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Thursday, Nov 29 2018, 6AM
Good morning Seattle, and welcome to the Thursday edition of The Morning Show. Memphis-based singer/songwriter Julien Baker performed this song live for us this past May. Watch it here: bit.ly
Stay tuned to our YouTube folks, cause this supergroup made up of Julien Baker, Lucy Dacus and Phoebe Bridgers recently made the stop to KEXP to record a live session! In the meantime, find their debut EP here: bit.ly
For Ruins, - First Aid Kit's fourth album - the Swedish sisters temporarily moved to Portland to record the album with producer Tucker Martine. In an interview with C.O.S, they had this to say about this track: "It’s a song about having to get used to being on your own after being with someone for a long time. How desperately lonely you can feel. How you wish you were stronger and how ashamed you can be of the fact that you’re not." bit.ly
See our recap of when this supergroup (kd Lang, Neko Case, Laura Veirs) stopped by for a performance at Woodland Park Zoo in 2016 here: bit.ly
Closing track off the Hollywood band's third full-length album Bloodletting
Dead Can Dance is back with their first new LP since 2012's comeback release, Anastasis. Find tour dates, the new album Dionysus, and more here: www.deadcandance.com
Off the forthcoming collaborative album from Yeah Yeah Yeah's Karen O and producer Danger Mouse. O told Rolling Stone about the track: "With ‘Lux Prima,’ we were really looking for a place rather than a sound. It was our first shared destination so we thought we’d take our time getting there. The song itself is a bit of a journey, but all the parts felt like they needed each other.” The single will be released on limited edition white 12" vinyl at select independent record stores on December 14th. (Or possibly the full album? Details unconfirmed, keep an eye out at your record store!)
“This song mixes wedding vows with an offbeat tone. I wanted to express the idea of a lifetime engagement; a couple running to church, from childhood to old age, a lifetime path." Watch the video for "Deadly Valentine" (featuring Blood Orange's Dev Hynes) here: bit.ly
The follow-up album to 2016's self-titled release from Crooked Man, a Sheffield based producer also known for being part of the electronic duo Sweet Exorcist. Find Make Up here: bit.ly
A.A.L. (Against All Logic) is a moniker for NYC-based producer Nicolas Jaar. This surprise release from Jaar scored an 8.8 rating from Pitchfork, read the review here: bit.ly
Off the 2015 solo project from The xx's Jamie xx, and featuring the vocals of Romy Madley Croft (also of The xx) Watch their KEXP performance as a full band in 2017 here: bit.ly
Grapetooth is a slang term for a wino, and also a band from Chicago made up of members Chris Bailoni and Clay Frankel (of Twin Peaks). This self-titled LP from the duo: "Contains songs about death and love and the movie “Badlands” and more than a few songs about wine." Find it here: bit.ly
The 1994 debut release from Satchel, a Seattle band originally formed by vocalist Shawn Smith, guitarist John Hoag, and bassist Cory Kane
Remember when Prince did this song with The Muppets? bit.ly
Opening for Interpol at the Moore Theatre on February 2nd! bit.ly
We're gonna have a good time! We're glad it's your birthday! Happy (12th) birthday to you (Riley)!
IDLES doing this song live on The Morning Show last month, fresh off the KEXP YouTube press! (Seriously, it only went up two hours ago, get on this) www.youtube.com
Fun Fact: This song (in addition to Blondie's "Call Me", Pink Floyd's "The Wall" and The Pretenders "Brass In Pocket") lost the Grammy in 1981 for Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group to Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band's "Against The Wind." (What the WHAT WHAT )
This Toronto band is coming back to Seattle on April 9th to the Crocodile! Find your tickets here: www.thecrocodile.com
Bob Mould to The Quietus on the formation (and naming) of Sugar: "We all got together in late January or early February of 1992 and spent three weeks rehearsing in the Athens, GA, for these nebulous recording sessions. It wasn’t a band at that point but what made it a band was before we were ready to leave Athens and head to Massachusetts to record these songs, Barrie Greene who was a booker at the 40 Watt club in Athens asked us to fill a last minute vacancy and play and show and we were like, “Oh sure. Why not?” And that was the moment we were like, “Ooops! What are we going to call this?” So the three of us and my then-partner - who was on the management side of things - were eating at a Waffle House and there was pack of sugar on the table and that’s how it all happened!"
The last release we've had from The Wrens, the New Jersey group formed by guitarist/vocalist Charles Bissell, guitarist Greg Whelan, bassist/vocalist Kevin Whelan, and drummer Jerry MacDonnell. Their website tagline? "Keeping Folks Waiting. Since 1989." www.wrens.com
This New Orleans-based brass band had this to say about their cover of the iconic Joy Division song: "It has a deep emotional meaning. Although we do listen to a lot of funk, jazz and rap, we listen to British music all the time here in New Orleans and love England’s punk scene.” Watch their video for it here: www.youtube.com
New music from Bob Mould! He'll be at Neumos on April 6th! Merch, more tour dates, and Boblog here! bobmould.com
Opening for IDLES at Neumos on May 28th, which is very predictably sold-out already. Here they are performing live at KEXP this past May: www.youtube.com
Off the sixth studio album from this Brooklyn band, released in May of this year. (Psst, consider this your reminder to vote in our Top Albums of 2018 poll!) www.kexp.org
Find this Detroit band at the Crocodile with Preoccupations on December 16th! Tickets here: www.thecrocodile.com
Protomartyr cover - And guess what, Preoccupations will be playing with Protomartyr at the Crocodile on December 16th! Maybe they will both just cover each other all night, who knows: www.thecrocodile.com
According to their band bio, Avalanche Party is "feral garage-punk from the wild North Yorkshire Moors, hopped up on adrenalin and amphetamines." Find out more here! "www.avalancheparty.com
Welcome to another Morning Show Nitzer Ebb shout-along: WHERE IS THE YOUTH! WHERE IS THE GOLD! DON'T BE LAZY!
The National stopped by KEXP and performed this (still unreleased) song for The Morning Show a year ago today! Relive the whole thing here: www.youtube.com
Playing TONIGHT at the Moore Theatre! Here's your info and ticket link: www.stgpresents.org
Seattle band, Seattle label! Find all their work here: voyagerone.bandcamp.com
Active since 2011, The Stargazer Lilies are currently working on their new album, set to be released via Rad Cult. Keep up with more songs and updates here: www.thestargazerlilies.com
We haven't seen a new album from Seattle's own Telekinesis since 2015's Ad Infinitum but that changes on February 22nd! Find Effluxion via Merge Records here: www.mergerecords.com
Ben Gibbard's live KEXP performance of listener requests from September is up on our YouTube channel now! Watch the full session and interview here: www.youtube.com
Found on the 2010 release from this Philadelphia-based band that formed in 1991. Scott McMicken has said that "Shadow People" is a "full-on West Philly diary" that also features Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys as co-writer
Off the sophomore effort from Sparklehorse (the project of Mark Linkous) which he recorded in his hometown of Richmond, Virginia.
It was on this day in 2001 that George Harrison (of solo, Beatles, and Traveling Wilburys fame) passed away of lung cancer. He was 58 years old
Here's the link for this live Beat Happening cover done by Math & Physics Club at our Death & Music show from earlier this month: soundcloud.com
Found on the final LP from Olympia's Beat Happening, released in 1992. Band member Calvin Johnson founded K Records in 1982, and also helped establish Sub Pop's original fanzine
Lost Under Heaven is the Manchester-based duo made up of Ebony Hoorn and Ellery James Roberts, (formerly of WU LYF). Their second album Love Hates What You Become is set to release on January 18th, find it here: lostunderheaven.com
I think it's dark and it looks like it's rain, you said | And the wind is blowing like it's the end of the world, you said | And it's so cold, it's like the cold if you were dead | And you smiled for a second | www.thecure.com
Tickets are still available for Moby's KEXP Yule Benefit show at McCaw Hall on December 6th with the PNB Orchestra, but there's not a whole lot left! Get yours here: bit.ly
This London trio will be back in town on March 23rd at the Crocodile. Find show info and tickets here: bit.ly
Off the second LP from the electronic pop duo. Watch them performing for us at our old Dexter studio in 2014 here: bit.ly
Toronto's Ellis (the project of Linnea Siggelkow) about this track: “The Drain” is one of the first songs I wrote for this project. It’s probably also the most hopeful. It’s about self-sabotaging a relationship because you’re afraid of how deep it’s getting, but then saying “f*ck it” and diving in anyway." EP The Fuzz is out now, find it here! bit.ly