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Former Majical Cloudz frontman Devon Welsh's first new track since 2016 was featured on the KEXP Song of the Day Podcast for July 3rd. Download it here: www.kexp.org
On September 7, Eric Bachmann returns with No Recover, an album that "is both harrowing and beautiful, and whose mellowness can be deceiving." Listen to and watch the visual for No Recover’s title track, featuring backing vocals from Liz Durrett: bit.ly
In a 2009 interview, Justin Vernon said Blood Bank was actually recorded during the For Emma sessions, but that it didn't quite fit in the record.
"It just didn't seem to fit the story and lineage, I guess," he says. "So I just sort of surrounded 'Blood Bank' with three other songs that were very different from one other, and they all kind of came together as a palette cleanser for the last record."
Just stumbled upon a website naming this as a "song worthy of any bride's epic walk down the aisle." Um, ok.
The new album, All That Reckoning is out Friday and you can see the video to this single from it here: bit.ly
Sharon Van Etten, a fan of comedian Tig Notaro, wrote this lovely new song called “Words” specifically for the Netflix documentary’s end credits. www.netflix.com
Neil Tennant said in an interview, "We arrived in the studio and Bobby O had programmed Michael Jackson's Billie Jean drum pattern. Chris started to play along and I started playing chords. In terms of the lyrics, the inspiration for West End Girls came from The Message by Grandmaster Flash. I remember once staying at my cousin's house in Nottingham and we were watching some kind of gangster film with James Cagney, and just as I was dropping off to sleep, the lines 'sometimes you're better off dead, there's a gun in your hand and it's pointing to your head' came into my head and I thought 'that's quite good' so I went off to find a pen."
Karen Peris also animated the video for Look Out From Your Window: bit.ly
Rolling Stone said of Avalanche: "the 1971 LP's creepiest moments come on opener "Avalanche," which finds Cohen playing his classic role of stygian bard to perfection. Over rolling flamenco guitar and swelling strings, he portrays a hunchback living at the bottom of a gold mine: "Your laws do not compel me/To kneel grotesque and bare," he sneers. Even as the song edges into dark obsession and, eventually, pure horror ("It is your turn, beloved/It is your flesh that I wear"), Cohen's voice maintains a trancelike composure. No wonder gloom-rock poet laureate Nick Cave has been covering the song for more than 30 years."
Father John Misty is playing this year's Capitol Hill Block Party on the 22nd!
Neko Case has several local tour dates later this year... November 28th in Bellingham, the 29th at the Paramount in Seattle and then December 1st in Portland. Find all her tour dates here: nekocase.com
Jeremy Enigk will be live on the Afternoon Show with DJ Kevin Cole at 3pm. Sign up starts at 1:30. You really should leave work early and come down here! Tell your boss we said it's ok.
When reviewing this album the BBC described Mark Lanegan as "part Johnny Cash and part Tom Waits, in a real stinker, having been dumped and missing the last train." www.bbc.co.uk
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds performing this song live on Later with Jools Holland: bit.ly Nick Cave live is a beautiful thing.
This album polarized Arcade Fire fans. Win Butler said of the album: “Part of me hopes that this record is our stinker, our horrible record,” he said. “Because if it is, then we may be the greatest band of all time. It’s pretty funny to me. If that’s the worst thing we can possibly do then I’m at peace.”
The inspiration for this song was actress Edie Sedgwick, who was a member of Andy Warhol's "Factory" crowd. Warhol was the manager of the Velvet Underground for a time, and good friends with Lou Reed. He asked for this song to be written for Edie.
Check out Sudan Archives' exclusive guest DJ mix for Midnight in a Perfect World, a wonderful stroll through her diverse influences and all-time favorite songs, coolly jumping between top-tier selections that span hip-hop, R&B, soul, rock, reggae, and more. It's a magnetic sonic journey. www.kexp.org
“We all know that rock music came from the blues and thus from Africa. Now is the time to bring rock back to Africa, connect our minds, and bring all our sounds to a new level of sharing and understanding.” -Angelique Kidjo You can go see her at the Beloved Festival in Tidewater, OR on August 11th belovedfestival.com
"The music was written during the rehearsals and recording that led to the Naked LP," recalled David Byrne in the liner notes of Once in a Lifetime: The Best of Talking Heads. "I wrote the words later for the opening scene of Wim Wenders' Until the End of the World. The movie is supposed to take place in the year 2000, so I spent a lot of time trying to image music of the near future: post-rock sludge with lyrics sponsored by Coke and Pepsi? Music created by machines with human shouts of agony and betrayal thrown in? Faux Appalachian ballads, the anti-tech wave? The same sounds and licks from the 60s and 70s regurgitated yet again by a new generation of samplers? The Milli Vanilli revival? Rappin' politicos… sell your soul to the beat, y'all? Well, it was daunting… so I figured, hell with it, I'd imagine Talking Heads doing a reunion LP in the year 2000, and them sounding just like they used to."
Kitchens of Distinction sometimes performed "secret" gigs under the alter ego Toilets of Destruction. An example was at The Bull & Gate in Kentish Town on 6 August 1990, where the band appeared in drag and played ABBA, David Bowie, and Bauhaus covers.
Frank Black explained the inspirations behind Bone Machine:
"Girlfriend. Unfaithfulness. Creepy pastor whose intentions I later questioned. In that order."
David J of Love and Rockets was Live on the Morning Show June 23rd, 2017:
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Perry Farrell (Blender magazine, December 2006): "Around 1984, I rented a big house on Wilton, near Hancock Park, right in the heart of everything good in Hollywood, but the whole neighborhood seemed deteriorated. I deceived the landlord into thinking I was a gay interior decorator rather than a Punk rocker, and one of my housemates was Jane, this strangely beautiful, well-to-do girl who got caught up in the drug scene and fell in love with a dealer named Sergio. Jane was an intellectual and knew how to act aristocratic, even with a needle and a spoon on the table. I'm not sure if the song mythologized the neighborhood - St. Andrew's Place is nothing special to look at - but I do think it glamorized her life in a way. That was a great time, though. When the landlord found out I wasn't a gay interior decorator, he came after me with a gun."
Björk started writing this song about "a grocer, very close to me, in a little shop." She told Sounds in 1987: "Then I found out it was about some old guy who's living close to me... it changed very often. Then finally, I just had to write it down, and I sort of collected memories together in my head, like when I was a kid, all old men that influenced me sort of erotically, without doing anything, really. Men at 50 and stuff like that. But, you know, without doing anything... so that's the feeling."
Thom Yorke: "Karma is important. The idea that something like karma exists makes me happy. It makes me smile. 'Karma Police' is dedicated to everyone who works for a big firm. It's a song against bosses."
Pop Life was released on this date back in 1985. The song includes a portion that features the sound of bell ringing for a boxing match, followed by the sound of a restless crowd with someone yelling "throw the bum out!" This was rumored to be taken from an actual concert in 1981 when Prince opened for The Rolling Stones in Los Angeles. Relatively unknown at the time, the crowd booed him off stage. He returned for the second show, getting a better reception, but with still some booing; Prince quit the tour shortly after. In reality, the bits are from a sound effects library.
According to a press release, Get Your Shirt is a “lament to bad decisions, regrettable rips-offs, presidential flirts, and unlovable jerks,” and it comes along with a music video from longtime Underworld collaborator Simon Taylor of the film/design collective Tomato. Created in collaboration with choreographer Carys Staton and featuring dancers Charley Logan and David Ledger, the clip is a trippy one full of warped visual effects, and you can watch and listen here: youtu.be
Remember when Moby and Wayne Coyne put out a casting call looking for a bunch of dancing nude people with various personas? The video for "The Perfect Life" does indeed feature a gimp gymnast, rollerskating ghosts, a king, a topless woman, plus Moby and Coyne in full mariachi regalia, among other bizarrely heartening characters. Watch here: bit.ly
New Compassion is the second single from the new LP due out this fall. Hear a live version of the first single, Your Love, here: www.youtube.com
Spiritualized are releasing their first album in over six years. Titled And Nothing Hurt, the album is slated for release on September 7th. Last month, the Jason Pierce-led band shared two songs from the record, “A Perfect Miracle” and “I’m Your Man.” "A Perfect Miracle" was the KEXP featured Song of the Day for July 5th. Download it here: www.kexp.org
Back in June, 2013 Junip performed Line of Fire live on the Morning Show: www.youtube.com
Israel Nash is playing the Tractor on October 16th. Find tickets and info here: bit.ly
Go see Kamasi Washington at the Showbox on October 17th or in Portland at the Crystal Ballroom on the 18th. Find tickets for the Seattle show here: bit.ly
DJ Shadow is 3 episodes in on his podcast where he "opens up his world-famous collection and assumes the role of tour guide on an impeccably-curated musical adventure. " Called "Find, Share, Rewind" you can find all the episodes here: smarturl.it
Chance happenings often lead to the best of results. Such is the case on the latest collaborative single from Maribou State and Khruangbin, “feel good.” In “feel good,” the English electronic duo and the Texas-based band have delivered a musical experience that is more than just an extremely enjoyable listening experience; it’s a musical expedition into the interweaving fabrics that make up music as a whole. As Liam of Maribou State shared on the new music and forthcoming album,
“The idea with Maribou State was always to draw on influences from different parts of the world. By traveling, sampling, recording, we wanted to create this all-encompassing thing.”
"There remains something charmingly out of bracket about the New York band on Kazuashita, their first new album in seven years, as if they had teleported in from a benevolent pop universe where Sigur Rós and Cocteau Twins rule supreme and the pursuit of musical beauty is an end in itself." -Pitchfork Find their full review here: bit.ly
For the Ege Bamyasi's 40th anniversary, Stephen Malkmus played it in its entirety at WEEK-END Festival in Cologne, Germany. A recording of this performance was released as a limited-edition live album on Record Store Day 2013.
In developing the album's words and music, Eno used unusual methods such as dancing for his band members and having them play accordingly, and singing nonsense words to himself that would form the basis of subsequent lyrics.
The latest from BDoD is called "Heavy" and you can hear it here: red.lnk.to
Snuff Redux will be live on KEXP on August 3rd at 9:30am. Another broadcast only so plan to tune in!
Two versions of this song exist. The most famous one, on Pleased To Meet Me, starts with a bass line and features horns. The original, found on the Tim demo sessions, has the guitar starting the song and is about committing suicide. The record company felt that Pleased To Meet Me, with suicide paean "The Ledge," didn't need any controversy over having two songs about suicide, so the lyrics to this song were altered.
Baby Grand is The Love Language's fourth album, McLamb's first since 2013's Ruby Red. The album was begun in a Virginia hammock factory, but was finished after McLamb moved across country to California.
Of the album and "Castle in the Sky," McLamb said in a previous press release: "It was something just about being in a new city, and a new light, and reopening the sessions, and this demo that I thought was a throwaway, suddenly I'm really feeling it...."
If you missed the Paramount 90th Anniversary show, Death Cab For Cutie have shows coming up in Boise, Eugene, and Portland. Find all their dates here: deathcabforcutie.com