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"Little Fluffy Clouds" makes extensive use of clips from an interview with American singer Rickie Lee Jones in which she recalls picturesque images of her childhood. The samples are widely believed to have come from a conversation between Jones and LeVar Burton on the children's television program Reading Rainbow, but in fact originated from an interview disc that was issued with some promotional boxed copies of her album Flying Cowboys. The interview was not conducted by Burton. The interviewer is not identified on the recording or in the boxed set's liner notes, though a 1993 profile in The Independent identifies him as "an American DJ" with a "syrupy, Simon Bates-style tone."
Originated as an a cappella track on Suzanne Vega's 1987 release "Solitude Standing." It became a hit in 1990 when British production duo DNA added a beat and released the remix as a bootleg. Their remix version was included in the 1991 album of Vega remixes "Tom's Album."
The "Tom's Diner" of the song is Tom's Restaurant in New York City, a mid-20th-century diner on the northeast corner of Broadway and West 112th Street. Vega was reputedly a frequent patron during the early 1980s when she was a student at nearby Barnard College. The diner later became famous as the location used for the exterior scenes of Monk's Café in Seinfeld!
This song is said by its writer and singer, Caron Wheeler, to have been written about a near death experience in which she nearly passed on but was sent "back to life.
This British R&B song also features the Reggae Philharmonic Orchestra.
This song features a sample of The Smiths' "How Soon Is Now." Soho was an English musical trio, consisting of identical sisters Jacqueline and Pauline Cuff, with producer Tim London. Other members of the group over the years have been Eds Chesters (now of The Bluetones), Leigh Gorman (ex Bow Wow Wow) and Barry Smith (of Add N To X).
Johnny Marr wrote this song for The Smiths in June 1984 and recorded it with Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce. The band recalls the session as being accompanied by heavy cannabis use, and the band even replaced the studio's light bulbs with red ones for ambiance.
New music from Ride! New record Interplay is out now!
2024 Tour Dates:
Portland, OR at Mission Theater - May 23
Seattle, WA at The Showbox - May 25
www.thebandride.com
Recalling the writing process for Catching the Butterfly, lead guitarist Nick McCabe said: "“It was one of those tunes that wrote itself, really. In the early days it was quite an open-ended, skeletal, almost kraut-rock kind of thing. Eventually we added tunes to it and it stacked up like a lasagna into this thing that is like a ’60s thing now but it wasn’t like that at all initially. It was quite an abstract piece and it was one of those things that happened really quickly – it took two sessions to get it into the shape that it was. But then learning how to play it live was less easy than that."
The Verve reflect on the legendary tour for Urban Hymns in this article here, featuring rare live footage of 'Catching The Butterfly' live:
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The band credits the inspiration for the song's mandolin sound to a visit they had at a museum of tractor parts.
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Echo & The Bunnymen 2024 Tour Dates:
Brooklyn, New York - May 17
Seattle, WA - June 3
San Francisco, CA - June 6
www.bunnymen.com
I just got back from Vienna!!! 🇦🇹 My daughter is in school there and I shared this song with her just last week!! 🥰Danke John - you made me cry this morning and I love it ♥️🤍♥️
Teresa in Cashmere
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In interviews at the time it was said that the song took its inspiration from the 1949 film The Third Man, which is based around the Austrian capital, but Midge Ure later admitted he made that up when asked what the song was about. According to singer Midge Ure's autobiography, the title came about by a mishearing of the Fleetwood Mac song "Rhiannon."
ACTORS is a "modern post-punk" band from Vancouver, BC.
Tour dates:
Vancouver, BC at The Verboden Festival - Thursday, May 9, 2024
New York at Dice - Friday, November 15, 2024
Seattle at The Crocodile - Friday, April 4th, 2025
actors.bandcamp.com
Marking 40 years of The Jesus And Mary Chain, the new LP ‘Glasgow Eyes’ was recorded at Mogwai’s Castle of Doom studio in Glasgow, where Jim and William Reid continued the creative process that resulted in their previous album, 2017’s ‘Damage and Joy’, becoming their highest charting album in over twenty years.
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Here's the official video for "jamcod": www.youtube.com
Stockholm band GHLOW is a collaboration between Emille de Blanche and Nikolay Evdokimov, an electropunk duo from Stockholm.
"Levitate is a daring and ambitious sequel that maintains that record’s sense of urgency whilst also finding room for experimentation and artful reflection – a record that distills GHLOW’s punk artistry down to its purest form yet."
ghlow.bandcamp.com
New music from Irish indie band Pillow Queens - www.pillowqueens.com
Watch the new music video here: www.youtube.com
Super collab by Blondshell's Sabrina Teitelbaum and Bully's Alicia Bognanno.
Blondshell will be performing at Seattle's Day In & Day Out Festival Saturday, July 13th.
www.dayindayoutfest.com
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www.blondshellmusic.com
This song was originally titled "Grunggae," a combination of "grunge" and "reggae."
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Shad sampled The Breeders' 1993 breakout hit "Cannonball" and "La Di Da Di" from Doug E. Fresh and Slick Rick on this track.
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Also contains a sample of Breeders' Cannonball!
Several music videos were released for Production. "Disco Science" was directed by French photographer/artist Stéphane Sednaoui in 1999.
Official music video: www.youtube.com
Ibibio Sound Machine's fifth studio album, "Pull the Rope," will be out on May 3rd.
Of this track, Ibibio Sound Machine share, "The track is about the hope of finding a peaceful way to overcome our differences in the world. The idea of standing at two ends of a rope symbolizes this. We recruited our friends Richmond Kessie and Helen McDonald as well as Eno’s mum to lend a bigger sound to the chorus vocals. Musically it’s a mix of post-punk and electronic sounds." ibibiosoundmachine.com
Close (to the Edit) reached number eight in the UK singles chart in 1985, and its music video won two awards at the 1985 MTV Video Music Awards. The song's spoken word "Hey!" has been sampled by a number of other artists through the years.
Music video: www.youtube.com
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The song title comes from a lyrical sample from "I Know You Got Soul", a hit single by labelmates (4AD) Eric B. & Rakim.
I Know You Got Soul (1987) can be heard here: www.youtube.com
New music from Justice! "Incognito," is a new single from their upcoming fourth album, Hyperdrama.
""Like many songs on this record, it switches from all electronic to all human music abruptly, multiple times within its four-minute run," Justice said of the new single. "The structure is dictated by what feels good at the moment it happens, without necessarily following any other rule. We had to unlearn everything we thought we knew about song structures, and music in general, when we started working on Hyperdrama, which was very refreshing."
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Good morning John and Owen! Today is my birthday and I was hoping you could play Connected by Stereo MC's. I've been having a rough time lately and that song always gets me going. My best friend bought me the tape when it came out and we always blasted it while riding around the bay area in my car. Thanks!
Sharonn in Portland
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Nick Hallam explained the tune's meaning in a 1993 interview: "The song 'Connected' is about human beings and the lack of connection there is between anything today. It's about the way everyone tries to categorize everything. The way every race is trying to separate from each other."
This track samples a bass drum beat and snare beat from Jimmy "Bo" Horne's 1978 tune "Let Me (Let Me Be Your Lover)." Rob Birch looped the sample and created the bass groove that holds "Connected" together.
We were just alerted to the news that Pedro the Lion have just released a new single and also announced a new album and tour.
"Modesto" is the lead track from Santa Cruz, out June 7th on Polyvinyl. The album features some of David Bazan's most heartfelt and insightful lyrics of his long and storied career, as he continues to retrace the steps of his childhood and the various places he moved to as a kid.
07/01 - Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg #
07/23 - San Francisco, CA @ The Chapel
07/25 - Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom
07/26 - Seattle, WA @ Neumos
The Decemberists are set to release their new album, As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again, on June 14th!
thedecemberists.bandcamp.com
The band will play the Fox Theater in Oakland on July 13th and ZooTunes in Seattle on July 31st and August 1st!
New Blitzen Trapper!
Tour Dates:
Portland OR - Aladdin Theater - May 17
Seattle WA - Tractor Tavern - May 18
The album's title is inspired by singer/songwriter Eric Earley’s fascination with Buddhist texts and meditation (a phrase that appears over and over in the Mahayana sutras).
blitzentrapper.bandcamp.com
Amigo the Devil with TK & The Holy Know-Nothings and Rattlesnake Milk
Monday, Nov 25, 2024
Event Info
Catch Middle Kids on tour!
June 15 - August Hall SF
June 17 - Mississippi Studios Portland
June 18 - Neumos Seattle
June 28 - Music Hall of Williamsburg NYC
Singer Hannah Joy says, 'There was a lot of confusion and information and rules and anger and people judging people and loss and distrust. I eventually felt so overwhelmed by all the noise, I couldn’t take it anymore. The guitars are kinda shouty, too, or maybe just urgent.
www.middlekidsmusic.com
"Can you play the arcade fore song covered by ladies, “Neighborhood # 1 (Tunnels) feel like I need it this morning
Bridget (West Seattle)"
www.listentoladies.com
From Seattle-based indie pop songwriter and singer Tinsley!
Tinsley will be playing Capitol Hill Block Party 2024 in Seattle on July 19!
www.tinsleymusic.com
Kristal in Sonoma
Good morning everyone! Can someone pay me a good breakup song? Something with pride and with confidence. I appreciate all of you. Side noteI had a random person in public yesterday stop me, GRAB MY KEXP SHIRT and say "OMG what IS this?"They accidentally found 92.7fm recently and when they saw me... Yeah. That was cool 😎
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According to Alanis Morissette herself, the final version of Hand in My Pocket released on Jagged Little Pill is the demo version of the song.
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New Buffalo Tom!
Chris Colbourn shared the list of influences for the new song: "‘New Girl Singing’ takes inspiration from photography, literature, and films we grew up with. Elena Ferrante, Janet Frame, Anne Sexton, Anna Magnani, Emma Bovary, Mark Cohen, Somerset Maugham’s The Razor’s Edge, and Hüsker Dü’s ‘Books About UFOs.’ Our heroine escapes her bedroom to sing her own song and start a new girl state.”
www.stereogum.com
Here is Buffalo Tom Live on KEXP in 2018: www.youtube.com
"Halcyon Digest" is the fifth studio album by Deerhunter, and was the last album to feature bass guitarist Josh Fauver, who passed away in 2018. Frontman Bradford Cox stated on his social media:"The album's title is a reference to a collection of fond memories and even invented ones, like my friendship with Ricky Wilson or the fact that I live in an abandoned victorian autoharp factory. The way that we write and rewrite and edit our memories to be a digest version of what we want to remember, and how that's kind of sad."
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Notorious was produced by the band with Nile Rodgers.
Nile Rodgers said of composing the title track, "The idea for 'Notorious' is basically James Brown soul-power. That's when I started to groove and started playing along with it. And Nick Rhodes said, 'Wow! A D-minor 6th. That's such a great chord. We got to write that into a song."
Ghost Work is a new band from current and ex-members of Seaweed, Minus the Bear, Snapcase and Milemarker. Anyone familiar with Aaron Stauffer’s work w/Seaweed will recognize his voice as it drops in over a haze of guitars and driving rhythm section. Their new album, Light A Candle For The Lonely is out now.
realghostwork.bandcamp.com
New music from a local band called Pearl Jam.
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Tour Dates:
Portland - Moda Center - May 10
Seattle - Climate Pledge Arena - May 28 & 30
New York - Madison Square Garden - Sept 3 & 4
This song was to be used in the 1989 film Say Anything..., but it was cut from the soundtrack because the producers believed the song revealed too much of the story.
Madonna was originally meant to sing the harmony vocals, but missed the recording session. Maria Vidal was instead enlisted to do the vocals.
"Need you Around" launched Smoking Popes to a huge audience after it was featured in the soundtrack to the 1995 film Clueless.
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"I find a window in the kitchen
And I let myself in
I rummage through the refrigerator
Find myself a beer"
Vocalist and guitarist Todd Lewis offered an explanation behind the guy in the song rummaging through the fridge for beer: "There's a moment sometimes when you're writing where you're like, 'I don't have any idea what this line is going to be. I've got these lines before it and these after it and I have no line to go in this one spot. I'm thirsty, so he's going to get a beer now, that's what he's going to do.'"
From Dig's debut self titled album, featuring Believe.
"Believe" was played regularly on MTV's Buzz Bin and was their lone charting hit: www.youtube.com
Thanks for tuning in folks!
KEXP Presents Warren Dunes Album Release Party @ Tractor Tavern (Seattle) Friday, May 10 & Saturday, May 11th!
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Warren Dunes will also play Seattle's Capitol Hill Block Party Friday-Sunday, July 19th-21st. www.capitolhillblockparty.com
Post-modern beach music family band from Seattle! Enjoy Live Video from Warren Dunes' 2019 KEXP In-Studio: bit.ly.
warrendunes.bandcamp.com
www.warrendunesband.com