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Does this song sound like Funkadelic's "I Got A Thing"? Read about "Verve songs that sound like other songs and possible inspirations": www.thevervelive.com
Foals frontman Yannis Philippakis told NME the story of this song:
"The central image - 'I see a mountain at my gates' was from me getting more interested in seeing what would come out lyrically where there wasn't a pre-conceived idea," Philippakis added. "Normally I write voraciously in books and journals, then harvest a lot of that for the record. This, though, came out instantaneously in the room."
Look at this 2008 picture of Longwave sitting on the very old couch at KEXP's old home and then listen to their in-studio performance: blog.kexp.org
Did you hear the word "Toronto" in the lyrics? Well, that's where they're from.: www.facebook.com
Learn about "the day INXS broke through with 'Listen Like Thieves'": ultimateclassicrock.com
Wolf Alice gives you a track-by-track breakdown of their sophomore release, "Visions of a Life": consequenceofsound.net
"Formed in Newcastle-on-Tyne, a port city and coal-mining hub in northeast England, the Animals reflected their upbringing with brawling, blues-based rock and roll. The group derived its inspiration - and much of its early repertoire - from American blues and R&B sources, adapting them to their native British working-class sensibility." Read more of The Animals' biography: www.rockhall.com
They'll bring this energy to The Showbox on Tuesday, February 20th, 2018.
She'll be at The Moore Theatre on Thursday, January 18th, 2018 and Friday, January 19th, 2018.: www.songkick.com
Santigold explained the meaning of this deeply personal jam to Spin magazine: "It's getting out a bunch of anger inside about the death of my dad," she said. Watch a live performance of this powerful song: www.youtube.com
A few years ago, Matthew Dear and Tegan And Sara teamed up for a cover of Tears For Fears’ “Pale Shelter." This one’s an original Dear track. Read what he and Sara Quin have to say about it: www.stereogum.com
You can buy this track from Australian duo Geowulf at their Bandcamp page.: geowulf.bandcamp.com
Scintillating morning DJ John Richards picked this song as a KEXP Song of the Day. Download it for yourself for free: blog.kexp.org
--We’re still unclear whether The Witch is actually still in the band – but if she isn’t, she has an open invitation to join Shake the Shack!
“Woman Is A Word” is a great example of the sort of thing singer/songwriter/producer Lorely Rodriguez can do. It’s a wispy, propulsive synthpop jam, and its lyrics interrogate the idea of gender and its general meaninglessness.: www.stereogum.com
The Breeders will certainly play "Wait in the Car" when they play The Showbox on Thursday, November 9th, 2017.
"Symmetry! Symmetry! No, it's not. It's in the trees. It's not. It's inside me!" J.C., it's a great song!
"It's the most perfect time and the weather is perfection...
To watch as my father battles infection... Here are the lyrics to "Day Drunk": www.azlyrics.com and here's Butch Walker performing the song live: www.youtube.com
Broken Social Scne played a terrific live set at KEXP at 3:00 p.m. on Monday, October 23rd, 2017. You can listen to that session on KEXP's streaming archive: www.kexp.org
"Boris the Spider" was written after The Who's bassist John Entwistle had been out drinking with The Rolling Stones' bass guitarist, Bill Wyman. They were making up funny names for animals when Entwistle came up with "Boris the Spider". The song was written by Entwistle in six minutes. "Creepy, crawly, creepy, crawly."
Visit Chris Ballew's official website right here: chrisballew.org
Ahhh.....the Friday song. Tomorrow, Saturday, October 28th, 2017, is the big record fair in KEXP's Gathering Space. do you love vinyl? This is for you!: blog.kexp.org
Singing inside the car...skateboarding...wearing a Charlie Brown T-shirt...Here's the video for "Deeper Shade of Soul": www.youtube.com
Happy fifth birthday, Sidney. David Bowie co-wrote this "birthday" song with Iggy Pop, with Bowie composing the music on a ukulele. It was inspired by the opening to the American Forces Network News, which the pair listened to in Berlin. Iggy recalled to Q magazine April 2013: "Once a week the Armed Forces Network would play Starsky & Hutch and that was our little ritual. AFN would broadcast an ID when they came on the air, a representation of a radio tower, and it made a signal sound, 'beep-beep-beep, beep-beep-ba-beep.' And we went, 'Aha we'll take that!'. David grabbed his ukulele, worked out the chords, and away we went."
This is a fabulous cover of the original Equals' song. Read about Eddy Grant and the original song here: www.mojo4music.com
If you're on the West Coast (specifically, Los Angeles), you can catch Fidlar at Camp Flog Gnaw (What a great name!) tomorrow and Sunday, October 28th and 29th: fidlarmusic.com
"What does it tell you when you change into a stranger?" Want to read the lyrics?: genius.com
Elizabeth Fraser of Cocteau Twins sang lead vocals and wrote the song's lyrics, inspired by the works of French philosopher Gaston Bachelard. While recording the song on 29 May 1997, she found out that her once-close friend, Jeff Buckley, had drowned. "That was so weird ... I'd got letters out and I was thinking about him. That song's kind of about him – that's how it feels to me anyway."
Arguably the centerpiece of LCD Soundsystem’s fourth full length album, “American Dream,” “How Do You Sleep?” is a sprawling, nine-minute monolith chronicling James Murphy’s deteriorated relationship with DFA co-founder Tim Goldsworthy.: genius.com
Watch the extraordinary Kate Tempest performing "Perfect Coffee" live in the KEXP studio: www.youtube.com
That's a shawm you're hearing on this song. A shawm is "a conical bore, double-reed woodwind instrument made in Europe from the 12th century to the present day." Learn more than you ever knew before about the shawm here: en.wikipedia.org
Watch Freddie Mercury run out on the stage as the video for this live song begins: www.youtube.com
This is a wonderful cover of a wonderful Talking Heads song.: www.stereogum.com
Speaking of Talking Heads, "You may ask yourself, How do I work this?": www.youtube.com
On 2/4/1986, the Replacements, having just made their major-label debut with "Tim" and earned a lifetime ban from NBC for swearing live on Saturday Night Live, played one of their final shows before the departure of original guitarist Bob Stinson at the legendary Maxwell’s in Hoboken, New Jersey. Read more about it here: www.stereogum.com
Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile were live on KEXP last Sunday, October 22nd, 2017, at 1:00 p.m. You can listen to that performance on KEXP's streaming archive: www.kexp.org
Tom Petty originally wrote "Free Fallin'" to make Jeff Lynne laugh.: www.billboard.com
The National will be LIVE on KEXP on Wednesday, November 29, 2017, at 9:30 AM. This performance is for broadcast only. The National will perform at The Paramount Theatre on Tuesday, November 28th, and Wednesday, November 29th, 2017.
This one-person show in the KEXP studio in 2015 was exhilarating: www.youtube.com
Here's the uncensored video for Duran Duran's "The Chauffeur": vimeo.com
Watch Sufjan Stevens performing this song live at the Royal Festival Hall in 2011: www.youtube.com
On this date in 1970, Black Sabbath played their first ever live show in the United States when they kicked off a 16-date tour at Glassboro State College (now, Rowan College) in New Jersey.
This is a previously-unreleased rendition of David Bowie's "Heroes,” one of the last songs ever recorded by frontman Lemmy Kilmister, who died in December 2015 after a battle with cancer. Here's a review of the new covers album: www.metalinjection.net