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Leonard Cohen died in November, 2016 at the age of 82. His son, Adam Cohen, who helped produce 2016's "You Want It Darker," revealed in September that a posthumous album is in the works:www.nme.com
This extraordinary song is based on"Me and the Devil Blues," a blues song by Robert Johnson.: www.biography.com
"A black and white picture...of swallows in flight..." See Kate Tempest perform this song live for KEXP listeners from Iceland in 2016:www.youtube.com
"Television, the drug of the Nation...
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation..." Here are the lyrics to "Television, the Drug of the Nation": genius.com
You'll probably want to be more conversant about Afrika Bambaataa's Time Zone project:www.allmusic.com
This song sampled Radiohead's "Planet Telex." Watch the video that displays the lyrics in an "understandable, simple way" : www.youtube.com
Speaking of "Planet Telex" (as we were)..Lead singer Thom Yorke was drunk and improvising when he recorded the vocals. The band came to the studio after drinking a lot of wine, and Yorke lay on the floor and sang. He did only one take.
"The very first verse captures the inextricable relation between form and content and the futility of any conception of either apart from the other:
"A thought that never changes...
Remains a stupid lie...
It's never been quite the same...
No hearing or breathing...
No movement, no colors...
Just silence." Read the philosophical essay that uses "Your Silent Face" to discuss the relation between form and content: skylarking-skylarking.blogspot.com
Writing while pregnant and studying psychology, Van Etten shelved the guitar and mapped out her demos on piano, organ, and synthesizer; [producer John] Congleton encouraged her to stick with the shift. On “Comeback Kid,” that decision leaps from the speakers in rainy streaks of synth and thunderous snares, dramatic as 1980s new wave at its most stadium-sized. Read more:pitchfork.com
The song was inspired in part by an old black and white movie which was sort of a cult classic in Kate's family titled "Night Of The Demon." The movie was about demons who hid waiting in trees - the song's opening line (in a male voice) "It's coming! It's in the trees!" is taken directly from the movie. Kate Bush said: "The hounds of love are an image really, someone who's afraid of being captured by love; and the imagery is love taking the form of hounds that are hunting them, so they run away because they're afraid of being caught by the hounds and ripped to shreds."
Jarvis Cocker wrote: "It all started with me getting rid of a lot of albums at the Record And Tape Exchange in Notting Hill. With the store credit I went into the second-hand instrument bit and bought this Casio keyboard. When you buy an instrument, you run home and want to write a song straight away. So I went back to my flat and wrote the chord sequence for 'Common People,' which isn't such a great achievement because it's only got three chords. I thought it might come in handy for our next rehearsal."
He added: "Steve (Mackey, bass) started laughing and said, 'It sounds like (Emerson, Lake & Palmer's version of) 'Fanfare For The Common Man.' I always thought the word 'common' was an interesting thing. It would be used in 'Fanfare For The Common Man.' as this idea of the noble savage, whereas it was a real insult in Sheffield to call someone 'common.' That set off memories of this girl that I met at college. She wanted to go and live in Hackney and be with the common people. She was from a well-to-do background, and there was me explaining that that would never work. I hated all that cobblers you got in films and magazines in which posh people would 'slum it' for a while. Once I got that narrative in my head it was very easy to write, lyrically."
Simple Minds will be at The Moore Theatre on Sunday, October 28th, 2018.:www.songkick.com
"Sit Down's" lyrics were written in the autumn of 1988 as a homage to author Doris Lessing and singer Patti Smith, who had inspired Tim Booth. In this interview with Booth and Larry Gott, they talk about making "Sit Down":www.theguardian.com
The album "Laid" came out on this date in 1993 (John's favorite year for music). You can watch the wet video after reading this tribute to "Sometimes": musicinnotes.wordpress.com
Wow! The Helio Sequence, The Moondoggies, and Smokey Brights are playing Ranier Beer's R-Day (Free!) in Georgetown tomorrow, Saturday, October 6th, 2018. Read more about it here:www.thestranger.com
Here's a live version of this song, recorded in San Francisco in 2007:www.youtube.com
This 1978 song in a new version is the theme song for Season 2 of "Deuce": www.vulture.com
Black Belt Eagle Scout will be LIVE on KEXP on Thursday, October 18th, 2018 at 9:30 a.m. This session is open to the public. This band will be at RealArt Tacoma in Tacoma, Washington with TacoCat on Saturday, November 17th, 2018.:blackbelteaglescout.bandcamp.com
2018 marks 25 years since the release of Sonic Youth’s video for “Sugar Kane,” which debuted in February 1993. Featuring Marc Jacobs, a young Chloe Sevigny, and of course Sonic Youth, the video is an earmark in the life and death of grunge’s first incarnation.:www.crfashionbook.com
Another anniversary! "Gentlemen" was released on this date in 1993 (John Richards' favorite musical year!)
IDLES played a fabulous live session yesterday, October 4th, 2018, at 9:30 a.m. You can stream it right here:www.kexp.org
Remember: "After winter must come spring " The video for this song was nominated for a Grammy for best music video:www.youtube.com
Yannick Ilunga, known professionally as Petite Noir, is a South African raised singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer.The first single from 'La Maison Noir' is 'Blame Fire' a phrase coined by Petite Noir and which means 'Thank God'. The song sees him honestly exploring his experiences as an immigrant and channeling the unique gifts he has received through this into something greater than him.:www.redbull.com
Watch TV on the Radio performing this great song live at the Hopscotch Music Festival in 2016:www.youtube.com
Ahhh....the Friday song. Next Thursday, October 11th, 2018, join KEXP for "Music Heals Mental Health: A Tribute to Scott Hutchison." Learn more about this free event: www.kexp.org
Want to know how "three British goths broke America"?:www.loudersound.com
Dilly Dally will be LIVE on KEXP on Tuesday, October 30th, 2018, at 11:00 a.m. That performance is open to the public. Dilly Dally will be playing the Showbox SoDo that evening.
"If I had to compile a top 10 of what I think are the best music videos I’ve ever seen, the video for Miss World would definitely be in it. The imagery is so memorable, the tone so perfectly captured, the essence of the song so powerfully evoked. Sophie Miller’s video is like a mini film in itself, as well as acting like a fitting thematic trailer for 'Live Through This.'" Read a paean to the video for "Miss World" (and see the video): theburningbloggerofbedlam.wordpress.com
Read a biography of this London band:www.allmusic.com
Now ten years old, this was the fourth album for The Hold Steady:pitchfork.com
"You are invited' to watch a live performance by The Dismemberment Plan for KEXP VIP Club members at The Triple Door in 2013.:www.youtube.com
You like-a this song? "So Tonight That I Might See' came out on this date in 1993 (which, if we haven't mentioned it before, was John Richards' favorite musical year).
"Hunter" is Anna Calvi's first album in five years:www.popmatters.com
Here's another "weird and haunting" video: gizmodo.com
Car Seat Headrest and Naked Giants are playing at The Showbox next Friday and Saturday, October 12 and 13th, 2018.
Actors play in Vancouver tomorrow Saturday, October 6th at Rickshaw Theatre
Signup with your email address on their website to follow Actors: www.actorstheband.com
Here's the official video for "Face Meets Glass": www.youtube.com
Have you enjoyed Jason Corbett's comments during this performance? Here's a recent interview with him.:www.forksterocks.net
Watch a live in-studio performance by The Horrors in June of this year:www.youtube.com
"Disintegration' was the eighth studio album by The Cure. Here's a track-by-track review:www.billboard.com
The music video for "Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors" was filmed in and around Prague, and depicts, in a nonlinear manner, a young girl with the ability to walk on water escaping from a hospital, escaping via railway lines, a red light district and a Romani encampment to the river Vltava where she attempts to row away, only to run back across the water surface to avoid a police boat, all intercut with clips of the Editors playing the song in an abandoned ship. The video ends with Tom Smith at a dockyard meeting the girl, who runs away in fright.: www.youtube.com
In an interview with Select magazine, vocalist and primary songwriter Robert Smith said: "I was thinking of Bourbon Street in New Orleans when I wrote it - I was getting ready to go there and I thought: what the f--k do I think I'm going to find ? It's about the incredulity that I could still be fooled into looking for a perfect moment."
What a great title: "The Sisters of Mercy mixed goth with Meat Loaf---and turned it into gold":music.avclub.com
Siouxsie Sioux was 60 years old in 2017. Read a tribute to her: www.theguardian.com
This album, too, came out on this date in 1993 (which, I can't say enough, was John Richards' favorite musical year).