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"If a brain in a jar could observe the world, make sense of it and churn it into a batch of songs, it would make the album American Utopia." - Read the NPR review: n.pr
The producers of Say Anything were charged about $200,000 to use this song. The scene became a cultural touchstone, which was a little strange for Gabriel. He told Rolling Stone in 2012: "I've talked to John Cusack about that. We're sort of trapped together in a minuscule moment of contemporary culture."
In the Under The African Skies documentary, which details the making of Graceland, Simon says that his South African collaborator Forere Motloheloa told him that the groove he came up with on the piano accordion was "paying tribute to a beautiful woman who he found and is happy with." Motloheloa worked in the mines for Lesotho before learning to play traditional melodies on the unusual instrument. "The solitude of the place combined with the landscape gives him beautiful things to translate into the music," he said.
One review described "On Deronda Road" as "Radiohead by way of Crosby, Stills & Nash"
“The world of the song is so distinctive it seemed right to try and reflect it fairly closely with a mix of shimmering, expansive visuals with a human intimacy,” said video producer, Steve Warne.
“By mixing traditional stop-motion with live action and digital animation techniques the idea was to aim for something that felt just about tangible but almost out of reach, echoing the themes of the song in a heightened dreamlike way. A little bit of reality with a dose of mystery.” See the video here: bit.ly
Caroline Polachek will be playing a few shows in the US early in 2020 - Chicago, New York, San Francisco, and Hollywood.
“American lawmakers value wealth over the health and safety of other people’s children,” writes Bachman of the single’s themes of the 24-hour news cycle and the graying truth. “American leadership is affiliated with several criminal organizations, both foreign and domestic. The citizenry knows they’re not getting accurate information. We’re distracted. We value entertainment over the truth. We value comfort over justice. Young people, participate! All strains of human decency, please! You’re being lied to! Vote the bastards out!”
“It’s a song about how our problems and anxieties can build up and feel like a tangled inescapable web,” Matt Berninger tells Rolling Stone. “Sometimes all it takes is a friend with some perspective and patience to help us see our way out of our own messes. It’s also just a love song between a spider and a moth.”
Only three upcoming Deat Cab shows are not sold out - Milwaukee, Chicago, and Tempe, but I'd suggest you hurry.
See Lord Huron's live on KEXP performance from 2015 here: bit.ly They played 7 songs!
Sharon Van Etten performed "I Don't Want to Let You Down" on Ellen in 2015: bit.ly
This track sees Liz Phair reuniting with Brad Wood – who produced her acclaimed 1993 debut ‘Exile in Guvyille’.
She told Stereogum about working with Wood again: “I think the comprehensive and gorgeous reissue of my first record plus the Girly-Sound track made me nostalgic for the old days – thinking about the mindset we had when we were just starting out. I think I was curious to see what kind of music Brad and I (and Casey) would make now, on the other side of our careers.”
Premiere of Algiers' new single, "Disposession," from their forthcoming third album There Is No Year, out January 17 on Matador Records! They're at The Crocodile March 29. This latest chapter from the Atlanta via London/NYC four-piece can be heard again with the video here: bit.ly
‘Hero’ pays homage to some of the world’s most important history-changing heroes that were taken too soon due to violence; heroes to Michael Kiwanuka and others, like Fred Hampton, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, JFK, Sam Cooke, John Lennon, Marvin Gaye, Tupac and more. The flip side, of course, is the idea that those who bring the most evil to this world seem to live the longest, making him ponder the idea that maybe all heroes die first. ‘Hero’ is the third track to be taken from his forthcoming new album, KIWANUKA, which is out Friday. He'll be at The Showbox on January 29th.
Jimi wrote the song quietly in his apartment and didn't show it to anybody. After recording "Fire", he had 20 minutes to spare in the recording studio, so he showed it to the band. They managed to record it in the 20 minute period they had. The band later recorded several more takes of the song, but they all seemed very sterile and they decided to go with the original recording.
The "Hammersmith Palais de Danse" was a famous music venue in Hammersmith, London, that hosted, among numerous others, The Sex Pistols, David Bowie, The Cure, and The Rolling Stones. It was shut down on April 1 2007; the final gig was played by The Fall.
Find tickets and info for the MAY 3RD Dead Can Dance show at the Paramount here: bit.ly
Sudan Archives will be in Seattle on February 21st at Barboza! Tickets & info: bit.ly
Arcade Fire unveiled this track on the September 28, 2013 episode of Saturday Night Live. That would be 6 years ago yesterday. The band performed the song with Haitian drummers, and also with the Canadian musician Owen Pallet, who does their orchestral arrangements. Colin Stetson and Michael Lewis from the American folk-rock band, Bon Iver, also joined in. Arcade Fire also played "Reflektor" and appeared in the "New Cast Member or Arcade Fire" sketch, where Win Butler pretended to be Robert De Niro.
Hatchie performed "Sugar & Spice" live on KEXP September 28, 2018: bit.ly
“I want to live in the ‘90s!” Check out NME's "The Big Read" on BEABADOOBEE: bit.ly
Cartalk is the project of Los Angeles-based musician Chuck Moore. Not the Click & Clack show. Find more from Cartalk here: cartalk.bandcamp.com
Fever In, Fever Out is 23 years old today! It is their 2nd album and peaked at number 72 on the Billboard 200 chart.
Quivers posted on their Facebook: NEW SONG "When It Breaks" premieres on KEXP 8am Seattle time on the 29th! (2am Melbourne tonight haha). Can't wait to share it with you, and a video soon after by Nina Renee!
On the streams 30th Oct! More on this great song here www.kexp.org
Quivers played this song live on KEXP when they were here back in March: bit.ly
"The Sunday League make heart felt alt-rock that resonates from the Australian sounds of the late 80's to the American country jangles of the early 90’s." Find them here: thesundayleagueband.bandcamp.com
Trashcan Sinatras are out on their "One Night, Two Albums" tour but they're not getting any closer than California. Here are their dates: www.trashcansinatras.com
The group was born in Marseille in 1982 on the ashes of the punk movement in the early 1980s . It was composed of Alain Seghir, Brigitte Balian and Catherine Loy. Martin Dupont disappeared as a group in 1987. During its short life, Martin Dupont opened for The Lotus Laters, The Lounge Lizards, and Siouxsie and the Banshees.
Wolf Parade are back with a new single. “Against the Day”—their first new song in two years. They've also announced a 2020 European tour.
TR/ST were live on KEXP in May. You can see their full performance here: www.youtube.com
David J performing "No New Tale To Tell" at SXSW 2014: www.youtube.com
Temples are coming to Seattle! See them at The Crocodile on Friday, February 7th. Tickets & info: bit.ly
Looks like you can still get tickets for The New Pornographers at The Neptune on January 30th... tickets & info here: bit.ly
This was Reed's attempt at writing a hit for the Velvet Underground, who were highly influential, but commercially doomed. Loaded was the band's last album, and the title was a reference to the record company mandate that the album be "Loaded with hits."
There was a great deal of acrimony during recording of the album, and Reed left before it was finished. In his absence, "Sweet Jane" was edited down, with a wistful coda removed from the song. This angered Reed, who told Rolling Stone magazine that if he knew they were going to press on with the album, "I would have stayed with them and showed them what to do." Of course we're playing the full version.
In a press release, Barnett says:
“We took Loose Tooth on tour around Europe in Mid-2018 and every night I sat in my hotel room teaching myself how to play 'Keep On.' This was before their album had come out but the song already felt like an old classic to me. I sat in bed with my guitar every night n I had to slow the song down and pull it apart a little bit n in that process it gained a certain weight where I heard the words differently. The chorus became a mantra and shook me up a bit. Loose Tooth have this incredible talent for churning out the sweetest pop songs with these biting lyrics, all whilst maintaining this charming n disarming onstage banter n crowd surfing to the bar for a beer mid-song. The lyrics to this song are particularly powerful n nostalgic to me. The band performing with me is Jen Sholakis on Drums, Dave Mudie on Bass n Me on Guitar. I didn’t let them rehearse cos I knew they’re too good and they’d work better n looser under the pressure. We recorded it in a few hours with everyone on vocals at the end plus a little added angel, Anika AKA Hachiku.” Milk on Milk is out November 15th.
According to drummer Martin Chambers, the song was largely formed in the studio based on a rough sketch presented by Hynde. Chambers explained, "We never really got into the studio without any rehearsal and record[ed] a song, [but] we have done that once and that was 'Message of Love'. ... [Hynde] likes to come to [the band] when she has [a song] finished in her mind ... but this time she hadn't really finished it and so we just ... rehearsed it already set up in the studio and it was on tape in two hours, basically."
The new album from The Innocence Mission, See You Tomorrow is set to release on January 17th. Find info and preorder here: theinnocencemission.bandcamp.com
Dream Academy's record label didn't want to release this song, they felt it needed more drums.
Destroyer will release their 12th LP, Have We Met, on January 31st. You can see them at Neumos on March 19th
Dan Deacon's new album, Mystic Familiar, is out January 31st, the same day as Destroyer's, and he's playing Neumos on March 20th, the day after Destroyer.
The Crimea were featured in John Peel's Festive Fifty, ranking higher than bands such as The White Stripes and all eleven of the initial album demos were played on his show. On July 2, 2013 they announced they were calling time on their 11-years as a band and that their gig at the Jazz Café in London on July 30, 2013 would be their last.
Museum Mouth are playing Seattle next week! Catch them at The Crocodile on Friday the 8th. Find info here: www.museummouth.com
This was never intended to be included on a record. When R.E.M. played it at some surprise gigs in their hometown of Athens, Georgia, the crowds loved it, so they recorded it.
Krissy Vandewoude, who as lead vocalist, writes all the lyrics and melodies for Whimsical, shares what her inspiration was for this happy, uplifting song.
“We all have someone in our lives who is our anchor, our light in the dark or calm in the storm. The person who feels like your safe place when everything is falling apart. When I have had sad, scary or uncertain times, it has been such a comfort to have someone I could trust, who was always there unconditionally for me. I envisioned their ‘angel wings’ being wrapped around me in a protective hug, and it was that visual which inspired the lyrics.”
During live performances the band would repeat a single chord from the song for as long as they felt bearable, the song descending into cacophony. This is sometimes referred to as the "holocaust section", and usually lasted about 15 minutes, although there are reports of shows where it went on for well over half an hour. For the 2008–09 reunion shows, "You Made Me Realise" brought each show to an ear-splitting conclusion, reaching up to 130 dB.
Just Mustard will be streaming LIVE on KEXP's YouTube Channel from Iceland Airwaves on November 9th at 9am. Find all the upcoming live streams here: bit.ly
Welcome To The Pleasuredome was released on vinyl and cassette on this date back in 1984. The CD release was on September 30th, 1985.
“Take a rhyme that’s so familiar it’s almost become a part of our DNA and evolve it into something strange and inspiring—a celebration of life, and of lives, and of the good and the truly great,” the band explained of the track on Twitter.
he album takes its name from a line in the poem Geography by the New York poet Michael Brownstein whose reading of it is also sampled on the title track.
Dead Can Dance will play The Paramount Theatre on May 3rd, 2020.