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Friday, Jul 19 2019, 6AM
Watch Stephen Colbert and The Mountain Goats perform this song two days ago: www.spin.com
"Put your helmet on, we'll be heading for a fall...."The band's Dave Sitek told NME: "The 'I keep telling myself...' line means that it might not be true. Everyone goes through that, on multiple levels. There's a lot of doubt floating around." Here are the lyrics: www.azlyrics.com
Watch an "unofficial " music video for this song. The filmmaker says: "This was done for a film production class assignment that required us to make a "cinepoem" that made the audience feel some emotion.": www.youtube.com
"Broke tooth one day, something's not the same..." Do you want to know what Jose Gonzalez, St. Vincent, and the choir are singing?: genius.com
Here's Arcade Fire performing "Wake Up' live at Lollapalooza 2017: www.youtube.com
John Lennon's third single with the Plastic Ono Band was written and recorded on the same day, and released just 10 days later. Upon its release he told the press that he "wrote it for breakfast, recorded it for lunch, and we're putting it out for dinner". Lennon wrote "Instant Karma" in the morning of January 27th, 1970.
"It’s wistful, it’s playful, and it’s just this side of perfect." This is certainly one of the "10 best New Order songs": www.stereogum.com
Thanks, Josh, for this request. Watch Pinback playing live in the KEXP studio in 2013: www.youtube.com
Speaking of 2013....The Dismemberment Plan's "Daddy Was A Real Good Dancer" was selected as a KEXP Song of the Day. You can own this recording for free here: www.kexp.org
Goldspot eventually enthralls a disbelieving classroom in the video for "Friday": www.youtube.com
Watch this much-loved NYC band live in the KEXP studio in 2016: www.kexp.org
Today is the birthday of Kevin Haskins, drummer, songwriter, and composer of Bauhaus, Love and Rockets, and Tones on Tail. He was born in 1960.
This Australian (Hobart) band describe themselves this way: "Quivers make cathartic guitar pop that jangles and shimmers somewhere between 1980s Australia and 1990s America.": quiversss.bandcamp.com
"My oh my." Congratulations, Edgar Martinez, on your well-deserved induction into the Baseball Hall. And...oh, how we miss Dave Niehaus: www.si.com
Great request, two-year-old Ethan! Here's the official music video for "Yoshimi...": www.youtube.com
Thanks, Tovy, for this request (and good microphone work)! Want to find out where Zap Mama is on tour?: www.zapmama.com
This song won Best Pop Song at the May 1983 Ivor Novello Awards, coveted British awards for songwriting and composition.:www.youtube.com .
Tomorrow, July 20th, Tacocat will be playing Kitsap Pride in Bremerton, Washington.
Oh, Miriam, what a fine selection. Here's scary video of Mudhoney on top of the Space Needle: www.youtube.com
Don't shoot that bear! El-P and Killer Mike are in he lineup for the video of "Legend Has It": www.youtube.com
Weezer will be at the Washington State Fair in Puyallup on Sunday, September 1st, 2019.
Fifty years ago, on July 20, 1969, astronauts walked on the Moon for the first time. Just a few weeks earlier, another space-age event had rocked the world: David Bowie’s single “Space Oddity” hit airwaves.: mentalfloss.com
This is a follow-up to David Bowie's 1969 song "Space Oddity," and continues the story of Major Tom, an astronaut who cuts off communication with Earth and floats into space. In this song, having determined that Major Tom is, in fact, sober, Earth decides to bring Tom home. However, just as he is about to turn on the thrusters and jet down to Earth, he cuts off communication with the line "give my wife my love" and turns off the power to the ship. It is assumed that, sadly, Tom died in the process of re-entry, but in fact he has faked his death so he can return to the depths of space, which he now considers his home.
Eagle-eared record collectors had long spoken in hushed tones of the striking similarities between ‘Creep’ and The Hollies’ 1973 song ‘The Air That I Breathe’. Eventually, Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood of the group cottoned on, successfully suing Radiohead for copyright infringement. As a result, the ‘Pablo Honey’ inlay now credits Hammond and Hazlewood as ‘Creep’ co-writers, with the pair of Hollies taking a split of royalties.
Read more interesting facts about this song: www.nme.com
Ahhh...the Friday song. Send us your mixtape now for KEXP's mixtape week, August 26th-30th, 2019.: www.kexp.org
"But you're standing on the wall like you was Poindexter..." Learn these lyrics by heart: www.songfacts.com
The acapella version of this duet is absolutely great: www.youtube.com
Today is the birthday of Queen guitarist Brian May, born on this date in 1947. Read a biography of this astrophysicist: www.biography.com
The song is a perfect Paul McCartney pastiche of the Beach Boys’ happy go lucky style: it’s a spoof of the US band’s carefree "California Girls." Taking his title from rock ’n’ roll pioneer Chuck Berry’s 1959 hit Back In The USA, McCartney wrote the song when The Beatles were on a retreat in Rishikesh, India. On his return McCartney played the song to his friends, including his brother Mike, who suggested they get the real Beach Boys in to do the backing vocals - but Paul vetoed that idea.: Learn more about this rocker: www.radiox.co.uk
The song received a nomination for Best Dance Recording at the 58th Grammy Awards.: www.youtube.com
That's Vinia Mojica providing vocals for the chorus. Q-Tip is also collaborating on this song.
Jamie Smith told Uncut what he liked about the song title is that it is an old English phrase. He said: "'Oh my gosh' is a very old English thing to say and then jungle MCs started to say it in the '90s. I like that more than it being a reference to '90s dance music. I like its general Britishness."
Go back in time to 2012 to watch a live in-studio performance at KEXP: www.youtube.com
Doesn't that fire extinguisher sound great in this song (Yes, that's a fire extinguisher being struck with a drumstick.)? Here's more about one of Morgan's favorite songs: www.smoothradio.com
Thank you, Tilly, for this pick. This song originated when keyboardist Dave Greenfield experimented with a musical passage. While Greenfield perfected the synthesizer/harpsichord backing texture, Hugh Cornwell wrote 10 minutes worth of lyrics. He cut them down to fit the song.: www.youtube.com
Ant's look in the video was based on the costume David Hemmings' character wore in the 1968 film The Charge of the Light Brigade. It was a 19th century British military look that Ant adapted. The video was a huge part of the song's success, as it gave an image to Ant's "dandy highwayman" character.: www.youtube.com
Earlier this week, Phoebe Bridgers released a cover, saying that this is "the best possible summer song": www.rollingstone.com
Watch Thunderpussy perform "Velvet Noose" live in the KEXP studio in august, 2018: www.youtube.com
Enjoy a 2018 interview with John Flansburgh of They Might Be Giants: consequenceofsound.net
Violent Femmes will be part of the great lineup for the debut THING Festival in Port Townsend, Washington, Saturday and Sunday, August 24th and 25th, 2019.
The video for "Rhinoceros" was one of The Smashing Pumpkins' earliest: www.youtube.com
"Go!" by Public Service Broadcasting was a KEXP Song of the Day. download it for yourself here: www.kexp.org
"Josie" is a song written by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen and first released by Steely Dan on their 1977 album "Aja."
Learn more about School of Rock Seattle: locations.schoolofrock.com
This was the Alice in Chains' first single, released in 1990 ahead of "Man In The Box." It was the title track of a 3-song EP that was their first release on Columbia Records. Layne Staley (in 1991): "We Die Young is about gang violence. That was something that was happening in Seattle, something that kinda opened our eyes. It just seemed like things were getting out of hand. Incidents where kids were getting shot, and getting their tennis shoes ripped off their dead bodies. It just seems like these kids are dying at younger and younger ages and getting involved in gang activity."
Read the the lyrics to this Bruno Mars cover: genius.com
