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Friday, Feb 9 2018, 6AM
When asked what’s the best song he’s ever written, Moby replied, “God Moving Over the Face of the Waters.” He explained, “Ironically enough it’s a song that doesn’t have any lyrics to it. It’s an instrumental piece of music that, when I was writing it, I had this vision, like at least according to the Old Testament, the creation story, at one point you know, what is it – the earth was without form and void and God was moving over the face of the waters. And this particular piece of music was written with that in mind.”:dontforgetthesongs365.wordpress.com
"The record begins with “Slomo,” a near seven-minute track that builds at a pace befitting its name, eventually blossoming into bursts of Goswell’s wuthering vocals." Read a glowing review of Slowdive's self-titled fourth album: agitreader.com
"And we became the stories, we became the places..." That's Zola Jesus' voice singing these lyrics with Anthony Gonzalez: genius.com
Sigur Rós recently recorded two new tracks for an episode of "Black Mirror." The sweeping pieces – "End" and "Match" – appear on collaborator Alex Somers' soundtrack to "Hang the DJ," an episode from the Netflix sci-fi series' fourth season. Listen: www.rollingstone.com
It's become pretty clear at this point that Billy Corgan intends to reunite his iconic 1990s band the Smashing Pumpkins. A reunion album has just been recorded. There's lots of drama, however, about who the bassist will be.: www.altpress.com
L.A. band Silversun Pickups graciously raised funds for KEXP's New Home with this great live performance at Sun Liquors on Capitol Hill: www.kexp.org
The National will play this year's Sasquatch! Music Festival at The Gorge, May 25th-May 27th, 2018.
The song was inspired by Guy Garvey's then girlfriend, author Emma Jane Unsworth. "Yes, it was about falling in love with Emma Jane," he told The Sun. "Even though the lyrics are quite bleak. I'm saying 'I'm not having a good time most of the time but today is great.'"
We're waiting (with bated breath) for this Olympia group to play LIVE on The Morning Show on Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018 at 9:30 a.m. That show is open to the public. Here's the video for "The One to Wait":
www.youtube.com
"The meticulous rhythm arrangements of days past are efficiently swapped for stripped-down stock beats, which forces the guitar and vocal to the forefront." Read more about "Regret" and the album "Republic": www.stereogum.com
U.S. Girls is the musical enterprise of multi-disciplinary artist Meg Remy. You can hear her at The Sunset on Monday, March 26th, 2018.
This is the title track from this duo's fifth album due out on April 6th. You can hear Wye Oak sing this song (and others) at Neumos on July 15th, 2018.
"I think the chorus is simply putting the feelings you have for someone and how terrible things can happen – like storms – around you and you barely notice, because you’re in love. I feel this twinge in my heart every time I hear “sometimes, when I look deep in your eyes, I swear I can see your soul...” Read an analysis of "Sometimes (Lester Piggot)":musicinnotes.wordpress.com
Ahhh....the Friday song. Happy Friday, 4-year-old Sara. KEXP is pleased to present two art collections in celebration of International Clash Day: International Clash Day Poster Art - AND - artwork by Amplifier! Both collections feature artists from Seattle and around the world. The exhibit began on Wednesday, February 7th and will continue through early April. All artwork will be featured in KEXP’s Gathering Space, from 7AM to 6PM weekdays and 8AM to 6PM on the weekends and is free and open to the public.
Beck suffered a spinal injury in 2008, which left him in a great deal of pain. For several years he was unable to pick up his guitar. However, this song finds him in a happy place. He explained: "I had a spine injury and there was a long period where it wasn't easy to make music. Recovering from that makes it a lot easier. It's made a huge difference."The song contains some nonsensical rhymes:
"Standing on the lawn doin' jiu jitsu..
Girl in a bikini with the Lamborghini shih tzu..."
Beck told Q magazine: "That rap was all mostly free-form. Later, I did try and write something that was more finessed, but it didn't have the same energy. So I left Wow as it was."
Today is the birthday of William Holly Johnson (born in 1960) , known as Holly Johnson, lead vocalist for Frankie Goes to Hollywood. In 2014, he said that HIV has changed his lifestyle and he now "lives like a nun.": www.liverpoolecho.co.uk
"Gotta get you to the other side...
To where the butterflies and where the peach reside..." Exactly what is Q-Tip saying here? genius.com
In 1997, this song was featured in the film "Grosse Pointe Blank" and appeared on the second volume of the soundtrack. The song was also notably featured in the 2003 cult film "Party Monster."
In December 1984, Time Zone released their most well-known single, "World Destruction," a collaboration between Afrika Bambaataa, ex-Sex Pistol/Public Image Ltd. leader John Lydon, and producer/bassist Bill Laswell. Afrika Bambaataa: "I was talking to Bill Laswell saying I need somebody who's really crazy, man, and he thought of John Lydon. I knew he was perfect because I'd seen this movie that he'd made (Copkiller), I knew about all the Sex Pistols and Public Image stuff, so we got together and we did a smashing crazy version, and a version where he cussed the Queen something terrible, which was never released."
"I got a fever! More cowbell!!" Watch the SNL sketch with Christopher Walken, Will Ferrell, Jimmy Fallon, and others.:www.nbc.com
David Bowie said about this song: "The face of America that we have to put up with is the MacDonald’s/Disney/Coke face, this really homogenous, bland cultural invasion that sweeps over us – which is unfortunate, because the aspects of America that are really magical to us are the things it seems to reject like black music, or the Beat poets: there’s an incredibly strong individuality about America that gets glossed over by the corporate invasion."
This song was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance (Ya think?). Here's the video:www.youtube.com
The song is the opening track of "Love & Hate." Co-producer Danger Mouse told Mojo:
"The moment we finished 'Cold Little Heart,' there was no way it wasn't going to open the album. Everybody knows about Michael's voice, but he's also an amazing guitar player and songwriter. I said, 'The first song you release off this album should be an instrumental.' We didn't do that,
This is the next best thing; opening it with a song, where he doesn't sing in the first five minutes, but it's still all Michael, his melodies and his beautiful guitar playing."
Listener request: "Could you play the frog song?" "Blue becomes red, and red becomes blue...
And your mummy, suddenly becomes your daddy...
And everything looks like a giant cupcake...
And you keep laughing, and laughing, and laughing...
Nothing is quite the same really...":www.azlyrics.com
The Cure released "Hot Hot Hot!!!" as a single on this date in 1988.
In this review, The Guardian calls "V" The Horrors' "most cohesive album yet": www.theguardian.com
One reviewer lists this as one of the five most overrated Echo & The Bunnymen songs: magnetmagazine.com
A reviewer heard them at a festival in Dublin last September. "It was a set of snarling, swaggering post-punk filtered through the retro-rock bands of the early ’00s; their frontman Grian Chatten, in particular, had the kind of DGAF aloofness we associate with bands in the latter category.": www.stereogum.com
Read a brief biography of this Leisester, England group: www.stereogum.com
WTF is this!?! KEXP? I guess you're listening to KEXP. Nirvana borrowed heavily from this song to create "Come As You Are." Killing Joke considered legal action, but after Kurt Cobain died, they dispensed with any thoughts of a lawsuit. Dave Grohl and Jaz Coleman later became good friends, and Grohl played drums on the 2003 self-titled Killing Joke album.
Here's Gang of Four performing "Damaged Goods" live on the German TV show "Rockpalast" in 1983: www.youtube.com
You can learn lots more about this L.A. trio at Sub Pop's website: www.subpop.com
Watch Dan Deacon work up a sweat when he performs "Feel the Lightning" live in the KEXP studio:
blog.kexp.org
Tom Petty, the chart-topping singer and songwriter, died in October from an accidental drug overdose as a result of mixing medications that included opioids, the medical examiner-coroner for the county of Los Angeles announced recently, ending the mystery surrounding his sudden death last year.: www.nytimes.com
Watch the video for "Severed," the new single from "I'll Be Your Girl": www.youtube.com
"Ghostland Observatory is not a band, but an agreement between two friends to create something that not only heals their beat-driven hearts, but pleases their rock ‘n roll souls.": www.facebook.com
In November, Empire of the Sun announced that they were releasing a new EP, "On Our Way Home": pitchfork.com
As you might guess, they've performed this song live many, many times. Here's one: www.youtube.com
You can have this great song by this Vancouver duo for yourself, since it was a KEXP Song of the Day:blog.kexp.org
Yes, TV on the Radio will be at the Sasquatch! Music Festival in The Gorge in May: www.sasquatchfestival.com
This is a cover of a Bjork song from her studio album "Post."
During weeks-long recording sessions, Lea Porcelain would often listen to Bruce Springsteen's cut, 'Streets Of Philadelphia'.
“We remembered that for some reason we would always blast this song through our stereo at home and it was kind of a homecoming song during our recording period. One day before we drove down to the family for Christmas, we spent a night covering this song and in various versions, this is the version that we came up with that sounds fully like us and we would give this song to everyone of our family and friends to listen to and to thank them for their support, their understanding and their love.”
The album,"Scratch My Back," recorded at Air Lyndhurst and Real World Studios during 2009, consists of cover versions of twelve songs by various artists, using only orchestra and voice. The idea behind the "Scratch My Back" project is a song exchange where each artist would cover one of Peter Gabriel's songs in return for his covering one of theirs; the other artists' renditions of Gabriel's songs were to appear on an album entitled "I'll Scratch Yours."
Director Jonathan Demme used this to open his movie "Philadelphia," starring Tom Hanks as a lawyer dying of AIDS. Demme met Springsteen in 1985 on the video shoot for "Sun City," but had not seen him since. Demme first cut the title sequence of Philadelphia to "Southern Man" and asked Neil Young to write a song like it for the movie. Young gave him "Philadelphia," which he used at the end of the film. Still needing a song for the open, he called Springsteen.
Demme asked Springsteen for a rock song to open his movie. Bruce started writing it based on lyrics he had previously written about the death of one of his friends, but it did not work over a rock beat. Springsteen sent what he came up with to Demme, considering it an unfinished demo. Demme loved it and felt it was perfect for his movie just as it was.
Here's Mr. Bowie performing "Heroes" live in Berlin in 2002: www.youtube.com