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Thursday, Mar 21 2019, 6AM
Good morning Seattle, and welcome to the Thursday edition of The Morning Show. This Rolling Stones cover appears as the closing track on The Sundays second album Blind, released in 1992
Off the debut solo album from the Throwing Muses and 50 Foot Wave frontwoman. Watch Hersh performing live at KEXP in 2016 here: bit.ly
The mixtape to your crush is never complete without this one. (Or nowadays, the playlist on Spotify you go back and forth on making public or not... )
Julien Baker's interpretation of the song that appears on Elliott Smith's 1997 classic Either/Or. This 2016 tribute album to Smith also features covers done by Waxahatchee, Tanya Donnelly, Juliana Hatfield, J Mascis, and many more: bit.ly
Watch Marissa Nadler's live KEXP performance from 2018 here: bit.ly
Off the third LP from this folk band that formed in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1982. They're still making music, find their work here! theinnocencemission.bandcamp.com
And while you're bleeding on your back in the glass | I'll be glad that I made it out | And sorry that it all went down like it did | bit.ly
The Mercury Prize-winning fifth album from PJ Harvey: "I thought, no, I want absolute beauty. I want this album to sing and fly and be full of reverb and lush layers of melody. I want it to be my beautiful, sumptuous, lovely piece of work."
Off the 2x Platinum-selling album from the Irish singer/songwriter. Watch the video for "Jump In The River" here: bit.ly
Patti Smith embraced Instagram last year, and trust us, it will do good for your social media feed: www.instagram.com
Laura Marling stopped by our studio for a live performance in 2017, watch it right here: bit.ly
This new album from the husband/wife folk duo is set to release on April 12th! Pre-order it here: shovelsandrope.bandcamp.com
Found on Tea for the Tillerman, the fourth album from Cat Stevens, released in 1970
The 'ham bands, ODESZA and Death Cab for Cutie, will be playing a sold-out show at the Bellingham Civic Stadium on May 18th to benefit Western Washington University’s Alumni Association Scholarship Endowment. Stay tuned here for a chance to win tickets, and find more info here: bit.ly
The first new album in five years from Maps (the project of James Chapman) is set to release on May 10th. Pre-order Colours. Reflect. Time. Loss. here: smarturl.it
According to an interview with Rolling Stone, Moby almost didn't include "Porcelain" on Play - "I actually had to be talked into including it. When I first recorded it, I thought it was average. I didn’t like the way I produced it, I thought it sounded mushy, I thought my vocals sounded really weak. I couldn’t imagine anyone else wanting to listen to it."
The second single released off 1993's Siamese Dream. Watch the video for "Today" here: www.youtube.com
Quivers will be LIVE today on The Morning Show at 9:30 AM! Also, here's where to find their music: quiversss.bandcamp.com
Happy 63rd birthday to Guy Chadwick of The House of Love, born on this day in 1956!
This Manchester band has been making music together since their formation in 1982... this track appears on their 2018 album Living in Extraordinary Times
For Red and his beautiful boy Arthur
The Yeah Yeah Yeah's frontwoman told Rolling Stone about Spike Jonze asking her to compose the music for his 2009 film: “I guess there is a childlike innocence about my music or my persona that he always just kind of dialed into. To play on it and it was a really amazing experience and I think what he has accomplished with the film is basically the impossible. There’s a lot of stuff that they told me Spike couldn’t do that he did it anyway and it was a really inspiring and exciting thing to be a part of.”
The third album from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, which lost the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music to Phoenix's Wolfgang Amadeus
O on the making of this song: “I like to write songs that anyone can relate to but this one felt especially for the inner child in me that needed the bullies out there to know you don’t f***with me. I’m a woman now and I’ll protect that inner girl in me from hell and high water.”
Jessica Dobson of Deep Sea Diver covering this Leslie Gore song for KEXP on International Women's Day this year! See more of her picks for favorite women artists here: bit.ly
The song written and recorded by Willie Nelson, but covered (and made famous) by the legendary Patsy Cline in 1961
Our session with this super-trio of Lucy Dacus, Phoebe Bridgers, and Julien Baker can be found right here: www.youtube.com
Radiohead song covered and recorded live by Gillian Welch in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 2004
Radiohead's Colin Greenwood to Caitlin Moran: "We didn't really realise that loads of people like The Bends. Tucked away in Oxford, you occasionally see someone in a 'Creep' T-shirt, and that's it. But then we went all round the world and found that loads of people wanted to 'hang' with us because of that album. Which was nice."
Happy 9th birthday Eva, this one's for you!
The song inspired by the recent (and rapid) changes in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, which Ben Gibbard lived in for twenty years - www.youtube.com
Kelley Finnigan (of Bay Area soul band Monophonics) has just released this cover of the 1973 song from The Honey Drippers - “Just as the timing of the original in 1973 was essential and necessary. What’s been going for the last 2 plus years in this country is disturbing in a lot of ways and I’m proud to be a part of this record and the message in the music.” | bit.ly
We miss you, Miss Jones <3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5eVHCQ4ogQ
Found on 1965's I Put a Spell on You. Many have covered this song since, but none can compare to Simone's rendition
That note from Withers held at the end lasts for 18 seconds, which is one of the longest ever recorded for a song
Off the second album from Boston's Clem Snide, released in 2000
"Everywhere" includes: Reno, Chicago, Fargo, Minnesota, Buffalo, Toronto, Winslow, Sarasota, Wichita, Tulsa, Ottawa, Oklahoma, Tampa, Panama, Mattawa, La Paloma, Bangor, Baltimore, Salvador, Amarillo, Tocopilla, Barranquilla, Padilla, Boston, Charleston, Dayton, Louisiana, Washington, Houston, Kingston, Texarkana,
Monterey, Faraday, Santa Fe, Tallapoosa,
Glen Rock, Black Rock, Little Rock, Oskaloosa, Tennessee to Hennessey, Chicopee, Spirit Lake, Grand Lake, Devil's Lake, Crater Lake, Louisville, Nashville, Knoxville, Ombabika,
Schefferville, Jacksonville, Waterville, Costa Rica, Pittsfield, Springfield, Bakersfield, Shreveport, Hackensack, Cadillac, Fond du Lac, Davenport, Idaho, Jellico, Argentina, Diamantina, Pasadena, Catalina, Pittsburgh, Parkersburg, Gravelbourg, Colorado,
Ellensburg, Rexburg, Vicksburg, El Dorado, Larimore, Admore, Haverstraw, Chatanika, Chaska, Nebraska, Alaska, Opelaka, Baraboo, Waterloo, Kalamazoo, Kansas City, Sioux City, Cedar City, and Dodge City (what a pity)
Has anyone ever NOT played this song on a road trip? (Or tour?)
Here's video of these two legends performing this song live together: bit.ly
The Velvet Underground cover from the Cowboy Junkies that Lou Reed claimed was his favorite | www.youtube.com
This New Zealand singer/songwriter will be at the Tractor Tavern on April 18th! Find ticket info here: bit.ly
This was our Song of the Day back on April 8, 2013! Watch our blog every Monday-Friday for a new (free) song: bit.ly
Not the home carbonator product, but a band formed in Melbourne, Australia in the late 90's
The band formed by Psychedelic Furs frontman Richard Butler after their breakup in 1991
The band made up of Talking Heads members Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth, and Chris Frantz. This opening track to this project features vocals and guitar work from Concrete Blonde frontwoman, Johnette Napolitano
The first of two albums from TR/ST this year is set to arrive on April 19th... catch him at Neumos on May 15th! Tickets here: bit.ly
Watch Built To Spill performing live at KEXP in 2015 here! www.youtube.com
That's the Thursday Morning Show!
Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile performed "Over Everything" live in the KEXP studio in October 2017. Watch it here: www.youtube.com
Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile performed "Over Everything" live in the KEXP studio in October 2017. Watch it here: www.youtube.com