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In an interview, David Byrne said of this song: "We're largely unconscious. You know, we operate half awake or on autopilot and end up, whatever, with a house and family and job and everything else, and we haven't really stopped to ask ourselves, 'How did I get here?'" Someone wrote,"This song is 40 years old and it's makes more sense today than it did back then." See the video: www.youtube.com
"Love Will Tear Us Apart" by Joy Division was released in 1980 as a non-album single. Its lyrics were inspired by lead singer Ian Curtis's marital problems and struggles with epilepsy. tinyurl.com
Echo & The Bunnymen touches down in: Seattle, WA (Showbox SoDo) TONIGHT and San Francisco, CA (The Warfield) Thursday, June 6!
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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Speaking of covers, singer Q Lazzarus covered "Heaven" for the 1993 film Philadelphia. This song has never been available in its complete form.
Happy 58th birthday to the amazing Bill Janovitz, guitarist and singer of Buffalo Tom born on this day in 1966.
beenstellar.bandcamp.com
Saturday, Jun 15th at the Stone Pony Summer Stage Asbury Park, NJ
I know for a fact I'm the biggest Buffalo Tom fan in the MIdwest 🙂
Can you play some Teenage Fanclub? I don't care what.....
Brian in Michigan
On this day 16 years ago in 2008, Fleet Foxes release their eponymous debut studio album.
It's rained 17-feet in the last day here in Seattle. I am underwater as I write this.
Previously unreleased song from Johnny Cash. Recorded in 1993, the album of demos will be released June 28th.
Waxahatchee will play ZooTunes in Seattle with Woods on Sunday, August 18th! She'll be at the Fox Theater in Oakland on Saturday, May 18th!
The new album, Tigers Blood, came out just last month! waxahatchee.bandcamp.com
And yes, this IS a contender for album of the year.
The band is formed by Pamela Connolly (lead singer, bassist and guitarist), Sarah Corcoran (guitar, bass and vocal), Cathy McGuinness (vocal and guitar), and Rachel Lyons (drum and guitar). McGuinness explains that they would work every day, from 9 to 5, in a windowless Dublin room to just "play, swap instruments and experiment." www.pillowqueens.com
Thus, we were very happy yesterday.
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"Only Happy When It Rains" was written and recorded between March 1994 and May 1995. It was written in sessions with band members Duke Erikson, Shirley Manson, Steve Marker and Butch Vig in Marker's basement recording studio, and recorded at Smart Studios in Madison, Wisconsin.
In a 1995 interview, Steve Marker, the band's guitarist, said, "It's really just us poking fun of ourselves... We're poking fun at the alternate rock angst, wearing your heart on your sleeve thing and at ourselves for writing such dark songs."
LIVE on KEXP this Fri. June 7th at 4pm. Open to the public. Playing Barboza that night.
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www.francisofdelirium.com
mtfog.bandcamp.com
One upcoming show...
Jul 19 Cryptatropa in Olympia, WA
New music from the upcoming The The album, which comes out September 6th!
The The is on tour!
11-02 Seattle, WA - Paramount Theatre
11-03 Portland, OR - Roseland Theater
11-04 Vancouver, British Columbia - Orpheum
11-07 Oakland, CA - Fox Theater
www.thethe.com
The album deals with the meaning of humanity in the 21st century. The band emphasizes the importance of hope and invites listeners to engage with the album's thought-provoking content.
Brand new music from Cults!
Cults is playing The Crocodile in Seattle on Monday, August 12th and Bimbo's 365 Club in San Francisco Thursday, August 15th.
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The band says, “‘All A Mystery’ was a line that we used to sing when we first started writing songs for Phantogram,” the band said. "Back then, it was “all a mystery” to us how we came together to become a band, and 14 years later, we are bewildered that we have been doing this for so long. This song touches on love, life, death and loss."
They will be on tour all summer including here on the west coast...
08/25 – Berkeley, CA @ The Greek Theatre
08/26 – Santa Barbara, CA @ Santa Barbara Bowl
08/28 – Portland, OR @ Moda Center
08/31 – Vancouver, BC @ Rogers Arena
"She's a Mystery to Me" is a song by Roy Orbison, written by Bono and the Edge of U2. During a restless night of sleep in June 1987 in London during U2's Joshua Tree Tour, Bono slept with the soundtrack to the film Blue Velvet CD on repeat. The soundtrack includes the song "In Dreams" by Orbison. When he woke the following morning, Bono had a tune in his head which he assumed was from the soundtrack. He soon realised it wasn't, so he wrote down the basic structure of the song. Later that day he sang the unfinished song to the band at their pre-concert soundcheck at Wembley Arena. After the concert, Orbison paid the band an unannounced visit backstage, where a perplexed Bono played the song for him. The rest is, as they say, history.
“Lady With the Spinning Head” was a demo that went on to be used as a B-Side, and then was remixed and used again as a B-Side. Edge talks about the track and what it became in the book "U2 by U2": It actually spawned three different songs, “The Fly,” “Ultraviolet (Light My Way)” and “Zoo Station”. If you ever listen to “Lady With the Spinning Head” you will hear elements of all of those songs.
Samples "Signs" by Five Man Electrical Band from 1970's Good-byes and Butterflies.
Ibibio Sound Machine will be here in Seattle on Tuesday, October 1st, playing The Nectar Lounge.
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“It is essentially about empowering and uplifting the women in our lives. The track plays musically upon the tension between the traditional and the modern; the arpeggios in the chorus were played on a Juno 60, and the west African vocal stylings of the verse provide a contrasting feel to these electronic elements.”
Australian band Girl and Girl recently played Live on KEXP!
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Trash Can Sinatras!!! Wow. Nobody ever plays TCS, one of my absolute favorite bands. Seen them at their house shows and every time they come to town. "I like your poetry but I hate your poems" - such a good line. Thanks for bringing a smile to my face! - Andrea from Seattle
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According to Wikipedia, "Trashcan Sinatras are a Scottish band that were formed in Irvine, Scotland in 1986." Yep, a Scottish band formed in Scotland.
The Sundays formed in London in 1987 and Here's Where the Story Ends was the Sundays' biggest hit internationally, topping the US Modern Rock Tracks chart. However, the song was never released as a single in the group's native UK due to the collapse of the Rough Trade Records label.
"Bright As Yellow", the album's only official single, peaked at number 33 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart. It was featured extensively on several episodes of the TV series Party of Five and can also be found on the soundtrack to the film Empire Records.
David Schelzel of The Ocean Blue stopped by the KEXP studios to play a live acoustic set in 2013. It included the beautiful "Drifting, Falling": www.kexp.org
In 1967 Bobbie Gentry sang "It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty delta day," as Billie Joe McAllister jumps off the Tallahatchee Bridge.
Suki Waterhouse visits the KEXP Studio on Friday, July 12 at 5pm - and will perform at Day In Day Out Festival at Seattle Center on July 13th and at The Warfield in San Francisco on October 25th! www.dayindayoutfest.com
"My Fun" came out as a single along with "Faded" in April:
sukiwaterhouse.bandcamp.com
1972 - The Staple Singers' "I'll Take You There" hits #1 as the group makes a successful transition from gospel to secular music.
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1 - The Staple Singers - I'll Take You There (+1)
2 - The Chi-Lites - Oh Girl (-1)
3 - Roberta Flack - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (0)
4 - Sammy Davis Jr. - The Candy Man (+1)
5 - Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show - Sylvia's Mother (+4)
6 - Cat Stevens - Morning Has Broken (0)
7 - The Rolling Stones - Tumbling Dice (0)
8 = Gallery - Nice to Be with You (+3)
9 - Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen - Hot Rod Lincoln (+1)
10 - Al Green - Look What You Done for Me
Happy birthday to the late, GREAT Curtis Mayfield, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (The Impressions) born on this day in 1942. (d. December 26, 1999 age 57).
47 years ago on this day in 1977 Bob Marley & the Wailers release the album "Exodus."
Out August 23rd! Playing Showbox SoDo on September 20th in Seattle and The Warfield on September 24th in San Francisco. Fontaines DC sited the dystopian anime Akira as an inspiration for the new record. “I’m fascinated by that—falling in love at the end of the world,” he says. “The album is about protecting that tiny flame. The bigger Armageddon looms, the more precious it becomes.” fontainesdc.com
J.R.C.G. is Justin R. Cruz Gallego, the Tacoma musician who used to lead the psychedelic Seattle noise-rock band Dreamdecay. For a few years, Gallego has been making music under his J.R.C.G. moniker, and he released his solo debut Ajo Sunshine two years ago. Now, J.R.C.G. has signed with hometown giant Sub Pop, and he’ll release the new album Grim Iconic… (Sadistic Mantra) this summer. Starting in June, J.R.C.G. is on the road with Mdou Moctar, playing with a live band that includes current and former members of bands like Dreamdecay, Blood Brothers, and Big Bite. www.subpop.com
This song was written by Chris Butler, who at the time was a member of a popular Akron, Ohio band called Tin Huey. He got the idea for the song when he and the band's drummer Stuart Austin were at a local bar called The Bucket Shop. Chris noticed that the ladies at the bar were giving their attention to the lawyers and other white-collar types while ignoring the lowly musicians.
"I got into this mindset, and it wasn't a pretty one," Chris said. "It was about women in a bar situation wheeling and dealing their wares, so to speak, for the highest bidder. And I was definitely the lowest bidder."
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When Butler formed the band The Waitresses, with Patty Donahue as lead vocalist, the band recorded the song for its debut album, Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful?, released by Polydor Records in 1982.
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Ralph Carney, who was also a member of Tin Huey, played saxophone on this track. His nephew, Patrick Carney, is one half of The Black Keys, another Akron band.
Just got our hands on a new song from Pixies! It's called “You’re So Impatient,” the A-side, while the B-side is a cover of Doris Day's Oscar winning hit “Que Sera Sera” from the 1956 Hitchcock film The Man Who Knew Too Much.
Modest Mouse formed in 1992 in Issaquah, Washington. This is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Think About is their 1996 debut full length album.
Modest Mouse has a new album, The Golden Casket, out now!
www.modestmouse.com
Good morning friendly DJs! Dehd will be playing in Baltimore at the first "First Thursday" summer concert series on June 6th. I have made a point to take my daughter Stella to these since last year when we were able the see Nation of Language. Might you be able to play a Dehd song in honor of this momentous occasion? Thanks! - Jim from Baltimore
illuminati hotties will be here in Seattle for the Day In Day Out Festival on Sunday, July 14th.
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They'll be at The chapel in San Francisco on September 28th and at Neumos in Seattle on Thursday, October 3rd.