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Thursday, Aug 29 2024, 7AM
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"Where is My Mind?" comes from Pixies' 1988 debut album, Surfer Rosa. Steve Albini produced the album.
Black Francis, who wrote the song, said of working with Albini: "I think his attitude worked because it blended well with the naivety of the band. We didn’t know what we were doing but we did it well." tinyurl.com
This track is from the album This is the Sea which is the third and final Waterboys' record to feature their signature sound referred to as "Big Music." This sound is known for its many layers of instruments.
The band credits the inspiration for the song's mandolin sound to a visit they had at a museum of tractor parts. tinyurl.com www.bunnymen.com
From Kim deal's upcoming solo record out on November 22nd! Watch the music video here: www.youtube.com
www.kimdealmusic.com
This orchestral version of 'Sometimes' was part of the double album released in 2023 in celebration of James's 40th Anniversary. The album is a collection of some of James’ most loved and rare tracks, reimagined with a 22 piece orchestra and eight piece choir. -
James will be live at the Moore on September 21st.
wearejames.com
In an interview on BBC Radio 2, singer Richard Ashcroft said the song was "inspired by my relationship with my wife, and that sense of when you're beyond the sort of peacock dance that you have early on in a relationship. And you're getting down to the raw nature of yourselves."
Happy 30th birthday to this iconic record!
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
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Check out the official music video for "Live Forever" here, enjoy:
www.youtube.com
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Happy birthday Elizabeth Fraser born on this day in 1963!
This was Cocteau Twins' highest-charting single, reaching #1 on the UK Indie Chart and #29 on the UK Singles Chart - it's also featured in Season 3, Episode 4 of "The Bear" on FX/Hulu
Brooklyn Vegan breaks down the music of "The Bear" Season 3: tinyurl.com
Playing Climate Pledge Arena tonight with Kings of Leon!
phantogram.bandcamp.com
New record out on October 4, playing Showbox SoDo on November 10.
For full tour dates check out their band camp!
caribouband.bandcamp.com
Melenas released a remix album where you can find this layered rock version of Bang.
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melenas.bandcamp.com/track/bang-peanut-butter-wolf-remix
The lyrics of this song are in French. A rough English translation is: "It's the most beautiful, and it's the saddest, and it's the most beautiful land in the world."
bit.ly
stereolab.bandcamp.com
By request!
The Stone Roses's "I Wanna Be Adored" is one of the ultimate indie shoegaze anthems. With lead vocalist Ian Brown, he clarifies his message, "I didn't actually want people to adore me. I was trying to say then, if you want to be adored, it's like a sin, like lust or gluttony, or something like that." Read the 2009 interview here: www.clashmusic.com
- www.thestoneroses.co.uk
Released in 1991, this song began Catherine Wheel's career as its debut single. It was then released on their 1992 debut album, "Ferment." What a great start!
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See an eleven-minute live version of "Black Metallic": www.youtube.com
New album out now!
Find more info and tour dates here:
giftbandnyc.bandcamp.com
Released on this day in 1994. Happy 30th birthday to Slow Buildings, Pale Saints' final record.
Jade Hairpins—the duo of Jonah Falco and Mike Haliechuk (F*cked Up)—announce their sophmore album, Get Me the Good Stuff, arriving September 13th on Merge Records.
Jonah Falco says this song "...is about the double dead end of not trusting yourself enough to make good decisions, musically wrapped in a Mondays-meets-Bolan (T-Rex), funky filo pastry."
www.mergerecords.com
Released on this day, 33 years ago.
This is the opening track of the West Midlands band's debut album, "God Fodder," Read a retrospective on that much-loved album (which you may know because of the classic "Gray Cell Green"): www.offyourradar.com
"If you're a young black person, your only role models are athletes and entertainers. You see these people used by the corporate system to make money, after which they're thrown on the scrap heap. they're disposable heroes... the name Hiphoprisy deals with the fact that, inevitably, there is hypocrisy in all of our lives, including mine."
Group formed by Michael Franti in 1990.
Seattle’s own True Loves return with a new single, “Good Weed and Red Wine,” their first tune since 2021’s essential ‘Sunday Afternoon.’
truelovesband.bandcamp.com
Ibibio Sound Machine will be at Nectar Lounge in Seattle on October 1st.
New album "The Black Notes EP", a four track EP, releases in its entirety on September 4th.
ibibiosoundmachine.bandcamp.com ibibiosoundmachine.com
Yazoo, featuring Vince Clarke and Alison Moyet, grew up in Basildon and attended the same Saturday music school as children - later, when Alison Moyet posted an ad for musicians to form a band, Clarke responded - he'd just departed Depeche Mode.
Iconic music video: youtu.be
"Love to Hate You" by English synth-pop duo Erasure is the second single from their fifth studio album, Chorus, released in 1991. The synthesizer melody in the chorus is an interpolation of the string break from Gloria Gaynor's disco-era classic "I Will Survive".
- www.erasureinfo.com
This new track was written by Flying Mojito Bros with London-based American musician and vocalist Robert Chane. Check out more of their music here.flyingmojitobros.bandcamp.com
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flyingmojitobros.com
Title track form the movie 24 Hour Party People which tells the fictionalized story of the legendary Factory Records and Manchester music scene.
Title track from the movie of the same name.
24 Hour Party People is a 2002 British biographical comedy drama film about Manchester's popular music community from 1976 to 1992, and specifically about Factory Records.
New music from LA band Casino Hearts!
casinohearts.bandcamp.com
From the album RTFM, which stands for "Read the F****** Manual"
From Dig's debut self titled album, featuring Believe.
"Believe" was played regularly on MTV's Buzz Bin and was their lone charting hit: www.youtube.com
Filter formed in 1993 in Cleveland, Ohio, by singer Richard Patrick when Patrick departing from Nine Inch Nails as their touring guitarist. Fun fact- Richard Patrick's older brother is actor Robert Patrick who you may recall from Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
"Meantime" was Helmet's second studio album and major label debut, released in 1992."Unsung" quickly became the band's signature song and the video was a MTV favorite during late 1992. Watch it here: www.youtube.com -- Then, watch Helmet playing live in the KEXP studio in 2013: www.youtube.com
Written by frontman Tommy Victor, this song is the title track of Prong's third album. Tommy Victor describes this song as an "in-your-face rebel-rock tune," and said, "Everyone's been telling you that you're wasting your time and you're never going to get anywhere. Follow these rules. When basically there are no rules when it comes to making music. That's really what that song is about." - 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
Here’s Hyper Enough, off “Here’s Where the Strings Come In.” The music video shows a dysfunctional, quarreling Superchunk going to group therapy and then destroying their therapist’s office. youtu.be
See a great live performance in our studio in 2018: www.youtube.com
Check out the music video here:
www.youtube.com
www.matthewsweet.com
The third single from their second album, Doubt.
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This 1990 album was the debut recording from Lush. "Sweetness and Light" was the second single.
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Here's a 2019 KEXP interview with Miki Berenyi, formerly of Lush, about her new band Piroshka: www.kexp.org
Creatives Amber Sermeńo and Andy Jordan (from beloved Oakland band, The World) are behind Naked Roommate—a project with punk spirit, a dance heart and progressive post-punk thought. The band also features Michael Zamora (from Bad Bad) and Alejandra Alcala (Blues Lawyer and Preening). :
nakedroommate.bandcamp.com
The song was written by band members Charlotte Caffey and Kathy Valentine, and produced by English record producer Martin Rushent. The Go-Gos' rhythm guitarist Jane Wiedlin has cited "Head over Heels" as her favorite Go-Go's song, describing it as "just a classic..Like a little pop truffle of chocolate that's just completely delicious."
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Here's the video: www.youtube.com
Welcome to The Midday Show with Troy Nelson!
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Does this song sound familiar? That's because yeule is covering this classic tune from Broken Social Scene.
"Park that car, drop that phone, sleep on the floor, dream about me..."
It has the yeule flair; chopped up vocals with different pitches, gory instrumentals, gritty harmonisations.