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Thursday, Sep 12 2024, 7AM
Good morning and welcome to the Morning Show!
**Upcoming Show**
Oct 24 - Queens, NY - Forest Hills Stadium
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This song features the vocals of Cocteau Twins' Elizabeth Fraser, who wrote this song's lyrics inspired by the death of her one-time close friend, singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley.
The news that Buckley had drowned whilst swimming came while Fraser was recording this song. "That was so weird," she recalled to The Guardian in 2009. "I'd got letters out and I was thinking about him. That song's kind of about him - that's how it feels to me anyway." www.songfacts.com
Vocalist Skye Edwards, along with brothers Paul and Ross Godfrey, formed Morcheeba in the 1990s. The cover for this album was inspired by the 1966 lounge classic "Hi-Fi Companion" by Ray Conniff.
morcheeba.uk
New music from Cambodian-American local and trans (she/her) artist, Thavoran! Originally from Everett, WA, Thavoran now resides in Seattle and works to 'help pave the way for Southeast/Asian American and queer artists alike looking for a sense of creative community.'
www.trailingtwelve.com
Opening track form Portishead's Dummy. Vote now for your all time favorite opening tracks at www.kexp.org.
Debut album and opening track! Get you votes in now! www.kexp.org
Phantogram performed in the KEXP Studio last week! Subscribe to KEXP's YouTube channel to watch the performance when it's released here: www.youtube.com
Tycho will be live in Seattle on September 19th at the Showbox SoDo. For more tour dates check out tychomusic.com
New Caribou incoming October 4th! caribouband.bandcamp.com
Caribou will be performing at The Showbox in Seattle on Sunday, November 10th! www.caribou.fm
What an opening track!
The Guardian ranked New Order’s 30 greatest tracks. "Age of Consent" comes in at #14.
The opening track of 'Power, Corruption & Lies' sounds like a statement of intent: New Order truly becoming New Order after the hesitancy and mourning of their debut album. "Age of Consent" is a shimmering, if strange, pop song, driven by one of Hook’s greatest bass lines – hypnotic, relentless, insanely catchy.
www.theguardian.com
Bay Area Friends! KEXP would like to send you and a friend to see Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium on 5/14/25, an All ages event. Text NICK to 206-903-KEXP (5397) for your chance to win.
From Jack Whites latest record. Jack White will be playing small venues with little notice on this tour so stay keep your eyes out for up coming dates! www.rollingstone.com
Another iconic opening track!
Led Zeppelin heavily adapted Muddy Waters' 1962 track of Willie Dixon's "You Need Love" into "Whole Lotta Love". The large similarities resulted in a lawsuit in 1985 which was settled out of court for an undisclosed sum.
Thank your Joel for this great opening track! The third album by The Pretenders was released in 1984. The title of this album came from Chrissie Hynde's then-infant daughter, who was learning to crawl while the band worked on this album.
Brand new! About the track, Alex Kapranos said, “It’s about having an audacious response when you feel the fabric of existence come undone around you. Being bold, contrary. Peering over the edge into the eternity of non-existence and saying Aye! Fuck it! Not today thank you!"
www.stereogum.com
Tom Petty and Mike Campbell co-wrote this classic album opener. Campbell said of the song, "That was a hard record to make. It was a 4-track that I made at my house. He (Tom Petty) wrote over the music as it was, no changes, but it took us forever to actually cut the track. We just had a hard time getting the feel right. We must have recorded that 100 times. I remember being so frustrated with it one day that - I think this is the only time I ever did this - I just left the studio and went out of town for two days. I just couldn't take the pressure anymore, but then I came back and when we regrouped we were actually able to get it down on tape."
Cover of Tom Petty's "You Wreck Me", from the Official Soundtrack of the Apple TV+ series Bad Monkey! Performed by The War On Drugs
Releases: 10/4!
Some album openers just this different. What a song.
Watch Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash perform this song live on The Johnny Cash Show in 1969: www.facebook.com
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After Cash's death, Dylan said, “Truly he is what the land and country is all about. The heart and soul of it personified and what it means to be here; and he said it all in plain English. I think we can have recollections of him, but we can’t define him any more than we can define a fountain of truth, light and beauty.”
The opening track for So Tonight That I Might See.
Here's a live performance of this lovely song in 1994: www.youtube.com
Kurt Cobain listed She Hangs Brightly in his top fifty albums of all time. Here is the entire handwritten list: bit.ly
Each week, KEXP's Podcast, The Cobain 50, podcast digs into albums from this famous list and how they may have influenced Cobain and Nirvana. While learning the individual histories of the different albums on the list, we gain new insights into artists on the fringes as well as some of the biggest groups of all time. The podcast takes us through the legacies of acts like Sonic Youth, Pixies, The Breeders, Public Enemy, PJ Harvey, Black Flag, Mazzy Star, The Shaggs, Shonen Knife, and more.
www.kexp.org
Chinese American Bear is Seattle married duo Anne Tong and Bryce Barsten. They have a record release party at Seattle's Sunset Tavern on October 18th and will be at the White Eagle Saloon in SF on November 13th.
Last year, KEXP's Martin Douglas interviewed the couple for "Throwaway Style": tinyurl.com
**Upcoming Show**
Nov 3 - Seattle - Seattle's Funhouse
Dark Chisme is a Seattle-based dark wave band started by Chicago-raised Latina DJ and producer Christine Gutierrez (Vocals, Synths) and E (Bass, Synths).
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You can purchase their self-titled debut album here: darkchisme.bandcamp.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
Tickets for San Francisco round two! KEXP would like to send you and a friend to see Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium on 5/14/25, an All ages event. Text NICK to 206-903-KEXP (5397) for your chance to win.
Happy birthday tot he legendary Neil Peart! (also an incredible opening track)
"Sorry, baby..."
Japandroids have announced a new album, and it will be the band’s last. "Fate & Alcohol" will be out on October 18th. "Chicago" is the debut single.
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Pre-order the album right here: japandroids.bandcamp.com
“This song is kind of about learning how to deal with your problems and not catastrophizing,” John Ross said. “Just trying to be more realistic and objective when times get stressful. It’s one of the faster songs I’ve written in a while and really fun to play live.”
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The band's new album, "Dulling The Horns" will be out on October 4th. Go right here to pre-order it: wildpink.bandcamp.com.
This song was co-written by Joshua Green who was John Mellencamp's long-time writing partner. He was a classmate and childhood friend of Mellencamp's from Seymour, Indiana. In 1985, Green's wife appeared in the video for Mellencamp's Top 10 hit "Lonely Ol' Night". In addition to writing with Mellencamp, Green also wrote songs recorded by Barbra Streisand, Level 42, Hall & Oates, Jude Cole, Vanessa Williams, Percy Sledge, Gary Morris, and The Oak Ridge Boys among others.
#TheMoreYouKnow
Opening track from the legendary Beauty and the Beat! More from the incredible Go-Go's to come!
Nope no one has died, just another opening track from this amazing gorup.
The video for this one was shot in one very long day on a $50,000 budget, large for the time, and the band was coming off a debut album that had reached no. 1. "We still saw videos as an annoying waste of time," recalls Jane Wiedlin. "After seven or eight hours we sent out someone to sneak in booze." Kathy Valentine says they drank "lots of champagne. Lots." Wiedlin says the effects are evident during the closeups of the women at the end: "... if you look at our eyes, we're all so drunk. We didn't even try to make it look like we were really waterskiing.": www.youtube.com
Back to back to back we can't get enough of this band!
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
Opener for the 1971 record Nilsson Schmilsson
This song live on the BBC in 1971: youtu.be ; recently found new popularity as the theme song for the inventive TV series Russian Doll ; some unreleased Nilsson recordings were put out a couple years back: www.goldminemag.com ; www.harrynilsson.com
Brand new form The Bug Club. The Bug CLub will be touring the US this October with shows in New York, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle (among others).
thebugclub.bandcamp.com
Kinda hard to miss this one... Opening track for this self titled record.
Let the Good Times Roll! This side one track one certainly sets the mood for the rest of this record
As relevant today as it was in 79, definitely a top tier album opener.
On "London Calling," The Clash put their own climate anxieties to paper, fearing future meltdowns and London drowning into the river. -- According to guitarist Mick Jones, it was a headline in the London Evening Standard that triggered the lyric. The paper warned that "the North Sea might rise and push up the Thames, flooding the city," he wrote. "We flipped. To us, the headline was just another example of how everything was coming undone."
Watch the official video, filmed down by the Thames: youtu.be
KEXP would like to send you and a friend to see Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium on 5/14/25, an All ages event. Text NICK to 206-903-KEXP (5397) for your chance to win.
"Spirits in the Material World" is the opening track for The Police's 1981 album "Ghost in the Machine."
This song is based on the writings of Hungarian author and philosopher Arthur Koestler. Sting enjoyed Koestler's work, and the album Ghost In The Machine is named after one of his books. Koestler believed that outside influences could destroy our spirit and restrict our thinking. The "spirits" and "ghosts" Koestler wrote about were the innate higher functions that often get lost in the "machine" created by governments and corporations.