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Thursday, May 9 2019, 6AM
Good morning Seattle, and welcome to the Thursday edition of The Morning Show. In an interview with KEXP last month, Lea Porcelain told us how this song came to be: "The song was recorded after eight days of sleeping in the studio, while we were literally washing ourselves in the rivers by Funkhaus and ate only in the restaurant there, so we can go back quickly. On the eighth morning waking up there, slightly hungover and a little bit down from last night's idea that didn't work out, we met one of the owners and he said, we should rent a boat and chill because that is what they had done just this morning. So, we packed the ukulele and decided to go on a boat. On the way there, I played the ukulele and only hummed the chorus melody to it. Like it came from nowhere, we both turned to each other, recorded it with the phone and then went back, completely forgetting about the boat idea." | bit.ly
Off The Chemical Brothers ninth full-length album No Geography. This track from the record uses samples from "Bears On My Trail" by Snowbird and "A Letter From Vietnam" by Emanuel Laskey
So far, this is the only solo full-length release from Jamie xx (also of xx fame). In Colour was released back in 2015, and gets vocal help from his xx bandmate, Romy, on several tracks
From Nicolas Jaar's other alias, Against All Logic (A.A.L). As the album title infers, these songs from Jaar were produced between the period of 2012 and 2017, and the album was a suprise release in early 2018
From the British band's fourth LP Brotherhood, released in 1986
Check out our recap of LCD Soundsystem's appearance at Sasquatch 2017 here: bit.ly
Brazilian producer Gui Boratto released Take My Breath Away in 2009. According to an interivew with DHA, 5 AM is his favorite time of day: "I like it at this time of day, there are zero distractions, and everybody in the city is still asleep so I can fully focus on my creativity and music." The Morning Show also gets to the studio at 5 AM, but who knows how focused we are during then....
We're still waiting for our latest live session with this London band to pop up on YouTube, but check out their 2016 one here in the meantime: www.youtube.com
Fat White Family is a London-based band comprised of Lias Saoudi (vocals), Nathan Saudi (keyboard), Adam Harmer (guitar), Martin Dead (drummer), and Saul Adaczewski (guitar). Serf's Up! is their third LP, released just last month on Domino Records
Here's Editors live KEXP performance from May 2018! www.youtube.com
Happy 57th birthday to Depeche Mode vocalist, Dave Gahan, born on this day in 1962!
Peter Buck of R.E.M. plays guitar on this song, which is super weird because Peter Buck will be here on our Gathering Space stage TODAY at 3:00 PM with his other band, Filthy Friends!
This New Jersey punk band will be releasing their sixth album An Obeslisk on June 21st, which Bob Mould helped produce! Find your pre-order here: titusandronicus.net
Mark Lanegan is still running strong with musical output since the disbandment of Seattle legends, Screaming Trees. He's got a new album coming on October 18th, find out more here: marklanegan.com
"After months of touring my last album Babes Never Die, I finally came home to rest and developed increasingly vivid and frightening night terrors. At one point they were a weekly occurrence — the same figure would visit me each time hell-bent on either strangling or just plain scaring me to death! After learning much more about how night terrors are manifested, I was intrigued to learn that the brain cannot conjure a face out of nothing. The woman who visits me in my dreams was a real person I have seen while I’ve been awake. I wrote “She’s A Nightmare” about our strange relationship and however frightening, I am absolutely captivated by her." - Getting The Cure's "Lullaby" vibes from this one, which is never a bad thing. Watch the video for "She's A Nightmare" here: www.youtube.com
Here is Throwing Muse's Kristin Hersh at KEXP being really great because she's really great: www.youtube.com
A Sub Pop band that formed in Tacoma, Washington and named this album after a town in Pierce County. Very PNW.
The Get Up Kids are back, and they'll be at the Showbox on September 7th! Find your tickets here: www.showboxpresents.com
Yoo-hoo, Imperial Teen is back with their first new album in seven years! Now We Are Timeless is due on July 19th, and you can find it here: imperialteen.com
The video for "Stand and Deliver," full of dandyness and shenanigans: www.youtube.com
From Roosevelt about this cover: “We‘ve been playing this Fleetwood Mac cover for few months in the live set now,” said Lauber, “and I’ve always wanted to record it properly. This was a great opportunity to do so, coming straight from the tour and still knowing how the energy of the crowd felt every night. It‘s an all-time favourite of mine and while nothing touches the original, I hope people enjoy my slightly different take on it.” | bit.ly
Vampire Weekend is about to embark on a tour to promote their new album Father of the Bride. They'll be at the WaMu Theater on September 27th, find tickets here! bit.ly
The Smith's Johnny Marr came by KEXP to perform a few songs from his solo album Call the Comet last year. Watch it here: www.youtube.com
Opening track off the second album from NYC's Soul Coughing. Apparently, their name comes from a poem that frontman M. Doughty had written about Neil Young vomiting. Fun facts, we love 'em!
The Cars frontman Ric Ocasek: "I found out later that [the Rentals’ Matt Sharp] had written that song about my wife. I thought the song was OK, although I thought it was a bit silly. The truth was that Rivers [Cuomo] and P were actually the ones that got along really well.” So the P in this song is about The Cars frontman’s wife, Paulina Porizkova!
Long-running Seattle band Tacocat was just here last week to record a new live session at KEXP, but check their 2016 performance with us here! www.youtube.com
Happy 9th birthday Hunter, this one's for you!
Seattle's The Black Tones album Cobain and Cornbread came out last month, and you can find it right here! theblacktones.bandcamp.com
Music, sweet music | I wish I could caress, caress, caress | Manic depression is a frustrating mess | www.jimihendrix.com
The highest number "The Number Song" gets to is 10, but who's counting?! Sidenote, this song contains a sample from Tony Alvon & the Belairs 1969 track "Sexy Coffee Pot" which feels relevant to The Morning Show for some reason.
Contains a bunch of samples from Jimi Hendrix, of whom this song is a tribute to!
Cheap Trick will be at the Chateau Ste Michelle Winery in Woodinville for ZZ Top's 50th Anniversary Tour on August 21st! As you can guess, it's sold out. www.cheaptrick.com
Hey folks, IDLES is gonna be live right from our Gathering Space stage on May 29th at 1:30 PM! Free. All ages. Fun. Loud. Rowdy. Also, here's the footage of them performing this song on International Clash Day from London: www.youtube.com
Brand new single from IDLES! Frontman Joe Talbot has stated about the track, “‘Mercedes Marxist’ was a strange beast for us, after ‘Rottweiler,’ it was the first song we wrote for Joy as an Act of Resistanc. I was pissed off at what I was and where I was: I was sofa surfing on the weekends and spending the weeks looking after my mum. My life balance was way off and this song reflects just how useless I felt. It was me at my worst and without any buoyancy it became catharsis. It was the last splurge from Brutalism so we admitted it. I like it now.”
"We tried our holiday in the sun in the isle of Jersey and that didn't work. They threw us out."
Found on the 1980 debut album from the San Francisco punk band | www.deadkennedys.com
According to the dictionary, "seether" is a late 14th century word that means "one employed in boiling," taken from the noun seethe. The song "Seether" does mention boiling water so there ya go!
Let's all take a moment to mourn that we only got two albums from London's Elastica. Also, here's the video for "Stutter" -www.youtube.com
". . . like Kim Gordon, Kim Deal is one of the unsung heroines of rock." See what else our DJ's had to say about the debut album from The Breeders here! bit.ly
Madder Rose, such an overlooked 90's gem! This song appears on their album Panic On and the soundtrack to the classic short-lived TV series, "My So-Called Life"
Detroit's Stef Chura will be at Barboza on July 31st, find tickets here! www.thebarboza.com
The debut full-length from this mulleted Australian punk band is coming out on May 24th! In the meantime, you should check out their EPs here: amylandthesniffers.bandcamp.com
Catch Toronto's PUP touring for their new album Morbid Stuff at the Showbox on June 25th! Tickets and more info here: www.showboxpresents.com
Here's Fidlar performing this song (and a few others!) for us back in 2015: www.youtube.com
Out now, it's the second full-length release from Seattle's Versing! Find more of their work here: versing.bandcamp.com
According to this article from Rolling Stone, the band celebrated completing their third (and final) album by setting their pants on fire: bit.ly
Soundgarden is currently losing our Twitter poll for most PNW name, but forever winning with this song, so there's that
"We accept, we're pretty damn grungy" Mudhoney everyone! bit.ly
Making quite an entrance, it's the opening track off the debut album from Seattle's Pretty Girls Make Graves, released in 2002
Seattle punk band originally formed by vocalist Spencer Moody, guitarist Dann Gallucci, and bassist Derek Fudesco. In Name and Blood is their third album, released in 2000
The winner of our highly scientific Twitter poll this morning for best PNW band name! Thanks folks, this has been The Morning Show, we're going to leave you in Cheryl Water's hands now