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Friday, Apr 27 2018, 6AM
It's possible that Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson is playing the flute solo on this Love and Rockets song.
This song - which guitarist, Johnny Marr, described as The Smiths' "most enduring record" - is about their frontman Morrissey's crippling shyness. It has since become an anthem for the alienated and socially isolated. Here are the lyrics: songmeanings.com
Project Revolver says of this song, "The music in this one is flawless. Catchy chorus, perfect solos. Great song." Read their top 15 Echo & The Bunnymen favorites: projectrevolver.org
Read about the day "INXS broke through with 'Listen Like Thieves'": ultimateclassicrock.com
This "modest, minor masterpiece" was the 12th studio album by XTC, released on this date in 1992.: www.allmusic.com
Don't you like this song (and doesn't it sound like James, Owen)? James' new EP, "Better Than That," will be out on May 18th.:www.clashmusic.com
The Pretenders will play Nashville's Ryman Auditorium on July 2nd, 2018. "Alone With Chrissie Hynde," a 2017 BBC documentary about the veteran Pretenders singer, is set for DVD and digital release on May 25th via Eagle Rock Entertainment.
Singer Joe Strummer was a news junkie, and many of the images of doom in the lyrics came from news reports he read. Strummer claimed the initial inspiration came in a conversation he had with his then-fiancee Gaby Salter in a taxi ride home to their flat in World's End (appropriately). "There was a lot of Cold War nonsense going on, and we knew that London was susceptible to flooding. She told me to write something about that," noted Strummer in an interview with Uncut magazine.
“Back in the days on the boulevard of Linden...” Watch a documentary that traces the creation of Tribe's "Check the Rhime" mural in Queens: www.factmag.com
Michel Gondry is one of the most revered directors/filmmakers in music. For over 25 years, Gondry has dreamt up some of the most creative visual complements for the most popular artists in the world, including The Rolling Stones, Daft Punk, The White Stripes, Björk, Radiohead, Beck, and The Chemical Brothers. Of those blockbuster names, over half worked with Gondry on multiple occasions — a testament to the French director’s superlative understanding of creating an innovative experience based off of another artist’s music. See his video for "Go": www.youtube.com
1998's "Hello Nasty" introduced the world to the hit, ‘Body Movin’.’ The song used in their music video was actually a remix created by Fatboy Slim.: www.youtube.com
Nicolas Jaar records as A.A.L. (Against All Logic). Read a review of this fine new album:pitchfork.com
Discover who The Avalanches sampled on "Radio": www.whosampled.com
This song samples The Dramatics' "Now You Got Me Loving You."
Read a biography of this British hip-hop group, formed in London in 1985.: www.allmusic.com
"I'm gonna add a little guitar..and make it easy for you to move your feet..." This fabulous album was released on this date in 1968. (That's 50 years ago today!) Be sure and watch the audience's reaction to Sly's performance on The Ed Sullivan Show: dailypsychedelicvideo.com
Ahhh...the Friday song. Tune in to KEXP on Thursday, May 24th for Music Heals, focusing on the power of music and the part it plays in overcoming addiction of any kind and the recovery process.: www.kexp.org
Beck said, "I was working on another song – maybe ‘Dreams’ – when I had an idea for a flute beat. I picked up the mic and ‘Wow’ came out totally spontaneously. I put it away and forgot about it. Then ‘Wow’ was on in the studio one day and someone said “You should put this on the record.” I went, “I don’t think anybody would like this.”
Watch a terrific live performance by Deltron 3030 for KEXP VIP Club members at Seattle's Triple Door: www.youtube.com
Dr. Octagon are back. The crew of Kool Keith, Dan the Automator, and DJ Qbert have ajust released their first album in over two decades. It’s titled "Moosebumps: An Exploration Into Modern Day Horripilation," and it arrivedApril 6 via Bulk Recordings.: pitchfork.com
Mr. Lif is the stage name ofJeffrey Haynes, an American hip hop artist from Boston, Massachusetts.
Watch the hearses roll by in the official video for "Doing It to Death": www.youtube.com
We're pretty sure that you don't know the lyrics to this song in its entirety (We didn't!): genius.com
Here's an interview with Andrew Falkous of McLusky: cokemachineglow.com
Fidlar is working on their third album. As frontman Zac Carper tells GQ, the band aren't forcing this album—they're just taking it as it comes:
"We don't have a f**kin' plan," Carper says. "We just let things happen. We're not trying to write a record about something. Let it grow the way it grows. The more you force something to happen, the more... you gotta let s**t roll on."
They'll be performing this song at the Travelers' Rest Fest in Missoula, Montana, Saturday, August 4th through Sunday, August 5th, 2018.
Superorganism played LIVE on KEXP on March 23rd. That performance will soon by available on our Youtube channel.: www.youtube.com
Abba have announced that they have written and recorded their first new songs since they split in 1983. The Swedish four-piece announced on Instagram that they had recorded two new songs for a project in which avatars of the band will perform. You'll certainly want to learn more about this: www.theguardian.com
Arcade Fire confessed that they've ALWAYS wanted to write songs that sound like Abba.: www.thesun.co.uk
Mr. Byrne will bring his "American Utopia" tour to Seattle's Paramount Theatre on Thursday, May 24th, 2018.
Did John's discussion of the relevance of work lead to this selection? Here's the lyrics: lyrics.wikia.com
Another paean to the joys of work. Here's a biography of Ugly Duckling:www.uglyduckling.us
Routine, routine... "Feelin' I mean like takin' a bath with
my toaster..." Whew!: genius.com
John has single-handedly raised the unemployment rate in Seattle. "Damn, I hate this job..." Watch MC 900 Ft Jesus perform this song live in Vienna: www.youtube.com
Happy birthday, Kate Pierson, born in 1948. In 2015, she married her long-time lover Monica Coleman in Hawaii: www.dailymail.co.uk
That's Kate Pierson in this great duet with Iggy Pop. Watch them perform the song live on The Arsenio Hall Show: www.youtube.com
Kate Pierson singing with Michael Stipe here. He wrote the lyrics to this song in response to "Eat For Two" by 10,000 Maniacs - both songs are about pregnancy. Stipe and Maniacs lead singer Natalie Merchant shared many of the same qualities, including shyness, awkward dance moves and a quirky charisma, and they became friends, then lovers, then friends again. Stipe credits Merchant with helping to inspire his songwriting, saying, "The work she was doing was real and important - all about the human condition."
Porno for Pyros' self-titled debut came out on this date in 1993. The album was delayed due to issues with its artwork, which, like Jane’s Addiction albums before it, was based on a sculpture created by Perry Farrell. Read more about it here: janesaddiction.org
Watch a live KEXP performance by what Robert Christgau calls "the best band in America": www.kexp.org
This is a fine running song. "I get a lot of double takes..
When I'm coming around the corners...
And it's mostly pretty nice...
Yeah it's mostly pretty alright...": genius.com
In a 2005 interview, The Boss talks about the writing and recording of this 1975 classic: www.rollingstone.com
This fabulous song by the Vancouver, BC duo is yours for free as a KEXP Song of the Day: blog.kexp.org
Read (at least one) story behind the song: www.loudersound.com And here are the lyrics: genius.com
The late and lamented Lemmy Kilmister preferred Motorhead's cover to the Rolling Stones original. “I thought we beat them,” he told USA Today. “I thought we beat it to death. I mean, I like the Stones’ version, but I like ours better.”
They are, of course, enshrined in The Museum of Canadian Music: citizenfreak.com
90-year-old Ennio Morricone is rightly considered the world's greatest living film composer: www.enniomorricone.org
Watch Dick Dale playing live in the KEXP studio in 2010: blog.kexp.org
This is Afrika Bambaataa and John Lydon singing.: songmeanings.com
Leonard Cohen, the Canadian singer-songwriter, passed away on November 7th, 2016 at the age of 82. Here's his NY Times obituary: www.nytimes.com
"Halfway Home" was chosen as a KEXP Song of the Day: blog.kexp.org
Casper Skulls will be playing at The Victory Lounge tonight, Friday, April 27th, 2018.
“Primeval” reflects on Toronto's rising cost of living and how musicians and other creatives may one day be priced out (Sound familiar, Seattle?): consequenceofsound.net
See Casper Skulls' official video for "Colour of the Outside": www.brooklynvegan.com
You can purchase "Mercy Works" and other Casper Skulls music at their Bandcamp page: casperskulls.bandcamp.com