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#55 Most Played on JITM 2019 | Van Etten stated in an interview to NPR in 2012 that, "I wrote the song about a friend talking me through a panic attack. [In] moving to New York City and doing what I do, social anxiety is a really ridiculous kind of curse to have. But I met people along the way who deal with it — performers as well — and they are learning to deal with it daily and deal with it in different ways." This song also features Zach Condon of Beirut on vocals, who shares the struggles of anxiety with her.
#54 Most Played on JITM 2019 | Found on the twelfth studio album released from Bowie, and one frequently played here on The Morning Show. Released in 1977, his label at the time (RCA) marketed this one as "There's Old Wave. There's New Wave. And there's David Bowie ..."
#53 Most Played on JITM 2019 | Found on 'Shabooh Shoobah,' the third album released from this Australian band that hit international stardom in the 80's
#52 Most Played on JITM 2019 | Featured on the soundtrack for the 2009 film "Where The Wild Things Are." Yeah Yeah Yeah's Karen O wrote the entire soundtrack in addition to performing this song!
#51 Most Played on JITM 2019 | Sometimes people in the booth forget where their mind is and maybe don't screw the coffee carafe lid on and it spills on the counter during this song and that's how the show is going IRL currently
#50 Most Played on JITM 2019 | Our #50 this year comes in at #22 on Pitchfork's 200 Best Songs of the 1980's. Numbers! bit.ly
#49 Most Played on JITM 2019 | Pronoun is Brooklyn-based Alyse Vellturo, and "I'll Show You Stronger" is her debut album, released this year! www.musicpronoun.com
#48 Most Played on JITM 2019 | Here's Fugazi playing this song live at the Wilson Center in DC on December 29, 1998: www.youtube.com
#47 Most Played on JITM 2019 | We got not one, but two, albums from Foals in 2019. Will they show up again on today's countdown? You'll just have to wait and see! Countdown anticipation!
#46 Most Played on JITM 2019 | Well you didn't wake up this morning 'cause you didn't go to bed // You were watching the whites of your eyes turn red // The calendar on your wall was ticking the days off // You've been reading some old letters // You smile and think how much you've changed
#45 Most Played on JITM 2019 | A new single from Phantogram in 2019 that according to the band, "... embodies the personal journey that both of us have taken since we released Three — it's been a long path, coming out of the darkness and into the light."
#44 Most Played on JITM 2019 | Beck released his fourteenth album just last month, and "Saw Lightning" was the first single off of it.
#43 Most Played on JITM 2019 | Also one of the most requested this year on The Morning Show!
#42 Most Played on JITM 2019 | Remember when "supermodel" entered our lexicon in the early 90's? For nostalgia's sake, here is this video that features Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington, Cindy Crawford, Tatjana Patitz, and Linda Evangelista: www.youtube.com
#41 Most Played on JITM 2019 | This is the only New Order song that appears on this countdown, which is kind of ruining the surprise of countdowns, but there you have it
#40 Most Played on JITM 2019 | We've spent half the year trying to figure out who the hell SAULT is, but we're ending the year still not knowing anything. Except that they're REALLY GOOD. saultglobal.bandcamp.com
#39 Most Played on JITM 2019 | The album itself comes in at #1 though! www.kexp.org
#38 Most Played on JITM 2019 | 2019 was also a year there seemed to be a barrage of great bands coming at us from Ireland, this being one of them!
#37 Most Played on JITM 2019 | Pixies released their seventh album in 2019, so no surprise one of their new songs appears on this countdown
#35 Most Played on JITM 2019 | The Chemical Brothers released their ninth album this year, coming four years after 2015's 'Born in the Echoes'
#34 Most Played on JITM 2019 | Oh hey, it's a song about what we do everyday!
#33 Most Played on JITM 2019 | Fresh off the YouTube press, it's our live session with Big Thief when they came to play for us in October! www.youtube.com
#32 Most Played on JITM 2019 | San Fermin is the stage name for Brooklyn's Ellis Ludwig-Leone, who brought singer Samia on board for this song. According to Ludwig-Leone in a press release, this song, "... is the result of a late-night discussion with a female friend about the difficulties of dating in the city. There's a line, 'why'd I wear these f*cking shoes,' that's basically lifted right from that conversation. I think there's something heroic in the process of getting your hopes up time and again, even in the face of constant disappointment."
#31 Most Played on JITM 2019 | Think we could pretty much guarantee this one showing up EVERY year
#30 Most Played on JITM 2019 | Sampa the Great is coming to Seattle on April 8th to the Crocodile, go buy your tickets here: www.thecrocodile.com
#29 Most Played on JITM 2019 | TR/ST made a stop to KEXP to perform live for us earlier in the year. He ended on this track, and you can see the full set here: www.youtube.com
#28 Most Played on JITM 2019 | This first single released for The Chemical Brother's 2015 album 'Born in the Echoes' features Q-Tip on vocals
#26 Most Played on JITM 2019 | This year saw the eleventh album released from Wilco. Jeff Tweedy was quoted in a statement saying “Nobody needs more Wilco music" but joke's on you Tweedy, we played this one a lot anyway!
#25 Most Played on JITM 2019 | Sharon Van Etten released her excellent 'Remind Me Tomorrow' album in January! This one sounds like it could've come straight from Springsteen's catalog, but this is all Van Etten.
#24 Most Played on JITM 2019 | Australia's Hatchie made a big splash here at KEXP in 2019, but we've got her performing live for us in late 2018 too: www.youtube.com
#23 Most Played on JITM 2019 | The Morning Show ventured out to London for International Clash Day this year, and this was one of the many great bands that played for us! We've got your footage right here: www.youtube.com
#22 Most Played on JITM 2019 | The first single we got that came off of DJ Shadow's new album 'Our Pathetic Age.' De La Soul guest stars on vocals for this one!
#21 Most Played on JITM 2019 | Were you here at the KEXP Gathering Space when IDLES played this single for us live in May?! www.youtube.com
#20 Most Played on JITM 2019 | Forever just referred to at KEXP as "the frog song"
#19 Most Played on JITM 2019 | Imaginary Morning Show producer Owen interviewed this Olympia trio all the way back in April 2018. This must have been a confusing experience for them, but here it is in full: www.kexp.org
#18 Most Played on JITM 2019 | From 2019's fabulous collab with Yeah Yeah Yeah's Karen O, and Danger Mouse. O said in a statement about this song, "I like to write songs that anyone can relate to but this one felt especially for the inner child in me that needed the bullies out there to know you don’t f*ck with me. I’m a woman now and I’ll protect that inner girl in me from hell and high water.”
#17 Most Played on JITM 2019 | We got new Sleater-Kinney in 2019, which is never a bad thing. This was the first single released off the long-running legend's new album 'The Center Won't Hold'
#16 Most Played on JITM 2019 | Here's Kermit the Frog performing this one on Muppets Tonight: www.youtube.com
#14 Most Played on JITM 2019 | The second time IDLES appears on this countdown! We're doing all the seconds of this one though.
#13 Most Played on JITM 2019 | James Kenneth Chapman (better known as Maps) released his fourth album in May of this year. Watch the video for "Just Reflecting" here: www.youtube.com
#12 Most Played on JITM 2019 | Another one y'all know was gonna pop up in this countdown <3
#11 Most Played on JITM 2019 | "You realise that 30% will love you, 30% will hate you and 30% won’t care about you & that your focus should be on the 30% who love you." - starslinger.net
#10 Most Played on JITM 2019 | Alright y'all we've reached the Top 10 played in the year here on the Morning Show! Get your cassettes ready... oh wait, nevermind. Here's Aldous Harding's official video for "The Barrel" - www.youtube.com
#9 Most Played on JITM 2019 | TR/ST released two albums in 2019, and also shows up on this countdown twice. FUN FACT, there are four bands that appear on this countdown that released two albums each this year.
#8 Most Played on JITM 2019 | Here's local producer and artist Rudy Willingham talking to us about 'Dunk Reactions,' his new album in 2019: bit.ly
#7 Most Played on JITM 2019 | Here's Strand of Oaks performing this one live for us in April: www.youtube.com
#5 Most Played on JITM 2019 | Check out our 2018 interview with this local band about the release of 'A Moment Apart', their third album: www.kexp.org
#4 Most Played on JITM 2019 | Also the winner of most requested song!
#3 Most Played on JITM 2019 | PSA! Today is Thursday. Thuuuurrrrsssdaayyy. So we didn't actually play the Friday song on the countdown today because rules are rules that we made up!
#2 Most Played on JITM 2019 | Also the one that saved a life this year. You are not alone <3
#1 Most Played on JITM 2019 | And here's the #1 most played song on The Morning Show in 2019! Quivers stopped by KEXP in March to play it for us, and you can watch it right here: www.youtube.com
On Tuesday, May 12th, Jim James, the eclectic frontman of indie rock band My Morning Jacket, teams up with conductor Teddy Abrams for a special performance of their orchestral song cycle The Order of Nature in the stunning acoustics of Benaroya Hall. bit.ly
Brittany Howard performed “History Repeats” on Kimmel in November 2019. bit.ly
Heavily inspired by the loud, heavy guitars of shoegaze groups like Ride and the sweet melodies of dream pop artists like Slowdive, Melbourne, Australia's Flyying Colors formed in 2011 to make their own version of the sounds they loved. bit.ly
Lucy Dacus performed live in the KEXP studio October 2019. The full session is not available yet, but here is Lucy playing "Fool's Gold". www.youtube.com
Concrete Blonde released "Joey" in 1990. Such a classic track covered by Shovels & Rope featuring Nicole Atkins. bit.ly
Regarding the album title, Karen Elson told DJ Steve Lamacq of BBC Radio: "The title was a nickname that I had at school. It was one of the nicer nicknames I had for being tall, pale and a little bit haunted." bit.ly
KEXP reviewed this track back in 2018. This instrumental song takes anxiety to a level of beauty. Read the full review here: www.kexp.org
Performing as the in-house band of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Roots have not had much time to record new material. This is the first new single released in a few years. bit.ly
Shawn Lee was born in Kansas and now lives in London. As Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra, Lee has released 10 albums. His music has been featured in many movie soundtracks. www.youtube.com
Nina Simone's cover of a song written by the Bee Gees.
DIIV performed live from CMJ Union during CMJ 2012 with KEXP. www.youtube.com
This track is from PJ Harvey's fifth studio album. The album featured a duet with Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke on the track "This Mess We're In", as well as backing vocals and keyboards from Yorke on the songs "One Line" and "Beautiful Feeling". She had met Yorke in 1992 and they had stayed in contact. She said: "I'd long been interested in the idea of somebody else singing a whole song on a record of mine, to have a very different dimension brought in by somebody else's voice. It adds so much dynamic within the record to have this other character coming in". lat.ms
Yay! Wolf Parade is coming back to Seattle on Tuesday, February 11th playing at The Showbox. bit.ly
One of the best bands to see perform live. Each track features a different vocalist with the core band consisting of Rob Garza heading up the ensemble of Jeff Franca (drums), Rob Myers (sitar, guitar), Frank Orrall (percussion, drums, vocals) and Ashish "Hash" Vyas (bass). This track features Jamaican singer Racquel Jones. www.youtube.com
Don't stop, moving together / Keep on dancing
The latest single from Jessie Ware from her upcoming fourth album. The house and club music-inspired track was produced and written by Benji B (BBC Radio 1 DJ/Kanye West collaborator) and Matthew Tavares (former BADBADNOTGOOD keyboardist), with additional contributions from Simian Mobile Disco’s James Ford and Clarence ‘Coffee’ Jr. bit.ly
The latest single from Jessie Ware from her upcoming fourth album. The house and club music-inspired track was produced and written by Benji B (BBC Radio 1 DJ/Kanye West collaborator) and Matthew Tavares (former BADBADNOTGOOD keyboardist), with additional contributions from Simian Mobile Disco’s James Ford and Clarence ‘Coffee’ Jr. bit.ly
In an interview with Dustin Fitzharris of Out, Andrew Wyatt explained that the song has an ambiguous meaning, "It can deal with addiction. It can deal with just the basic instincts – some of them are wonderful and some of them are very dangerous." bit.ly
Hinds performed live in the KEXP studio in May 2018. www.youtube.com
Bleached was just here in the KEXP studio in October 2019. This track was one of the songs they played. Published days ago on KEXPs YouTube channel. www.youtube.com
Oldie but goodie! This one is from 1978!!
Debbie Harry: "When we did 'Heart Of Glass' it wasn't too cool in our social set to play disco. But we did it because we wanted to be uncool. It was based around a Roland Rhythm Machine and the backing took over 10 hours to get down."
Chris Stein added, "We didn't expect the original to be that big. We only did it as a novelty item to put more diversity into the album."
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Debbie Harry: "When we did 'Heart Of Glass' it wasn't too cool in our social set to play disco. But we did it because we wanted to be uncool. It was based around a Roland Rhythm Machine and the backing took over 10 hours to get down."
Chris Stein added, "We didn't expect the original to be that big. We only did it as a novelty item to put more diversity into the album."
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Christine And The Queens performed live in the KEXP studio in October 2018. www.youtube.com
From their third studio album released this past August. "Inflorescent, then, is a bit of an inversion for the band: Rather than live-sounding danceable post-punk, they’ve found a new home in the smooth digital surfaces of house music." bit.ly
The Fleetwood Mac cover of “Everywhere” was recorded in the W Sound Suite at W Barcelona. bit.ly
Dan Snaith (aka Caribou) put out the single "Home" in October 2019. “I’m always listening to lots of music and sometimes a loop just jumps out at me – it’s too perfect. That’s how it was with Gloria Barnes’ ‘Home’ – I kept returning to it, meaning to do something with it but not knowing what,” Snaith wrote in a statement. Read the full Stereogum article, including tour dates, here: bit.ly
Durand Jones & The Indications performed live in the KEXP studio in April 2019. Dreamy! www.youtube.com
New Zealand band Yumi Zouma have just released this new single.
“‘Right Track / Wrong Man’ comes from a place of uncertainty – of not knowing if you should stay in the comfort of a slightly unfulfilling relationship, or branch out and make the most of the youth you have left; meet new people, go out more, dance, live,” Christie Simpson said in a statement. “As Yumi Zouma we often write songs that we want people to dance to, and that we ourselves would want to dance to – this is our dancefloor anthem to the confusion of living through your twenties.” bit.ly
“‘Right Track / Wrong Man’ comes from a place of uncertainty – of not knowing if you should stay in the comfort of a slightly unfulfilling relationship, or branch out and make the most of the youth you have left; meet new people, go out more, dance, live,” Christie Simpson said in a statement. “As Yumi Zouma we often write songs that we want people to dance to, and that we ourselves would want to dance to – this is our dancefloor anthem to the confusion of living through your twenties.” bit.ly
HÆLOS performed live in the KEXP studio in March 2019. Watch it here! www.youtube.com
alt-J released a new version of “In Cold Blood” featuring Pusha-T in June 2018. Here is the video for the Twin Shadow Version: www.youtube.com
Atlanta band Omni released their Sub Pop debut Networker in November 2019. Here's the video for “Courtesy Call”: bit.ly
The Chicago quartet's journey to the end result of My Star, their second album, has taken them nearly three years since their first release in 2016. Discover the full album here: thehecksdotcom.bandcamp.com
Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down / Letting the days go by, water flowing underground / Into the blue again after the money's gone / Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground
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Fun review... "The most liberal use of saxophone you’re likely to hear on a rock record in 2019 does not involve Bruce Springsteen, nor any titans of third-wave ska (yes, Reel Big Fish put out an album recently). It’s the new album by French Vanilla, a cheerfully subversive art-punk group nurtured in Los Angeles’s queer punk scene." bit.ly
The B-52's released "Give Me Back My Man" in 1980. The song's subject matter purportedly deals with a woman whose sweetheart has been attacked by a shark.
Sudan Archives is playing a SOLD OUT show at Barboza on Friday, February 21st. Hopefully you got your tickets! bit.ly
Released in 2014, Blank Project was Neneh Cherry's first album of solo music in 18 years. It was recorded and mixed over a 5-day period in Woodstock, NY. It was produced by Four Tet's Kieran Hebden and features a guest appearance by Robyn.
Pitchfork review said: "The unclassifiable singer's Blank Project isn’t a roaring, triumphant return to form. Instead, the Four Tet-produced record is understated to the extreme, a master class in the ways in which simple pleasures can become fascinatingly deep." bit.ly
Pitchfork review said: "The unclassifiable singer's Blank Project isn’t a roaring, triumphant return to form. Instead, the Four Tet-produced record is understated to the extreme, a master class in the ways in which simple pleasures can become fascinatingly deep." bit.ly
Cibo Matto performed live in the KEXP studio in March 2014. www.youtube.com
R.L. Burnside is very much a late bloomer; the Mississippi bluesman was born in 1926, but it wasn't until the 1990s that he started to enjoy the publicity he deserved. Recorded in 2000, Wish I Was in Heaven Sitting Down finds the veteran singer continuing to be fairly unpredictable at 73. bit.ly
“The Lamb was written during a time of intense paranoia after a home invasion, deaths of loved ones and general violence around me and my friends,” says Lillie West, the Chicago-based songwriter behind Lala Lala. “I began to frequently and vividly imagine the end of the world, eventually becoming too frightened to leave my house. This led me to spend a lot of time examining my relationships and the choices I’d made, often wondering if they were correct and/or kind.” www.lalabandlala.com
The Shivas are coming back to Seattle, playing Barboza on Friday, January 17th. bit.ly
You can also catch them in Bellingham, WA at The Alternative Library on Saturday, January 18th and Fawcett Hall at Alma Mater, Tacoma, WA on Sunday, January 19th.
You can also catch them in Bellingham, WA at The Alternative Library on Saturday, January 18th and Fawcett Hall at Alma Mater, Tacoma, WA on Sunday, January 19th.
The 13th Floor Elevators formed in the 1960s in Austin TX. The band's guitarist and vocalist Roky Erickson, a pioneer of the psychedelic rock genre, died on May 31, 2019. n.pr
Holy Fuck is playing Nuemos on Tuesday, March 31st. bit.ly
On New Path, Pierre Guerineau and Marie Davidson take cues from science fiction to convey the paranoias of the modern world. The LP is inspired by the Philip K. Dick novel A Scanner Darkly and its themes of drug addiction, paranoia and surveillance. bit.ly
Cover of Tom Petty's classic "Runnin' Down a Dream". This track was originally recorded on Petty's 1989 solo debut Full Moon Fever.
AC/DC cover! :) AC/DC released this on their 1980 Back in Black album. I bet you were singing along.
Valerie June's version of the T. Rex song "Cosmic Dancer". She writes of "Cosmic Dancer": “To know a song’s meaning is like trying the count the grains of sand on an oceanside beach. Even when I write a song, the meaning seems to be like a chameleon that changes with the years." bit.ly
T. Rex originally released this track on Electric Warrior in 1971.
T. Rex originally released this track on Electric Warrior in 1971.
Oh Sees (formerly known as Thee Oh Sees) performed live at KEXP in November 2016. www.youtube.com
Montreal band Corridor was just in the KEXP Studio last week. Subscribe to KEXPs YouTube channel and keep an eye out for this session. Discover more from this Sub Pop band: corridormtl.bandcamp.com
Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star is the follow-up to Sonic Youth's 1992 album Dirty, which was released by DGC in the wake of Nirvana's breakthrough into the mainstream. After Dirty, Sonic Youth decided to step away from major-label alternative rock acts, which singer and guitarist Thurston Moore thought the media associated the band with. Touring with indie rock bands like Pavement, Sebadoh, and Royal Trux inspired Sonic Youth to write a quieter and more subtle album.
Double shot of Kim Gordon! This is from her debut solo release of No Home Record, released at the age of 66. Amazing career for this classy lady. If you haven't read her book "Girl in a Band: A Memoir", you should put it on your list.
House Of Feelings are back with a new track, the third single from the dance collective’s upcoming new album, No Big Deal, the follow-up to 2018’s New Lows. “Convo” is built around a sample of jazz drummer Max Roach’s “Conversation” solo and features contributions from Dave Harrington. bit.ly