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New single from Bonny Light Horseman — the trio made up of Anaïs Mitchell, Eric D. Johnson, and Josh Kaufman. The single was recorded at Levis Corner House, a pub in County Cork, Ireland, which is also where its accompanying music video was filmed. Watch the video here: www.youtube.com.
www.bonnylighthorseman.com
Josh Kaufman of Bonny Light Horseman has worked with the National on numerous records.
The National Performed Live at KEXP in 2017. Check out the full set. www.youtube.com
This song was inspired by an exhibit of the same name the band saw at the Chicago Peace Museum while on tour in 1983. The exhibit featured artwork from Japanese victims of the Hiroshima bombing. The Chicago Peace Museum also had a Martin Luther King exhibit, which would inspire U2's song "Pride (In The Name Of Love)."
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In the beginning of the song, from :04 to :07 seconds, you can hear Larry Mullen Jr. start to hit his drumsticks early. Immediately after, he mutters out "S-it." Then, at :22 seconds, he starts to drum at the correct time. The small glitch has never been removed from the album nor its inclusions on 'Best of' CDs.
Released on this day in 1995!
Moby has described Everything Is Wrong as "a record that almost served as a lifeboat for the songs I cared the most about" noting that he attempted to cover as many musical styles as possible not "out of trying to be eclectic, but just because I was in love with all of these genres and I felt like this may be my only chance to make a record."
From Sigur Rós latest record. Front person Jónsi described the latest record saying "Trans and queer and gay rights have been trampled on so much recently. It's scary to see. Around the world also, it feels like we're going backwards. We try to stay out of politics, just to make the music as neutral as possible, but we were talking about the state of the world we live in now: climate change and doomscrolling."
sigurros.com
Middle Kids' new album Faith Crisis Pt 1 was recorded in five weeks back in June of 2022 in Eastbourne, United Kingdom.
During their sessions, the band experimented with synths and organs for the first time. Hannah Joy shared that unlike their previous albums, which were very intertwined with their daily lives, with "snippets written in sound checks, visiting a studio whilst on the road [and] recording vocals after doing the dishes at home", during the process of making Faith Crisis Pt 1, they sought separation from daily life and the going-ons of society by "carving out the space and world for making this record, which, yeah, was awesome – but absolutely fried the mainframes".
Middle Kids are playing in Seattle at Neumos on June 18th!
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www.middlekidsmusic.com
From the second EP by the English band. Wolf Alice have visited the KEXP studios a couple of times.
Here they are playing on The Morning Show LIVE on KEXP in 2015: bit.ly
Did you know that Phil Collins is playing the drums here? The song was written by Plant, bassist Paul Martinez, and guitarist Robbie Blunt.
Brand new from Iron & Wine's up coming record and featuring Fiona Apple.
Watch Iron & Wine's 2017 performance on KEXP here: www.youtube.com
This song is a cover of the much loved song by the Knife.
Born in Gothenburg, Sweden to Argentinian parents, José González was joined by the international artist collective, the String Theory, for an enchanting performance live on KEXP in 2019. Watch Live Video from the performance: bit.ly.
Grant Lee Phillips told American Songwriter, the song was a last-minute addition to the band’s second album, 1994’s Mighty Joe Moon.
"I began to introduce all the new material. And we had gotten through most of the recording process when a massive earthquake struck Los Angeles. This was the Northridge earthquake. And it was out of that that I wrote ‘Mockingbirds,’ when the record was almost basically done. I said, ‘Whoops, I got one more here that we might want to consider.’”
Bully's Alicia Bognanno said of this song "The song was originally recorded with a drum machine and electric guitar; it was also quite a bit faster. When I played the demo for JT Daly (producer), he had the idea of moving it to the piano. I remember saying out loud, “Can you believe I’m trusting anybody like this?” We both started laughing because starting off as someone who used to record, mix, and produce their own records to avoid the vulnerability that comes with working out creative ideas in the company of others, it was a huge step for me."
Read more here: www.stereogum.com
Watch Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds doing this one live at Brixton Academy in London in 2004 here: www.youtube.com www.nickcave.com
Brand new from the Black Keys. This track was written with Beck. Read more about the record here: www.stereogum.com
Now from Beck him self!
For "Novacane," the Dust Brothers wanted to capture the frenetic, rock star energy of the otherwise calm Beck. Simpson told MusicRadar: "It's interesting, when you become friends with Beck and you're working with him in the studio he's such a mild-mannered, super mellow, very gentle guy. But when he gets on stage he has these explosive qualities like Mick Jagger and punk rock, you know? On 'Novacane' we just tried to harness some of that energy and capture it on record. It's interesting, on a lot of other projects we'd want to push to go crazy to get really weird unexpected things on record, and a lot of artists just don't want to go that far. Other times other artists would have to rein us in and go, 'Yeah I like the way that sounds, but I don't know if it's right for the record.' With Beck it was like you couldn't throw something too crazy at him. He'd push us. He was like, 'What can we do to this song to make it more f--ked up?' and I feel like we achieved it on 'Novacane.'" bit.ly
This 1995 song sampled Silver Apples' 1968 "Program."
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The Folk Implosion was an American indie rock/lo-fi band founded in the early 1990s by Lou Barlow (after he had been sacked as bassist for Dinosaur Jr.) and John Davis. It was initially a side-project started by Barlow to explore different territory than that being canvassed with his primary band at the time, Sebadoh. The name is a play on the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.: peel.fandom.com
Sampling both James Brown (via Dick Hyman) and Southside Movement...
A listener developed the hypothesis that this frequently sampled song is " a break-up song about an unfaithful lover." Hmm.. here's his argument: bbs.beastieboys.com
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Here's the Muppets version! Starring the Swedish Chef, Animal, and Beeker - www.youtube.com
Watch the new music video for the Irish group's latest track here:
www.youtube.com
www.pillowqueens.com
This third LP from Yeah Yeah Yeahs got started at a dairy farm in Massachusetts, and recorded at Sonic Ranch studio in El Paso, Texas.
Released on this day in 1995!
This song was written by Elastica lead singer Justine Frischmann, who was formerly a guitarist in the UK band Suede and dated their lead singer, Brett Anderson. The riff that carries this song is gently borrowed from British punk band Wire's "Three Girl Rhumba." Official video: www.youtube.com
Now you can hear for yourself...Does it sound like the previous tune?
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We were so fortunate to have Wire playing live in the KEXP studio in 2017: www.youtube.com
Speaking of oddly similar riffs...
Nirvana features a similar guitar riff on their 1991 hit "Come As You Are" and Killing Joke considered legal action, but after Kurt Cobain died, they dispensed with any thoughts of a lawsuit. Dave Grohl and Jaz Coleman later became good friends, and Grohl played drums on the 2003 self-titled Killing Joke album. tinyurl.com
Okay that's pretty similar...
Read about it here: www.rollingstone.com
From Sleater-Kinney's new album, Little Rope. They are in NYC tonight but they'll be at The Showbox here in Seattle on Tuesday, April 2nd and Wednesday, April 3rd!
"Despite appearances, I haven't / got the voice for R&B / Even though I've seen more / Colour Shows than KEXPs" genius.com
The new album, This Could Be Texas, comes out April 12th! englishteacher.bandcamp.com
Live from London (and featuring another KEXP shout out!) Idles will be live here at the Paramount on May 7th and 8th!
www.idlesband.com
"God bless your first born..."
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Common Market played live in our Gathering Space in 2017. Watch that performance here: www.youtube.com
Australian artist Angie McMahon will play at Madame Lou's in Seattle, on Monday, March 11th, 2024.
angiemcmahon.com
Tornoto's METZ will play at Neumos in Seattle on Tuesday, May 7th. "Up on Gravity Hill," their fifth album and first in four years, will be out on April 12th via Sub Pop.
Check out the full tour dates: www.metzztem.com
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Frontman Alex Edkins says, “‘Entwined (Street Light Buzz)’ is a song about the deep connection humans can foster with one another and how we carry people with us forever, even after death."
Brand new from Les Savy Fav! They will be at Day In Day Out in Seattle on July 13th.
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www.lessavyfav.com
Post-hardcore form Tumwater Washington. The band's logo (seen on this record cover) is a repurposing of the logo for FDR's National Recovery Administration.
Relationship of Command is the third studio album by At the Drive-In, released in 2000.
A BBC Music review hailed "One Armed Scissor" as one of the "most invigorating rock songs released in the last 20 or 30 years, let alone the past 10." In October 2011, NME placed it at number 113 on its list "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years".
Brand new from Stockholm electropunk band GHLOW.
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ghlow.bandcamp.com
Sprints are on tour! Catch them in Brooklyn at Zero One, Elsewhere on March 21st and 22nd.
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sprintsmusic.bandcamp.com
"Hammerbox was one of the few Seattle grunge bands fronted by a woman in the early '90s. Led by fiery vocalist Carrie Akre, Hammerbox equaled the untrammeled rage of their Emerald City peers but also inserted new wave energy in their typical Seattle blend of heavy metal and punk." Read a biography of this band: www.allmusic.com
Liam Gallagher and John Squire take the album on tour with one US show in in Brooklyn on April 11th.
In an interview with Songfacts.com, frontman Chris Robinson explained this track as a song about freedom. "We were into the whole idea that the 'war on drugs' was just silly - it was this asinine concept to me and millions of other people. So that song to me is about freedom, plain and simple, just put in a Rock & Roll framework."
New album from the from Nantes, France based band -
- madfoxes1.bandcamp.com
And wrapping it all up with the Police classic! Have a great day and we will see you tomorrow!
Happy Thursday - the sun is shining and you’re tuned into The Midday Show with Cheryl Waters. We’re glad that you’re here!
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Hana Vu hails from Los Angeles and has a new album, 'Romanticism', being released on May 3rd. She’s been making music since high school, with a full-length debut and several EPs behind her of glowy, brooding anthems of abstraction and emotion.
On Romanticism, her guitar-driven synthy pop and plush contralto fill out the coming-of-age experience with slick and sorrowful precision.
hanavu.bandcamp.com