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Thursday, Aug 1 2019, 6AM
Good morning Seattle, and welcome to the Thursday edition of The Morning Show. Watch this London band's performance from our studio earlier this year here: www.youtube.com
This new song from Australia's Flume (the alias of Harley Streten) features the vocals of London Grammar's Hannah Reid | flumemusic.com
This Toronto-based band has been going strong since forming in 1998, and they stopped by our Gathering Space earlier this year to record an acoustic session! Watch it here: www.youtube.com
The Safari EP is the only release from The Breeders that features both Tanya Donnelly and Kelley Deal on it... Donnelly would leave the band to front Belly in 1991. Deal (Kim's twin sister) is still with the Breeders
Playing Barboza on September 28th! Get your tickets here: www.thebarboza.com
For Chris, who's been listening every morning for the last 10 years... you will be ok <3
Watch the video for this Morning Show staple here: www.youtube.com
Patterson Hood about this song: "I wrote this one in my office shortly before the economic collapse of last 2008. I came out of a several year drought of songwriting and wrote about three albums worth of songs for this project but I always knew that this one would be for The Big To-Do... At the same time, coming home meant working shitty jobs to pay off the debt that touring at that level incurred (plus some of us were married and everyone had to eat). I can still remember a soul-searching decision where we just decided to go for broke and try to make all of this happen."
Settle in, it's a brand new song from Manchester's Elbow! Frontman Guy Harvey says it is “a great, big, bewildered question dealing with my feelings on Brexit, the loss of family and friends and the general sense of disaffection you see all around at the moment.” Also featuring the vocals of Jesca Hoop, you can purchase a limited edition 10" of this single on August 2nd (hey, that's tomorrow!) here: bit.ly
Off the third full-length album from the English band. Watch them performing for us in 2013 here: www.kexp.org
Off the new covers album celebrating the ten year anniversary of Frightened Rabbit's The Midnight Organ Fight. Canadian band Wintersleep appears on this alongside other artists Daughter, The Twilight Sad, Julien Baker, The National's Aaron Dessner, and many more
Am I here? of course I am, yes | All I need is your hand to drag me out again
One of Stereogum's ten picks for best The War on Drugs songs (#3 to be exact). See the full list here: bit.ly
The first single released off Tom Petty's 1991's album Into The Great Wide Open
New from sister trio Haim! Danielle Haim wrote this song after her romantic partner (and producer) Ariel Rechtshaid was diagnosed with testicular cancer... "Whenever I would come home in between shows I wanted to be his sunshine—his summer when he was feeling dark." He has since recovered.
Debut album from Philadelphia's G. Love & the Special Sauce, released in 1994
Off the forthcoming debut solo album the Alabama Shakes frontwoman wanted to make while taking a break from her band... "right now they’re just letting me do my thing."
Oceans of the world by size, according to World Atlas: bit.ly
This Scottish band was in our studio this past October, watch their full performance here: www.youtube.com
New British band that has released two songs so far, this being the second! Find them here: www.facebook.com
Title track from Bowie's fourteenth album, released in 1980. See Rolling Stone's review of this album here: bit.ly
Happy birthday Thomas! This Bowie song - and photo of a sperm whale - is for you: bit.ly
Posthumous album of demos (!) from Prince that he wrote for other artists - “He said, ‘I told you if I dreamed another verse, I was coming in.’ And I went, ‘Oh, my God. You dream your songs?’ And he went, ‘Sometimes I do.'” : bit.ly
We're STILL waiting for more info on this band of mystery... soundcloud.com
Found on the second album from this NYC band that has sold over 500,000 copies since its release in 1996!
Here's Courtney Barnett and her crew performing this song for us in 2014! On Halloween. In costumes... www.youtube.com
James Dennis "Jim" Carroll was born on this day in 1949 - In addition to writing the book "The Basketball Diaries" (that inspired the 1995 film of the same name), he was a member of The Jim Carroll Band. He joined the people who died on September 11, 2009
The latest single off Sleater-Kinney's forthcoming ninth album The Center Won't Hold, out on August 16th! They'll be in town (minus Janet) for two nights at the Paramount on November 23rd and 24th: www.sleater-kinney.com
The Vivian Girls have reunited, and are releasing their first new album in eight years on September 20th! More here: www.viviangirls.net
Happy 59th birthday to L7's Suzi Gardner, born on this day in 1960!
Off the L.A. band's new album Heaven Is Humming. Also, here are the top five reasons your check engine light might be on: bit.ly
Opening track (and the first single) off Pavement's debut album Slanted and Enchanted. If your summer babe eats her fingers like they're just another meal, then this is your joint jam I guess
Happy 19th birthday to The Dandy Warhol's third album Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia, released on this day in 2000!
New Pixies album Beneath the Eyrie will be here September 13th! Here's your link: pixies.lnk.to
Playing tonight at Chop Suey! In case you can't go, (because it's sold out) here's the New Zealand band live at KEXP in 2018: www.youtube.com
"Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll." Happy 38th birthday to MTV, which launched on this day in 1981! This was the first video ever played on the channel: www.youtube.com
And now for the video for the Pretender's 1979 single "Brass In Pocket" (Happy birthday MTV!): www.youtube.com
1980 video from Bowie that MTV was able to add in rotation by the time of their launch in August 1981: www.youtube.com
By the time of MTV's launch on August 1, 1981, they had less than 300 videos they used in their rotation. Here's the one for Split Enz from 1980 that was played on the day of their launch: www.youtube.com
Angel Olsen has announced her new (and fourth) album All Mirrors, out on October 4th! “In every way — from the making of it, to the words, to how I feel moving forward, this record is about owning up to your darkest side, finding the capacity for new love and trusting change even when you feel like a stranger" she said in a press statement. Pre-order here: angelolsen.com
A new version of the track that originally appears on Fever Ray's 2009 self-titled debut album
Formed by Swedish siblings Olof and Karin Dreijer in 1999. The Knife hasn't released anything new since 2013, but Karin is still releasing music as Fever Ray
Samples Funkadelic's "Can You Get to That" off of 1971's Maggot Brain album
Seattle band that added backing vocals on this new single from Patti King of The Shins and Radiation City. Find it here: blackferns.bandcamp.com
Self-described as "NYC sad girl music" (MORE OF THAT PLEASE): www.facebook.com
Out now, it's the debut album from Montreal-based singer Ada Lea! Get it here: www.adaleamusic.com
Check out our recap of Deerhunter's show at the Showbox in 2015 here: bit.ly
When the big labels came calling for the Wrens, they ended up writing this song about the experience: "So Charles wrote “This Boy Is Exhausted” and it was essentially about, ”Fuck you, you’re not going to sign us anyway, but you’re making us do all this shit in front of you.” I must tell you, it was a beautiful moment to be in a band, sitting in the big crystal office, listening to the music pump out, and watching this guy. And then at the end, he said, “Fuck you, I don’t like you guys either.”