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Thursday, Oct 25 2018, 6AM
Good morning Seattle, and welcome to the Thursday edition of The Morning Show. Though billed as a Red House Painters album, Songs for a Blue Guitar is essentially a solo work for frontman Mark Kozelek, with no other band members listed in the liner notes
Boygenius is a new indie supergroup made up of singer/songwriters Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus - “A long time ago, before I even met Phoebe, Julien mentioned that she had a pipe dream of starting a band with both of us,” says Dacus. “Then we booked this tour and decided the time was right.” Find their EP on November 9th here: store.matadorrecords.com
Wilco's Jeff Tweedy in an interview with Rolling Stone about the making of their classic fourth LP: "That was the implication – that it needed work. And nobody was saying what that [work] might be. And before they had a chance to, we said, “It’s really done. This is what we are contracted to do, to deliver a record. And here it is. This is our record.” bit.ly
Watch when The War On Drugs stopped by our studio for a live session in 2017 here! bit.ly
See this L.A.-based band performing "Fool For Love" live for KEXP in 2015 here: bit.ly
Kurt Vile is one of several artists featured on a brand new voting awareness compilation album, available to download for free. Jim James, The National's Matt Berninger, and Andrew Bird are just some of the other artists featured. Read more about it here! bit.ly
Check out our recap of when The Church played at the Neptune Theatre in 2017 (along with local favs The Helio Sequence) here: bit.ly
The 1988 debut album from the Icelandic band that features the unmistakable vocals of Björk. Check out this Rolling Stone feature on them from 1988 here! bit.ly
This Australian band will be playing at Barboza on November 5th, get your tickets here: bit.ly
Ian Curtis' wife Deborah had the phrase "Love will tear us apart" inscribed on his grave stone after his death by suicide in 1980
Start All Over Again is the debut album from this local band fronted by Matt Berry, under his pseudonym The Berries. It is described as: "...made up of songs of love and hate, songs under the spell of Neil Young and Townes Van Zandt, and songs carved out of the disappointment of a morose Seattle winter." bit.ly
Watch this Seattle band playing live for KEXP during Upstream Music Fest in 2017 here! bit.ly
Sleater-Kinney's Carrie Brownstein loves this song, and here's why: n.pr
Bob Mould's new solo album Sunshine Rock is set to release on February 8th via Merge Records! He'll be back in town on April 6th at Neumos, find your tickets here: bit.ly
The first single off Juliana Hatfield's new album Weird, coming January 18th! She produced the entire album, and got help on drums from the Lemonheads’ Todd Philips and Blake Babies’ Freda Love Smith. Get your pre-order in here: bit.ly
Catch Hardly Art signee Lala Lala at Neumos on November 12th. (Low ticket alert for this one!) bit.ly
Closing track off of Concrete Blonde's third studio album, released in 1990
The new album from Swedish-born singer Neneh Cherry! She recorded Broken Politics in February 2017 in response to the anger she felt at the U.S. Presidential election | ind.pn
Happy 50th birthday to Arrested Development's Speech (Todd Thomas) born on this day in 1968!
A double request this morning! Bless up, don't stress up.
The original recording of this song that later got a remix treatment from Fatboy Slim and became a radio hit
Created by former members of the English Beat, Dave Wakeling and Ranking Roger, they added Dexy's Midnight Runners keyboardist Mickey Billingham, former Specials bassist Horace Panter, and drummer Stoker to round out the group. This track is found on their 1984 debut album All The Rage
"Guerilla Toss promotes positive energy and twisted spirituality through the less-traveled path of brutal, intelligent, live rock and roll dance music." Find more about this NYC band here: guerillatoss.com
The side project for Bauhaus guitarist, Daniel Ash, who disbanded Tones On Tails to form Love and Rockets in 1984
Hey, remember that time a few Thursdays ago when IDLES performed this song live on The Morning Show? Yeah, that was awesome. (Stalk our YouTube for the video in a couple weeks or so) www.youtube.com
Opening track off Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds eighth studio album Let Love In, released in 1994
#28 on this list from Spin on the 30 Best Tom Waits Songs: bit.ly
Gil Scott-Heron's version of this 1937 song from blues legend Robert Johnson
We premiered the 4AD video for this song back in 2012, revisit the post here: bit.ly
This posthumous release from the Screaming Eagle of Soul is due to arrive from Daptone on November 9th. Get your pre-order in for Black Velvet here: bit.ly
Request for this one coming in from NYC! Here's the official video for 1991's "Movin' On Up" -www.youtube.com
“There’s a lot of foreboding with regard to the future on this album,” says singer Adam Franklin. “In (Mary Winter), the character is a spaceman who’s trying to remember what life is really like.” - Swervedriver just announced a new album! Future Ruins is due out on January 25th, find it here: smarturl.it
According to the band: "Where You Sink" explores our fixations on characters in our lives and the projections we create. It explores our natural human desire to be made special by another. I wrote it when I found myself looking at one person from various angles (emotionally); I found them to be beautiful in toxic but charismatic ways. It's about loving someone who you don't really have the chance to get to know fully because their time is spent trying to get out of their head, further from reality. It explores the complications of trying to get close to someone who ultimately wants to be far from themselves." Keep up with more new songs and tour dates for Girlpool here: www.girlpoolmusic.com
Opening track off this Australian band's 1984 debut album Stoneage Romeos
Found on the 2018 release from this Sacramento shoegaze band. Find the album (and oh hey, a John Richards quote!) here: softscienceband.bandcamp.com
Talking Heads frontman David Byrne sat down with us in 2017 for an interview about his Here Lies Love project. Watch it here! bit.ly
This London trio is back with a new single and forthcoming second LP! They state about this track: "The song title was an accident and came serendipitously from the phonetics of the melody, but the rest of the lyrics were born from a strange dinner party where everyone ended up Snapchatting each other and no one was talking face to face. It perfectly summed up how jarring and unnatural our disappearance into a digital world could be. Lotti’s verses sound almost like a poem a computer would write if requested — a synthetic perfection that holds a certain tension against the emotion of the music." Find them here: haelos.com
See our review of Matthew Dear's new album (and first in six years) Bunny here: bit.ly
"'I'm Afraid of Americans' was written by myself and [long-time collaborator Brian] Eno," Bowie said in the press release announcing Earthling. "I was traveling in Java when the first McDonald's went up. It was like, 'For f---'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."
We interviewed Trent Reznor in 2017 and it was super neat! bit.ly
Okay, everyone join in: Lies, lies, lies, lies! Gold, gold, gold, gold! Guns, guns, guns, guns! Fire, fire, fire, fire!
Dilly Dally will be live on KEXP on October 30th at 11:00 AM, and you can come watch! Find out how here: www.kexp.org
+Eleventy points to this song for a Heathers reference. Go listen to Miss World's new album Keeping Up With Miss World here! missworld.bandcamp.com
Hi Seattle, 'tis the season for your Thursday fall/winter/spring/Juneuary song
TVAM (the alias of Joe Oxley) describes his project as "post-internet, motivational slime-punk." Find the new album Psychic Data here: www.musicglue.com
Art D'Ecco will be live on KEXP on October 29th at 1:00 PM and you can come watch! Find out how here: www.kexp.org
