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OTD in 1990, PEARL JAM played their first ever concert when they appeared at the Off Ramp in Seattle. At the time, Eddie Vedder, Stone Gossard, Jeff Ament, Mike McCready and former drummer Dave Krusen played the Off Ramp show under the name "Mookie Blaylock," a former basketball player who then played for the New Jersey Nets. STORY TIME: Jeff Ament explains the story behind their original name: "When we were recording our first record, we had a per diem of about $10. So when we got lunch at the store across the street, we'd always buy a pack of basketball cards. When we turned in our tape, we didn't have a name for the band yet so we put a Mookie Blaylock card in the case. We were about to go on a tour and still didn't have a name and needed one quickly. We were told it didn't need to be the name that we were going to use forever, just something for the tour. Someone saw the Mookie Blaylock card and said, 'How about Mookie Blaylock?' We decided to go with it and did a 10-show tour with Alice in Chains as Mookie Blaylock. Mookie was cool about it, too--he didn't sue us. I actually got to meet him later on and shoot around a little bit. We also made a Pearl Jam T-shirt with a picture of him on it. I guess we owe Mookie a lot."
This track features both the mandolin and harpsichord, instrumentation which helps provide a curious quality as if it is from another age.
New single from American rock-and-roll five-piece. In "Aren’t We One?,” My Morning Jacket offer's a plea for unity. The song was co-written by the band’s Jim James and Bo Koster in tandem with Manchester Orchestra frontman Andy Hull. It was produced by Brendan O’Brien. mmorningjacket.bandcamp.com
Junip is a Swedish folk rock band. The band consists of the duo José González and Tobias Winterkorn, with various accompanying musicians in recordings and in live gigs. Watch Junip vocalist José González performing this song Live on KEXP in 2016 here: www.youtube.com
Josh Tillman has just announced that 'Mahashmashana', his sixth album as Father John Misty, will be out November 22 via Sub Pop. The new single is the seven-minute widescreen epic “Screamland” that features Low’s Alan Sparhawk on guitar and a video by Estefania Kröl. “The video is a visual journey through the depths of ‘Screamland,’ capturing the essence of both the music and the artists, “says Kröl. “Father John Misty blends seamlessly into the scene, becoming a part of the city, a living echo of ‘Screamland.’” www.brooklynvegan.com
Siamese Dream is the Pumpkin's second studio album. Four singles were released in support of Siamese Dream: "Cherub Rock", "Today", "Disarm", and "Rocket". The album received widespread acclaim from critics and audiences alike, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest albums of the 1990s. Rolling Stone magazine has ranked it between numbers 341 and 362 on various iterations of their 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list.
Suki Waterhouse is going on tour! -San Francisco at the Warfield Theater on Friday, October 25th -Seattle at the Showbox SoDo on Friday, November 1st. sukiwaterhouse.bandcamp.com
Led Zeppelin II was released on this day in 1969...by Led Zeppelin. It's um, their second record
Newest album from Fontaines D.C! Check out the music video to this song, "Here's the Thing" directed by Luna Cameroon, it's the perfect spooky video as we launch into October! www.youtube.com
New music from UK band, Crows' new album "Reason Enough" which released last week.
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Matthew Sweet released "Girlfriend" on this day in 1991.
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"Girlfriend" was inspired by Sweet's divorce from his first wife, which occurred during the lead-up to the album's recording. -- That great guitar solo is from Akron, Ohio guitarist Robert Quine. R.I.P., Robert Quine, who died in 2004: www.premierguitar.com
New music from New York's Sunflower Bean. Their new album 'Shake' just came out a few days ago. It's the band's fourth full length album. www.sunflowerbeanband.com -- Check out this 2018 Live on KEXP performance hosted by Cheryl: www.youtube.com
Seattle's Goodness was led by Carrie Akre, formerly of Hammerbox and also a solo artist. Goodness features Akre (vocals), Danny Newcomb (lead guitar), Garth Reeves (guitar), Fiia McGann (bass), and Chris Friel (drums). Akre, Friel, and Newcomb later joined Mike McCready of Pearl Jam and Rick Friel to form the rock band The Rockfords. --- Goodness performed "Superwise" at Neumos/Moes 10/20 year celebration in 2014: www.youtube.com
New music from South London's wonderbug ahead of their debut EP "Scrap" out next month. Check out more music from them here: wonderbug.bandcamp.com
This is the opening track to "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars." An announcement airs that the world will end in five years' time because of a lack of natural resources. David Bowie chose five years as the length of time following a dream he had in 1971 in which his late father came to him and told him that he had only five years left to live and that he must never fly again.
Founding member Brendan Canning explained the song's meaning in a 2010 interview: "World Sick is about getting ploughed from all directions and what you may or may not need to hear. Do I need this information as soon as I wake up? No. Do we need to do good by the world - YES!!!"
This energetic cover is from the local outfit's upcoming four song Ultramega Cat EP, set to be released in December. (The title is a nod to Soundgarden’s Ultramega OK EP.) The EP also includes a cover of Rage Against the Machine’s "Bulls on Parade"! You can catch mega cat out and about at a few shows. The cats are definitely busy!! Tuesday, October 22nd at Tractor Tavern with Chuck Prophet: tinyurl.com Saturday, October 26th for The Vera Project’s Generator show: tinyurl.com Thursday & Friday, November 7th & 8th at Freakout Fest: tinyurl.com Bandcamp: tinyurl.com
Catch the Hot 8 Brass Band at the High Dive in Seattle on Oct. 19 www.hot8brassband.com This is a cover of Joy Division's famous 1980 single by the Grammy award winning Hot 8 Brass Band. hot8brassband.bandcamp.com Hot 8 Brass Band also covered "Love Will Tear Us Apart" live in the KEXP studio in 2019. Check it out! youtu.be
"Fight the Power" by Brownout is a cover of Public Enemy's "Fight the Power."
Covering Public Enemy's Don't Believe the Hype. Brownout is a side project of latin-funk orchestra Grupo Fantasma. www.brownoutmusic.com
Covering Public Enemy's Don't Believe the Hype. Brownout is a side project of latin-funk orchestra Grupo Fantasma. www.brownoutmusic.com
The Damned released "New Rose," a song many consider the first ever British punk single on this day in 1976
Debut from the Northern Ireland punk band. It tackles everything from the "troubles" to the music business.
Chime School's Andy Pastalaniec does it all for the love. As the drummer for dreamy pop bands like Flowertown, Seablite, and very occasionally The Reds, Pinks & Purples, the San Franciscan musician brings a beaming energy to everything he lays his hands on. As Chime School's sole songwriter, performer, and producer, Pastalaniec is well aware of the manic sound of his debut. "I was trying to jampack decades of pop fandom into one album, stuffing in as many little things as I could," he laughs. "That was the first record where I wrote, played, and recorded everything myself, so there was a huge learning curve to it." Chime School's sophomore effort, The Boy Who Ran The Paisley Hotel, is an assured continuation, meticulously weaving lyrical (and musical) references into a symphony to pop songcraft itself. Like the Feelies' change of pace from Crazy Rhythms to The Good Earth, Pastalaniec recentered himself by slowing down. "I took a step back and chose a more condensed palette," he explains. "That brought me a bit closer to the sonic vision I had from the beginning." tinyurl.com
Jangle Pop excellence from the S.F. band - chimeschool.bandcamp.com
Chime School is the project of San Francisco musician Andy Pastalaniec. Endlessly charmed by 80s indie and its 60s forbearers (and any record with a 12-string guitar), Andy cut his teeth as a drummer with SLR labelmate Odd Hope in their early group Pink Films; later with shoegazers Cruel Summer, and currently with indiepop outfit Seablite. But it wasn't until he was gifted a cassette 4-track portastudio "almost as a dare," that he came out from behind the kit to write and record his own material.'
Aptly named, "Timeless Melody" was released as the third single from The La’s self-titled album in September 1990. Did you know that Pearl Jam has covered it several times? Like this time in Prague in 2000: www.youtube.com
New music from Toronto's Ducks Ltd. Check out more music from them here: ducksltdband.bandcamp.com
This song, written by Dave Faulkner, was not about a spurned lover, but about former bandmate Rod Radalj, who was dismissive of the Gurus when he left the band. web.archive.org
"One of the finest debuts of the '80s, and possibly the defining album of the whole U.K. indie jangle scene that also included Prefab Sprout, Aztec Camera, and dozens of other bands, Lloyd Cole and the Commotions' Rattlesnakes is a college rock masterpiece of smart, ironic lyrics and sympathetic folk-rock-based melodies. " www.allmusic.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
Sam Nicholson: “I wanted to write a simple song, just four quick chords and a slow realisation. I think I somehow stole the lyrical idea from Kylie Minogue’s “Can’t Get You Out Of My Head” – that a song might be trapped inside just one thought. And in that one thought there might be everything. That’s how good that Kylie song is anyway.” -- Love this song? It's yours, for free. John selected it as a KEXP song of the Day: www.kexp.org
New music from Gut Health, a six piece hypnotic dance-punk ensemble from Naarm / Melbourne. Check out more music from them here: guthealthband.bandcamp.com
What a great beginning to Blondie's fourth album! -- Inspired by ABBA's "Dancing Queen" and written by Chris Stein and Debbie Harry -- according to band keyboardist Jimmy Destri, the song was recorded live in the studio! Drummer Clem Burke said: "The reason why 'Dreaming' came out the way it did is because [producer Mike Chapman] really gave me free rein and it was really a surprise. That take of 'Dreaming' was just me kind of blowing through the song. It's not like I expected that to be the take. I was consciously overplaying just for the sake of it because it was a run-through."
Juniore is a boyish girl-band, brain child of Anna Jean and produced by Samy Osta. Check out their latest album here: heyjuniore.bandcamp.com
On is the third studio album by Imperial Teen. On March 30, 2009, Amazon.com selected it as the 43rd greatest indie rock album of all time.
Good morning! My good friend Elise owns a flower shop just down the street from where you are broadcasting today! Her Urban Herbs on Height & Steiner. Could you play something for her this morning? Anything flower related or Thee Oh Sees (she has a big crush on John Dwyer). Thanks!
Adam (Seattle amplifier)
Good morning, happy Tuesday, and welcome to The Midday Show with Cheryl Waters! KEXP in "Spinning Around the Bay" this week, broadcasting live from Bay Area record stores. Today, Cheryl is at Original Vinyls record store. We have tickets to give away to Ted Leo and the Pharmacists at the Fillmore. We're so glad you're here!
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Did you know that we're very close to National Pumpkin Day (October 26th)? It's a day to celebrate these noble squashes: www.daysoftheyear.com