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In a 2009 interview with Clash Magazine, songwriter Ian Brown explained that he "didn't actually want people to adore me. I was trying to say then, if you want to be adored, it's like a sin, like lust or gluttony or something like that."
Watch Ride performing this song live in the KEXP studio in 2015:www.youtube.com
The phrase, "What's the story, Morning Glory," was popularized in the 1963 film Bye Bye Birdie, where young ladies use it as a greeting when they pick up the phone, hoping for some good gossip:
"What's the story, morning glory? What's the tale, nightingale?"
"What's the story, morning glory? What's the word, hummingbird?"
According to San Francisco's Melissa Lim, who reportedly inspired Noel Gallagher, he got the phrase from her, as she used it when she answered the phone.
Read a review of this Scottish band's fifth studio album:www.pastemagazine.com Now, watch them live at KEXP:www.youtube.com
Nilufer Yanya will be right here in Seattle, opening for Sharon Van Etten at The Neptune Theatre on Saturday, February 23rd, 2019. Learn more about this promising London artist: pitchfork.com
Back in 2002, the NME said in its 9/10 star review, “Doves have just made the most uplifting miserable album you’ll hear all year.” Read a retrospective twelve years later, in 2014:consequenceofsound.net
Chemtrails will be LIVE from London as part of KEXP's International Clash Day extravaganza, February 4th-7th, 2019. They'll be playing on Wednesday, Feb. 6th, at 7:00 p.m., London time. That's 11:00 a.m. in Seattle.:www.kexp.org
Thanks, Jeremiah, for this request. Find out a little more about Andrea Laszlo De Simone here: www.thegoodnessfactory.it
"Across the Borders" was released on January 25th, 2019. Watch Icelandic singer-songwriter Junius Meyvant perform "Love Child" live: www.youtube.com
Go back, back, back in time to those heady days of 1984. Talk Talk released "It's My Life" sometime in February that year. Here's a brief review: www.allmusic.com
If you're in Toronto tonight, stay warm as you go to The Drake Hotel to hear this Toronto band. Their debut album was released on January 11th, 2019.:www.facebook.com
In an interview last year, Robert Smith told The Guardian: "I was very optimistic when I was young – now I'm the opposite.": www.theguardian.com
Speaking of London...in early February, 1972, David Bowie was just finishing recording this album there: www.forbes.com
Ohhh! Watch Stevie Wonder performing this song live at The White House in 2009: www.youtube.com
"Every time I think of you / I feel shot right through with a bolt of blue." Read 10 reasons why "Bizarre Love Triangle" is a masterpiece: www.billboard.com
Ahhh.....the Friday song. You've probably (!) heard that John, Cheryl, and Kevin are going on the road to London for an extended International Clash Day broadcast, February 4th-7th, 2019. Meet the bands that will be live as part of that broadcast: www.kexp.org
"There are few more startling examples of avant-garde cinema than Un Chien Andalou (it translates literally as ‘an Andalusian dog’), the surrealist fancy dreamed up by artist Salvador Dali and director Luis Buñuel un 1929. There’s no discernible plot and no one utters a word...In the early 80s, it caught the imagination of a young anthropology student in Massachusetts called Charles Thompson. Later, as Black Francis, his noisy surf-punk four-piece the Pixies worked the idea into Debaser....": www.loudersound.com
Besides writing and composing the track, Prince played all the instruments on the song. See the official music video for "When Doves Cry": www.youtube.com
"The misogyny of the Beastie Boys’ early years was noxious and pervasive. The song “Girls” is both appallingly sexist and entirely typical of the group’s first album...And then a miracle happened: The Beastie Boys heard criticisms about being misogynistic, homophobic jerks and actually listened to them. And changed their behavior. Sexist lyrics stopped appearing in their songs, and the 1994 song “Sure Shot” famously included a verse in which MCA explicitly apologized for the group’s past misogyny...." Read more about the way this band matured and made amends:slate.com
The video for this "high dose of rave energy" was filmed at the band’s recent sold-out London shows at Alexandra Palace.: mixmag.net
Do you think Interpol will play this song at The Moore Theatre tomorrow night, Saturday, February 2nd, 2019?
Be sure to tune in to KEXP's International Clash Day broadcast next week. IDLES will perform LIVE on Thursday, February 7th, 2019.: www.kexp.org
The song "Pinhead" (1977), contains the lyrics: "Gabba gabba, we accept you, we accept you, one of us." The song ends with: "Gabba gabba hey, gabba gabba hey!..."The phrase comes from a scene in the 1932 motion picture Freaks, in which the title characters chant the line "Gooble, gobble, we accept her, we accept her, one of us, one of us!"
Liverpool band The Wombats' Dan Haggis says, "The story behind the song was about a Norwegian girl that Murph [Matthew Murphy] had been on a few dates with. One night he asked her if she was going out for a few drinks, she said ‘no’ and that she was just going to stay at home. Later that night Murph walked into a bar in Liverpool called Hannah’s bar (incidentally where we played our first ever show in 2003!) and saw the Norwegian girl kissing another girl!":nbhap.com
Formed in 1985, Material Issue was the brainchild of frontman Jim Ellison, who also played guitar, sang lead vocals, and wrote most Material Issue songs. Sadly, Jim Ellison killed himself in 1996: www.furious.com
The music video shows the band playing servers and a group of men in military uniforms. One of them is Richard Branson, driving a go-kart and jumping on a bouncy castle. According to Andy Partridge, Branson appeared "because he's a complete publicity hog. ... he decided he was gonna turn up and keep suggesting that he be in the video. That is the worst video ever made by man.":www.youtube.com
Watch the powerful performance from the great concert movie, "Stop Making Sense": www.youtube.com
This is perhaps the most popular song featuring a marimba as a lead instrument. "The Forever Now" album was produced by Todd Rundgren and recorded at his studio, Utopia Sound. It was his idea to use the marimba on this track, and he played it. The demo of the song had a different instrument for those sections, but Rundgren had a marimba in the studio and thought it would be worth a shot. "It turned out that the little musical theme just sounded perfect with the marimbas, and became a signature element of the song," he said. "So it just was a question of availability. It's not like I had to go rent some marimbas. I happened to have them."
This was one of the first songs lead singer Michael Stipe wrote after the death of friend and actor River Phoenix on Halloween 1993. Stipe sunk into depression and didn't write anything for five months.
It was such a treat to have historic Seattle band Love Battery performing live in the KEXP studio last year: www.youtube.com
Prolific musician Ryan Adams just released a new album, "Big Colors," in January. Rumor has it that he will release three albums in 2019:www.udiscovermusic.com
The New York Times just printed a moving story and interview about Jordan Peele's new documentary about Lorena Bobbitt:www.nytimes.com
That's Dudley Klute singing lead vocals on this song. "The day is beautiful and so are you...
My car is ugly but then I'm ugly, too...
I know you'd never give me a second glance...
But when the weather's nice...
All the other guys don't stand a chance..." Here are the lyrics: genius.com
Paul McCartney and Beatles producer George Martin both played pianos. Martin played the honky-tonk style in the middle.Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys said this is his favorite Paul McCartney song. He recalled: "I had a sneak preview of Sgt. Pepper when Paul came to visit me in 1967 and Lovely Rita made me laugh my head off. I love the way it comes floating in. The bassline is great and the lyrics are kind of funny too."
The video for this song was directed by future Little Miss Sunshine directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris.: www.youtube.com
We have the volume turned up to "11" (on a 10-point scale) here in the booth. See the award-winning video for "Plush": www.youtube.com
This five-piece Irish quintet will be in London in April, supporting IDLES. "Feeling Fades" is their debut single.:www.gigwise.com
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds performed this song live on The Letterman Show in 2003:www.youtube.com It really stands the test of time, doesn't it?
It was fun to have FIDLAR playing live in the kEXP studio in 2015: www.youtube.com
"This is only one of the tightest, jumpiest, straight-up rock albums around." Read a review of this Welsh trio's "Mclusky Do Dallas": pitchfork.com
If you're from Spokane, you should know that Mudhoney will be at the Lucky You Lounge on Saturday, May 11th, 2019.
This is a cover of a Devo song.:www.rollingstone.com
Speaking of covers...and Devo...here they are, covering The Stones:www.youtube.com
That's correct. When you tune in at 6:00 a.m. Pacific Standard Time on Thursday, February 7th, you can hear Goat Girl playing LIVE for KEXP listeners in London where it will be 2:00 p.m. Amazing, isn't it?: www.kexp.org
This is for you, Tom, on your last day in Bora Bora. Now, "Go" on to New Zealand.
"So where does the phrase ‘Shabooh Shoobah’ come from? It came about in the early stages of recording the track ‘Spy Of Love’ which was written by Michael Hutchence & Tim Farriss. Tim began singing the phrase as a rhythmic chant as the band played. Even once Michael had written lyrics, the phrase stuck in the bands' minds and it became the album title.": www.michaelhutchence.com.au
Once again, go back, back, back to those heady days of 1984. The Alarm's album, "Declaration," was released sometime in February of that year.: www.youtube.com
Pop Will Eat Itself was the archetypal grebo (a fusion of rock, pop, and rap) band.: www.allmusic.com
This song was the Depeche Mode's highest-charting single worldwide.: www.youtube.com
Prince performed an 8-minute version of "Creep" at Coachella in 2008.:www.youtube.com As Eric Clapton once answered when he was asked by a journalist how it was to be the best guitar player in the world: "Don't know, ask Prince."
Will Toledo (aka Car Seat Headrest) and his pals, Naked Giants, gave a wonderful live studio performance at KEXP recently: www.youtube.com
Here's what you need to know about KEXP's International Clash Day broadcast from London next week, February 4th-7th, 2019: www.kexp.org