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Tuesday, Nov 27 2018, 6AM
“LAX,” features backing vocals by Phoebe Bridgers and was also included on the soundtrack of the music-tinged romantic comedy Juliet, Naked, starring Ethan Hawke.
In the first release from the album’s soundtrack, Hawke covers this song. Hear it at bit.ly
Phoebe Bridgers performed live on KEXP on July 18th of this year. Watch her performance here: bit.ly
Watch INXS with Michael Hutchence performing "By My Side", on July 13, 1991 at Wembley, from the DVD "Live Baby Live": bit.ly
Red Ribbon will be live on KEXP at 4pm tomorrow! This is broadcast only so plan to be listing wherever you are!
Warpaint performed "Love Is to Die" live on KEXP in 2014: bit.ly
Hælos are coming to The Crocodile Saturday, March 23rd! Tickets & info: bit.ly
Young Fathers were just on the Midday Show on November 16th so look for that session to be posted soon. In the meantime you can find their KEXP studio sessions from 2014 & 2015 here: bit.ly
The complete soundtrack to David Byrne's 1986 movie True Stories has just been rereleased on double vinyl as well as the "criterion edition" of the film.
Pearl notably samples not just one, but two, famous drum tracks. The basic beat is a sped-up sample of John Bonham's masterpiece in Led Zeppelin's When The Levee Breaks, arguably the "heaviest" drum riff of all time (once compared by rock critic Chuck Klosterman to mammoths falling from the sky).
The other drum track is not really a sample, though many people think Chapterhouse stole the skritchy riff at 3:00 from Siouxsie and the Banshees' Kiss them for Me, which came out a few weeks earlier in 1991. But a little digging finds the same beat in the 1983 rap song P.S.K. What Does It Mean? by Schoolly D. Did Siouxsie and Chapterhouse both sample Schoolly?
Actually, no. It turns out that drum beat was one of the prefab settings in the popular Roland synthesizer. And it also turns out that producer Stephen Hague was working with both Siouxsie and Chapterhouse in 1991, and he must have liked the sound of it.
In the US, this was the only Top 40 hit for Siouxsie and the Banshees. They fared much better in the UK.
Jason Bonham said to Q magazine of his father's contribution to this song: "It's the drum intro of the Gods. You could play it anywhere and people would know it's John Bonham. I never had the chance to tell dad how amazing he was - he was just dad."
Memphis Minnie McCoy (born Lizzie Douglas), was a Blues artist who recorded this in 1929. Robert Plant had the record in his collection. The lyrics to this song (written by Memphis Minnie in 1927) are based on The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. African-American plantation workers were forced to work on the levee at gunpoint, piling sandbags to save the neighboring towns. After the levee breached, blacks were not allowed to leave the area, and were forced to work in the relief and cleanup effort, living in camps with limited access to the supplies which were coming in. Many left at the first chance since there was no work in the Delta after the destruction of all of the plantations
Are You Experienced was recorded over a five-month period from late October 1966 through early April 1967. The album was completed in sixteen recording sessions at three London locations, including De Lane Lea Studios, CBS, and Olympic.
On April 3, the Experience returned to Olympic, adding overdubs and completing final mixes on several unfinished masters. During the eight-hour session, the band recorded three new songs, including "Highway Chile", "May This Be Love", and "Are You Experienced?". Not bad for a day's work.
The National were on The Morning Show a year ago: www.youtube.com
Deerhunter's new album is out in January. They're also heading out on tour. No Seattle dates yet but there are plenty of gaps in the schedule.
All Things Must Pass was released on this day in 1970. A triple album, it was Harrison's first solo work following the break-up of the Beatles in April that year, and his third solo album overall.
Matt Johnson of The The talking about "This Is the Day": People have got married to the song, people have conceived children to the song, and have been buried to the song. It’s interesting because it wasn’t one of those songs that you’d consider a hit single, but over time it’s been used in films and adverts in America. It’s by far one of my most successful songs in terms of the money that it’s generated, and it’s been covered by a lot of people, like The Manics. All around the world, it seems to be a very popular song. I’m proud of it and I’m glad I still like singing it. It would be awful if it was a successful song and I hated singing it.
It seems to be a song that people absorbed into their emotional landscape which is what you hope to do as a writer. When I can tell that I’ve written a song that has emotional validity is when I get emotional writing it and I would often get tearful if I feel moved by it. If you can get moved by your own songs when writing them, how will anymore else be moved by them? So that’s always a good sign for me.
“I wrote this when I got home after an ex had just moved out and left it kind of a mess, when I just wanted to scream at the sky, when it was the final straw,” Alyse Vellturo of Pronoun explained in a statement. “It transitions from the sad, defeated phase of a break up in to the angry one. This whole record addresses that phase, the one where you’re like “really…REALLY?!”
Sunflower Bean will be at The Moore with Interpol on February 2nd! You can also check out their KEXP in-studio from this June: www.youtube.com
Find the limited edition orange 7" of "Hollywood Ending" at rtrecs.co
From Left At London's website: "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.
Although Left At London mostly is known for her pop writing sensibility, she is mostly known for her deeply personal and introspective lyricism. Despite some of the songs subject matters being very specific to her life as a trans woman with autism, borderline personality disorder, ADHD, and PTSD, her songwriting style takes these concepts and makes them into something that’s uniquely abstract while still remaining relatable and honest."
French musician Heloise Letissier considered the boundaries that male stars were permitted to cross while their female counterparts were held back. “They can be sexual, flawed, and incredibly charismatic,” she said. “Complexity and intricacy is reserved to men. Women must make it unthreatening, simplified. I wish I could be Nick Cave or Mick Jagger.” Unlocking the persona of Chris—a “horny, hungry and ambitious” woman, as Letissier told The New York Times—liberated her to step over those boundaries and more fully embrace the whole of her being. :pitchfork.com
Björk explained the line, "There's definitely, definitely, definitely no logic to human behaviour" during a 2011 Q&A with The Guardian: "At the time I wrote it I was referring to my childhood and probably talking about how I felt more comfortable on my own walking outside singing and stuff than hanging out with humans... I experienced harmony with kids, the mountains and the ocean surrounding Reykjavik and animals I guess but found grown ups rather chaotic and nonsensical."
Blind Faith was a Supergroup made up of Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Ginger Baker, and Ric Grech. They released just one album, which topped both the UK and US charts around the same time the group was breaking up.
Winwood wrote this and sang lead. Many critics noted that Blind Faith sounded a lot more like Winwood's old band Traffic than Clapton's Cream, which is what Clapton was going for.
"At just seven tracks, LP5000, the group's first album in four years, is a cohesive distillation of what the band does best: In under 30 minutes, there's both heft and heart, incendiary musicianship and insightful meditations on the relationships we forge and the toll time takes on us and our surroundings. " - n.pr
If you missed The Berries' record release party on the 15th you have another chance to see them in January. They'll be at Victory Lounge on the 8th with The Shes and Advertisment. bit.ly
Nirvana recorded this for their 1993 MTV Unplugged performance. It was Chad Channing, who was Nirvana's drummer from 1988-1990, who introduced Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic to Bowie's music. Chad in an interview: "We were in Boston and stopped by this record store, and I found this copy of The Man Who Sold The World. It was a cool copy - it had the poster in it and everything. And those guys weren't familiar with the record. And I inquired about, 'What David Bowie do you like? Do you like David Bowie?' And they're like, 'Well, the only David Bowie we're familiar with is 'Let's Dance.' I was surprised. I was like, 'Really? Wow.' I was like, 'You've got to hear some early David Bowie, for sure.'
So when I got the opportunity, I made a tape of the record at somebody's house, and then while we were touring around I just went ahead and popped the tape in and let it roll. After a bit, Kurt turned around and said to me, 'Who is this?' kind of like knowingly, just something familiar with the voice and stuff. I said, 'Well, this is David Bowie. This is The Man Who Sold the World record.' He's like, 'Yeah, this is really cool.' I said, 'You should check out Hunky Dory and stuff.' And so eventually, I'm sure he did. But he totally dug it."
"What makes The Hex Richard Swift’s strangest—and, ultimately, strongest—record is its intensity. There’s a cumulative feeling as he collects his various modes, from warped girl-group nightmares (“Wendy”) to sprawling psych-pop (“Broken Finger Blues”) and pensive ballads (“Sept20”). Suddenly, everything is more urgent, less tentative. " bit.ly
Odesza performed on the Midday Show, September 8th last year: bit.ly
Moby on His Upcoming KEXP Yule Benefit Performance at McCaw Hall 12/6: bit.ly
Just released on the 23rd, three albums of previously unreleased solo electronic music from jónsi, Frakkur 2000 - 2004. As its title indicates, the collection of music was recorded between 2000 and 2004, under the Icelandic musician’s solo moniker, Frakkur. Delving into more experimental works, he used the project as an outlet to see “how far he could push things outside the bounds of his day job” leading Sigur Rós.
This nostalgic song revisits an idyllic childhood memory of the band when they would go skinny dipping in Athens, Georgia. R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck explained: "We used to sneak on this guy's property in Athens and go swimming in this water hole. It'd be great: 30 of us all running around naked. It was before AIDS, and whatever happened happened."
No upcoming Seattle tour date (yet!) but you can see Pedro The Lion in Portland on Friday, February 22nd or in Vancouver BC on Sunday the 24th. Seems there must be a Saturday Seattle show in the works... pedrothelion.com
Corgan (from VH1 Storytellers): "Sometimes, when I write a song, I see a picture in my head. For some reason, it's of the obscure memory I have." The memory that goes with this song is from when he was around 18 years old. He was driving down a road near his home on a rainy night, and was waiting at a traffic light. He says that the picture "emotionally connotes a feeling of waiting for something to happen, and not being quite there yet, but it's just around the corner."
The Suburbs is the third studio album by Canadian indie rock band Arcade Fire, released on August 2, 2010. The album debuted at No. 1 on the Irish Albums Chart, the UK Albums Chart, the US Billboard 200 chart, and the Canadian Albums Chart. It won Album of the Year at the 2011 Grammy Awards, Best International Album at the 2011 BRIT Awards, Album of the Year at the 2011 Juno Awards, and the 2011 Polaris Music Prize for best Canadian album.
The Magical Mystery Tour EP was issued in the UK on December 8th, 1967 on the Parlophone label, while the Capitol Records LP release in the US occurred on November 27th (That's today!) and featured eleven tracks with the addition of songs from the band's 1967 singles. The first release as an eleven-track LP in the UK did not occur until 1976.
The original album cover for Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches, designed by Central Station Design, consisted of a montage of popular children's candy wrappers. The cover was changed for subsequent issues of the album following objections from the U.S. manufacturers, resulting in the new, somewhat plainer album cover.
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.”
When Broken Politics’ material matches the record’s title, it triggers a sense of unease, a tentative awareness of danger, like smelling something burning in the kitchen. “Natural Skin Deep,” the album’s strongest track, begins with mumbles, an anticipatory din before Hebden loops a steel drum and a percussive throb reminiscent of another Cherry collaborator, Tricky. Cherry sings the hook, “My love goes on and on,” with the tone of someone trying to cheer herself up or at least match the the mournful bleat of the accompanying Ornette Coleman sample. Pitchfork bit.ly
In the book Neil Young: Long May You Run: The Illustrated History, Stephen Stills tells the story of this song's origin: "I had had something kicking around in my head. I wanted to write something about the kids that were on the line over in Southeast Asia that didn't have anything to do with the device of this mission, which was unraveling before our eyes. Then we came down to Sunset from my place on Topanga with a guy - I can't remember his name - and there's a funeral for a bar, one of the favorite spots for high school and UCLA kids to go and dance and listen to music.
[Officials] decided to call out the official riot police because there's three thousand kids sort of standing out in the street; there's no looting, there's no nothing. It's everybody having a hang to close this bar. A whole company of black and white LAPD in full Macedonian battle array in shields and helmets and all that, and they're lined up across the street, and I just went 'Whoa! Why are they doing this?' There was no reason for it. I went back to Topanga, and that other song turned into 'For What It's Worth,' and it took as long to write as it took me to settle on the changes and write the lyrics down. It all came as a piece, and it took about fifteen minutes."
This song was written for the movie of the same name, starring Denzel Washington and directed by Spike Lee. It samples the two-note riff from Buffalo Springfield's "For What It's Worth." Stephen Stills also makes a guest appearance, singing the first verse and chorus of "For What It's Worth."
Ice Cube takes aim at President Trump in his politically charged new song “Arrest the President,” the latest cut off the gangsta rapper’s upcoming album Everythang’s Corrupt. On December 7, Ice Cube will release Everythang’s Corrupt — his 10th release as a solo artist and 18th release as a member of a group.
This song's proud justification of violence against the police didn't go unnoticed by law enforcement, who refused to provide security for N.W.A's shows. When the police actually did attend a concert in Detroit, it was only to storm the stage just before the group was about to perform the song. The FBI even sent a warning letter - the first official denouncement of a record ever made by the agency - which claimed the song "encourages violence against, and disrespect for, law enforcement officers." The letter soon went public and only added fuel to the N.W.A fire. MC Ren sounded off to Melody Maker about the FBI's claims in 1989: "The FBI claim that 'Fuck tha Police' incites violence and has been responsible for the death of police officers is bullshit. There was violence long before NWA came along, the same as there was profanity, and there'll be violence and profanity long after we've gone. If the FBI are looking for a cause of violence, they should take note of what's on TV."
"What's My Name?", produced by Dr. Dre, features samples and interpolations from George Clinton's "Atomic Dog" in its chorus and throughout, and an interpolation from Parliament's "Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)" in its bridge. The song's intro contains a sample from The Counts' "Pack of Lies." There is also a vocal sample ("the bomb") from Parliament's "P. Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up)"
Gabriel Teodros will be LIVE on KEXP from Avast! Recording Co. on Wednesday, November 28th,at 12:00 PM.