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Friday, Aug 4 2017, 6AM
Good morning and happy Friday. You can hear this marvelous musician as KEXP's guest at the Iceland Airwaves Festival, November 1-5, 2017. find out how you can win airfare, hotel accommodations, and festival passes.: blog.kexp.org
Watch video of Ben Harper's stirring solo in-studio performance at KEXP last year: blog.kexp.org
Jeff Buckley performed "Last Goodbye" live in Chicago during his Mystery White Boy tour in 1995: www.youtube.com
Grant Lee encourages you to sign up for the newsletter and "never miss a post": www.grantleephillips.com
"You don't have a clue...What it is like to be next to you...
I'm here to tell you...
That it is good..." Enjoy the lyrics: www.songfacts.com it is true
ODESZA will be LIVE on KEXP on Friday, September 8th, 2017 at noon. The public is invited to sign up and attend that performance. On the previous Sunday, September 3rd, the band will play the Bumbershoot Music and Arts Festival: www.bumbershoot.com
“Blanket Me,” is if anything, a perfect case-study in what makes the Gainesville, Florida band so appealing. They are obsessives when it comes to sound design, and “Blanket Me” demonstrates how tight, and well-made each and every sound and instrument they use is....": pitchfork.com
This is, of course, a Daft Punk cover. Watch this wonderful band in a 2016 KEXP in-studio session: blog.kexp.org
You know it's "gonna get better" when this Canadian collective plays The Neptune Theatre on Monday, October 23rd, 2017.
Widowspeak, too, will be here in town, playing Barboza on Saturday, September 23rd, 2017.
"Shut Up Kiss Me" and download this KEXP Song of the Day for yourself: blog.kexp.org
Verve lead singer Richard Ashcroft wrote this song. In one interview, he said that it referred to his drug usage. It's also said that it tackles the hardship of watching his father dying of cancer when Ashcroft was 11 years old. The drugs given to his father were no longer working.: dontforgetthesongs365.wordpress.com
We know that Iceland band Mammut will be here in Seattle as part of Taste of Iceland on Saturday, October 14th, 2017. The venue has yet to be announced. Stay tuned!
Musician Franklin Fisher wrote: "The meaning of this song's title is twofold: It's based around a sample of the gospel song 'Peace be Still' by Rev James Cleveland, but it's primarily meant to invoke Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old black boy who was shot and killed by police in Cleveland, Ohio in November 2014.
"I wanted the song to sound like the Final Judgement in the Bible, wherein the wicked are judged and condemned by the righteous with all the 'weeping and gnashing of teeth,' of the damned when justice is finally realized.": www.npr.org
"Giddy up." You may be searching for the meaning of rhymes like: "Standing on the lawn doin' jiu jitsu..
Girl in a bikini with the Lamborghini shih tzu."
Beck told Q magazine: "That rap was all mostly free-form. Later, I did try and write something that was more finessed, but it didn't have the same energy. So I left Wow as it was."
Here's a biography of PM Dawn: www.pmdawn.net
Did you know that this album is 30 years old?: www.allmusic.com
Beck directed the video for "The New Pollution" (Check out that dancing!):
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Read this discussion of "Jimmy James" from "The Music Obsessive's Guide To Life": thedailyguru.blogspot.com
What a great band! Here they are, performing "Surrender" with Pearl Jam last year: www.youtube.com
Ahhh...the Friday song! Today marks the beginning of KEXP's August series, Concerts at the Mural: blog.kexp.org
This song may have as many as 250 samples. Read how it became "Dance Music's First Pop Hit": www.rollingstone.com
Explaining the popularity of this song, band member Danny Boy said, "It’s the kind of shit you can put a lampshade on your head and act an idiot to.": www.maxim.com
The True Loves are performing in Sequim (Work on that pronunciation, East coasters.) tonight, Friday, August 4th: www.facebook.com
Go to "the retirement home for clowns" (Owen?) in the video for "Generator": www.youtube.com
In this song, Costello is protesting the commercialization of late 1970s FM radio. Radio stations would become more and more consolidated over the years, and their playlists tightened up considerably. Eventually, deregulation led to a few companies owning the majority of American radio stations, which led to automated stations. Tom Petty sang about this on his 2002 track "The Last DJ."
"On and on and on and on...
What side are you on?" Here are the lyrics: www.azlyrics.com
Here's a recent Financial Times article on "New Order in a rave new world": www.ft.com
Happy 12th birthday, Tyler. See the video as a birthday present: www.youtube.com
"Ghostland Observatory is not a band, but an agreement between two friends to create something that not only heals their beat-driven hearts, but pleases their rock ‘n roll souls.": www.facebook.com
What about reviving the music of Tones on Tail?: sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com
Did this set begin with the initials for Ghostland Observatory? Read the story of this bitter breakup song.: myrockmixtapes.com
"It all started in 1976 as Easy Cure..." So begins the biography of The Cure on their official website: www.thecure.com
"Son, she said, "have I got a little story for you..." Pearl Jam performed "Alive" live at Madison Square Garden last year: www.youtube.com
It's Ian Broudie's birthday. Not only was he the frontman for The Lightning Seeds, he was also a renowned post-punk producer: www.allmusic.com
Go back, back, back to the 1980's with this video: www.youtube.com
Here are "10 of the best" from The Lemonheads: www.theguardian.com
NME calls this "one of the greatest pop songs in history": www.nme.com
She may be rapping a little fast for you to catch all the lyrics: genius.com
This samples "Summer Madness" by Kool & The Gang. The last words in the lyrics of that song also were "summer madness." This won a 1992 Grammy for Best Rap Performance By a Duo or Group. There was some drama surrounding the category that year because Public Enemy, who were also nominated, boycotted the show because the rap awards were not televised, saying it disrespected "inner-city contributions to the music industry."
Clash drummer Topper Headon wrote the music and the original lyrics. In an interview, singer Joe Strummer claimed that "the real genius of 'Rock The Casbah' is Topper. He banged down the drum track. Then ran over to the piano and then the bass."
Look at the cover art for LCD Soundsystem's highly anticipated new album, "American Dream," due out on September 1st, 2017.: consequenceofsound.net
Read about "how America got under Bowie's skin, and vice-versa": www.theguardian.com
