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Friday, Jun 30 2017, 6AM
Good morning and happy Friday. Almost three decades since the Smashing Pumpkins formed in Chicago, Illinois, frontman Billy Corgan is getting the band back together. Drummer Jimmy Chamberlin has revealed that The Smashing Pumpkins original lineup could hit the road again in 2018.: www.newsweek.com
"Starting off like some twisted-off acoustic Spaghetti Western-like theme and morphing into a more cosmic rock song, “Yin and Yang” perfectly reflected the internal dynamics of Love & Rockets." Read more about this song and about Love and Rockets: dontforgetthesongs365.wordpress.com
Pete Fijalkowski said of this track,: "It follows the great quiet- loud-quiet-loud structure of songs like ‘Gigantic’ by The Pixies that we loved dancing to every Thursday at Silvers – our local indie nightclub in Coventry. It really mystified me that this was our least successful single we ever released in the UK – it felt like something went wrong there.": www.creation-records.com
Ride will play The Neptune Theatre on Sunday, September 24th, 2017. Here's a positive review of the just-released "Weather Diaries": www.thelineofbestfit.com
Ken Stringfellow will play solo at the High Dive in Seattle on Friday, July 21st, 2017.
There are lots of fine bands coming to town in the near future. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart will play The Tractor Tavern on Saturday, September 23rd, 2017.
Watch Constantines performing "Soon Enough" live: www.youtube.com . And read the lyrics here: songmeanings.com
Tim Showalter and Strand of Oaks will be here next week, playing free at the Ballard Seafood Fest on Saturday, July 8th, 2017.: strandofoaks.net
"Lo Tom is as if the world of indie rock is playing musical chairs, with David Bazan (Pedro the Lion), Trey Many (Velour 100, Starflyer 59), TW Walsh (Pedro the Lion, The Soft Drugs) and Jason Martin (Starflyer 59) all contributing their expertise to their refined sound." You can hear that sound at The Tractor Tavern on August 19th, 2017.
You can visit Film School's Facebook page here: www.facebook.com . Stream their new song, "Bye Bye Bird," while you're there.
They'll be touring with The New Pornographers this summer, but not (unfortunately) coming to Seattle. They performed "Bright Blue Sky" live in the KEXP studio in 2015: www.youtube.com
This is a Madonna cover. Enjoy a NY Times interview with Wayne Coyne earlier this year: www.nytimes.com
Arcade Fire have released their new video for “Signs of Life”. Directed by Borscht, the clip features a pair of “special agents” enjoying a day of “cultural activities.” In the end, they find a pair of mysterious life forms in a suitcase. Check it out here: pitchfork.com . The new album, "Everything Now," comes out on July 28th, 2017.
Does this song remind you of the new song, "Signs of Life," by Arcade Fire? This Clash tune features rapping vocals by graffiti artist Futura 2000.
There's some fabulous dancing in the video for "Dancing Is the Best Revenge": www.youtube.com
"Better At Making Time" was a KEXP Song of the Day. You can download it for free here: blog.kexp.org
The absolutely fabulous Beth Ditto will be performing at Marymoor Park on August 12th, 2017.
Here's a powerful request for The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to induct Annie Lennox: inspirer.life “I wasn’t bending gender. I was saying, ‘Look, as a woman I can be equal to a man […] I’m not going to be what you think I am. I’m intelligent. I’m not a dancing doll just because I’m female and I’m singing. I’m not singing for your pleasurable entertainment. It’s not about that. It’s cerebral and it’s heartfelt and it’s intelligent.’” Lennox told Pridesource in 2014
You can hear Odesza at the Bumbershoot Music and Arts Festival on Sunday, September 3rd, 2017.: www.bumbershoot.com
The music video got a lot of airplay on MTV, probably more than any other black rap act to that point. It was directed by Ric Menello, who Rick Rubin had hired for the Beastie Boys videos "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party)" and "No Sleep Till Brooklyn," which were wildly successful on MTV.: www.youtube.com
"What was that little piece of music?," you ask. Coldcut was sampling Sergei Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf."
Welcome to the Art of Noise's official website: www.theartofnoiseonline.com
Here's a little biography of Joel Plaskett and his father, Bill: joelplaskett.com
Here is this Canadian band, formed in 1984, performing "Having an Average Weekend" live: www.youtube.com
Ahhh.....the Friday song. John announced the release of the seventh Running Powered Podcast today: blog.kexp.org
L.A. band Fidlar will be coming back up the West Coast to play The Showbox on Friday, August 25th, 2017.
This is a song that belongs on your running playlist. "...and if they try to slow you down, tell them all to go to hell." Download it for free here: blog.kexp.org
This was written by the reggae artist Junior Murvin, who recorded it in his falsetto style in 1976. The Clash, who were huge reggae fans, covered the song. It's the first example of The Clash incorporating reggae into their repertoire, something that can be heard in original songs like "White Man in Hammersmith Palais" and "Guns of Brixton." At the time, reggae was the music of Britain's oppressed Jamaican population.
Watch The Clash performing "This is Radio Clash" live in 1981: www.youtube.com
"Rebel Girl" is dedicated to France's Simone Veil, who died at the age of 89. Emmanuel Macron said of this Auschwitz survivor, "Her uncompromising humanism, wrought by the horror of the camps, made her the constant ally of the weakest, and the resolute enemy of any political compromise with the extreme right." www.nytimes.com
The A.V. Club says Sleater-Kinney’s “I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone” is "the sound of riot grrrl moving beyond itself": www.avclub.com
See the Ramones performing this little ditty live (Oh, those black leather jackets!) : www.youtube.com
Kevin Morby, bass guitarist for Woods and frontman of The Babies, will be playing The Tractor Tavern on Monday, August 21st, 2017.
Foals performed "My Number" in this exclusive live KEXP performance:blog.kexp.org
Sting wrote the lyrics while he was in his previous band, Last Exit, then "grafted them shamelessly onto the chords from Bob Marley's 'No Woman No Cry,'" he explained in Lyrics By Sting. "This kind of musical juxtaposition - the lilting rhythm of the verses separated by monolithic slabs of straight rock and roll - pleased the hell out of me. That we could achieve it effortlessly just added to the irony of a song about misery being sung so joyously."
"... i often ask her, 'are you looking for the mother lode?'" Here are the lyrics: www.azlyrics.com
Here's a Built to Spill discography: www.builttospill.com
Allmusic calls this Chapel Hill, NC band "perhaps the quintessential indie rockers of the 1990's": www.allmusic.com
Poster Children say that, "We’ll be playing a few shows this summer (while also working on a new album!)" . Sign up to be on their mailing list: posterchildren.com
Margaret Cho interviewed Imperial Teen several years ago: imperialteen.com
This is an amped cover of the famous Simon & Garfunkel song: www.youtube.com
"I've seen her naked twice, I've seen her naked twice!": songmeanings.com
Electric Six's Dick Valentine says that he wrote his best lyrics when he had a day job.: www.westword.com
This song is best when played loud.: www.youtube.com . Here are ten covers of "Waiting Room": www.verbicidemagazine.com
Screaming Trees were the subject of a KEXP documentary --"Grunge": blog.kexp.org
The video for "Beehive" was intended to be a metaphor for aging in our society.: musicandriots.com
Elbow will be here to sing this song. They're playing The Showbox on Friday, November 10th, 2017.
This is, of course, a Talking Heads cover. Watch Car Seat Headrest in the KEXP studio last year: blog.kexp.org
Here's John's exclusive interview with David Byrne: blog.kexp.org
The album's recording sessions took place from July 1993 to September 1993 at Bad Animals Studio in Seattle, Washington, as according to Cornell "there was never a decent studio in Seattle and now there's one with a Neve console, so it seemed obvious to use it".[2] Bad Animals' resident engineer Adam Kasper, who went on to produce Soundgarden's following albums, assisted Beinhorn on the recording process
