal-based Canadian musician Caila Thompson-Hannant (Cecile Believe).
Happy birthday to Duran Duran's Andy Taylor, born on this date in 1961.
Last year, he celebrated being "asymptomatic" after battling Stage 4 prostate cancer: www.latimes.com
Crowded House's new single, “Oh Hi.," the band’s first original music in two years, was influenced by band leader Neil Finn‘s support for So They Can, an international nonprofit focused on building schools in remote parts of Kenya and Tanzania.
“I’m hoping the song comes across without needing to know the backstory,” Finn said in a statement. “But it’s very much inspired by these incredible kids and their magnificence.” Here's a link to So They Can: www.sotheycan.org
Ezra Koenig:" I really like 'Cousins'… We have so many different fans and different people like different songs and some people gravitate towards the quiet songs, some people towards the loud songs – this is obviously a huge generalization – but the two times I can think about when some rappers came over to me and said they liked Vampire Weekend were A$AP Rocky and Post Malone and they both specifically said they liked 'Cousins'… Might be like a generational thing maybe, that they missed the first album.
That song is very reflective to me of stuff that I liked when I was twelve or thirteen. I loved Ska and surf music and kind of like high energy stuff so that’s a pretty special song."
Here are The Police, playing this one live in Kyoto in 1980: www.youtube.com
Sydney band Middle Kids will be at Neumos on Tuesday, June 18th!
KEXP music director Chris Sanley writes "...throughout the thirteen tracks on the Sydney trio’s third studio album, the outfit instead reminds us 'that even in the darkest moments, belief can flourish.' With bright melodies, propulsive guitars, catchy hooks and sobering lyricism, this magnificent new album cements Middle Kids as one of the premier indie-rock bands of our time." It's out TODAY!!!
Happy release birthday to "By the Way, I Forgive You." released six years ago on February 16th, 2018.
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The official video for "Hold Out Your Hand" was filmed at the March for Our Lives in Seattle on March 24th, 2018: www.youtube.com
This feel-good song was written by Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros vocalists Alex Ebert and Jade Castrinos, who were a couple at the time.
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The band is named after a character from a novel Ebert was writing - Edward Sharpe is an otherworldly figure who comes to Earth to offer enlightenment to the masses, but finds himself getting distracted by the beautiful women.: consequence.net
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Elbow's new album, their tenth, "Audio Vertigo," will be out on March 22nd. Frontman Guy Garvey says these are “gnarly, seedy grooves created by us playing together in garagey rooms,”
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Go here to purchase a vinyl copy: interscope.com
Checking in from Newcastle upon Tyne, England. My husband Rob has just got a new job! And I’d love to hear any Waterboys track for him. Always love listening to you live on a Friday 😊 ----Alison
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Love this song? Watch The Waterboys perform a 9-minute version in Dublin last July: www.youtube.com
For Rachel in Chicago...happy birthday tomorrow. You truly are not alone.
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This great 1987 song was just performed, more than thirty years later, by The House of Love in Rouen, France last year: www.youtube.com
Shoegaze pioneers Ride return with the album "Interplay," out March 29th on Wichita Recordings/PIAS. It'll be their seventh full-length overall, and their third since reuniting in 2014.
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John selected this single, Peace Sign," as a recent, free KEXP Song of the Day: www.kexp.org
Hey John, Love the show this morning so far. Everytime I peel an orange for my daughter Amelia, I end up singing "She Likes her hair to be real orange, she uses Tangerines" from "She Don't Use Jelly" by the Flaming Lips. I've had that song in my head all morning and would love it if you played it. Thanks! --Gulshan (“Ghoul-shun”) in Brooklyn
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Wayne Coyne said about this track: "When we recorded 'She Don't Use Jelly' we knew we were making something special. Whatever the absurdness of it, you could understand that I'm talking about toast and Vaseline, and it had some kind of innocent little sexual thing that ran through the whole song. That was kind of cool for us because up until then all of our songs were so asexual. I think we felt that there was this sort of the Guns N' Roses mentality to rock 'n' roll, and we were something different. We really had a lot of area to explore that didn't include a bunch of naked women- but here we felt like, 'Oh, what the f--k, let's go for it.'"
Ahhh....the Friday song. Join KEXP for Music Heals: Mental Health on Thursday, February 29th. We acknowledge the struggles of mental health and emotional well-being that so many of us deal with and how music and community, can really make a difference.: www.kexp.org
IDLES' fifth album is out today! The Guardian calls it "a return to joy as an act of resistance," while Variety says that it's "one of the most innovative rock records in years": variety.com
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IDLES will be at The Paramount Theatre on Tuesday and Wednesday, May 7th and 8th.
Vampire Weekend will be at Climate Pledge Arena on Thursday, June 20th.
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"Capricorn," their first new music in five years, is a single from their new album "Only God Was Above Us," out in April.
The Stones were stalled on recording this song in 1966.
Then, after listening to the last playback, bassist Bill Wyman had an unusual idea. “I suggested Hammond organ pedals,” the bassist said. “I lay on the floor under the organ and played a second bass riff on the pedals, with my fists, at double-time.”
The effect immediately fattened the song’s bottom end, as Wyman had intended, but more importantly, it suddenly eschewed its perceived direction. By inadvertently stirring in evocative, Turkish flavors, Wyman had sent the song careering into territory far more exotic than the Stones had hitherto adventured. “That’s it!” thought an exhilarated producer {Andrew Loog] Oldham. “I’d heard the sound and movement we needed, the whimsy that spelt ‘radio.’”
Happy 14th birthday, Eliot!
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The video for "Kim & Jessie" depicts two teenage roller skating girls who end up kissing male roller bladers. A Stereogum article stated that "whatever the first few minutes of the clip makes you assume about Kim & Jessie’s secret world, the ending will probably prove you wrong.": www.youtube.com
Seattle singer/songwriter Jen Wood has entered a collaboration (Gemz) with Sebastopol, CA-via-Seattle electronic musician Ted Chen.
The song originated as one of Jen’s voice memos in 2017, and it turned into this final form in 2022 when Ted got involved. “When I listened to Jen’s voice memo of ‘Younger’ for the first time [in 2017], I could practically hear its final production,” he says. “The lyrics and melody inspired such a vivid image and energy in my mind. I wanted to evoke a space that felt like an infinite loop, with sounds and textures appearing in and out from the edges – like, what would happen if you were listening to this song while time traveling.”
Katie Crutchfield (Waxahatchee) 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. I thought it might feel untraditional, but a little more in alignment with my experience to write about feeling insecure or foiled in some way internally, but always finding your way back to a newness or an intimacy with the same person.”
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This song was recently selected as a free KEXP Song of the Day: www.kexp.org
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That's MJ Lenderman (of the band Wednesday) on vocals and electric guitar, Phil Cook on banjo, and Spencer Tweedy on percussion.
Marika Hackman will be at Madame Lou's on Saturday, September 28th, 2024.
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“’No Caffeine’ is a list of what to do to avoid having a panic attack and looking at my anxiety as an abusive partner,” said Hackman of the new song. “Occupy your mind / Don’t stay home / Talk to all your friends, but don’t look at your phone / Scream into a bag / Try to turn your brain off,” she sings on the track.
The singer-songwriter has also shared an explicit video for the song, which sees her getting a bloody nose before she is physically sick.: www.youtube.com
Good morning John, Owen, and awesome morning crew, and happy Friday to you! I am putting together my outfit for the Madonna show on Saturday and would love to hear Borderline, if it pleases the dj. I am really impressed with how hip I dressed back in elementary school, btw 😎 Love to you all and thank you for all that you all do 💜🎶 --Jaimee (Mountlake Terrace)
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Madonna will be at Climate Pledge Arena this Saturday and Sunday, February 17th and 18th. For dressing hints, you might want to watch the classic video for "Borderline": www.youtube.com
Would love to request PJ Harvey to wish Happy Bday to my friend Anita in DC. She introduced me to KEXP 20 years ago, which has been a gift to both of us. --Nancy
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Happy birthday, Anita!!
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In an oral history of Harvey’s album Rid of Me, she said, “When I was at art college, all I wanted to do was shock with my artwork. When I wrote ‘Rid of Me,’ I shocked myself. I thought, ‘Well, if I’m shocked, other people might be shocked.’ The sound of the words was powerful, and the rhythm felt clean and simple to roll off the tongue. I knew that this was the type of song I was trying to write.”
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Oh, my, here's a live version in Chicago in 1993: www.youtube.com
Sleater-Kinney will be playing The Showbox on Tuesday and Wednesday, April 2nd and 3rd.
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The video features Australian freediver Amber Bourke, who holds her breath in a bathtub for the duration of the introspective song.
The band says, “For the video, we wanted imagery that spoke to the themes which permeate 'Little Rope': uncertainty, restlessness, urgency, all of the in-between and discomfiting states with which we’re forced to reckon. So, we came up with the idea of a woman holding her breath in a bathtub for the duration of the song, unsure of her motivations, not knowing whether she’s seeking escape, disappearance, absolution, or simply a moment of quiet and reprieve. We love the tension created by an act that defies both custom and comfort.”: www.youtube.com
Dublin's SPRINTS will be at Madame Lou's on Wednesday, March 6th.
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In this edition of KEXP's Sound & Vision podcast, Karla Chubb of the Irish garage-punk band SPRINTS talks with Emily Fox about the band's debut album, Letter To Self.: www.kexp.org
R.I.P., Lemmy Kilmister, who died in 2015 at the age of 70: www.nytimes.com
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In tribute to Lemmy, who died about six weeks earlier, The Hollywood Vampires (led by Alice Cooper, Johnny Depp and Joe Perry) performed this song at the Grammy Awards in 2016. Dave Grohl introduced the act and said, "I have an ace of spades tattoo but the truth is, Lemmy and Motörhead left their mark on me a long time ago, just as they did for everybody who has ever loved rock and roll. As Lemmy taught us in the song 'Ace of Spades,' the pleasure is to play."
Joe Talbot on this song: This was a real struggle. [Producer Mark] Bowen was really obsessed about doing interesting counts with the beats. I just wanted to make people dance and create infectious beats. We were coming from very different angles, but we loved this song that Bowen had made. I was like, I get it, Bowen. This is insane. I love it, but I can’t get it' We hung on to it for ages, and then [producer] Nigel [Godrich] really helped us out, he created spaces and bits here and there by turning things down and moving everything slightly. Then [producer]Kenny [Beats] helped me out, and got rid of the stupid counts, I think, and helped me write it on a 4/4 beat. And then they changed it back. I just come in in weird places. Everyone chipped in, because everyone believed in the song.
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The new IDLES album, "TANGK," is out today!
This is Patti Smith's wonderful cover of The Byrds' 1967 song, written by Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman. Patti's version was produced by Todd Rundgren.
"The Main Thing" features Ratboys' Julia Steiner on backing vocals alongside Dehd's Jason Balla and Moontype's Margaret McCarthy,
Go here to purchase the newest release from Toronto duo of Tom McGreevy and Evan Lewis: ducksltdband.bandcamp.com
Sheer Mag will be at The Vera Project on Thursday, April 18th, 2024.
This song comes from their forthcoming album, Playing Favorites, out March 1st! sheermag.bandcamp.com
They played Live on KEXP back in 2019! Enjoy video from the session here: www.youtube.com