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Friday, Jul 7 2017, 6AM
Good morning and happy Friday. "Michael Kiwanuka is aching, his voice ravaged with pain and despair. “Bleeding, I’m bleeding,” he sings on “Cold Little Heart,” the sprawling opening track of his new album, Love & Hate. This is the throaty wail of singers like Isaac Hayes and Sam Cooke, where the pangs of regret can be heard in each note and exasperated lyric...." Read more about this fine song: pitchfork.com
Brad Pitt thinks that Jimi Hendrix wrote this song after staring at the grotto of Pitt's Hollywood home (That's P.P. --Pre-Pitt): wzlx.cbslocal.com
Ben Harper will perform at The Knitting Factory in Spokane, Washington on Wednesday, July 19th, 2017. He'll be in Tacoma at The Pantages Theater on Friday, July 21st, 2017.
Did you know that Chris Cornell’s red phone on stage in his solo shows belonged to Jeff Buckley? Read more about Buckley here: entertainment/music/chris-cornells-red-phone-on-stage-in-his-solo-shows-belonged-to-jeff-buckley/news-story/cf01d97bb22a96a7fc1552c7e577003c
An extraordinary song from a great album. What did he say, Polly Jean?
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You can hear Benjamin Booker singing "Overtime" when he comes to Neumos on Sunday, September 10th, 2017. Learn more about Booker's new release, "Witness," in this NPR essay:www.npr.org
This "jaunty" or "plucky" tune features guitar work by former Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler.: www.stereogum.com
"I'm in a haze, an in between stage...'Cause I'm not awake but walk in a state..." Seem familiar? genius.com
Watch this live performance of "Save It For Later" from KEXP's Bumbershoot Music Lounge in 2010: www.youtube.com
Don't miss the opportunity to hear this powerful musician at Marymoor Park on Saturday, August 12th, 2017.: www.bethditto.com
Speaking of running (part 3).... Here's one of our favorite running songs. "I'm in love with rock-n-roll and I'll be out all night...." Get on the road in Massachusetts with this video: www.youtube.com
Happy birthday, Sugar Free. This great song was a KEXP Song of the Day. Download it for free: blog.kexp.org American Songwriter ran a feature on this song : americansongwriter.com
Read an Allmusic biography of this vibrant group: www.allmusic.com And here's the official video for "Cult of Personality": www.youtube.com
Follow this link to the Faith No More official website: www.fnm.com
Two weeks from now, Friday, July 21st, 2017, Wolf Alice will sing this song at The Sunset Tavern. The new album, "Visions of a Life," will be released on September 29th, 2017.
Another band that's coming to town...The Pains of Being Pure at Heart will play The Tractor Tavern on Saturday, September 23rd, 2017. This song was a KEXP Song of the Day: blog.kexp.org
Glasgow band Belle and Sebastian will perform at The Paramount Theatre on Tuesday, August 8th, 2017.: www.ticketfly.com
Morrissey said that his life forever changed when he began writing songs with guitarist Johnny Marr in 1982. "I am shaken when I hear Johnny play guitar," Morrissey writes. "He is quite obviously gifted and almost unnaturally multitalented. Since he shows exact perspective on all things, I can't help but wonder: What is he doing here with me?…Why has Johnny not sprayed his mark - elsewhere, with others less scarred and less complicated than I am?": www.rollingstone.com
Former Vampire Weekend singer and producer Rostam Batmanglij will release his debut solo album, Half-Light on Sept. 8 via Nonesuch Records."Bike Dream" is the second song Rostam has shared from Half-Light, after releasing "Gwan" in May.: www.npr.org
Speaking of houses.... A House was an Irish band that was active in the 180's and 90's: www.youtube.com
Ahhh....the Friday song. Get the seventh installment of KEXP's Running Podcast, curated by runner John Richards, right here: blog.kexp.org
They're driving up the West Coast to play The Showbox on Friday, August 25th, 2017. Watch the official music video: www.youtube.com
Bowie first performed this on a television show hosted by his friend Marc Bolan, who was the lead singer for T-Rex. A week later, Bolan died when his girlfriend crashed their car into a tree.: www.songfacts.com
Algiers will be LIVE on KEXP next Saturday, July 15th, 2017, at 3:00 p.m. They'll be playing The Crocodile that evening.
Watch this Scottish trio perform "Nest" in a great live KEXP in-studio session:blog.kexp.org
See the powerful video for TV on the Radio's "Trouble": www.youtube.com
Here's a musical reflection on "Three Little Birds": you.stonybrook.edu
There are somf fine photos of the band at their official "home base": www.slf.rocks
Here are the Sex Pistols, performing this song live on UK's Bedazzled TV: www.youtube.com This album came out 40 (!) years ago.
40 years ago, The Clash released their debut self-titled album: diffuser.fm
Part of the chorus and the bridge of this 40-year-old tune are in French. The verse translates to "What I did, that evening, what she said, that evening fulfilling my hope I throw myself towards glory." The chorus lyric "Qu'est-ce que c'est?" means "What is this?" The "Fa Fa" part comes from an Otis Redding song called "Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song)." Redding and other Soul singers were a big influence on Talking Heads.
"..In my faded leather jacket ....And my weathered Brogan shoes..." Here are the lyrics to this wonderful Robert Earl Keen song: www.cowboylyrics.com
In the movie Bull Durham, erratic young pitcher Nuke LaLoosh, played by Tim Robbins, sings this on the team bus but butchers the lyrics, much to the dismay of Crash Davis, the veteran catcher played by Kevin Costner. Instead of "Young girls they do get weary," he sang "Young girls they do get wooly."
Stevie Wonder wrote this song as a tribute to music, specifically to Duke Ellington who had just passed away in 1974. In addition to Ellington, musicians referenced in this song are "Satchmo" Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, and Count Basie.
Watch Nick the Lounge Singer perform "Star Wars": www.nbc.com
Here's a Paris Review discussion of the 40-year-old "See No Evil"( and Marquee Moon) :www.theparisreview.org
Donna Summer was born LaDonna Adrian Gaines on December 31, 1948, in Boston. She was one of seven children. Her father was a butcher, and her mother was a school teacher. Read her biography from The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: www.rockhall.com “This music will always be with us,” Ms. Summer told The New York Times in 2003. “I mean, whether they call it disco music or hip-hop or bebop or flip-flop, whatever they’re going to call it, I think music to dance to will always be with us.”
You may add "Whirring" to your own music library by downloading this KEXP Song of the Day: blog.kexp.org
Stevie Nicks said,"I very much resented him (Lindsey Buckingham) telling the world that 'packing up, shacking up' with different men was all I wanted to do." "He knew it wasn't true. It was just an angry thing that he said. Every time those words would come onstage, I wanted to go over and kill him. He knew it, so he really pushed my buttons through that. It was like, 'I'll make you suffer for leaving me.' And I did.": www.soundonsound.com
This wonderful debut album also came out 40 years ago in 1977: www.treblezine.com
"Ted Leo Returns, Solo And Reinvigorated, With 'You're Like Me'": www.npr.org
This was Soundgarden's final song, performed in Detroit on May 17th, 2017: www.youtube.com
The title came from an expression Ringo Starr used. They chose it to take the edge off the heavy philosophical lyrics. Working titles for the song before Ringo gave them inspiration were "Mark I" and "The Void."
Hear Algiers performing LIVE on KEXP next Saturday, July 15th, 2017 at 3:00 p.m. and see them at The Crocodile that night.
Read about the various versions of this "perfect" song: www.aquariumdrunkard.com
Watch Luna perform a dreamy live session in the KEXP studio in 2016: blog.kexp.org
Prepare yourself for something supremely weird: www.youtube.com
This debut album came out on this date in 1987 (thirty years ago today).
One of our favorite running songs....The album "Lust for Life" was recorded during a self-imposed "exile" in Berlin, Germany, where Iggy Pop and his friend David Bowie undertook to wean themselves off their drug habits, a move they later admitted was only moderately successful, as they could not resist the hedonistic nightlife the city had to offer.David Bowie originally sang backup vocals for the repeated "La-La"s in the chorus.
See the video for this 1977 song: www.youtube.com
Celebrating 1977 throughout the show! released by Cheap Trick on the 1977 album Cheap Trick. It was written by Rick Nielsen, Cheap Trick's lead guitarist and primary songwriter.