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Robert Smith has given conflicting accounts of what events inspired this song, but explained the emotions behind the lyrics in a 1989 interview with Music Box TV: "It's about the idea you hold someone. It goes back a bit to a song like 'How Beautiful You Are.' The idea of you hold someone isn't really what that person is like. Sometimes you completely lose touch with what a person has turned into. You just want to hold onto what they were."
Check out CCFX's great performance of The One To Wait live on KEXP from April 3rd HERE. You can also see them tomorrow night in Los Angeles!
Film School heads out on a west coast tour in November. They'll be at Barboza on November 17th!
Moody shots, a strobe light, and at one point is rains feathers - check out the video for All In My Mind HERE.
As he made “And Nothing Hurt,” his first Spiritualized album since 2012, “I wanted it to be about time and my age,” Mr. Pierce said. “I thought, if I’m going to make a record at my age, there has to be a reason that it should be there, that it should exist. And it shouldn’t be me trying to pretend I’m 23. The language had to be relative to me now, and I wanted to make something that reflected that passage of time.”
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He added: “I like rock ’n’ roll, but it’s sort of a young person’s game, isn’t it? It’s full of the folly and stupidity and arrogance of youth. And that’s great, and that’s what makes that energy. So it was so important not to pretend that that’s what it was about.”
You can read the full NY Times interview HERE.
You can read the full NY Times interview HERE.
Although this single was not a success on the conventional charts, it went to the top of US "Indie Rock" charts throughout 1993, and due to the popularity of the song The Verve were invited to play Lollapalooza in 1994.
The surreal music video, featuring stop-motion animation by co-directors Matthew James-Wilson and Ginette Lapalme, reflects the feeling of being overwhelmed. It features a rabbit figurine lounging on the beach, covering its face, intercut with illustrated clips of West singing and kaleidoscopic close-ups of water. See the video HERE.
Lala Lala are playing Neumos on November 12th!
Lala Lala are playing Neumos on November 12th!
Harvey was hesitant to reveal the meaning behind the song, saying it was "a song I didn't want to put a label on too much, like this isn't a song about some woman drowning her baby. To be quite honest, I don't really know what it is for me, myself, yet - which I don't mind because I'd much rather leave it for other people to do what they want with anyway."
The Walkmen have played live on KEXP, Little Big Show #5, a KEXP exclusive set at the Triple Door, and appeared on Live at KEXP Volume 7. Find all the performances HERE.
Interpol are playing a sold out show at The Moore on February 2nd. Looks like you can still get tickets for February 1st in Portland...
Jenny Lewis dug into her history in the video for “She’s Not Me.” No, not her stint as the frontwoman for Rilo Kiley — but her days as a child star, including credits for Troop Beverly Hills, The Wizard and an episode of The Golden Girls. If you want to see what Lewis is on about, watch her turn as a Sunshine Cadet in The Golden Girls HERE.
Boy Azooga are coming to Barboza on Sunday October 28th. Tickets HERE. They'll be live on The Morning Show on the 29th!
A couple of years ago, we were able to coax the NYC-based artist out of his semi-retirement to play John in the Morning at Night. ("I've been waiting for years to see that live," John remarked from the stage.) Read about that show HERE.
The robotic vocal sound was created with a Vocoder, which is an electronic device originally created to encode speech. Other songs that used a vocoder around this time include "Believe" by Cher and "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" by Eiffel 65.
Santigold was scheduled to play in Seattle on the 15th as part of the Miseducation of Lauryn Hill 20th anniversary tour but was dropped at the last minute. A tweet from Santigold read:
"I will no longer be performing on The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill Tour at the following dates due to the tour organizers' decision to reduce the support. So sorry to disappoint my fans. 9/14: Vancouver, BC 9/15: Seattle, WA 9/22: Phoenix, AZ 9/26: Denver, CO"
"I will no longer be performing on The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill Tour at the following dates due to the tour organizers' decision to reduce the support. So sorry to disappoint my fans. 9/14: Vancouver, BC 9/15: Seattle, WA 9/22: Phoenix, AZ 9/26: Denver, CO"
Bombay Bicycle Club preformed Carry Me live in-studio at KEXP in April 2014. See it HERE.
HEALTH shared a rather amusing statement. “The annals of music history are filled with a rich tradition of trios. Crosby, Stills, & Nash…Emerson, Lake, and Palmer…Lennon, McCartney, and that other guy…And now Soccer Mommy, the guy from Purity Ring, and HEALTH.”
Originally debuted during the duo’s 2015 Coachella live set, “Loyal” has achieved a cult following among ODESZA fans who have speculated the name of the song and its origin, and have traded bootleg recordings around the Internet for years. As of the 12th, they've finally released it officially!
TV On The Radio member Kyp Malone said that the album title came from "a note that Dave [Sitek] wrote in the studio that said,
"Dear Science, please start solving problems and curing diseases or shut the fuck up."
On August 31, 1994, just a few weeks after this song was released, the IRA declared a ceasefire after 25 years of conflict, leading some critics of The Cranberries to wonder if the IRA was willing to call a truce to make sure the group didn't release any more songs about them.
Foxing is at Chop Suey with Ratboys, and Kississippi this Saturday. Tickets HERE.
Moby recalled to Rolling Stone: "Strangely enough, that's probably the most signature song on the record, and I actually had to be talked into including it. When I first recorded it, I thought it was average. I didn't like the way I produced it, I thought it sounded mushy, I thought my vocals sounded really weak. I couldn't imagine anyone else wanting to listen to it. When the tour for Play started, 'Porcelain' was the song during the set where most people would get a drink. But then Danny Boyle put it in the movie The Beach with Leo DiCaprio. It was Leo DiCaprio's first film since Titanic and everyone went to go see it. He used the music so well in the movie. I think that's when a lot of people became aware of the record."
Maribou State brings their Kingdoms In Colour tour to Neumos on February 22nd. Tickets HERE.
Last year Rolling Stone decided to rank all 73 Smiths songs. They put this one at 36. HERE is the whole list.
IDLES will be live on The Morning Show on October 4th @ 9:30! Get signed up to see them starting at 8am.
Lo! Peninsula is a shoegaze/dream pop/psych rock three-piece band based in Imphal. Find AKA Lo Peninsula, their debut EP, on their Bandcamp page.
This is the second single from Jonatan Westh aka HOLY SHIP, formerly of late 00's Swedish shoegazers BLACKSTRAP. As HOLY SHIP, the maiden voyage explores post-punk dark wave with anthemic hooks with “Tau” an excellent companion to debut single "Lüst" which you can find HERE.
The video of this song, directed by W.I.Z, is dedicated to Czech student Jan Palach who in 1969 set himself on fire in protest against renewed Soviet suppression of Czechoslovakia. The video also refers to the Soviet government's intervention in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 on a banner showing the text in Hungarian (Szabad Európa Rádió) which translates as "Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty".
The movie Singles was released on this date in 1992. Alice In Chains was a bar band in the film.
Their name translates to "Bettie Serves", or "Service to Bettie", which is the title of a book written by Dutch tennis player Betty Stöve, who made it to the Wimbledon ladies singles final in 1977.
The most-familiar version of Uncertain Smile was recorded for the Soul Mining album and replaced a saxophone with a lengthy Jazz piano solo by Squeeze's Jools Holland (better known now as the host of BBC' TV's music show Later). Asked by Uncut magazine August 2014 how they got Holland to play on the track, The The's Matt Johnson replied: "The garden (studios) had this beautiful little Yamaha C3 Baby Grand, and the decision was, 'We have this fantastically long outro for 'Uncertain Smile.' We need to put this piano on something. Who do we know who can play it? Jools showed up, cool as a cucumber despite the sweltering heat, dressed in leathers, and he was absolutely charming."
"I think he had one run-through, said, 'Let's go for it,' and laid the whole thing down," Johnson added. "There was just one drop-in we did towards the end. We were amazed. He told me years later, he gets asked about that more than anything he's ever done."
This acoustic song is a duet between two of the most distinctive voices of the '90s: Jeff Buckley and Elizabeth Fraser of the Cocteau Twins. It was intended to be only a demo, but was leaked online by unnamed sources after Buckley's death.
As “Creep’” was beginning to break big, Radiohead was on the road opening for Tears for Fears. Radiohead's guitarist said the headliners treated them “like pigs.” In 1994, Roland Orzaba of Tears for Fears began covering “Creep” during live shows — something Thom Yorke openly did not like. In response, Orzaba said, “I did it as a joke… I changed some of the lyrics. I do appreciate what they have gone on to do… even though I don’t like them.”
Subways On The Sun will be live on The Morning Show on October 3rd! The video for Know It All features only a Speak & Spell. Those of you a certain age will have fond memories... HERE is the video.
HERE is David Letterman's band backing up Spider Stacy performing Tuesday Morning circa 1993.
Gold Rush had its origins when frontman Ben Gibbard ‘flipped’ a loop taken from Ono’s song ‘Mind Train’ from her record ‘Fly’.
“If I’m on a campaign for this album, it’s for people to actually spend time with her music before they feel like they know what it is, because her music spans a much wider spectrum than people give her credit for,” Gibbard told NME.
Kississippi is an indie duo from Philadelphia touring right now with Foxing and we were turned onto their music via a listener so now we shall turn you onto this artist. Funny side note, the band met on Tinder. They self-released their debut, Sunset Blush, April 6, 2018.
The Twilight Sad have announced a new album, "It Won't Be Like This All The Time" due out January 18th
Singles was released on this date back in 1992. Yep, that's 26 years ago.
The Church's Starfish 30th Anniversary Tour will be at the Triple Door for TWO nights - October 5th and 6th!