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Friday, Jul 26 2019, 6AM
Good morning and happy Friday. Julian Zyklus is an Italian producer and musician. His solo debut album, "Four Dimensional Waves," is "a bold conceptual record based on the cyclic idea of a universe born through a white hole that moves and grows through four-dimensional waves before arriving at its final black hole.": It was released in June and you can purchase it here: hushhushrecords.bandcamp.com
"Outro" is the final song on M83's "Hurry Up. We're Dreaming." "Facing tempests of dust, I'll fight until the end...." Maybe you've been wondering what's being sung here.: genius.com
Moby said, "The song 'When It’s Cold I’d Like to Die' originally had a lot more going on. The original version of it, there were maybe some drums and a bass line and some other elements. It just wasn’t as interesting. There was something about removing 90 percent of the elements that actually brought out the inherent vulnerability of the song. That was something that I learned: Sometimes by reducing the number of things in a piece of music and ostensibly making it less technically viable, you actually enhance the strength of the music." Here's the official video: www.youtube.com
James Kenneth Chapman, known professionally as Maps, is an English record producer, songwriter and remixer. “I used to call it the shiver test,” he says of the songs on "Colours.Reflect. Time. Loss...." , with a grin. “It’s when you listen to a song and it gives you goosebumps, and that’s when you know you’ve nailed it". : Ihttps://www.clashmusic.com/features/just-reflecting-maps-interviewed
Watch a live performance by Odesza in the KEXP studio in September, 2017: www.youtube.com
Watch Neon Indian perform "Sleep Paralysist" live at the Palladium Ballroom in Dallas: www.youtube.com
Enjoy an extended 2018 "DJ discourse" with Ernest Greene (aka Washed Out):plasmamag.com
This was the Cars' highest-charting US single and their second-highest charting UK single, the highest being "My Best Friend's Girl." Cars bass player Ben Orr sang lead on this one. Orr died of pancreatic cancer in 2000. When he died, this was played in his honor at a memorial service at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Lusine is performing at the Cascadia NW 2019 Music Festival in Granite Falls, Washington this weekend. They'll be playing tomorrow, Saturday, July 27th, 2019.: www.cascadianw.com
Tycho will be performing at Seattle's Paramount Theatre on Sunday, September 8th, 2019. Scott Hansen, aka Tycho, explains this new track being inspired by a recent trip he took with his wife to Hakone, Japan to visit some of his wife’s Japanese relatives. "I was thinking a lot about the kinds of electronic music instruments I had been using when I first started making music in the late '90s. With “Japan,” I was trying to recapture a part of that sound and combine it with the imagery and experiences from my trip to Hakone. I sent the song to Hannah (Saint Sinner) with nothing more than the title of “Japan” and she wrote all of the lyrics." : www.youtube.com
Seattle musician Peter Michel (aka Hibou) just began his tour in support of the new album, "Halve": www.facebook.com
Want to know a little more about this Los Angeles-based outfit?: www.allmusic.com
Yes, Melina Duterte (aka Jay Som) will be at Neumos on Wednesday, September 18th, 2019. In the meantime, you may download "Superbike," a recent KEXP Song of the Day, for free: www.kexp.org
This is a cover of "Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos," a song by Public Enemy. That's Martina Topley-Bird performing the vocals backed by the techno-rock band FTV.: www.youtube.com
There's a great picture (Note the stamp!) of 24-year-old rapper Tyron Frampton in this glowing review of his debut album, "Nothing Great About Britain": www.theguardian.com
Go back to 2011 to watch the band perform "Caffeinated Consciousness" live on Letterman: www.youtube.com
This is DJ Shadow's first new music since 2016’s "The Mountain Will Fall" and his 2017 EP "The Mountain Has Fallen." A new album will be out later this year. He says, "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.”
"By 8:31 I'm ready to scream..." There will be a quiz on the lyrics to "I Wanna Go Home": genius.com
See the video for "If I Only Had a Brain": www.youtube.com
This song (also the name of a golden retriever) is believed to be based on an actual young woman from the group's high school. It is a confession of love from Q-Tip to a girl who happens to have a rather sizable posterior.
Zambia-born, Sydney-based rapper Sampa the Great has announced her debut album. The Return is out September 13 via Ninja Tune. It features the single “OMG,” which arrives with a new video. The video was shot between South Africa and Botswana, where Sampa was raised.: pitchfork.com
KEXP premiered the video for "You Push, I'll Go": www.kexp.org
"Freedom! '90" (also known simply as "Freedom!") is a song written, produced, and performed by George Michael. The "'90" added to the end of the title is to prevent confusion with a hit by Michael's former band Wham!, also titled "Freedom".
The most important work Arcade Fire has ever done has nothing to do with music. Read about their charitable work.: www.theloop.ca
This song was inspired by an idea LCD Soundsystem leader James Murphy had for enlisting French electronic music duo Daft Punk for a film. He explained: "I tried to get them to play a house party. I wanted to do a documentary were we would get a local band to play in a basement, then us and then Daft Punk. And being the nature of what house parties are, not that many people would even know who Daft Punk are, which would be extra funny. There would just be this basement, Daft Punk, some kids, a keg and a washing machine. It would be great."
Ahhh... the (long) Friday song. This one's for you, Julie. Best wishes today.
Where was the video filmed (you ask)? Well, The Blue Star Cafe, The Regent, Union Transfer, Music Hall of Williamsburg, Paradise Rock Club, Che Cafe, Timewarp Music, The Echo, American Electric Tattoo Co, Bottom of the Hill, 9:30 Club, Cafe Du Norde, Cloyne Co-op, Catnap, Bowery Ballroom, Lola's Saloon, FYF, ACL, and Spanish Moon.: www.youtube.com
"Woo hoo"! Did you know that "Song 2" lasts for exactly 2 minutes and 2 seconds? Here's more you may not have remembered.: www.radiox.co.uk
Jesus Jones said, ‘Bill Clinton used it as his campaign song. Then Hillary used it as hers. I think it got stuck in their car stereo and was the only song they knew’ Read how Jesus Jones made this song: www.theguardian.com
“Unbelievable” opens with a sample of then white-hot comedian Andrew Dice Clay’s “Oh!” which he’d use as an exclamation point to his jokes during standup, and then incorporates it throughout the song. This song is 28 years old now: diffuser.fm
Liverpool band The Farm literally gets on the groovy train in the video for this song: www.youtube.com
That period in the late 80's and early 90's was quite formative (Wasn't it....cough...Athena?). Paste placed this song at number 8 in their list of "25 Awesome One-Hit Wonders of the 1990s" in 2011.
In INXS's official autobiography, "INXS: Story to Story," Andrew Farriss said that the famous riff to the song appeared suddenly in his head while waiting for a cab to go to the airport to fly to Hong Kong. He asked the cab driver to wait a couple of minutes while he grabbed something from his motel room. In fact, he went up to record the riff and came back down an hour later with a tape to a very annoyed driver.
Prine wrote this song for Morris Day and The Time. Watch them perform it in this clip for "Purple Rain": www.youtube.com
Mista Bob Dogalina WOULD be a good dog name! Here's the video: www.youtube.com
This song samples the Ray Barretto song, recorded in 1968 with a similar name ("A Deeper Shade of Soul"). Barretto was a Puerto Rican conga drummer and bandleader born in New York. Learn more about this significant musician: www.npr.org
They're sampling Them's "Gloria" here. "The London-based duo known as Definition of Sound created an appealing and exciting blend of post-acid house hip-hop that merged freestyle, reggae, rap, funk, rock, and R&B." Read an Allmusic biography: www.allmusic.com
Happy birthday, Timothy Barnwell, better known as DJ Headliner, of Arrested Development, born on July 26,1967.
Not many people can say that they’re a neuroscientist by day and a DJ/producer at night. That's 24 year old Mancunian Sam Shepard, better known as Floating Points. Here's a review of the track, "LesAlpx": pitchfork.com
Kokoko! will be at Barboza on Sunday, October 12th, 2019.: www.kokokomusic.com
TR/ST‘s new album, "The Destroyer – Part 2," is due out on November 1st. This is the first single off the 8-track record. Titled “Iris”, the song is described as “a very important moment on the record. swallowing weight of shame, growth of fritillaries, and an ode to an eternal muse”.
Robert Smith: "The song is about excess. Anything I do is not enough, there always has to be something else or you'd stop, and the fact that there is always something else drives you into excess."
Smith wrote this after they had been in the studio 3 days trying to record a single. He says, "We recorded 4 songs and they sounded like crap, and I was really depressed. Everyone knew it wasn't working. I wrote Never Enough that night and said, 'Let's record this.'"
Watch the official music video for The Raconteurs' "Help Me Stranger": www.youtube.com
Back in 2011, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion played a powerful live set in the KEXP studio.: www.youtube.com
The English Beat and General Public's Ranking Roger died this spring at age 56: www.rollingstone.com
According to Q Magazine's 1001 Best Songs Ever, Michael Stipe has no idea what this song is about: "It still baffles me," he once said. "At one point after we recorded it I heard it and it made perfect sense. I was so exhilarated. I thought I'd accomplished what I set out to do. Then I forgot!"
John welcomed Quivers to the KEXP studio in March for a fine live performance that included this song: www.youtube.com
Thanks, Aaron, for this request. The Waterboys will probably play this song when they come to The Neptune Theatre on Tuesday, October 8th, 2019.
See Talk Talk playing "Life's what You Make It" live at Montreux in 1986: www.youtube.com
This was written by songwriters Paul Williams and Kenny Ascher for The Muppet Movie, which came out in 1979. Williams said, "Rainbow Connection" was the first number in the movie. It's the one that establishes the lead character. We find Kermit sitting in the middle of the swamp. Kenny Ascher and I sat down to write these songs, and we thought... Kermit, he's like 'every frog.' He's the Jimmy Stewart of frogs. So how do we show that he's a thinking frog, and that he has an introspective soul, and all that good stuff? We looked at his environment, and his environment is water and air - and light. And it just seemed like it would be a place where he would see a rainbow. But we also wanted to show that he would be on this spiritual path, examining life, and the meaning of life.
Do you think Anthony Gonzalez watched "The Muppet Movie" before he wrote "the frog song"?: www.youtube.com
"Grow some big feet, holes in history...
Is where you’ll find me..." According to Andrzej Lukowski of Drowned in Sound, "with the children to back her up and bulk her out, O can permit herself her frailest, most open tones".: www.youtube.com
Ooooh! The chorus includes Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Marianne Faithfull, Jane Asher, Mike McCartney, Pattie Harrison, Eric Clapton, Graham Nash, Keith Moon, Hunter Davies, Gary Leeds and more. Incidentally, today is Mick Jagger's birthday; he was born in 1943.
