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Monday, Apr 30 2018, 6AM
Good morning! It's Monday, the beginning of another lovely week in Seattle. This "fragile beauty" is the first track of Hilary Woods' debut album, due for release in June. She says,"‘Inhaler’ was written possibly two years ago in the wake of being separated from someone I loved, and it’s lived with me ever since.": www.youtube.com
Sharon Van Etten wrote this song for comedian Tig Notaro. In 2012, after being diagnosed with breast cancer, contracting the deadly infection C-Diff, losing her mother, and being dumped all within a few months, Notaro took the stage at LA’s Largo and delivered a now-legendary set. The film "Tig" followed her life after that performance.: consequenceofsound.net
"Beck might be the bigger star on this song, but he's mostly here as ballast, his sturdy baritone offsetting Khan's silky wail without ever threatening to swipe the spotlight." Read a review of this gorgeous song: pitchfork.com
According to a statement from the band, “Dark Spring” is one of several songs off the Beach House’s seventh record (due out on May 11th) which examines “the empathy and love that grows from collective trauma” and “the beauty that arises in dealing with darkness.” Immerse yourself in the black-and-white video: www.youtube.com
This beautiful, desperate, and painful song reflects the recent divorce of musicians Aleksa Palladino and Devon Church. Read more about it: www.pastemagazine.com
If you watched the two-part Twin Peaks premiere, chances are you have this Chromatics song strongly engraved into your brain. At the end of Twin Peaks: The Return Part 2, just before the end credits roll, David Lynch used the sentimental “Shadow” to transport us back to the Bang Bang Bar, where besides music, there’s always love in the air.
Wye Oak is playing Neumos on Sunday, July 15th, 2018, and will be LIVE in the KEXP studio the following day, Monday, July 16th, at noon.
Prince's ex-wife has just blasted Sinead O'Connor's assertions about Prince's behavior toward women: www.nydailynews.com
“I’ll never find another like you / Similar tone but a different hue.” Toph Taylor, who records as Sohn, has released two new songs prior to beginning a European tour in on May 17th.: www.theedgesusu.co.uk
Happy birthday, Justin Vernon (aka Bon Iver), born on this date in 1981. "To walk aside your favor...
I'm an Astuary King...
I'll keep in a cave, your comfort and all...
Unburdened and becoming..." Perhaps you're curious about the lyrics: genius.com
It’s been a long time since we’ve heard from Swedish pop singer Lykke Li. She released "I Never Learn," her excellently heart-shattered breakup album, way back in 2014. Since then, she’s had a baby, she’s taken a break from performing, and she’s made some music with the Swede-pop collective LIV. But now she’s back with a new album, and "hard rain" is one of the first tracks from it. Rostam handled production on this song.
Sylvan Esso's Amelia Meath says of this song,"I wanted to write a love song. There are so many of them that I tend to avoid directly writing about love. Poor love — its been compared to everything! But I wanted to get in the game, because I am in love and wanted to see if I could do it. So of course I write this bummer of a happy pop-dirge."
Prass uses this funky soul platform to launch a modern feminist anthem, singing, “I wanna say it loud/ For all the ones held down/ We gotta change the plan/ Come on nasty women/ So all the bad girls here/ Let’s make it clear.” "The Future and the Past" is out on June 1st, 2018.
Vega wrote the song when she was attending Barnard Collage and stopped in Tom's Restaurant (used for exteriors in "Seinfeld") for coffee. It’s written from a specifically male perspective, inspired by her photographer friend, Brian Rose, who told her that he perceived the world as if through a pane of glass. She thought of that as she sat at Tom’s and tried to imagine how her friend would see the things she saw that day. Here are some more facts about this song: mentalfloss.com
Attrel "Prince Be" Cordes, founding member of the chart-topping hip-hop duo P.M. Dawn, died in 2016 following a battle with renal kidney disease. He was 46.: medium.com
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Watch Digable Planets in a live performance for KEXP listeners from the Iceland Airwaves Festival in 2016: www.youtube.com
Prince performed this song with The Muppets.: www.youtube.com
Speaking of coffee, here's Kate Tempest performing "Perfect Coffee" live.: www.youtube.com Want the lyrics?: genius.com
"I was there when Captain Beefheart started up his first band....
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime." Read an obituary of artist and musician Don Van Vliet, aka Captain Beefheart: www.theguardian.com
Happy 8th birthday yesterday, Addie. This song is about the Scissor Sisters' frontman Jake Shears coming out to his mother as gay.
"You know that I read it in a magazine." Music icon Sir Elton John has nine number one hits, five Grammys, an Oscar and a Tony. He's toured the world for nearly five decades and performed more than 4,000 shows. He recently announced that he will stop touring after a three-year (!) farewell tour.
Here's a John who hasn't given up touring. Father John Misty will play the Capitol hill Block Party on Sunday, July 22nd, 2018.
Winter is Los Angeles guitarist and vocalist Samira Winter. Get "Ethereality" at Winter's Bandcamp page: daydreamingwinter.bandcamp.com
Belly is going to be here in Seattle this summer, playing The Neptune Theatre on Sunday, August 12th, 2018: www.thestranger.com
"Belly could have followed in the footsteps of, say, My Bloody Valentine and pretended that 20-plus years hadn't passed between albums. But "Dove" looks at the past only as a pathway to the present — at the sum of lives that have never stopped being lived, whether or not Belly was around to chronicle them." Read an NPR First Listen review of "Dove": www.npr.org
The "Better Than That" 4-song EP will be released on Friday, May 18th, on limited edition 10” vinyl and will be available from indies, HMV and the band’s own online store here.://jamesofficial.lnk.to/BTTVinylEPPR
Do you think their instruments got wet in the video?: www.youtube.com
Seattle's Snuff Redux will release their new album, "Denim American," on June 8th. They will hold a record release show on June 7th, 2018 at Chop Suey.
Hatchie is a band from Brisbane, Australia who have (so far) released three dream-pop singles, including "Sleep." Despite its title, “Sleep” is hardly sleepy; rather it’s the kind of song that is best heard in a convertible speeding down a sunny highway, end credits rolling right behind.: pitchfork.com
We're happily ensconced in our New Home, but we'll never forget when Stepin Merritt played the men's room in KEXP's old space: blog.kexp.org
“I made the video on iMovie, and recorded the song with a rhythm section that live in the small town I live in,” Lou Barlow explains. “It was a way to battle back against a difficult winter, recording under the threat of snow-days (and children at home), family emergencies, jury duty and the cloud of uncertainty that seems to be hanging over everything right now.” Watch: www.youtube.com
Boys is the name for Swedish artist Nora Karlsson. After a significant bout of writer's block, she is about to release her debut album on May 11th, 2018.:www.facebook.com
CCFX just played a long-awaited live in-studio session at KEXP. Watch for it on our Youtube channel soon!
Robert Smith wrote this after they had been in the studio 3 days trying to record a single for "Mixed Up." He says, "We recorded 4 songs and they sounded like crap, and I was really depressed. Everyone knew it wasn't working. I wrote Never Enough that night and said, 'Let's record this.'"
Read an Allmusic biography of Longwave: www.allmusic.com
The title of Nevil Shute's "A Town Like Alice" inspired the title, but the inspiration for the song came from Paul Weller's friend Dave Waller by means of describing urban life. The song is about unemployment in a working town and Paul Weller confessed, "It could have been written about any suburban town, but it was in fact written about my hometown of Woking." Many of Weller's songs reflected his anger with right of center politics and the video for this number featured a cue-card with the slogan "If we ain't getting through to you, you obviously ain't listening.": www.youtube.com
Here's an interview with Eleanor Friedberger on not working with her brother, the importance of lyrics, and being inspired by a Greek goth disco.: www.independent.co.uk
Did you know that these consummate musicians will be playing The Woodland Park Zoo on Sunday, July 22nd, 2018?: zootunes.ticketfly.com
Ramble Jon Krohn, better known by his stage name RJD2, is owner of RJ's Electrical Connections and has been member of groups such as Soul Position, MHz Legacy, and Icebird. follow him on Twitter, if you wish: twitter.com
A.A.L. (Against All Logic) is electronic musician Nicolas Jaar. Read about his new album here: consequenceofsound.net
Lord Huron will play The Moore Theatre on Thursday, June 7th, and Friday, June 8th, 2018.
Yo La Tengo will perform at Seattle's Neptune Theatre on Friday, June 1st, 2018. While you're waiting, watch this live KEXP in-studio session: www.youtube.com
Read Sean Nelson's interview with Dean Wareham in January, 2018: www.thestranger.com
This remix by Lo Fidelity Allstars is Sub Pop Number 421 (only 830 to go!). Pigeonhed was a collaboration of Shawn Smith and Steve Fisk that released three albums from 1993 to 1997.
Jon Hopkins' new album, "Singularity," is his first in five years. If you want, you can listen to the full 10-minute version of "Everything Connected": noisey.vice.com
You can hear beats like this when Simian Mobile Disco plays The Neptune Theatre on Thursday, June 14th, 2018.
Watch Dead Can Dance perform "American Dreaming" live: vimeo.com
Nick Drake committed suicide in 1974. Drake was buried in a plot beneath an oak tree, along with his mother and father, and all three share a simple headstone with an epitaph taken from the final song on his final album stating, “Now we rise / And we are everywhere.” :www.atlasobscura.com
Read the story behind this song: www.independent.co.uk and then see the video: www.youtube.com
On Sept. 11, 2001, alt-country troubadour Ryan Adams released what would become his most successful single to date. That same day, the song's simple video hit VH1 and MTV. The timing was almost eerie, given the song's title -- "New York, New York" -- and the prominence of the Twin Towers in its NYC-centric video, which Adams reveals was inspired by his love of "Friends." Read an interview with the artist about the song and the video: www.billboard.com
The Moondoggies will play The Bartlett in Spokane on Saturday, May 5th, 2018.