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Friday, Jun 7 2019, 6AM
Good morning and happy Friday. "Mr. DJ, would you please play a song for me?" It's an all-request show, beginning with this R.E.M. tune: www.youtube.com
Morphine's Mark Sandman died of cardia arrest at a show in Italy in 1999. Read a little about the rumors surrounding his death: michaelazerrad.typepad.com
R.I.P., Dr. John, who died yesterday at the age of 77. Read his NY Times obituary: www.nytimes.com This particular song, "Sweet Home New Orleans," features drummer Clive Deamer of Portishead and keyboardist Martin Duffy of Primal Scream.
Eric Clapton initially refused to play on this song, saying, "Nobody ever plays on the Beatles' records." "So what?"
George Harrison countered. "It's my song." Clapton finally agreed to play, but he wanted his part to sound "Beatle-y." Harrison's solution was to process the track containing Clapton's guitar part and the organ with Artificial Double Tracking, varying the speed to create a pitch-wobbling effect.
Here's what Julien Bracht and Markus Nicolaus (aka Lea Porcelain) have to say about their newest creation:
“The song describes a time in everybody’s life that make you lose faith in yourself, in someone else or in life itself and you just need to hear from someone that one day everything will be ok again. That no matter what, with time and patience we all will be ok.”
Tom Morello, of Rage Against The Machine and Audioslave, confirmed in a recent interview “there’s a great amount of Audioslave material” that was never released prior to Chris Cornell’s tragic May 2017 death. It appears that there may be an Audioslave record at some point when all parties involved want it. As Morello said, there are ‘records worth’ of unreleased songs.: www.alternativenation.net
Modest Mouse (with The Black Keys and Shannon and the Clams) will be at the Tacoma Dome in Tacoma, Washington on Saturday, November 23rd, 2019. For more tour dates, go here: www.modestmouse.com
The Dismemberment Plan performed live for KEXP VIP Club members at The Triple Door in Seattle in 2013. Watch that performance that included "You Are Invited": www.youtube.com
Formerly titled "South African Song," "Rise" was written by John Lydon about the oppression of blacks in South Africa during the apartheid era. He said: "I read this manual on South African interrogation techniques, and 'Rise' is quotes from some of the victims. I put them together because I thought it fitted in aptly with my own feelings about daily existence." The song marries rock with Celtic folk and finds Lydon singing the phrase "May The Road Rise With You," which is an old Irish blessing. Lydon was brought up as the son of an Irish couple who immigrated to an impoverished area of London.
The song was inspired by the book "Elvis and Me" by Priscilla Presley. According to songwriter Martin Gore:
"It's a song about being a Jesus for somebody else, someone to give you hope and care. It's about how Elvis Presley was her man and her mentor and how often that happens in love relationships; how everybody's heart is like a god in some way, and that's not a very balanced view of someone, is it?": www.youtube.com
"I would like a place I can call my own..." Read the lyrics to "Regret": songmeanings.com
Happy birthday, 8-year-old Reese. This one's for you!
The promotional video for the song features a man at a busy road junction, holding a red sign in the shape of a pointing arrow, containing the words "Condos - Now Selling". As he stands at the junction, he turns the sign around many times, pointing it in all directions, including flipping it in the air and spinning it on his head, while the cars, pedestrians and skateboarders pass by.: www.youtube.com
Who should I call? That shrink in Beverly Hills?,,,, Prince was born on this date in 1958 and died on April 21, 2016 at age 57.
Thanks, Thomas, for this request for "everyone who's had a long week." Read an oral history of how "The Meadowlands" came to be: www.stereogum.com
I'll bet you were wondering if anyone would request Pixies today. Frank Black described this song as being about "Japanese businessmen doing murder-suicides with their families because they'd failed in business, and they're driving off a pier into the ocean."
Watch Angel Olsen singing "Never Be Mine" live in the KEXP studio in 2017: www.youtube.com
"In the video for 'Different Now,' director Bobby McHugh pays tribute to Temple Of The Dog's video for 'Hunger Strike.' Plaid, leather jackets, rock beaches, baggy jeans, tall grass, fog, anti-rock star poses, more plaid---a goofy scene for a very pretty song": www.npr.org
Tacocat is playing tomorrow night, Saturday, June 8th, 2019, at The Showbox.
Ahhh....the Friday song. Thank you, Amplifiers, for your constant, generous, and loving support: www.kexp.org
Want to see George Michael and Stevie Wonder singing this song together?: www.youtube.com
Uh-oh! find out where Tsutomu "Tom" Shimura (aka Lyrics Born) is playing and much more at his official website: www.lyricsborn.com
“‘We Appreciate Power’ is written from the perspective of a pro-AI girl group propaganda machine who use song, dance, sex, and fashion to spread goodwill towards artificial intelligence (it’s coming whether you want it or not),” Grimes’ statement added. “Simply by listening to this song, the future General AI overlords will see that you’ve supported their message and be less likely to delete your offspring.” : pitchfork.com
"When we get hungry we eat the same f**king food...
The ramen noodle..." Learn the lyrics to this important song: www.azlyrics.com
Yes, that's Buffalo Springfield's "For What It's Worth" that is sampled heavily in this song. Here's the original: www.youtube.com
Oh, Ogden, today marks your eighth trip around the sun. Happy birthday! : www.youtube.com
On Wednesday, September 11th, 2019, Pop Will Eat Itself will play El Corazon in Seattle.
Today is Dave Navarro's birthday! He was born in 1967. (That makes him...uh...52, John).
Broken Social Scene was in the KEXP studio in October, 2017 for a terrific live performance: www.youtube.com
Robert Smith had a difficult time believing that – much like Paul McCartney’s apparently effortless writing of “Yesterday” – he had seemingly pulled the music to “Friday I’m in Love” out of thin air. “I mean, ‘Friday I’m in Love’ is not a work of genius, it was almost a calculated song,” he said in 2008. “It’s a really good chord progression, I couldn’t believe no one else had used it and I asked so many people at the time. I was getting drug paranoia anyway: ‘I must have stolen this from somewhere, I can’t possibly have come up with this.'”: www.rollingstone.com
Watch video of a live performance in Tokyo in 1982: www.youtube.com
Please tell me more, you ask, about this Antwerp, Belgium band: www.allmusic.com
Miles was born 4 years ago tomorrow. Thank you, Megan, for this "labor and delivery" request. Watch a live version from Rome almost thirty years ago: www.youtube.com
"Do you wanna play with me?" Here are the lyrics to the much-loved (and much-requested) "frog song": genius.com
In this interview, The Orb talks about how they made "Little Fluffy Clouds": www.theguardian.com
Today is Prince's birthday; he was born in 1958. The video for this song is an odd mashup of performance footage and animation. Simon Fields, who was one of the top music video producers at the time, said in the book I Want My MTV: "We filmed a whole video, then Prince got a Japanese animator to do a completely different video and we mashed the two up. He would mess with directors. He would give them the impression that they'd be in charge of the video, then halfway through he'd go 'Thank you,' take what he liked, and edit it himself.": www.youtube.com
John reported that he would only sing (loudly) to Wham! Does that include George Michael?: www.youtube.com
Bowie said this song's call-and-response vocal arrangement "all comes from Little Richard." A defining moment in Bowie's childhood was when his dad came home with a copy of "Tutti Frutti."
Here's a biography of Kamaal Ibn John Fareed, better known by his stage name Q-Tip.: www.allmusic.com
A good time to dance would be the KEXP Father's Day Dance Party, sunday, June 16th, 2019. Find out about this event and get tickets here: www.kexp.org
What a fine segue! Speaking with the BBC, Richard Ashcroft said this was inspired by his relationship with his wife.
He added: "And that sense of, once you're beyond the sort of peacock dance that you have early in a relationship and you're getting down to the raw nature of yourselves - there's a beauty in that as well."
See the official video for this wonderful song by Portland band The Helio Sequence: www.youtube.com
Odesza was live in the KEXP studio in the fall of 2017. See that performance here: www.youtube.com
This review of Haelos' sophomore album, "Any Random Kindness," calls it " a love letter to the planet and humanity": www.popmatters.com
That's Tracey Thorn from Everything But The Girl singing here. She also wrote the lyrics.
Watch the video for Prine's haunting cover of the Radiohead song: www.youtube.com
Have we mentioned that today is Prince's birthday? Read this remembrance of Prince by three key women in his life: variety.com