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Record Store Day this year saw a limited edition of 2500 vinyl release of the five-song "On the Road: Live 92" EP which includes Innocent Child recorded at the Ritz in New York City on April 24, 1992.
The song "Walking Lightly" has been adapted for use by fans of Notts County FC, the changed verses being: "We are, Notts County! We are, Notts County! Near or far, here we are! Notts County!"
The music video for Afterlife was directed by Emily Kai Bock and notably shot with a mix of 35mm and 65mm film. It depicts a Latino family in Los Angeles, California, dreaming of their missing mother. See it here: bit.ly
This song is about Seattle changing. It has changed so much that in the video it is Los Angeles: bit.ly
The new full length, "Living In Extraordinary Times" is out August 3rd. If you're lucky enough to be in the UK in December James has just announced 4 shows with The Charlatans! bit.ly
Liza Violet of Menace Beach on this new album: “There’s always been a bit of artistic push and pull between us on the balance of synth noise vs guitars noise and the guitars have previously always taken over, probably because we all know now how to make loud guitars sound really exciting in a room. But when we started writing this record I was feeling too much reality in the sound of a guitar and I really wanted to give something more this time. Once I had the sounds in my head I couldn’t really compromise."
Anthony Gonzalez cited English band Tears for Fears and Scottish band Cocteau Twins, as well as John Hughes teen films The Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles, as inspirations for Saturdays = Youth. A girl resembling Molly Ringwald appears on the album cover, and the lyrics and music video for "Graveyard Girl" further highlight these influences. "I wanted to have the feeling of a teenager mixed with this period of the Eighties," Gonzalez said.The song tells the story of a goth girl Gonzalez once knew who "worships Satan" but "dreams of a sister like Molly Ringwald."
“It’s So Easy” is one or two new singles from Hater’s upcoming album, Siesta. Find the second, "I Wish I Gave You More Time Because I Love You" here: bit.ly
Ian McCulloch:
"I’ve always said that The Killing Moon is the greatest song ever written. I’m sure Paul Simon would be entitled say the same about Bridge Over Troubled Water, but for me The Killing Moon is more than just a song. It’s a psalm, almost hymnal. It’s about everything, from birth to death to eternity and God – whatever that is – and the eternal battle between fate and the human will. It contains the answer to the meaning of life. It’s my “To be or not to be …”"
Snail Mail will be at Iceland Airwaves! Be automatically entered to win a trip to the festival when you make a new donation of $35 or more at KEXP.ORG! Support the music you love while entering for your chance to win here: www.kexp.org
Death Bells will be next door at the Vera Project on August 9th! do206.com
Pearl Jam covered Timeless Melody in their Binaural Tour on 6/4/2000 when they played at The Manchester Evening News Arena, Manchester, England. During the concert Eddie Vedder incorrectly stated that the band was going to play a song written by a band from "your town" (The La's are from Liverpool). Pearl Jam went on to play the song several more times on the tour, often as a duet with Supergrass frontman Gaz Coombes. Pearl Jam have also performed the song with Death Cab for Cutie.
The video fro Ship of Fools is all 1987 goodness: www.youtube.com
Their second album is out at the end of August. "These are some of the most personal songs I've written, and I was listening to different music when I wrote them and during the recording, which probably sounds quite noticeable," Lande Hekt writes in a press release. "Stuff like The Replacements, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Popguns and The Pastels. I think we all became a bit more adventurous with this record."
Their music has been described as suggesting druggy languor, which inspired the British music press to trumpet Madder Rose as the second coming of the Velvet Underground. A 1994 review in Rolling Stone characterized their sound as an "alloy" of grunge and "the buttercup sighs of The Cranberries"
Dilly Dally will be at the Showbox SoDo with FIDLAR on October 30th! They also performed live on KEXP in 2015 and you can see that set here: bit.ly
I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got received critical acclaim. In 2003, the album was ranked number 406 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
MBV are playing the Paramount tonight! There still seem to be some tickets left so change your plans! Tickets & info: bit.ly
Born in the Echoes was released on this date in 2015. Ah, the good ol' days. It was a different world then.
This was the first song the group produced themselves, splitting with Martin Hannett, who the band credit for teaching them the mechanics of recording. "Producing ourselves we get more satisfaction," frontman Bernard Sumner told The Face in 1983. "We know what we want and we can do it. With Martin the songs often turned out different, sometimes better, sometimes not."
There are no rhymes in this song, which is quite a feat of songwriting. In an interview, Gerry Beckley of America (no relation) broke it down: "The entire song is prose. There's not one line that rhymes and I will tell some of the best songwriters you've ever met that particular element and you can see them stop and go through it in their head. We're oblivious to that being an ingredient because we're so involved in the story. You're not sitting there going, 'That didn't rhyme, wait a second.' It's not an issue."
Jayhawks' guitarist Gary Louris said that he didn't know there already was a song called "Waiting For The Sun," "I was not a Doors fan," he said, "I like them now, but I didn't know there was a song called that." Doors fans aren't made. They're born: www.youtube.com
This track is from Clodhopper’s long out-of-print album, Red’s Recovery Room. A project of Danny Pearson (ex-American Music Club), Clodhopper played music that was as influenced by early 20th century folk music as it was by the ’90s alt-country movement. Resting on a steady groove and a dancing clawhammer banjo lead, “Cafe Joli” is a modern take on early 20th century folk music. Weary yet optimistic, Pearson’s conversational vocal style tells a quasi-stream of consciousness tale of his daily adventures around the town. When the rousing chorus comes around, Pearson rallies his bandmates around a refrain of the titular restaurant. “Cafe Joli” captures the intimacy of a campfire singalong and translates it into something much bigger – a folk song that sounds just as great, if not better, today as it did twenty years ago.
This album is one of the first albums to combine a live jazz band with hip hop production and rapping. It is the first such project to feature established rappers. Live backing is provided by a band that includes Lonnie Liston Smith, Branford Marsalis, Ronny Jordan, Donald Byrd and Roy Ayers. The album also features vocal collaborations with Carleen Anderson, N'Dea Davenport (of the Brand New Heavies) Dee C Lee and French rapper MC Solaar. The variety of guest artists adds diversity and originality to each track, and gives the album a distinct jazz feel. Check out the video: bit.ly
DJ Premier: “‘Jazz Thing’ is what really got me my deal because Spike Lee saw our ‘Words I Manifest’ video. He said he saw the Malcolm X resemblances, and he was making Mo' Better Blues at the time. He bought our album, No More Mr. Nice Guy, and he heard the song ‘Jazz Music’ on that. He was doing Mo' Better Blues about jazz, so he was like, ‘Yo, I like the record that ya’ll did, but ya’ll didn’t do an in-depth version of it. Why don’t you do a re-make and update it? I got this guy who wrote this poem that has everything in there. His name is Lolis Eric Elie.’ The poem didn’t rhyme, so Guru just looked at that and took certain lines in that poem and added his little parts, and made it into a verse. And that was our thing, which caught the attention of Chrysalis Records. When they signed us, they thought we were going to do records like ‘Jazz Thing’ all the time. When we were just doing that for Mo' Better Blues.”
This was written and produced by Ice-T and Afrika Islam, who sampled James Brown's "The Boss"... if you were having trouble identifying that.
Queen Latifah performed this song at the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize Awards Concert. www.youtube.com
This was Lauryn Hill's debut solo single. The song is a warning from Hill to African-American men and women caught in "the struggle". Both the women who "[try to] be a hard rock when they really are a gem", and the men who are "more concerned with his rims, and his Timbs, than his women", are admonished by Hill, who warns them not to allow "that thing" to ruin their lives. The chorus has been praised for promoting egalitarianism between the sexes.
This came out 25 years ago. I'll let that sink in. ... The song makes notable mention of the Birdland jazz club in New York City in its opening line, "Ladies and gentlemen, as you know, we have something special down here at Birdland this evening: a recording for Blue Note Records." The line, spoken by Pee Wee Marquette, is taken from Art Blakey's first Birdland album, A Night at Birdland Vol. 1.
Guru, quoted in the album's liner notes, talked about his natural affinity for both jazz and rap. "Jazz's mellow tracks, along with the hard rap beat, go hand-in-glove with my voice." Agreed.
This was the first single from their debut album and won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group at the 36th Grammy Awards.
Q-Tip originally planned for “Butter” to be another mic-trading session, but Phife wanted the track for himself. “We had a quasi little tiff over it,” the former told VH1 in 2011. Eventually, Phife wrested control, and turned “Butter” into a lyrical showcase where he ironically contrasted his “smoothness” with his frequent girl problems. Meanwhile, Tip rocked on the hook. “How I was on the chorus and how [Phife] was doing the rhyme … it just felt like if it was the Beatles, and John would sing lead on one and then Paul would sing lead on another and John would be backing him up,” said Tip.
"Passing Me By" produced by J-Swift, utilizes samples from "Summer in the City" by Quincy Jones, "125th Street Congress" by Weather Report and "Are You Experienced?" by The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Pitchfork put it at number 41 on their Top 200 Tracks of the 90s.
Here's the video for Nouveau Western with English subtitles. Of course, here in the booth we all speak French. bit.ly
This was ranked by Rolling Stone #23 on their list of Top 50 hip-hop songs. Here you can see Eric B and Rakim perform Eric B Is President and I Know You Got Soul on Showtime at the Apollo in 1991. www.youtube.com
The song derives its title directly from a lyrical sample from "I Know You Got Soul", by labelmates Eric B. & Rakim, released months prior in that same year.
Remembering John Coltrane who passed away 51 yeas ago today. Coltrane helped pioneer the use of modes and was later at the forefront of free jazz. He led at least fifty recording sessions, and appeared on many albums by other musicians, including trumpeter Miles Davis and pianist Thelonious Monk.
Over the course of his career, Coltrane's music took on an increasingly spiritual dimension. Coltrane remains one of the most influential saxophonists in music history. He received many posthumous awards and recognitions, including canonization by the African Orthodox Church and a special Pulitzer Prize in 2007.
Happy birthday to Vince Guaraldi! Born in 1928. Guaraldi's first recording was made in November 1953 with Cal Tjader and was released early in 1954. The 10-inch LP was called The Cal Tjader Trio, and included "Chopsticks Mambo", "Vibra-Tharpe", and "Lullaby of the Leaves".
"I don't know what kind of shampoo Stephen Mason uses. If the snazzy picture on the back of Hot Shots II is any indication, it's probably pretty good stuff. And the ten dense, smooth tracks on Hot Shots II reveal that Stephen Mason has been paying a good deal of attention to the Zen of the shampoo bottle: rinse and repeat." -Pitchfork. Here's the full review for Hot Shots II, out on this date in 2001: pitchfork.com
Nilsson wrote this song after calling someone and getting a busy signal. He stayed on the line listening to the "beep, beep, beep, beep..." tone, writing the song. The busy signal became the opening notes of the song.
This is Jocelyn's favorite song! Thanks for stopping by today!
Great haircuts and fake cobwebs...check out he video for "Don't Go" www.youtube.com
This song is a plea for reconciliation from a lover who has been hurt, and it shows Andy Bell's ability to pour his heart out in his lyrics, which is something Clarke struggles with. In an interview with Vince Clarke, he said: "I've tried to write lyrics that perhaps express the way I feel sometimes. I've struggled with that feeling. I find it easier to write lyrics about someone else's situation other than my own. I can't with any of my songs, say Yeah, that was me when I was half drunk, hung over or something or other. They're more situations about other people. Andy is much better at offering his heart to the world and expressing how he feels, he's a king at that, I think."
Sub Pop release #1028. Seattle hip-hop artists Macklemore & Ryan Lewis teamed up with Sub Pop in 2012 to release a 7” of their track “Same Love.” The song was released in sync with Music 4 Marriage Equality’s push to get Washington state’s Ref 74 (which would go on to pave the way for same sex-marriage not only in Washington but across the country) approved. The track, which was inspired by Macklemore’s gay uncles, features delicate keys, a moving feature from Miranda Lambert and a well-crafted and genuine appeal for same-sex marriage rights.
Here's Rainbow Connection from The Muppet Movie: www.youtube.com
