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The drum intro was borrowed from "Be My Baby," a 1963 hit by The Ronettes.
Whispers... "I will now sell five copies of The Three E.P.'s by The Beta Band." bit.ly
Whilst Bowie's backing band worked at the instrumentation for Low, the "Thin White Duke" sat in the control room listening. Guitarist Ricky Gardener recalled to Mojo magazine "he just went into the studio and sang it straight off, words and all. He listened to the playback once, adjusted something in his head and did it again. And that was that."
Here is Sin Fang (joined by Hermigervill) performing "Look at the Light" live in the KEXP studio back on October 11, 2013. bit.ly
Morrissey covered "Cosmic Dancer" live in 1991, both solo and for a one-off duet with David Bowie during an encore at a Los Angeles concert; a version was included as a b-side for "Pregnant for the Last Time".
The new album is out January 18th and Steve Gunn will be at the Tractor on February 13th! Tickets here: bit.ly
There are still 28/500 special release copies of Sky Lake available on their bandcamp. First Pressing (Vinyl):
200 Translucent Blue & Sea Glass Split
300 Custom Opaque Mixed Purple
Journalist Martin Aston passed on a tape that Mark Eitzel had given to him. "Never before or since had I received a demo that was 90 minutes long! In fact, it was quite some time before I actually listened to the whole thing all the way through. Every morning and evening, driving to and from work, I would start at the beginning, "24" (I know, I know, what more do you need to hear, right? What a song.), but only get about half way through that and whatever the second song on the tape was before arriving home/at 4AD. When I finally did listen to the full 90 minutes I called young Mark K. and left him a message. I learned later he was sitting in the bath listening to me talk. It was a perfect time for me to hear that brilliant band." 4AD boss Ivo Watts-Russell on the Red House Painters
After the tremendous success of Dummy, the media pressure was too much to handle for singer Beth Gibbons. She has refused to do any interviews since.
Sharon Van Etten is playing the Neptune on Saturday, February 23rd! bit.ly For Remind Me Tomorrow, Van Etten put down the guitar. When she was writing the score for Strange Weather her reference was Ry Cooder, so she was playing her guitar constantly and getting either bored or getting writer's block. At the time, she was sharing a studio space with someone who had a synthesizer and an organ, and she wrote on piano at home, so she naturally gravitated to keys when not working on the score - to clear her mind. Remind Me Tomorrow shows this magnetism towards new instruments: piano keys that churn, deep drones, distinctive sharp drums. It was “reverb universe” she says of the writing. There are intense synths, a propulsive organ, a distorted harmonium.
"Unable to keep pace with the rising rents of her home base in Toronto, Ontario, songwriter Linnea Siggelkow decamped last year an hour west to Hamilton, a smaller, less-hectic place with a working-class soul and fertile DIY scene. " Sounds familiar. Check out the full review of THE FUZZ on Pitchfork: bit.ly
MorMor is coming to Seattle! Specifically Barboza on May 1st. Check out all the tour dates at www.mormormusic.com
The first single from their 1989 album The Seeds of Love, "Sowing the Seeds of Love" was a worldwide hit, reaching the top five in the UK, Canada (where it was #1), Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and the US where it peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100. It was kept out from the top spot by Janet Jackson's "Miss You Much".
Beck told Q magazine about this self-help cry in the face of 21st century digital overload. "Anybody who has a phone or a computer lives with the distractions pulling you this way and that," he explained. "We haven't figured out how to have access to everybody and everything all the time and how it affects us physically and neurologically. Or at least I haven't. My analogy to friends has been that I feel as if somebody has removed the front door of my house, permanently."
"Goodbye" by My Sad Captains was the KEXP podcast song of the day for 5/22/14. See what you're missing if you don't subscribe?! bit.ly
Since The Long Winters don't play live that often, we gladly share this video of their KEXP session at the Upstream Music Fest. Plenty of banter, and some songs too.
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Here is Harvey Danger performing "Sometimes You Have to Work on Christmas (Sometimes)" live at Neumos on 12/30/2007 bit.ly
Clay Frankel and Chris Bailoni met in 2012 through mutual friends, but it wasn’t until 2015 when they started making music together that a real friendship formed. Bailoni, a producer releasing music under the moniker Home-Sick, eventually crossed paths with Frankel, the singer & guitarist for rowdy Chicago indie stalwarts Twin Peaks. After a night of drinking red wine, Twin Peaks’ tour manager Peyton Copes bestowed upon Frankel the nickname “Grapetooth” – and as they say, the rest is history.
Fin L'Ennui and more from VVV on their Bandcamp page: whereisvvv.bandcamp.com
In an interview in Beatmag, Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys were asked why their song lyrics were about such unusual topics as Enola Gay and Joan of Arc.
Andy McCluskey: "Again it was us wanting to do something new and not be clichéd and repeat things. I tortured myself. On the third album, the song 'Joan of Arc' has the word love in it and I kept thinking, can I use this word? But love here is kind of third party - it's not you or me, it's she. She fell in love, so I can get away with that. It's not a first or second love.
IDLES performed live on the Morning Show, October 4, 2018. In addition to "Television" they performed "Colossus," "Never Fight A Man With A Perm," and "Danny Nedelko" bit.ly
"2002's Mclusky Do Dallas was the kind of record that makes musicians never want to make music again. Mclusky were louder, ruder and tighter, and they took more drugs. I imagine there are bands out there who've been trying for nearly two years to build themselves back up after Mclusky Do Dallas tarnished their egos by calling them names and wiping its muddy feet on their sofas." - Pitchfork
"Still #1: Jon Spencer On His Debut Solo Album Spencer Sings the Hits!" Check out DJ Troy Nelson's interview with Jon Spencer bit.ly
Happy birthday to Keith Richards. 75 years old today! About a year ago he says he finally "quit the booze."
I mean, he still drinks beer and wine...
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Fontaines D.C. were on the Morning Show May 14th! bit.ly AND they'll be back in Seattle next May - they're at Neumos May 28th.
The new album in out in February and Cherry Glazerr will be at Neumos with Palehound on March 7th! bit.ly
One of the problems with top 10 lists - this song isn't on it. Stereogum's Top 10 Pretenders Songs: bit.ly
Talking Heads performing "Born Under Punches" in Rome, Italy circa 1980: www.youtube.com
"Sound of Silver gets my vote for best electronica LP ever, and I would hold that opinion even if it was nothing but 43 minutes of “North American Scum.”" The Vinyl District review bit.ly
Throughout his career, Ice Cube has never shied away from politicised lyrics – and he’s not held back in his opposition to Donald Trump’s presidency. Ice Cube on Donald Trump: “Never let a son of a bitch distract you from doing what’s right.”
Raygun magazine described Possum Dixon as "a rough-yet polished band whose anguished pop songs and intelligent, esoteric lyrics are love themes for the dysfunctional 90s.
The new album is out February 8th and Bob Mould brings the Sunshine Rock tour to Neumos on April 6th!
Guided By Voices have been incredibly busy the past few years. In March, they released their 25th studio album, Space Gun, which followed the two LPs the band dropped in 2017 – August By Cake and How Do You Spell Heaven. Back in July, the Dayton, Ohio band announced they’d be releasing two more albums, Street Party and the double album Zeppelin Over China. We now know there’s a third upcoming album titled Warp And Woof due out in April which is being split into four separate limited-edition 7″ EPs, each one comprising six songs. The Wine Cork Stonehenge and 100 Dougs EPs were out December 7, and the Umlaut Over The Özone and 1901 Acid Rock EPs will drop in March.
Among the Modern Lovers playing on this song were keyboard player Jerry Harrison who later joined Talking Heads and drummer David Robinson, who later joined The Cars. The producer was Velvet Underground member John Cale.
Lead singer Jon Fratelli wrote this song for his wife, who worked as a burlesque dancer with the stage name Chelsea Dagger. The name "Chelsea Dagger" is a play on "Britney Spears." Get it? - Chelsea::Britney, Dagger::Spear.
Beverly Crusher plays Thursday at Chop Suey and on the 29th at The Ice Box!
Hendrix: "All those people who don't like Bob Dylan's songs should read his lyrics. They are filled with the joys and sadness of life. I am as Dylan, none of us can sing normally. Sometimes, I play Dylan's songs and they are so much like me that it seems to me that I wrote them. I have the feeling that Watchtower is a song I could have come up with, but I'm sure I would never have finished it. Thinking about Dylan, I often consider that I'd never be able to write the words he manages to come up with, but I'd like him to help me, because I have loads of songs I can't finish. I just lay a few words on the paper, and I just can't go forward. But now things are getting better, I'm a bit more self-confident."
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis performed "My Oh My" live in the old KEXP studio on the Afternoon Show: bit.ly
The album's title is from the philosophical novel Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder, the context being:
"Only philosophers embark on this perilous expedition to the outermost reaches of language and existence. Some of them fall off, but others cling on desperately and yell at the people nestling deep in the snug softness, stuffing themselves with delicious food and drink. 'Ladies and Gentlemen,' they yell, 'we are floating in space!' But none of the people down there care."
"Ceremony" was one of the last Joy Division songs to be composed, with lyrics written by Ian Curtis. There are three recorded versions by Joy Division in existence. The first is a live version, available on the Still album, from their final concert at High Hall, Birmingham University on 2 May 1980. The second, available on the Heart and Soul four-disc box set, is from a studio session on 14 May 1980. It was the band's last recording. The third is a version recorded at the soundcheck on the afternoon of 2 May 1980 (along with "Decades") and is only available on bootleg. In all recordings, the vocals are only partially audible.
In May 2007, NME magazine placed "Transmission" at number 20 in its list of the 50 "Greatest Indie Anthems Ever", one place below "Love Will Tear Us Apart".
"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."
He was more generous in 2005 when he spoke with Record Collector: "It may have a few synthetic twinkles on it, but the song itself was strong enough to shine through."
"It's 1986 and all of a sudden these ex-Bauhaus types appear on The Chart Show complete with a fabulous video which makes those of us who didn't keep up suddenly realise that we should have - 'Yin and Yang (The Flowerpot Man)' is taken from the Express album and brightened up many lives back in the Autumn of 1986." See the video here: bit.ly