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At a live show in 1986, Jane’s Addiction front man Perry Farrell cryptically introduced “Summertime Rolls” as “This song’s about getting laid on a waterbed…no…it’s about laying in a park…no, it’s not…yes, it is.”
In 2018, Pitchfork ranked So Tonight That I Might See second on its list of the 30 best dream pop albums.
Jeff Tweedy is playing the Thing Festival later this month and you can request and dedicate songs from Wilco's website. There is a list you can select from, no asking him for Lizzo covers as much as you want to. Make your request here: wilcoworld.net
Phosphorescent performed "Song For Zula" live in the KEXP studio on April 9, 2013. Check out that version here: bit.ly
Eddie Vedder explained in the Pearl Jam 20 documentary that this song is about first relationships. "The song is about letting go," said Vedder. "It's very rare for a relationship to withstand the Earth's gravitational pull and where it's going to take people and how they're going to grow. I've heard it said that you can't really have a true love unless it was a love unrequited. It's a harsh one, because then your truest one is the one you can't have forever."
San Fermin is playing Neumos on November 2nd! Tickets & info: bit.ly
In the four years since Sleepwalker, Leslie Bear’s debut album as Long Beard, the singer-songwriter moved back to her native New Jersey—but the friends who’d once made it feel like home were long gone. Their absence left Bear with questions: What is home? What happens when a place ceases to elicit the familiarity and community it once did? That’s the riddle of “Means to Me,” the title track of Long Beard’s upcoming second record. Read more on Pitchfork: bit.ly
According to Junip's lead singer, José González, this is "about taking responsibility and doing what you can to change your life in a new situation."
Angel Olsen will be bringing her new band out to Seattle for a show at the Moore on Wednesday, December 11th!
M83 made a remix version of Maps' "To the Sky" for the Realigned album. Find it here: bit.ly
M83 has announced DSVII (Digital Shades Vol. 2), their new album out September 20th. m83.it
According to TR/ST mastermind Robert Alfons, 'Iris' was the first song written for the record and "sums up most of the recurring themes that are present in this album."
Canadian electropunk duo Crystal Castles took its name from an old She-Ra toy commercial, which declared “the fate of the world safe in Crystal Castle.”
"Girls" is featured on the soundtrack to the 2003 film Lost in Translation and 2004 film D.E.B.S..
Blue Lines is the debut studio album from Massive Attack, released on this date in 1991. Daddy G said about the making of the album:
“ We were lazy Bristol twats. It was Neneh Cherry who kicked our arses and got us in the studio. "
"Review: Thom Yorke finds dread beneath the glamour of ‘Anima’" Read the L.A. Times review here: lat.ms
In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Yorke said that this was the song where he found his lyrical voice. He cut the vocal, accompanying himself on acoustic guitar, in one take, then the band filled in its parts around him. Yorke said the song began as "A very nice melody which I had no idea what to do with, then you wake up and find your head singing some words to it."
Remembering Elliott Smith on his birthday. He would have been 50 today!
" If ‘Part 1’ was Foals hanging up a chandelier, then ‘Black Bull’ sends it crashing to the ground. It's by far the most violent and urgent thing they’ve ever recorded." Read more at NME: bit.ly
Pulled from the sessions for the Bristol punk’s sophomore album, Joy as an Act of Resistance, “I Dream Guillotine” references the French Revolution as a mirror to the disenfranchisement of working-class Britain. Chugging guitars and bass propel frontman Joe Talbot anger as he growls, “My bastard visions of a/ Bastard city broken/ By a bastard wealthy jettison/ We’re not fine, we’re not fine, we’re not fine.”
Starcrawler will be at the Crocodile on Wednesday, October 9th!
The new New Pornographers album, "In The Morse Code Of Brake Lights" will be out on Sept 27! Their tour doesn't appear to have any dates close.
Cold War Kids lead singer Nathan Willett says one of the boldest things the band has ever done was play right before Metallica at a festival in Belgium. The crowd was full of passionate Metallica fans and most of them didn't care to see Cold War Kids.
According their bandcamp page, Pom Pom Squad is:
Mia Berrin - Vox, GTR (head cheerleader)
Mari Alé Figeman - Bass (witch)
Shelby Keller - Drums (camp counselor)
Alex Mercuri - Lead GTR (token male)
Diet Cig performed "Tummy Ache" live in the KEXP studio, July 22, 2017. bit.ly
Speaking about the new single frontman and producer Danio says “I Think You’re Wonderful” is a song about universal love, about forgiveness, about empathy, about resilience. I want people to listen to this one and feel encouraged to tell someone they care about that they’re wonderful. We have to be strong and love each other; in 2019 a lot of negative messages are being sold to us. The current political landscape worldwide is scary and our governments are promoting fear. I want our fans to listen to this song and feel empowered, happy, and full of spirit. Human beings are hard-wired to notice and remember negative news and events, but we need to have hope, we have to fight to stay happy and sane.”
“It’s been awhile since my last album The Mountain Will Fall, and the corresponding tour… and since the tour ended, I’ve been mostly silent,” DJ Shadow said in a statement. “This is because I’ve been focused and working on a ton of music. I usually try to avoid hyperbole, and I’m not super-comfortable hyping up my own stuff, but things are about to get pretty exciting. My heroes De La Soul were kind enough to join me on the debut single, ‘Rocket Fuel,’ and the collab encapsulates so much of what I love about hip-hop… energy, beats, and fun.”
“Rocket Fuel” will appear on DJ Shadow’s forthcoming album, which is expected to arrive later this year.
After leaving Jurassic 5 in 2004, Cut Chemist spent 18 months working exclusively on the album, which he had already been working on for 2 years. He spent almost a year clearing samples.
This track transpired after slowthai witnessed a display of exorbitant wealth. "I was at some yard in Chelsea after a night out and I saw 4.5 million pound paintings hanging on the wall and it made me sick," slowthai explained in a press release. "I went to the studio the next day and wrote Doorman."
This cover of the Dead Kennedys' track "California Über Alles" has updated lyrics about then California Governor Pete Wilson.
"The elusive Detroit producer returns after a years-long mysterious absence with a burning, urgent, and immersive new LP." Read more at Pitchfork: bit.ly
Written by lead singer Bryan Ferry, this song is about a love affair that fell apart. Asked in 2014 by Entertainment Weekly why the song endures, Ferry replied, "For some reason, there's something in the combination of the melody and the lyric that works for people."
Haim's new song, "Summer Girl" heavy takes inspiration from Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side”
"Superbike" is the first single from Jay Som's forthcoming album Anak Ko ("my child" in Filipino), out August 23. Like with Everbody Works, Duterte recorded, produced, engineered and mixed the album by herself at home; this time, she invited some friends — including Vagabon's Laetitia Tamko, Chastity Belt's Annie Truscott, Justus Proffit and Boy Scouts' Taylor Vick — to collaborate with her and her bandmates: Zachary Elasser, Oliver Pinnell and Dylan Allard.
"Sodajerk," was featured on the soundtrack for the television series My So-Called Life and in commercials for Nike and Pontiac.
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The band's songwriter Pete Shelley described how he came to write this song in the Guardian newspaper February 24, 2006: "The song dates back to November 1977. We were on a roll. It was only six months since we'd finished the first album. Up in Manchester this was what we used to dream of... a whirlwind of tours, interviews, TV. We were living the life. One night in Edinburgh we were in a guest house TV lounge watching the musical Guys and Dolls. This line leaped out - 'Have you ever fallen in love with someone you shouldn't have?' The next day the van stopped outside a post office and I wrote the lyrics there. I did have a certain person in mind, but I'll save that for my kiss'n'tell. The music just seemed to follow, fully formed."
Stylus Magazine ranked the song's bassline at No. 33 in their list of the "Top 50 Basslines of All Time"
Avalanche Party performed "7" live at Studio 9294 in Hackney Wick, London, during KEXP's International Clash Day broadcast. bit.ly
Here is Snapped Ankles' International Clash Day performance: bit.ly
"Stop!" reached number one on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart for two non-consecutive weeks.
Frontman Isaac Wood outlines the song's themes: "it describes a series of events, loosely connected, all yet to happen. The song was intended to be highly inspirational. The lyrics are sometimes concerned with symbols of wealth or affluence but they are not written from a critical or even external position."
Prolapse formed in the summer of 1991 under a table at Leicester Polytechnic's Friday night disco, "With the aim of being the most depressing band ever"
"Catfish Kate" is track #4 on the new album called Beneath The Eyrie. The 12-song set is coming out in September and available for pre-order now.
The Breeders played "Wait in the Car" on Conan 3/28/18: bit.ly
“Early in my sophomore year, two concerts had a major impact on me. The first was at the Longhorn, with Gang Of Four opening for the Buzzcocks,” Mould explains. “I was a huge fan of the Buzzcocks’ approach to pop songwriting and also appreciated the slashing guitar of Gang Of Four. I was front and center for the entire Buzzcocks set, studying singer-guitarist Pete Shelley, watching his every motion. Legend has it that the entire band was tripping on LSD that evening — I don’t know, but many times during the set, Pete did lean down, off-mic, and shout the chord changes at me. It left a deep impression, and I became an even more intent student of their work.”
The Hold Steady are playing THREE nights at the Crocodile for the tour kickoff, August 15-17: www.theholdsteady.net The new album, Thrashing Thru the Passion, is out August 16th
The Alarm are playing at the Triple Door tonight with Gene Loves Gezebel and Modern English. Tickets & info: bit.ly
Cut Copy originally released "Where I'm Going" as a free download
"Mushroom growing in the car; it's just another Tuesday..." Here are the lyrics: genius.com