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Thursday, Apr 4 2019, 6AM
Good morning Seattle, and welcome to the Thursday edition of The Morning Show. Just released last night, it's the second single from The National's forthcoming eighth album I Am Easy To Find. Find it on May 17th, and see the band live at Marymoor Park on August 29: americanmary.com
The newest album from The Tallest Man on Earth (stage name for Swedish singer/songwriter Kristian Matsson) is set to release on April 19th. About I Love You. It's A Fever Dream., Matsson said: "Making the album, I was thinking a lot about the lenses we view our lives through. For some reason, our worst tendencies seem to be carried out so loudly, while our best can go unnoticed. I’ve come to realize that some of the most powerful, most inspiring moments in my life have been the most subtle and that so often the thing that deserves my attention, is trying the least to get it"
Strand of Oaks will be LIVE here at KEXP on April 26th at 1:00 PM and you can come watch! Find out how here: www.kexp.org
Tamer Animals is the sophomore release from this Oklahoma band, released in 2011. Watch their KEXP live session from the same year here: www.youtube.com
Off the debut album from the Athens-based band made up of vocalist Andy LeMaster, bassist/keyboardist Orenda Fink, keyboardist/vocalist Maria Taylor, and drummer Clay Leverett
Found on the third album from this NYC band that formed in 1997
Actually based in Los Angeles, Idaho member and co-founder, John Berry, passed away in his sleep in 2016 at the age of 51
Andrew Bird will be in town to promote his latest album My Finest Work Yet at the Paramount Theatre on October 19th... find tickets here! www.stgpresents.org
This new collaborative album from Calexico and Iron & Wine (their 2nd one together!) is set to release on June 14th. Iron & Wine's Sam Beam stated about the release: “Life is hard. Awesome. And scary as s**t. But it can lift you up if you let it. These are the things Joey and I write about now." Find it via Sub Pop here: bit.ly
Watch the Swedish sisters performing live for us in 2014 here: www.youtube.com
The final album from The Cranberries, arriving April 26th, comes a little over a year after the tragic death of frontwoman Dolores O’Riordan.
TR/ST will be in town to promote his first album in five years at Neumos on May 15th! The Destroyer, Vol. 1 is set to release on April 19th, and you can find tickets to the show here: www.neumos.com
While you're waiting for this London band's latest KEXP in-studio to arrive, check out their session from 2016 here: www.youtube.com
Lady Lamb (the stage name for Aly Spaltro) will be at the Tractor Tavern on May 3rd, find tickets here! bit.ly
Found on the 2013 album from this Pennsylvania-based band that formed in the late 80's
Quivers was recently on The Morning Show to perform this song live for us, but here's the official video for "You're Not Always On My Mind" while you're waiting for ours to post! www.youtube.com
Off the lone album from Liverpool's The La's, released in 1990
Regarding the neon rings in the video for this song, record company head David Balfe kept expressing, "I haven't seen the definitive wobble yet!" Watch for any definitive wobbles for yourself here: www.youtube.com
Find this West London native's new album here! niluferyanya.bandcamp.com
On the story behind this song from bassist Colin Moulding: “There were Nigels about. Some of them were quiet types. Bullied, perhaps. I guess I was writing a song for the bullied.” |
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Thank you to Nicole Sievers for being here this morning to discuss Stand For Courage, an organization led by students to establish a bystander culture to stop bullying. Find more info here: www.standforcourage.org
But from my head to my toes | From my knees to my eyes | Every time I watch the sky | For these last few days leave me alone
New single from German producer and DJ Marius Lauber, who goes by the stage name Roosevelt. Keep track of him here: www.iamroosevelt.com
2010 single from Neon Indian that was released via Mountain Dew's Green Label Sound
OMD is embarking on a 40th anniversary tour this year across the UK and Europe! If you're in the area, find dates and locations here: bit.ly
Check out this Australian singer/songwriter's live KEXP performance from September here! bit.ly
Thanks for the request Michael! You can find the new vinyl reissue of Four Calendar Cafe right here: cocteautwins.lnk.to
Catch Portland's Chromatics at the Showbox on June 7th, ticket info here: www.showboxpresents.com
Chicago native Jamila Woods is an activist, poet, and R&B singer/songwriter. Her new album Legacy! Legacy! is set to arrive on May 10th, and you can find it here: www.jamila-woods.com
Happy 47th birthday to singer/songwriter, model, poet, and actress Jill Scott, born on this day in 1972!
Another new single from Vampire Weekend's forthcoming full-length Father of the Bride, out on May 3rd! They'll be at WaMu Theater on September 27th, find more tour dates and album pre-order info here: www.vampireweekend.com
Watch Thao & The Get Down Stay Down performing live for us in 2016 here! www.youtube.com
Blushh's Shab Ferdowsi about this new song: "Last year I moved back into my parent’s house for about 10 months. I was 20 miles away from all my friends and I slowly but surely started spending more nights at home than I did hanging out. I was caught between not wanting to go out to begin with and starting to feel detached, both physically and emotionally, from my social life." | blushhmusic.bandcamp.com
New solo work from Vancouver's Shannon Hemmett, also of ACTORS fame! Find this track and more of her work here: leathers.bandcamp.com
8:57 AM
10th spin
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated on this day in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968. For more about his life, vision, and legend, go here: thekingcenter.org
The last speech delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. Spoken on April 3, 1968 in Memphis, the day before his assassination: kinginstitute.stanford.edu
The hymn sung by Mahalia Jackson at Martin Luther King Jr.'s second open-air funeral service in 1968. Aretha would later sing this at Jackson's funeral in 1972.
Featuring samples of Martin Luther King Jr's iconic "I Have a Dream" speech, delivered on August 28, 1963 in Washington, D.C.: kinginstitute.stanford.edu
1984 song written by U2 about Martin Luther King Jr, who was assassinated on this day in 1968
Recording solo music since her self-titled 1969 debut, Mavis Staples latest album We Get By is arriving on May 10th. Get your pre-order in right here! mavisstaples.com
The gospel family group (Cleotha Staples, Mavis Staples, Pervis Staples, Yvonne Staples, and Roebuck "Pops" Staples) that signed with Memphis-based Stax records in 1968
He Got Game is the sixth studio release for Public Enemy in addition to being the soundtrack for Spike Lee's 1998 movie of the same name
Often used as an anti-war song, "For What It's Worth" was released as a single in December 1966 by Buffalo Springfield
Protest song written by Neil Young about the Kent State shootings that took place on May 4, 1970
Featuring a sample of The Isley Brother’s 1971 song “Ohio Machine Gun” | hyperurl.co
Off the influential L.A. rapper's tenth studio album Everythang's Corrupt, released in December 2018
We lost Sharon Jones to cancer on November 18, 2016, and we'll never stop posting her performance at our grand opening celebration in April of that same year: www.youtube.com
9:52 AM
6th spin
The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy are a hip-hop ensemble formed in San Francisco in 1990 by Michael Franti and Rono Tse