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Friday, Jan 19 2018, 6AM
The trailer for "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" features "Step Out," written by Jose Gonzalez and St. Vincent. St. Vincent will be LIVE on KEXP today, Friday, January 19th, 2018, at noon.: tribecafilm.com
Arcade Fire recorded a new version of this song for the soundtrack of the 2009 children's movie Where The Wild Things Are. The film's director Spike Jonze told Digital Spy: "I met Arcade Fire on their first record, Funeral. I loved that record and it was a record I was listening to while I wrote Where the Wild Things Are. Those songs - especially 'Wake Up' and 'Neighborhood' - there's a lot of that record that's about childhood."
In an interview with CBS News last November, Guy Garvey said, "I met the (other) guys when I was 16, but they were already established." Garvey said to bassist Pete Turner., "You never had a good band name. I mean, Elbow's a terrible band name, but you were called 'Miscellaneous Sails' at one point." It was Garvey who gave them their new name.: www.cbsnews.com
Frontman Yannis Philippakis and drummer Jack Bevan were originally in the math rock band The Edmund Fitzgerald, before deeming it too serious and parting ways. Watch them performing this powerful song live at Reading in 2015: www.youtube.com
The Decemberists will surely play "Severed" at The Paramount Theatre on Thursday, June 21st, 2018. : www.youtube.com
Will Toledo, aka Car Seat Headrest, will perform at Real Art in Tacoma on Thursday, April 12th, 2018. "This song, "Nervous Young Inhumans," is refurbished from a 2011 Bandcamp recording.: pitchfork.com
Watch a live performance by these Dandys in the KEXP studio in 2016: www.youtube.com
We're all abuzz about this band! CCFX is the dream pop collaboration of Mary Jane Dunphe (Vexx, CC Dust) and members of Olympia band Trans FX. They'll be LIVE in the KEXP studio on Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018, during The Morning Show at 9:30 a.m. Thea session will be open to the public.
Here are the lyrics, samples, and references for "Shadrach": paulsboutique.info
The song is about other rappers thieving De La Soul's rhymes. Trugoy told Rolling Stone: "'Potholes in my Lawn' was like another way to say beat-biter or sucker MC, like songs from Run-DMC, songs from MC Lyte. The lawn was our rhymes and the potholes were the pieces missing."
"I read the news today....oh, boy..." On this date in 1967, The Beatles began the studio recording for "A Day in the Life." The band recorded the song almost exclusively at night. Here are some more things you may not know about this stellar recording achievement.: www.rollingstone.com
Ahhh......the Friday song. On Thursday, February 1st, join KEXP for Music Heals, a collaboration with the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance Proton Therapy Center dedicated to the power of music to lift our spirits and heal our souls in the face of cancer with a free evening event with Caspar Babypants.: blog.kexp.org
The song's music video was directed by Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai. It features actor Chang Chen of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon fame, and Malaysian model Danielle Graham. The plot is centered on a man (Chang) who, upon discovering his girlfriend (Graham) has cheated on him, tries to destroy all traces of their relationship, eventually realizing that this is futile, as what has happened cannot be undone.: vimeo.com
"But then again I've never seen the blue sky falling like a wire holding up America...." Here are the lyrics: genius.com
In this interview last fall,The Preatures' Izzi Manfredi talks being inspired by their hometown of Sydney and its indigenous language:www.axs.com
This is "the official website of the band Living Colour": livingcolour.com
Bowie describes the feelings behind the song:
It's not as truly hostile about Americans as say "Born in the U.S.A.": it's merely sardonic. I was traveling in Java when [its] first McDonald's went up: it was like, "for f**k's sake." The invasion by any homogenized culture is so depressing, the erection of another Disney World in, say, Umbria, Italy, more so. It strangles the indigenous culture and narrows expression of life.
In February, Franz Ferdinand will release "Always Ascending," their first album since 2013. Watch the video for "Feel the Love Go" from the album: consequenceofsound.net
Monday, January 22nd, is the birthday of Michael Hutchence, born in 1960. He died on November 22nd, 1997 at the age of 37. Read the tragic story of his death: diffuser.fm
The throbbing second single from LCD Soundsystem apparently started out as a lark. “I wrote that as kind of a laugh,” Murphy told British website MusicOMH in 2005. “I remember trying to explain to my friend how easy it is to write pop songs. I was like, ‘well, watch’ and I wrote it and just made it up and then later I was like ‘I kind of like this—I'll get back to it and finish it off.’”: pitchfork.com
Peter Hook denied that there was any drug connection in this song. Said Hook: "'True Faith' features some of the best New Order lyrics in my opinion, but no, it is not about heroin, that is not something that any of our lyrics ever touched on. I think it's clear to see though that the lyrics do reflect being under some sort of influence."
His bandmate Bernard Sumner has stated otherwise, however, telling Q magazine in 1999 that the song is about drug dependency, and that while he didn't do heroin, he wrote it from the perspective of a user.
This song was written by Patti Smith and her late husband, Fred "Sonic" Smith. Patti told NME how they tried to infuse the spirit of the '60s into a modern protest song: "We had both protested the Vietnam War when we were young. We had been part of the '60s, where our cultural voice was really strong, and we were trying to write a song that would reintroduce that kind of energy. It's sad for me but quite beautiful. It was really Fred's song - even though I wrote the words, he wrote the music; the concept was his, and he wanted it to be a song that people sang all over the world to inspire them for different causes. And he didn't live to see that happen, but I have. I've seen people. I've walked in marches all over the world where people spontaneously started singing it, you know, whether it's been in Paris or with the Palestinians or, you know, in Spain or New York City, Washington D.C. - and it's so moving for me to see his dream realized."
"The song, simply put, is a sliver-sized miracle, a crack of light illuminating the door in a dark wall. This is the function Tribe songs have always served—they point to a path through wilderness.":pitchfork.com
The song, off N.W.A.'s 1988 album "Straight Outta Compton," samples Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band's song of the same name. See video of the original: www.youtube.com
Here's the late Sharon Jones in a live performance of this Woody Guthrie cover: www.youtube.com
Ohhh! This song is perfect! “Chain Of Fools,” especially in its unedited LP version, is flawless. It is a song that consecrates, illuminates and mitigates the singer’s love and passion. On display in brilliant plumage are her pain, her lack of willpower, her transcendence and the lowness of the mate who has betrayed her.": songmango.com
Thank you, Mayor Robertson, for proclaiming February 7th, 2018, as International Clash Day in Vancouver, B.C. KEXP will host Clash Cover Night that evening.: blog.kexp.org
Get this KEXP Song of the Day by Vancouver, B.C. duo Japandroids:blog.kexp.org
These Canadians were great as they played live in the KEXP studio in 2014: blog.kexp.org
Dancer and choreographer Ryan Heffington says of this great video: "This dance implies a last-ditch effort to save a relationship—of joy remembered, and of reflection and turmoil manifested in gestures which relied on the track's undulating rhythms and vocals.": www.nowness.com
Lea Porcelain's new EP will be released in April. The band detail the video for "Gotta Run": “The video 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.xsnoize.com
Calgary, Alberta band Preoccupations, formerly known as Viet Cong, will play Barboza on Friday, May 11th, 2018.
QUICK!! Text in "Floppy" now!! Here's the concert footage for "Girlfriend" from "Stop Making Sense": www.youtube.com
Hot Snakes reunited in 2011and have just completed a new album, their first in 14 years, on Sub Pop. Learn more here: pitchfork.com
"According to Zac Carper, there are two ways to kill a band: success and heroin." Fidlar is the party band that gave up the drugs.: www.gq.com
In The Chemical Brothers’ “Go” music video, seven women carrying two poles march through Paris’ Front-de-Seine neighborhood in perfectly synchronized choreography by Michel Gondry. The area is located in the 15th district, beside the Seine river, and is characterized by its Brutalist buildings, the result of an urban project in the 1970s that rehabilitated the former industrial area through the construction of 20 towers nearly 100 meters high.: www.archdaily.com
"Raising Hell" was one of the first rap albums to enter the mainstream and sell to listeners who weren't familiar with the genre. "It's Tricky" explains the rapping isn't as easy as it sounds, and the chorus is almost a tongue twister as Run-D.M.C.'s MCs show off their vocal dexterity: "It's tricky to rock a rhyme to rock a rhyme that's right on time."
In a 1991 interview with Melody Maker, Chuck D of Public Enemy explained: "'Can't Truss It' is about how the corporate world of today is just a different kind of slavery. We don't control what we create. And because of the media, we don't control the way we think or run our lives. We've got to limit working for a situation that's other than ours. We have no ownership of anything. If you don't own business, then you don't have jobs. White people have jobs because they have business. They have institutions that teach them how to live in America. Black people don't have institutions that teach them how to deal with s--t. The Number One institution that teaches you how to deal is the family, but slavery f--ked that up. So the song is about the ongoing cost of the holocaust. There was a Jewish holocaust, but there's a black holocaust that people still choose to ignore."
Emerging in 1993, when Dr. Dre's G-funk had overtaken the hip-hop world, the Staten Island, New York-based Wu-Tang Clan proved to be the most revolutionary rap group of the mid-'90s -- and only partially because of their music. You'll want to know more about this group that's sometimes called "the greatest hip hop group of all time.": www.allmusic.com
Read a track-by-track breakdown of "13 Chambers": www.rollingstone.com
Ya think!?! There are numerous lists of the 10 best Fugazi songs. Do you think "Waiting Room" made every list?
(Answer: No) teamrock.com
Handsome Boy Modeling School was a collaborative project between hip hop producers Dan the Automator and Prince Paul. The collaboration lasted from 1999 to 2006 and resulted in two albums, featuring a vast cast of guest rappers, singers, comedians and DJs.
Here's a KEXP Album Review of The Avalanches' "Wildflower": blog.kexp.org
Surely you'll want this song for your very own. It's available to you as a KEXP Song of the Day: blog.kexp.org
Recognize that bass line? That's your signal to text "Floppy" quickly to 206-903-5397.
Watch the video for this Talking Heads cover, live from The Neptune Theatre in late 2016: www.youtube.com
Absolutely magical! Watch this Live Aid performance: www.youtube.com
Oh, man! They're touring all over Europe and South America this spring: www.depechemode.com