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Alvvays at the SHowbox on Saturday October 28th. There are a couple 180 gram vinyl editions of the upcoming album available for preorder. Blue starburst and yellow.
You just missed Wolf Alice in Seattle but you can catch their 2015 KEXP in-studio here: blog.kexp.org
Karen O, wrote and performed the soundtrack to Spike Jonze's children's film Where The Wild Things, for which she earned a Grammy nomination. "Since as early as fifth or sixth grade I wanted to do stuff for kids.," said the singer. "That's my biggest goal, to focus on children's entertainment."
PJ Harvey and Egyptian recording artist Ramy Essam have come together to write and record ‘The Camp’, released digitally back in June. Harvey and Essam recorded the track in Bristol with Harvey’s long-time collaborator John Parish, who produced and mixed the track. The artists will donate all net profits from the track to Beyond Association, a national Lebanese NGO which provides access to education, healthcare, and psycho-social support for displaced children in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon. Find the video here: www.theguardian.com
The Barr Brothers are coming to Neumos on Saturday, September 16th
Mark your calendar! The National will be LIVE on KEXP Wednesday, November 29th at 9:30 AM! Come down and see them! Their two nights at the Paramount are sold out so here's your chance!
This song was originally recorded by Radiohead for their OK Computer album, but the band were unhappy with the version they'd laid down and it was left off the final tracklisting. Further unsuccessful attempts were made while recording Kid A and Amnesiac, before the fivesome fell out of love with the track, despite it being a fan favorite in concert. Finally, it was among three previously unreleased tracks on OKNOTOK, the 20th anniversary reissue of OK Computer.
You should be at Barboza on Saturday, November 18th because Cols Specks will be. They've stopped by KEXP three times and hopefully a fourth! Find the most recent in-studio here: www.youtube.com
This track features the vocals of roots reggae master Horace Andy, who is a long time associate of Massive Attack. Grant "Daddy G" Marshall paid tribute to Horace's openness to participate in something outside his normal musical boundaries to Spinner UK. He said: "Working with Horace, these are songs that are as far removed from what Horace would be doing in Jamaica as the sun is from the moon. It's a brilliant thing to know that someone like Horace has had the guts to come out of his idiom and work with us. I sometimes take the piss out of Horace, I say to him, 'Horace if you were to go back and play some of your tracks to your Jamaican friends they'd look at you like some weirdo.' It's so off-the-wall."
Hear John's interview with Trent Reznor tomorrow at 8am
Tune in every Monday at 8:00 AM to The Morning Show on KEXP, as Morgan and John air excerpts from her chats with Dean Hurley, Twin Peaks' music director. Yesterday's featured Chromatics: blog.kexp.org
Phantogram are back in Seattle on October 15th, next door at Key Arena
It’s a good sign that a band has really nailed their sound when there’s no shortage of adjectives that critics use to describe them, and since the release of their debut EP last year Lea Porcelain have garnered more than a few. Atmospheric, cinematic, quixotic, entrancing, dreamy, melancholic are a few ways to describe the London-by-way-of Berlin duo’s first LP, released last month. Hear another track from the album, 'A Year From Here', July 3rd's featured song of the day: blog.kexp.org
Algiers were recently at KEXP.... that in-studio isn't posted yet but you can check out their visit with Cheryl from 2015 in the meantime: www.youtube.com
At the start of 1998, The Verve's label, Hut asked them to put out another single from Urban Hymns, an idea which the band disagreed with. Hut pressed them and so the band finally agreed to release "Sonnet", but only in a format that would make it ineligible for chart recognition. Consequently, "Sonnet" was released as part of a set of four 12-inch records, limited to just 5000 copies
You can preorder Cry Cry Cry on red, white, or the now oddly rare to find black vinyl
In 1978, after he moved to California to get a fresh start since overcoming his heroin addiction, Carroll formed The Jim Carroll Band with encouragement from Patti Smith, with whom he once shared an apartment in New York City, along with Robert Mapplethorpe.
Kevin Morby will be LIVE on KEXP Monday, August 21st at 1:00 PM. This one is not open to the public but you can see him on August 20th and 21st at the Tractor
Studio engineer Ed Stasium: "We had fun with 'Pinhead.' They had this 'Gabba gabba hey' chant and I started messing with the vari-speed control on the tape machine, just as a joke. I'd speed it up and slow it down, and Dee Dee's going 'This is cool!.' It ended up being on the record. You can hear a little chipmunk voice going 'Gabba gabba.'"
Finn discussed the album with Billboard magazine. He said that he was "influenced a lot about getting old. There's less party talk. I don't think anything is a radical departure, but there are things that I wanted to talk about. I was influenced a lot [by] getting old, and attempting to age gracefully. The idea is to not wake up washed up. You want to keep progressing, intellectually."
Not sure if it is the same performance but there is video of Pearl Jam performing Daughter at the Gorge back in 2006: www.youtube.com
Depeche Mode are next door at Key Arena on October 21st with Warpaint. Looks like there are still tickets.
The word "Scaramouch" means "A stock character that appears as a boastful coward." You can watch Queen's Live Aid performance here: www.youtube.com
The new album, Queens of the Breakers is out October 13th. You can see The Barr Brothers at Neumos on December 16th
Waxahatchee were just in Seattle. The in-studio will be up soon but for now, here is another song from the new album: blog.kexp.org
The Violent Femmes are LIVE in the Gathering Space tomorrow at 1pm!
According to the Independent newspaper July 22, 2011, the song was inspired by a girl that Courtney Taylor-Taylor, the Dandy Warhols' guitarist and principal songwriter, found himself fantasizing about. He recalled how he was idly looking out of his apartment window watching traffic pull up at the lights below. "An early Eighties BMW 320i with a primer-grey front-left quarter panel stops there with an amazing looking young woman behind the wheel," Taylor Taylor said. "Her elbow was hangin' out the window at a jaunty angle and her roots were showing. She had a cool tattoo for that time and her face was exquisite." A one time car mechanic, the Dandy Warhol found himself desperately daydreaming her car might break down and he could spring to the rescue. "I sat there willing steam to pour from the hood of her car. I almost gave myself a hernia I was willing so hard."
In 2007, the band announced that they had reformed and were writing a new album, tentatively titled Small Engine Repair. They also announced several live dates. Neither the album nor the tour came to pass, but in 2011 the band did release a 7 inch single titled "Service Deck" / "The Weight". Frontman Stauffer works as a nurse in Northern California and has said "It’s hard to play a show because it hurts me physically. I only have one show in me. I can’t do two."
Written by L7 frontwoman Donita Sparks, this song is a call to action, making the point that doing nothing is exactly what the powers-that-be want from their opposition.
What was the band fighting for? For one thing, against the war in Iraq but also reproductive rights. Around this time, they formed an organization called Rock For Choice in an effort to combat the anti-abortion push of the George H. W. Bush administration. Supporters in L7's effort included Nirvana and Pearl Jam.
Time Zone was an electro band headed by Afrika Bambaataa. Bambaataa worked with different musicians for each Time Zone project. Afrika Bambaataa: "I was talking to Bill Laswell saying I need somebody who's really crazy, man, and he thought of John Lydon. I knew he was perfect because I'd seen this movie that he'd made (Copkiller), I knew about all the Sex Pistols and Public Image stuff, so we got together and we did a smashing crazy version, and a version where he cussed the Queen something terrible, which was never released."
Afrika Bambaataa & the Soulsonic Force wrote this song and were the first to record it. It is a tribute to various revolutionary American leaders, including Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X.
You can find The True Loves in Olympia on August 26th or in Denny Park for the Out to Lunch series on August 28th
These guys work hard! In addition to several European dates remaining this year they have 24 shows in New Orleans before the end of 2017!
Back in 2012 Galactic performed Hey Na Na live on KEXP. www.youtube.com
The "Land of ice and snow" is Iceland, where the band played in June 1970. Robert Plant explained: "We weren't being pompous. We did come from the land of the ice and snow. We were guests of the Icelandic Government on a cultural mission. We were invited to play a concert in Reykjavik and the day before we arrived all the civil servants went on strike and the gig was going to be canceled. The university prepared a concert hall for us and it was phenomenal. The response from the kids was remarkable and we had a great time. 'Immigrant Song' was about that trip and it was the opening track on the album that was intended to be incredibly different."
Jack White just recorded new music for his third solo album in New York City July 27th and Los Angeles July 30th. No release date for the album.
They chose their band name using a technique one of their heroes, David Bowie, sometimes used to compose lyrics: cutting up phrases and selecting one randomly. The one they pulled out of a hat was "Easy Cure," part of a lyric to a song they were working on. Robert Smith later convinced them to change it to "The Cure," as it sounded more punk.
Luna stopped by for an in-studio in 2015: www.youtube.com They also have a new album coming out in September. Check out the trailer and pre-order here: www.pledgemusic.com
Tim Farriss caught his left hand while operating a winch on his boat in Sydney in January 2015, severing his ring finger. He underwent two extensive operations to reattach his digit but was left with permanent hand damage. As a consequence, it is uncertain if he will ever be able to play the guitar properly again.
In an interview with Harp magazine in 2007, Faulkner revealed that the song was written not about a former lover but about the split with Radalj:
"Basically, when Rod Radalj left the Gurus he was very dismissive of us, trying to move on and kind of burn everything behind him: ‘Oh, it’s not worth staying in that band. They’re terrible!’ So I basically turned that emotion around: ‘Here’s this guy who ditched us and he’s acting like the spurned lover!’ It was me saying, ‘You’ll regret it.’"...
"Well, yeah, I just turned all that stuff into a relationship song.” Faulkner says. “I don’t know why people don’t realize that it’s an anger song. You’re right, they think it’s a longing song. But it’s not a song about ‘I wish you’d come back,’ but — ‘You’ll wish you were back!’"
Playing Key Arena on October 15th with Phantogram. Yesterday, Arcade Fire fans went through a roller coaster of emotions as the Canadian band announced their new album, Everything Now, was available on a limited-edition fidget spinner, and then announced it was promptly sold out. www.theverge.com
To celebrate the 35th anniversary of 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' this summer, four iconic Joy Division albums were reissued on heavyweight 180-gram vinyl: 'Unknown Pleasures' and 'Closer' on June 29th, followed by 'Still' and an expanded version of 'Substance' – both available as double-LP sets - on July 24th. The new version features two additional songs which were not included on previous editions: 'As You Said' and the Pennine version of 'Love Will Tear Us Apart'. smarturl.it
Watch video of Gerald Collier and collaborator Anna Horvitz in an acoustic performance at KEXP in 2013: blog.kexp.org