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Thursday, Sep 12 2019, 6AM
We were sad to hear about the passing of Daniel Johnston yesterday, so we are starting off today commemorating his life and music.
In September 2006, The Devil and Daniel Johnston was released. It's a film chronicling his life.
Rest In Peace, Daniel Johnston. Daniel Johnston was known to be a genius songwriter, and for painting the famous "Hi, How Are You" frog mural in Austin, TX. bit.ly
Beck's bluesy recording of "True Love" is simply him alone, singing, playing harmonica and acoustic guitar. Sometimes the simplest recordings are the best.
Beck recorded "True Love" for a Johnston tribute album. It was released in September 2004 and also features the Flaming Lips and Tom Waits (among many others).
Here's a recent video of Daniel performing this song live: bit.ly
"Genius and madness collide in a sweet song:" n.pr
This is off of the 2004 album, The Late Great Daniel Johnston: Discovered Covered, which is a 2004 Gammon Records two-disc set. The first disc features covers of Daniel Johnston songs by a variety of different artists. The second disc features the original versions of these eighteen songs, as well as "Rock This Town", a previously unreleased Johnston track.
This song was recorded live with Yo La Tengo in 1990. Here's an incredible article detailing Daniel's life: bit.ly
This New Order cover will serve as the B-side to three new 7" singles—all out November 8 via Moore and Eva Prinz’s Daydream Library Series. bit.ly
"Working within the trio Boygenius, as she did much of last year, Dacus began to recognize darkness as a destination rather than a passageway. In the songs of Boygenius comrades Julien Baker and Phoebe Bridgers, she heard the value of settling into the shadows a little longer." bit.ly
Vivian Girls called it quits in 2014, but they're back with a new album called Memory, which will drop on September 20th!
This album will be released September 27th. Moon Duo will be making at stop in Seattle at Neumos on November 26th. You can check out the live in-studio they did with us back in 2017 here: bit.ly
Watch the official video for this incredibly danceable track here: www.grimesmusic.com
Then check out Grimes' in-studio full performance at KEXP here: bit.ly
Dream pop duo Geowulf will drop a new album called My Resignation on October 25th, and they will be playing at Barboza on November 15th. geowulf.bandcamp.com
This album is 39 years old today! Psst! The seagull, ship's mast and moon on the cover spell out XTC...
This Vancouver band has a new album coming on September 27th! Find new merch here: www.thenewpornographers.com
Matthew recorded this album in 1990 after going through a divorce. Check out the video here: www.youtube.com
Request for Josh, who is creating community through music. Love it!
Johnny Cash died 16 years ago today. Though, it's always a good time to listen to his music.
This is Johnny Cash's cover of Soundgarden's "Rusty Cage," written by Chris Cornell. Watch the video for Cash's version: www.youtube.com
Watch the video for Soundgarden's "Rusty Cage": www.youtube.com
"Hailing from all corners of Ireland, The Murder Capital are a post-punk band driven by the desire to affect cultural change." Follow them on their Facebook page: www.facebook.com
Another Dublin band! Check out their killer KEXP in-studio performance of this song from last year: www.youtube.com
At the Drive-In hails from El Paso, Texas, formed in 1993. They released the stellar 'Relationship of Command' in 2000, making it 19 years old today!
This album's anticipated release is on October 4th. Angel Olsen will be in Seattle at The Moore Theatre on Wednesday, December 11th: angelolsen.com
Watch her KEXP in-studio performance here: bit.ly
Elbow's new album "Giants of All Sizes" is set to drop on October 11th. “Empires” was one of the first songs Elbow recorded for Giants Of All Sizes. Here’s what keyboardist Craig Potter had to say about the recording process for the song and album in general: "We thought the studio would give us inner city vibes but we were on the edge of Hamburg which meant we spent more time in Clouds Hill rather than exploring. With time to spare, we sat around and played together in a way we haven’t for a long time and experimented and improvised with the music which led to the looser feel you hear on “Empires.”"
New album out in October! Here's the video, complete with a Black Bull, of course: www.youtube.com
Request for Holden on their way to school. James Murphy told The NME May 18, 2010: "This is the song I lost my voice trying to do. It's the highest song register I've sung... I'd vowed never to write anything that high for myself. But then I got excited about a synth sound and forgot all about my vocal range, and had to sing it with a voice that was blown out, but I took lots of steroids."
DJ Shadow and Run the Jewels collaborated on this track which features an interpolation of "Ol' Man River" by Caterina Valente from the 1927 musical "Showboat".
This is the first new studio music that the producer and DJ has released since his 2017 EP The Mountain Has Fallen, which was the appropriately titled sequel to his 2016 full-length The Mountain Will Fall. “Rocket Fuel” will also be included on an upcoming playlist for the Madden NFL 20 video game.
A sample from jazz musician Jimmy Smith's "Root Down (And Get It)", from his seminal album Root Down, serves as the basis for "Root Down". A small vocal sample from "Root Down" was later sampled on The Prodigy's 1997 track "Funky Shit".
1980 video from Bowie that MTV was able to add in rotation by the time of their launch in August 1981: www.youtube.com
Here is an interesting article about the life and death of Daniel Johnston: bit.ly
Another cover from the cover album, The Late Great Daniel Johnston: Discovered and Covered, which came out in 2004.
Olympia's Oh, Rose "tells the complex story of family, adversity, love, and friendship" on While My Father Sleeps, ohrose.bandcamp.com
San Fermin will be in Seattle on Saturday, November 2, 2019 at Neumos. bit.ly
New from Phantogram, "Mister Impossible" was written in Phantogram's Laurel Canyon studio and recorded at Rancho de la Luna in Joshua Tree, where they've been working on new music. www.phantogram.com
The vocals for this wonderful song are by Elizabeth Fraser of Cocteau Twins. She was once described as "the voice of God."
Lana Del Rey will be at Century Link field on Wed, Oct. 2.
Interesting music video for this classic song. Here's the uncensored version: bit.ly
Check out this amazing performance from Violent Femmes live in the KEXP gathering space! www.youtube.com
KEXP producer, Owen Murphy, spoke with singer, Jeff Tweedy, about keeping uniqueness and originality in new music and the inspiration behind the title of the new album. Read more over at the KEXP blog! www.kexp.org
Here's a video from the last time The Jayhawks paid KEXP a visit: www.youtube.com
Spielbergs channel anguish and joy on new EP, "Running All the Way Home," which is out on October 25th. More on the upcoming EP here: bit.ly
Dead Soft will be in Seattle at the Belltown Yacht Club on Thursday, November 21st. www.dead-soft.com
Battles will be in Seattle at Neumo's on December 1st. www.bttls.com
