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Tuesday, Jan 14 2020, 6AM
Influenced by songwriters John Prine and Tom T. Hall and inspired by the state of Hawaii, I Made a Place finds Bonny using his considerable powers for good.
If you'd like to know who played what on this EP, well, forget it as the liner notes say "We all played many an instrument. An itemized and individualized list would be egotistical and tiresome." Alas, we'll never know who played second lute.
One may now purchase this fantastic album on red vinyl. www.buffalotom.com
This German duo says their music "...occupies an emotionally-driven corner of the electronic music spectrum, where dynamic soundscapes collide with honest lyrics." Support them here: coma-cologne.bandcamp.com
Georgia is English musician and songwriter Georgia Barnes, daughter of Neil Barnes from the ’90s UK electronic duo Leftfield. According to Pitchfork, to write the new album, Georgia holed up in her home studio, studying a personal pantheon of great songwriters: Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Kate Bush.
Frontperson Hannah Lew was pregnant when she wrote this. “I found myself trying to describe our earth to a new human who had never been here,” says Lew. “It was a bleak year to be pregnant, but I was simultaneously filled with so much love and hope at the same time. I remember feeling a sense of wanting to show my whole range of self to this new person I was about to meet.”
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It was nearly a year ago that we were blessed to have Miki's new band Piroshka on our stage for our London broadcast of International Clash Day. www.youtube.com
Michael Kiwanuka will be at the Showbox on January 29th, but it's sold out so there's only one place to get tickets. Listen this morning for your chance to win!!!
For Brian in Ravenna who writes: Speaking of highway 2, we are so lucky my good friend and his 2 daughters are still with us after a tree completely crushed the back of their car while coming back from Stevens Pass Sunday night. Can you please please play Alive this morning?
Check out this Beirut based dream pop band and if you find yourself in Europe, go see them! www.facebook.com
U.S. Girls have a new album coming out, it's called Heavy Light and is out 3/6 via 4AD. We debuted this single yesterday and LOVE it. They will be in the PNW in April...
04/16 – Vancouver, BC @ Imperial
04/14 – Boise, ID @ The Olympic
04/17 – Seattle, WA @ Crocodile
04/18 – Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios
The inspiration for "Cornflake Girl" came from a conversation she was having with a longtime friend about female genital mutilation in Africa, specifically how a close female family member would betray the victim by performing the procedure. Amos has said that growing up, the name they gave to girls who would hurt you despite close friendship was cornflake girls
Singer Julia Steiner says "We wanted this song to feel different from the rest, something like a daydream or a fantasy. We experimented with synths in this song, during the bridge and the outro. I’m extremely happy with how all of the sounds interact — it comforts me for reasons I find hard to describe."
What is Rebecca Gates up to? Funny you should ask. parcematone.com
Text "love" NOW NOW NOW to 206-903-5397 for a chance to win tickets to see Michael!!!
Born in Los Angeles, California, Otis is the son of rhythm and blues pioneer, musician, bandleader, and impresario Johnny Otis, who was of Greek descent, and his wife Phyllis Walker, who was of African American and Filipino descent. The name "Shuggie" (short for "sugar," according to his mother) was coined by Phyllis when he was a newborn. Otis began playing guitar when he was two years old and performing professionally with his father's band at the age of eleven, often disguising himself with dark glasses and a false mustache so that he could play with his father's band in after-hours nightclubs.
Thursday, APRIL 30th at The Showbox
Michael Kiwanuka will be at The Showbox on Wednesday, January 29th, 2020.
The lyrics of the original German version tell a story: 99 balloons are set free and are mistaken for UFOs, causing a general to send pilots to investigate. Finding nothing but balloons, the pilots put on a large show of fire power. The display of force worries the nations along the borders and the defense ministers on each side bang the drums of conflict to grab power for themselves. In the end, a cataclysmic war results from the otherwise harmless flight of balloons and causes devastation on all sides without a victor, as indicated in the denouement of the song: "99 Jahre Krieg ließen keinen Platz für Sieger," which translates as, "99 years of war have left no place for winners." The anti-war song finishes with the singer walking through the devastated ruins of the world and finding a balloon. The final line of the piece is the same in German and English: "Denk' an dich und lass' ihn fliegen," or "I think of you and let it go.