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Tuesday, Jan 9 2018, 6AM
According to Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke, "Idioteque wasn't my idea at all; it was Jonny's. Jonny handed me this DAT that he'd... he'd gone into our studio for the afternoon... and, um, the DAT was like 50 minutes long, and I sat there and listened to this 50 minutes. And some of it was just "what?", but then there was this section of about 40 seconds long in the middle of it that was absolute genius, and I just cut that up and that was it...".
On the 5th, Moby unveiled the slow light version of his latest single, ‘Like a Motherless Child’. Moby said about the different take, “’I wanted to do a version that focused on the darker, almost more despairing, elements of the song.” Find the "slow" version here: bit.ly See the video for this original version here: bit.ly
Today, soul is everything from a car model to a dystopian location tracking app, but to Curtis Harding, "Soul is an experience. It can be in the way you dress, the way you talk, the way you sit down in a chair. It's a feeling that you can translate to someone with whatever you're doing." It's an intangible quality, an effortless cool that legendary artists have managed to channel into something that the rest of us can dance to, cry to, give ourselves to. Find another track from Face Your Fear, with the song of the day podcast: blog.kexp.org
You can find a live session video of "Rule the World" here: bit.ly
"You Are My Sunshine" was written by Jimmie Davis and Charles Mitchell and first recorded in 1939. Ray Charles first recorded it in 1962. Here he is performing it in Sao Paulo in 1963: bit.ly
Sharon Jones performed at the Grand Opening of KEXP's new home in 2016. You can watch the entire set here: bit.ly
David Byrne's first solo album in 14 years is out March 9th. There are a few tour dates posted already but stay tuned for Seattle dates.
Yesterday's Song of the Day, the ttitle track from Blue Field, featured on The Afternoon Show with Kevin Cole: blog.kexp.org
Midnight Boom is the third album by The Kills. The title refers to the hours from midnight to 6 a.m., in which the band was "at the creative peak, writing material for the album."
The video fro "Down By The Water" was nominated for Best Female Video at the 1995 MTV Video Music Awards and was featured on an episode of Beavis and Butt-head. Here are Beavis & Butt-head watching the video: bit.ly
Franz Ferdinand are heading out on a world tour... no Seattle dates yet though. It’s the band’s first LP with their new lineup: They added Julian Corrie (keyboards, guitar) and Dino Bardot (guitar), who join original members Alex Kapranos, Bob Hardy, and Paul Thomson. Another co-founder, Nick McCarthy, left the group in 2016.
"On their debut LP for The Leaf Label, Come Play The Trees , this outfit of anonymous hedge-folk have taken their DIY determination, obsession with film and observational lyricism and put together a collection that is devilishly playful, suitably daft and absolutely belting." Read the full review on The Quietus: bit.ly
"“Emotional Haircut” is a forceful conga-thunder bulldozer of a song" Check out Steroegum's take on the American Dream: bit.ly
"Crystal" was featured in a remix contest in which there were thousands of entries around the world and New Order reviewed the submissions. Find the winning remix and runners-up here: www.acidplanet.com
"Elevate My Mind" reached #39, making Stereo MCs the first British rap group to make the Billboard Hot 100.
Arrested Development frontman Speech wrote this song. Says Speech: "I wrote it because my older brother, his name is Terry Thomas, he and I met up in Tennessee for my grandmother – my favorite grandmother of all time – for her funeral. And that same week my brother left and went back to college, and I went back to college. And my brother died that same week. And that song was probably the first step of me recovering from the loss of two people that are just extremely close and dear to me. The chorus is 'take me another place, take me to another land, make me forget all that hurts me and help me understand your plan.' It's like a prayer to God. And just talking about sort of my journey in life, and that the last place I saw these important people in my life was in Tennessee."
Télépopmusik is a French electronic music trio, composed of Fabrice Dumont, Stephan Haeri, and Christophe Hetier. Find "Breathe" and several remixes on their Soundcloud: soundcloud.com
Eddie Vedder described this to the Canadian radio station The Edge as "as close to a love song as we've ever gotten." He added to the Toronto Globe and Mail: "There's never a dull moment on the road – every day it's something. Maybe that's why my goal is the dull moment. That's what this song is: It's saying, 'Just stop, and be together. Don't talk now, just breathe and feel each other's presence – now that the kids are in bed.'"
"Breath" was first performed live at the band's October 22, 1990 concert in Seattle at the Off Ramp Café. www.historylink.org
Car Seat Headrest have announced a new album. Twin Fantasy is a complete re-recording of Will Toledo’s self-released 2011 album of the same name. The new LP is out February 16 via Matador. “It was never a finished work and it wasn’t until last year that I figured out how to finish it,” Toledo said. They've also announced a few tour dates: 04-11 Spokane, WA - Knitting Factory,
04-12 Tacoma, WA - Real Art,
04-13 Bellingham, WA - Wild Buffalo,
04-14 Olympia, WA - Capitol Theater
Wolf Parade are LIVE on KEXP in the
Gathering Space THIS SATURDAY, January 13th at 12:00 PM!!!!
"Peter Matthew Bauer, bassist and organist in the Walkmen, fuses Eastern spirituality with the sound of heartland rock on his latest solo album." Check out Pitchfork's review here: bit.ly
BRMC will be at the Showbox on February 20th!
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs celebrated the 15th anniversary of their debut Fever to Tell last fall with a “Limited Edition Deluxe Box” reissue, limited to 2,000 copies, featuring a newly remastered version of the LP on 180-gram vinyl alongside nine unreleased demos, eight B-sides and rarities, plus a 164-page hardbound book filled with Nick Zinner’s personal photos of the band as well as Karen O’s notes. Looks like they are still available: bit.ly
"On May 3, 1993, New Order released Republic, their long-awaited sixth studio album. A month later, it was joined in the stores by Souvlaki, the second long player from Reading shoegazers Slowdive. The British producer and DJ Nabihah Iqbal was a child at the time, but her debut album sits on a stylistic shelf between them. Weighing of the Heart is first full-length from Iqbal to not bear her former moniker, Throwing Shade, the modish alter ego that she inhabited from 2009 to mid-2017." Read more about "Weighing of the Heart" here: bit.ly
Ladytron started hinting in December on their Facebook and Twitter that there would be "news" and new music soon!
Whatever happened to A Flock of Seagulls? www.axs.com
Hollywood choreographer Ryan Heffington—the figure behind the moves in everything from Sia’s “Chandelier” to Netflix series The OA—stars in and co-directs, alongside Justin Tyler Close, this video to TR/ST's latest release. bit.ly
Holy Fuck stopped by KEXP for an in-studio performance with DJ Stevie Zoom: bit.ly
Happy Birthday to Jimmy Page! 74 today! Led Zeppelin opened their live shows with this song from 1970-1972.
According to Q Magazine's 1001 Best Songs Ever, Michael Stipe has no idea what this song is about: "It still baffles me", he once said. "At one point after we recorded it I heard it and it made perfect sense. I was so exhilarated. I thought I'd accomplished what I set out to do. Then I forgot!"
Catapult was the 1st song on side B of R.E.M.'s debut album, Murmur. Since its release, Murmur has featured heavily in various "must have" lists compiled by the music media. In 1989, it was rated number eight on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 greatest albums of the 1980s. Pitchfork has put it at #5.
Buffalo Tom will be live on The Morning Show, Thursday, March 1st at 9:00 AM. That night you'll find them at Neumos.
The new album, All Nerve is out March 2nd. The Breeders will be in Portland at the Crystal Ballroom Tuesday April 10th and at the Showbox SoDo Friday April 13th!
First Aid Kit are at The Moore on January 28th! The new LP, Ruins, is out January 19th.
Rob Hirst played a twenty minute drum solo at the Stompem Ground concert in 1997 when the power went out for all the electric instruments. He received a standing ovation after the power came back on and the rest of the group resumed the song where they had left off before the blackout.
Kyle Craft is at the Tractor February 1st and Portland's Doug Fir on the 2nd. Both album release parties!
Only 29 shopping days left until International Clash Day! How about the official video for "I Fought the Law": bit.ly
You can catch Naked Giants in Spokane on April 11th, Tacoma on the 12th, Bellingham on the 13th, and Olympia on the 14th. Along with Car Seat Headrest!
You can see The National's performance of "Rylan" on The Morning Show here: bit.ly
Despite The Smiths lasting only five years and releasing just four studio albums, the British music magazine, NME, named the band the "Most Influential Artist Ever," over The Beatles.
tUnE-yArDs will be live on The Midday show Monday, January 15th at 11:00 AM. It's open to the public for get down here up to 90 minutes before to get signed up. You can also catch them at the Showbox on February 26th!
Monkees keyboardist/bass guitarist Peter Tork on the song's relevance: "The songs that we got [in the '60s] were really songs of some vigor and substance. '(I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone' is not peaches and cream. It comes down hard on the subject, poor girl. And the weight of the song is indicated by the fact that the Sex Pistols covered it. Anybody trying to write ''60s songs' now thinks that you have to write '59th St. Bridge.' [Sings] 'Feeling groovy!' Which is an okay song, but has not got a lot of guts. 'Stepping Stone' has guts."
Bette waited a long time to really pursue music, and she's doing it big. Her dreams are big. Her personality is big. And her band is big. Check out this video of her NPR performance: n.pr
Nick Cave is touring Europe in 2018 but no US dates announced.
Andy Bell was one of the first openly gay pop stars, and according to Spin magazine (February 1989), he would sometimes introduce this song on stage by saying: "When I was a little girl, I asked my mummy, 'Can I be gay when I grow up?' She replied, 'Yes if you show a little respect."
In 1981 Vince Clarke left Depeche Mode and shortly afterwards teamed up with singer Alison Moyet to form Yazoo. He originally offered this song to Depeche Mode along with "Only You" as a parting gift when he left, but they declined. In 2010, he talked about how his music is different from that of his former group: "Martin Gore writes in a different way than I do, so that's obviously the main difference. And they've developed this kind of a rock feel to their music. I'm more a fan of pop music, or I'm more of a fan of writing pop music, that's the most difference, I guess."
Vince Clarke had just turned 20 when he wrote this song, which turned out to be the last one he wrote for Depeche Mode. He left the band after the Speak and Spell album was released, going on to Yaz(oo) and Erasure. The "Just Can't Get Enough" video is the only one he appears in.
Ministry started out in 1981 as a new wave outfit and released their debut album, With Sympathy, in 1983. Front man, Al Jourgensen, severely dislikes this album. He told Mark Prindle: "That's the only album that I don't like, and that's basically because it was written by producers and by record company people. I just signed the contract and didn't know any better and did what everyone told me to do, and then after that I just kinda said, 'Well, fuck you. I'm gonna do it my way.'" Jourgensen continued: "To this day, I've never listened to it since I got it done. I was fed up with it. I almost quit music because of it."
The band was named after the song "The Cocteau Twins" by fellow Scotsmen 'Johnny and the Self-Abusers' (who later renamed themselves Simple Minds.) The song "The Cocteau Twins" was also re-penned as "No Cure".