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Wednesday, Apr 5 2017, 6AM
"Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam" is a song originally recorded by Scottish alternative band The Vaselines for their EP 'Dying for It'. It is a parody on the Christian children's hymn, "I'll Be a Sunbeam," which has the opening line "Jesus wants me for a sunbeam." Here's the video of Nirvana's performance - www.youtube.com
In his suicide note, Kurt quoted Neil Young's lyric "it's better to burn out than to fade away" www.kurtcobainssuicidenote.com
Following the tour for 'Facelift', Alice in Chains entered the studio to record demos for its next album, but ended up recording five acoustic songs instead. While in the studio, drummer Sean Kinney had a dream about "making an EP called Sap" and the band decided "not to mess with fate", Heart's Ann Wilson sings background vocals on this track.
R.E.M. wrote this about Kurt Cobain after he died in 1994. Cobain was a fan of R.E.M., and when he died, Courtney Love gave them one of Kurt's guitars, which they used on this. It was a left-handed Fender (and one of the few guitars Cobain didn't smash), so Mike Mills had to restring it to play it right-handed.
Here's a live version recorded in San Francisco (2009) www.youtube.com
This is off the San Francisco-based band's 'Alwaysnever' EP released in 2003. It was also on the UK version of their second album.
Seam was an American indie rock band from Chicago (formerly from Chapel Hill, North Carolina). Active from 1991 to 2000, it was led by Sooyoung Park, former frontman of Bitch Magnet. Seam's initial line-up included bassist Lexi Mitchell and drummer Mac McCaughan (of Superchunk). This track is from their fourth and last studio album
Best band evah from Hartford, CT! Am I right? sororitynoise.bandcamp.com
Here's their in-studio from 2015 hosted by Mr Larry Rose www.youtube.com
"Bedbugs and Ballyhoo" was covered by Seattle's Voyager One on their 2002 album Monster Zero.
Here's Phosphorescent's in-studio from 2013...only from KEXP! www.youtube.com
"Drown" was originally released on the 'Singles' soundtrack and was to be released as a commercial single, but, as Billy Corgan explained, "We wanted it to be a single, we were pushing for it. I was even willing to make it a video. Radio stations were playing it. And when it came time for the third single, they said, 'Screaming Trees.' And I was like, 'Screaming Trees??' But what label is Alice in Chains on and what label are the Screaming Trees on? Epic, which is the label that put out the 'Singles' soundtrack. And that's what killed the song."
The Cure released "A Forest" on this date in 1980 as a single from the band's second album 'Seventeen Seconds'. Due to budgetary restraints 'Seventeen Seconds' was recorded and mixed in seven days on a budget of between £2000 and £3000, which resulted in the band working 16 or 17 hours a day to complete the album. guess they worked great under pressure!
Hey, have you heard? Fleet Foxes have a new album coming out in June. Keep it just between us.
Young Fathers did a great in-studio back in 2015 for KEXP and you can watch it here www.youtube.com
"Breed" is a song written about being trapped in middle-class America and in an interview with Sub Pop founder Bruce Pavitt, he explained that the song was "hypnotic," and a stylistic breakthrough for the band. He stated that "audiences would become ecstatic. They were experiencing Nirvana. And when you're experiencing really good, primal rock n roll, you break into a trance." watch it live here www.youtube.com
Laetitia Tamko is a multi-instrumentalist and a producer, recording since 2014 as Vagabon. This is her debut album vagabon.bandcamp.com
According to the band they are "two homies just making tunes and eggs on the regs". Funny, that's how I always thought of them too. dietcig.bandcamp.com
Here's Sebadoh performing "Rebound" on some guy named Conan's show back in 1994 www.youtube.com
Lots of requests for more Chilean shoegaze this morning, so here's Trementina, a DIY rock band based in Valdivia, Chile. trementina.bandcamp.com
Ride's first new album in 20 years will drop on June 16th and is entitled 'Weather Diaries' It’s available for pre-order now www.thebandride.com
This song was inspired by an interview bassist/singer Kim Gordon conducted with LL Cool J for Spin in which the two artists clashed. Although he is never mentioned by name, the song's lyrics contain several references to LL Cool J. Gordon's lyrics make reference to several of the rapper's works, including the single "I Can't Live Without My Radio" and the album 'Walking With a Panther'. She also repeats the line "I don't think so", which appears in LL Cool J's "Going Back to Cali". Chuck D also contributed vocals to the song.
Layne Staley, Alice in Chain's lead singer, died on this date in 2002; he was 34 years old. He struggled for much of his adult life with depression and a drug addiction,
Seattle Rock Orchestra performed Arcade Fire songs for an in-studio in 2012. I still don't know how we fit 'em all in the live room. And no one got their eye poked out...well not much anyway... www.youtube.com
Depeche Mode plays The Key Arena on Saturday, October 21st. hey, that's right next door!
The flute-like instrument heard toward the end of the song is an ocarina played by none other than Mr. Simon Le Bon
If you missed American Wrestlers' in-studio from January, we got ya covered - here's the video www.youtube.com
We just got Middle Kids' in-studio from February 21st posted earlier this week, check it out! www.youtube.com
Bob Mould stopped by The Afternoon Show last summer to play a few tunes for KEXP. Enjoy! www.youtube.com
Requested by Frank in DC who wrote "I listen to KEXP all day". thanks Frank and we're glad that you don't let work get in the way of great music!
Thanks to Catherine for turning us on to Eddie's great cover of Dylan's song. vimeo.com
The song is about a book that Kurt Cobain read, Perfume. The book and the song are about a boy who is born without body odor but has a strong sense of smell. Soon he becomes a murderer who kills female victims. It's a feel good story!
sing along with me "and we're all going straight to hell"...preferably in a handbasket...or handcart...or handbag...
Rolling Stone's take on Killa Hill -"Another ice-water-veins choice: Fugazi's anti-rape anthem "Suggestion" gets diced into MacKaye's live-wire guitar flicker and Canty's echoey snare bang as backup for Inspectah Deck's "R.E.C. Room." This is the way they crash the party."
Here are the band's tour dates www.future-islands.com and video from their 2014 in-studio www.youtube.com
Here's a good article from Pitchfork about the band www.youtube.com
While we don't have her most recent in-studio posted yet, we do have this - Kate Tempest performing live at Kex Hostel in Reykjavik during Iceland Airwaves. Recorded November 4, 2016! www.youtube.com
