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Thursday, Mar 1 2018, 6AM
Buffalo Tom will be live on The Morning Show later this morning! Their KEXP in-studio session starts at 9 am and is open to the public. You can also catch them tonight at Neumos. www.buffalotom.com
R.E.M. performed an early version of "So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)" during their first US network television appearance on David Letterman on October 6, 1983. Check out their late night debut here: bit.ly
"Of all the tracks on its sophomore Express LP, "All in My Kind" is the one which most deliberately harks back to Love and Rockets' debut album, lushly layered vocals half-whispering the lyric over a dense, percussion-laden soundtrack. That lyric, meanwhile, is one of the group's most open to interpretation -- it seeks, among other things, to reassure a friend that he has no reason to feel paranoid, with the line "nobody has ever ripped you off, it's all in your mind" promptly seized upon by various outsiders as a direct reference to former Bauhaus bandmate Peter Murphy." bit.ly
You can read a review of New Order's 2014 show at the Paramount Theatre over at our blog. bit.ly
Porno for Pyros formed in 1992 after the break-up of Jane's Addiction. Revisit their "Pets" music video here: bit.ly
LCD Soundsystem recently recorded a moving performance of this standout single from 2007's Sound of Silver for Austin City Limits. Watch it here: rol.st
Freedom, the new record from Amen Dunes, aka NYC artist Damon McMahon, is out March 30th. amendunes.bandcamp.com
Bright Eyes originally recorded this Daniel Johnston cover for the 2004 two-disc compilation The Late Great Daniel Johnston: Discovered Covered.
Former Bright Eyes frontman Conor Oberst stopped by KEXP for an in-studio session last September. If you missed it, we've got you covered here: bit.ly
Portland artist M. Ward plays the Paramount Theatre on June 21st. mwardmusic.com
"Waltz #2" was the first single released from Elliott Smith's fourth album XO. In reference to the recording process for this album, Smith told Magnet Magazine in 1998, “I was paying more attention to the musical side of things than I had before, just because I could. There was going to be more tracks and resources, and it was just an opportunity to build up bigger soundscapes.” Read more here: bit.ly
This haunting track from Chris Cornell is set to be included on Johnny Cash: Forever Words, a collaborative album featuring new interpretations of previously unknown poetry, lyrics and letters from the Man in Black. The album will be released on April 6th. rol.st
On this day in 1968, Johnny Cash and June Carter were married in Franklin, Kentucky. Cash famously proposed to Carter during a live performance at the London Ice House in London, Ontario. They remained married until her death in May 2003, just four months before Cash died.
"You're My Best Friend" was written by Queen bassist John Deacon for his wife, Veronica Tetzlaff. In addition to his bass work, Deacon plays the Wurlitzer prominently featured throughout the song.
Stay up to date with this Austin, TX based duo at their website: www.ghostlandobservatory.com
Dublin band Fontaines DC recently released the double A-side single, "Chequeless Reckless // Boys In The Better Land." Get acquainted with these up-and-coming young artists here: www.facebook.com
You can hear a live version of "Bastards of Young" from last year's album For Sale: Live at Maxwell’s 1986 here: bit.ly
London-by-way-of Berlin duo Lea Porcelain have a new self-titled EP out in April. Here’s what the band says about these new songs:
"This EP is a compilation of tracks that we personally love and felt that we had to put on an extra EP, when the time was right. These tracks show a different side of us, in another context, but fully preserve the soul of our music. We think it’s really important to focus on context and aesthetics. We did have a few tracks that were going in this direction on the album (A Year From Here, Endlessly, The Love) but the tracks on this EP needed their own attention and an external release."
"Every track on this EP feels for us like it needs to see the world and cannot be held back from us. It is our approach to always expand to other styles and simultaneously keep the same underlying emotion that makes our music sound like ‘Lea Porcelain’." www.leaporcelain.com
Released in 2009, It's Blitz! was the third album from Yeah Yeah Yeahs. The band reportedly began the writing process "in the middle of a snowstorm, in a hundred-year-old barn in rural Massachusetts."
Polly Jean's landmark album Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea was awarded the Mercury Prize in 2001. pjharvey.net
Best Coast stopped by KEXP back in 2013 for an in-studio session. Check it out at the link: bit.ly
Courtney Barnett has a new album on its way called Tell Me How You Really Feel, and you can pick it up on May 18. courtneybarnett.com.au
Shovels & Rope plays a sold out show tonight at The Triple Door. www.facebook.com
Speaking to NPR back in 2008, Dolly Parton gave some backstory on her most famous single: "Parton says that she got the story for her song from another redhead in her life at the time — a bank teller who was giving Parton's new husband a little more interest than he had coming.
"She got this terrible crush on my husband," Parton says. "And he just loved going to the bank because she paid him so much attention. It was kinda like a running joke between us — when I was saying, 'Hell, you're spending a lot of time at the bank. I don't believe we've got that kind of money.' So it's really an innocent song all around, but sounds like a dreadful one." n.pr
Jack White plays a sold out show at WaMu Theater on August 13th. jackwhiteiii.com
Cake's debut album Motorcade of Generosity was released in 1994. www.cakemusic.com
Langhorne Slim recently stopped by KEXP for an in-studio session. While you're waiting for the video to be released on our youtube page, why not download "Zombie", featured as our Song of the Day back in December. bit.ly
Tucson indie rock band Calexico's latest album The Thread That Keeps Us was released back in January. They'll be at the Neptune Theatre on June 9th. www.casadecalexico.com
Did you miss Josh Tillman's hour long exclusive interview on The Midday Show last year? Fear not, it's available here for your listening pleasure: bit.ly
Long-running Boston band Buffalo Tom release their first new album in six years, Quiet and Peace, on March 2nd. You still have to time to get down to the station for their in-studio performance at 9 am! www.buffalotom.com
David Byrne plays a sold out show at the Paramount on May 24th, and is also on the lineup for this year's Sasquatch Music Festival. May 25-27. davidbyrne.com
"Take Me With U" was initially written for Apollonia 6 and was included as the first track on an early configuration of the Apollonia 6 album, before being added to the final configuration of Purple Rain. The recording used on both albums was the same (although edited for time restrictions on Purple Rain), and was always intended as a duet between Prince and Apollonia. bit.ly
Janelle Monae's new album and accompanying narrative film Dirty Computer is out April 27th.
Monae recently spoke with the Guardian about her chief musical mentor, Prince: “It’s difficult for me to even speak about this because Prince was helping me with the album, before he passed on to another frequency,” she says. His sudden death was “a stab in the stomach. The last time I saw him was New Year’s Day. I performed a private party in St Bart’s with him, and after we sat and just talked for five hours. He was one of the people I would talk to about things, him and Stevie Wonder.” Both were among her earliest champions. Before The ArchAndroid was released, she sent each of them a copy, on CD-R, with a handwritten track list.
Prince not only encouraged her then, he lobbied for her first BET awards appearance and he performed on Electric Lady; when he died, he and Monáe were “collecting sounds” for Dirty Computer." bit.ly
"Is She Really Going Out With Him?" earned Joe Jackson a Grammy nomination for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance back in 1980.
Django Django will be at Neumos on April 23rd. www.djangodjango.co.uk
Superchunk recorded this version of No Pocky For Kitty standout "Throwing Things" live at KEXP this past Tuesday! If you missed their set, the full video of Superchunk's KEXP in-studio session should be released to our youtube page soon - stay tuned. superchunk.com
According to Allmusic, "He's My Star" is Poster Children's 1995 homage to David Hasselhoff. bit.ly
Parquet Courts have announced a new Danger Mouse produced album, Wide Awake! It’s out May 18 via Rough Trade.
Preoccupations' new album - appropriately titled New Material" - is out March 23rd. preoccupationsband.com
Throwing Muses frontwoman Kristin Hersh performs March 24th with Grant-Lee Phillips at the Fremont Abbey Arts Center. www.kristinhersh.com
Pixies join Weezer for a co-headlining tour this summer. They play White River Ampitheatre in Auburn, WA on August 4th. www.pixiesmusic.com
"I hear we were influential a lot, and take that as a compliment. But I don’t hear bands that sound like us. When we formed in ‘79, the punk explosion had happened and it was thrilling, but the vocabulary of punk was primitive. We were part of the expansion of that, using different tonalities and time signatures. We sort of combine the brains of progressive rock and the guts of punk." Read an interview with Mission of Burma bassist and co-founder Clint Conley here: bit.ly
Letters to Cleo is an alternative rock band from Boston, Massachusetts. www.letterstocleo.net
Belly was formed in Rhode Island in 1991 by former Throwing Muses and Breeders member Tanya Donell. They'll be at the Neptune on August 12th. bellyofficial.com
