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Wednesday, Nov 28 2018, 6AM
Inspired by a fire in Robert Smith's home. www.kexp.org
Soak is the stage name of the 22 year old Northern Irish singer, Bridie Monds-Watson. www.youtube.com
Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson is the full name of this Swedish singer. www.kexp.org
On the meaning of this song, she explains, "Imagine you're in a club full of heavy metal types and grunge people; 'Army of Me' is like someone's granny blasting out over the PA and saying, 'Snap out of it! Stop whining! Wash your hair! Smarten yourself up!'"
Taken by Trees is the solo project of the Swedish singer Victoria Bergsman, former lead singer for the Concretes.
The closing track from their first release. They'll be playing Vancouver, BC on 4/7. www.kexp.org
The refrain of this song is based on Lead Belly's rendition of the traditional American folk song "Salty Dog Blues".
Check out this classic performance recorded live from The Doug Fir in Portland during Musicfest NW: www.youtube.com
The opening track from the top-selling album in the UK from 1971, also known as the first glam rock record.
Playing Porto Alegre agulha in Brazil tonight! www.kexp.org
Hideout is the moniker of NYC left-of-center songwriters Gabriel Rodriguez & Scarlett Stephenson-Connolly. hideout.bandcamp.com
Sting claims that he wrote the lyrics to this song in 5 minutes.
Scientifically proven to cure loneliness: www.kexp.org
Hailing from Halifax, The Orielles are sisters Sidonie B and Esmé Dee Hand Halford and their best friend Henry Carlyle Wade. This track is a cover of Korean DJ Peggy Gou’s ‘It Makes You Forget (itgehane)’
The band also recorded a Spanish version of the song, called "Amor y Odio" (Love and Hatred), and one in Italian called "Amo Odiarti" www.kexp.org
Matthew Dear opens the current Runner Powered Podcast: www.kexp.org
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. leftatlondon.bandcamp.com
HBD to Motown founder Berry Gordy. This song was originally inspired by a police brutality incident witnessed by Renaldo "Obie" Benson (a member of the Four Tops) at People's Park in Berkeley.
Happy 56th birthday to Matt Cameron! www.kexp.org
Playing the Crystal Ballroom in Portland on Saturday. www.kexp.org
Lots of great Devo videos on this page: www.kexp.org
Playing NYE at The Auditorium @ UHeights w/Great Grandpa.
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Simone composed "Mississippi Goddam" in less than an hour, who later announced the anthem to be her "first civil rights song".
Playing Vancouver, BC on 12/7. The Seattle show will likely not be rescheduled, since this is the final tour for Childish Gambino. www.kexp.org
Bowie describes the feelings behind the song:
It's not as truly hostile about Americans as say "Born in the U.S.A.": it's merely sardonic. I was traveling in Java when [its] first McDonald's went up: it was like, "for f**k's sake." The invasion by any homogenized culture is so depressing, the erection of another Disney World in, say, Umbria, Italy, more so. It strangles the indigenous culture and narrows expression of life. www.kexp.org
Time Zone was an electro band headed by Afrika Bambaataa. Bambaataa worked with different musicians for each Time Zone project. This one features John Lydon and Bill Laswell.
They took their name from the Fatima Mansions corporation flats in Rialto, Dublin.
The song was inspired by events in Europe of the late 1980s, particularly Perestroika in Russia; Mike Edwards has since noted some of the lyrics were influenced by the band's experiences playing in Romania in February 1990 right after the overthrow of Ceauşescu.
