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Friday, Aug 25 2017, 6AM
"Plainsong" is the subject of this "don't forget the songs that made you cry / and the songs that saved your life" essay: neverletmedown.wordpress.com
"So i am doing in a project in class and we have to bring in a song and describe the meaning of it. So I am doing Walking In My Shoes and i wanted some help with what you guys thought it meant...." Read the responses to this cry for help: forums.depechemode.com
Thom Yorke: "Some people can't sleep with the curtains open in case they see the eyes they imagine in their heads every night burning through the glass. Lots of people have panic buttons fitted in their bedrooms so they can reach over and set the alarm off without disturbing the intruder. This song is about the cupboard monster."
"Sleep Well Beast" is due out on September 8th, 2017 and "is shaping up to be the best album the band has done." Watch the video for "Guilty Party," which "reflects on hopelessness and defeat": www.npr.org
Elbow may sing this song when they perform at The Showbox on Friday, November 10th, 2017. The song is named after the road that leads up to Manchester Piccadilly Station.: www.youtube.com
"Love my superstitious games...
running circles round my brain when I'm left smiling..." Here are the lyrics to this classic: www.lyricsmode.com
Rainier Maria will play Neumos on Thursday, October 5th, 2017.
David Lynch's son is playing guitar on this track. Welcome to Twin Peaks!: welcometotwinpeaks.com
Treat Her Right is a blues rock group formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1984 by Mark Sandman, pre-Morphine. The band derived its name from the 1965 international smash hit by Roy Head and the Traits, "Treat Her Right." Sandman "thinks she likes me.": www.youtube.com
Beck is performing tonight, Friday, August 25th, 2017, at Marymoor Park in Redmond, Washington. This song, "Dear Life," is from his new album, "Colors," due out on October 13th, 2017.: www.facebook.com
Good morning! Read about this song about boring domesticity (with, perhaps, the promise of meeting Yoko Ono): www.rollingstone.com
"....and if they try to slow you down, tell 'em all to go to hell..." This KEXP Song of the Day should definitely be on your running playlist.: blog.kexp.org
Tonight, Friday, August 25th, 2017, you can hear Fidlar at The Showbox.
"Debaser" has many features of a Nirvana song (opens with a bass solo, start/stop rhythms, lurching and noisy guitar solo, and loud/soft dynamics). This is because the Pixies were one of Kurt Cobain's main influences. Cobain said that when writing "Smells Like Teen Spirit" he was trying to imitate "Debaser" musically and lyrically. The guitar riffs of the two songs are very similar.
Wayne Coyne told NME in 2013 that he considers this song to be his proudest moment. He explained: "A part of you makes it and you don't really think that much of it. Then someone comes up and says, 'we used that song at my mother's funeral'. You can say it's just a dumb song, or you can say, 'I understand.'"
Earlier this year, The Godfathers' Peter Coyne (no relation to Wayne) talked about this song, among other things, in this interview:goldenageofmusicvideo.com
"I spot a cookie in the kitchen drawer...
and at 7:34 I'm out the door.." Memorize the lyrics: genius.com
Taking the name MC 900 Ft. Jesus from an Oral Roberts' sermon, the Dallas native Mark Griffin began recording in the late '80s.:www.allmusic.com
"Giddy up." If you're at Marymoor Park in Redmond, WA tonight, Friday, August 25th, 2017, you'll hear this song. www.youtube.com
This remix by the Mexican Institute Of Sound features la Banda Bastön’s Mü, the retitled “GUAU!” bursts with cumbia horns, D.R.A.M.-esque Mario samples, and a new Spanish-language rap verse.: www.stereogum.com
Ahhh....the Friday song. KEXP's free Concert at the Mural tonight, Friday, August 25th, features The Maldives, Industrial Revelation, and Emily Lee Toyoda.:blog.kexp.org
"45" is a down and dirty music video shot on some very old Kodak EXR 16mm film stock. The idea was to make it play like it came out of American hardcore or an early nineties Charles Peterson rock-n-roll photograph.: www.youtube.com
The beat came from the guitar riff on The Knack's 1979 hit "My Sharona." Run-D.M.C. had a knack for finding samples that made their tracks instantly recognizable and palatable for a wide audience at a time when rap was generally considered a passing fad. In 2006, The Knack's Doug Fieger and Berton Averre sued Run-D.M.C. and their associates, as well as various online stores and content providers, for using an unlicensed sample. In reference to why it had taken twenty years to bring their case to court, the group said they had only recently become aware of the track.
The PIL documentary, 'The Public Image is Rotten,' will get an Australian film festival screening in August at the Melbourne International Film Festival. General release details are still being worked out. Keep an eye on PiLOfficial.com for updates.: www.pilofficial.com
Arcade Fire will play KeyArena on Sunday, October 15th, 2017. Watch the official video for "Everything Now": www.youtube.com
Motopony says, "We hope you enjoy this song with the windows down and volume up on your way somewhere spontaneous with someone wonderful." This is "Free": smarturl.it
This is the new track from The Horrors' fifth album, appropriately called "V," due out on September 22nd, 2017: diymag.com
"Bowie couldn’t sing like Mercury—no one could—but his comparatively mortal range and immense gifts of rhythm and phrasing coax Mercury to unexpected places, and his soaring falsetto imbues bleak lines like “these are the days—it never rains but it pours” with disarming beauty. It’s the most unmistakably soulful vocal Mercury ever recorded, which is a hell of a tribute to David Bowie in itself." Read a glowing tribute to this song: www.slate.com
"I was there...." at Madison Square Garden when LCD Soundsytem performed "Losing My Edge.": www.youtube.com
Here's
Beck live, performing "Black Tambourine.": www.youtube.com Watch Beck live tonight at Marymoor Park in Redmond, WA.
This album was released on this date in 1975. Read how Bruce Springsteen chronicled the decline of the American dream: www.theatlantic.com
Perhaps you've heard of this band, whose debut album came out in 1981? Read 5 highlights from the new Replacements biography: www.vulture.com
Ms. Hill will be at the WaMu Theater on Tuesday, October 10th, 2017. She'll indubitably perform songs from this 1998 release.
When Paul Simon entered the studio to record 1986's "Graceland," he didn't have a single song prepared. Read more about this extraordinary album: www.rollingstone.com
This song debuted on The Kinks' "Everybody's in Show-Biz," released on this date 45 (!) years ago today.: www.youtube.com
Portland band Blitzen Trapper will be playing The 1-2-3 Festival in Portland on Saturday, September 2nd, 2017.: www.blitzentrapper.net "Black River Killer' was release on August 25th, 2009.
Amigo the Devil with TK & The Holy Know-Nothings and Rattlesnake Milk
Monday, Nov 25, 2024
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What is it about "3" that makes it a magic number?: www.phactual.com
"Villains" is out today! Read a review that says that QOTSA "rediscover their swagger" on this release: www.vulture.com
James Murphy co-produced this rocker from The Rapture.
"Meantime" was released 25 years ago. Visit the official Helmet website here: www.helmetmusic.com
Such a lovely song... Watch Robert Earl Keen performing it live at Austin City Limits: www.youtube.com
Here's an interview with James' Tim Booth on sex, death, and growing up: www.nme.com
Someone wrote, "Summer 1995... I feel like crying when I think of all the dreams I had at that time ... Dreams that unfortunately did not come true..." Here's the video for "Summer": www.youtube.com
The song's "la-la-la" coda is a case of a placeholder becoming the actual lyric, as the songwriters couldn't think of actual words that made sense. Here are more facts about this hit from "The Breakfast Club": www.songfacts.com
Future Islands will play The Neptune Theatre on Saturday, September 23rd, 2017.
This terrific new song by Wolf Parade is available to you for free as a KEXP Song of the Day: blog.kexp.org
Here are the Pumpkins, playing this song live at Pinkpop in 1994: www.youtube.com
It was just about a decade ago that John Richards chose the Editors' "Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors" as a free KEXP Song of the Day: blog.kexp.org
Here's a review of the album "from the year 2057 A.D.": pitchfork.com
