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Yeah Yeah Yeahs are playing a two shows with LCD Soundsystem May 4th & 5th at the Hollywood bowl in Los Angeles.
The new album, by the way, I forgive you is out February 16th. Brandi is playing Bellingham on March 4th and two nights at the Moore on March 30th-31st. Find all the dates on her website: bytheway.brandicarlile.com
If you just missed First Aid Kit in Seattle you can always find their live in-studio performances here: blog.kexp.org and here: blog.kexp.org
Dreams was released in 1992 as the band's debut single, later appearing on the studio album Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? R.I.P. Dolores O'Riordan blog.kexp.org
A few years ago, the stand-up comic Tig Notaro was diagnosed with breast cancer. And in an instantly legendary stand-up set at Largo in L.A., she processed that diagnosis, as well as the death of her mother, an infection that almost killed her, and a bad breakup in front of an audience that couldn’t believe what it was seeing. The Netflix documentary Tig follows the story of what’s been going on in Notaro’s life after that famous set. And Sharon Van Etten, a fan of Notaro, wrote this lovely song specifically for the documentary’s end credits.
Ciao My Shining Star: The Songs of Mark Mulcahy is a tribute album to former Polaris and Miracle Legion front man Mark Mulcahy.
After his wife Melissa died suddenly in 2008, 21 artists contributed exclusive tracks to the album to help Mulcahy continue making music while he was raising his three-year-old twin daughters. Artists include R.E.M. front man Michael Stipe, Radiohead's Thom Yorke and The National.
A deluxe edition is also available which includes 20 bonus tracks over two additional bonus CDs.
"To paraphrase the title of a collection of early Flaming Lips material, maybe the Material Girl is finally taking acid?" Check out Pitchfork's review here: bit.ly
The National performed live on The Morning Show on November 29th. In addition to this song they played Nobody Else Will Be There, Guilty Party, & Carin at the Liquor Store. Watch the full performance here: bit.ly
Gotta Run is the first of 4 singles to be released over the next few months. Can't wait for the next one! And there is a video as well: bit.ly
See Between Mountains performing Into the Dark live on KEXP at Kex Hostel in Reykjavik during Iceland Airwaves: bit.ly
On June 1st, Merchandise were in the KEXP studios on The Midday Show performing a few other tracks from their album, A Corpse Wired For Sound bit.ly
Peter had to cancel the first couple nights of his residency in San Francisco do to a visa issue. From his website: "After an unforeseen and unanticipated delay, Peter is nearing the top of the visa application list at the US Consulate. Due to a brief diplomatic spat last year between the US and Turkey resulting in a temporary mutual ban on visa issuances to each country, a backlog of Turkish applicants has seen Peter’s own caught up in the pile. "
Beth Ditto (not Orton!) will be back in the PNW in March. Portland on the 27th and the Showbox in Seattle on the 29th. All the dates here: www.bethditto.com
Kate Tempest's amazing performance of Perfect Coffee live on KEXP... a fitting song for Seattle. bit.ly
Adam "King Ad-rock" Horovitz talks about this song in the liner notes of the Beastie Boys anthology: "Sabotage was recorded as an instrumental, and the vocals weren't added until two weeks before the record was completed. It was the last song on Ill Communication to be finished."
David Byrne's new album, American Utopia is out March 9th. The May 24th show at the Paramount is sold out but there still appear to be tickets available for the Portland show May 27th. Totally worth the trip!
Released on this date in 1989, Technique was the first New Order album to reach number one in the UK charts. Fine Time, was the first single, and it reached number 11. John Denver's publishing company filed a lawsuit, alleging that the guitar break in Run too closely resembled Denver's Leaving on a Jet Plane.
You can pre-order a signed copy of the new album on blue & white marbled vinyl. Franz Ferdinand will be touring North America in the spring/summer but no Seattle dates. Minneapolis or Oakland look to be the closest. We'll keep you posted is Seattle is announced!
Molten Young Lovers made it to #7 on Amoeba.com's to 50 albums of 2017 beating out Slowdive and The Horrors: bit.ly
From Stereogum: "Here Lies, a synthpop soundscape featuring his frequent collaborator Tamaryn, creeps with a kind of hopeful gloom. We talked to Elbrecht about his stylistic hodgepodge and the complicated role of a producer back in 2015, and these two components seem especially pronounced on his new material, which is said to be derived from a “10-year period of deterioration” where the artist would “[meander] from one foggy idea to the next, unable to focus.” "
Buffalo Tom are LIVE on KEXP & The Morning Show Thursday, March 1st at 9:00 AM. Get down here starting at 7:30 to get on the list. Buffalo Tom are at Neumos that night. Tickets here: ticketf.ly
This song was written in the Vanilla rehearsals in April 1979, in the sessions which the band wished to record directly from their rehearsal space. Their record company, CBS, would have none of it and demanded they use an actual studio. They chose Wessex studios: it best replicated the intimacy of the Vanilla space.
Their first new song in 14 years! Six Wave Hold-Down is the first single from their upcoming album Jericho Sirens out March 16th on Sub Pop.
Want to see Moaning? They're opening for Preoccupations in Portland on May 12th bit.ly
Join Laura Veirs on Sunday, February 4th at 11am for a special storytime and sing-along at the Seward Park Third Place books! www.thirdplacebooks.com
Karen O wrote this song for a new, artfully produced promotional video from the French fashion company Kenzo. The short film follows a fashion photographer, played by Dirty Beaches frontman Alex Zhang Hungtai, as he falls for model Kiko Mizuhara. Like the song itself, it's told in several different sections or chapters, as the music continues to shift in unlikely directions. (The song first appears about two minutes into the video: bit.ly ).
Pretenders is the debut studio album by The Pretenders, released on January 7th, 1980. Nick Lowe produced the Pretenders' first single, "Stop Your Sobbing", but decided not to work with them again as he thought the band was "not going anywhere". Thanks to Owen for that KEXP "short remix".
You can pre-order the new album in limited color editions, signed editions, cassette... I don't see any 78s or 8-tracks though. They've announced a UK tour but no US yet.
In December Caesars played a surprise reunion show in Stockholm! First time in 10 years! No word if it will lead to more but keep your fingers crossed.
The Jam were touring the States when this became their first UK #1. In an interview with Positive Energy of Madness, Jam drummer Rick Buckler said: "It was a shock when we got to #1, otherwise we wouldn't have been in the States. We knew 'Going Underground' would do well. We had a good drink that night. However, everyone wanted to be back in Britain. We made out we had all come down with a virus. We canceled the rest of the tour of the States. We flew back to Britain on Concorde, to record 'Going Underground' on Top of The Pops for the following week."
Last January a track from Chemtrail's debut album was the song of the day! blog.kexp.org
Clash drummer Topper Headon wrote the music and the original lyrics. In an interview, singer Joe Strummer claimed that "the real genius of 'Rock The Casbah' is Topper. He banged down the drum track. Then ran over to the piano and then the bass."
The sad irony about the song is that Headon wrote it musically, but had been fired from the group because of drug problems by the time the song became an enormous hit in the US. Indeed, in the music video for the song, its original Clash drummer Terry Chimes at the kit. internationalclashday.com
Texas-born singer-songwriter Johnny Nash released Stir It Up as a follow-up to his signature tune I Can See Clearly Now. Both singles were infused with the reggae sound he brought back from a 1967 trip to Jamaica, where he met up-and-comer Bob Marley. Not only was Marley an assistant producer on Nash's album, but he also contributed a handful of tunes, including this one.
Nash's version would become Marley's first hit outside of Jamaica, but he originally recorded it with his own group, The Wailers. After Nash's success, The Wailers recorded it again for their 1973 album, Catch a Fire.
Frontman Michael Stipe looked back at the recording of the Green album in a 2008 interview with Rolling Stone magazine. He recalled: "For me, the big moment is 'World Leader Pretend.' It's a tribute to Leonard Cohen, using military terms to describe a battle within. I was so proud of the lyrics and my vocal take that I refused to sing it a second time. I did it once. That was it."
There is a lot of great 1987 in the Ship of Fools video: bit.ly
The song uses a recurring Australian problem (drought) to pose the question "What for?", meaning "why did Europeans bother to colonize this harsh place". The song mentions two prominent indigenous Australians (Truganini and Albert Namatjira) whose lives were altered by European settlement and discusses current day sentiment towards the old country, namely the monarchy.
Playing the Tractor, Friday February 9th. If you don't win tickets, you can buy them here: bit.ly
B.R.M.C. are at The Showbox on February 20th! The night before in Vancouver has already sold out... find all the dates and links to tickets here: www.blackrebelmotorcycleclub.com
Video for The Call's The Walls Came Down circa 1983: bit.ly
Just missed it! Dramarama just played Friday with Boy George, Adam Ant, The Bangles, Violent Femmes, Salt-N-Pepa, The Romantics, Tone Loc, A Flock of Seagulls, Melle Mel and Scorpio of the Furious Five, The Sugarhill Gang, and Nick Heyward of Haircut 100. Yeah, I know.
Cope is also an author on Neolithic culture, publishing The Modern Antiquarian in 1998, and an outspoken political and cultural activist with a noted and public interest in occultism and paganism.
It was only when the band recorded "We Care A Lot" at Prairie Sun that bassist Billy Gould got to hear the song with the lyrics. He recalled to Kerrang!: "It was just music before that. Roddy had written the lyrics and given it to Chuck. He got on the mic and started singing, I was like, 'This is a real song!'"
