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Wednesday, May 10 2017, 6AM
Guess what? It's gonna be a sunny (mostly) day! Wake up sleepy head, it's a beautiful day!
Five years after its initial 187 word review (with an 8.7 rating), Pitchfork slotted this album in the number-four slot on its top 100 albums of the ’90s list, defiantly ahead of Pavement, DJ Shadow, and Nirvana. How the hell did that happen? Read on www.avclub.com
'The Trinity Session' is the band's second album and it was recorded inside Toronto's Church of the Holy Trinity on November 27, 1987, with the band circled around a single microphone. The church was suggested as the recording space because of its natural reverb. To better persuade the officials of the historic church, the band claimed to be The Timmins Family Singers and said they were recording a Christmas special for radio.
A little over a year ago, Nada Surf dropped by KEXP for a great in-studio session hosted by our very own Cheryl Waters! www.youtube.com
Regarding this track, producer Scott Litt recalled to Mojo: "I kinda stole the hand claps and finger snaps from 'Under Pressure.' And Michael (Stipe) pulled a kind of John Lennon move, like how Lennon would ask for his vocal to sound like he was on the moon? Michael said he wanted to sound completely detached, like in another place. So we rigged up a Sony Walkman that would record directly to tape. So you get that weird compressed sound, and Michael actually recorded it in a garage at Prince's Paisley Park Studio in Minneapolis, which was where we mixed 'Out of Time'."
U2 plays a sold out show this Sunday at CenturyLink Field. although it is "sold out", you can still find tickets up for resale on the TM site...for a bazillion dollars!
"The Funeral" is off the band's debut album. A live version was released on their self-released EP, under the original name "Billion Day Funeral"
Here's Built to Spill's 2015 in-studio, just for you from KEXP! www.youtube.com
The Milwaukee Brewers baseball team plays the song as fans leave Miller Park after home losses. I understand that they play it a.lot.
Over the years, this song has been covered by everyone from Don Henley to Concrete Blonde to Rufus Wainwright. Prolly 'cause it's so uplifting...
Elvis told Rolling Stone "I was in my flat in the suburbs of London before I was a professional musician, and I'd been up for thirty-six hours. I was actually listening the Clash's first album. When I first put it on, I thought it was just terrible. Then I played it again and I liked it better. By the end, I stayed up all night listening to it on headphones, and I thought it was great. Then I wrote "Watching the Detectives"
The song reached No. 72 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, No. 1 on its Modern Rock chart, and No. 15 on its Mainstream Rock chart,becoming the band's best-performing single in the United States. Here's the video www.youtube.com
In Seattle on October 18th @ The Showbox and the new album is out now!
Their new album is out next month (6/23) and they'll be at The Crocodile on Saturday, July 15th. Can.You.Dig.It? I knew that you could.
Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil originally wrote this song for The Righteous Brothers, but The Animals' producer got his hands on their demo and the rest, as they say, is history
Released during The Summer Of Love, it was originally titled "Someone to Love"
Beth Ditto is the former lead singer for Gossip and her debut solo album drops June 16th. www.rollingstone.com
Here's Sinéad performing "Mandinka" at the 1989 Grammy Awards www.youtube.com
According to their Bandcamp page, they're "two homies just making tunes and eggs on the regs" dietcig.bandcamp.com
From Spin - How a suburban Chicago songwriter wandered out of a John Hughes script and recorded one of the decade's masterpieces www.spin.com
According to Dave Lowery (who wrote it), the band never expected this song to be a hit. Why? "We regarded Take The Skinheads Bowling as just a weird non-sensical song. The lyrics were purposely structured so that it would be devoid of meaning. Each subsequent line would undermine any sort of meaning established by the last line. It was the early 80′s and all our peers were writing songs that were full of meaning. It was our way of rebelling. BTW this is the most important fact about this song. We wanted the words to lack any coherent meaning. There is no story or deeper insight that I can give you about this song."
Violent Femmes are playing a sold out show at the Zoo in August with Echo and The Bunnymen. What's not sold out is this show that was just announced today - Death Cab For Cutie and The Decemberists with Special Guest Sera Cahoone at the Paramount on June 9th. billed as Cascadia Resists: An Acoustic Evening in Support of the ACLU and Planned Parenthood, tickets go on sale this Friday @ 10 am.
Remember when The Presidents of the United States of America were good?...no, I'm not talking about the band...
EYELIDS plays @ Conor Byrne on Saturday June 10th and - THIS JUST IN - they're playing an in-studio for KEXP on June 23rd
Damien Jurado plays Beachland Ballroom in Cleveland on June 12th. No word on if The Morning Show Theme is on the setlist, but we'll have to get a fill-in while he's on tour since he sings it live every morning damienjurado.com
NIN was the opening band for Peter Murphy's 'Deep' tour. In 2006, Peter performed with Trent Reznor and a rotating panel of guests for a series of special radio appearances which took place during the With Teeth: Summer Amphitheater Tour. Several Bauhaus and Peter Murphy songs were performed during these sessions.
Writers from Fact Magazine talk about and rate LCD's new release. As for me, it's got a good beat and you can dance to it, I give it an 85. www.factmag.com
KEXP Exclusive Interview: Rachel Goswell of Slowdive blog.kexp.org
Medicine is prolly best known for their cameo appearance in the 1994 film The Crow, in which they performed "Time Baby II", although the soundtrack album included a different version titled "Time Baby 3" (featuring guest vocals from the Cocteau Twins' Elizabeth Fraser).
Here's The Dandy Warhols performing live in the KEXP studio from March 19, 2016 hosted by the always perky DJ Troy Nelson www.youtube.com
This is their first new release in nearly 5 years and, according to the band, their upcoming album is 90% complete. Stay tuned to KEXP for late breaking news on all things Grizzly Bear! grizzly-bear.net
Formerly of Vampire Weekend, Rostam Batmanglij is now a solo artist and is known by his stage name ROSTAM. officialrostam.com
Bombay Bicycle Club performing live in the KEXP studio. Recorded April 23, 2014. www.youtube.com
'Rio' was released on this date in Nineteen Eighty effin 2! here's the video...www.youtube.com
Also released on this date in 1993, Blur's classic album 'Modern Life Is Rubbish' saw Blur emerge as one of Britain's leading pop acts with
Man, May 10th is a great day for album releases, right? 'Gimme Fiction' was released on this date back in 2005.
Cherry Glazerr rocked the house (do people still say that?) with their in-studio this past February. Hosted by the lovely and talented Cheryl Waters www.youtube.com
The title of this song is a play on the name of their lead singer Cherie Currie, who was just 16 when this song was released
Hosted by the always dapper Kevin Cole, here's Thunderpussy performing live in the KEXP studio. Recorded July 22, 2016. www.youtube.com
