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Tuesday, Sep 10 2024, 7AM
RIP to James Earl Jones, the voice of Darth Vader who died yesterday at the age of 93
Honoring iconic James Earl Jones, the voice of Darth Vader in 'Star Wars' and Mufasa in 'The Lion King."
7:06 AM
1st spin?!
Iconic scene where Luke Skywalker's hand is cut off and (spoiler alert!) he finds out that Darth Vader is his father.
Another iconic Father and Son track :)
In this track, Cat Stevens uses a deeper register for the father's lines and a higher one for those of the son
Eddie Vedder covering Tom Petty's "Room at the top"- appears on soundtrack to the Apple show "Bad Monkey". “Room at the Top” is the first track from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ album “Echo” (1999). ------ Over the years, Eddie Vedder has performed the song live several times- here's a link to his performance from 2018 Academy Awards. www.youtube.com
Charlie T. Wilbury Jr.
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According to Rolling Stone, the journey to making Full Moon Fever began by chance, when Petty and Jeff Lynne started talking while stopped next to each other at a red light on Thanksgiving 1987. bit.ly
Lefty Wilbury
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Orbison claimed to have written this as the result of an encounter he had with an old flame with whom he was still in love. He refused to say how much she meant to him, and when he ran into her again it was too late. At the time, rock artists didn't typically write songs about crying over a girl. Orbison wanted to show that crying was not weakness, but sensitivity. royorbison.com
Nelson Wilbury
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Billy Preston released his fifth studio album Encouraging Words on this day in 1970. The album was co-produced by George Harrison and Preston. Harrison's songs "All Things Must Pass" and "My Sweet Lord" were issued here for the first time, two months before his own recordings appeared on his triple album All Things Must Pass.
Originally on ELO's 1975 release "Face the Music". www.jefflynneselo.com
Otis Wilbury
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Regarding this track, lead singer, Jeff Lynne said, "I wrote this in a matter of minutes. The rest of the album was done. I listened to it and thought, 'There’s not a good single.' So I sent the band out to a game of football and made up 'Evil Woman' on the spot. The first three chords came right to me. It was the quickest thing I’d ever done. We kept it slick and cool, kind of like an R&B song. It was kind of a posh one for me, with all the big piano solos and the string arrangement. It was inspired by a certain woman, but I can’t say who. She’s appeared a few times in my songs."
Traveling Wilburys were a British-American supergroup active from 1988 to 1991 consisting of Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison and Tom Petty.
South London trio Honeyglaze is On! The! Rise!! They've got their debut album set to release September 20th, you can check it out here: honeyglazehoneyglaze.bandcamp.com
Oh, yeah! "Zero" was the lead single from Yeah Yeah Yeahs' third album, It's Blitz!, which found them downplaying their guitars and adopting a new synthesizer-driven sound. Karen O said, "We started off writing this record with guitars, but gradually the sound developed into what you hear now. We chose synths because they allow for more space. They have a quality which is different to Nick (Zinner's) grungy guitar sound. But, at the same time, Nick's synth work mimics what he does on the guitar. So in a way it was a natural progression." The horns on "Zero" come courtesy of saxophonist Stuart Bogie and trumpeter Eric Biondo from the Brooklyn based Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra.
Released in March 2005 as the lead single for NIN's fourth studio album, With Teeth. -- Watch the music video: www.youtube.com
Brand new music from Bryan Ferry, his first original music in 10 years. This is a collaboration with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross of NIN
Songs of Faith and Devotion was recorded over eight months in a rented villa in Madrid during 1992, as well as later sessions in Hamburg and London. Following his work on U2's seventh studio album, producer Flood suggested the idea of building their own studio in a rented house where the band would live and work, the same process having yielded huge successes for U2. A studio was set up in the basement of the villa, with two drum kits using different spaces to achieve different sounds. The band had become aware of getting caught in easy routines in the studio leading to boredom and thus wanted to change as many aspects to their approach to the recording as possible.
New single from dark and visceral post-punk band, Crows. Their new album is set to release on Sept. 27th. badvibrationsrecords.bandcamp.com
The Editors are an English rock band from Birmingham. They met while studying Music Technology at Staffordshire University
"...It's a theatrical touch that makes Ian Curtis' out of nowhere appearance all the more striking, especially with his the edge of fear and desperation in his voice as he starts, "Someone take these dreams away!" His overall portrait of needing an escape from a private hell is all the more shot through with that edge, the musicians not letting up at all, their performances getting all the more loud and stinging even while keeping to the same relentless pace." www.allmusic.com Live "Dead Souls": youtu.be
Siouxsie wrote this song as a tribute to Jayne Mansfield, the late actress and pin-up girl, who starred opposite Cary Grant in the 1957 film “Kiss Them for Me.” Mansfield died tragically in a car accident at the age 34. In the chorus, Siouxsie references her death: “Nothing or no one/ will ever make me let you down’ Kiss them for me/ I may be delayed Kiss them for me/ if I am delayed…”
Blondshell will be playing the Fox Theater in Oakland October 11th with Bright Eyes! --- blondshell.bandcamp.com www.blondshellmusic.com
"Top of the morning to ya, John!! It's Sarah E from Tulsa, OK here, listening live from Dublin!!!!!!! I wanted to request a song and shoutout to my friends, Laura and Aiden! My song request is Favourite from Fontaines DC"
"My wife Michelle and I are Oban, Scotland listening live right now.
We saw Big Country at the Queens Hall a few nights ago and were blown away. Can you play Fields of Fire by Big Country" - Kyle
Lauren Auder is a British-French singer-songwriter and record producer. Born in Watford and raised in the French town of Albi, she began her career producing for underground French and English rap artists. == Earlier this week, nonprofit Red Hot "announced that its latest compilation will be TRANƧA, a new release consisting of eight chapters and 46 songs that will spotlight the work of trans and non-binary artists. Moses Sumney, Sam Smith, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Laura Jane Grace, Lee Ranaldo, and more artists contributed material to the collection..." that will raise money to fight AIDS. Read more here: tinyurl.com
Prince said, "Paisley Park is in everybody’s heart. It’s not just something that I have the keys to. I was trying to say something about looking inside oneself to find perfection. Perfection is in everyone. Nobody’s perfect, but they can be. We may never reach that, but it’s better to strive than not." -- See the video: www.youtube.com
This is David Bowie's cover version of Louisiana-born and Pacific Northwest-raised songwriter Ron Davies’ gritty blues standard “It Ain’t Easy." For comparison, here's the original: www.youtube.com
Gary Oldman is great as Jackson Lamb in "Slow Horses" on Apple TV. Following a dysfunctional team of MI5 agents -- and their obnoxious boss, the notorious Jackson Lamb -- as they navigate the espionage world's smoke and mirrors to defend England from sinister forces.: tv.apple.com
"After secretly slipping unmarked copies of ‘No Name’ into shopping bags at Third Man Records, Jack White officially releases his enigmatic sixth solo album. Packed with seething guitars and a ferocious vocal delivery, his distinct punk and blues-infused alt-rock sounds fresh, rowdy and infectious. Self-recorded, produced and mixed, No Name showcases White’s raucous flavor and delivers a proper rumpus," writes KEXP's Music Director Chris Sanley.
Do you think that Fcukers might have sampled this one? -- The main riff for this song is from "I Can Only Give You Everything" by Them, a Belfast R&B band led by a young Van Morrison in 1965. The drums in the chorus and drum breaks come from Pretty Purdie’s “Soul Drums”.
Here's a 30-year retrospective from 2022: www.loudersound.com -- Watch Bob Mould perform this one live for KEXP listeners at Bumbershoot in 2013: www.youtube.com
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
"Spill the Wine" is the debut single by singer Eric Burdon and the band War
Here's the studio session for the True Loves; "Good Weed & Red Wine," their first tune since 2021’s essential ‘Sunday Afternoon.’: www.youtube.com
Carole King's "Tapestry," was her second studio album. It is one of the best-selling albums of all time, with over 25 million copies sold worldwide. Here's a loving tribute to this 50-year-old album: www.usatoday.com
This song was written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David and was a big hit for Dionne Warwick in 1967. However, Aretha transformed it. -- In a candid 2010 interview with NPR, David and Bacharach both laughed trying to describe how good Franklin’s version was. “It’s a better record than the record we made,” Bacharach said. “Mmhmm. We did, yeah. And we did a great record, but she topped it,” David added. They told their host to listen to it, that you can just hear it in the effortless way Franklin sings and how the arrangement is crafted to enhance that. That Franklin sings the song as if it were a dress designed just for her.: www.vox.com
John will be there when James performs at The Moore Theatre in Seattle on Saturday, September 21st. -- In this video interview, British rock band JAMES sit down to talk their newly released album, "Be Opened By The Wonderful", in celebration of their 40th anniversary. The album features a 20-track collection of the band's most loved and rare tracks, re-imagined with a 22-piece orchestra and 8-piece choir.: www.youtube.com
This was a song that caught Bono torn between a life of domesticity and free-spirited artistry. "I had some difficult emotional stuff going on," he confessed to Mojo. "I didn't understand at that point the freedom that I would receive from a committed relationship. I was feeling guilty if I was talking to somebody in their record company who was really attractive. I was you know, just everything was at 11. But that's why 'With or Without You' is so operatic and that's OK."
Oohhh...isn't this a great version of this song? -- Eddie Vedder is quite familiar with it, since Pearl Jam often lead into live versions of "Better Man" with this song from The English Beat. His rendition has gained significant attention after being featured in the third season of the FX series "The Bear." -- The English Beat performed this incredible song live for KEXP listeners from the Bumbershoot Music Lounge in 2010: tinyurl.com
KEXP hosted Brandon Summers for a studio session in 2018 where he performed some other songs. Check it out here: www.youtube.com
This was Paul Simon's first single as a solo artist. Simon wrote this in response to the Jimmy Cliff song "Vietnam," where a mother receives a letter about her son's death on the battlefield. Simon recorded "Mother and Child Reunion" in Jamaica using Cliff's musicians, hence the very authentic sound. - bit.ly
Read the story of the band's complicated and powerful fifth album: pitchfork.com