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Friday, Nov 30 2018, 6AM
Good morning and happy Friday. Guy Garvey was asked which were his favorite lyrics of all the ones that he had written. The Elbow frontman replied: "My favorite lyrics either describe a familiar feeling in a new way or describe a specific feeling that you've never heard described before - an emotion that's too complex to be put into words usually, ways of getting to specific feelings. In 'Station Approach,' that's a very particular civic pride, which is a very specific civic feeling. I love Manchester." The song is named after the road that leads up to Manchester Piccadilly Station.
Just a few minutes ago, Doves teased their return with a cryptic social media post. The image shows touring luggage emblazoned with the band’s name, as well as next Monday’s date (December 3). The band have been on hiatus since 2010, with many fans speculating that a new album and/or tour could be in the works.
See a 2013 in-studio performance by Foals at KEXP:
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Watch a live performance of this song at Coachella in 2011: www.youtube.com
"It’s an Orwellian nightmare: his voice ringing out as if at a dystopian rally, trying to wake a population of people who’ve become mindless, all-obeying automatons. 'Listen to the silence, let it ring on / Eyes, dark grey lenses frightened of the sun,' he howls. 'And we would go on as though nothing was wrong / And hide from these days as we remained all alone.'":www.theguardian.com
This Norwegian trio describe themselves as "three indie heads from Oslo's musical underground having a blast making guitar-based indie rock." Their debut album will be out on February 1st, 2019.: www.facebook.com
"Halfway Home" was selected as a free KEXP Song of the Day last year. You can select it for yourself here: www.kexp.org
These Canadians played "Brill Bruisers" live on Letterman in 2015:www.youtube.com
She nearly gave us a heart attack with this energetic live performance earlier this year:www.youtube.com
This is the latest single from a new LP due out in the spring of 2019.
"This is the sound of New Order throwing back the curtains and letting the sun come in. When John Peel first played it, he singled out Sumner’s two-note guitar motif at 4’14” as the song’s most sublime moment – playing the five-second burst over and over – but the entire song is New Order playing pop music at its most headrushing, joyful and flawless." : www.theguardian.com
This is a cover of the 1970 hit single for The Temptations. It was released on the Gordy (Motown) label, and written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong. Listen to the original.:www.youtube.com
"Bunny" was one of John's top ten albums of 2018.: www.kexp.org Vote for your own top ten here: www.kexp.org
Does that voice sound familiar? It's Aesop Rock, teamed up with Black Moth Super Rainbow's Tobacco. See the gross animated video for "Acid King":www.stereogum.com
Emma-Lee Moss – aka singer-songwriter Emmy the Great – found herself groped and objectified. The #MeToo movement gave her the strength to speak out.:www.gq-magazine.co.uk
John Richards chose "Some Sunsick Day" by California psychedelic artist Morgan Delt as a KEXP Song of the Day:blog.kexp.org
Can you believe it? "Thriller," the best-selling album of all time, was released on this date in 1982.
Thanks, Melissa. Enjoy, Tedi! We are wholly in favor of requests like this one!: www.youtube.com
This is a cover of a Devo B-side. ("Whip It' was on the front.) :www.nme.com
Jocko Homo means "Monkey Man."
Mark Mothersbaugh was a student at Kent State University when a friend gave him a pamphlet called "Jocko Homo, Heaven Bound King of the Apes." It was a religious pamphlet debunking evolution, explaining how absurd the idea was that a man would descend from a monkey. Mothersbaugh said, "The whole song was meant to be a theme song for the theory of de-evolution and for Devo, what we were about."
On their Facebook page, Albany, NY band Drug Church says that their new record, "Cheer," is out "everywhere you get music.":www.facebook.com
"I don't know how to read but I've got a lot of toys.." It's the 21st century and you should read the lyrics: genius.com
This is a Neil Young cover. Mr. Segall performed live in the KEXP studio last year.: www.youtube.com
Mike Krol will play The Crocodile on Saturday, February 23rd, 2019.
The New York Times says that The Go-Go's gave us the beat and so much more: www.nytimes.com
Ahhh...the Friday song. "Yule Benefit"
(You'll benefit. Get it?) and KEXP will, too, when you get tickets to the December 6th Moby concert.:www.kexp.org
Here's the trailer for this documentary, due for release today: www.youtube.com
This film, available in many formats, documents Bowie's performance on June 25th, 2000 at the famous Glastonbury festival.: liveforlivemusic.com
Here's Bowie performing "All the Young Dudes" on the Isle of Wight: www.youtube.com
Here's another artist completely owning another festival. Prince covers Radiohead's "Creep" at Coachella:www.youtube.com
This will be the first time The Stones have been in Seattle in more than a decade. They bring their No Filter tour to CenturyLink Field on May 22nd, 2019.
Speaking of The Stones... This cover was the last track that Lemmy Kilmister recorded with Motorhead before his death in 2015: liveforlivemusic.com
This Seattle band will play The Sunset Tavern on Friday, December 7th, and The Clock-Out Lounge on Saturday, December 8th, 2018. :kinski.net
Local band Tres Leches are described as "bilingual Left-field Post-punk":www.cityartsmagazine.com
Speaking of local bands...Watch a dizzying performance by Mudhoney atop the Space Needle in 2013: www.youtube.com
Our best to you, Chelsey. "There will be feasting, and dancing, in Jerusalem next year..." :music.avclub.com
Read a biography of this quietly influential band that formed in London in 1986.:www.allmusic.com
Often misinterpreted as a love song, this is just the opposite. Michael Stipe describes this song as about using people over and over. It's deceptive because it could be a love song until the line, "A simple prop to occupy my time." Speaking to Mojo in 2016, Stipe said that he wasn't at all dismayed that so many people misinterpreted the sarcastic and spiteful lyrics as a straightforward love song. "I didn't like the song to begin with," he explained. "I felt it was too brutal. I thought the sentiment was too difficult to put out into the world. But people misunderstood it, so it was fine. Now it's a love song, so that's fine."
Talking about "Nevermind," Kurt Cobain said,"I was trying to write the ultimate pop song. I was basically trying to rip off the Pixies. I have to admit it. When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily that I should have been in that band—or at least a Pixies cover band. We used their sense of dynamics, being soft and quiet and then loud and hard.”: www.wbur.org
The lyrics do not specifically mention heroin, but Bono has introduced the song at concerts by saying it is about heroin addiction. Bono said, "I tried to describe that with the song, 'Bad,' what it was like to feel that [heroin] rush, to feel that elation, and then to go on to the nod, the awful sleep that comes with that drug, and then scream: 'I'm wide awake, I'm wide awake, I'm not sleeping!' I can see what's going on."
Sunflower Bean performed live in the KEXP studio in June: www.youtube.com
"I want to be your fantasy...Maybe you could be mine..." See the official music video for "Kiss": www.youtube.com
36 years ago, really? This is another fine song from "Thriller," released on this date in 1982.
This one goes out to paperboy John from Spokane. Happy birthday, Billy Idol, born on this date in 1955.:www.youtube.com
Billy Idol was born William Michael Albert Broad on November 30, 1955, in Middlesex, England. While studying English literature at Sussex University, Broad became a member of the Bromley Contingent, a group of Sex Pistols followers that included members of the Clash and Siouxsie and the Banshees. He changed his name to Idol after a schoolteacher returned a paper proclaiming him "idle" in class. Learn more about this guy: www.biography.com
The Chemical Brothers have announced their ninth studio album, "No Geography," set for release in spring 2019. consequenceofsound.net
Six years after Adam Yauch's death, Beastie Boys have released a "wild, moving" memoir: www.rollingstone.com
"Thou shalt not steal if there is a direct victim...." Here are the complete lyrics:www.azlyrics.com
"Destroy Rock and Roll" was the first full-length album from Scotland's Myles Macinnes. Enjoy this review: pitchfork.com
Another long list of musicians... Here's LCD Soundsystem performing this song live at Madison Square Garden: www.youtube.com
One of the foremost innovators of funk music, George Clinton, was asked during a Reddit AMA what he thought of this song. He replied: "Rage Against the Machine is definitely a rock band that can play hip-hop on instruments live. So when they are funky, they sound like "Super Stupid," that era of Funkadelic. They bad."
Want to know what a "grebo band" is? Keep listening to Pop Will Eat Itself while you read this biography.:www.allmusic.com
Read about the last days of Jim Carroll, who died in 2009: www.nytimes.com