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Australian artist Jerome Blazé is based in Sydney. He works as a producer and songwriter, touring as a keyboard player and researching and lecturing in popular music.
www.soundbyjerome.com
Danish artist Trentemøller released the new album Dreamweaver in September. On this track, Icelandic artist Disa wrote the lyrics and performed vocals.
trentemoller.bandcamp.com
This 1996 debut single from Primitive Radio Gods was released from the soundtrack to the 1996 black comedy film The Cable Guy and was also included on the band's first album, Rocket. Its chorus consists of a sample from the 1964 B.B. King song "How Blue Can You Get", and the enigmatic lyrics of the song describe a troubling relationship in which two people cannot connect on an emotional level.
Released on this day in 1985!
Singer Jim Kerr stated that this track was inspired by an article he read about Polish political prisoners in the Soviet Union. "There was an interview with wives of guys that had been away for a long time, taken away, and some of the beautiful quotations that the women had used became sort of the background for that song."
On this day in 2003, we lost the Great Elliott Smith.
Here's an oral history of this artist, compiled in 2013, ten years after his death: pitchfork.com
Via Bon Ivers website, the three songs that comprise Bon Iver’s new record SABLE, emerged from a long-gestating breakdown. Think about the journey Justin Vernon has been on across the past two decades: For Emma Forever Ago, high profile collaborations on records by artists like Kanye West and Taylor Swift, throwing music festivals in his city, and the increasingly layered and elaborate touring and recording machine that Bon Iver became. An electricity began to swell in Vernon’s chest. Being Bon Iver meant playing a part, and intentionally leaning into that role meant frequently pressing hard on a metaphorical bruise. He developed literal physical symptoms from deep anxiety and constant pressure. At the end of his rope, maybe done with music, and thinking increasingly about the process of healing, he finally found the time to unpack years of built-up darkness just as the lockdown began.
boniver.org
Listeners voted this as #81 on our countdown of the Best Opening Songs
After The War on Drugs' second album Slave Ambient was released to much critical acclaim, primary songwriter Adam Granduciel spent much of 2011 touring. After the tour was finished, Granduciel had a hard time adjusting to everyday life, later recounting that such feelings "started to spiral into emotional distress and physical manifestations of depression and paranoia." This depression and paranoia served as an inspiration to the lyrical theme of Lost in the Dream.
www.thewarondrugs.net
"I’d like to request a song for this morning, October 21.
Today is my big brother’s birthday. We lost him to cancer last summer and you & KEXP were an amazing support to our family during that time.
Please play The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds for Ken Schiele.
With love and gratitude,
Janet"
This track includes clips of Rickie Lee Jones recalling picturesque images of her childhood... they originated from an interview disc that was issued with some promotional boxed copies of Jones' album "Flying Cowboys"
Mayberry will release a solo album, 'Vicious Creature,' later this year.
laurenmayberry.co.uk
Brand new music off of Phantogram's just released new album, 'Memory of a Day.'
www.phantogram.com
Phantogram are heading out on tour:
Friday 2/21 in Seattle at the Moore
Monday 2/24 in Portland at the Roseland Theater
Wednesday 2/26 in San Francisco at Nob Hill Masonic
The song was originally titled "Grunggae," a combination of "grunge" and "reggae." The name came from Kim Deal thinking the accented riff resembled the accent in reggae.
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Mojo magazine asked Kim Deal if she had a sense this song would be a hit. She replied: "Did we record a song that opened with me saying, 'Check 1-2,' and then loads of vocal feedback from my brother's harmonica mike, and think, 'This is destined for radio?' That was the sort of thing that didn't get you played on the radio then. We thought no one would play it."
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
Happy birthday to Charlotte Caffey, American rock and roll guitarist and songwriter, best known for her work in the Go-Go's! She was born on this day in 1953.
She wrote "We Got The Beat,' drawing inspiration from some Motown beats, specifically one that mentioned the name of her group.
Caffey said: "I thought it would be very clever to do 'Going To A Go-Go.' I thought, Well, let's try working this out as a cover song. Which is really funny when I think about it. I was listening to it a lot one day, and later that night, the song came to me within five minutes.
www.songfacts.com
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
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Here's the official video for "Bus": www.youtube.com
Phenomenal Handclap Band are a psychedelic soul band from New York City. Their first full-length record, Phenomenal Handclap Band, was released in 2009 on Friendly Fire Recordings in the US.
thephenomenalhandclapband.bandcamp.com
New Bright Eyes record also features Cat Power and National’s Matt Berninger.
brighteyes.bandcamp.com
The third solo album of English singer-songwriter Julian Cope, who was born on this day in 1957!
Cope started his career in 1978 as the singer and songwriter for the band The Teardrop Explodes until he went on to pursue a solo career in 1983.
From KEXP's Music Director Chris Sanley: "The fifth studio album from NYC-based Wild Pink is an expansive set of Americana-tinged indie rock. With lush, vibrant soundscapes created by thrilling electric guitars, pedal steel, horns, keys and bit of fiddle for good measure, ‘Dulling The Horns’ is anything but dull, sweeping listeners up in its big hooks, driving rhythms and emotive lyricism, offering an immersive aural fever dream."
www.kexp.org
Happy birthday to Greg Bertens from Film School! Born on this day in 1970.
The Los Angeles/San Francisco-based group Film School have been indie shoegaze stalwarts since their formation in 2001.
Check out our first-ever Shoegaze-themed Runcast, featuring songs picked by, and some even written by, Greg Bertens of Film School.
www.kexp.org
filmschoolmusic.bandcamp.com
Cover of Tom Petty's "I Won't Back Down" by Sharon Van Etten for Apple TV show "Bad Monkey", based on Carl Hiaasen’s 2013 novel.
Ben Gibbard featured on this Sea Lemon!
"Ben’s contribution to this song is so exciting for me to say the least; as a huge Death Cab fan growing up, Ben’s songwriting has inspired me since I got interested in songwriting myself." (Lew)
Sea Lemon (Natalie Lew) is a Seattle-based deampop solo musician, who was a guest DJ on our "Midnight in a Perfect World.
Check out her mix here: sealemonmusic.bandcamp.com
Ben Gibbard describes "Roman Candles" as a concentrated effort to create something "succinct, loud and strikingly direct," sharing that "the lyrics were cobbled from a couple of different songs dealing with my general sense of anxiety; the feeling that the fabric that weaves a functioning society together was crumbling during the pandemic."
"Roman Candles is about the crippling, existential dread that goes hand in hand with living in a nervous city on a dying planet. And that the only way to be in the moment is to let it all go."
Shannon Hoon, vocalist of Blind Melon, died of a drug overdose at 28 on this day in 1995.
'Streetcore,' from Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros, was released on this day in 2003.
Originally written by Bob Marley and is the final track on Bob Marley and the Wailers' twelfth album, "Uprising."
The Mescaleros were the British backing band for British singer, musician and songwriter Joe Strummer, formed in 1999, which issued three albums prior to Strummer's death in 2002. This album was released posthumously in 2003.
Upcoming seventy sixth record from Willie also features covers from Nina Simone, Tom Waits, Beck and more!
You read that right... sixty... seventh... record.
Flamin' Groovies is an American rock band that formed in San Francisco in 1965, originally co-led by Roy Loney and Cyril Jordan
Thanks to Cyril Jordan of the Flamin' Groovies for stopping by our Spin Around the Bay broadcast today! Give them a follow on Instagram to keep up with their tour dates, at @theflamingroovies
Happy birthday to Frank Reader, singer of The Trashcan Sinatras, born on this day in 1965.
The one and only Lee Fields!
Featuring bass by Nick Movshon
“Wouldn’t that be a beautiful thing if it rained love everywhere and everybody got wet?” Fields asks. “That would be a beautiful place to live in, where everyone has compassion, everyone is drenched with love. Of course, that’s a dream world. But I can dream, can’t I?”
Lee Fields & The Expressions performing live in the KEXP studio. Recorded December 6, 2016. www.youtube.com
Primal Scream are about to release their 12th album Come Ahead, and have just shared a new song from it called “The Centre Cannot Hold.”
Singer Bobby Gillespie says “After I wrote it, I sang it to my dad the night before he died. It was just me and him in the hospital. His body had given up. I think, when you get old and tired and your body just goes, ‘I’ve had enough. Time to go.’ I was trying to write about that feeling, I don’t know why — maybe I was feeling tired myself. Sometimes I do. When I wrote this song I was thinking, there must be a point in your life where you think, time to go home.”
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"Hey John,
I saw Fontaines D.C. last night in Philly and they were awesome! Fun fact: Years ago after discovering the band on KEXP I asked the band if I could use "Boys in the Better Land" in a YouTube video I was making...and they approved it. How about the original version of "Boys in the Better Land" this morning!
Happy Monday!
John (Orefield, PA)"
Such nice boys.
Welcome to The Midday Show with Cheryl Waters! We're so glad to have you here with us today. KEXP is broadcasting out of Discodelic Records in San Francisco today!
www.kexp.org
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Frontwoman Thao Nguyen talks about how her 2020 album is about coming out to her Vietnamese family and processing her family’s story of war.
“It’s about the idea of existing as my full self and that full self is also acknowledging my heritage and who I come from and my culture,” Nguyen says.
Read & listen to the full Sound & Vision session here:
www.kexp.org
thaoandthegetdownstaydown.bandcamp.com
Seattle-based trio, Deep Sea Diver has recently signed with Sub Pop Records!
Of this new single, Jessica Dobson shares, "It is my nod to the simplicity of my favorite Tom Petty songs and to my love for Wim Wenders’ film Paris, Texas. The feeling of standing in the lonesome desert, embracing every particle of yourself, even the ones that are hard to look at, and fighting for your spirit to move through this world without entanglement. It is about being present and embracing the future while wholeheartedly letting go of any amount of control that I think I have in this life. ‘Billboard Heart’ is both a longing for something that may not exist and a place where I can be free." tinyurl.com
You can watch the official video for “Billboard Heart” from their forthcoming album, due in early 2025. tinyurl.com | Bandcamp: tinyurl.com
In case you missed it, check out this phenomenal episode of KEXP's Isolated Tracks, where Julian Martel and Jessica Dobson break down how the song "Impossible Weight" was created: tinyurl.com