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Friday, Mar 2 2018, 6AM
Good morning and happy Friday. Don't let the robots win! You can begin by watching this live performance of "Rifles" by BRMC in San Francisco in 2010: www.youtube.com
"Look [John], I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over...." It was so much fun when Seattle Rock Orchestra covered Arcade Fire in the KEXP studio several years ago: www.youtube.com
Speaking last year of his son's death in an interview last year, Nick Cave said, "I have turned a corner and wandered onto a vast landscape": www.theguardian.com
HAL 9000 (from "2001: A Space Odyssey"): "I know I've made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I've still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission. And I want to help you." Here's a fine essay on "Black Metallic": thisisthatsong.wordpress.com
Today is Lou Reed's birthday. He was born on this date in 1942 and died on October 27th, 2013 at the age of 71.: www.biography.com
Biographer Anthony DeCurtis writes in "The Guardian" about "my brilliant and troubled friend Lou Reed": www.theguardian.com
Choir! Choir! Choir! is a crowd-sourced singing group that met with Mr. Byrne to cover this wonderful Bowie song.: consequenceofsound.net
Talking Heads’ singer David Byrne once said “To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.”Watch him move in his big suit to "Girlfriend Is Better": www.youtube.com
This song was Bowie's initial response at retreating from America in an attempt to get away from his drug addiction. Bowie said this song was about "wanting to be put in a little cold room with omnipotent blue on the walls and blinds on the windows."
“Make Me Feel” is one of two new singles from Monáe’s "Dirty Computer," the musician’s first LP in five years.: pitchfork.com
He certainly could sing. The music video was directed by Rebecca Blake. In the plot of the video, Prince appears in a half shirt and leather jacket and then all shirtless and performs dance choreography in a hall.The trousers he wears are strip-off pants. He is accompanied by the veiled dancer Monique Mannen wearing black lingerie and aviator sunglasses while Revolution member Wendy Melvoin sits playing guitar.: www.youtube.com
You can hear "The Dapper Derp" live when you attend The True Loves' album release at The Crocodile on Thursday, March 22nd, 2018.
The lyrics deal with getting a second chance ("So darn glad he let me try it again") and making the most of it. Strangely, Wonder recorded it three months before he was almost killed on his way to a benefit concert in Durham, North Carolina. The car he was riding in was behind a truck carrying a load of logs, which stopped suddenly, sending a log through the windshield and hitting Wonder in the head. The accident put Wonder in a coma for four days. His road manager and good friend, Ira Tucker Jr., knew that Stevie liked to listen to music at high volume, so he tried singing this song directly into his ear. At first he got no response, but the next day, he tried again and Wonder's fingers started moving in time with the song - the first sign that he was going to recover.
Recalling his time in the coma, Wonder said, "For a few days I was definitely in a much better spiritual place that made me aware of a lot of things that concern my life and my future and what I have to do to reach another higher ground. This is like my second chance for life, to do something or to do more and to face the fact that I am alive."
Femi Kuti, son of Afrobeat icon, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti has said it took him about ten years to gain the acceptance of music fans. In this interview last December, he said, "For a decade, nobody wanted to listen to my music.":www.premiumtimesng.com
Woah! This live performance of "Nest" and other songs by Young Fathers in the KEXP studio was wonderful: www.youtube.com
Peñate told The London Times March 28, 2009 that he wrote this song after being "a naughty boy." The singer-songwriter explained that he had staying up partying for so long that "the clock said 4 o'clock and I had no idea which four it was - no clue whatsoever!": www.youtube.com
This song was written in reaction to an incident where the BBC DJ, Steve Wright, played the trite and spunky Wham! track, "I'm Your Man," following a news report about the Chernobyl disaster – a devastating nuclear accident that occurred on April 16, 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine. Guitarist, Johnny Marr, recalled to NME in 1987: "'Panic' came about at the time of Chernobyl. Morrissey and myself were listening to a radio report about it. The stories of this shocking disaster comes to an end and then immediately we're off into Wham's 'I'm Your Man.' I remember actually saying, 'What the f*ck has this got to do with people's lives?' And so, 'Hang the blessed DJ.' I think it was a great lyric, important and applicable to anyone who lives in England."
Cut Copy will be here in Seattle, playing The Upstream Music Festival & Summit on Sunday, June 3rd, 2018.
"I love the random shouts, screams and whoops in the background (and the moment at around 2:43 when an opera singer apparently strays absent-mindedly into the wrong studio)." Read more about this classic 80's song: www.theguardian.com
In a recent interview with the New York Times, author Phillip Roth recollected the words of pundit H.L. Mencken about democracy in America, "It is the worship of jackals by jackasses." When the Decemberists sing, "I was born to a jackal", the accompanying video makes it clear the band is referring to our current political leadership. Read a discussion of the song and watch the video: www.popmatters.com
Ahhh....the Friday song. Good for you, Cynthia, for "kicking cancer's lame ass." KEXP's spring drive begins next Friday, March 9th. Volunteer to assist with that drive: www.shiftboard.com
Yo!! "I like to rhyme, I like my beats funky..
I'm spunky. I like my oatmeal lumpy..." It's not too late to memorize these lyrics: genius.com
Although this song came out in 2012, it remains controversial: www.christianpost.com
Today is Karen Carpenter's birthday. She was born in 1950 and died on February 4th, 1983 at age 32.: www.youtube.com
Speedy Ortiz will be right next door, performing at The Vera Project on Wednesday, June 13th, 2018.
Read an Allmusic song review of this "aggressive" XTC song: www.allmusic.com
Django Django will indubitably play "Beam Me Up" at Neumos on Monday, April 23rd, 2018.
Ian Curtis’ wife felt ‘angry’ and ‘humiliated’ about being subject of ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’: www.nme.com
Friday, April 13th, 2018 will be a lucky day as The Breeders will perform at The Showbox SoDo.
["Down Boy"] begins poignant and self-reflective, as Karen O's subdued vocals coo, quietly drawing you in. Then, as if a storm has suddenly erupted, you're greeted with an explosion of distorted guitars and thumping drums while O shifts to her signature shrieking vocals. It strikes that delicate balance that's so hard to achieve, but which they often make seem effortless. Read a discussion of the 15 best Yeah Yeah Yeah songs:pigeonsandplanes.com
Watch Dream Wife in a live performance from the KEX Hostel in Reykjavik, Iceland in 2016: www.youtube.com
John Richards selected Diet Cig's "Tummy Ache" as a KEXP Song of the Day. Download it for yourself here: www.kexp.org
“When does something stop being a joke?” A. Savage asks in Parquet Courts’ new single, ”Almost Had to Start a Fight/In and Out of Patience.” Read a discussion of this track from the band's new release, "Wide Awake!," due out in May: pitchfork.com
Did you like that segue? You'll like this live performance of "Stay Away" by Nirvana:www.youtube.com
Watch Charles Bradley performing live at KEXP in 2016: www.youtube.com
Queen Latifah will star in a movie about a Charlotte, N.C. (The Queen City) girl's inspirational cancer battle.: www.charlotteobserver.com
Tom Rowlands of The Chemical Brothers recalled to Q magazine: "I went to Q-Tip's house in New Jersey to do 'Go.' It's brilliant, proper teenage b-boy fantasy stuff. He's got an incredible studio in the basement with special sub-bass in every corner, and the most amazing vinyl collection -four copies of obscure Krautrock records, stuff like that. Then we ordered jerk chicken. I was in awe."
Today is the birthday of Method Man, born Clifford Smith in 1971. He is famous for being part of the hip-hop collective, Wu-Tang Clan. Wu-Tang might mean "Witty Unnatural Talent and Natural Game."
Watch the official video for The Prodigy's "Poison": www.youtube.com
Owen Murphy recently interviewed Tom Morello of Rage Against The Machine for KEXP's International Clash Day: www.kexp.org
If you're in Missoula, Montana, you can hear Talib Kweli at The Top Hat Lounge tonight, Friday, March 2nd, 2018.: www.facebook.com
Talib Kweli said that Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) announced a Black Star reunion prematurely.: www.thefader.com
Lou Reed left right after the album "Loaded" was in the can. As told in "The Velvet Underground: An Illustrated History of a Walk on the Wild Side", for June-to-August of 1970, the Velvets were booked at Max's Kansas City in New York City. August 23, Reed had played two sets when he simply left the stage, walked up to producer Steve Sesnick, said, "I quit," and walked out the back door, got into his parents' car (they drove down from Long Island), and rode away, without any drama or fuss. In Reed's historic 1971 interview with Lester Bangs for Creem magazine, Reed stated that the breakup wasn't anybody's fault, but just the way the music business is - he left because he wasn't making any money, and felt that they'd never be successful.
Mark E. Smith, uncompromising leader of The Fall, died in January at the age of 60.: www.nytimes.com
"I don't know why I love you, your face is a hammer in my head...." Here are some facts about the science of love.: www.lifehack.org
Nice was an Australian indie rock band which formed in 1991 and featured Randall Lee, Suzannah Stewart-Lindsay and Francesca Bussey.: www.youtube.com
This New Zealand band took its name from a song by The Clash.: www.allmusic.com
We're waiting for these Dubliners to get to the United States to tour.: www.facebook.com
Shame played live on KEXP on Tuesday, February 20th, 2018, at 3:00 p.m. there's still time to stream that performance.: www.kexp.org
If you want to know more about The Fatima Mansions, go to the "Evil Music Page": eyevocal.ottawa-anime.org
