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Tuesday, Jun 27 2017, 6AM
Minor Victories includes members of Mogwai, Editors, and Slowdive, and their self-titled debut is a mix of sighing shoegaze, cinematic wanderlust, and gloomy riffage. Check out Pitchfork's review here: pitchfork.com
Playing the Crocodile on Saturday July 15th after playing LIVE on KEXP at 3pm! Come on down!
“Holy shit.” That’s what DJ Cheryl Waters exclaimed as Scottish hip-hop trio Young Fathers finished their KEXP session. Check out that performance here: blog.kexp.org
You can hear another track (and see the video!) from the upcoming album on Ghostpoet's website: www.ghostpoet.co.uk
Mark is at the Showbox on August 24th. Check out his most recent in-studio here: blog.kexp.org
The National will be at the Paramount for two nights in November - the 28th & 29th. Tickets are still available but expect those shows to sell out!
Pitchfork gave the 20th Anniversary reissue of OK Computer a 10. It comes with B-sides and a few previously unheard recordings that "hint at an intriguing road not taken." pitchfork.com
This performance of Karma Police was from Glastonbury on the 23rd. You can hear the entire set with TWO encores here: www.bbc.co.uk
The quality isn't great but here is the Radiohead approved video of Prince performing Creep at Coachella 2008... www.youtube.com
You can hear the first single from their upcoming album on their website...
don't see a release date for the full album... www.cinematicorchestra.com
Singer Andrew Wood said he named his band after the two things he loved the most. All about Mother Love Bone: blog.kexp.org
"A man in a Seahawks jersey was blasting “The Day I Tried to Live” within the walls of his beat-up Honda Accord, idling next to me at an intersection in Ballard. “Nice music,” I called over from my bike." Oh My Virgin Ears!: Soundgarden’s Superunknown: blog.kexp.org
Built To Spill are playing some summer festival dates but you missed them in Spokane... Here are the upcoming dates: www.songkick.com
The Sky is a Blank Screen, is a live album from the tours for last year’s Jet Plane and Oxbow. The album includes extended, sometimes off-the-rails versions of most of Jet Plane, along with a spare, reworked “Radio Silence”, a demo of “Only Child”, a cover of Bauhaus’ “Kick in the Eye” for the Onion’s AV Club, a wiry, reinvented “Rooks”, and “You As You Were” from Animal Joy.
Purchases of the complete album also include a live cover of David Bowie’s “Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)”
The French WW2 Resistance's struggle against the occupying forces was historically recorded in two surviving historical songs: “Chante des partisans” and “La complainte du partisan.” Cohen had heard the latter on Canadian BBC radio – although in translation. The original was a poem written during the occupation by an FFF (Free French Forces) soldier named Emmanuel D’Astier de la Vigerie, and put to music by the singer Anna Marly. It was then translated into English by Hy Zaret – then famous for having written the Righteous Brothers’ “Unchained Melody.”
Cohen then recorded the song for 1969’s Songs From a Room. A little rock history... consequenceofsound.net
My Morning Jacket are out on a summer tour but nothing on the west coast
Several versions of "Shivers" have been released—including demo and solo recordings by Howard—and it has been covered by a variety of artists, including Marie Hoy, Laura Jane Grace, the Screaming Jets, Courtney Barnett and Divine Fits. Check out Courtney Barnett's version along with the video here: pitchfork.com
"In a chat with Pitchfork.tv, the great Australian indie rocker Courtney Barnett called out the Boys Next Door/the Birthday Party’s 1979 classic “Shivers” as one of her favorite songs. “I think when I started listening to Nick Cave and then started researching all the other bands [he was in], I really loved that song ‘Shivers’ that the Birthday Party did,” Barnett said while discussing another song by Boys Next Door guitarist Rowland S. Howard. “And then I found out that Rowland S. Howard wrote it. And then there’s the version of it in Dogs In Space, and I just think that’s such a great song.”" www.stereogum.com
Yeah Yeah Yeahs are headlining Sound on Sound Fest November 10-12 near Austin, TX . soundonsoundfest.com
They'll be at the Neptune Monday October 23rd and at Portland's Crystal Ballroom October 24th!
According to Thom Yorke, this is a song about an area in east London called Canary Wharf, which was built on unused wasteland by the docks of the Thames. The area was supposed to be a major business district, but it was hurt by a market downturn in the '90s. Canary Wharf was landscaped with a lot of artificial plants, which is where the title came from. This version is from their Glastonbury performance on the 23rd. If you missed the link earlier you can hear the entire set here: www.bbc.co.uk
You can see Car Seat Headrest performing this amazing cover at their 11/26/16 show at the Neptune. Check it out here: www.youtube.com
At the Showbox on Monday, October 30th with Youth Code. The new album 'Hiss Spun' will be out September 22, 2017
"Transmission" has been covered by: Low, Bauhaus, Innerpartysystem, The Weather Station, Girl in a Coma, BADBADNOTGOOD, and Hot Chip on the 2009 War Child charity album Heroes. It was played by The Smashing Pumpkins on their Adore Tour in 1998, with performances of the song usually lasting from 15 to 25 minutes.
'Machine' is produced by Paul Epworth (Adele, FKA twigs, Thurston Moore) and was recorded at the Church Studios.
On the 23rd Depeche Mode released "Going Backwards" a 2-track audio bundle containing the album and the "Highline Sessions" versions of the song. www.depechemode.com. They'll be at Key Arena October 21st!
From their website: "The brainchild of Amelia Murray, Fazerdaze began as a string of bedroom recordings created late in the night, emerging fully-formed in 2014 as her debut eponymous EP. A succinct collection of intimate, beautifully produced dream-pop written, produced and performed by Murray herself. It’s a significant first outing for the young New Zealander with layers of softly crunching guitars swirling over consistently driving drum machines, and sparse electronica."
"Beginning with a rumbling cello riff and blown out drums, “Bike Dream” finds Rostam idly recounting the details of a fast-paced, perhaps complicated love affair...." Read up on 'Bike Dream' here: pitchfork.com
There are two different music videos for this song. The video in the United States was an avant-garde tribute to its lyrics (e.g. when Collins sings the lyrics "you made me acknowledge the devil in me", a child's painting of the devil is overlaid over his face). The international video shows Collins singing over videos, and silhouettes of dancers.
Matthew Sweet will be at The Triple Door August 21! Find the full list of dates here: www.matthewsweet.com
Legend has it, Quentin Tarantino found a used copy of alt rockers Urge Overkill's 1992 Stull EP while crate digging in England and became smitten with its lead track, a cover of Neil Diamond's 1967 single "Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon." The director has gone so far as to say the alt-rockers' version is "even better" than Diamond's. That's a bold statement. www.rollingstone.com
Ever notice that there are no drums in this song? That's because this was intended as a demo, with hand claps providing the drum beat. When they recorded the song in an official session complete with horns and drums, they couldn't capture the exuberance of the demo.
If you are a fan of the new Twin Peaks, you may have seen a performance by the band Trouble earlier this month... It happened towards the end of the 5th installment of the new series, David Lynch’s son Riley on guitar, the elder Lynch's longtime music supervisor Dean Hurley (drums) and Dirty Beaches’ Alex Zhang Hungtai on sax can be seen performing “Snake Eyes” at the Bang Bang Bar.
The instrumental will be part of the official Twin Peaks music album due in September 2017 via Sacred Bones Records.
Way back in 2008 DJ Michelle featured Cure for Pain on her midnight album spotlight: blog.kexp.org
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Appropriately, Cash performed this song written by Shel Silverstein, at a concert at Folsom Prison. A year later, Cash scored big at a prison concert with another Silverstein composition: "A Boy Named Sue."
Beck is playing Marymoor Park August 25th and it looks like tickets are still available
See The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart at the Tractor Tavern on Saturday, September 23rd! The album, The Echo of Pleasure, is out September 1st.
See Ride at the Neptune on Sunday, September 24th! Download 'Charm Assault' with the song of the day podcast here: blog.kexp.org
Beth Ditto plays Portland on July 24th and Marymoor Park on August 12th! Find all the concert dates here: www.bethditto.com
Yep, had to reach into the vinyl for this one. "The best American band in America right now!" blog.kexp.org
Kevin Morby is playing the Tractor Tavern Monday, August 21st! In their review of the new album, Pitchfork said "Morby’s hopelessly optimistic songwriting is the best it has ever been." pitchfork.com
Primus will perform at Marymoor Park in Redmond, Washington on Tuesday, August 15th, 2017.
Chaz Bundick, aka Toro y Moi, has collaborated with the jazz duo The Mattson 2 on this new release. Read more about it here: consequenceofsound.net