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Tuesday, Jun 18 2019, 6AM
Get this. This song was written in part by Jackson Browne who also played live with Nico when she took up residence in a New York City coffeehouse.She was also joined by Leonard Cohen, and her Velvet Underground bandmates Lou Reed, Sterling Morrison and John Cale.
Two northwest shows coming up: Aug 02 at Pendarvis Farm
Happy Valley, OR and Aug 24 at THING fest' in Port Townsend, WA. Plus, why not support this amazing artist via her bandcamp page: blackbelteaglescout.bandcamp.com
Only PNW show so far is OCT 10th at Mississippi Studios in loverly, yes, lov-er-ly Portland, OR. joanshelley.bandcamp.com
Watch their ridiculously great performance of this amazing song here: www.youtube.com
Simon wrote this as a thinly veiled message to Art Garfunkel, referencing a specific incident where Garfunkel went to Mexico to act in the film Catch-22. Simon was left alone in New York writing songs for Bridge over Troubled Water, hence the lonely feelings of "The Only Living Boy in New York." Simon refers to Garfunkel in the song as "Tom", alluding to their early days when they were called Tom and Jerry, and encourages him to "let your honesty shine . . . like it shines on me".
According to Robin Guthrie, the word "aikea-guinea" is a Scottish colloquialism for a seashell. Well, that explains that. It also means "Cocoa Puffs" in Klingon.
Screamadelica was influenced by the Beach Boys' album Pet Sounds (1966). The band's Bobby Gillespie says that after discovering the album, their songs became much softer. Oh, and Bobby was the drummer in the early days of the next band...
Aaron takes lead on this one with singer-songwriter Eve Owens. He told Pitchfork: ...it feels different than what Matt would write—maybe I should feel embarrassed about that. [laughs] And then Eve has this bell-clear English voice, which made it even brighter. It’s fun to play live; it goes off the rails in a really nice way." pitchfork.com
To paraphrase "Fast Times at Ridgemont High," it's time to "learn, know, live" Spirit Award.
1 - Live on KEXP www.youtube.com
2 - Support them: spiritaward.bandcamp.com
Oh, and my brother has an awesome set of tools. I can fix it.
High Fidelity book and movie are both really good. www.amazon.com
Rob Gordon: I will now sell four copies of "The Three EPs" by The Beta Band.
Dick: Go for it.
Beta Band Customer: Who is this?
Rob Gordon:
The Beta Band.
Beta Band Customer: It's good.
Rob Gordon: I know.
On 10 October 2014, during an interview on BBC Radio 6, actor and comedian David Baddiel described guitarist Dave Gavurin (husband of singer Harriet Wheeler) as his "oldest mate" and stated that "they [Dave and Harriet] are doing music, but whether they ever put that out there, I’ve no idea. They're the most paranoid people about actually putting stuff out there."
Hey, that sounds like a cover of a song by Hole. Well, that's cuz it are!
Our Phantogram friends will be in Seattle to play the Capitol Hill Block Party, which is a block party, get this, on Capitol Hill, Friday, July 19th.
a song about a military man...what could be next?
Interesting. Another military man. Ever watch the original video? Pretty cool. www.youtube.com
Released on this day in 1996, which, according to the "new math," makes it 93 years young.
Happy birthday to Gary Lightbody from Snow Patrol and THE REINDEER SECTION. Born on this day in 1976 which makes him, you guessed it, 93 years young.
In an interview with Mojo, Coyne revealed that during the recording of Yoshimi..., band member Steven Drozd was trying to kick a heroin addiction. When they took breaks from playing, Drozd would have a really tough time with his withdrawal. Listening to him cry, and with the death of his father in mind, Coyne wrote: "Do You Realize??".
Wayne Coyne, commenting on "Do You Realize??" said, "Whenever I analyze the scientific realities of what it means to be living here on Earth – in this galaxy – spinning around the sun – flying through space – a terror shock seizes me!!! I'm reminded once again of how precarious our whole existence is..."
Someday someone should start a band called Immodest Mouse.
The band is/was fronted by singer Devon Welsh whose father Kenneth Welsh is known as the multi-faceted villain, Windom Earle, in Twin Peaks and played the father of Katharine Hepburn as portrayed by Cate Blanchett in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator.
Why not support the band or if you have a moment and find yourself in Russia, go see them at Cosmonaut Club at the intersection of Doynikov and Bronnitskaya. Ahem.
in St. Petersburg. cigarettesaftersex.bandcamp.com
U.F.O.F. was recorded in rural western Washington at Bear Creek Studios. In a large cabin-like room, the band set up their gear to track live. Having already lived these songs on tour, they were relaxed and ready to experiment. The raw material came quickly. Some songs
were written only hours before recording and stretched out instantly, first take, vocals and all. bigthief.bandcamp.com
Two-fer-Tuesday with @bigthiefmusic's "Cattails" a song we love so much, so hells yes, playing it twice. Support this amazing band. bigthief.bandcamp.com
Remember that time Wes from The Lumineers joined us in Nashville? That was AWESOME. www.facebook.com
Checkout their performance of this amazing song here at KEXP www.youtube.com
Mermaid Avenue is a 1998 album of previously unheard lyrics written by folk singer Woody Guthrie, put to music written and performed by British singer Billy Bragg and the band Wilco. Guthrie's daughter, Nora Guthrie, said the lyrics for the song contained the location where it was written. "He was living at a friend's house in Long Beach, 827 Cedar Avenue, the lyric says," Guthrie said. "So whoever's living there now, this song is yours. I don't have an exact date but I believe it was the last '30s." Click here to checkout the house: www.google.com
This being the last song on the album, The Beatles found an interesting way to close it out. After the final note, Lennon had producer George Martin dub in a high pitched tone, which most humans can't hear, but drives dogs crazy. This was followed by a loop of incomprehensible studio noise, along with Paul McCartney saying, "Never could see any other way," all spliced together. It was put there so vinyl copies would play this continuously in the run-out groove, sounding like something went horribly wrong with the record. Another good reason to own vinyl.
www.songfacts.com
The song was covered by the operatic soprano Renée Fleming in her 2010 album Dark Hope.
We were HONORED to have our Odesza pals perform live on KEXP. www.youtube.com
James Chapman a.k.a. Maps has produced official remixes for such artists as M83, The Killers, Depeche Mode, Moby, Bombay Bicycle Club and Susanne Sundfor.
Underworld has been around since 1980. 39-years of greatness.
July 18th at El Corazon with Ringo Deathstarr and Blushing. Learns up about `em here: tennissystem.bandcamp.com
Singer Halliday released four new songs in December 2017. "Deep State" and "Crashing Cars" can be found on the compilation album The Song Method 3, "Rebel Tattoo" is on the compilation album Psychadelic Indie and "Feel The Light" featuring Karen O on backing vocals can be found on the Swagger And Attitude 2 compilation.
In 2017 Dean and Toni contemplated a Curve reunion but ultimately Toni decided to decline for the moment.
KEXP caught up with band recently for a great interview. www.kexp.org
