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Monday, Aug 26 2024, 7AM
Good morning and welcome to the Morning Show with John!
Luna came to our studio in February, 2020 and performed tracks from their 1994 record, "Bewitched." www.youtube.com
John was the host when Amen Dunes came to the KEXP studio in 2018 for a live performance that included "Miki Dora": www.youtube.com
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"Miki Dora" was featured as a KEXP song of the day! - www.kexp.org
James will be at Seattle's Moore Theatre on Saturday, September 21st and at San Francisco's Warfield on Monday, September 23rd!
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James performed this song with "a racing beat" live at The Royal Albert Hall in London last year: www.youtube.com
“Three-Dee Melodie” is just three chords, one-note bassline, and methodical drumbeat; the voices of Sadier and Mary Hansen—the group’s second vocalist from 1992 until 2002, when she was killed cycling in London—circle each other in graceful counterpoint. pitchfork.com
stereolab.co.uk
Another great 2002 release. In a 2009 interview, band member Jez Williams said that the songs came quickly and effortlessly: "I had this little house in Northenden where my makeshift studio was. It took a couple of nights to get the backing track with the top line melody to "There Goes the Fear". Literally the next night I had "Words" coming out of the speakers."
Released on this day in 1991, Leisure is the debut studio album by English rock band Blur. In a 2007 interview, lead singer Damon Albarn expressed distaste for the album, describing it as "awful" and being one of the two "bad records" he has made in his career (the other being Blur album The Great Escape). Albarn further expanded on the album's recording in 2014, explaining that "it wasn't a particularly happy experience" and suggested the band were too keen to please the record label by capitalising on a sound that was popular at the time. The band rarely played tracks from the album live in later tours, with only the singles "There's No Other Way" and "She's So High" being frequently included in setlists
That inimitable voice belongs to Yannis Philippakis, frontman for Foals. This is his project with renowned drummer Tony Allen. This collaboration began in 2016. but the recordings were never completed before Tony passed away in April 2020 at the age of 79.
Now, they are finished and a five-track EP will be released on August 30th.
yannistheyaw.bandcamp.com
Brand new music from this Manchester band!
whlung.bandcamp.com
New single from dark and visceral post-punk band, Crows. Their new album is set to release on Sept. 27th.
badvibrationsrecords.bandcamp.com
Unreal World is the fourth studio album by alternative rock band the Godfathers, released by Epic Records in 1991. It was produced by Steve Brown, who had worked as a mixing engineer on the Godfathers' second album Birth, School, Work, Death
Dark Chisme is a Seattle-based dark-wave band. Check out more music from them here: darkchisme.bandcamp.com
Happy birthday to Shirley Manson, born on this day in 1966! She has gifted us with Garbage, Angelfish, and Goodbye Mr. Mackenzie.
Garbage drummer Butch Vig said that this song started when their guitarist Steve Marker sampled a drum loop by The Clash "Train in Vain (Stand By Me)".
- www.garbage.com
"Train in Vain" with Mick Jones on lead vocals -- a hidden track at the end of "London Calling" -- it was added at the last minute, when the sleeve was already being printed! -- tinyurl.com
"It was a Saturday afternoon when Mick Jones invited me to hear the finished album. Walking into Wessex, I saw him in the vocal booth, laying down vocals for a new song. By Monday night, Train In Vain was finished. Originally mooted as an NME giveaway flexi, it became the final track on London Calling – too late, however, to include on art-work that had already gone to the printers."
By request! Oasis posted a teaser this weekend, and there's a lot of "will they or won't they" circulating about a possible huge live reunion--Their first in 15 years.
www.brooklynvegan.com
Touring the west coast next month!
-Seattle: September 20th at the Showbox SoDo
-San Francisco: September 24th at The Warfield
More dates here: fontainesdc.com
The second single off their sixth studio album "The Head On The Door", which was released on this day in 1985! Robert Smith has been quoted as saying the album's "... got a real fantastic freshness to it, and it was a really pleasant experience."
www.thecure.com
Indianapolis band Wishy just released their latest album 'Triple Seven' earlier this week. wishy.bandcamp.com -- You can catch them touring the West Coast this winter. They'll be in Seattle on Dec. 10, Portland on Dec. 11 and San Francisco on Dec. 13.
Spanish band Hinds are coming to the US west coast to support their album, Viva Hinds, out September 6th!
-San Francisco on Tuesday, Oct. 15, at The Chapel
-Seattle on Friday, Oct. 18, at The Crocodile
hinds.os.fan
Madder Rose is a New York City-based alternative rock band who recorded in the 1990s. After a 20-year hiatus, a new album was released in 2019. - www.madderroseband.com
New music from the Melbourne band!!
thebelairlipbombs.bandcamp.com
Here's an interview with Louise Post who described "Seether" as "the little song that could.": glidemagazine.com
'Strut of Kings' is Guided by Voices' 40th album. Yes, you read that right.
Guided by Voices is playing in San Francisco on Friday, Sept. 27, at August Hall!
www.guidedbyvoices.com
Happy birthday to Johnnie 'Fingers' Moylett of The Boomtown Rats, born on this day in 1956!
This song was co-produced by Tony Visconti and The Boomtown Rats.
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Be afraid, be very afraid....(if you're scared of snakes, that is). Now that you're prepared, watch the snake-themed video for "Up All Night": www.youtube.com
Bowie was on the vanguard of the music video movement; for "DJ," director David Mallet shot a clip of Bowie coming unhinged in front of some turntables in a radio studio, along with footage of him walking the streets of London while he is mobbed by admirers. The song was dated when MTV went on the air in 1981, but Bowie was a big name and the video was of better quality than most of what they had to choose from, so it went in rotation. For many young Americans, it was their first exposure to Bowie.: www.youtube.com
"Good morning,
I already used all my sick days up last week and have to go in today. Still feel quite shite.
Could you please play XTC- This World Over from the Big Express to help get me through?
Thanks,
Arlo"
Off of XTC's 1984 release 'The Big Express'. The album was the seventh studio release from the English rock band and was inspired by the band's hometown of Swindon and its railway system, the Swindon Works.
Guitarist Andy Summers said this was the best track he ever played on.
This was the first single from the second Police album, Reggatta De Blanc (which means "White Reggae" in Police-speak). "Message In A Bottle" was when they exploded in Britain; the song went to #1 on September 29, 1979 and stayed for three weeks.
The song was influenced by the church music that Sting used to sing as a child. He explained in Isle of Noises by Daniel Rachel: "I used to sing Gregorian chants and plainsong as an altar boy. A lot of my melodies might reflect that love and my early exposure to that stark, melodic narrative. 'Message In A Bottle' reflects that, too."
This was the second single from Vampire Weekend's self-titled debut.
We've got a Platinum copy of this record (courtesy of Vampire Weekend) hanging at KEXP due to being a station that was playing this song while it was still just a CD-R demo to run off of (which we started playing in 2007). www.vampireweekend.com
The Bug Club is a Welsh band. This track is a new single from their album "On The Intricate Inner Workings Of The System" which is releasing This week! Check out more music from them here: thebugclub.bandcamp.com
This was a1985 James Bond title song!
Ok Cowgirl is Leah Lavigne, Matt Birkenholz, Jake Sabinsky, John Miller, and Ryan Work. The group's debut LP, recorded and produced by Alex Farrar (MJ Lenderman, Indigo De Souza, Wednesday) was just released!
okcowgirl.bandcamp.com
Happy 10th birthday to the New Pornographers record, Brill Bruisers!
Brill Bruisers is the sixth studio album by Canadian indie rock band the New Pornographers.
The New Pornographers performed live in the KEXP studio in 2014 - www.youtube.com
The Head on the Door was released on this day in 1985!
“The Blood” was inspired by a Portuguese wine named “Tears Of Christ” (Robert Smith changed it to “blood of Christ” using “poetic license”). He said in 1985:
It’s a very cheap Portuguese wine, it’s a very heavy drink that all the workers drink… it’s about 12p a bottle. I was given a bottle of it and I drank it, and I noticed the label, which is the Virgin Mary with Baby Jesus under one arm and a bottle in the other hand. It was completely brilliant. […] I was convinced I was Portuguese, I just sank into this reverie of being a Portuguese flamenco guitarist.
Released on this day in 1966, 'Sunshine Superman' featuring the title track "Sunshine Superman," AND “Season of the Witch.”
This track is the second single from Blur's debut album, Leisure (which was released on this day in 1991!_, 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.
OHR is the Seattle-based project of Craig Klein (formerly of The Race).
Speaking on the track, Klein says:
“Runaway is about connection and submitting ourselves to the wild and uncertain path of navigating life with another human. Musically I was really inspired by the driving quality. and directness of early House records and the out front vocal samples that often tied everything together. I play a lot with side chain processing which carves out space for the kick, but sometimes leads to unexpected results especially on how all of the sequences in this track duck around each other. As I’ve gotten older I’ve been a lot less concerned with being cool or obfuscating my intentions and I’m in a place now where I’m comfortable enough in my skin to write something as direct as Runaway.”
ohrmusic.bandcamp.com
Spiral XP are back with an amazing new single, and in October they'll be putting out a new record! Peep it below:
spiralxp.bandcamp.com
Released on this day in 1968, the b-side to "Hey Jude," "Revolution."
From 1970 to 1973, T. Rex encountered a popularity in the UK comparable to that of the Beatles, with a run of eleven singles in the UK top ten. They scored four UK number one hits, "Hot Love", "Get It On", "Telegram Sam" and "Metal Guru"
The Power Station was a supergroup of members from Chic and Duran Duran that banded together to record a one-off album in 1984. This is their cover of T. Rex's "Get It On (Bang a Gong)
New Bright Eyes record also features Cat Power and National’s Matt Berninger.
brighteyes.bandcamp.com
Pom Pom Squad plays Bumbershoot Sunday, September 1st in Seattle Center! bumbershoot.com
This is a cover of the Nada Surf 90's classic! And a shot for shot remake of the original music video, with all of the parts played by Mia Berrin of Pom Pom Squad. It was even shot at the same high school. And how much more awesome can you get than having the original (Matthew Caws) singing on the cover!? youtu.be
www.pompomsquadband.com
www.nadasurf.com