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Monday, Sep 11 2017, 6AM
From their fourth studio album. "Everything in Its Right Place" was actually the first song Thom Yorke wrote on the piano.
Moby has described Everything Is Wrong as "a record that almost served as a lifeboat for the songs I cared the most about", and added that the reason he covered as many musical styles as he did on the album was not "out of trying to be eclectic, but just because I was in love with all of these genres and I felt like this may be my only chance to make a record."
"Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust" translates to "With a Buzz in Our Ears We Play Endlessly". Sigur Ros originally intended the album's lyrics to be in English, but in the end the band decided that Icelandic felt more natural to them. However, the album does include their first track sung in English, "All Right".
R.E.M.'s Peter Buck is in Filthy Friends, who performed last weekend at Bumbershoot. You can read all about it on the KEXP blog: blog.kexp.org
The National will be playing live on KEXP Wednesday, November 29 at 9:30 AM. Free and open to the public! (They're playing two sold out shows at the Paramount Theatre Nov 28 and 29, so it's a good chance to catch them if you didn't get tickets. www.kexp.org)
ODESZA performed live on the midday show with Cheryl Waters this past Friday - that should be up on the KEXP YouTube channel soon, but in the meantime check out the writeup of their Bumbershoot performance over on the KEXP blog! blog.kexp.org
Our song of the day a couple weeks back - more at blog.kexp.org !
The first single off her new record "Turn Out The Lights". You can catch Julien Baker December 8th at the Neptune Theatre. julienbaker.com
Playing October 11th at the Neptune Theatre - www.hopesandoval.com
Fittingly following up on her performance at the Roadhouse in Season 3 of Twin Peaks, Sharon Van Etten will be performing at David Lynch's Festival of Disruption in Los Angeles October 14th and 15th. www.sharonvanetten.com
Natasha Khan created the album while staying in a rented house in Woodstock, NY conscious of the past (Jimi Hendrix) and present (David Bowie had a home nearby at the time.) Of Bowie, she says "I was thinking about him quite a lot when I was making this album. He was my spiritual guardian angel while I was there. He was someone I really admired because he approaches art in a way that is rare and multidimensional, covering all the bases. And he was a perfectionist. I identify with lots of those feelings." www.batforlashes.com
Hopefully the Morning Show is helping you like Mondays better. ❤️
L'appel du vide, literally "the call of the void", is a French phrase used to refer to intrusive thoughts or the urge to engage in a self-destructive behavior during everyday life. actors.bandcamp.com
Read all about The Veils appearance on Twin Peaks over at the KEXP blog, where DJ Morgan has an exclusive interview with the show’s music director Dean Hurley: blog.kexp.org
Wolf Parade will play the Showbox on January 13th! www.wolfparade.com
Congrats to LCD Soundsystem, who just earned their first #1 album with "American Dream". 🤘
SPEAKING of that funky drummer sample ... maybe check out our Funky Drummer day blog post from last year, where we interviewed 24 different drummers: blog.kexp.org
Beck played a great show at Marymoor recently - read all about it on the KEXP blog: blog.kexp.org
Beck is touring with U2 right now on their Joshua Tree tour - www.u2.com
New album 'Sorry Is Gone' out 9/29 via ATO Records. www.jessicaleamayfield.com
You can check out KEXP's review of this album over on the blog: blog.kexp.org
Playing at Neumos on Halloween! 👻 🎶 🎃 www.cultscultscults.com
The music video for this track is quintessentially 90's. Playing out on a sidewalk, crazy camera lens effects, shiny wall coverings. And lots of cats for some reason. www.youtube.com
Playing Neumos Crystal Ball Reading Room October 5th: www.rainermaria.com
Modest Mouse will be playing the Washington State Fair with Built to Spill on September 21st -
www.thefair.com
Fun fact: This was the first Stones song to feature a sitar.
The Black Angels will be playing the Showbox on October 23: theblackangels.com
The AV Club describes L.A. Witch as a "garage-rock trio whose music sounds like it should be blaring from a ghostly Thunderbird as it disappears into the midnight mist." They'll be rolling into town (hopefully in that Thunderbird..) playing Chop Suey on October 8th: lawitches.bandcamp.com
Happy birthday, Ted Leo! Fun fact: did you know you can catch Ted Leo, Aimee Mann, KEXP's DJ Riz, and many other amazing people on the JoCo Cruise this February? 🚢 🎶 jococruise.com
Playing the Tractor Tavern September 23: www.thepainsofbeingpureatheart.com
Shoegaze influence - Slowdive and Ride have both cited The House of Love as influencing their sound.
They have the best website. Please just go there. www.wearesuperorganism.com
"I have been a fan of Tegan and Sara since first hearing 'Walking With A Ghost'. When working on new songs I had them in mind. I had a loop for 'Bad Ones' and thought they'd be great on it. Tegan and Sara eagerly accepted the challenge to write more, so I sent it over. Practically overnight, they returned with the verse and the chorus, written from scratch over my loop. I spent the next month working on it, turning a demo into a full-fledged song. Working with Tegan and Sara reminds me the best songs are born from an open and free process. Often times, we need to get out of our own way to let the magic happen, and this song is a bold reminder of that." www.matthewdear.com
St. Vincent's new album MASSEDUCTION is out October 13th. ilovestvincent.com P.S. it's apparently pronounced “mass seduction,” not “mass education.” Good to know!
The chorus sampled American jazz drummer Idris Muhammad's 1977 song "Could Heaven Ever Be Like This"
Check out the video, which Bowie described as "very simple, very direct" statement against racism and oppression, and a very direct statement about integration of one culture with another. www.youtube.com
Antibalas describes themselves as "Born in a Brooklyn warehouse in 1997, 12-piece ensemble Antibalas is credited with introducing Afrobeat to a wider global audience, influencing countless musicians and developing a live show that is the stuff of legend." antibalas.bandcamp.com
Playing the WA State Fair Thursday, September 21. builttospill.com