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Thursday, Apr 11 2019, 6AM
Good morning Seattle, and welcome to the Thursday edition of The Morning Show. This song appears on Damien Jurado's latest LP, In the Shape of a Storm, due out tomorrow. It was recorded in one afternoon in California, where the Seattle native recently relocated. Find it here: bit.ly
The closing track found on the fifth album from Bob Dylan, Bringing It All Back Home, released on March 22, 1965. This release would cause a divide with his folk fans, as he branched out into electric sounds on this album.
The Tallest Man on Earth is actually NOT Swedish singer Kristian Matsson, but 36 year old Sultan Kösen, who is over 8 feet tall: bit.ly
Watch Nada Surf's live KEXP performance from 2018 right here: www.youtube.com
Tribute single that Shawn Smith released on vinyl in 2017: “Written and recorded in loving tribute to the glorious Chris Cornell, who left us the day before this session. We will never stop singing your songs. Goodbye for now, Chris… LOVE NEVER DIES.” Smith passed away less than a week ago on April 5th, the same day we lost two other Seattle legends, Kurt Cobain and Layne Staley. Watch Smith performing for us in 2016 here: www.youtube.com
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Scientist Katherine Bouman is the person we can thank for the first image of an actual black hole that appeared EVERYWHERE this week. The 29 year old Bouman is a postdoctoral researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and has been working on the algorithm to capture this for almost six years: ind.pn
Watch this acoustic performance from Sessions @ AOL here: www.youtube.com
Aldous Harding will be in town at the Tractor Tavern on April 18th to promote her new album Designer, out on April 26th. Find your tickets to the show here: bit.ly
This Brooklyn band's new album U.F.O.F. is due to release on May 3rd, and they'll be in town at the Moore Theatre on October 26th. Find pre-order and tour info here: bigthief.net
New single from local artist Black Belt Eagle Scout! From Katherine Paul about this song: "As I was writing the guitar line, I kept seeing the water of the Salish Sea and the local ferries drifting people in and out of place. Ferries are such a beautiful part of my childhood and served as a major form of transportation. Thinking about my home and how canoes have turned into ferries is a sad, but also beautiful thought. Nowadays with Canoe Journeys, canoes are alongside ferries, roaming our waters to lands, sharing customs and culture. That is what I think about now when I listen to the fully recorded version of the song. I see a strong and fierce community of my people continuing to thrive in whatever comes our way. That is how I feel about myself, a survivor and thriver of this land, a water protector, a womxn, the future." | bit.ly
Portland band Chromatics will be at the Showbox on June 7th! Get your tickets here: bit.ly
Watch the video for "Peek-a-Boo, " which got heavy airplay on MTV and a nomination for Best Alternative Video here: www.youtube.com
While you're waiting for the new album Any Random Kindness from this London band, check out their KEXP live performance from 2016 here: www.youtube.com
TR/ST will be LIVE on KEXP on May 15th at noon, and you can come watch it in action! Find out how to view our public in-studio sessions here: www.kexp.org
This Dan Boeckner-led band is back! Operators second album Radiant Dawn is out in May, and you can catch them at Neumos on June 9th. More info here: operatorsmusic.com
Today would have been Big Country vocalist Stuart Adamson's 61st birthday. He passed away by suicide on December 16, 2001 at the age of 43. If you or someone you love is struggling, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline can be reached anytime at 1-800-273-8255
The Butch Vig-produced new album from Silversun Pickups is set to release on June 7th! Frontman Brian Auber had this to say about the new LP: "The record does have a mourning vibe, but it’s not sad. It’s change. It’s growing up and moving on and letting go of things. And it’s OK to be sad about those things and mourn them. It’s actually healthy to do so and take the time to do it. At the end of the day, it’s going to be much better and much more fulfilling when you get through it.” | silversunpickups.com
A new EP from this L.A.-based shoegaze band is due to arrive sometime this summer! You can find this new track "Influencer" here: filmschoolmusic.bandcamp.com
The debut single from Oasis, released on this day in 1994! Watch the video for "Supersonic" here: www.youtube.com
Belgian trio made up of bassist Peter Mulders, guitarist Stijn Vanhoegaerden, and Stefanie Mannaerts... who is both the drummer AND singer for Brutus. Yeah. Intense. | wearebrutus.bandcamp.com
2019, the year that the word "tour" appeared on Bikini Kill's website: bikinikill.com
L7 IS ALSO BACK. They'll be at the LeMay - America’s Car Museum in Tacoma for the Bash Music & Craft Beer Festival on June 9th: thebashfestival.com
Off the third album from this English band, released just last week! You can find Love Keeps Kicking here: marthadiy.bandcamp.com
Remember that time in the Gathering Space that Violent Femmes played a free show for us and A LOT of you showed up to watch?! Oh look, we filmed it: www.youtube.com
Grosse Pointe Blank was released to theaters on this day in 1997, and this song was included on the soundtrack
Another song found in the Grosse Pointe Blank movie, which turns 22 years old today!
Found on the second soundtrack for Grosse Pointe Blank, and is also off the fifth album from the Irish group. (Which was the last with frontman Shane MacGowan) It was produced by The Clash's Joe Strummer and released in 1990
There's a theme here! Quite possibly related to the release of the Grosse Pointe Blank movie on this day in 1997!
"It means I’m f***ing old!" - Robert Smith to Rolling Stone on what The Cure's 40th anniversary means to him | bit.ly
Pixies request! Grosse Pointe Blank song! Morning Show staple band!
Another one from the second soundtrack for Grosse Pointe Blank, and also off of Siouxsie and the Banshee's seventh studio album Tinderbox
Any guesses as to what this song is about? Anyone? Bueller? Hey, this also showed up in Grosse Pointe Blank!
The side project started by Bauhaus guitarist Daniel Ash in 1981. Also a song that shows up in Grosse Pointe Blank, released to theaters on this day in 1997!
During a VH1 charity event for Hurricane Katrina in 2006, a viewer donated $35,000 to play the "99 Luftballons" video repeatedly for an hour. It happened from 2:00 to 3:00 pm on March 26 2006.
Off the iconic London Calling album, but we're also still on a Grosse Pointe Blank songs kick!
A huge hit in South America for this Argentinian band at the time of its release, and also featured in the film Grosse Pointe Blank
The debut full-length album from Hatchie, Keepsake, is set to be released on June 21st! She'll also be at Neumos opening for Girlpool tomorrow night. Show info here: bit.ly
Off the debut album from this London singer/songwriter, find it here! niluferyanya.bandcamp.com
Satchel's first album, which features song titles named after characters from the 1992 Reservoir Dogs film. We lost Shawn Smith of Satchel (and Brad/Pigeonhed fame) on April 5th. | www.kexp.org
New single from Berlin band Lea Porcelain, which debuted right here on The Morning Show: "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.” | bit.ly
Playing the Showbox on September 4th, details here: www.showboxpresents.com
Toronto band with a new album coming on May 10th! Their third release Age Hasn't Spoiled You can be found for pre-order here: greys.bandcamp.com
Formed in 1994 by longtime friends Jason Reece and Conrad Keely, they eventually added guitarist Kevin Allen and bassist Neil Busch after relocating to Austin from Olympia, Washington.
Priests will be at Neumos on July 3rd, get your tickets here! bit.ly
This Seattle band's full-length album Regulars is set to arrive on May 3rd, and they'll be at the Kraken on May 10th for their album release party! Find event info here: bit.ly
Watch The Dismemberment Plan performing this song live for us in 2013 at The Triple Door here: www.youtube.com
Happy 24th birthday to Pavement's third album, Wowee Zowee, released on this day in 1995! Album cover artist Steve Keene to Esquire about the cover: "Pavement asked me to paint their album cover for Wowee Zowee and it was absolutely incredible to have that happen because I'm so into their music. A few days later, I painted a bunch of stuff on paper for them to pick out which one they wanted. They had been doing all sorts of funny scribbly drawings and stuff on their previous album covers so I thought they were just gonna take my art and kind of chop it up and make a collage out of it like their other albums. But they basically just straightforwardly took one of the things that I painted and then they stuck the words on top of it."
