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Friday, Feb 16 2018, 6AM
Good morning and happy Friday. This wonderful song is a Daniel Johnston cover and one of the "10 greatest musical moments on 'Friday Night Lights'": www.gq.com
"The iconic outlaw surfer Miki Dora brought a violent attitude to the world’s chillest sport. He was beloved for his slick moves but feared for his temper." "He was a living contradiction," Damon McMahon (aka Amen Dunes) says of Dora, "both a symbol of free-living and inspiration, and of the false heroics American culture has always celebrated." www.npr.org
Scottish band Frightened Rabbit closed out last year with this new single, "No Real Life." Accompanying this achingly beautiful song is an encouragement to donate to Frightened Rabbit’s chosen charity, Alzheimer’s Scotland (www.alzscot.org). “With your help, their aim is to make sure that nobody in this country faces dementia alone,” the group writes.
Mike Scott says this title song is"about perceiving spirit in the world, about being touched by a sense of the sacred." Read about the entire classic album: thequietus.com
"Ship Of Fools" was written by Karl Edmond De Vere Wallinger, formerly of The Waterboys who now records as World Party. "Avarice and greed are gonna drive you over the endless sea...
They will leave you drifting in the shallows...": songmeanings.com
The band talks about the video for "Gotta Run" : “(It) shows a priest who visibly struggles with himself and with the life that he has chosen, in search of something that he enjoys, in the dreary everyday life. And when he searches for truth, he starts to dance.”: www.youtube.com
This electronic track has been described by lead singer Thom Yorke as "the happiest song we've ever written." : www.youtube.com
Wye Oak is a duo from Baltimore, Maryland, composed of Andy Stack and Jenn Wasner. Their new album will be out on April 6th and they'll be at Neumos on Sunday, July 15th, 2018.
Happy birthday, Crosby, and good luck with your plans. A writer for Complex commented on the video: "It is kind of dramatic and hard to make sense of, but what do you expect from a band like this?" The video plays out in a post-apocalyptic world. It begins with the band's three members waking up from sleeping in the middle of a street, appearing to be homeless. The men then walk way in the woods while shots of homeless people are interspersed. Several people are seen carrying torches in the woods and are soon joined by the band. They then set fire to a large wooden version of a jackalope and the video ends as it bursts into flames.:
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You can get a "killer shirt with designs on the front and the back" at Baby Dayliner's Bandcamp page.: babydayliner.bandcamp.com You can get this KEXP Song of the Day for free here:blog.kexp.org
"You'll rue the day you crossed me, Richards..." (Because) "I alight like a whisper...
I alight with the lights out...
And it won't take me long just to find you...":genius.com
Cigarettes After Sex will perform at The Neptune Theatre on Monday, April 23rd, 2018.
"Majical Cloudz’s latest single both pays tribute to and deconstructs the joyous downtown pop lineage. Rather than being in the middle of any sort of hustle and bustle, frontman Devon Welsh sounds like he’s eyeing Broadway from a thousand feet above, levitating." Read a review and see the video for "Downtown": pitchfork.com
Directed by Parisian collective AB/CD/CD, the slick video for "Always Ascending" features the band members quite literally ascending through different settings.: www.youtube.com
Michael Hutchence, John's first boy crush, died 20 years ago on November 22nd, 1997.: www.abc.net.au
On their new single Chequeless Reckless, the band have decided to delve even deeper into their influences (which they personally cite as spanning from The La’s, to The Pogues to Buddy Holly) employing hypnotic, kraut-rock infused cyclical riffs, whilst channelling Dublin into their concise and often-unassumingly poetic lyrics with a distinctive gritty Irish drawl.: thebluesmarie.com
This song was part of The Replacements' disastrous Saturday Night Live debut: www.rollingstone.com
"I'm a man, dammit!" Get this KEXP song of the Day for free: blog.kexp.org
This was initially written as a parody, and Robert Smith later distanced himself from the song. In Rock & Folk magazine, Smith said: "'The Love Cats' is far from being my favorite song: composed drunk, video filmed drunk, promotion made drunk. It was a joke.": www.mtv.co.uk
The Walkmen’s Walter Martin's solo album, "My Kinda Music," came out last year. The first offering from the record was a collaboration with the National’s Matt Berninger, “Hey Matt.” On the track, Martin sings about getting rejected when he asked Randy Newman to collaborate. Berninger’s reaction: “That would’ve been awesome.”: pitchfork.com
"Big hands, I know you're the one..."
Watch Violent Femmes perform this song live in KEXP's Gathering Space recently: www.youtube.com
Look at art inspired by Pixies. The 2011 exhibition was entitled "Dig for Fire": www.dailyartfixx.com
Here's a brief biography of this L.A. band, formed in 1977: www.allmusic.com
Ahhh.....the Friday song. Take the KEXP listener survey, please, to let us know how we're doing.: kexp.co1.qualtrics.com
"Loving every minute cause you make me feel so alive, alive...." Check out the flamboyant video here: www.youtube.com
“All My Friends” feels as if it has its finger firmly on the pulse of the times, like its whole being is a perfect representation of an era characterized by its fragmentation, and thus by endless paradoxes we live alongside daily." Read a thoughtful analysis of this great song: www.stereogum.com
This song finds David Bowie in character as a club DJ filled with both bitterness and grandeur. In the first verse, we learn that he's living at home, has lost his day job, and is "incurably ill," but on weekends he controls the dance floor, spinning records at the disco hotspot. "I've got believers," he keeps telling himself, even though he's merely a conduit for the music.
True to form, the song is quite danceable, with a heavy bassline and New Wave synthesizers. Adrian Belew played the guitar solo.: www.youtube.com
We can hardly wait for CCFX to perform this song LIVE on The Morning Show at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018. That performance is open to the public.
Ray Davies said, "Although I’m an observer in the song, in many ways it is about me. I’d had a breakdown and, though I wasn’t a gibbering wreck, I was feeling vulnerable. The river is depicted as a protective force." Read about the making of this classic song: www.theguardian.com
The eight-member group Superorganism will be LIVE on KEXP on Friday, March 23rd, 2018, at noon. That performance is open to the public. They'll be playing Barboza that evening.
Yazoo were a British synthpop duo from Basildon, Essex, England, consisting of former Depeche Mode member Vince Clarke (keyboards) and Alison Moyet (vocals). Although they broke up in 1983, you (Yes, you!) can still visit their official website here: www.yazooinfo.com
Attend an apocalyptic dance party when you "parade" with Sylvan Esso in this video: www.youtube.com
John Richards chose the song "This Year" by Beach Fossils as a KEXP Song of the Day: blog.kexp.org
Cracker emerged when David Lowery and Camper Van Beethoven were on hiatus: www.allmusic.com
Speaking of Camper Van Beethoven...www.youtube.com
This is the first single from Courtney Barnett's new album, due out on May 18th. Its chorus paraphrases a famous Margaret Atwood quote: “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them; women are afraid that men will kill them.”Watch her perform live in the KEXP studio: www.youtube.com
Oh, man! Their in-studio performance of "Song for Zula" was absolutely great.: blog.kexp.org
Johnny Cash recorded "Man in Black" at Nashville's Columbia Studios on this date in 1971. It was introduced on his TV show the next day. Watch Mr. Charles perform "Ring of Fire" on that same TV show: www.youtube.com
"People often say to me, 'Tell me why Johnny wore black,' Cash's drummer WS "Fluke" Holland said to Mojo magazine April 2012. "And I say it's real simple. Back then when we'd leave on tour, the longer you could wear the clothes you had on, the better it was. So if you had on black, it wouldn't show dirt as quickly as anything else."
Mojo reports Cash's eldest daughter, Rosanne, saying in 2008 that there was a deeper complexity to the song. "There's so many levels to it," she explained. "One is saying, 'I'm wearing this symbol for the downtrodden and the poor.' The other was much more subtle to me: it reflected the sadness, the convulsions, just that mythic dark night of the soul that he went through so many times."
See the lyric video for "Heartbreak Junky": www.youtube.com
The one-man-band man from Austin, Texas, Alejandro Rose-Garcia, better known by his stage name, Shakey Graves, has announced his forthcoming album Can’t Wake Up, due out May 4 through Dualtone Records.: www.pastemagazine.com
Langhorne Slim will perform at Fremont Abbey Arts Center tonight, Friday, February 16th, and Saturday, February 17th, 2018.
Visit Langhorne Slim's official website here: langhorneslim.com
Here's an interview, called "Coming Home to Myself," from last year: thebluegrasssituation.com
Read a review of Mr. Slim's new album, "Lost At Last Vol. 1": www.pastemagazine.com