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Snow Patrol has a new album, 'Wildness' out on the 25th. See the video for the first single from the album, "Don't Give In" here: bit.ly
"The Man Who Told Everything" is the third single from Doves' debut studio album Lost Souls. The single version is subtitled "Summer Version" and features a different mix from the album version.
The Independent newspaper asked Guy Garvey which were his favorite lyrics of all the ones that he had written. The Elbow frontman replied: "My favorite lyrics either describe a familiar feeling in a new way or describe a specific feeling that you've never heard described before - an emotion that's too complex to be put into words usually, ways of getting to specific feelings. In 'Station Approach,' that's a very particular civic pride, which is a very specific civic feeling. I love Manchester. I have a complicated love affair with Manchester because 'Grounds for Divorce' is slating Manchester."
No Seattle stop on the Beach House tour but you can see them in Portland on Friday August 10th and then in Vancouver B.C. on Sunday the 12th
Sabina Sciubba (lead vocals & electronics) calls “Impromptu” “an anti-conformist anthem.” “The electronic stuff we were creating before has become very popular, so maybe we should be doing that again,” says Didi Gutman (keyboards, vocals) of Brazilian Girls’ shift in aesthetic. “But ‘we should’ isn’t an idea that exists with us. We do whatever we feel in the moment.”
Phantogram performed "Don't Move" live on KEXP at the Triple Door as part of KEXP's VIP Club concert series on October 16th, 2013: bit.ly
Blackwater Holylight play in Portland this Saturday and then on May 31st in Seattle at Chop Suey
blackwater holylight with Sandrider, Museum of Light, and Heldscalla
Saturday, Jan 18, 2025
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Phosphene Dream is the third album from The Black Angels. This is the first album the Black Angels released with Blue Horizon Records, having previously worked with Light in the Attic Records. The album debuted in the US at #52 on the Billboard Top 200 Charts.
Wussy’s new song “Cake” is inspired by a ’90s graphic novel series about a mutant STI that causes grotesque deformities in teens, manifesting the anxieties of adolescence into mutant distortions. The story, Black Hole by Charles Burns, is a pretty accurate reflection of the new direction the Cincinnati five-piece are headed on their seventh forthcoming LP, What Heaven Is Like. Once known for their rootsy, alt-folk sound, Wussy are beginning to break into sludgier, grittier territory in light of the depressing, post-apocalyptic political climate. Read more at Stereogum: bit.ly
Yuno, who directed “Why For,” had this to say, “The video is kind of a visual representation of what I felt while creating the song. A collage of memories, drifting through different moods and trying to figure out a way to make it all make sense.” Here is the video: bit.ly
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 Mexican family in Los Angeles, California, dreaming of their missing mother.
The video won the 2014 Prism Prize. bit.ly
Lord Huron is in Portland June 5th & 6th, then in Seattle at the Moore June 7th & 8th!
What a weekend it was for Donald Glover. The 34-year-old rapper, actor and producer hosted Saturday Night Live, appearing as both as the host and the musical guest. He performed two new songs under his stage name, Childish Gambino. But it was the performance and subsequent video release of his new song, "This Is America," that has had everyone talking since its late-night release. Here is the video: bit.ly He's in Seattle September 29th.
Jayson Greene of Pitchfork called this song "a ferocious and driving song about intolerance and fear," adding that it "simply put, is a sliver-sized miracle, a crack of light illuminating the door in a dark wall. This is the function Tribe songs have always served—they point to a path through wilderness."
In an interview with The Guardian, Young Fathers disclaims an overt political stance in relation to their most recent album, Cocoa Sugar, asserting that they merely want to hold a mirror to humanity and bare the good and bad.
In both ‘Hue’ and ‘Nil’, SOHN's new singles, Taylor shows the purity of his unfaltering voice, evoking a Justin Vernon vibe that immediately puts you at ease. Maintaining a consistent atmospheric and haunting veil, the more rustic laidback approach to ‘Hue’ metamorphoses into an R&B soulful sound in ‘Nil’, especially towards the back end of the track where the guitar comes into play and the electronic aspects really step up a notch. Again, ‘Nil’ is equally pessimistic in lyricism with the lines “You look in my eyes like the ordained / But you’re not in love / I’m not blind.” Openly heartfelt and impressively put together, ‘Hue/Nil’ is some of SOHN’s best work yet, and if this latest release is the beginnings of a new album then there is a lot to look forward to.
The chorus samples American jazz drummer Idris Muhammad's 1977 song "Could Heaven Ever Be Like This".
Editors play Neumos tonight! www.neumos.com
Future Islands just shared “Calliope,” a new contribution to the Adult Swim Singles program. A lot of artists don’t necessarily save their best tracks for promotional things like that. Future Islands are not one of those bands.
www.adultswim.com
April 13th's song of the day, featured on The Morning Show was "Over Rainbows and Rainier" by Damien Jurado from his new album The Horizon Just Laughed on Secretly Canadian. www.kexp.org
This Bright Eyes cover of Devil Town was chosen for the soundtrack to "Friday Night Lights" but Bright Eyes said no. So they had Tony Lucca cover it.
The new album is out on the 18th and Courtney will be back in Seattle, this time playing the Paramount with Waxahatchee on October 8th.
Sub Pop #485 Sunny
Day Real Estate disbanded for the first time in 1995, reforming three years later when they released “How It Feels to Be Something On” via Sub Pop in 1998. While touring in support of that album, the label approached the band about filming them for a live
release. This album, along with a VHS tape (SP 491) documented two different shows in the PNW; this particular release was recorded live in Eugene, OR on May 26, 1999, while the video was filmed live at The Breakroom in Seattle on May 30, 1999. The band had
a falling out with Sub Pop over creative differences with production of both releases and left Sub Pop shortly thereafter, eventually signing with Time Bomb Recordings.
Mastersystem is something of a supergroup, featuring Hutchison’s brother and Frightened Rabbit drummer Grant, Justin Lockey of Editors, and his brother, James Lockey of Minor Victories. As Mastersystem, they put an aggressive edge on Hutchison’s ever-evocative lyricism with their debut album, Dance Music. Speaking with Stereogum about the themes behind the record, Hutchison said,
“I thought it would be interesting to play around with the themes of restlessness and dissatisfaction on this album, both as a counterpoint to the exuberance of the music and as an obvious reference to the angst and tension I heard in the grunge and fuzz of my teenage years. This is not the angst of a teenager, however. This is the anxiety of a man in his mid-30s, and for a lot of this record I found myself wrestling with the ways in which I am not quite doing life right, in spite of appearing to lead a relatively joyful, playful and artistic existence.”
LUH confirmed they have a new album coming later this year as they released this second track, Bunny's Blues. This one finds Ebony Hoorn taking over lead vocal duties. “With this song I present an alter ego,” she explains. “Creating this character of Bunny began with a performance piece I did back in Amsterdam. She became a playful tool to confront how male-dominated society attempts to control both women and nature without having any real understanding or respect for their being and innate power.”
"Violet" peaked at number 29 on the Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks after the album's release in 1994, and is considered one of Hole's most well-known and critically recognized songs.It charted at number 116 on The 500 "Greatest Songs Since You Were Born" list by Blender magazine in 2005.
Excited to debut a new song from Glaswegian post-punk outfit Holy Esque this morning. It's from their new full-length album ‘Television / Sweet’, due for release on June 8th. The follow up to 2016’s ‘At Hope’s Ravine’.
The first single is called ‘I Am The Truth’, and the band says: “In an age of relentless social pressure, 'I Am The Truth' explores the fear of true acceptance and the extreme measures we entertain to achieve this imaginary nightmare.”
Live on The Morning Show Monday @ 9:30. Get here as early as 8 to get on the list.
The new album is out June 15th. You can preorder a limited bundle with silver vinyl and a signed print: johnnymarr.tmstor.es
Three Imaginary Boys was released on this date in 1979 by record label Fiction. The record company decided which songs were put on the album, as well as the cover artwork, without Robert Smith's consent. For all Cure albums since, Smith has ensured he is given complete creative control over the final product before it goes on sale.
Pitchfork gave A.A.L's 2012-2017 an 8.8 and named it "Best New Music": pitchfork.com
This one's a beauty about America's backwards ways, but it bucks the idea of being a loon by flipping it into a plea for acceptance. For Monáe, this could mean her sexual identity or her artistic expression — but she could also be encouraging us to have compassion for our loonier fellow Americans. The end of the song includes a speech imagining that will rally solidarity around what matters most. She's at Marymoor Park on June 11th
"Saturday combines a Caribbean feel with a strong early-‘70s vibe reminiscent of Wonder songs like “Boogie on Reggae Woman” and “Golden Lady.”" Read more and see the SNL debut of this song here: bit.ly
"I Would Die 4 U" is the fourth single from Purple Rain. It was a top 10 hit in the US, reaching number 8 on the Hot 100.
Following Prince's death, the song re-charted on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 39 on the chart dated the week of May 14, 2016.
The choreography and costume that Jackson adopted for performances of "Billie Jean" would become widely admired and imitated. He premiered them on the TV special Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever, which aired in May 1983; his performance of "Billie Jean" won great acclaim, and was nominated for an Emmy. That performance introduced a number of elements which would become indelibly associated with Jackson, including the moonwalk dance move and wearing a single white sequined glove.
Washed Out are at the Neptune on Monday! Get ready for the show by watching their KEXP performance from August: bit.ly
John Lennon (Yes, *that* John Lennon) mentioned this song in his final interview on 8 December 1980, praising it for its fifties sound and comparing it with his current record at the time, "(Just Like) Starting Over." He said, "I think The Cars’ 'Touch and Go' is right out of the fifties ‘Oh, oh… ‘ A lot of it is fifties stuff. But with eighties styling, but, but… and that’s what I think 'Starting Over' is; it’s a fifties song made with an eighties approach."
Read a brief Allmusic biography of Heather Duby: www.allmusic.com