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"M83's music has always felt like it exists in celestial spaces. No matter how thick Anthony Gonzalez's arrangements, no matter how mammoth his ambition, it sounds both infinite and weightless. "Intro" is the first track from his double LP, Hurry Up, We're Dreaming, an album so deep and expansive it could house weather systems within weather systems." -Pitchfork https://bit.ly/2MditKu
What did the DJs think at the time? "You're lazy if you play 'Fascination Street'." https://www.kexp.org/read/2015/11/19/review-revue-the-cure-disintegration/
CCFX were live on The Morning Show on April 3rd. Of course they performed this song. See it here: https://bit.ly/2MqXIKD
TR/ST played day 3 of this year's Capitol Hill Block Party! Check out the pictures here: https://bit.ly/2w6U26u
First “Swim Good” was a Frank Ocean song, then it was a UK emo band. But apparently it’s also the chosen moniker of a producer by the name of Jon Lawless who has previously collaborated with fellow electronically emotive Canadians Jeremy Greenspan of Junior Boys and Torquil Campbell of Stars. For his latest trick, Lawless teamed with Bon Iver member S. Carey and Edmonton singer-songwriter Daniela Andrade for the multi-segmented “Grand Beach” https://bit.ly/2KSkPJ2
Ellis is the project of Linnea Siggelkow, who began writing songs alone in her bedroom. Over time, Ellis attracted attention, opening for or playing alongside artists in DIY and indie circles like Ó, Palehound, Soccer Mommy, and Free Cake For Every Creature.
Now expanded to a four piece, Ellis has an EP slated for release this fall. Here’s what Siggelkow had to say about this track:
“The Drain” is one of the first songs I wrote for this project. It’s probably also the most hopeful. It’s about self-sabotaging a relationship because you’re afraid of how deep it’s getting, but then saying “fuck it” and diving in anyway.
“The Drain” is one of the first songs I wrote for this project. It’s probably also the most hopeful. It’s about self-sabotaging a relationship because you’re afraid of how deep it’s getting, but then saying “fuck it” and diving in anyway.
This was the Sundays' biggest hit internationally, topping the US Modern Rock Tracks chart. However, the song was never released as a single in the group's native UK due to the collapse of the Rough Trade Records label.
In 1982, at the onset of Neneh Cherry’s solo career, she appeared on a cover version of Edwin Starr’s “Stop the War,” released in protest of the then-ongoing Falklands War. Here, she returns to the protest song format, this time homing in on the far-reaching consequences of colonialism and Europe’s refugee crisis over a gently disorienting, dubby backdrop.
Santigold will be at the ShoWare Center on September 15th as part of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill 20th Anniversary Tour. In addition to Santigold and Ms Lauryn Hill, the show will feature De La Soul and Shabazz Palaces! Tickets here: https://bit.ly/2vHQxny
Right about the time Sylvan Esso was releasing What Now, Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn got a bunch of their North Carolina friends together in an Asheville, N.C. studio to record some of the tracks from What Now as a big, live band. Members of Wye Oak, The Mountain Goats, Hiss Golden Messenger, Mountain Man and Megafaun got together for a day at Echo Mountain studios, reimagined the songs of Sylvan Esso and captured the whole thing for a visual EP they called Echo Mountain Sessions. See the version of "Die Young" https://youtu.be/OvW2a7mcVG0
The new album, Bunny is the Detroit producer's first in six years. In addition to "Bunny's Dream," he has released a second track from the album, called "Echo." Hear it here: https://bit.ly/2MLM3TF
The flourish at the beginning of this song is sampled from "There's a Rock on the Volga" on the album Lenin's Favorite Songs, released by the Soviet Government-owned record label. It also samples MC 900ft Jesus.
For several weeks before and after the album's release the entire album was available for streaming on the band's MySpace page. Now Tom is just listening on his own.
Just released, this is the closing track from Thank You For Today out this Friday
The Pump Up The Volume Soundtrack was released on this date in 1990. The movie won the Golden Space Needle Award at the Seattle International Film Festival, beating out the festival favorite, Denys Arcand's Jesus of Montreal. Reportedly, some audience members booed when the film was named the winner.
Simple Minds lead singer Jim Kerr wrote this song after reading a story about Polish political prisoners who had been in Russia since the end of WWII. Kerr said: "There was an interview with wives of guys that had been away for a long time, taken away, and some of the beautiful quotations that the women had used became sort of the background for that song." They're at the Moore Theater on October 28th!
Johnny Greenwood told NPR how the group recorded the track. "This song was one of the rare chances of getting our hands on an unfinished song, so we could put strings on right at the beginning," he said. "Usually strings are an afterthought, decoration on the end of a song. I've been saying for years, wouldn't it be great to start with strings."
"So this song was just Thom singing in a drum machine and nothing else," Greenwood continued. "And then I wrote strings to that. So you're hearing an orchestra play - they're strumming their violins with guitar plectrums, that's the rhythm."
Los Lobos Vs. The Shins was released on vinyl via Third Man Records for Record Store Day earlier this year.
The Gourds formed in Austin, Texas during the summer of 1994. After playing together for 19 consecutive years, the band went on hiatus in 2013.
Written by singer-guitarist Jim Ellison, "Valerie Loves Me" is about a neighbor girl that Ellison had a crush on when he was 11 years old. The narrator often sees her and imagines what she's thinking, but is unable to catch her attention. Later in the song he envisions her growing old alone, at which point, "she can't have me."
The initial idea for "This Is Radio Clash" apparently came from a conversation between singer Joe Strummer, aide Kosmo Vinyl and manager Bernie Rhodes about the band setting up their own radio station. Having read Dispatches by Michael Herr, Strummer wrote the line "ghettology is an urban Vietnam" and later fleshed out the lyrics at Marcus Music in Kensington in April 1981 in the inaugural sessions before the song was completed at the Electric Lady studios in New York in November of that year.
In June Stan Ridgway posted on his website: "New projects are in the works. Film scores, new songs, albums and shows." No dates or further info...
Another awesome show and way to support The Showbox! Parquet Courts on September 23rd!
You can see Boy George & Culture Club on September 13the at the Washington State Fair in Puyallup or on the 15th at The Showbox
Talking about her shows and new synth-pop sound: “All of this is new,” said Champion, who admitted she normally isn’t terribly expressive when she performs. “Especially trying to be more upfront as an artist is a little intimidating, but I’ve watched a lot of YouTube tutorials about dancing so hopefully it works out.”
Baby Grand is an album of reflection with McLamb using a breakup and a move west as the jumping off points for his latest offering of songs. Find a review of the new album here: https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2018/08/the-love-language-baby-grand-review.html
In an interview, Frank Black described this song as: "Loosely a sci-fi poem with a kind of Blade Runner outlook, i.e., futuristic Los Angeles."
Tres Leches are playing the Mercer & Summit Block Party on the 18th. That's Saturday!
Speaking with Q magazine, Joy Division guitarist Bernard Sumner explained: "'She's Lost Control' was about a girl who used to come into the rehab center where Ian worked, to try and find work. She had epilepsy and lost more and more time through it and then one day she just didn't come in any more. He assumed that she'd found a job, but found out later she'd had a fit and died."
Boy Azooga’s debut album, 1, 2 Kung Fu, is piloted by Davey Newington, a young man with much musical heritage. One of his granddads was a jazzer who played drums for the Royal Marines. Davey’s dad (violin) and his mum (clarinet) both played, and met, in the BBC National Orchestra Of Wales. Davey himself also enjoyed orchestral engagement, playing in various Welsh Orchestra’s and Jazz bands as a teenager.
Happy birthday to Charlatans' guitarist Mark Collins!
U2 performed a 14-minute version of this song at the London Live Aid concert in 1985, which included a trip by Bono into the crowd at Wembley Stadium. Their set, which also included "Sunday Bloody Sunday," was voted Best Live Aid Performance by readers of Rolling Stone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zIW8qDPhos
Kjartan Sveinsson and Alex Somers will be taking part in the people festival in Berlin on the 18th and 19th of August.
The War on Drugs will play Seattle's Paramount Theatre on Thursday, September 6th, 2018. Watch a live in-studio performance from 2014: www.kexp.org