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Tuesday, Sep 17 2024, 7AM
Lead singer Thom Yorke wrote "Everything in Its Right Place" about how he felt after a show on their 1997 OK Computer tour. The show was in Birmingham, England, and when Yorke got off stage he went to the dressing room and felt completely burned out. The band was becoming famous, but Yorke was feeling helpless and victimized...The line, "Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon," refers to the face you make because of a lemon's taste. During the OK Computer tour, Yorke walked around with a sour face a lot. www.songfacts.com
Here's a live performance of "Someone Great" in New York last November: www.youtube.com -- "Nothing can prepare you for it"... It may be "the best song about loss ever written." "In 'Someone Great,' [James] Murphy takes you on a journey through the entire grieving process, starting at the very beginning — the moment you get that phone call.": medium.com
The band wrote this song with their producer, Steven Hague. It was the first time they collaborated with Hague, who joined them again to produce New Order's 1993 album "Republic." Bernard Sumner recalled: " It was a time when I set out to write a hit single. I think we got a rather large tax bill, and we sat down with Stephen Hague to write a Top 40 hit." "I had an idea for the bassline, Gillian (Gilbert, keyboards) had some string ideas, Stephen got some drums down. When we got the track going, I was sent off to the flat we had in London with a bottle of Pernod and told not to show my face again until I'd written the lyrics."
Upcoming shows: Seattle - Sunday October 6th - The Paramount Theatre San Francisco - Thursday October 10th - Masonic Auditorium PJ Harvey told Q Magazine: "I wanted everything to sound as beautiful as possible. I want this album to sing and fly and be full of reverb and lush layers of melody. I want it to be my beautiful, sumptuous, lovely piece of work."
Mogwai have returned with their new single “God Gets You Back” alongside the announcement of 2025 world tour. It is the first new music from Mogwai in 2024, and follows the announcement and premiere of Mogwai: If The Stars Had A Sound - a first documentary about the band.
Speaking of the track, Barry Burns said he decided the song “needed some melody or vocals, but I couldn't come up with the lyrics so I asked my 7 year old daughter to make some up, and she did and I sang them".
PNW Cali Dates
THURSDAY 24 APRIL 2025 Vancouver, BC, Canada The Commodore
FRIDAY 25 APRIL 2025 Seattle, WA, US The Showbox
SATURDAY 26 APRIL 2025 Portland, OR, US Roseland Theatre
MONDAY 28 APRIL 2025 San Francisco, CA, US The Regency Ballroom
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 was released on August 30th.: yannistheyaw.bandcamp.com
Simple Minds release New Gold Dream (81–82–83–84) on this day in 1982. It was the first Simple Minds album to be widely accessible in the US.
James will be in Seattle at The Moore Theatre on Saturday, September 21st, and in San Francisco at The Warfield on Monday, September 23rd, 2024. -- Get ready by watching them perform "Frustration" live in Portsmouth in 2022: www.youtube.com
Sea Lemon will be opening for Boa this evening at Wonder Ballroom in Portland. Natalie Lew (Sea Lemon) and Ben Gibbard met up when both artists played a Seattle benefit show and Gibbard asked Lew if she wanted to duet. Sea Lemon released the shimmering fuzz-pop jam “Crystals.” -- “To spare you all an emo speech about Death Cab and The Postal Service‘s impact and influence in my life, I will just say that getting to work with [Gibbard] on a song was so fun and so special to me,” Lew says. sealemonmusic.bandcamp.com
Blondshell will be playing the Fox Theater in Oakland October 11th with Bright Eyes! --- blondshell.bandcamp.com www.blondshellmusic.com
Debut album. According to lead singer Tanya Donelly, the song is a metaphor about commitment and respect, with the tree being a place on a large farm where a family would be buried. bellyofficial.com
Sunsick Daisy is a four piece band that Formed on Kaurna Land, Adelaide SA, in late 2021. www.sunsickdaisy.com
From Kim Deal's upcoming solo record out on November 22nd! She originally wrote and recorded two tracks back in 2011; she completed the album in November 2022 with the late Steve Albini. www.kimdealmusic.com
Good morning and Happy Tuesday, John!
For greater than 30 years Tuesday was my beloved day off.
Until recently it was my Saturday.
I understand it is the 7th best day of the week but for so very long it was lovely.
Please play something to spice it up for a pseudo Saturday vibe.
I'm thinking from Revco or Thrill Kill Kult.
Why not?
Thank you and your team for all that you do.
Rachel from Chicago
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Some Have to Dance... and donate to KEXP here - www.kexp.org --- mylifewiththethrillkillkult.com
Dark Chisme is a Seattle-based dark-wave band. Check out more music from them here: darkchisme.bandcamp.com
Interpol requested by Ian in Fremont. The word "obstacle" doesn't appear in this song or another track on the album, "Obstacle 2." Interpol don't think the titles of songs are important, so they put little thought into them. Lead singer and guitarist, Paul Banks, revealed to Pitchfork in 2003 why the songs are named that way. "I've just never really been all that interested in titles, so either I'm very inspired, or it's just, whatever, the working title," he said. "'Obstacle' 1 and 2 actually came from Daniel, he was working on those. I came up with those names, and they were just our working titles, and everyone was like, 'Those are great names.' We wrote 'Obstacle 2' first and 'Obstacle 1' second, and I do think it was relating to the fact that, for some reason we'd had a drought in our writing. We kind of had a down phase. We just hadn't written anything good in a couple of months, and all of a sudden we were pumping out songs. So it was sort of related to that." www.songfacts.com
Track from Helsinki based brass band. Check out more from them here: bronzesilverbrass.bandcamp.com
My name is Brandon and I’m listening out in Detroit. I’m wondering if it’s possible to request Psycho Daisies (Alternative Take) by the Hentchmen on the morning show. Thank you and have a great day!!!
Jack White is playing at Desert Daze October 10-13 in Lake Perris, CA desertdaze.org Check it out on bandcamp: officialjackwhite.bandcamp.com
Covering the Cure's "Just like Heaven" Dinosaur Jr. performed this song live at KEXP 8 years ago - Check it out here! www.youtube.com
I’d like to request Idles: Mother, Roy (or an Idles song of your choice) - my forever concert buddy Greg and I are going to see them in Chicago tomorrow. His second time seeing them and my first! We’re so excited.
Kate in St. Louis
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Danny Nedelko is a very real guy who is a close friend of the members of IDLES and the lead singer of the band Heavy Lungs The two bands agreed to write songs about each other, and performed together at KEXP in 2019. Check out the legendary performance here: www.youtube.com
New music from Seattle based artist Thavoron. Check out more music from them here: www.youtube.com
Nilufer Yanya will be LIVE on KEXP at 3:00 p.m. on Saturday, October 26th. She'll be playing The Crocodile in Seattle on Saturday, October 19th and August Hall in SF on Tuesday, October 22nd. -- The video for this song was directed by her sister Molly Daniel and features Nilufer Yanya as a runaway bride: www.youtube.com
Please play The Con by Tegan and Sara (from the album of the same name). Thanks!
Charlie
This 1995 song sampled Silver Apples' 1968 "Program." -- The Folk Implosion was an American indie rock/lo-fi band founded in the early 1990s by Lou Barlow (after he had been sacked as bassist for Dinosaur Jr.) and John Davis. It was initially a side-project started by Barlow to explore different territory than that being canvassed with his primary band at the time, Sebadoh. The name is a play on the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.: peel.fandom.com
Irish singer/keyboardist Eithne Ní Bhraonáin is better known as Enya. “Enya” is the most pronounceable version of the singer’s real name, but the name is more than only that. It represents the trio of people who have made her sound and success possible: the artist herself, her manager/producer/arranger Nicky Ryan, and Ryan’s wife, poet Roma Ryan, who writes the lyrics.: americansongwriter.com
The first instrumental demo was recorded in August 1990 with Michael McCready, Stone Gossard, Jeff Ament and Matt Cameron (Cameron was with Soundgarden at the time, but agreed to play on this demo). Vedder joined the band in October and wrote the lyrics about a homeless person who is neglected by society.
Land of the Loops was the alias of Brooklyn-based sonic collagist Alan Sutherland, a veteran of several short-lived bands who turned to quirky electronica after his parents bought him a sampler for college graduation. This song happens to be in the very-first-ever episode of the television show, The Sopranos! - landoftheloops.bandcamp.com
Soul Coughing are performing in Seattle at Showbox at the Market on September 18! Mike Doughty from Soul Coughing has performed Live in the KEXP Studio - including his February 2017 set: youtu.be
Good morning! Look at that beautiful mono cloud hanging out above Seattle! Do you think we could listen to only happy when it rains by garbage? It feels like such a marker of the beginning of rain season. Just don't remind me that it's supposed to be 70 and sunny again tomorrow :-) thanks guys! Appreciate you so much!
Jessica
"Supersad" is the most recent single off Waterhouse's upcoming album, 'Memoir of a Sparklemuffin'. Suki Waterhouse is going on tour next month! -San Francisco at the Warfield Theater on Friday, October 25th -Seattle at the Showbox SoDo on Friday, November 1st. sukiwaterhouse.bandcamp.com
"G'mornin John and Owen, I'm excited to wear my new short stack w. syrup KEXP t-shirts (matching his and hers, sorry kids!). If it please the deejay, I would love to hear something off the Repo Man soundtrack. Just now watching season 2, so good & such great music."
Jason in Wenatchee
The distinctive string section on this song was arranged by John Paul Jones, who was doing session work two years before he joined Led Zeppelin. That's Nicky Hopkins playing piano.
Fontaines D.C. will be on tour on the west coast this month! -Seattle on Friday, September 20 at The Showbox. -San Francisco, on Tuesday, September 24 at The Warfield. Their new album, Romance, is out NOW NOW NOW! fontainesdc.bandcamp.com
Talk Talk Talk is the second studio album by the English rock band the Psychedelic Furs. - thepsychedelicfurs.com
Debut LP from Indianapolis based band, Triple Seven, this is Wishy! Playing (this winter!) at: SEATTLE -Barboza (Dec 10th) SAN FRANCISCO -Bottom of the Hill (Dec 13th) --- Support and listen to more from the band here: wishy.bandcamp.com
**Upcoming Show** Sept 20 - NYC - Bowery Ballroom From GIFT's debut full-length album-Illuminator. Of the track, GIFT share it's about "... the endless cycle of a relationship, the back and forth in both euphoria and doubt. "The chorus 'I never told you why’ is about never being able to say how you really feel, not having closure and the cycle continuing.'" tinyurl.com
Did you know that there are three versions of the 'Dreams' music video, all with a different director? Check them out here, enjoy: 1. www.youtube.com 2. www.youtube.com 3. www.youtube.com www.cranberries.com
Keith Flint, English singer-songwriter of The Prodigy was born on this day in 1969
An Atlanta-based collaboration 'of divine appointment' Revival Season is the culmination of rapper BEZ and Jonah Swilley. revivalseason.bandcamp.com
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
UK group Wunderhorse have shared their latest single, entitled "Midas". The band’s debut album ‘Cub’ became a breakout moment, achieving critical success on its 2022 release. Wunderhorse had this to say about the new track: "The song was written in a bathtub in Paris, and forgotten about until it resurfaced in Minnesota. Midas is the guy who makes you feel like a pencil stub, all used up and nothing to show for it, but it’s always just business as far as he’s concerned." www.clashmusic.com
