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Friday, Dec 1 2017, 6AM
According to Billy Corgan, the success of "Drown" was stymied by the Epic label behind the soundtrack of the Cameron Crowe film ""Singles," due to their pushing of Alice in Chains' hit "Would?": loudwire.com
Sure, you've got 6 minutes and 17 seconds. Watch Love and Rockets perform this song live at Lollapalooza in 2008: www.youtube.com
Happy birthday, 14-year-old Rivers. Today is World AIDS Day. Twice as many people have HIV now, than did 10 years ago. Learn the facts and how you can help here: www.worldaidsday.org
Watch Mr. Bowie perform this song live in Berlin in 2002: www.youtube.com
This song fades into "You'll Never Walk Alone," which became the anthem of the Liverpool F.C. Do you suppose John chose it as a shout-out to The Sounders?
"Wonderwall" — this album's oft-quoted breakout hit — was actually written for Noel Gallagher's girlfriend at the time, and later his wife, Meg Matthews. She was out of work, and he wanted her to know how important she was to him. For Matthews, having a famous song written about her was a bit odd. "You can't go up to someone and say, 'Hi, I'm Wonderwall,'" Matthews, who later would marry and then divorce Gallagher, told The Sunday Times in February, 1996.
"And I'm walkin' down Broadway...."This much-loved song was a KEXP Song of the Day: blog.kexp.org
Happy birthday, 40-year-old (!) Ofir in Israel. Do you "feel like you're young again"? Frontman Robert Smith wrote “Lovesong” as a wedding present for his bride-to-be Mary Poole in 1988.
CCFX is a new supergroup out of Olympia, Washington resulting from a merger between two seminal Olympia pop music outfits; CC Dust and Trans FX. Get their music at their Bandcamp page: ccfx.bandcamp.com
The National gave a wonderful live performance on Wednesday, November 29th, at 9:45 a.m. (or so.) You can stream that session for two weeks here.: www.kexp.org
YEAHHHH! Dad of the year!! This Fidlar video is certainly more appropriate for small children than the beginning of the "Transformers" movie:www.youtube.com
Don't you love this infectious song? "Well they blew the horns and the walls came down..." Here are the lyrics: www.metrolyrics.com
This San Francisco band will play The Showbox on Tuesday, February 20th, 2018.
Josh Clayton-Felt, the vocalist for School of Fish, died of cancer at the age of 32 in 2002. Here's his obituary: articles.latimes.com
Ahhh....the Friday song. KEXP's Yule Benefit, featuring Shabazz Palaces and the True Loves, will be Friday, December 22nd, at Neumos.: blog.kexp.org
Look at those shorts! Watch New Order perform "Age Of Consent" live in the studio: www.youtube.com
The Pixies....who are they? "I am un chien andalusia...": www.azlyrics.com
The Chemical Brothers are supposed to play a rare gig in Bristol tonight, Friday, December 1st, 2017.: www.bristolpost.co.uk
Ahh... the other Friday song. Purchase official Empire of the Sun merch right here (although you still won't be costumed like Luke and Nick in all their glory) : www.empireofthesunofficialmerch.com
Did you know that there was only one constant member of The Clash? (It's not who you think.): diffuser.fm
Here's a track-by-track breakdown of Wolf Alice's new album, "Visions of a Live": consequenceofsound.net
This biography of The Horrors calls them "British garage punk revivalists who transformed into moody rockers with critical acclaim for their merger of goth, post-punk, and shoegaze.": www.allmusic.com
This review of the CCFX EP calls Mary Jane Dunphe's vocals "magnetic and visceral.": pitchfork.com
How many times did James Murphy listen to David Bowie's "Heroes"?: pitchfork.com
"Here Come The Warm Jets" was Brian Eno's debut album, released in 1974. It remains an extraordinary musical work.: flavorwire.com
Watch Mission of Burma performing "All World Cowboy Romance": www.youtube.com
Klark Kent is the band that Stewart Copeland of The Police had nothing to do with: dangerousminds.net
Go to their official website to "shadow" Shadowy Men: shadowy.brainiac.com
Australian band Jesus Jones says that a new album, "Passages," will be released in April of 2018. Visit their archive here: www.jesusjonesarchive.info
Tom Jones played this at some of his live shows, to the delight of the band. Jones performed the song with EMF on a British TV show where he told them about how he sang it in Vegas. According to the band, Jones got them really drunk that night.
This is a cover of The Rolling Stones song, written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.
On the 25th anniversary of "Groovy Train," The Farm talked about its inception: www.thefarmmusic.co.uk
There's lots of blurry camera work in the video for "Connected": www.youtube.com
Did you know that The Who released their debut album, "My Generation," on December 3rd, 1965?
"You are about to witness the strength of street knowledge..." Complex said of this song, "In two bars, Ice Cube gave you the setting and the character, and conveyed it with the visceral directness that would become a mark of gangster rap from that point on. Since this time, every gangster rap record is a variation on these two immortal themes: a violent setting and an unreliable, even psychotic, narrator."
Straight outta Folsom... Here are photos of that classic prison visit: mashable.com
Here's a Nirvana cover of The Stooges: www.youtube.com
It's December!! Read how Run-DMC made the greatest Christmas rap song ever: hiphopdx.com
"It’s not surprising that this video leaves us with many questions. Who are all the topless boys? Why are they wearing tinfoil boxers? What’s with all the choking? Why is everybody so angry and/or not wearing pants? Are trampolines fun? Does that man’s moustache have a name": www.stereogum.com
In the cartoon series Futurama, Bender and Beck are talking about this song, and Beck eventually questions what he was talking about when he wrote it. The video was nominated for Best Male Video: www.youtube.com
In 2010, The Stranger said that "Pavement is forever.": www.thestranger.com
Built To Spill, along with Phantogram and Tacocat, will play KEXP's SMOOCH Benefit tomorrow night, Saturday, December 2nd, 2017, at The Showbox.: www.axs.com
You know, this is the third CCFX song we've played during The Morning Show today.: ccfx.bandcamp.com
"Lately, lately, I find I rush...." Here are the radio edited lyrics: www.musixmatch.com
Pete Fijalkowski says of this song, "This was written pre-Adorable when we were called the Candy Thieves, which I had formed in 1988 with my friend Wayne Peters on guitar, when we were on a Film Studies course together at Warwick University. I can still remember the day we wrote it. Wil started playing the bass line, and Kevin joined in on the floor tom. I sang a whole load of lines culled from other discarded songs, Wayne picked some notes, and then when it felt right I stepped on my distortion pedal to make it start feeding back, Kevin sensed it was time to move onto the snare and we all crashed in – it was beautiful. Afterwards we danced around high on adrenaline, absolutely convinced we had created something special."
