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Friday, Sep 7 2018, 6AM
Good morning and happy Friday. "In disarray.....disarray..." Jonathan Meiburg said of "Jet Plane and Oxbow" that he wanted to "...try and make a protest record that wasn't dumb or preachy."
See Ride performing "Leave Them All Behind" live in the KEXP studio in September, 2017.: www.youtube.com
Watch an interview with this Los Angeles band last year: www.youtube.com
The Smashing Pumpkins just performed in Seattle's Key Arena and that performance was live streamed for free via Twitter.: www.geekwire.com
Here's Bob Mould performing "Man on the Moon" live: www.youtube.com
Read a review of the just-released "glorious sonic daydream": www.theguardian.com
“I Feel a Change" is the first single from the posthumous final record from Charles Bradley. "Black Velvet" will be released November 9th via the singer's imprint label Dunham Records.
You can experience "Kabuki" when The True Loves play The Tractor Tavern next Friday, September 14th, and Saturday, September 15th, 2018.
Ohhh.....Aretha Franklin talks about the performance that made President Obama cry (You can watch her sing it, too!): www.vogue.com
Guitarist Leo Nocentelli said that he penned this song to replace their traditional opener. "There was a club on Bourbon Street. This is before The Meters, man. We were called Art Neville and the Neville Sounds. Art Neville was the elder statesman in the group, he already had a group called The Hawkettes. By the time we got to a club called the Ivanhoe, it was George [Porter Jr.] and Zig [Modeliste] and myself and Art. That was really The Meters, but we weren't called The Meters. We used to play Top 40 stuff. And most of the bands, all of the bands had an opening song that they'd play before they'd actually get into their set. And one of the songs that everybody kind of played was a song called 'Hold It.' And everybody played it, man. I got sick of playing that, so I wrote 'Cissy Strut.' The melody came out and I introduced it to George, Art and Zig. And we started opening the set with 'Cissy Strut,' but it didn't have a name or anything. It was just that song, that opening song. That's how that happened. We recorded the song, and it was named 'Cissy Strut' long after I wrote it."
In one of Scott Hutchison's final tweets, he wrote: “Be so good to everyone you love.”
There's a year-by-year history of James at their official website: wearejames.com
"Is this the blues I'm singing?" This blogger has lots to say about this "certain song": medialoper.com
Theis song was debuted by Thom Yorke at a warm-up show with his other band Atoms For Peace on October 2, 2009 at the Echoplex in Los Angeles. Radiohead first performed the track during a January 2010 Haiti benefit concert in Los Angeles. Watch behatted Thom Yorke dance in the video:www.youtube.com
New song! Sylvan Esso have released their new single “Funeral Singers,” a cover of Califone’s original. Want to hear the original, also?: www.youtube.com
"Yves Tumor’s latest album is a benchmark in experimental music. It is searing and borderless, music that is aware of oppressive confinement, and music with an intoxicating urge to be free.": pitchfork.com
"Black Steel" is a cover version of
"Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos," a 1989 song by the American hip-hop group Public Enemy. That's English singer Martina Topley-Bird performing the vocals.
"Ice cream is gonna save the day...again." Watch Muscles perform this song live in Brooklyn in 2007: www.youtube.com
Ahhh.....the Friday song. Please join KEXP on Saturday, September 8th, from 8AM to 5PM for the third annual KEXP Record Fair.: www.kexp.org
Today is the birthday of rapper and producer Eazy-E of N.W.A. He died of AIDS on March 26th, 1995 at age 31.: www.biography.com
In the previous song, N.W.A. was sampling this 1970 original by Charles Wright. Eazy-E was nephew of Charles Wright.
There seems to be a theme here. Speaking of "Express Yourself," here are The Muppets covering N.W.A.: www.thewrap.com
Someone wrote, "It's ok" needs to be made the Worlds' anthem, Chill out world, just breathe,." Watch the remarkable video of this performance: www.youtube.com
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Oh, my goodness...these guys will be at The Showbox on Friday, October 12th, 2018. Perhaps they'll do this Talking Heads cover there.
David Byrne says that the lyric is pretty much about what it says it's about. In an interview with NPR, Byrne said: "We're largely unconscious. You know, we operate half awake or on autopilot and end up, whatever, with a house and family and job and everything else, and we haven't really stopped to ask ourselves, 'How did I get here?'": www.youtube.com
Read about the "joy of commercial suicide" in this 2017 article about Talk Talk's artistic bravery: nbhap.com
Mr. Prince performed this song with his favorite backup group, The Muppets: www.youtube.com
"Opening with one of Hook’s most infectious twangy riffs, and powering forth on Morris’s kinetic drumming, this is the sound of New Order throwing back the curtains and letting the sun come in. When John Peel first played it, he singled out Sumner’s two-note guitar motif at 4’14” as the song’s most sublime moment – playing the five-second burst over and over – but the entire song is New Order playing pop music at its most headrushing, joyful and flawless.": www.theguardian.com
Speaking of the first time the band played "Transmission," Peter Hook said,“We played the new song, which was Transmission - and everyone in the whole place stopped literally what they were doing to listen and to turn round and watch us. It was an absolutely bizarre moment. It really made the hair on your arms stand up and shivers down your spine.”: www.radiox.co.uk
You might want to follow Nine Inch Nails at their official website: www.nin.com
This Toronto band will play The Showbox SoDo (with FIDLAR) on Thursday, October 30th, 2018. Their new album will be out next Friday: www.rollingstone.com
You can see British "gothic minimalist" band Cranes performing "Lilies" live right here: www.youtube.com
Enjoy a KEXP Live Review of Lush's show at The Showbox (!!) with The Young Evils in 2016: www.kexp.org
Beastie Boys clearly loved a bit of police drama. So, under the direction of Spike Jonze, the trio created the ultimate homage to the television genre for their 1994 "Sabotage" video. Hood slides, violent arrests and bags of donuts. This video has it all. This article breaks down the video, scene-by-scene: www.loudersound.com
Yes, they"ll be driving up the coast and will be in Seattle, playing Thursday, October 30th, 2018 at the Showbox SoDo.
"She was sharin' Sharon's outlook on the topic of disease..." Watch the video for "Pepper": www.youtube.com
In 2017, this song was selected for preservation in the National Film and Sound Archive's Sounds of Australia collection. The video was originally to be shot on an airport runway but, because of inclement weather, took place in a hanger.: www.youtube.com
Read a biography of this Australian band "with a conscience": h2g2.com
Ibid. Oh, all right...here are the lyrics (You can sing along with John.): songmeanings.com
"Chihuahua...chihuahua...?" Swearin's first album in 5 years comes out on October 5th, 2018.: www.npr.org
Thurston Moore was live in the KEXP studio in 2014.: www.youtube.com
When asked about the meaning of this song, Beck has offered up numerous possible interpretations (from the silly, to the obscure, to the possible). Beck even made fun of it during his appearance on the TV show Futurama, with the line, "What was that song about?": www.youtube.com
You may watch "the Visualizer" as you listen to this new song from Gorillaz: www.youtube.com
Most of this song is about how wonderful the world is, but at the end, it turns around with the line, "But not for me."Jerry Casale: "That's a song that was written with the video in mind. The video idea preceded the song. We start off with silly imagery taken from archival film libraries of just stupid stuff - Americana pop culture stuff from the past and silly imagery of silly people, then slowly start warping it over darker and darker things - Ku Klux Klan race riots, war, suffering, atomic bomb, starvation. It transforms from one thing to another.": www.youtube.com
Fred Schneider explained: "We've always wanted to do a song where we introduce ourselves. There's so many of 'em: the Floaters, 'The Jam' by Grand Central Station… a lot of rap groups. We figured it was about time, especially as Kate and Cindy and I are upfront and Keith and Ricky have never sung. We like to promote all five of us. Be sure attention is paid equally to everyone this time round."
As John noted, Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard will be live in the KEXP studio at noon next Wednesday, September 12th, 2018. Be sure to listen to him playing listener requests.
A House were an Irish rock band active from the 1980s into the 1990s, and recognized for the clever, "often bitter or irony laden lyrics of frontman Dave Couse ... bolstered by the band's seemingly effortless musicality".:www.youtube.com
This is a cover of The Rolling Stones' "I'm Free" from their 1965 album, "Out of Our Heads."
"This song makes me want to believe that it has the magical ability to bestow happiness among people..." Read a lovely tribute to "Three Little Birds": you.stonybrook.edu
Frank Turner will play The Moore Theatre tonight, September 7th, 2018.: frank-turner.com
