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To craft the language of Dionysus, Brendan Perry used a computer plug-in of choral libraries that has an engine called a “Syllabuilder.” “It’s basically a directory of sung syllables, which you can then put together into phrases and sentences from a directory,” he explains. “You can invent your own words and phrases, and then you can play them polyphonically. You can have a whole group singing the same phrase in different harmonies. So I made a combination of that with Lisa’s and my voices to create the ensemble effect.”
“I have no idea what language is on the album,” Lisa Gerrard says. “I think the album is very much about Brendan unlocking his own language. He’s always been a genius and a remarkable composer, but I think that in this album he is coming to something very innocent and brave.”
The Cinematic Orchestra—the British electronic duo of Jason Swinscoe and Dominic Smith—have announced their first new studio album in 12 years: To Believe is the follow-up to 2007’s Ma Fleur. The new LP is out March 15 (via Domino/Ninja Tune). To Believe was mixed at New York’s Electric Lady Studios and includes contributions from Moses Sumney, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Tawiah, Roots Manuva and others.
"Man Next Door" is a song based on Garnet Mimms' 1964 American hit 'A Quiet Place' and originally recorded by John Holt with his group The Paragons in 1968. If you're recognizing the drum riff... it is from Led Zeppelin's cover of "When the Levee Breaks".
“Ar.Mour has one foot in the past and one foot in the future, it's a sound that I'm experimenting with right now. In my head, I was trying to create something that was “Post-Modern Bboy”, working with my two favourite young musicians from London, Poet/Rapper Elliott Power and Singer/Producer Miink.I wanted to create something that was like Blade Runner meets contemporary London, with a sound-system aesthetic, a sort of kru cut.” - Creative force behind UNKLE, James Lavelle
Thom Yorke has announced details of a new classical composition.
Written for French piano duo Katia and Marielle Labèque called ‘Don’t Fear The Light’, he will perform it with the pair at a trio of upcoming shows in April. Only in London, Paris, and Lyon I'm afraid.
Lost Under Heaven were live in the KEXP studios on The Morning Show, October 31st, 2018! bit.ly
"Pictures Of You" was based on an essay by Myra Poleo called The Dark Power of Ritual Pictures. Smith says that after reading it, he destroyed his old personal photos and many of his home videos in an effort to wipe away his past. He came to regret the decision a few days later.
CCFX performing "The One to Wait" live in the KEXP studio on April 3, 2018: bit.ly
Bono wrote this after flying a kite with his two daughters. He was not used to flying kites. It crashed and they went home to play video games.
The incident brought him back to his childhood when his father had the same disastrous luck with a kite. Bono, who was about to lose his father to cancer, pondered his own mortality: "I wasn't sure of my own well-being. I just wanted to have some songs that would, in a way, tell my kids something about who their father was."
Black Belt Eagle Scout will be at The Tractor on May 18th! That's Mt St. Helens Day. Tickets & Info: bit.ly
Sharon Van Etten is playing a sold out show at The Neptune on February 23rd. You can still get tickets to her Portland show on February 21st but you should probably hurry! bit.ly
Kristin Hersh was live from the KEXP studios in November 2016: bit.ly
Strand of Oaks will be at Neumos on Friday, April 26th with Wild Pink. Tickets & info: bit.ly
Jeff Tweedy is heading out on a US tour this spring in support of WARM. No Seattle date but you can find all the stops here: bit.ly
This song was one of the album's oldest; Harrison wrote it in 1966. During their 1969 sessions, Harrison revealed that John Lennon had vetoed The Beatles from working on "Isn't It A Pity" and that Harrison had considered offering it to Frank Sinatra instead.
Alvvays performed live on The Afternoon Show October 27, 2017 and closed with "In Undertow." See the full set here: bit.ly
Regarding the video, INXS bass player Tim Farriss said in the book I Want My MTV: "We fed Valium to a few cats and had them running around a table while we had a feast with sexy models and Playboy centerfolds, ripping apart a turkey. Next thing we knew, we had a Top-40 hit in America."
Two-fer Tuesday on The Bone! Today is INXS lead singer, Michael Hutchence's birthday. He would have been 59.
Speaking about Swervedriver’s latest return to action, vocalist/guitarist Adam Franklin remarked: “I love being back in this band. We’re playing places that we’ve either not played in a long time or new places, like Singapore, where there were 20 year old kids there and they’re singing the words to the new songs…
“We don’t want to be the band that just plays the old albums. We’re glad to have a whole bunch of new songs. We’re on it again.”
‘Future Ruins’ is the second Swervedriver album to emerge in the last four years. Prior to that, the band released four albums between 1991 and 1998, ending with the release of ’99th Dream’ – which came out the same year that the band first initially decided to split.
In mid-August KEXP's Morning Show received an email from a band in India that read as follows: "Hello John, we are a shoegaze/psychrock/dreampop trio from India..." and, well, since one rarely gets shoegaze emails from India, we were more than intrigued. Read Morning Show producer Owen Murphy's interview with Lo! Peninsula here: bit.ly
The song is best known as the opening theme music for The Sopranos, which used the "Chosen One Mix." Alabama 3 frontman Rob Spragg wrote the song after hearing about the 1996 murder case of Sara Thornton, who stabbed her husband after two years of abuse, mistreatment and neglect. "We started with a Howlin' Wolf loop, but a lot of blues lyrics are quite misogynist," Spragg explained. "So I turned it round to be about a woman who's had enough and gets a gun – it's quite ironic that it's become a New Jersey gangster anthem."
We're celebrating the 40th anniversary of London Calling and International Clash Day 2019 from London! Find events near you! internationalclashday.com
Broken Social Scene have announced their forthcoming EP Let’s Try the After - Vol. 1, which arrives February 15 via Arts & Crafts. BSS bandleader Kevin Drew said in a press statement, “The point is to keep going. We have more to give. These songs have lived beside us and become our commencement party while continuing together. We hope you enjoy this EP for you and me.”
In addition to the new EP, Broken Social Scene have announced a handful of live residencies in Montreal and Los Angeles.
This song comes from their forthcoming self-titled album out March 15. It has definitely whet our appetite for more!
Bowie described this Eddie Cochran-inspired single in a 1987 interview as "a piece of sexist rock 'n roll. [laughs] It's about picking up birds. It's not very cerebral, that piece."
“After making music for the past twenty years and embarking on making this record with Danger Mouse I knew a couple things: one was that the spirit of collaboration between us was going to be a pure one, and two was that the more I live the less is clear to me,” said Karen O of the album.
“When you create from a blurry place you can go places further than you’ve ever been. I think we both were excited to go far out.”
Asked by Uncut magazine whether the abusive relationship described in "Drawn To The Blood" was his own, Stevens simply answered "yes".
"I found myself kind of feeling like my mother's ghost was inhabiting me," he added. "I had a lot of dark moments."
Glen Hansard will release his fourth full-length album, This Wild Willing, on April 12th. “This collection of songs is mainly made up of those that came through while improvising and following the melodic lines and threads,” Hansard explained. “Sometimes when you take a small musical fragment and you care for it, follow it and build it up slowly, it can become a thing of wonder.”
Guy Garvey on Build A Rocket Boys!
"We had a pair of young ladies called Cupid's Bow come in and play cello for us. We also crane-lifted a grand piano into the top floor of the studio. Windows had to be removed and it took 12 hours to complete. The 55-strong Halle Youth Choir gave up a Sunday to come in and sing a number of songs. I felt a bit cheeky asking such well-trained vocalists to sound a bit more 'Manc' but they were up to it. So many real musicians under one roof, we were very flattered that they agreed to work with us."
In a 1986 interview, Hutchence said the song was about "kids and conditioning. Growing up. How you grow up through other people's ideas or your own." It was a bold move for the '80s, when many kids were still clinging to their parents' views of segregated relationships. Daring to tell a white boy and black girl to "play with fire" and "dream on, the name of love" got the song banned from some US radio stations.
The Twilight Sad are playing The Crocodile on Sunday, May 26th. Tickets & info: bit.ly
This song featured in the 2001 movie Donnie Darko during a scene where a camera flies around the school. Director Richard Kelly said on the DVD commentary that the scene in which the tune was used was written and choreographed specifically with the song in mind.
Yesterday, the University of Limerick conferred Honorary Doctorates of Letters on the band members of The Cranberries. Guitarist Noel Hogan, bassist Mike Hogan were presented with an Honorary Doctorate of Letters. The Cranberries drummer Fergal Lawler was unable to attend and his doctorate was accepted on his behalf by Mike Hogan. Eileen O’Riordan, mother of lead singer Dolores O’Riordan, who tragically passed away this time last year, was presented with a posthumous Honorary Doctorate of Letters for Dolores O’Riordan.
UL President Dr Des Fitzgerald said “UL had initially planned to present these doctorates to The Cranberries in April 2017 however promotional and rehearsal commitments prevented the band from being available to accept the honour at that stage. It is with very sad regret that since that time the world and more importantly her family and band mates have lost Dolores O’Riordan and her incredible voice. We very much appreciate her family’s presence here today and particularly her mother Eileen who is accepting this Honorary Doctorate on Dolores’ behalf.’
When they released this track in December, Martha said: "Sorry that we’ve been a bit quiet lately, we’re gonna have some news to share very soon. In the mean time we wanted to let you know that we’re officially working with Big Scary Monsters and Dirtnap and we’re incredibly chuffed about it!" So, hopefully news of an album soon!
“Aliens In Our Midst” was originally released in the late ’70s by garage rock band, the Twinkeyz. Check out the original: bit.ly
On March 1st last year Buffalo Tom performed "I'm Allowed" live on The Morning Show: bit.ly
At one of two "Away Shows" at Fenway Park last year Pearl Jam honored hometown favorites Buffalo Tom by closing their first encore with "Taillights Fade." Buffalo Tom frontman Bill Janovitz joined the band on stage, playing guitar and trading off vocals with Eddie Vedder. You can see it here: bit.ly
The tour kicks off on March 31st in Baker City, Or and Telekinesis will be at Neumos on Friday, May 3rd! Tickets and info: bit.ly
You can see Subways On The Sun at The Tractor on February 1st! bit.ly
Neil Tennant's lyrics were written as a satire of Thatcherism and its embodiment in conspicuous consumption in the United Kingdom during the 1980s. The Pet Shop singer penned them after keyboardist Chris Lowe, asked him to make up a lyric based around the line "Let's make lots of money. Tennant commented to Mojo magazine August 2013: "It's a simple message isn't it? 'I've got the brains, you've got the looks, let's make lots of money.' A very insensitive thing that was meant to be a satire of Thatcherism. Actually, we'd written the Thatcherite anthem. But it's very difficult to think, now, that there was a period before money culture. That was the changing moment. It wasn't even an original thing to say because it was at the same time as Loadsamoney, Harry Enfield. It was that period where suddenly one's sensitive left-wing soul was shocked by everything being about money. Now, of course, generations have grown that haven't known anything else."
You can catch Toro Y Moi at Treefort Music Festival in Boise, ID March 20th - 24th. www.treefortmusicfest.com
"What You Need" was written by Andrew Farriss, keyboardist and key composer for the Australian band INXS. This song was almost "the one that got away." Producer Chris Thomas advised the band that they needed one more guaranteed hit after they finished recording the Listen Like Thieves album. They thought it over that night, came in and literally finished the song in a day, in time for the album to cut and ship.
"The infamous Beta Band frontman could have lingered in the shadow of his cult-figure fandom; instead, on his fourth solo album, he sings directly about the long process of growing up." Read the Pitchfork review of About the Light here: bit.ly
Following on from the success of their 2nd album Grow Up and 5 track EP You Get Used To It, Desperate Journalist have just unveiled "Cedars", a taster from their forthcoming album In Search Of The Miraculous, out in February. Preorder on their Bandcamp page: bit.ly
Sinead O'Connor in an interview in The Tech April 12, 1988: "Mandinkas are an African tribe. They're mentioned in the book Roots by Alex Haley, which is what the song is about. In order to understand it you must read the book."
Piroshka, the new band formed by Lush’s Miki Berenyi, Moose’s KJ McKillop, Elastica’s Justin Welch and Modern English’s Mick Conroy, have announced their debut album, which is titled Brickbat, and will be out February 15 via Bella Union. (Bella Union is the label started by Simon Raymonde of Lush’s former 4AD labelmates Cocteau Twins.)