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Thursday, Aug 15 2024, 7AM
Happy birthday to front person Matt Johnson, born on August 15th 1961.
Led Zepplin's final record, In Through The Out Door, was released on this day in 1979.
“Fool in the Rain” holds a special place in Led Zeppelin history as the last single released by the band before they disbanded in the wake of John Bonham’s death.
- www.ledzeppelin.com
From Los Angeles, Wand is Cory Hanson, Evan Burrows, Robert Cody, and Evan Backer. Shows: San Francisco-The Chapel September 14th Seattle-Madame Lou's September 18th wand.bandcamp.com
The Chemical Brothers released their debut album, Exit Planet Dust on this day in 1995.
Beat is the second studio album by American band Bowery Electric. Lawrence Chandler of Bowery Electric told Alternative Press, "Beat is the beginning of us learning our way around a proper sampler and software which allows us to work with samples on the computer. We can sample ourselves, manipulate sounds, create our own beats and basically work with fewer restrictions."
boweryelectric.bandcamp.com
Playing tonight at the Woodland Park Zoo with Built to Spill.
Cover of the 1974 song off of George McCrae's album 'Rock Your Baby'
Happy Birthday to front person Hannah Joy!
Middle Kids were just in the KEXP studio for a great live performance that included "Bend." Subscribe to our YouTube channel so you won't miss the video when it posts! www.youtube.com
middlekids.bandcamp.com
For Kevin from Dallas who is feeling the "vibe."
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The only single from Echo & The Bunnymen's 1985 compilation album, the only song that had previously been unreleased on an album. The song was recorded specifically for the soundtrack to the 1986 John Hughes classic "Pretty in Pink." - www.bunnymen.com
English alt rock band Catherine Wheel features backing vocals from Tanya Donelly, of Throwing Muses, Breeders, and Belly. Gil Norton produced this third album from Catherine Wheel, and Belly toured with Catherine Wheel in 1995 in support of their 2nd album, King. Check out the cheesy, retro sci-fi video here: www.youtube.com
Who is She? is a Seattle isupergroup featuring members of Tacocat, Chastity Belt, and Lisa Prank. They say, "This is our take on the Le Tigre song “My My Metro Card.” We love Le Tigre and public transit and wanted to make this song about Seattle, so we added some of our favorite Seattle bus lines and sprinkled in a local billionaire villain. It was also tied into a local sports scandal so it’s now technically a jock jam." -- Read about their short-lived hockey residency: www.kexp.org
On “Everyone’s A Superstar,” IAN SWEET's Jilian Medford teams up with Porridge Radio's Dana Margolin on a collaborative single for the Amplify x Pitchfork London Series.
The series sees artists playing the Pitchfork London festival come to Abbey Road to work with their engineers and write and record a new song. The sessions are documented on film, with revealing interviews about the songwriting, recording and production process.
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Go here to buy this single: iansweetmusic.bandcamp.com
Liz Phair has described 'Whip-Smart' as a chronicle of the beginning, middle and end of a relationship: "a rock fairy tale, from meeting the guy, falling for him, getting him and not getting him, going through the disillusionment period, saying 'F**k it,' and leaving, coming back to it." - bit.ly
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
On KEXP's Sound & Vision podcast, Larry Mizelll Jr. sat down with Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers": www.kexp.org
Mark from Bar-None Records sent us this note earlier this week..
"In 1996 Lloyd Cole produced 2 songs for Ivy. "I've Got A Feeling" went on Apartment Life and this song (“All I Ever Wanted”) was shelved and completely forgotten. (We just found it (on) old 2" tapes.) Digital single coming out Sept. 4 and then it will be a bonus track on Long Distance vinyl coming out in Nov."
This is what Ivy's Andy Chase said about this song, "Dominique and I to searched through the Ivy archives for any unreleased Apartment Life-era songs we might be able to use as bonus tracks. We put on one of the 2” 24 track reel-to-reel tapes we unearthed that had the title “Stupid Cat” scrawled across the outside of the box. This song started playing. It was so familiar to Dominique and I that we Shazam’d it, to see what it was called and which album of ours it was on. But when Shazam came up high and dry, we started remembering more and more of this song’s foggy, unresolved history. Back in 1997 the great Lloyd Cole had co-produced a few songs for what would be Apartment Life. (F)or reasons lost on us today, we shelved ...this one - never even doing a rough mix of it. So the master tape sat in our storage locker for the next 24 years, fully forgotten from our memories. After its reemergence, I finally was able to do a proper mix of it in my studio in 2024. And yes, Lloyd is even playing some guitars on this song!"
Released in June of this year, the Moth from deary's album by the same name can be found on bandcamp here:
deary.bandcamp.com
Released on this day in 1995!
This track features sample's of Single Gun Theory's "Man of Straw" on the verses.
www.garbage.com
The environmental message of the song has landed it on multiple Greenpeace compilations.
New from the Screaming Orphans, featuring Sinead O'Connor producer John Reynolds.
screamingorphans.com
From the Irish singers fourth album, released in 1994.
O'Connor said of Universal Mother, "that album was the first attempt to try to expose what was really underneath a lot of the anger of the other records".
Kate Bush not only wrote her own songs, but starting with her 1982 album The Dreaming, was also her own producer, a rare feat at the time especially for a female artist. Until she came along, the only woman on this level who did her own writing and production was Joni Mitchell, another singer of immense influence and acclaim. www.songfacts.com
Nick Cave is playing tonight in New York.
Cave, in a press statement, had this to say about his new song: “The sheer exuberance of a song like ‘Frogs.’ It just puts a big f**king smile on my face.”
Us, too, Nick Cave and your bad seeds. Us, too.
This is the second single taken from new Nick Cave album, ‘Wild God’, due August 30th.
Days of Future Passed is the second album and first concept album by The Moody Blues - www.moodybluestoday.com
When asked what’s the best song he’s ever written Moby replied, “God Moving Over the Face of the Waters.” Moby explained, “Ironically enough it’s a song that doesn’t have any lyrics to it. It’s a song called God Moving Over the Face of the Waters, and it’s an instrumental piece of music that, when I was writing it, I had this vision, like at least according to the Old Testament, the creation story, at one point you know, what is it – the earth was without form and void and God was moving over the face of the waters. And this particular piece of music was written with that in mind.”
- dontforgetthesongs365.wordpress.com
- www.moby.com
"Outro" is the final track on M83's sixth studio album, Hurry Up, We're Dreaming (2011). ilovem83.com
"From a musical perspective, the song is extremely simple in its structure, and I think that is what allows it to be so powerful and accessible. The key is C major, the simplest and probably most optimistic-sounding key there is" Here's an analysis of this gorgeous song: neverletmedown.wordpress.com
As requested by Magnolia, age 9, in Ballard. Magnolia, you are the coolest.
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This was the last song Prince played live; it was the closing number at his April 14, 2016 concert at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, which was his last, as he died a week later.
Among the many artists paying tribute to Prince in the wake of his death was Bruce Springsteen, who opened his concert in Brooklyn on April 23, 2016 with a performance of this song. He dedicated the show to Prince, saying, "There's never been anyone better: bandleader, showman, arranger.": www.youtube.com
Did you know that this was supposedly written by Bono in response to the notion that it’s possible to identify a person’s religion and income based on the street where they lived? -- He said: "On reflection I suppose I want to write about that 'other country,' the country of the imagination. I want to run out of hiding, to tear down the walls that hold me inside myself. I want to touch the flame." -- Don't miss the Grammy-winning video: www.youtube.com
The title track to the third Waterboys album, "This Is The Sea" is about leaving the past behind.
"Once you were tethered
Now you are free
That was the river
This is the sea"
Lead singer Mike Scott wrote the song; he composed about 20 different verse lyrics, choosing the best five for the final product.
www.songfacts.com
- www.mikescottwaterboys.com
From Frightened Rabbit's third studio album.
See KEXP's tribute to Scott Hutchison of Frightened Rabbit, which includes several videos of live KEXP performances, here: www.kexp.org
Happy birthday to front person Billy McCarthy, born on this day in 1977!
One more for Matt Johnson, born on this day in1961.
"Dusk" was The The's fourth studio album and the last to feature the guitar, harmonica, and backing vocals of Smiths legend Johnny Marr. -- Cheryl was the host when Johnny Marr graced our studio with a live performance in 2018: www.youtube.com. THE THE will be performing at the Paramount on Saturday, November 2nd
Besides sampling Herbie Hancock's "Bring Down the Birds" it features the vocals of Q-Tip AND Bootsy Collins, baby.
Happy anniversary to the dancing duo Owen and John!
Released on this day in 1976! Dance on Morning Show people!