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Friday, Oct 12 2018, 6AM
Someone asked, "What does this song REALLY mean? Is it a dream or wish or what?" Robert Earl Keen responded, "The warm fuzzy feeling of being where you belong is what this song is about. Where that is, is your choice."
"Red's Recovery Room" is long out of print, but you may have "Cafe Jolie," a KEXP Song of the Day, for your own self: blog.kexp.org
Joe Ross of The Green Pajamas writes: "Kim was a waitress at an all night diner in West Seattle where we used to hang out back in the summer of 1984. We would meet up with friends there after rehearsal/recording (there wasn’t much of a distinction in those days; we jammed when we rehearsed and we recorded when we jammed) to have a late night meal. There we’d sit for hours drinking coffee, joking and scheming, planning the next thing, sometimes writing little verses and doodling on the paper place mats. One late night in particular --just as the song says-- we sat in the corner booth drinking coffee and writing juvenile limericks which we would immediately crumple up after being passed around the table with all of us cracking up. Kim, who was very cute indeed, worked the graveyard shift and had become over the months the innocent object of our fancy and I remember that one particularly dirty little poem was even titled, "Ode to Kim The Waitress". Read more: www.angelfire.com
Mazzy Star are slated to perform at this year’s Tropicália music and taco festival in Long Beach, California, which takes place on November 3 and 4. This marks the group’s first U.S. performance in five years and the band’s first tour since the death of drummer Keith Mitchell in 2017.
Laura Gibson will be playing Seattle's St. Mark's Cathedral on Saturday, November 3rd, 2018.: www.songkick.com
You can hear Emma Ruth Rundle at Barboza on Thursday, December 13th, 2018.
Watch Belly perform "Dusted" live in London in (Back, back, back...} 1993:www.youtube.com
Follow Brighton band Our Girl on their Bandcamp page: weareourgirl.bandcamp.com
For Erinn. During her 10/18/2017 show in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Julien Baker stated that this song is about “feeling like you’re not sure the good you do matters.” Despite the inconsistencies and pain, it does matter.
Get ready, Seattle. Julia Holter will be at Neumos on Wednesday, March 6th, 2019.: www.youtube.com
"If the children don't grow up...
Our bodies get bigger but our hearts get torn up..." Read the lyrics to this fine song: genius.com
The song's video featured the band as a cloth-cap wearing family squashed into a terraced house. Drummer Dan "Woody" Woodgate recalled to Q Magazine August 2008: "The knocking-on-the-door bit where somebody comes out, goes, 'Where are they?' and the others sneak in and close the door… That's The Flintstones. We stole lots of ideas from the Keystone Kops and Benny Hill.": www.youtube.com
Familiar voices? After the split of the ska-pop outfit the English Beat in 1983, former members Dave Wakeling and Ranking Roger formed General Public:www.allmusic.com
This is a request from...uh...John Richards. The Housemartins were compared by many to The Smiths. However the Smith's guitarist Johnny Marr was not impressed. He complained that "'Happy Hour' was a complete rip-off of 'I Want The One I Can't Have', and they've nicked others too."
This is a cover of a song by Toots and the Maytals. Frederick "Toots" Hibbert talks about this karmic revenge song in this interview:www.theguardian.com
"Absolute Beginners" was a single released by The Jam on 16 October 1981. The song was named after the Colin MacInnes novel of the same name. The book was one of songwriter Paul Weller's favorites.
A Joe Strummer commemorative album, "Joe Strummer 001," has just been released, sixteen years after his death.:www.motherjones.com
"Sooner or later your legs give way...you hit the ground..." The English Beat played live at KEXP in 2007:blog.kexp.org
The makers of a new BBC documentary about David Bowie’s early years as a musician have revealed the corporation’s dim view of his work at the time.One judge described Bowie – then known as Davy Jones – as “a singer devoid of personality”. Another said: “Singer not particularly exciting. Routines dull.” A third said: “I can’t find fault with them musically – but there is no entertainment in anything they do.” Bowie was described by one as an “amateur sounding vocalist who sings wrong notes and out of tune”.:www.theguardian.com
Ahhh....the Friday song. Tomorrow, Saturday, October 13th, come to KEXP's Gathering Space for the Reykjavik Calling event. Learn more and RSVP here: www.kexp.org
Listen to Prince's intimate home recording of "17 Days," a cut from the posthumous release, "Piano and Microphone 1983":www.npr.org
Formed in Dayton, Ohio, USA, this multi-talented unit originated from four members of the Ohio Untouchables, saxophonists Ralph 'Pee Wee' Middlebrooks and Clarence 'Satch' Satchell, bass player Marshall Jones and guitarist Leroy 'Sugarfoot' Bonner. Watch them perform "Fire" live:www.youtube.com
George Michael died unexpectedly on Christmas Day, 2016: www.nytimes.com
In this 2017 interview, Sean Dickson talks about coming out as gay and how he had been consumed with guilt because he had hurt people.:www.theguardian.com
This critic writes: "24 Hour Party People is widely considered an essential document of Manchester’s music scene and the UK club and rave scene. I would go further and say it’s one of the best movies about music ever made.": inthemix.junkee.com
This 80's-90's band from Los Angeles has been touring in the US this year: fishbone.net
Here's "Party at Ground Zero" live: www.youtube.com
Oingo Boingo started not as a traditional group per se, as they were originally put together in the '70s by movie director Richard Elfman, who needed music for a whacked-out, John Waters-esque flick he was working on, called Forbidden Zone. Enlisting his younger brother Danny Elfman (vocals, guitar), Steve Bartek (guitar), and Johnny "Vatos" Hernandez (drums), the group originally went by the name Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo before shortening it to Oingo Boingo. Read a biography: www.allmusic.com
Did you know that the band's name and much of their music revolves around primal therapy? Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith both experienced childhood traumas and experiences that led them to primal therapy. Orzabal wrote, "I think that definitely any trauma – whether it’s childhood or later in life – affects you negatively, especially when it’s suppressed, but there’s so much of us which is already in place. I believe that primal theory – which has been absorbed into modern psychotherapy practices – is very, very valid, but a good therapist is a good therapist. He doesn’t have to be a primal therapist.”
"... I vowed to myself that I would write less comic narratives and try to express my sentiments in a more forthright way. I feel I succeeded with "Bittersweet" though at the time I didn't think that a) the band would want to play it and b) our audience would want to hear it. I was happily wrong on both counts." - Hoodoo Gurus' Dave Faulkner.
The song refers to the Wittenoom asbestos mine in Western Australia where blue asbestos was mined between 1947 and 1966. The once-thriving town is now a virtual ghost town. Shops are boarded up, the 2 schools are closed, the local cinema is derelict. In their ignorance, the original settlers used asbestos in gardens, school yards and roads. Wittenoom is without doubt Australia's greatest industrial disaster and it is estimated that 25% of the 20,000 men who mined asbestos there will die from related diseases.:www.youtube.com
Karl Wallinger brought World Party to the KEXP studio in 2012: www.youtube.com
IDLES gave an extraordinary in-studio performance last Thursday, October 4th, 2018, at 9:30 a.m. You can still stream that performance: www.kexp.org
Dilly Dally will be LIVE on KEXP on Tuesday, October 30th, 2018, at 11:00 AM. That performance is open to the public. They'll be at the Showbox SoDo that night.
PJ Harvey's birthday was October 9th. (She was born in 1969). :www.biography.com
You'll not want to miss the church-rocking sheep? in the video for "Blue Again" by Weakened Friends: www.weakenedfriends.com
Enjoy this essay about Canberra, Australia band Moaning Lisa: www.thecreativeissue.com.au
Harriette Pilbeam, known professionally as Hatchie, is an Australian singer-songwriter and musician. "Sugar & Spice" is her debut album.
Want to see the official video for "Superblaster"?:www.youtube.com
Thanks for this request, Max in Brooklyn. Anna Calvi says, "I believe in the female protagonist, who isn’t simply responding to a man’s story. I go out into the world and see it as mine - I want something from it, rather than just being a passive product of it." Read more of what she says about "Hunter": annacalvi.com
"Remind Me Tomorrow" will come out in January, 2019. “I want to be a mom, a singer, an actress, go to school, but yeah, I have a stain on my shirt, oatmeal in my hair and I feel like a mess, but I’m here. Doing it. This record is about pursuing your passions, says Sharon Van Etten.
Material Issue's Jim Ellison committed suicide in 1996.:www.furious.com
In this interview, Ken Stringfellow discusses The Posies' 30th-anniversary tour and reissues of several classic albums:www.axs.com
Happy birthday to this album. It was released on this date in 1993 (That's 25 years ago, John.)
The Twilight Sad will be LIVE on KEXP on Friday, October 19th, 2018, at 12:00 PM. That performance is open to the public. The Twilight Sad will play The Crocodile that evening.: www.thecrocodile.com
Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine were Jim “Jim Bob” Morrison and Les “Fruitbat” Carter. Read a tribute to these cult heroes and their anti-establishment rage:www.theguardian.com
You can hear Lost Under Heaven playing LIVE on KEXP on Wednesday, October 31st, 2018 at 9:30 a.m. They will be at The High Dive the previous evening, Tuesday, October 30th, 2018.
U2 released "October" on this date in 1981. They wrote part of October during an extended sound check at First Avenue in Minneapolis. Later,t he briefcase of lead vocalist Bono containing in-progress lyrics and musical ideas was lost backstage during a performance at a nightclub in Portland, Oregon.The briefcase was eventually recovered in October 2004, and Bono greeted its return as "an act of grace"
"Jesus died for somebody's sins...but not mine." You'll want to read the story behind this incredible song: www.covermesongs.com