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Monday, Jan 28 2019, 6AM
Built To Spill is touring all around Europe this spring - so if you're lucky enough to live there, check out the tour dates at www.builttospill.com
A song about long-distance relationships. deathcabforcutie.com
From their new EP due out in February - they'll be playing some shows in Montreal and LA in May/June if you're in either of those places! brokensocialscene.ca
Foals will be playing at the Paramount Theatre here in Seattle on March 20th. foals.co.uk
Jamila Woods explained that she wrote this she'd recently taught Nikki Giovanni’s poem “Ego Tripping.” "I thought, what would it be like to write a cover poem that’s a song? The lyric “there must be a reason why”—it was cool to think about that. I interpreted that like, there must be a reason why I am the way I am. I thought about the women in my life who make it possible for me to believe in myself, and have faith in myself, that I’m doing right by the people who’ve poured so much love and time and energy into me. "
Florence + The Machine have released two surprise new songs in 'Moderation' and b-side 'Haunted House'. florenceandthemachine.net
James Blake's latest album features Rosalía on this track, as well as other appearances from André 3000, Travis Scott, Metro Boomin, Moses Sumney, and more. www.jamesblakemusic.com
"Gallipoli started, in my mind, when I finally had my old Farfisa organ shipped to New York from my parent’s home in Santa Fe, NM. .." Read the whole tale at www.beirutband.com
We hope the polar vortex doesn't ACTUALLY dump 15 feet of snow on all of y'all in the middle of the US right... Hang in there. ☃️
New from the Manchester-based duo of Ebony Hoorn and Ellery James Roberts. lostunderheaven.com
What do you think: Sunflower Bean, or TURNIP KING? The band members initially collaborated when one of them briefly subbed for the drummer in their high school band Turnip King.
This goes out to a SECRET MEETING of librarians happening here in Seattle...?! (There's gotta be a Nightvale reference in here somewhere...)
We love how W E I R D this video gets after a minute. www.youtube.com
Happy birthday to Rakim! Born William Michael Griffin Jr. in 1968.
Yeah, extra positive vibrations on Monday! If you like this and aren't already tuning into Positive Vibrations, KEXP's reggae show every Saturday from 9-noon, you should check it out! www.kexp.org
Due to the song's atypical tuning, The Who guitarist Pete Townshend called The Beat's Dave Wakeling to ask how to play the song:"I got a phone call at 11 in the morning, and somebody gave me the phone and said, “It’s Pete Townshend for you.” And I said, “Of course it is, he phones about this time every Saturday doesn’t he?” Ha ha. I thought it was somebody making a joke. I picked up very sarcastically, 'Oh, hello Pete.' And he said, 'Oh, hello Dave, this is Peter Townshend here and I’m sitting with David Gilmour, and we’re trying to work out your song 'Save It For Later,' but we can’t work out the tuning.' They presumed it was DADGAD as well, and couldn’t make it work, and so I had to explain that I’d made a mistake and it was not DADGAD, it was DADAAD. And he laughed and said, 'Oh, thank heavens for that! We've been breaking our fingers trying to get our hands around these chords.'"
First new music from Vampire Weekend in 6 years! They recently announced that their fourth album, Father of the Bride, is out this spring. www.vampireweekend.com
New project from Phoebe Bridgers and Conor Oberst - www.betteroblivioncommunitycenter.org
This track has 2 videos: The first was a statement against the banality of lip-synching and consists almost entirely of footage from wildlife documentaries, interspersed with shots of Talk Talk lead singer Mark Hollis standing in various places throughout the London Zoo. He keeps his hands in his coat pockets and his mouth pointedly shut tight and sometimes obscured by hand-drawn animated lines.
The second version, recorded at the behest of EMI, consisted of the entirety of the original video projected on a green screen behind Hollis on guitar and vocals as well as his two bandmates as they lip-synched and mimed the song, deliberately poorly and with comic exaggerated gestures.
Talk talk, the the ... what's next, Duran Duran? Django Django? The Go-Go's?
Ah yes, the Velvet Velvets 😏 In the liner notes to the Velvet Underground's box set Peel Slowly and See, Lou Reed wrote, "'Rock and Roll' is about me. If I hadn't heard rock and roll on the radio, I would have had no idea there was life on this planet. Which would have been devastating - to think that everything, everywhere was like it was where I come from. That would have been profoundly discouraging. Movies didn't do it for me. TV didn't do it for me. It was the radio that did it."
She'll be playing the Neptune Theatre February 23rd: www.sharonvanetten.com
New from the Dublin group.. themurdercapital.com
Lots of soft focus in this video.. 🌫 www.youtube.com
The first new music in 10 years from Jack White, Brendan Benson, Jack Lawrence & Patrick Keeler. thirdmanstore.com
New music from the Lucerne, Switzerland based group. thechurchhillgarden.bandcamp.com
One year ago today, The Cranberries lead singer Dolores O’Riordan passed away at the age of 46. Prior to her death, she and the band had finished demoing a collection of new material. Those songs will be released in the form of The Cranberries’ eighth and final album in April.
The Posies just played a couple of great shows in Seattle - if you missed it, they're playing at Snapdragon on Vashon Island tomorrow, as well as Vancouver, Tacoma, and Bellingham this week. theposies.net
On this date in 1951, William "Billy Bass" Nelson of Funkadelic was born! He was the original bass guitarist for "One Nation Under a Groove."