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Monday, Jun 3 2019, 6AM
Good morning. "Every other day, every other day,
Every other day of the week is fine, yeah,
But whenever Monday comes, but whenever Monday comes,
A-you can find me cryin´ all of the time...." (John Phillips) The Cinematic Orchestra probably won't play "Monday, Monday" at The Neptune theatre on Monday, November 18th, 2019.
Here's a review of Haelos' sophomore album, "Any Random Kindness": www.passtheaux.co
Maps is Mercury Prize-nominated British composer/producer James Kenneth Chapman. "Colours. Reflect. Time. Loss.," his fourth album, came out on May 10th. He said, "I wanted to push everything to the limit with this record and explore new territory for Maps. The orchestral instrumentation and addition of other musicians and singers played a huge part in finding the purer and more human emotion I was searching for. I learnt the violin as I was growing up, so I'm glad it finally came in useful!" Here's the video for "Just Reflecting": www.youtube.com
"We kill what we build..." Here are the lyrics: genius.com Oh, want to know more about The Milky Way's smaller cousin, the spiral Messier 83 galaxy?: www.spitzer.caltech.edu
"Although 'stripped down to the bone' definitely has a carnal ringing to it, within the overall context of this song, it is not tantamount to a desire to see said lady without any clothes on." Read a discussion of this important single by Depeche Mode: www.songmeaningsandfacts.com
You can hear Spirit Award at The Tractor Tavern on Saturday, June 8th, 2019.
This single, “U (Man Like).” was produced by Chris Messina, Brad Cook, and Justin Vernon. It also features vocals from Wye Oak's Jenn Wasner in addition to Moses Sumney, Elsa Jensen, and Bruce Hornsby, who also plays piano on the track.
Choreographer Ryan Heffington's dancing in the video for "Destroyer" is powerful and moving: www.youtube.com
Hatchie, a.k.a. Harriette Pilbeam, will be at Barboza on Saturday, September 28th, 2019.“Obsessed,” the third single from her debut album, pushes the singer further into shoegaze-y territory, with fuzzy guitar and searing lyrics reminiscent of My Bloody Valentine and the Cocteau Twins: “Hung myself out to dry till you let me in/That’s when I knew I’d clip my wings, do anything for you.”: www.youtube.com
John Richards welcomed Belly into the KEXP studio last August for a live performance: www.youtube.com
Taylor, your friend Joni requested this song for you. You are not alone.: www.youtube.com
Lea Porcelain talked about this reassuring song in an exclusive KEXP interview: www.kexp.org
On this date in 2008. Fleet Foxes released their self-titled debut studio album, which many critics ranked as one of the best albums of that year.
Peter Buck recalled in the liner notes for the compilation "In Time": "This is by far the oldest song on this set. It was written in 1979 by Michael and me before we had even met Bill and Mike. We played it at every show until about 1982. I don't know why we never recorded it; maybe we thought it was kind of juvenile.
"Twenty years later, when asked to contribute a song to the Vanilla Sky soundtrack with about eight days notice, it no longer seemed quite so naive. We recorded it in three hours prior to a show in Seattle, and quite consciously tried to record it as we would have in 1982."
Phantogram will play this song at The Capitol Hill Block Party on Friday, July 19th, 2019. This song comes out three years after Phantogram's last album. In a handwritten note to fans on Instagram, Phantogram thanked fans for their patience as they worked through an arduous "personal journey ... coming out of the darkness and into the light."
The Chemical Brothers comment on this track, ""A psychedelic wonder with words and voice from Aurora. This song could have been made a thousand ways, but this is the one we chose. The sound of fingernails rapping on a desk play an important role. When Aurora sang 'You should know, I lied when I told you I was nervous,' I was floored. So much to figure out.": www.billboard.com
Optimistic? Thom Yorke revealed in 2003 that the song's chorus ("You can try the best you can. You can try the best you can. The best you can is good enough.") came from words of encouragement he received from his partner, Rachel Owen. He was worried that "nothing we'd done was releasable." Watch Radiohead perform this song live: www.youtube.com
Watch The National's wonderful live performance of "Rylan" in the KEXP studio: www.youtube.com
This discussion of the video says, "This is a great song, and maybe half of a great video. The video, which was directed by Brian Grant and released in 1984, has a fun premise and a cool look… but, yeesh, it’s riddled with mortifying, cringe-inducing, cheeseball moments that almost bring the whole production—nay, the whole Duran Duran empire—to its knees." Read the entire "duranalysis": morganrichter.net
Ann, this one's for you. It's to "remind [you] that we all struggle and we can all pick ourselves back up...somehow." Hang in there.: www.npr.org
The Replacements performed "Can't Hardly Wait" live at Austin City Limits in 2014: www.youtube.com
Of Monsters and Men will perform at Seattle's WaMu Theater on Thursday, September 26th, 2019.
Sources close to John say that The Lumineers will be coming to Seattle in support of their new album. Stay tuned!
At a 2012 solo concert in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Gary Louris was asked by an audience member about the dual vocals on the bridge. Louris explained that he and co-writer Mark Olson each had an idea about what to sing and were too stubborn to let the other guy have his way. They each sang their bridges and just put them together. : www.youtube.com
On this date in 1977 (Wow!), Bob Marley & The Wailers released "Exodus." Still sounds pretty fresh, doesn't it?
Enjoy a very positive review of In jury Reserve's self-titled debut album: www.thelineofbestfit.com
Urban Dance Squad first got together in 1986, at a jam session in De Vrije Vloer, a club in Utrecht, a jam which resulted in the first Dutch rock band with a rapper (they borrowed the name from Parliament-Funkadelic's Urban Dancefloor Guerillas).
Flying Lotus will perform at The Showbox SoDo on Sunday, August 11th, 2019. The new album, "Flamgra," came out on May 24th, 2019: flying-lotus.com
The supremely talented Curtis Mayfield was born on this date in 1942. On August 13, 1990, Mayfield became paralyzed from the neck down, after stage lighting equipment fell on him at an outdoor concert in Brooklyn. .Afterwards, though he was unable to play guitar, he continued to compose and sing.
Mayfield's vocals were recorded, usually line-by-line, while he was lying on his back. He died in December, 1999 at the age of 57.: www.curtismayfield.com
The Barrett Martin Group will be playing this Saturday, June 8th, at the Jack London Revue in Portland, Oregon.: barrettmartin.com
Happy birthday to this song, released as single on this date in 1970. Wonder wrote this with Motown songwriters Lee Garrett and Syreeta Wright, along with his mother Lula Mae Hardaway. Garrett and Wright also worked with Wonder on the Spinners song "It's A Shame," and Wonder was briefly married to Wright. Like Stevie Wonder, Lee Garrett is also blind. They first met at the Michigan School for the Blind. Elton John in Rolling Stone magazine's 100 Greatest Artists of All Times issue, said of Stevie Wonder: "He's so multitalented that it's hard to pinpoint exactly what it is that makes him one of the greatest ever. But first, there's that voice. Along with Ray Charles, he's the greatest R&B singer who ever lived. Nobody can sing like he does. I know: I actually recorded a version of "Signed, Sealed, Delivered" when I was young, and I really had to squeeze my balls to get those high notes."
You can read the lyrics in the texts in the lyric video for "Hurry On Home." Watch that video and learn more about this new song from Sleater-Kinney: www.npr.org
The song quotes Oscar Wilde with the lyric, "We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars".
Stef Chura will play Barboza on Wednesday, July 31st, 2019.: www.thebarboza.com
Here's the video for the new Lost Under Heaven song, "Teen Violence": www.youtube.com Ellery James Roberts says, “‘Teen Violence’ is an allegorical tragedy about an Androgynous Prophet of the Divine Feminine who is brutally silenced by an aggressively ignorant society that is unable to comprehend his/her vision due to the paralysis of Cultural Immaturity."
Nick Park – creator of Wallace & Gromit – personally animated the dancing chickens in the video, MTV's most played music video of all time.: metro.co.uk And, here's the video: www.youtube.com
The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club was a British television variety show produced by Granada Television from 1974 to 1977. Read a review of Clinic's first new album in six years: pitchfork.com
In their bio, Fat White Famils says, "The road of excess is littered with twitching corpses and leads only to a portcullis kept firmly shut to those mouthy proles who dare to voyage deep into a prolonged derangement of the senses. But fear not: Fat White Family, the band you hate to love, have stormed the palace...": grandstandhq.com
" Karl Hyde and Rick Smith have managed to stay in the heads and hearts of ravers and club kids for over 30 years, amazingly enough.": www.wearetheguard.com
Sasha Chapin is a writer living in Toronto. Read his "Nine Short Essays About 'Someone Great' by LCD Soundsystem": hazlitt.net
Speaking of being overwhelmed by a sense of loss....:www.youtube.com
Dude York's album, "Falling," will be out on July 26th, 2019. You can pre-order it now on their Bandcamp page: dudeyork.bandcamp.com
They're "heaven sent!" Best Coast will be at the WaMu Theater on Tuesday, July 23rd, 2019.
B Boys will play Chop Suey on Wednesday, July 31st, 2019.: www.facebook.com
"Now what could make them think that way?: Here are the lyrics: lyrics.fandom.com
Enjoy a review of these Australian rockers' self-titled album: pitchfork.com
Built To Spill will be at The Showbox on Friday and Saturday, October 25th and 26th, 2019.
