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Tuesday, Mar 12 2019, 6AM
#420 - DJ Shadow began his music career in 1989 as a disc jockey for the University of California, Davis campus radio station KDVS.
#419 - Steve Albini is an American musician, record producer, audio engineer and music journalist. He produced Slint's debut album, Tweez.
Albini is also known for his outspoken views on the music industry, having stated repeatedly that it financially exploits artists and homogenizes their sound. Nearly alone among well-known producers, Albini refuses to take ongoing royalties from album sales, feeling that a producer's job is to record the music to the band's desires, and that paying a producer as if they had contributed artistically to an album is unethical.
#418 - One of the things your donation supports is amazing in-studio performances! Check out these two from Luna! tinyurl.com and tinyurl.com
#417 - The in-studios keep coming! Slowdive was here in 2017! tinyurl.com
#416 - Band of Horses is on tour! No Seattle date but you can see them in Spokane on July 14th!
#415 - Dean Wareham of Galaxie 500 performed "Ceremony" on Morgan's show in 2014! Watch it here: tinyurl.com
#414 - In the US, this was the only Top 40 hit for Siouxsie and the Banshees. Really America? Get it together.
#413 - "Lips Like Sugar" is one of many UK hits for the band, and one lead singer Ian McCulloch would rather skip. "It was an OK song, I suppose, but it didn't sound like us," he told Q magazine in 1992. "We just got sucked into a new mentality on that last album, the sound of Radio America."
#412 - This is about then-Governor of California Jerry Brown. (and now governor Jerry Brown) In the song, an imaginary President Brown outlines his vision of America.
#411 - The first single from Doolittle, this song received lots of accolades from the music press, including from Rolling Stone magazine, which named it the #5 single of 1989 and later listed it as #410 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. They were close, it is #411.
#410 - Check out David J performing "No New Tale To Tell" live at SXSW 2014: tinyurl.com
#409 - Silversun Pickups performed live in the KEXP studio on May 11, 2012. tinyurl.com
#408 - Sweet recorded this song in 1990 as he was going through a brutal divorce. Around the same time, he met someone new, giving "Girlfriend" layers of emotional turmoil.
#407 - For the album, Loretta Lynn worked with the core band of guitarist Jack White, drummer Patrick Keeler, bassist Jack Lawrence, and pedal steel guitarist Dave Feeney. The Midwest rock crew turn “Portland, Oregon” into a bluesy romp, with heavy accents balanced by a slow-building instrumental intro. “I didn’t know [Jack] was gonna sing with me on ‘Portland, Oregon,'” says Lynn. “I walked in the studio and I said, ‘Who is that man singing it with me, Jack?’ and he said, ‘That’s me.’ I like Jack. Anything he did I thought was cool.”
#406 - When searching "We Were Promised...", the first Google suggestion is rightfully "We Were Promised Jetpacks". The second is "We Were Promised Arugula"???
#405 - Florence & The Machine performed in the old home *8 years ago*! See "Rabbit Heart" here: tinyurl.com The live version also appeared on Live At KEXP Volume 7!
#404 - Kevin Shields (Vocals, guitar) and Colm O Ciosoig (Drums) first met at a karate tournament in South Dublin in 1978. Cobra Kai forever!
#403 - Best description of Jon Spencer? "A rock and roll powder keg"
#402 J. Mascis of Dinosaur Jr was just at KEXP in November! tinyurl.com
#401 - You can go see Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker for a 3-night "campout" in Pioneertown, CA in August! www.crackersoul.com
#399 - For those of us of a certain age that remember "Dial-A-Song" you can still find it online! dialasong.com
#400 - So many great in-studio performances that your donation supports! You Are Invited: tinyurl.com Donate NOW! kexp.org
#398 - Just a few days ago, The Black Keys released a new song, "Lo/Hi". Hear it here: wbr.lnk.to
#397 - The music video for "Y Control", directed by Spike Jonze, was controversial for its images of children carrying the body of a dead dog, giving the middle finger, and a subtitled portrayal of child mutilation. MTV agreed to air the video; however, they included a disclaimer from Jonze at the beginning, and blurred out some of the video's more offensive material.
#396 - Phantogram are playing this summer's Capitol Hill Block Party, July 19-21. More info here: tinyurl.com
#395 - "Birthday" is the song that brought Björk into the popular American consciousness. Released in August 1987 on the Sugarcubes debut album Life's Too Good, it was the band's first international single.
The song is notable for Bjork's unique vocal gymnastics and for its odd lyrics about a girl who "threads worms on a string," "keeps spiders in her pocket," and "collects fly wings in a jar."
#394 - Read made up morning show producer, Owen Murphy's interview with Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand www.kexp.org
#393 - No Seattle dates but MGMT are touring in May! whoismgmt.com
#392 - Johnny Greenwood told NPR how the group recorded the track. "This song was one of the rare chances of getting our hands on an unfinished song, so we could put strings on right at the beginning," he said. "Usually strings are an afterthought, decoration on the end of a song. I've been saying for years, wouldn't it be great to start with strings."
"So this song was just Thom singing in a drum machine and nothing else," Greenwood continued. "And then I wrote strings to that. So you're hearing an orchestra play - they're strumming their violins with guitar plectrums, that's the rhythm."