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Thursday, Aug 29 2019, 6AM
Good morning Seattle, and welcome to the Thursday edition of The Morning Show... on Mixtape Week! We're starting it off today with this one from Michelle Repiso which she titled "Wake Up, See The Sun"
From Michelle Repiso's "Wake Up, See The Sun" mix here on Mixtape Week. (And happy 56th birthday to Elizabeth Fraser of Cocteau Twins, born on this day in 1963!)
From Michelle Repiso's "Wake Up, See The Sun" mix here on Mixtape Week - "Pure joy was getting a mixed tape in the mail! I received a mixed tape every couple weeks from my boyfriend at the time (now husband). He attended VCU in Richmond, Virginia which was only 1.5 hours away from me but phone calls were expensive and considered long distance so sending each other mixed tapes and letters through the mail was how we communicated."
From Michelle Repiso's "Wake Up, See The Sun" mix here on Mixtape Week - we'll be playing a selection of your submissions all day today, so stay tuned! | www.kexp.org
From Michelle Repiso's "Wake Up, See The Sun" mix here on Mixtape Week! (And a very appropriate one to kick off The Morning Show, right?!)
From Michelle Repiso's "Wake Up, See The Sun" mix here on Mixtape Week! This track is found on the London band's debut album Foxbase Alpha, released in the US in 1992
From Michelle Repiso's "Wake Up, See The Sun" mix here on Mixtape Week | This 1990 single from the London shoegazers did well for them in the U.S., getting up to No. 4 on the Modern Rock charts
From Michelle Repiso's "Wake Up, See The Sun" mix here on Mixtape Week | Closing her mix out with a (gentle, acoustic) bang this morning. Stay tuned for more of your submissions all the way till 6:00 PM today!
Silver Jews cover done by the Swedish sisters. David Berman of Silver Jews passed away on August 7th at the age of 52. Klara Söderberg of First Aid Kit stated about this cover: "I think a lot of people were as shocked as I was upon hearing the news of David Berman’s passing. It didn’t seem real. It left me completely devastated. So I wrote the song “Strange Beauty” to try to make sense of my feelings. “Random Rules” is a long time Berman favorite of ours and a song we always thought we would record if we ever made a cover album. It holds some of the greatest lyrics ever penned and shows the genius of David Berman. We hope the songs can be some kind of comfort."
New single from The New Pornographers forthcoming album In the Morse Code of Brake Lights, due out on September 27th. Get your pre-order in here: www.thenewpornographers.com
This English band's third full-length record Hot Motion will be released on September 27th! Keep up with tour dates and more here: www.templestheband.com
Happy birthday to Oasis' debut album Definitely, Maybe which is definitely, maybe 25 years old today! (Will either of the Gallagher brothers have anything vicious to say on Twitter about this today? Probably.)
If I, if I have been unkind // I hope that you can just let it go by // If I, if I have been untrue // I hope you know it was never to you
New from Ben Harper. About this song, he stated - “The only thing more hazardous than oversimplifying relationships is over complicating them. Love and surrender are synonyms. Even if I remove love from the equation, mental health and day-to-day perspective, maintenance is a razors edge. Maybe acknowledging the unavoidable uneven day, or uneven days, helps avoid uneven months or even years.”
From the forthcoming new solo album from Joseph Arthur, which will also feature Ben Harper, Patrick Carney, Jesse Malin and Greg Dulli. Come Back World arrives on October 11th: www.roughtrade.com
Star Slinger (the alias for Darren Williams) was inspired by Baz Luhrman’s 1999 spoken word song "Everybody's Free To Wear Sunscreen" for this track.
From Charles Gillmore's "Number Five With a Bullet" mix here on Mixtape Week | "I started this mixtape back in 2002 after my first break up. Throughout the years I've added more and more tracks after the end of each relationship. I now categorize the tracks based on the seven stages of a break up. Shock, Denial, Guilt, Anger, Depression, Hope, and Acceptance... "
From Charles Gillmore's "Number Five With a Bullet" mix here on Mixtape Week | "I've always believed that music has the power to heal, and hearing songs that capture the pain you are going through brings comfort. You are not suffering alone."
Curse the things that made me sad for so long // Yeah it hurts to think that they can still go on // I'm happy now // Are you happy now?
From Charles Gillmore's "Number Five With a Bullet" mix here on Mixtape Week | "I hope that people hear these songs and are able to work past their heartache and remember that they are beautiful. The final message to listeners is to remember your friends. They are invaluable during times of heartache."
From Charles Gillmore's "Number Five With a Bullet" mix here on Mixtape Week | This track is found on the Britpop band's third album Separations, released in 1992
From Charles Gillmore's "Number Five With a Bullet" mix here on Mixtape Week | You look so defeated lying there in your new twin size bed // With a single pillow underneath your single head // I guess you decided that that old queen was more space than you would need // Now it's in the alley behind your apartment with a sign that says it's free (In case you missed it, this is a breakup mix. And a great one at that)
From Charles Gillmore's "Number Five With a Bullet" mix here on Mixtape Week | Ah yes, the elusive Death Cab/Judy Garland transition
From Charles Gillmore's "Number Five With a Bullet" mix here on Mixtape Week
Request from Jessica this morning, who just recently went through a bad breakup... yes, this too shall pass. (And mixtapes heal!)
Watch the official video for "Alive & Kicking" featuring the band, hair whipping in the wind, and one fringed leather jacket here: www.youtube.com
From Tammy Victor's "Tammy's Mix" here on Mixtape Week | "I met my now husband on Match.com back in December 2003, one of the first things we connected on was music and KEXP... "
From Tammy Victor's "Tammy's Mix" here on Mixtape Week | "On one of our first dates at Stellar pizza in Georgetown he gave me a CD titled Tammy’s Mix... "
From Tammy Victor's "Tammy's Mix" here on Mixtape Week | "Our 10 year wedding anniversary is August 30th, fitting for mixed tape week."
From Tammy Victor's "Tammy's Mix" here on Mixtape Week | Thom Yorke of Radiohead has stated that this single from their second album was the result of, "... a very lonely, drunken evening and, well, a breakdown of sorts."
From Tammy Victor's "Tammy's Mix" here on Mixtape Week | This debut album from Portishead turned 25 years old last Thursday, and we've got an exclusive interview with Geoff Barrow and Adrian Utley breaking down the entire album here: bit.ly
From Tammy Victor's "Tammy's Mix" here on Mixtape Week | This track features samples from John Barry's 1964 song "Golden Girl," and 1970's "The Sorcerer of Isis (The Ritual of the Mole)" from Power of Zeus
From Tammy Victor's "Tammy's Mix" here on Mixtape Week | A lot of people were exposed to this French electronic band through a Mitsubishi commercial in 2003. If our memory serves us correct, this kicked off the whole "car being driven through dark city streets with languid trance music playing" commercials that still exists today
From Matthew Chandler's “Soundtrack to a Fake Movie” mix here on Mixtape Week | "We had a Mixed Tape CD club, where people would blindly send a cd to a random person in the club... The theme of the month was "Soundtrack". The author would conjure up a movie in their head and make a soundtrack to go along with it... "
From Matthew Chandler's “Soundtrack to a Fake Movie” mix here on Mixtape Week | "My fake movie was about a lonely man that roamed the streets at night. He would sit and imagine vivid stories about the people he watched. He would incorporate himself into the stories and had trouble snapping back to reality. The stories would become part of his memories."
From Matthew Chandler's “Soundtrack to a Fake Movie” mix here on Mixtape Week | The intro before this song where Kim Deal is telling a story about a teacher was recorded while tape was rolling in the studio without their knowledge... it wasn't until Steve Albini went to play the band the record in full that they heard Kim's story on it (they loved it)
From Matthew Chandler's “Soundtrack to a Fake Movie” mix here on Mixtape Week | And the radioman says Rock and Roll lives!
From Matthew Chandler's “Soundtrack to a Fake Movie” mix here on Mixtape Week | TV on the Radio's Tunde Adebimpe: "I had this idea for the video that I thought would never happen, of Paul Reubens (aka Pee Wee Herman) as a race car driver who slowly loses his mind. I took it to Funny or Die and they said, 'That's great, let's go for that.'" - www.youtube.com
From Mark Lysynecky's "Hang the DJ" mix here on Mixtape Week | "Yet another school dance inspired mix tape... this was totally for the dance DJ's - our local radio DJ's on WLIR and WHTG (home of Matt Pinfield!) were great!"
From Mark Lysynecky's "Hang the DJ" mix here on Mixtape Week | Off of 1989's Thunder and Consolation
From Mark Lysynecky's "Hang the DJ" mix here on Mixtape Week | Famously covered by Hootie and the Blowfish for the Friends soundtrack! (Which might be the most 90's thing we've had on The Morning Show today)
From Mark Lysynecky's "Hang the DJ" mix here on Mixtape Week | This song is found on the Australian band's fourth album 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, released in 1982
From Mark Lysynecky's "Hang the DJ" mix here on Mixtape Week | English band that debuted in 1986 with Gun Shy and then pretty much disappeared after 1989's Totally Religious
From Lisa LeClair's "Solitary Party Groover" mix here on Mixtape Week... who is suddenly feeling very awkward writing this about herself...
From Lisa LeClair's "Solitary Party Groover" mix here on Mixtape Week | "The story of this mixtape? Well. No one has ever given me any of these songs. It is not about (or for) any one person. It's just the capsule of a current life, and it DOES contain Mazzy Star! But this is more a story about finding a “Fade Into You” than actually having one." - www.kexp.org
From Lisa LeClair's "Solitary Party Groover" mix here on Mixtape Week... who is still so embarrassed writing about herself right now - www.kexp.org
From Lisa LeClair's "Solitary Party Groover" mix here on Mixtape Week | Full track listing here: www.kexp.org
From Lisa LeClair's "Solitary Party Groover" mix here on Mixtape Week | Full track listing here: www.kexp.org
From Lisa LeClair's "Solitary Party Groover" mix here on Mixtape Week | Full track listing here: www.kexp.org
From Lisa LeClair's "Solitary Party Groover" mix here on Mixtape Week | Full track listing here: www.kexp.org
From Lisa LeClair's "Solitary Party Groover" mix here on Mixtape Week | Full track listing here: www.kexp.org
This has been Mixtape Week here on The Morning Show today! We're leaving you with this one from Black Belt Eagle Scout, one very embarrassed Morning Show DJ assistant, and Cheryl to take over and play more of your mixtape submissions! www.kexp.org
RVG released this song in May 2019. “Alexandra is a song which came together quickly, but which felt like it uncompromisingly needed to be recorded,” says Romy Vager of the track. “The lyrics, [which] describe a story of personal oppression at the hands of one’s community, [are] an allegory for the broader oppression marginalized people are subjected to.” bit.ly
From Tanya's mix tape "Funeral Jamz" - "Death, the one inevitable. We don’t talk about it enough. I think about it daily. Not in an Emo way, just in a very casual, matter of fact way! I have compiled a playlist that all of my loved ones know to play at my funeral. I want everyone to laugh, drink and dance and remember me through these songs."
From Tanya's "Funeral Jamz" mix here on Mixtape Week: www.kexp.org
From Tanya's "Funeral Jamz" mix here on Mixtape Week: www.kexp.org
With the theme of "Joyful Death". From Tanya's "Funeral Jamz" mix here on Mixtape Week: www.kexp.org
From Tanya's "Funeral Jamz" mix here on Mixtape Week: www.kexp.org
From Tanya's "Funeral Jamz" mix here on Mixtape Week: www.kexp.org
Broken Social Scene performed live in the KEXP studio in October 2017. Watch it here: www.youtube.com
Broken Social Scene performed live in the KEXP studio in October 2017. Watch it here: www.youtube.com
From Tanya's "Funeral Jamz" mix here on Mixtape Week: www.kexp.org
Kevin Morby performed live at The Triple Door as part of KEXP's VIP Club concert series in August 2017. Watch that special performance here: www.youtube.com
Kevin Morby performed live at The Triple Door as part of KEXP's VIP Club concert series in August 2017. Watch that special performance here: www.youtube.com
From Ben's "Soothe Your Soul" mix. Ben DJ'd in College Park Maryland from 1997-2001. "Around 2005 I found a way to share music with friends and fans by posting mixes online via a rss/podcast feed on my website, onenationunderagroove.net. By the summer of 2009, I had honed my craft and came up with a mix sharing soulful sounds from Jazzanova to Curtis Mayfield as well as upbeat tracks from artists showing up on KEXP at the time like PPP, Nickodemus and Mr. Lif."
From Ben's "Soothe Your Soul" mix here on Mixtape Week: www.kexp.org
From Ben's "Soothe Your Soul" mix. "Got those summer blues? Well Stu is hear to lift your spirits with a smooth soul tip that will have you dancin' those sad feelings right out da soles of yo' shoes. Also in the mix is some local 206 flava fo' yo' ears (that's the Seattle underground hip-hop sound fo' all you suckas who don't are livin' in denile). So get ready to be funktafied!"
From Ben's "Soothe Your Soul" mix here on Mixtape Week: www.kexp.org
Mr. Lif performed with Thievery Corporation here at KEXP in October 2016. Watch "Culture Of Fear" here: www.youtube.com
Mr. Lif performed with Thievery Corporation here at KEXP in October 2016. Watch "Culture Of Fear" here: www.youtube.com
From Ben's "Soothe Your Soul" mix here on Mixtape Week: www.kexp.org
Seattle band The Physics played here at KEXP in 2014. Watch it here: www.youtube.com
Seattle band The Physics played here at KEXP in 2014. Watch it here: www.youtube.com
From Ben's "Soothe Your Soul" mix here on Mixtape Week: www.kexp.org
This mix features Seattle artist Jake One.
This mix features Seattle artist Jake One.
From Adam's "Movin' (Mid)Wes' Pt. II" mix. He was driving from Connecticut to Wisconsin and made this road trip mix. "The playlist was a great companion through the madness of I-95, traffic jams in rural Indiana, and perilous Chicago traffic."
From Adam's "Movin' (Mid)Wes' Pt. II" mix. Adam's original playlist for his road trip had over 250 songs. He says of his mix submitted to KEXP "all of these songs are so good it's really just a long A-side."
From Adam's "Movin' (Mid)Wes' Pt. II" mix here on Mixtape Week: www.kexp.org
From Adam's "Movin' (Mid)Wes' Pt. II" mix here on Mixtape Week: www.kexp.org
The Jayhawks performed live in the KEXP studio in January 2015. www.youtube.com
The Jayhawks performed live in the KEXP studio in January 2015. www.youtube.com
From Adam's "Movin' (Mid)Wes' Pt. II" mix here on Mixtape Week: www.kexp.org
From Adam's "Movin' (Mid)Wes' Pt. II" mix here on Mixtape Week: www.kexp.org
From Matt's "One More Saturday Night" mix. Matt put together this playlist of a variety of music tastes "just like we all did back in the day when we were kids growing up".
From Matt's "One More Saturday Night" mix. www.kexp.org
You can watch the artwork develop during KEXPs full day of Six Degrees of Prince here: www.kexp.org
You can watch the artwork develop during KEXPs full day of Six Degrees of Prince here: www.kexp.org
From Dan, a longtime KEXP listener, donor and volunteer, "About a Boy" mix. "This playlist — “About a Boy“ — is the amalgamation of a pair of playlists I was in process of creating to reflect the first half of my life (which also happens to be “pre-KEXP” discovery) and the second half of my life (which coincidentally happens to begin the same year I discovered KEXP)."
"The first song — The Verve’s “Bitter Sweet Symphony” — was the song to which I woke up every morning for 10 years beginning the day I bought the Urban Hymns CD in 1997."
"The first song — The Verve’s “Bitter Sweet Symphony” — was the song to which I woke up every morning for 10 years beginning the day I bought the Urban Hymns CD in 1997."
From Dan's "About a Boy" mix. Dan says when he first started listening to KEXP in the early 2000s, "I could only stream KEXP on my computer, so I hated leaving my desk for risk of missing a great song. That, and perhaps more importantly the physical and emotional comfort I feel listening to KEXP through thick, padded headphones to music I love played and discussed by real humans with empathy."
From Dan's "About a Boy" mix. "The ego-centrism of my playlist is intentional, but clearly also one of its flaws. Music that I believe reflects my feelings and thoughts apparently skews toward mostly white male artists who are either from North America or the United Kingdom. The lack of diversity was not intentional; these are just the songs that I most consider the soundtrack of my mind. While the 250+ songs I carefully sequenced on my wife’s iPod Nano many years ago — my first Xmas gift to her — were intended to introduce her to music I thought she would like, this 50-song playlist is also for her, but as a window into my head through the songs I adore and return to regularly."
From Dan's "About a Boy" mix. "A large portion of the playlist reflects music I discovered or re-discovered as a KEXP listener. KEXP stood out to me at first because it was playing the “fringe” music to which I gravitated, and it now it both guides my musical enlightenment and is a constant with which I travel, wherever I may be in the world by virtue of the KEXP app. And, of course, the KEXP team feels like extended family — putting up with my many song requests, questions and silly text messages, all of which afford me brief diversions from the stressful, high-intensity professional environments I endure."
From Dan's "About a Boy" mix.
Wolf Alice performed live in the KEXP studio in October 12, 2017. www.youtube.com
Wolf Alice performed live in the KEXP studio in October 12, 2017. www.youtube.com
From Dan's "About a Boy" mix. Check out the KEXP Live In-Studio with CCFX here: www.youtube.com
Tourist Activities is playing tonight Thursday, August 29th at Add-A-Ball in Fremont with Den Tapes, Happy Times Sad Times, and Meanderthals. www.facebook.com
Versus are Richard Baluyut, guitar/vocals; Fontaine Toups, bass/vocals; Edward Baluyut, drums and James Baluyut, lead guitar.
This English band formed in 1980. The band's music was characterized by a danceable new wave sound that drew on a Burundi beat provided by Dave Barbarossa on drums, as well as the suggestive lyrics squealed into the mic by their teenage lead vocalist.
Plus/Minus is playing tonight with Versus and Medejin at Hotel Albatross in Ballard. bit.ly
From Jeffry's "City Daze" mix. "Originally made as an homage to dancing at the City Nightclub in Portland, OR, in the early 90s... in particular, the goth/industrial dance floor upstairs. For all the marginalized..."
From Jeffry's "City Daze" mix. Many of us can remember dancing in that dark, smokey, hot and sweaty club. Did you all enjoy your local goth/industrial club? www.kexp.org
From Jeffry's "City Daze" mix. At the goth/industrial club, this song was always a crowd pleaser, causing everyone to halt their conversations and flock to the dance floor.