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Friday, May 5 2017, 6AM
Good morning, happy Friday, and happy Cinco de Mayo, nuestros amigos! This version of "Jane Says" was recorded at the Irvine Meadows Amphitheater in California on July 24, 1991 during the very first Lollapalooza tour, which was the brainchild of Perry Farrell.
There are at least four Bloody Sundays in Irish history. One was in 1920 when British troops fired into the crowd at a football match in Dublin in retaliation for the killing of British undercover agents. Another (the subject of this song) was on January 30, 1972, when British paratroopers killed 13 Irish citizens at a civil rights protest in Derry, Northern Ireland. Read more: www.theirishstory.com
“Everything Counts” is a clouded pop gem that dissolves from crystalline, sophisticated synthesizer patterns into lullaby-level singsong." Read a thorough discussion of this song here: www.avclub.com
This song is about making a deal with God to swap lives with another person. Bush explained in a 1985 interview: "It's about a relationship between a man and a woman. They love each other very much, and the power of the relationship is something that gets in the way. It creates insecurities. It's saying if the man could be the woman and the woman the man, if they could make a deal with God, to change places, that they'd understand what it's like to be the other person and perhaps it would clear up misunderstandings. You know, all the little problems; there would be no problem."
Saying, "It would have killed us," Radiohead reveals why "Lift" was not included on "OK Computer": www.nme.com
LCD Soundsystem may play this song when they appear on Saturday Night Live tomorrow night, May 6th, 2017.: pitchfork.com
This new LCD Soundsystem song, "Call The Police," is "an explicitly political song that addresses our very bad times.": www.spin.com
If you missed it, check out our exclusive conversation with Slowdive's Rachel Goswell.
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Polly Jean Harvey will perform tonight (!!), Friday, May 5th, at Seattle's WaMu Theater.
This is the new single from Grizzly Bear's new album, the first since 2012's "Shields." A release date and title have not yet been announced.: www.highsnobiety.com
This song is part of John Richards' 2011 list of his 99 all-time favorite songs: blog.kexp.org . (Do you think the list has changed by now?)
Ahhh......the Friday song. Get ready to GiveBig to KEXP on Wednesday, May 10th, 2017:www.givebigseattle.org
"Waterloo Sunset" was released as a single on this date in 1967. Ray Davies said about this song, "Although I’m an observer in the song, in many ways it is about me. I’d had a breakdown and, though I wasn’t a gibbering wreck, I was feeling vulnerable. " Learn more about the making of this classic: www.theguardian.com
The band spent years denying persistent accusations that the lyrics are about heroin use and trade, claiming that different listeners will hear different things in the lyrics. Hugh Cornwell finally copped to the drug reference in 2001, when he said, "It's about heroin and also about a girl." This girl was Cornwell's Mediterranean girlfriend at the time.
Watch a bloodied John Darnielle and the rest of the band perform in the video for "This Year": www.youtube.com
Talking about the lyrics, Frank Black said: "That came from me snorkeling in the Caribbean and having this very small fish trying to chase me. I don't know why - I don't know too much about fish behavior." : genius.com
Read a biography of The Smiths: www.allmusic.com
This is John Richards' (and Ken's) favorite PJ Harvey song. "What did he say, PJ?":thenervousbreakdown.com
Don't you like this new song?. It was chosen as a KEXP Song of the Day this week. Download it for yourself here: blog.kexp.org
In a retrospective review of the single, Allmusic journalist Chris True praised the song as a "mélange of simple piano hooks, rudimentary electronic treatment and classic vocal pop, with a rhythm track that is quaint in its simplicity and driving enough to invoke images of the big city at night."
Here's this wonderful song, played live by The English Beat in KEXP's Bumbershoot Music Lounge in 2010: www.youtube.com
That's The King singing. "A Little Less Conversation" is a song written by Mac Davis and Billy Strange and originally performed by Elvis Presley for the 1968 film "Live a Little, Love a Little."
Jake Gyllenhaal is a disturbed killing machine in the video for "Time to Dance": www.youtube.com
Watch Brazilian Girls performing "Good Time" live at the Highline Ballroom: www.youtube.com
"Half strutting with confidence, half yearning for transcendence...." Read a glowing review of this 1990 release: pitchfork.com
"Dry the Rain" has happened!! At this minute!! In Seattle!! The Beta Band formed in Scotland in 1996 and disbanded in 2004.: www.youtube.com
Watch Michael Stipe, James Franco and Stephen Colbert update ‘It’s the End of the World As We Know It’ for 2016: www.nme.com
This gentle song is about misrepresentation of world events by the US media. It uses the party slogan for the Oceania government in the book 1984: "Who controls the past, controls the future. Who controls the present, controls the past."
"World Destruction" came out of a collaboration between Afrika Bambaataa, ex-Sex Pistol/Public Image Ltd. leader John Lydon, and producer/bassist Bill Laswell.
Read a biography of Carlton Douglas Ridenhour, aka Chuck D: www.thefamouspeople.com
Ahhhh....the other Friday song. "Loving every minute 'cause you make me feel so alive, alive...": www.azlyrics.com
Lead singer Alex Maas said of this song,"“If love is the most primitive motivator, then why do we do such ugly things for survival? The conviction of survival makes the world seem black and white but we were given color.”:consequenceofsound.net
Think this band has fun performing? Watch the video for "West Coast":www.youtube.com
In live performance, Billy Corgan would often improvise a speech during the extended bass break; as a result the song could extend to 8–10 minutes in length. The speech section is known among fans as "the I Am One rant". These rants were criticized, sometimes even by the other band members, due to their abrasive nature.
The Pemberton Music Festival says, "Welcome to the best weekend of your life." A Tribe Called Quest will be there.: pembertonmusicfestival.com
Aloe Blacc got the idea for this song after listening to field recordings of chain gangs from the Smithsonian. Hearing these recordings of people singing their tales of woe, Blacc decided to write one of his own, and came up with the title "I Need A Dollar." To develop the lyrics, he asked friends to trade verses with him and then join him on the chorus.
Michael Kiwanuka will be here in Seattle at The Showbox on Monday, May 22nd, 2017.
Spoon will play this year's Bumbershoot Music Festival, September 1-3. 2017.
Follow Broken Social Scene by visiting their Facebook page: www.facebook.com
"It's not, it's inside me..." Read a little biography of this band: www.allmusic.com
Happy birthday, Ian McCulloch, born on this date in Liverpool in 1959. Here's a Great Rock Bible biography: thegreatrockbible.com
Watch Mark Lanegan's live performance in the kEXP studio in 2014: blog.kexp.org
Algiers will be playing The Crocodile on Saturday, July 15th, 2017.
Animals lead singer Eric Burdon came in #57 in a Rolling Stone poll to find the greatest singers of all time. On this song, he delivers an anger and energy that was an influence on later punk bands. In a 2010 interview with Eric Burdon, he said: "I've always viewed myself as a punk. The Animals could have evolved that way. We had the energy and the anger, but we didn't stick together. When the punk scene became commercial, I was all for the politics of the movement, but the music didn't really stand up and ultimately, it was self destructive."
John Richards' favorite running song. Have fun running the Vancouver half marathon, John (and all runners in Vancouver on Sunday)< .