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Wednesday, Feb 28 2024, 7AM
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Prince performed this more than any other song in his repertoire. He played it at almost every show.
Prince admitted the success of the film and its music was overwhelming. "In some ways Purple Rain scared me," he noted in The Observer. "It's my albatross and it'll be hanging around my neck as long as I'm making music."
- www.songfacts.com
R.E.M.'s eighth studio album - remhq.com
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This was the only R.E.M. song where the lyrics were written before the music, inspiring some healthy competition between Mike Mills and Peter Buck. Buck recalls in the liner notes for In Time: "Being competitive bastards that we are, Mike and I started auditioning chord changes and tunes for Michael. The two tunes of mine that Michael rejected eventually became 'Drive' and 'Try Not To Breathe.' Mike had a piano instrumental that he played to Michael. He listened once, nodded his head to hear it again, and on the second pass he sang the lyrics. It was 'Nightswimming,' exactly like the record we would record a year later. I was standing in the corner dumbfounded." - www.songfacts.com
"When you feel embarrassed Then I'll be your pride When you need directions Then I'll be the guide For all time For all time..."
- www.deathcabforcutie.com
From their debut studio album - janesaddiction.com
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At a live show in 1986, Jane’s Addiction front man Perry Farrell cryptically introduced “Summertime Rolls” as “This song’s about getting laid on a waterbed…no…it’s about laying in a park…no, it’s not…yes, it is.”
- dontforgetthesongs365.wordpress.com
Good morning John! Can I request "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" for Eva and Hendrix? I sing it to my kids and the opening line is pretty perfect for a brand-new person! 🌍🎶
Kate in Belmont, MA
New music from the Melbourne-based artist - gracecummings.bandcamp.com
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Of the song, Grace says :“This song is about being a colourful bird and never, ever wanting to be a pigeon. Somebody I used to know wrote a song called common man about working nine to five and coming home and having a cup of tea and going to bed and it made me want to have a fucking panic attack. I wish I could tell people it was about riding off into the distance on the back of a white horse with a Cowboy in Austin Texas, but it’s not.”
- www.prescriptionmusicpruk.com
From the new album by the New Orleans artist - hftrr.bandcamp.com
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Hurray for the Riff Raff performs at Neumos on Saturday, March 30 - www.hurrayfortheriffraff.com
On this day in 1986, the soundtrack for 'Pretty In Pink' was released. The soundtrack is considered one of the best in modern American cinema. (Features music by The Psychedelic Furs, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, New Order, Suzanne Vega, INXS, Echo & the Bunnymen, The Smiths, and more.
For Eva and Hendrix
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On this day in 1983, U2 released their third studio album "War." - www.u2.com
Leadoff track from the fifth studio album by the Australian rock band -
www.inxs.com
Opening track on David Bowie's 15th studio album. - www.davidbowie.com
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Bowie said this song's call-and-response vocal arrangement "all comes from Little Richard." A defining moment in Bowie's childhood was when his dad came home with a copy of "Tutti Frutti." That's Stevie Ray Vaughan on guitar and the incredible Steve Elson on baritone sax. - www.songfacts.com
The National plays at Seattle's Climate Pledge Arena with The War On Drugs & Lucius on Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - www.americanmary.com
IDLES will bring their World Tour 2024 to The Paramount Theatre on Tuesday and Wednesday, May 7th and 8th! - www.idlesband.com
- idlesband.bandcamp.com
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Released as the lead single from Idles' fifth album, Tangk, "Dancer" is the violence that comes from the pounding heart of the dancefloor," said vocalist Joe Talbot, "and rushes through your body and gives you life from music, from love and from you." - www.songfacts.com
The Pretty in Pink soundtrack was released on this day in 1986. The soundtrack is considered one of the best in modern American cinema. (Features music by The Psychedelic Furs, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, New Order, Suzanne Vega, INXS, Echo & the Bunnymen, The Smiths, and more.)
Mama Zu is the musical project between Jessi Zazu and Linwood Regensburg after the break up of their previous band, Those Darlins, in 2016. They began working on an album under the name Mama Zu while Zazu was battling cervical cancer, which claimed her life at age twenty-eight in September 2017. - mamazu.bandcamp.com
Dan Boeckner (of Wolf Parade, Handsome Furs, Operators, and Divine Fits) will be Live on The Midday Show on KEXP at noon on Monday, April 29th! He performs that evening at The Crocodile in Seattle! -- His debut solo album, "Boeckner!," releases on March 15th. - boeckner.bandcamp.com
On this day in 1986, the soundtrack for 'Pretty In Pink' was released! The soundtrack is considered one of the best in modern American cinema. (Features music by The Psychedelic Furs, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, New Order, Suzanne Vega, INXS, Echo & the Bunnymen, The Smiths, and more.)
"Driven to Tears" is a song written by Sting and first released by The Police on their 1980 album Zenyatta Mondatta. The theme of the song is the divide between rich and poor. The song asks how we react when confronted with uncomfortable truths. Sting explained: "What are you left with when you're faced with atrocities? All you can do is cry."
- www.songfacts.com
- thepolice.com
New album from the from Nantes, France based band -
- madfoxes1.bandcamp.com
After the breakup of Pitchfork in 1990, singer/guitarist John Reis (aka "Speedo") formed both Drive Like Jehu and Rocket from the Crypt, the latter named after an underground '70s punk band called Rocket from the Tombs.
Rocket from the Crypt made an offer to fans: anyone who shows up at their gigs with an RFTC tattoo gets in free! A lot of people took the band up on this over the next dozen years. - www.sandiegoreader.com
- www.rftc.com
METZ will play at Neumos in Seattle on Tuesday, May 7th! - www.metzztem.com
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New album out April 12th 2024- metz.bandcamp.com
The ninth song on their second studio album. - www.nirvana.com
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The title of the song comes from the fact that Nirvana thought that the bass intro sounded like something a cheesy lounge band would use. - www.songfacts.com
New album! - www.dandywarhols.com
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That’s the Slash who plays guitar on “I’d Like To Help You With Your Problem,” a heaving fuzz-bomb of a song. Here’s what Dandys leader Courtney Taylor-Taylor says about it:
"The song has a real Vietnam-era acid rock sound. We wanted that kind of guitar playing on it, but we don’t have anyone in the band who can do it. Once we began discussing it, it became apparent that there wasn’t really anyone else whose hands we could put it in, so thus the Hail Mary to try and get Slash to play on it…"
The Austin, TX-based band plays The Sunset Tavern on Wednesday, March 27th - www.janeleo.com
This was Kim Wilde's first single. She racked up 19 Top-40 hits in England, but just one more in the US: a #1 cover of "You Keep Me Hangin' On." She later became a prominent gardening expert in England.
- www.kimwilde.com
New from UK artist total tommy (aka Jess Holt)!
Here's the official video - www.youtube.com
Like many of us, the COVID-19 lockdown really threw Florence + the Machine frontwoman Florence Welch. Unable to do the things she loves - going to clubs, dancing, performing on stage – Welch also experienced writer's block, which prevented her from putting her love of music into writing. She wrote this song about her search for a creative outlet in a pandemic era.
- www.songfacts.com
- florenceandthemachine.net
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. - www.reybee.com
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Asked about “Younger,” Jen says:
“The title and lyrics of ‘Younger’ are a metaphor for healing. By healing and undoing damage, you are returning to your younger inner child.” - wp.glamglare.com
Here's Porcelain Raft performs "Drifting In and Out" live from Barboza during the 2012 Capitol Hill Block Party. - www.youtube.com
On this day in 1986, the soundtrack for 'Pretty In Pink' was released. The soundtrack is considered one of the best in modern American cinema. (Features music by The Psychedelic Furs, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, New Order, Suzanne Vega, INXS, Echo & the Bunnymen, The Smiths, and more.)
On Tuesday, October 1st, The National plays Seattle's Climate Pledge Arena with The War On Drugs and Special Guest Lucius - www.americanmary.com
On this day in 1983, U2 released their third studio album "War." - www.u2.com
"Born of Frustration" was James' first single in America. - wearejames.com
Suki Waterhouse will play Day In Day Out July 13th - www.dayindayoutfest.com
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sukiwaterhouse.bandcamp.com
Portland pop / indie-rock trio Gossip returns with Real Power, their first album in 14 years, set for release on March 22nd. The album marks a reunion with acclaimed producer Rick Rubin, who helmed the band’s pivotal 2009 album Music For Men. - www.roughtrade.com
"Praise You" was the third single released from Fatboy Slim's 1998 album, You've Come a Long Way, Baby. A total of six samples are used in the song, including Camille Yarborough's "Take Yo' Praise," "Lucky Man" by Steve Miller Band, "Running Back To Me" by Tom Fogerty, and "It's a Small World" from the Disneyland Records-released album Mickey Mouse Disco. bit.ly www.fatboyslim.net
This is the closing track on the Scottish band's tenth album. - www.primalscream.net
"From the New Nation of Long Shadows" was recorded and mixed at Spectre Studios, Issaquah WA in the year 2000 voyagerone.bandcamp.com