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Tuesday, Apr 2 2019, 6AM
Colours. Reflect. Time. Loss. marks Maps' fourth studio album, coming after the release of 2013's Vicissitude. The album features contributions from the six-piece classical ensemble, the Echo Collective, as well as guest vocals from Cecilia Fage, Jennifer Pague, and Rachel Kenedy.
Odesza is playing a sold out show in Bellingham on May 18th with Death Cab For Cutie. For a list of shows that are not sold out yet, go here: odesza.com
Did you miss Foals at the Paramount? Check out this video of them performing "Sunday" from the Temperate House at Kew Gardens: tinyurl.com
To Believe is The Cinematic Orchestra's follow-up to 2007’s Ma Fleur. To Believe was mixed by Tom Elmhirst at New York’s Electric Lady Studios. It includes contributions from Moses Sumney, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Tawiah, and others.
Ten weeks before release, an unfinished version of Hail to the Thief was leaked online. The leak comprised "unmixed edits and roughs" from January that year. Jonny Greenwood wrote on Radiohead's forum: "We're kind of pissed off about it, to be honest ... Work we've not finished, being released in this sloppy way, ten weeks before the real version is even available ... It's not [downloaders] I'm pissed off about, it's just the situation I guess. It's stolen work, fer fuck's sake." Colin Greenwood said the leak was "like being photographed with one sock on when you get out of bed in the morning," but expressed dismay at the cease-and-desist orders sent by label EMI to radio stations and fan sites playing the leaked tracks, saying: "Don't record companies usually pay thousands of dollars to get stations to play their records? Now they're paying money to stations not to play them."
For their forthcoming album I Am Easy to Find, due in May, the band's latest offering and its first new material since 2017's Sleep Well Beast, The National is joined by several guest vocalists, all women. “You Had Your Soul With You,” features Gail Ann Dorsey, best known for her work with David Bowie during his later years.
Quivers are back home in Australia now but are planning to come back. Look for their KEXP in-studio to be posted in a month or so here: bit.ly
Broken Social Scene are coming to The Neptune on Tuesday, July 30th! Tickets & info: bit.ly
This track finds frontman Win Butler questioning what happens next in life. He told UK newspaper The Sun: "I was a philosophy student in college. So without being too pretentious, I'm always thinking of ideas and the world we live in and trying to relate to the world."
Friday, April 26th, Strand of Oaks will be line on KEXP at 1pm! Get here and on the list starting at 11:30. That night they're at Neumos
The focus of the song is on the National Union of Mineworkers' 1984 strike in Great Britain that occurred in response to the National Coal Board's campaign to close uneconomic mines. In an interview, Bono talked about not performing this song live: "I used to write songs that I couldn't sing. And sometimes that was OK because the strains of the notes I couldn't reach was part of the drama, but occasionally they would really just wreck the next show," he said. "So I just left 'Red Hill Mining Town' off. But since then, I sing a bit better — or at least I've learned how to sing."
Isaac Brock was overambitious when he promised that the next Modest Mouse album would be released “as quickly as it’s legally allowed.” That was four years ago, and there’s still no word on a follow-up to 2015’s Strangers to Ourselves. But in the meantime, there’s “Poison the Well,” the raging A-side to the band’s forthcoming Record Store Day release. You can see them with The Black Keys at The Tacoma Dome on November 23rd.
The Malmö, Sweden based quartet Arre! Arre! is back with their first piece of new music since their debut LP A.T.T.A.C.K was released in 2015.
It became one of the year’s most praised rock records in Scandinavia, being nominated for rock album of the year at the Swedish P3 Guld awards, and only made available outside of Scandinavia in November last year.
The new album is out on Sub Pop on May 3rd and you can see Tacocat June 8th @ The Showbox at the Market! Find all theri tour dates here: tacocatdotcom.com
An edited version of "Head over Heels" is featured in Donnie Darko. According to director Richard Kelly on the DVD commentary, the scene in which the song was used was written and choreographed specifically with the song in mind.
"The Killing Moon" was featured in the original theatrical version of the opening sequence of the cult film Donnie Darko. However, in the director's cut version of the film, the song is replaced by INXS's "Never Tear Us Apart", with "The Killing Moon" being placed later in the movie.
Donnie Darko featured this song during a scene in which Donnie's sister's dance group, Sparkle Motion perform at a talent show and Donnie burns down a motivational speaker's house. Notorious reached number two on the US Billboard Hot 100, behind "Walk Like an Egyptian" by The Bangles.
The song wouldn’t be officially released until May of 1982, but they’d been playing it in their show since September ’81, and it was already one of the highlights of their set. This one from New York in '81 runs for over 10 incredible minutes. It ends with the group’s members walking offstage one by one as their equipment continues to run. See it here: bit.ly
The video for "Why Can't I Be You?" was filmed in early 1987, in between rehearsals for The Cure's first South American tour. It was directed by Tim Pope, a past video collaborator of the group's. Filmed in a studio in Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland owned by actress Mary Tyler Moore, the video featured the band members performing what biographer Jeff Apter referred to as "some of the most poorly choreographed dancing ever seen on MTV". All five band members wore costumes: Robert Smith dressed as a bear and as school-girl in a pinafore dress, Simon Gallup was costume as both a crow and a Morris dancer, Porl Thompson was a Scotsman as well as cross-dressed, Boris Williams was a schoolgirl and Lol Tolhurst wore blackface and then a bumblebee costume. Pope referred to the clip as "the video I've always wanted to make". bit.ly
Spiritualized are at the Moore tomorrow night! Looks like there are still a few tickets available... bit.ly
Starcrawler are playing the Gorge with Beck and Cage The Elephant, and Spoon on July 13th! Tickets & info: bit.ly
The Kills performed "Fried My Little Brains" live in the KEXP studio. Recorded 5/14/09. www.youtube.com
The Budos Band are playing a sold out show at Neumos on April 20th.
Check out a Kingdom of the Holy Sun in-studio from 2014: www.youtube.com
In May The Dandy Warhols head out on their 25th Anniversary tour! No Seattle date though. Find their stops here: www.dandywarhols.com
Buzzcocks were one of the "brainier" Punk bands to emerge from England's first wave. As Pete Shelley told The Quietus, "Both me and Howard Devoto did humanities at Bolton Institute of Technology. I was doing philosophy and comparative European literature when Buzzcocks started. As Steve Diggle says, we were punks with library cards."
Catch The Coathangers at the Fisherman's Village Music Festival on May 18th in Everett! www.thefishermansvillage.com
KEXP, in partnership with the Consulate General of Canada in Seattle, present a special acoustic performance with Toronto-based punk outfit Dilly Dally!
Join us Tuesday, April 9th at 12 PM in the Gathering Space.
It’s FREE and All Ages as part of KEXP’s Uptown Concerts series. bit.ly
From J.Period's soundcloud page: In the Spring of 1970, armed National Guardsmen fired on Vietnam protesters at Kent State in Ohio, killing four students. The event reverberated across the country, spurring Neil Young to pen “Ohio” for Crosby, Stills & Nash, a folk anthem The Guardian calls “the greatest protest record” in American history.
Days later—forgotten in the shadow of Kent State—police killed two black students at a similar protest at Jackson State in Mississippi. The incident echoed a growing racial divide, and rising tensions between police and inner city youth across the country. Fusing “Ohio” with Jimi Hendrix “Machine Gun,” The Isley Brothers re-framed the narrative of the song around urban unrest, bridging the cultural gap between two songs (and their fans) 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.
Now, DJ/Producer J.PERIOD is proud to present the next chapter in the historic saga of “Ohio”: “SOLDIERS,” the epic new single from Hip Hop’s pre-eminent freedom fighters Dead Prez and rising stars Sa-Roc & Maimouna Youssef. Sampling elements of The Isley Brothers’ “Ohio” over a hard-hitting track produced by J.PERIOD, “SOLDIERS” reframes the narrative again for a new generation—the generation of Ferguson, Flint, Oakland, New Orleans, Sanford, and Charlottesville.
Today would have been Marvin Gaye's 80th birthday.
Need more Brother Ali? Here he is performing live in the KEXP studio. Recorded October 18, 2012. bit.ly
“Carnaval is the consummation of all of our cultures across Colombia and Latin America,” writes Bomba Estéreo’s Simón Mejía in a press release. “It’s a mixture of the powerful roots that intermingle among this shared musical experience without social, sexual or racial labels. This is how the world should be all the time.”
“With ‘Carnavalera,’” adds Systema Solar vocalist Walter Hernández, “we enjoy and share the challenge of creativity that unites humanity in a ritual of inherent celebration, one that lasts far longer than four days. There will always be Carnaval.”
Treasure was recorded from August to September 1984 at Palladium Studios, Edinburgh and Rooster, West London.
Raymonde alluded to it being rushed and unfinished, while Guthrie referred to it as "an abortion" and to the period in which it was made as "arty-farty pre-Raphaelite". Nonetheless, as Raymonde observed, "It seems to be the one that people like the best and it's probably sold the best"
Pure Bathing Culture will be at The Columbia City Theater on May 31st. Ought to be a good show! Tickets & info: bit.ly
No More Shall We Part is the eleventh studio album by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, released on 2 April 2001 in the UK (and 10 April in the US). The album came after a 4-year gap from recording, following the much acclaimed album The Boatman's Call. Cave had to overcome heavy heroin and alcohol addictions in 1999-2000 before starting work on the album.
If you download this song from The Hold Steady's Bandcamp page, a donation will be made to benefit the K+L Guardian Foundation. The K+L Guardian Foundation was formed to benefit "Jersey" Mike Van Jura's children after he suddenly passed away in November 2012 at only 36 years of age. Jersey Mike was the unofficial leader of The Unified Scene. bit.ly
Speaking about the single, guitarist Conor Curley says: "It’s sung to Ireland - from a mindset of frustration, depression, and a loss of innocence."
"I used to work in the service industry, at a small burrito place in Dublin, and I’d walk home at night because I couldn’t afford public transportation. Grian and I didn’t have any money, so we were sharing a double-size bed in the same converted office block. One night on my way home I was walking by The George, which is the biggest gay nightclub in Dublin, and a guy was getting kicked out by the bouncers. He kept yelling at them, “I’m gonna kill you stone dead!,” and that turn of phrase stuck out to me."
"A couple years back the EU awarded Ireland €14 billion in back taxes from Apple, but the government here refuses to do anything with the money out of fear Apple will move their headquarters. They care more about a giant corporation than the people of our country, and all we can do is sit there and take it."
"We wanted this to be a moment of reflection on the album. We included this song with the purpose of showing our intent as a band and as Songwriters from the get go. That we intend to explore whatever emotions or ideas we see, and not just make 'another post-punk album'."
The Wedding Present performed on The Midday Show in April 2107: bit.ly
Frontman Oli Burslem said of this single: “I was living in Tokyo, struggling to write and a friend advised me to write from my own point of view. So I wrote this.”
Want more from Snapped Ankles? Download "Rechargable", February 5th KEXP Song of the Day as featured on the Midday Show! www.kexp.org
According to Gerald Casale, "the lyrics deal with the ambiguity that if everybody wants what you want, how can everybody have it if everybody wants it and what happens when everybody tries to get it, and maybe you should change what you want."
Billy Duffy of The Cult talks about how his quasi-psychedelic guitar intro came about: "I found a violin bow, and I started to play the guitar with the bow like Jimmy Page. I did it to amuse Astbury, who was in the control room, and in order to make it sound weirder, I just hit every pedal I had on the pedal board. Then once I stopped banging the strings and doing all that, I played the middle section of the song, which was kind of a pick thing with all the BOSS pedals on, and that sound just leaped out. The producer went, 'Hold it, hold it, that's great!' And we decided to start the song with that mystical sound. If I hadn't found that violin bow laying around, we wouldn't have gone there."
Watch a live performance in the KEXP studio in 2017: www.youtube.com
New Age Healers is the brainchild of KEXP's own Owen Murphy. They will be playing at Lo-Fi on Friday, April 26th, 2019.: newagehealers.bandcamp.com