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Tuesday, Apr 30 2024, 7AM
Johnny Farina of Santo & Johnny was born on this day in 1941. This is their cover of "And I Love Her" by The Beatles
Link Wray, of Shawnee Native American heritage, may never get into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but his contribution to the language of rockin' guitar would still be a major one, even if he had never walked into another studio after cutting "Rumble." Quite simply, Link Wray invented the power chord, the major modus operandi of modern rock guitarists.: www.allmusic.com
According to Johnny Marr, "the song "Oscillate Wildly, was Morrissey encouraging me to write an instrumental B side. It was always meant to be an instrumental. As it happened, I’d just moved into a house with a piano, and it was the first tune I played on that piano. I always liked that piece of music." - bit.ly
Sweet little ditty from Led Zeppelin. 'Bron-Yr-Aur' is Welsh for "golden hill" and is the name of the cottage where Led Zeppelin wrote many songs.
The name 'Galaxie 500' was inspired by a friend of the band's car. Though criminally overlooked in their own lifetime, Galaxie 500 later emerged as one of the pivotal underground groups of the post-punk era; dreamy and enigmatic, their minimalist dirges presaged the rise of both the shoegaze and slowcore movements of the 1990s. -bit.ly --- galaxie500.bandcamp.com
Upon its release in 1981, "Signals, Calls, and Marches" was immediately popular in the Boston area, charting at number six on local radio station WBCN's charts. The EP sold out its initial printing of ten thousand copies before the end of the year. Mission of Burma played Live on KEXP back in 2009. You can still watch some of that that session here: youtu.be missionofburma.com
7:23 AM
1st spin?!
Godspeed You! Black Emperor (sometimes abbreviated to GY!BE or Godspeed) is a Canadian post-rock band which originated in Montreal, Quebec in 1994. Their second studio album, Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven, was released as a double album. brainwashed.com
The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place is an album about hope. Its cover, designed by Esteban Rey, bears its titular statement scrawled over and over in stark black handwriting, a defiantly positive mantra in the post-9/11 landscape. bit.ly www.explosionsinthesky.com
Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call is the (double-LP) fourth album by Scottish band Simple Minds. - www.simpleminds.com
Pink Breath of Heaven is a Psych rock dream pop band from San Francisco
pinkbreathofheaven.bandcamp.com
See them in SF Jul 5 at the Kilowatt and Jul 20 Great American Music Hall.
Ride's new LP Interplay is out now! The band said of the new single: "The song is a reflection on this feeling of how we’re all being smashed to pieces and under pressure constantly financially. It’s a kind of call to arms against this whilst we still have strength to fight against it." rideox4.bandcamp.com Upcoming shows: THURSDAY MAY 23 Portland - McMenamin's Mission Theater SATURDAY MAY 25 Seattle, WA - Showbox at the Market www.stereogum.com
Band from LA! Catch them on tour opening for Sunny Day Real Estate and Bôa on their tours this year.
rockettheband.bandcamp.com
"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
IDLES will bring their World Tour 2024 to Seattle's Paramount Theatre on Tuesday/Wednesday, May 7th/8th! They'll be at the Fox Theater in Oakland on Friday May 10th, and in San Francisco at The Warfield on Saturday May 11th. Enjoy Live Video from IDLES' November 2021 KEXP In-Studio, hosted by Cheryl: bit.ly. Here's the official video for "Dancer": www.youtube.com. www.idlesband.com
Wild God is the upcoming 18th studio album by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, set to be released on August, 30th 2024. Cave says "Wild God… there's no (bleeping) around with this record. When it hits, it hits. It lifts you. It moves you. I love that about it."
Hi John,
Big Hug to you and your team - on this, the 7th worst day of the week!. At this exact time John, everyone around me has gone to bed, all who were around me today have concluded their part in a very pensive few days. Today I buried my father after a short illness and graciously sent him on his way to the great "Gig" in the sky! So basically I'm here now doing what I always do each day.... I tap into the KEXP app and replay the latest morning show!
I work as a postman (mailman) here in Dublin, Ireland... so your morning show becomes our afternoon show.
. I truly understand how each and every day I honestly feel that "I am not alone" thanks to KEXP!
Now that all in this day has come to its natural conclusion - it's the first time that I feel that I'm allowed to cry.....
My father was truly a kind, soft gentleman who professed nothing but love to all he met. He oozed positivity as he made suttle suggestions to all he met as to how they were missing a trick, had they not discovered great musical acts like... everyone from LCD Sound System to IDLES!
Should it please the DJ - I would love to dedicate LCD Soundsystem’s “Someone Great” to all listeners that KEXP encompasses! My father and I couldn't have asked for a better relationship.
This dedication is for anyone who finds themselves at a time of loss and they don't know which way to turn next....
Anyone who may be scared to "pick up the phone and make a call" to a mother or father or even a sibling, that they may have lost contact with...
Or anyone who is feeling a little, well, that they're on their own...
Because I promise - and you know this to be true - they're not!
Thanks to the truly global-reaching community that is KEXP... both your sorrows and your hurt is honestly felt and empathized with, by a listenership that extends coast to coast and across great oceans!
You Are Not Alone.
Jim
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Three former members of Electric Company, Andrew Kenny, Lisa Roschmann, and Mark Smith, decided to stick together and form a new project, which ultimately evolved into The American Analog Set. Ben Gibbard of Death Cab For Cutie and The Postal Service appeared on this track. - www.amanset.com
Lead vocalist and songwriter Ben Gibbard wrote this song in response to the "Paralyzation of fear" after the effects of 9/11. The song tells about "staying indoors" and also, pending translations, the end of the world: thepostalservice.bandcamp.com postalservicemusic.net
KEXP & The Crocodile Present: Salt Cathedral on Monday, May 6 at Madame Lou's in Seattle - with opening artist Tinsley! They'll perform Live in the KEXP Studio the next day - Tuesday, May 7 - at 12PM They will also play at The Independent in San Francisco with Tei Shi on Thursday, May 9 saltcathedral.bandcamp.com
This song originated as one of Jen Wood's voice memos in 2017, and it turned into this final form in 2022. -- “The title and lyrics of ‘Younger’ are a metaphor for healing,” says Wood. “By healing and undoing damage, you are returning to your younger inner child,” she adds gemzband.bandcamp.com
Listener request from JP at the Ballard Food Bank! This track is found on U2's classic 1987 album 'The Joshua Tree,' and written in response to the National Union of Mineworkers' 1984 strike in Great Britain. "I was interested in the miners' strike politically, but I wanted to write about it on a more personal level," Bono told NME in 1987. "A cold statistic about a pit closure and redundancies that follow is drastic enough on one level, but it never tells the full human story."
New single from Belle and Sebastian! Tour starts next week. You can catch them in Seattle at The Moore on May 19th. www.belleandsebastian.com
inspired by Belle, now new and improved with Sebastian.
This track was released on this day in 1982. Regarding this track, frontman Mike Score stated, "We didn't have a title. We played that song for a few weeks in rehearsals, and it just came up one day that somebody said, "It's pretty space age." And then somebody else said, "It's like a space age love song." So, we wrote on our rehearsal board, "Space Age Love Song," so we knew exactly what song it was. When we were building our set, instead of writing a title, we just put "Space Age Love Song," and it stuck. When it came down to recording it for the album, everyone said, "What's it called?" We just called it "Space Age Love Song," and that's what it became."
www.songfacts.com
Brand new music from Cults! Cults is playing The Crocodile in Seattle August 12th and Bimbo's 365 Club in San Francisco August 15th. www.cultscultscults.com
Yard Act will be performing at The Independent SF on June 4th.
Here's Yard Act performing “Dark Days” live in the KEXP studio in 2022 - www.youtube.com www.yardactors.com
yardact.bandcamp.com
Catch Gustaf at The Crocodile for Belltown Bloom on May 4
gustaf-nyc.bandcamp.com
Francis of Delirium will be in Seattle, June 7th at Barboza AND San Francisco, June 10th at Brick & Mortar Music Hall! --- New Music from alt-rock Luxembourg based band Francis of Delirium! francisofdelirium.bandcamp.com www.francisofdelirium.com
Listener Request! Wolf Alice took their name from a short story by Angela Carter - www.wolfalice.co.uk --- John Richards hosted Wolf Alice back in 2015 when they played other tracks from this LP: youtu.be
Brand new from Bnny. They will be playing live this August in Seattle, Portland and San Francisco. Watch the music video here: www.youtube.com www.bnnyband.com
Grace Cummings will be live on The Morning Show on Friday, May 3rd at 9:30am New music from the Melbourne-based artist - gracecummings.bandcamp.com Ramona is a work of raw truth rendered in its most beautiful form. Grace Cummings traveled to Los Angeles to work with producer Jonathan Wilson (Angel Olsen, Father John Misty) and dreamed up a lavishly orchestrated sound that fully accommodates the depth and scope of her vocal prowess. With its visceral reflection on grief and self-destruction and emotional violence, Ramona brings a stunning new grandeur to Cummings’ music while refusing to soften or temper its humanity.
Ancient Heart is the debut studio album by British pop/folk singer-songwriter Tanita Tikaram, released in 1988 when she was 19. The beginning of this song, "All God's children need traveling shoes" is the title of a book by the writer Maya Angelou. - www.tanita-tikaram.com
Found on the third album from Concrete Blonde, this hit single from the L.A. band is sung from the perspective of a woman who is in love with an alcoholic. Johnette Napolitano mentioned in her book Rough Mix that the song was written about her relationship with Marc Moreland of the band Wall of Voodoo. Watch the official music video for "Joey" here: www.youtube.com
This track was released on this day in 2002. This song is featuring Zack De La Rocha, Saul Williams and Lyrics Born, sampled Dolly Paton's "9 to 5," The Crusaders' "The Well's Gone Dry," and "Latoya" by Just-Ice.
"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" came on his debut LP, Small Talk at 125th and Lenox, a collection of proselytising spoken-word pieces set to a sparse, funky tableau of percussion. It served as a militant manifesto urging black pride, and a blueprint for his life's work". (Gil Scott-Heron obituary by Mike Power 05/29/211) www.theguardian.com Gil Scott-Heron wrote this song when he was 21 years old. To learn more about this song and it's origin, go to www.songfacts.com
The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy was formed in 1990 by Michael Franti and Rono Tse. The band's name was derived in part from the phrase "The Disposable Heroes of Hypocrisy", used in some Socialist literature. -- Franti and Tse worked with Consolidated producer Mark Pistel to program the beats for “Hypocrisy.” Pistel’s production for Consolidated combined pop, industrial, and hip-hop. He ditched the pop influence for the Disposable Heroes, instead going for a Bomb Squad-meets-Ministry sound.: www.rapreviews.com
"Like several other notable works of black American art in recent years, “This Is America” is about absorption. Onscreen and in real life, the black body gets exposed to so much terror and injustice and keeps going. How does the black body endure, and in what ways or spaces is it allowed to live out its emotions?" - tinyurl.com
"Rastaman Vibration" was released on this day in 1976!