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To spur creativity during the recording of this album, To help spark inspiration during the recording process, the quartet utilized Oblique Strategies, a card-based method for promoting creativity jointly created by musician Brian Eno and painter Peter Schmidt, first published in 1975. Each card offers a challenging constraint intended to help artists (particularly musicians) break creative blocks by encouraging lateral thinking.

Dexter and sinister are terms used in heraldry to refer to specific locations in an escutcheon bearing a coat of arms, and to the other elements of an achievement. "Dexter" (Latin for "right") means to the right from the viewpoint of the bearer of the shield, i.e. the bearer's proper right, to the left from that of the viewer. "Sinister" (Latin for "left") means to the left from the viewpoint of the bearer, the bearer's proper left, to the right from that of the viewer.

Founding member Brendan Canning explained the song's meaning to The Sun April 30, 2010: "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!!!"

Ladyhawke wrote the song when she first went to London and she didn't know anyone. She describes it as a fantasy epic where she has someone and she is trying to coax them over to talk to her, where in reality she felt alone.

Tim Showalter shared the incredible story with us for our Saturday show Sound and Vision. www.kexp.org

According to the REM Project Blog, The term king of birds is a Mayan folk legend where the quetzal is chosen to be king. He does so be deception and then arrogance. The roadrunner had helped him with plumage and was repaid with nothing, as the quetzal left the roadrunner naked and alone.

Remember that time Bloc Party did an acoustic set on KEXP? www.youtube.com

Alchohol's your yoga baby

This album is exactly 8-years old, and still loves recess...well, except for that group of boys that keeps throwing mud. I see you Steven!

“‘In a Spiral’ started from a beat that Josh had in his back pocket for quite some time, which I had gravitated to immediately and written some vocal ideas for,” Sarah Barthel said in a statement. “But the song was waiting for the right moment to reveal itself to us. We threw it on at the last minute while we were preparing to go record in Joshua Tree at the magical Rancho de la Luna with our friend Boots, and once we got out there everything started to fall into place.”

Ibtihaj Muhammad (born December 4, 1985) is an American sabre fencer, and a member of the United States fencing team. She is best known for being the first Muslim American woman to wear a hijab while competing for the United States in the Olympics

The Friday Song, as requested by a 7-year old who stole his dad's phone to get the job done.

This Swedish group, Gordon Cyrus and Henrik Schyffert, met while working on a commercial and decided to collaborate on a music track. Schyffert recruited his then-girlfriend, Cia Berg, to perform vocals. That's about it. Schyffert has enjoyed an extensive television and comedy career, while Cyrus has found success in international audiovisual marketing and design.

Tennant started to write the song when he was staying at his cousin's house in Nottingham while watching a gangster film. Just when he was going to sleep he came up with the lines: "Sometimes you're better off dead, there's a gun in your hand and it's pointing at your head". The lyrics were inspired by T.S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land, particularly in the use of different narrative voices and arcane references. The song's lyrics are largely concerned with class, inner-city pressure. Tennant later said that some listeners had assumed the song referred to prostitutes, but was actually, "about rough boys getting a bit of posh."

Someday, with the help of DJ Troy Nelson, the Morning Show Playhouse Players will remake this, the greatest video, ever. www.youtube.com

Conversation in the booth: Owen: "Duran Duran `Planet Earth'?" John: "It has to be more cheesie." Owen (outraged) "Planet Earth IS cheesie!" Regardless, this M83 song isn't cheesie, just pure great.

Petty wrote the song and recorded a demo version with his previous band Mudcrutch in 1974. At one point he strongly considered giving the song to The J. Geils Band because he thought it had their sound. During the Damn the Torpedoes sessions he was convinced by producer Jimmy Iovine to include it on the album because he sensed it would be a hit.

The arrangement, with two time signature shifts and frequent chord changes, was rehearsed many times, but the group struggled to get a performance they liked.[2] According to co-producer Daniel Lanois, "that was the science project song. I remember having this massive schoolhouse blackboard, as we call them. I was holding a pointer, like a college professor, walking the band through the chord changes like a (bleep)ing nerd. It was ridiculous." Co-producer Brian Eno estimates that half of the album sessions were spent trying to record a suitable version of "Where the Streets Have No Name"

Check out this song from their live set at our London Broadcast for International Clash Day www.youtube.com

Laetitia Tamko, better known by her stage name Vagabon, is a Cameroon-born multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and producer currently based in New York City. Born in Cameroon, at age 13 her family relocated to New York so her mother could attend law school. At age 17 Tamko's parents bought her a Fender acoustic guitar from Costco. She taught herself to play by watching instructional DVDs.

Here's everything we know about the band Sault.

guess what segues well with Avalanches....

Man, this segued well with Avalanches.

John is interviewing Rudy today for Sound and vision. It will be awesome. BTW, look up his Instagram cuz it's amazeballs.

So much handsome, and tall, tall hair, in this video. www.youtube.com

Nada Surf play the Neptune Theatre on Tuesday, January 14, 2020.