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Wednesday, Aug 14 2024, 7AM
As heard in the movie Pump Up The Volume. The soundtrack was released on this day 34 (gasp) years ago in 1990. The movie is the story of Mark Hunter (Christian Slater, as the operator of an FM pirate radio station), Cohen's song is played from an on-screen phonograph several times during Mark's clandestine broadcasts. A cover by Concrete Blonde is used at the film's end, and it is this cover version that made it onto the film's soundtrack album rather than Cohen's version. Talk hard!
'Nocturama' was recorded in one week during an Australian tour in March 2002, and reunited Nick Cave and guitarist Mick Harvey with producer Nick Launay, who had worked with their previous band The Birthday Party twenty-one years earlier. Reflecting on the recording experience, Launay noted: "I'll never forget the first day recording 'Nocturama.' Blixa swept into SingSing Studio in that hat. Mick Harvey introduces me and Blixa goes, 'Oh, ja, the engineer.' Mick says, 'No, Blixa – the producer.' Blixa says, 'Well, we'll see about that, won't we?'
That is SO Blixa.
PJ Harvey will be at the Paramount on October 6, 2024
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PJ told Q magazine in 2001. "I thought, 'No, I want absolute beauty. I want this album to sing and fly and be full of reverb and lush layers of melody.'"
Kimberly is Patti Smith's youngest sister by 12 years. This tender confessional from Patti's debut album, Horses, recounts the songstress' experience of her sibling's birth.
"Housing developments were a new thing, postwar, they'd build them for poor people in areas that nobody wanted," Smith recalled to The Observer. "Ours was literally on a swamp. We lived across the street from an old abandoned barn that got hit by lightning shortly after Kimberly was born. I went outside and I was holding her, watching this barn in flames. Hundreds of bats lived in it, and you could hear them screeching, and see bats and owls and buzzards flying out."
www.songfacts.com
New solo stuff from the lead singer of Big Thief. adriannelenker.bandcamp.com
East coast peeps! She's playing Kings Theatre in Brooklyn Nov 18 and 19.
Oh, Inverted World is the debut studio album by The Shins, released in 2001
www.subpop.com
Sun Giant was mostly recorded in January 2008 at Bear Creek, Woodinville, Washington. Additional recording was made at the band's house and Stuart Hollerman's Avasti Studio, the latter was also the place where the EP was mixed.
Dear GOD this is AMAZING.
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indie-folk project of North Carolina’s Ryan Gustafson, who has two records out this year - one in June and one in late August and they feature contributions from Jenn Wasner (Wye Oak, Bon Iver), Mat Davidson (Twain), Matt Douglas (the Mountain Goats), and more.
thedeadtongues.bandcamp.com
We got some serious Bruce vibes from The Dead Tongues.
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Springsteen came up with this song in the studio during recording sessions in early 1982. He was playing around with a slow Johnny Cash rhythm which he put to some lyrics he had already written. In 2000, Johnny Cash covered it on Badlands: A tribute to Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska.
Eddie Vedder's "Save It for Later" is a cover of the classic song originally performed by The English Beat, released in 1982. Vedder's rendition has gained significant attention after being featured in the third season of the FX series The Bear, where it plays a crucial role in conveying the show's emotional landscape.
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The English Beat performed this incredible song live for KEXP listeners from the Bumbershoot Music Lounge in 2010: www.youtube.com
One of the greatest songs in Seattle music history.
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The Head and the Heart perform "Lost In My Mind" live in the KEXP studio. Recorded 7/17/10. www.youtube.com
This album, their debut, released on this day in 2011. The Head and the Heart perform "Lost In My Mind" live in the KEXP studio. Recorded 7/17/10.
www.youtube.com
"'The Great Salt Lake' isn’t about the Great Salt Lake at all, it’s about Lake Murray. A lot of the imagery is about South Carolina, combined with some incidents we heard about from some hilarious f*ck-ups we knew from Salt Lake City.” - Ben Bridwell.
The music video for the song shows band members Ben Bridwell, Creighton Barrett, and Rob Hampton playing in a softball match. Watch the video here: youtu.be.
In 2022, Band of Horses' Ben Bridwell spoke with KEXP's Sound & Vision about the band's new album and about his experience with homelessness prior to beginning the band. Listen to the podcast here: tinyurl.com
Supersad is the most recent single off Waterhouse's upcoming album "Memoir of a Sparklemuffin"
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Suki Waterhouse performs at the Warfield Theater in San Francisco on Friday, October 25th and Showbox SoDo in Seattle on Friday, November 1st
“I came across the Sparklemuffin — which is wildly colored, does this razzle-dazzle dance, and its mate will cannibalize it if she doesn’t approve of the dance,” Waterhouse explained in a statement. “It’s a metaphor for the dance of life we’re all in. The title felt hilarious, ridiculous, and wonderful to me" - tinyurl.com
"After losing half the band, splitting with their management, and parting with their label, the only thing Carlotta Cosials and Ana Perrote had was each other" - Rolling Stone
Superstar is a single off their upcoming album VIVA HINDS that will be out Sept 6, 2024
Hinds will be @ the Crocodile Sat 10/18
Watch Hinds perform "Superstar" here: www.youtube.com
hinds.bandcamp.com
New music from New York psych-pop combo GIFT. Check out more music from them here: giftbandnyc.bandcamp.com
Philly legend and former lead guitarist of rock band the War on Drugs, Kurt Vile is now well-known for his solo work such as this song, "Pretty Pimpin." He played Live on KEXP in our gathering space in 2018! Check it out: www.youtube.com
kurtvile.bandcamp.com
3-piece out of Chicago, Dehd has some upcoming shows!
- San Francisco, CA - Nov. 2nd @ August Hall
- Vancouver, BC - Nov. 5th @ Rickshaw Theatre
- Seattle, WA - Nov. 6th @ Neptune Theater
Watch their Live on KEXP session from 2022: www.youtube.com
dehdforever.bandcamp.com
New music from The Decemberists! They stopped by August 1st to play songs off their new album, As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again.
Check out their recent KEXP session: www.youtube.com
Boston trio, Buffalo Tom (aka Dinosaur Jr. junior) released this gem back in '92. You can find it on the album, Let Me Come Over.
Buffalo Tom's Bandcamp: buffalotom.bandcamp.com
Pitchfork says about "No Name," the just-released new album, "The old Jack White suddenly steps out from behind the curtain with 42 minutes of amp-busting blues punk.": pitchfork.com
UK-based Crows have announced their third studio album, 'Reason Enough,' they followed that announcement with the records first single, "Bored". www.thelineofbestfit.com crowsband.co.uk
Birth, School, Work, Death is the second studio album by The Godfathers
- www.thegodfathersofficial.com
This was the debut album by The Jim Carroll Band, led by Jim Carroll. He is notable for publishing the 1978 memoir The Basketball Diaries.
He was well known for his poetry and writings, recognized by Patti Smith as the best poet of his generation. Carroll was found at his desk, still working on those writings, when he died in 2009 at age 60.
www.catholicboy.com
Twilight is the musical identity of Lawrence Ross. A Bay area songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist.
When Ross entered the studio in 1986 to craft this album, Pains of Love.
He had three demos when his deal with Atlantic fell apart so he ended up producing it independently. The reissue of the album was released in 2010 with the help of Luv N’ Haight.
twilightubiq.bandcamp.com
Kids on a Crime Spree's debut album, We Love You So Bad, was released on Slumberland Records in May 2011. The band played a host of high-profile gigs in support of the record, including one in San Francisco. - Tim Sendra, Rovi
slumberlandrecs.bandcamp.com
This is a new release from Bay area indie outfit, polkadot. Their album, ...To Be Crushed, released in May under Lucky Star is full of beautiful group vocals and confessional lyricism weaved in between fuzzy hooks. - Swim Into The Sound
Here's a link to their Bandcamp: polka-dot.bandcamp.com
Oakland-based figure eight released "altar" as a single last June. figure-eight.bandcamp.com
Title track and namesake of this collaborative project between DJ Python & Ana Roxanne shows the duo's shared musical language, "The project gave us a creative license of freedom." naturalwonderbeautyconcept.bandcamp.com
Named after the French horror film "Les yeux sans visage". Billy Idol's girlfriend Perri Lister sings the French phrase in the background on the track - billyidol.net
Hey Man is a new single from nostalgic indie rocker Painted Vein from Seattle.
paintedvein.bandcamp.com
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Painted Vein is the music project of the musician, producer, and audio engineer Andrea Fox Volpato who has spent the last 10 years collaborating in writing, recording, and touring the world with different music projects.
From 2017 to 2022 Andrea was the lead guitarist and backing vocalist of the Italian band New Candys.
In his studio he recorded, mixed and co-produced the last two studio albums of New Candys (“Bleeding Magenta” and “Vyvyd”).
Andrea also recorded, mixed and produced the albums "Euphoric Recall" and "Jaywalker" of the Seattle artist MØAA and co-wrote with duet vocals on their hit single “X Marks."
Released on May 20 1997 - the first album recorded by Foo FIghters as a full band
Drummer Taylor Hawkins played this as his final live performance (at Lollapalooza Argentina) before his death in March 2022. Read more that you may not have known about the album from Rolling Stone here: www.rollingstone.com www.foofighters.com
These Aussie alt-rockers made their grand entrance into the Melbourne scene with debut album, Lush Life, a year ago. The album gives listeners an energetic jaunt of fun, a scuffed, scrappy approach to jangly punk - NME
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The four piece got their name from a skateboard wheel from the ‘80s in California. It was a super limited edition wheel called the Belair Lip Bombs.
thebelairlipbombs.bandcamp.com
Playing the Showbox SoDo in Seattle on Friday, September 20th and The Warfield in SF on September 24th.
fontainesdc.com
"Favourite" is a song which frontman Grian Chatten describes as having "this never-ending sound to it, a continuous cycle from euphoria to sadness, two worlds spinning forever." The band also shared an accompanying music video, featuring home footage of all five members stitched together. Check out the video here: www.youtube.com