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Thursday, Jul 18 2024, 7AM
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Phoebe Bridgers and Arlo Parks covering Radiohead's "Fake Plastic Trees" from the 1995 album The Bends.
It was recorded in a London church for BBC Radio 1’s Piano Sessions.: www.youtube.com
'High & Dry' was originally written when Thom Yorke was still studying at Exeter in the late 1980s. The song was performed as a very fast punk rock version at gigs by Headless Chicken, Yorke's band at Exeter.
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Around the time that Radiohead was recording Pablo Honey, Thom Yorke recorded a version on a 4-track machine using a rhythm sample by Soul II Soul as the basis.
A brand new remix of Weak In Your Light, originally released on 2023's Strange Disciple.
Watch them preform this song live in the gathering space:
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The cover of this album is a reproduction of the painting "A Basket of Roses" by French artist Henri Fantin-Latour, which is part of the National Gallery's permanent collection in London. Peter Saville, the cover's designer, had originally planned to use a Renaissance portrait of a dark prince to tie in with the Machiavellian theme of the title, but could not find a suitable portrait. At the gallery Saville picked up a postcard with Fantin-Latour's painting, and his girlfriend mockingly asked him if he was going to use it for the cover. Saville then realised it was a great idea. Saville suggested that the flowers "suggested the means by which power, corruption and lies infiltrate our lives. They're seductive."
Joy Division released Closer on this day in 1980! "Isolation" explores synth pop and electronic music, based on an electronic drum beat by Stephen Morris, accompanied by a thin, trebly keyboard part by Bernard Sumner.
Cold Cave recently released new single “Hourglass.” The duo’s latest track features both Wesley Eisold and Amy Lee singing their love story against a coming-of-age sound that recalls the late 80’s and early 90’s lossless heartstring pull of The Lightning Seeds, Republic-era New Order and The Head On The Door-era of The Cure.
coldcave.bandcamp.com
From Pearl Jam's latest record. The album was recorded as a five piece in concentrated studio session rather than slowly through many session as was the case with their previous record. The result is a heavier album that the Eddie Vedder remarked was their best work yet.
Amyl and the Sniffers will play the Outside Lands Music Festival in San Francisco on August 9th.
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On their latest single, Amy Taylor said: “Lyrically it’s pretty self-explanatory. ‘U Should Not Be Doing That’ makes me laugh, but it’s also in a way poking fun at the shock that people still feel at a little bit of skimpy clothing, and the bitchy high school way that the music community still is (yes I’m talking to you random 40 year old metalheads sitting around a table doing lines and bitching about a 28 year old chick in a band for wearing shorts and “selling out”) but it mainly makes me laugh. It’s unconscious and meant nothing at the time of writing it but now I think it’s a comedic way of rubbing the dog's nose in its own dog piss after it peed on your favorite rug or something.” Watch the video: www.youtube.com
Missing Persons was founded in 1980 in Los Angeles by guitarist Warren Cuccurullo, vocalist Dale Bozzio, and drummer Terry Bozzio. Dale and Terry Bozzio met while working with Frank Zappa, and they married in 1979. Cuccurullo encountered the pair while contributing to the Zappa album, Joe's Garage (1979).
Dale Bozzio just released an autobiography in which she talked about a marriage proposal from Prince: bit.ly
So dancey! This duo from Vancouver have a new record dropping in September, keep your eyes peeled!
Read more about the band here:
montecristomagazine.com
LCD Soundsystem covering Human League
Echo & the Bunnymen's debut record released on this day in 1980.
New second record from Naima Bock is out in September. Playing Portland; September 8; Walla Walla September 13; and Seattle September 15!
naimabock.bandcamp.com
Bright Eyes will play The Fox Theater in Oakland on Friday, October 11th.
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Bright Eyes have returned with their first album in four years. "Five Dice, All Threes" is slated for release on Sept. 20.
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The music video for this lead single features the band rocking on stage, a magical photo booth sprouting show attendees, and a bar fight.: www.youtube.com
This iconic track by Pavement is accompanied by a video of the band's strange experience at the barber shop!
Check out the video here:
youtu.be
Pavement are headlining Bumbershoot this year! Get your tickets here:
bumbershoot.com
The third single from their second album, Doubt.
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This track is the second single from Blur's debut album, Leisure, and utilizes a beat and tambourine sound typical of songs of the Madchester and baggy scene.
Kurt Cobain told NME that "There's No Other Way" was his favourite British song of 1991.
Nada Surf is touring this autumn - they're stopping in Seattle on October 15th at The Crocodile and San Francisco on October 18th at The Great American Music Hall
You can pre-order the new album with a ton of different vinyl and CD exclusives - nadasurf.bandcamp.com
‘Sweet’ is the third track to be released as a single from the band’s forthcoming debut LP ‘Scream from New York, NY’. - beenstellar.bandcamp.com
Released yesterday along with the announcement that Fate & Alcohol will be the bands final record. japandroids.com
Happy birthday to Keith Levene Debut song from Public Image Ltd.
Following Johnny Lydon's departure from the Sex Pistols in January 1978, he sought a more experimental "anti-rock" project and formed PiL. That year PiL released their debut studio album First Issue (1978), creating an abrasive, bass-heavy sound that drew on dub, noise, progressive rock and disco. tinyurl.com
Released on this day in 1988. Peek-a-boo was the first single from the upcoming album Peepshow, and the band's first single to chart in the US. Each line of the vocals was recorded with different microphone.
The song is the seventh track on the band's third album, Flood. It has become one of the band's most popular songs, despite never having been released as a single.
Although it was released over a decade before the band began writing children's music, "Particle Man" is sometimes cited as a particularly youth-appropriate TMBG song, and a precursor to their first children's album, No!, which was not explicitly educational.
New music from GIFT - their debut full-length drops on August 23rd! They say the song is about "...the endless cycle of a relationship, the back and forth in both euphoria and doubt. The chorus “I never told you why’ is about never being able to say how you really feel, not having closure and the cycle continuing.”
giftbandnyc.bandcamp.com
Imperial Teen is a San Francisco-based pop group made up of Roddy Bottum on guitar/vocals, Will Schwartz on guitar/vocals, Lynn Truell on drums/backing vocals, & Jone Stebbins on bass/backing vocals.
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The Rentals were a side project of Matt Sharp & Patrick Wilson of Weezer. This was the lead single from their debut album in 1995.
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Here's the video for this terrific song: www.youtube.com
It stands for Other People's ....hmmm. Want to read the lyrics?: genius.com
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Naughty by Nature is comprised of the rappers Treach and Vinnie, and DJ Kay Gee. Treach, who was 20 when this came out, wrote the lyrics and was lead rapper on O.P.P. This song heavily sampled The Jackson 5's "ABC."
This iconic 1970 song was released as the first single and title track for The Jackson 5's second album 'ABC', knocking the Beatles' 'Let It Be' out of the number one spot on the Billboard Hot 100. The song has been sampled extensively across hip-hop and beyond.
Angelica Garcia will perform at this year's Bumbershoot Festival on August 31st at the Seattle Center.
Watch the video for El Que here: youtu.be
For Spencer in Texas. This was the debut UK hit for The Lightning Seeds, released in 1989, and the band's only Top 40 hit in the US.
Another request! You must not miss the video of the "dandy highwayman" Adam Ant putting on his makeup and then going out to threaten victims on the highway.: www.youtube.com
For Wendy and Nick!
Don't you love the great bass line in this song? Here's a live version from 2019: www.youtube.com Adorable's debut album 'Against Perfection' turned 30 last year; originally released March 1, 1993. albumism.com
It was just last year that Love and Rockets performed "Yin and Yang (The Flowerpot Man)" live at the Cruel World Festival: www.youtube.com
Bauhaus idolized David Bowie! Enjoy bassist Dave Baskins' story of how the band encountered Bowie: faroutmagazine.co.uk
See David Bowie perform "Moonage Daydream" for the last time as Ziggy Stardust. It was at the Hammersmith Odeon in London in 1973: www.youtube.com
Have a great day!
Hinds is a Spanish band from Madrid, formed in 2011. The group currently consists of Carlotta Cosials (vocals, guitar) and Ana García Perrote (vocals, guitar).
Here's an interview with the duo, whose fourth album, "Viva Hinds," will be released next month: www.rollingstone.com
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Watch the official video for "En Forma" here: www.youtube.com
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