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Thursday, Jun 20 2019, 6AM
Good morning Seattle, and welcome to the Thursday edition of The Morning Show. Dusk is the fourth album from Matt Johnson-led London band The The, released in 1993. "Love Is Stronger Than Death" is a song Johnson wrote following the death of his younger brother Eugene Johnson.
Released as a single in 1985 and found on The Colour of Spring, Talk Talk's third LP
According to bassist Tina Weymouth, the "Naive Melody" title of this classic Talking Heads song refers to the "truly naive" experimentation the band had with composing this track.
The sequel song to "Space Oddity", which came eleven years after Bowie's first reference to Major Tom
Thom Yorke in an oral history to Pitchfork about this song: [“Karma Police”] is for someone who has to work for a large company. This is a song against bosses. F**k the middle management!" bit.ly
Courtney Barnett about this new song: “[It’s about] some sort of social anxiety that then morphs into paranoia and a level of sadness and depression." Watch the video for "Everybody Here Hates You" here: www.youtube.com
Stef Chura will be at Barboza on July 31st, find your tickets here! bit.ly
Prounoun's Alyse Vellturo: "I started [pronoun] three years ago, after a bad breakup. Making music is the only thing that made me feel better. It’s the only thing that kept me from going insane. Even though I still went a little insane." | bit.ly
Underrated jangly alt-pop found on the third album from this Dutch band that formed in 1990.
This one's for all the other solitary party groovers trying to keep their hearts safe this morning <3
Canadian poet/rapper/singer/songwriter K’Naan fled in 1991 to New York City with his mom and two siblings after war broke out in his home country of Somalia. He would later settle in Toronto and released his first LP The Dusty Foot Philosopher in 2006
Off the brand new album from London's Kate Tempest. Watch her live performance with us in 2017 here: www.youtube.com
The debut LP from UK rapper Slowthai. “Music to me is the biggest connector of people. It don’t matter what social circle you’re from, it bonds people across divides. And that’s why I do music: to bridge the gap and bring people together.” Find his work here: slowthai.bandcamp.com
Watch this Scottish trio's live performance with us from 2018 here: www.youtube.com
Found on the third full-length release from this D.C.-based quartet. Read Pitchfork's 9.6 rating of this album here: bit.ly
Happy 25th birthday to Bee Thousand, Guided by Voices seventh album (out of approximately 537) released on this day in 1994!
This British electronic duo formed in 1997 and took their name from a 1971 horror film of the same name
Featuring a sample from Gunter Kallmann Choir's "Daydream" (Which also showed up in our previous song from I Monster)
Spoon announced yesterday that they've got a greatest hits comp coming, and it will feature this new song, "No Bullets Spent." Everything Hits At Once will be out on July 26th via Matador, find it here: bit.ly
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Frightened Rabbit cover by Julien Baker to be featured on the forthcoming release Tiny Changes: A Celebration Of The Midnight Organ Fight. It will also include covers by the National’s Aaron Dessner, Chvrches’ Lauren Mayberry, the Hold Steady’s Craig Finn, Katie Harkin, Sarah Silverman, Manchester Orchestra, and Ben Gibbard. Portions of the sale from this album (out on July 12th) will benefit the mental health charity Tiny Changes - lnk.to
This super-trio of Julien Baker, Lucy Dacus, and Phoebe Bridgers blessed us with their presence late last year, and you can watch the full performance here: www.youtube.com
I have emotional motion sickness | Somebody roll the windows down | There are no words in the English language | I could scream to drown you out | www.youtube.com
A studio release of this song finally appeared on The National's latest (and eighth) full-length record. Here's the live version they did for us during their KEXP visit in 2017: www.youtube.com
Happy 24th birthday to The Verve's sophomore album A Northern Soul, released on this day in 1995!
Off Serf's Up!, the third album from London-based Fat White Family. Find it here: fatwhitefamily.bandcamp.com
The Sri Lankan civil war caused M.I.A.'s (born Mathangi Arulpragasam) mother to relocate her and her children to Madras in India. M.I.A. eventually made her way to London, and released her first album Arular in 2005
Joe Strummer about this record: "I knew we'd done something great, it was one of our absolute masterpieces. But the band had to shatter after that record."
Happy 59th birthday to Duran Duran bassist, John Taylor, born on this day in 1960!
Boston band Throwing Muses were the first U.S. act to be signed on British label 4AD. And now here's Kristin Hersh live at KEXP! www.youtube.com
Hi, we're just here to tell you to put the Le Tigre documentary "Who Took The Bomp?" on your watchlist: whotookthebomp.vhx.tv
The new album from Portland's Summer Cannibals is set to release on June 28th, get your pre-order in here! tinyengines.limitedrun.com
The first single released off They Might Be Giants third album, Flood. Watch the video for "Birdhouse In Your Soul" here: www.youtube.com
The first music video for PUSA's "Lump" actually did take place in a "boggy marsh" - www.youtube.com
Cue everyone just jabbering nonsense words along to this song in 3... 2..
He's made of bones, he's made of blood | He's made of flesh, he's made of love | He's made of you, he's made of me | Unity | Here's IDLES performing this song live for us in London (with special guest, Danny Nedelko!) here: www.youtube.com
According to Queen guitarist Brian May about this song, Bowie insisted that "he and Mercury shouldn’t hear what the other had sung, swapping verses blind, which helped give the song its cut-and-paste feel.”
Mavis Staples has been releasing albums since 1969, and We Get By is her latest. Keep up with her here: mavisstaples.com
Homecoming is the live album (and concert film) from Beyonce's historic 2018 Coachella performance
"Lift Every Voice And Sing" was originally a poem by James Weldon Johnson written in 1900. His brother ,John Rosamond Johnson, would set it to music five years later
A hit song for Roberta Flack in 1973, and also for the Fugees in 1996
Off the 1997 debut solo album from the Fugees member Wyclef Jean
This song from U.K. artist (and BRIT award winner) Finley Quaye features a sample from Bob Marley's "Sun Is Shining"
This song first appeared on Marley's 1971 album Soul Revolution and was later re-recorded for 1978's Kaya
“Final Form is about expanding yourself and calling out any negativity towards that growth process. As an artist I now recognise my in-between stage; sometimes it drops and sometimes it rises, but I love that I get to level up each second. I might even final form tomorrow.” Find this new single (and more) from Sampa The Great here: sampathegreat.bandcamp.com
Closing track off A Tribe Called Quest's second album, The Low End Theory, released in 1991
Playing Bumbershoot Festival this Labor Day weekend! Find the full lineup and tickets here: bumbershoot.com
Emancipator is Doug Appling, a producer and DJ based out of Portland. This track is a 2011 mashup of Sigur Rós's "Untitled 1" and Mobb Deep's "Shook Ones Part II"
Words from James Altucher book “Choose Yourself” Find this song here: starslingeruk.bandcamp.com
Washington, D.C. band that formed in 1981 and broke up shortly after the release of this album in 1993
L.A. band The Three O'Clock originally called themselves The Salvation Army before changing it due to the obvious conflict with the actual organization of the same name
A song co-written by Go-Go's guitarist Jane Wiedlin and Terry Hall of Fun Boy Three. Fun Boy Three released this version after the Go-Go's in 1983