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Thursday, Sep 20 2018, 6AM
Good morning and a very happy Thursday! Did you know that Low turned twenty-five this year?:www.subpop.com
"If you could somehow play a guitar through quicksilver it might sound like this. [Ira]Kaplan sounds in disbelief that the person he used to think about all the time is now a part of his life, and although it’s easy to assume he’s literally singing about his wife and bandmate the lyrics are both universal enough and non-committal enough to apply to almost any sort of relationship the listener has in mind.":www.pastemagazine.com
"I wanted you...
But I'm over that now...
I'm so sick of you and what we went through...." Whew! Here are the rest of the lyrics to the song entitled "Happy": songmeanings.com
On Tuesday, April 13, 2004, NASA used "Where Is My Mind?" to wake up the team working on the Mars rover, Spirit, in honor of its software transplant.
This band from Columbus, Ohio will perform at The Sunset Tavern on Friday, October 19th, 2018.: www.thecrocodile.com
This duet between Kip Berman of The Pains of Being Pure at Heart and Berlin-based singer Laura Carbone premiered last week. Read the singers' comments and see the music video here:www.stereogum.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—their last live shows in America were in support of their 2013 album "Seasons of Your Day."
Don't you like this blend of voices? Last week, The New York Times called them "an indie-rock supergroup":www.nytimes.com They'll be at The Moore Theatre on Saturday, November 24th, 2018.
More lovely voices. Jeff Buckley died by drowning in 1997, shortly after this pair made this duet. The song came out of a brief and extremely intense romantic affair between Buckley and Fraser at a time that Fraser’s marriage and band, the Cocteau Twins, were both coming to an end. Fraser has talked openly about the song being too difficult for her to listen to because she still feels so emotionally connected to it.: www.djdmac.com
The female singer who comes in around the 2:40 mark is Max Edie. Mike Scott told her to sing while imagining she was "a carefree eight year old." Another outside musician to perform on the song was Roddy Lorimer on trumpet. The group's bass player, Anthony Thistlethwaite, did the sax solo.
"Fame" was released on this date in 1975 and gave David Bowie his first No. 1 hit in the US. The single was co-written with John Lennon, who also provided guitar and background vocals.
“Blame Fire” is phrase created by South African artist Petite Noir, meaning “Thank God”. The mini-album "La Maison Noire" will come out on October 5th, 2018.:www.thefader.com
“The Mountain." is from Dead Can Dance's upcoming album "Dionysus," which is out on November 2nd, 2018. It's their first new album in six years, following "Anastasis." The new record is split into two acts. “The Mountain” is the first movement of the second act.
Watch Wolf Alice in a live in-studio performance at KEXP in 2015:www.kexp.org
First Aid Kit tweeted: "'Ugly' is a song about expectations. We’ve felt the pressure to constantly be better, prettier, thinner. No matter what we do we’re never enough. It’s a song about letting the eye of the beholder define your self-worth. The song is both intensely personal but also universal."
This is a wonderful cover of Tori Amos' "Cornflake Girl," that originally appeared on Amos' 1994 album, "Under the Pink."
Recognize that voice? Here she is, performing "Try" live:www.youtube.com
Have fun at the ultrasound, Chris. "Starting a New Life' is from Van Morrison's great album, "Tupelo Honey":www.rollingstone.com
Like Beck's earlier single "Loser", the experimental video for "Beercan" was directed by friend and director Steve Hanft. The video features a group of homeless people destroying a house. A recurring theme throughout the video is the presence of a rainbow, possibly a reference to the Care Bears album sampled in the song.:www.youtube.com
Land of the Loops was the alias of Brooklyn-based sonic collagist Alan Sutherland, a veteran of several short-lived bands who turned to quirky electronica after his parents bought him a sampler for college graduation.:www.scaruffi.com
Paul in Seattle wrote, "I'm having surgery this morning at 8:00 PST, and it would be a great way to go in w/ Karma Police." :www.youtube.com
That familiar deep voice is Matt Berninger of The National. Watch Clap Your Hands Say Yeah performing "Coming Down" and other songs live in the KEXP studio in 2014:www.youtube.com
On their Facebook page, they say, "Lo! Peninsula is a shoegaze/dream pop/psych rock three-piece band based in Imphal[India]": www.facebook.com
KIN is a movie about a futuristic bazooka that can blast walls out of buildings and instantly turn people into dust. Scottish band Mogwai wrote and performed the soundtrack for this action flick: pitchfork.com
This album turned ten years old in April.:www.stereogum.com
You may have "Star Roving" for your very own, since it was chosen as a KEXP Song of the Day: www.kexp.org Your support of KEXP makes it possible for us to provide free music like this. Donate now: www.kexp.org
Like that guitar? The Church will play two nights at The Triple Door in Seattle, Friday, October 5th, and Saturday, October 6th, 2018.
"Och, sweet lovin' Christ...that's a great song!" Thank you, Angus. Here's a live version, just for you:www.youtube.com
That's Johnny Marr playing guitar on this song. He'll be LIVE on KEXP tomorrow, Friday, September 21st, at noon.
The rock band Swearin' is composed of Allison Crutchfield, Kyle Gilbride, Jeff Bolt, and Amanda Bartley. You can pre-order "Fall Into the Sun" at their Bandcamp page: swearin.bandcamp.com
Seattle band Dirty Rugs are performing at the Hard Rock Cafe on Friday, September 28th, 2018.
In February, celebrate International Clash Day with its originator, KEXP. Your support of KEXP enables us to do creative programming like this. Donate now: www.kexp.org
The mic gets passed every four bars in this song. The third verse reaches its climax when Mike D passes the mic one more time to MCA, who gets hyper and breathless with an epic burst of trash talk: “If you’re hot to trot, you think you’re slicker than grease/I’ve got news for you crews, you’ll be sucking like a leech.” :www.rollingstone.com
The song was used in one of Apple’s commercials to introduce their new products launching in 2018, such as iPhone XS and iPhone XR, and Apple Watch Series 4:genius.com
Watch a live version of this song (and avoid violent and jealous men):www.youtube.com
Read a biography of this post-punk hardcore El Paso band: www.allmusic.com
IDLES will be LIVE on KEXP at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, October 4th, 2018. This performance is open to the public. The band will play The Sunset Tavern on Saturday, October 6th, 2018.
Black Belt Eagle Scout will be with Tacocat at Bellingham's Shakedown on Sunday, November 18th, 2018.
It's all right! Someone wrote: "My dad was sick and made me listen to this with him. I understand now ( he's passed) he was telling me something." www.youtube.com
Next week, a Tom Petty box set will be released, and it contains four CDs worth of unreleased and hard-to-find Petty music. Called "An American Treasure," the collection includes live and studio material and spans from his Heartbreakers days to the years preceding his death. This track,“Gainesville,” was recorded in February, 1998, during the sessions for 1999's "Echo."
In this paean to "Dry the Rain," the suggested listening activity is "walking past an empty storefront that used to be a Blockbuster Video.": www.beautifulsongoftheweek.com
Not to put too fine a point on it, but this review of "And Nothing Hurts" says, "The new Spiritualized album is f**king great. It’s awesome.":www.stereogum.com
Dilly Dally will perform with FIDLAR at the Showbox SoDo on Tuesday, October 30th, 2018.
In April, L7 announced their first album in twenty years a(and a tour to accompany it): www.nme.com
Muncie Girls will perform at The Funhouse on Tuesday, November 13th, 2018.:www.munciegirls.co.uk
"Dedicated to Sleater-Kinney’s Carrie Brownstein, ‘Carrie (I Want A Girl)’ is a celebration of queerness, women and non-binary people in music. Aside from Brownstein, the song pays tribute to a number of iconic women in music and entertainment including Courtney Barnett, Ellen Page and Florence Welch of Florence + The Machine.": bmamag.com
Ooooh....Diet Cig will play Neumos on Friday, November 9th, 2018. John chose this Diet Cig song as a KEXP Song of the Day: www.kexp.org
"Madder Rose was the quintessential Lower East Side rock band, complete with sullen 30-something post-graduates of the Manhattan club scene, fuzzed-out guitars, even the obligatory aura of decadence." Learn more: www.trouserpress.com
Today is the birthday of Alannah Currie of Thompson Twins, born on this date in 1957 (61 years old, John).
Happy birthday, Ben Shepherd of Soundgarden. He was born in 1968.