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The vinyl version of this album features etchings of birds on side D accompanied by the phrase "The Earth is not a cold dead place because you are breathing, because you are listening."
In September, to celebrate Feels being re-pressed on double vinyl, Animal Collective released a live recording from August 22, 2004 at Neumos. You can listen & download it on their Soundcloud page.
Speaking about this song and the violence and turmoil in Northern Ireland in the early 1980s, Sting explained in Lyrics By Sting:
"'Invisible Sun' is a dark, brooding song about the lurking violence of those streets, patrolled by armored cars, haunted by fear and suspicion, and wounds that would take generations to heal. I'm happy that the glimmer of hope in the song's title was somewhat prophetic and pray that the sectarian violence that destroyed so many lives is well and truly over."
"'Invisible Sun' is a dark, brooding song about the lurking violence of those streets, patrolled by armored cars, haunted by fear and suspicion, and wounds that would take generations to heal. I'm happy that the glimmer of hope in the song's title was somewhat prophetic and pray that the sectarian violence that destroyed so many lives is well and truly over."
B.R.M.C are playing this Sunday at Surf City Blitz taking place at Huntington State Beach, CA. Tickets & Info
The Horrors enlisted Paul Epworth, the veteran producer who has worked with Adele, Coldplay, Bloc Party and Florence and the Machine. As a band of accomplished studio nerds, they seem to have tapped Epworth not so much for his production skills as his ear for a huge hit.
Frontman, Ian McCulloch (from Mojo magazine March 2012): "I woke up with that lyric, 'Fate up against your will,' as if God had given it to me in my sleep. Recently I realized what it is - it's that soliloquy, 'To be or not to be' - but it's even better, because I'm fuckin' singing it."
This Donnie Darko inspired single shot music video for "What's A Girl To Do?", directed by Dougal Wilson, was nominated for the MTV Europe Music Award for best video in 2007.
This is the B-side from a limited edition 7” for sale on their upcoming European tour. They say it will also eventually be for sale on their website in the US.
Kevin (vocals, guitar) and Colm (drums) first met at a karate tournament in South Dublin in 1978. I believe they were fighting Ralph Macchio.
The story to their forthcoming album Dionysus took shape as Brendan Perry became fascinated by long established spring and harvest festivals that had their origins in Dionysian religious practices throughout Europe. The presence of the religion was suppressed during the ideological control of Christianity and Islam since the Roman Empire, and so the influence that Dionysus still had on these festivals would continue to manifest itself albeit in a more censored form.
Dead Can Dance’s latest album brings to the fore the rites and rituals that today continue to be informed by the Greek god, with the album’s seven movements representing different facets of the Dionysus myth and his cult.
"On This Night Falls Forever, their first album since 2011's 100 Lovers, Devotchka craft songs that fit that indie tradition. These are compositions, somewhere between the marching troubadour worldliness of Beirut and the neighborhood-shaking grandeur of Funeral, that place stories of suburban romance into widescreen soundscapes radiating with ghosts and demons." Check out the popmatters.com review.
In February, Beirut launch their Gallipoli Tour. They'll be at The Paramount on February 27th! Pre-sale starts tomorrow @ 10. Tickets & Info.
Rostam performed on the Midday Show, September 17th, 2017. Find it here.
Simon wrote the lyrics for this song when he returned to America - in South Africa his concern was recording the music. The words had to intertwine with the complex track that Simon's producer Roy Halee assembled from the reels of tape they returned with. It took Simon a long time to finish the lyrics, working in lyrical phrases like "the boy in the bubble and the baby with the baboon heart" in a way that would mesh with the African rhythms.
Phosphorescent with Liz Cooper and The Stampede will be at The Neptune on November 21st! Tickets & Info.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience recorded "Hey Joe", their first single, on this date in 1966.
The Portland Mercury published a good article titled: Remembering Richard Swift Through His Final Album, The Hex. Find it here.
European disco producer Giorgio Moroder wrote this with Blondie lead singer Debbie Harry, who thus became the first woman in British chart history to write three #1 hits. However she wasn't Moroder's first choice. The Italian disco king had originally wanted Stevie Nicks to provide vocals on the track but the Fleetwood Mac vocalist declined the offer.
Giorgio Moroder told Billboard magazine that his difficult experience of recording this song with Blondie taught him not to work with rock bands. "There were always fights," he recalled. "I was supposed to do an album with them after that. We went to the studio, and the guitarist was fighting with the keyboard player. I called their manager and quit."
Giorgio Moroder told Billboard magazine that his difficult experience of recording this song with Blondie taught him not to work with rock bands. "There were always fights," he recalled. "I was supposed to do an album with them after that. We went to the studio, and the guitarist was fighting with the keyboard player. I called their manager and quit."
Brandon Summers of The Helio Sequence will be on The Morning Show *this Friday* (that's the 26th) at 9:30am. This is broadcast only so tune in and listen!
Like "A Hard Day's Night," the title came from an expression Ringo Starr used. The proper idiom is "tomorrow never comes," meaning that when tomorrow arrived, it would become today. Ringo's variation of the phrase took the edge off the heavy philosophical lyrics. Working titles for the song before Ringo gave them inspiration were "Mark I" and "The Void."
From Yves Tumor's Bandcamp:
"Painstakingly written from pieces developed upon since 2013, the new record, titled ‘Serpent Music’, was initially composed as a soul record – based around delicate and emotive songwriting in various forms. It was a highly difficult project to undertake on both a creative and personal level, weaving thematic links through paranoia, social anxiety, and missing loved ones. “The songs come from a much more emotional and very vulnerable place… They’re very close to me and I’ve been cautious of how I would eventually present them to the world.” he explains. "
"Painstakingly written from pieces developed upon since 2013, the new record, titled ‘Serpent Music’, was initially composed as a soul record – based around delicate and emotive songwriting in various forms. It was a highly difficult project to undertake on both a creative and personal level, weaving thematic links through paranoia, social anxiety, and missing loved ones. “The songs come from a much more emotional and very vulnerable place… They’re very close to me and I’ve been cautious of how I would eventually present them to the world.” he explains. "
"I heard the piece of music Matthew sent through while driving to get a haircut in West Hollywood," Sara Quin writes in a statement. "I always feel like an interloper on that side of town and the phrase 'freaking out and paralyzed' was suddenly looping in my head. I couldn't stop thinking about how finding someone who loves the more complicated parts of you is a relief, especially when they're not turned off by your socially awkward insecurities or tendencies to retreat inward. Matthew's music has always been my go-to for late-night bus rides in headphones and I still geek out that we made this together!"
On April 13, 2018, in an interview with BBC Radio 6, Robert Smith confirmed that the deluxe edition of “Wish” is finished. A release date is yet to be announced. Mixed Up was reissued June 15th.
Sometimes the best remixes come direct from the artist themselves. Following the success of their debut EP, Olympia's CCFX remixed all four tracks for The Remixes EP which you can hear here.
The hook samples the line, "I've been downhearted baby, ever since the day we met" from a live performance of B.B. King singing "How Blue Can You Get?," which can be heard on his 1971 album Live in Cook County Jail.
On May 2nd 2019, Faber Social will publish the second volume of Moby‘s extraordinary life story. Then It Fell Apart is a journey into the dark heart of fame and the demons that lurk beneath the bling and bluster of the celebrity lifestyle. In summer 1999, Moby released the album that defined the millennium, Play. Like generation-defining albums before it, play was ubiquitous, and catapulted Moby to superstardom. Suddenly he was hanging out with David Bowie and Lou Reed, Christina Ricci and Madonna, taking ecstasy for breakfast (most days), drinking litres of vodka (every day), and sleeping with super models (infrequently). It was a diet that couldn’t last. And then it fell apart.
Okkervil River have been live on KEXP at least four times in the last decade. Check out the performances here from a Triple Door VIP concert in 2008 to an in-studio on the Midday Show earlier this year.
According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "KROQ jumped on the song so soon that RCA had to rush release the song nationwide, a full month before the scheduled release of [the] single." Hum's drummer Ryan St. Pere credited KROQ with making the song so popular, saying in an interview, "Yeah, I think [KROQ] helped us out the most, because from what I gather, that's the station in the country, and when they decide to add a song, all the other stations kind of follow suit."
They may have had a few more watts than KCMU.
They may have had a few more watts than KCMU.
The band was named after French poet Paul Verlaine—not, as is occasionally suggested, Tom Verlaine, who also took his stage name from the poet.
Lost Under Heaven will be live on The Morning Show at 9:30am on Halloween! Get down here and get signed up to see them starting at 8am.
Arcade Fire released a deluxe edition CD/DVD of The Suburbs on August 2, 2011, to coincide with the original album's anniversary. The new version included two brand new tracks recorded during The Suburbs album sessions ("Culture War" and "Speaking in Tongues", the latter featuring David Byrne), an extended version of album track "Wasted Hours", Spike Jonze's short film, Scenes from the Suburbs, and an 80-page booklet as well as other exclusive content.
This song, in which Thom Yorke vented his ambivalent feelings towards authority figures, was created when Radiohead were still known as Early On A Friday. According to Q magazine it was hearing Early On A Friday perform this song that persuaded Bryce Edge and Chris Hufford that the band were worth managing. Edge and Hufford have continued to manage Yorke and co since those early days.
"Halfway Home" was the featured Song of the Day for May 15th, 2017. Download it here.
Kinks frontman Ray Davies wrote the song; when he visited Los Angeles, he would stay at a hotel near the Walk of Fame, and was intrigued by how it represented success alongside failure.
Ray Davies re-recorded this song for his 2010 collection, See My Friends. This new version featured Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora of Bon Jovi.
Ray Davies re-recorded this song for his 2010 collection, See My Friends. This new version featured Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora of Bon Jovi.
Kurt is currently touring Europe in support of the new album, Bottle It In, released October 12th. He'll be back in Seattle on Saturday, December 15th. Get tickets to the show at The Moore here. Should be a great show!
R.I.P. Tom Petty. Read more about Tom's life and find loads of his videos, including the Alice In Wonderland themed one for "Don't Come Around Here No More" on the KEXP blog.
Maribou State are playing Neumos on Friday, February 22nd. Tickets here.
This song was driven primarily by Beastie Boy Adam Yauch (MCA). As a practicing Buddhist, he had taken the Bodhisattva vow, which is a promise to liberate all sentient beings from suffering by practicing the six perfections of giving, moral discipline, patience, effort, concentration, and wisdom. Yauch began his serious study of Buddhism after attending a Dalai Lama lecture in spring 1993, in the midst of recording the Check Your Head album.
"The general concept behind the song," Yauch said, "was to take the meaning of Shantideva's text, at least on the level that I understood it, and compress it into a modernized, three-verse rhyming song."
Said Prince: "We were sitting around watching a special about 1999, and a lot of people were talking about the year and speculating on what was going to happen. And I just found it real ironic how everyone that was around me whom I thought to be very optimistic people were dreading those days, and I always knew I'd be cool. I never felt like this was going to be a rough time for me. I knew that there were going to be rough times for the Earth because of this system is based in entropy, and it's pretty much headed in a certain direction. So I just wanted to write something that gave hope, and what I find is people listen to it. And no matter where we are in the world, I always get the same type of response from them."
n a 2001 Spin Online interview, Eddie Vedder said, "The song 'Off He Goes' is really about me being a s--t friend. I'll show up and everything's great and then all of the sudden I'm outta there."