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Along with this collaboration with Tawiah, To Believe, The Cinematic Orchestra's first album in 12 years also features Moses Sumney, Roots Manuva, Grey Reverend, Heidi Vogel and Dorian Concept
The opening lyrics are based on the first two stanzas of William Blake's 1794 poem, London. Ashcroft recalled to The Guardian that he penned it, "all in one go, this seven-minute outpouring with a bit of William Blake thrown in." Find the poem here: bit.ly
"No Geography", the new album from The Chemical Brothers, is out this Friday April 12th and available on triple vinyl. Find it here: TheChemicalBrothers.lnk.to/NoGeography
‘Hey, ‘ if financial constraints and time were not an issue I’d be on my 10th LP and recording a Greatest Hits compilation with the Royal Philharmonic by now. I would love to make music again, but it’s precisely those things that are stopping me! – Miki Berenyi of Lush -2008
The songs "Cursed Female" and "Cursed Male" were released as a single track and the album's first single. The songs appear on the album as two separate tracks.
Operators have announced a new album due out this May titled Radiant Dawn. See Operators at Neumos on Sunday, June 9th! Tickets & info: bit.ly
Record Store Day is April 13th and The Charlatans are releasing a "deluxe box" of 15 clear vinyl 7"s bit.ly
Lead guitarist Noel Hogan described this song as “very much a classic Dolores [O’Riordan] song,” with the late singer guiding the track from its soft verse through its massive chorus. “Fighting’s not the answer,” O’Riordan belts, “Fighting’s not the cure/It’s eating you like cancer/It’s killing you for sure/Wake me when it’s over.”
O’Riordan and Hogan had begun working on all the songs on the album before the singer’s death last January. After several months of mourning, Hogan and the rest of the Cranberries enlisted producer Stephen Street – who’d previously helmed four Cranberries records – to help them finish the album.
Here is a video of Sinéad performing "I Am Stretched On Your Grave" in October 29, 1990, in Brussels. Just her and a reel-to-reel. bit.ly
Kishi Bashi:
"This is a very important song for me; it’s a love story set in WWII about falling in love in an incarceration camp
and ultimately losing that love. The significance is that the idea of love, loss and desire are
consistent themes throughout history and help us to empathize with people in a disconnected past." See him at Wahington Hall on June 16th: bit.ly
Reckoning was released on this date in 1984. R.E.M. was opening for the Human League at the Palace Theater in Los Angeles on June 11, 1983, when they got word of downpours in the South Central region of Georgia. They tried to call their families and friends to make sure they were OK, but the phones were out because of the torrential rain. The band wrote "So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)" in response to this incident.
Quivers were live on The Morning Show on March 21st! Watch the KEXP YouTube channel for that to be posted soon.
Check out this KEXP feature on "I Am OK", premiered on The Morning Show: Lea Porcelain Reassure Us with New Single “I Am OK" bit.ly
Nine Short Essays About ‘Someone Great’ by LCD Soundsystem: bit.ly
Here are Foals performing "Sunday" at The Paramount on 03-20-19: tinyurl.com
As a part of the Southbank Centre’s Nordic Matters festival of music and culture, José González & The String Theory performed at the Royal Festival Hall in London and you can watch the full concert online! bit.ly
#9 on the Rolling Stone reader's poll of U2's "deep cuts". Here on deep cut Tuesday. bit.ly
The listening experience was a big consideration for Karen O and Danger Mouse in making this album, they said — that's why the first and last song on the album are similarly orchestrated.
"It's kind of a circle and you do just want to kind of listen to it on repeat rather than just like a single song off it," Karen O said.
Nina Simone's estate released a video of her performing Dylan's "Just Like A Woman" at a concert in Brazil on April 13th 2000 and you can watch it here: bit.ly
Nashville Skyline was released on this date in 1969. You can find a video of Dylan and Cash performing this together a long time ago: bit.ly
Andrew Bird will be playing The Paramount on October 19th with Meshell Ndegeocello. Tickets & info: bit.ly
"Gloria" is the first single off The Lumineers' new album, out on September 13th. Regarding the new album, Jeremiah Fraites says, “This collection of songs worked out in a beautiful way, and I feel with this album we’ve really hit our stride.”
There will be a special 12" vinyl release of "Everybody Here Hates You" for Record Store Day! Only 2000 copies and the B-Side is "Small Talk"
J Mascis is back with a single that features a bit more of his signature guitar heroics: a cover of the Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers classic “Don’t Do Me Like That.”
Petty originally released the song on Damn The Torpedoes, an album that turns 40 later this year.
Strange Free World is KOD's 2nd album. Noted producer Hugh Jones, who worked with Echo & the Bunnymen and many others, helped KOD to sound more at ease in the studio.
Looking back on the song in 2017, lead singler Mike Scott isn't impressed. "Melodically, I think it's a very limiting song. My abilities with melodies have improved a lot, have developed a lot since those days, and that song doesn't really make it for me."
Scott’s brother and Frightened Rabbit/Mastersystem drummer Grant Hutchison has launched a CrowdFunding Page where fans can donate to an organisation being set up to help those with mental health issues. www.justgiving.com
Drake's lyrics often had a painterly quality, and what makes his third album, Pink Moon, so unique is not simply that it dealt with depression, but that it did so in pastel colours rather than the blacks and greys you'd typically expect. Recorded alone over two nights, on acoustic guitar with almost none of the accompaniments that adorned Bryter Layter, it could be stark and unrelenting in places. But for an album written in a state of crippling despair it was often astonishingly pretty. Place to Be, which documents a darkening outlook with the passage of time, is one such moment. Indeed, Drake's vocals sound like they might not quite summon the strength to deliver the final line: "Now I'm weaker than the palest blue / Oh so weak in this need for you."
Brandon Summers of The Helio Sequence performed "Lately" live in the KEXP studio on The Morning Show, October 26, 2018. Find that solo version here: bit.ly
Strand of Oaks will be live on KEXP on the 26th at 1pm. Get signed up starting at 11:30. It'll fill up fast! You can also find tickets to that night's show at Neumos here: bit.ly
It's a message we all need to hear and/or say in these tough times: "I Am OK" www.kexp.org
Frank Black on "Where is My Mind?", October 1997: "That came from me snorkeling in the Caribbean and having this very small fish trying to chase me. I don't know why - I don't know too much about fish behavior."
OMD will be at ZooTunes with the B-52's and Berlin on August 7th! www.ticketfly.com
The new album is out on the 26th and Kevin will be at The Showbox on May 14th! Tickets & info: bit.ly
Tame Impala performed Patience on Saturday Night Live last month! See it here: bit.ly
Hear another track, "These Things Happen" off Age Hasn't Spoiled You from Toronto's Greys on their Bandcamp page: greys.bandcamp.com
In August 2017, all the original members of the Arizona rock and roll band the Meat Puppets got together for the first time in 22 years to perform. Dusty Notes is the band's first new album since 2013 and they're out on tour, though no Seattle date.
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This song was inspired by scenes noted during the band's UK tour, as keyboardist Jerry Dammers recalled in an interview in the music magazine Mojo, "In Liverpool, all the shops were shuttered up, everything was closing down. In Glasgow there were little old ladies on the streets selling their household goods."
From J.Period's website: "In the Spring of 1970, armed National Guard fired on protesters at Kent State in Ohio, killing four students. The event sent shockwaves across the country, spurring Neil Young to pen “Ohio,” the “greatest protest record” in American history.
Days later, forgotten in the shadow of Kent State, police killed two black students at Jackson State in Mississippi. The incident spurred The Isley Brothers to record “Ohio/Machine Gun.” Fusing Neil Young with Jimi Hendrix, The Isleys re-framed the narrative of the song around rising racial tensions, bridging the cultural gap between the two songs as a deliberate statement: music was one of the few forces that could bridge the racial divide and bring people together - cultural connective tissue for a divided world.
J.PERIOD is proud to present the next chapter in this historic saga: “SOLDIERS” featuring Dead Prez, Sa-Roc & Maimouna Youssef. Sampling elements of The Isley Brothers’ “Ohio/Machine Gun” over a hard-hitting track featuring Daniel Crawford on drums, “SOLDIERS” re-frames the narrative again for the generation of Ferguson, Flint, Oakland, New Orleans, Sanford, and Charlottesville."
Flavor Flav sang this intentionally out of key. Chuck D. explained: "When you put him in key, it gets syrupy - too close to music. See, when you add noise on top of noise, you gonna tune everybody out. But with Flavor, he becomes the noise, because he is annoying!"
The robotic vocal sound was created with a Vocoder, which is an electronic device originally created to encode speech. Other songs that used a vocoder around this time include "Believe" by Cher and "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" by Eiffel 65.
This is Bowie's tribute to the Velvet Underground, and the song purposefully imitates the New York band's sound. Side two of Hunky Dory contains three tribute songs penned by Bowie for his idols: this, "Song For Bob Dylan" and "Andy Warhol." Lou Reed performed this with Bowie at his 50th birthday party in New York in January 1997.
Reckoning was released this day in 1984. Michael Stipe talked to Rolling Stone, November 12, 2009, after releasing their album Live at the Olympia, which included this track. Said Stipe: "It's about a couple of swingers, a straight couple who employ younger men and women and seduce them. I did not succumb. But I was aware of the danger and electricity they created. The reason I said 'Not quite a family story' was three of my goddaughters, all under 14, were in the audience. This was not appropriate for them to hear from their godfather onstage."
