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When they first announced their reunion in 2014, Slowdive’s legacy as one of the definitive shoegaze bands had long been crystallized, and when they returned in 2017 with a masterful self-titled album, their years apart felt like a footnote in a band producing some of their best work three decades in. They joined Cheryl Waters in the KEXP Live Room for one of the most anticipated sessions of 2017. Check out the full performance, including "Slomo" here: bit.ly
In a 2016 Rolling Stone reader's poll of the top 10 Cure songs, "From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea" was #8 despite never being released as a single. Find the poll here: bit.ly
In September, 2017 Ride performed an incredible version of Leave Them All Behind, live on KEXP. bit.ly
The Twilight Sad performed another track from the new album on BBC Radio Scotland last week. You can now watch 'I/m Not Here [missing face]' here: tinyurl.com The New album, It Won/t Be Like This All the Time, is out January 18th. There will be a limited edition blue heavyweight vinyl only available in "indie" stores!
Last weekend saw members of Biffy Clyro, The Twilight Sad and more join Frightened Rabbit at a special show in Scotland in memory of late frontman Scott Hutchison. Billed as The Songs of Frightened Rabbit, brother and drummer Grant Hutchison performed with the band’s Billy Kennedy and Andy Monaghan. They were joined by a series of special guests on vocals who also performing prior as special guests, including The Twilight Sad‘s James Graham. Money raised will go to Social Bite, in aid of helping the homeless, as well as the Scott Hutchison Foundation.
See footage and photos here: bit.ly
In an interview, Ed O'Brien explained why they often play 15 Step and Morning Bell back-to-back: "Putting '15 Step' and 'Morning Bell' together was deliberate. '15 Step' is in 5/4 and 'Morning Bell' is in 7/8. It's nice to have a bit of clapping, a bit of audience participation, if they can get the beat. In Spain, they love 'Morning Bell' - all the fast clapping is like flamenco music. But in the West, we're not very rhythm-savvy. Anything not in 4/4 is hard for a lot of people."
The cover speaks for itself - or I guess I should say the 1990 KCMU DJs speak for themselves. Pod Review Revue: bit.ly The Breeders are playing tonight in Auckland, New Zealand!
The new album is out in February but in the meantime find a track from their last album, "Hollow" was the featured song of the day 1/10/17: www.kexp.org
Sloucher will be live on KEXP on the 18th at 4pm! They're also playing a New Year's Eve show with Great Grandpa at The Auditorium @ U Heights. More info & tickets: bit.ly
One of Radiohead's first songs, this was released as a promo single for college radio stations in the US and is a tribute to the Pixies.
In May, Nada Surf performed their entire 2002 album, "Let Go", live in the KEXP studio. Yep, that happened! Watch it here: bit.ly
Here's a video of Gillian Welch performing this Radiohead cover live with Dave Rawlins: bit.ly
John Leckie, who produced The Bends, was away the day the band recorded this. It was initially regarded as B-side material recorded by the studio's assistant engineer Nigel Godrich. However Godrich, who was to become the band's regular producer, bonded with the band and it was promoted onto the album after a playback.
School of Fish were only a band for 5 years (89-94). If you're wondering whatever happened to them, look no further! bit.ly
The band recorded the entire debut in lead singer Michael Fitzpatrick's living room, as they couldn't afford to go into a studio. The band did not soundproof the room, instead desiring to "just go with it."
KEXP's OCnotes on Charles Bradley's Posthumous New LP Black Velvet: bit.ly
Happy birthday to Dante Terrell Smith, aka Mos Def, born today back in 1973. That makes him 44 for those who don't want to do the math this early.
Ice Cube the ever-outspoken rapper, actor and producer discusses the alt-right, the border wall and Kanye West's love of Donald Trump, as well as his new album, 'Everythang's Corrupt' in a Rolling Stone interview today: bit.ly
Miya Folik will be at Barboza on Tuesday, February 19th! Tickets & info here: bit.ly
This song features Welch's vocal overdubbed with so many harmonies she sounds like a massed choir of one. She confessed to The Independent June 27, 2009: "The guy who mixed it nearly had a nervous breakdown."
This became Radiohead's first UK Top 5 single thanks in part to its music promo. The director Jonathan Glazier, was approached by Thom Yorke after the singer had been impressed by Glazier's only previous video, for Massive Attack's "Karmacoma." He would later direct Radiohead's promo for "Karma Police." Glazier told The Guardian Setember 24, 2005: "With Radiohead, it's very much about convincing Thom Yorke of your ideas. But once he's chosen you there's not any interference - he wants you to go off and be experimental. I'd had this idea for ages that I'd seen in nature programs, where they'd film an eagle flying at 1,200 frames per second then cut frames out to slow it down. It's a technique you see in every second ice-cream commercial nowadays but back then it was new. They weren't sure if they wanted to make Street Spirit the next single so I initially wrote this idea up to be used with a different song. We shot the whole thing at night in the desert outside LA. The band are hardly the most rowdy on set. They just slept the whole time. I'd have to wake them once in a while so I could film them being pushed off a chair.
Here are the rules to the Little Drummer Boy Challenge.
But you've all lost.
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In an interview with Pitchfork, the interviewer commented that this song appeared to be warmer than many of Thom Yorke's previous songs. Yorke replied: "I'd guess one doesn't really need reminding of the ice outside at the moment, do you? It's maybe a good thing to try to make music that feels reassuring in some ways - something that's got a good feeling, a good vibe about it."
Among the many artists paying tribute to Prince in the wake of his death was Bruce Springsteen, who opened his concert in Brooklyn on April 23, 2016 with a performance of this song. He dedicated the show to Prince, saying, "There's never been anyone better: bandleader, showman, arranger."
Poster Children was formed in Champaign, Illinois in 1987. Still going strong, the band released their 12th album, Grand Bargain!, on May 18, 2018.
According to Q magazine April 2008, this delicate acoustic track, which mocks macho vanity, was never intended for the album. Thom Yorke dismissed it as "not bad... it's very bad."
Jenn Champion is playing at WaMu Theater tonight!
This track was inspired by poet and activist Nikki Giovanni and references her 1970s poem “Ego Tripping.” In a press release, Woods said, “‘Giovanni’ is a song about owning & celebrating all the parts of myself. It’s about legacy and lineage, and how the love & strength of the people who made me makes me feel invincible.”
Portland-based rapper Aesop Rock and TOBACCO (Tom Fec of Black Moth Super Rainbow) have announced a new collaborative project under the name Malibu Ken. The duo will release their debut self-titled album on Jan. 18
Young Fathers were live on KEXP November 16th. The session hasn't been posted yet but keep an eye on the KEXP YouTube for it! bit.ly
Written by Thom Yorke and UNKLE member Josh Davis, UNKLE's "Rabbit in Your Headlights" features vocals by Yorke as well.
Shot in one day and edited in one day, The Flaming Lips produced a video for this cover of Borderline: vimeo.com
The song's refrain of "Everything's gonna be OK," is about the self-delusion that is sometimes necessary for surviving modern life. The band's Dave Sitek told NME: "The 'I keep telling myself...' line means that it might not be true. Everyone goes through that, on multiple levels. There's a lot of doubt floating around. What has modern living and its aspirations led to? ''Trouble' at least for me, is about putting your helmet on."
This is from Ciao My Shining Star: The Songs of Mark Mulcahy, a tribute album to Mulcahy that also served as a benefit for him. In addition to Michael Stipe, Thom Yorke took on "All for the Best."
Lead singer Thom Yorke: "I was pissed in a club, and I suddenly had the funniest thought I'd had for ages - what if all the people who were drinking were hanging from the bottles... if the bottles were hung from the ceiling with string, and the floor caved in, and the only thing that kept everyone up was the bottles? It's also about an enormous fear of being trapped."
In 2011, a cameraman named John Henshall found a tape of Bowie performing "The Jean Genie" live on the British music show, Top of the Pops, in 1973 - a performance that had thought to have been erased. In December 2011, the performance aired for the first time since January 1973. You can watch the footage - which was filmed using Telefex Fisheye lenses which Henshall himself designed here: tinyurl.com
Left At London (sometimes stylized and shortened as /@/), is the stage name of Nat Puff (she/her), a trans woman from Seattle, Washington who is not afraid to let herself be known intimately through her music, while still remaining accessible. Find more @ leftatlondon.com
The debut album from this Norwegian band is out at the end of January. Preorder here: www.musicglue.com
This song has its origins in the Radiohead Kid A sessions. Thom Yorke told Rolling Stone magazine in 2006: "'Black Swan' has this tiny, shredded segment of something that was one of the library samples we had. It was Ed (O'Brien guitar) and Phil (Selway drums) doing this thing, and I sliced it into bits. The sample was 2000, but the song was 2005."
This was the first INXS song to chart in the United States. "The One Thing" hit the charts as the band embarked on their first tour of America, first as the opener for Adam and the Ants, then as the support act for The Go-Gos.
Spirit Award were on Morgan's show September 14th! tinyurl.com
In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Yorke said that this was the song where he found his lyrical voice. He cut the vocal, accompanying himself on acoustic guitar, in one take, then the band filled in its parts around him. Yorke said the song began as "A very nice melody which I had no idea what to do with, then you wake up and find your head singing some words to it."
