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Tuesday, Mar 28 2017, 6AM
Despite being far more complex and introverted, Foals‘ second album, Total Life Forever, was easily a favorite of many KEXP DJs and listeners last year. (In fact, it landed on all three daytime DJs’ top ten lists of 2010!) Foals performed a mostly acoustic in-studio set with versions of “Spanish Sahara” and “2 Trees” from the new album and decided to end their short but intense set with a cover of Angels of Light’s “Public Embarrassment Blues” (from the 2001 album, How I Loved You). Check out the videos here: blog.kexp.org
This includes the first-ever officially licensed Grateful Dead sample, "Unbroken Chain," from the album, Grateful Dead from the Mars Hotel. You can go hear it again with the Song of the Day podcast: blog.kexp.org
The final chord is all four Beatles and George Martin banging on three pianos simultaneously. As the sound diminished, the engineer boosted it. The resulting note lasts 42 seconds, and the studio air conditioners can be heard toward the end as the faders were pushed to the limit to record it.
As we approach April and things begin to warm up a bit you can listen to this song about the cold knowing summer warmth will be here soon! Here's a bit more on Seattle cold and songs about cold on the KEXP blog . blog.kexp.org
The new self titled album, Slowdive's first in 22 years, is out May 5th! They have some show dates listed but nothing closer than California or Minnesota.... yet.
Playing Seattle Tuesday June 27th at Neumos! From the band:" Influenced by classical, ambient, and Japanese tonkori music, whose meditative quality aided her father’s recovery, Elizabeth stands as the patient-zero case study for Life After Youth’s therapeutic powers. These are the songs that got her through the tough times. And now, they can do the same for you."
I'd have to agree with Stereogum: "Compared to the wizened post-blues that Lanegan usually makes these days, this one is a relatively straightforward riff-rocker, one with a huge melody that recalls Lanegan’s Screaming Trees days. It’s also a grand and catchy and anthemic rock song, the type they don’t make very often anymore. I very much recommend clicking play" . www.stereogum.com
Nearly a year ago fifty fans christened KEXP’s live room during an exclusive tear-soaked performance with José González, all to benefit KEXP’s New Home. You can see it here: blog.kexp.org
This version was used in a tv commercial which featured technicolor rubber balls bouncing down hilly San Francisco streets. They closed off an entire San Francisco block for two days while earth-moving equipment and compressed-air cannons shot the 250,000 balls down the street. The film crew had just one opportunity to get it right. No computer graphics were used.
It’s easy to forget that they were together for only a few years and produced only three studio albums, culminating in 1990’s This Is Our Music. DJ notes on the vinyl in the KEXP library: blog.kexp.org
Pixies perform a few good covers. Their version of Head On by Jesus and Mary Chain showed up at #35 in KEXP's best cover songs countdown circa 2009 blog.kexp.org
Car Seat Headrest is playing Sasquatch on Sunday May 28th. You can check out a video of them performing this cover with Naked Giants at the Neptune here: www.stereogum.com
In 1970, Charles included the track on the album Love Country Style, and in 2013 it made its way onto a CD/DVD set titled Ray Charles Forever. The DVD/CD set coincided with Charles’ tribute stamp from the U.S. Postal Service
Otis Redding wrote this and originally recorded it in 1965, with his version hitting #35 in the US. Redding said of the song shortly before his death in 1967: "That's one of my favorite songs because it has a better groove than any of my records. It says something, too: 'What you want, baby, you got it; what you need, baby, you got it; all I'm asking for is a little respect when I come home.' The song lines are great. The band track is beautiful. It took me a whole day to write it and about twenty minutes to arrange it. We cut it once and that was it. Everybody wants respect, you know."
In the original Madonna's vocals were pitched up to make her sound younger. She was 26 at the time. In regards to this version, to paraphrase the title of a collection of early Flaming Lips material, maybe the Material Girl is finally taking acid?
This track has been covered quite a few times. Here's I Can't Get No Cooperation by Sesame Street . www.youtube.com
In Spokane August 28th... Vancouver BC September 2nd... surprisingly I don't see a Seattle date.
In this song's music video Madness unveiled their Nutty Train dance.
In the album's liner notes, Gaye explained his views on the themes of sex and love, stating "I can't see anything wrong with sex between consenting anybodies. I think we make far too much of it. After all, one's genitals are just one important part of the magnificent human body ... I contend that SEX IS SEX and LOVE IS LOVE. When combined, they work well together, if two people are of about the same mind. But they are really two discrete needs and should be treated as such. Time and space will not permit me to expound further, especially in the area of the psyche. I don't believe in overly moralistic philosophies. Have your sex, it can be exciting, if you're lucky. I hope the music that I present here makes you lucky."
As part of the 25th anniversary of Nevermind listeners shared their memories of the iconic album blog.kexp.org
"The Velvet Underground came onto the New York scene while the hippie counterculture was blossoming in San Francisco. It’s said that The Velvets didn’t like any of the flower child music that was coming out of California, except for The Byrds." Check out DJ Michelle's documentary on The Velvet Underground: blog.kexp.org
The title comes from the name of a cabaret singer/vice queen from the 1950s and '60s who attracted controversy from being involved in the payola Radio One scandal in the 1960s in a "sex for airplay" scenario. Her other scandals included attending the premiere of a film in 1964 in a topless dress, and being arrested and jailed in 1973 for not just the Payola scandal but also for running a brothel and perverting the course of justice by threatening witnesses.
If you missed Kate Tempest AND can’t make it down here to see her in-studio at 10am, maybe you can get down to Portland tonight? She’ll be at Mississippi Studios.
We know. It *is* good. How many copies of The Three E.P.'s do you think the movie sold?
yOya are Alex Pfender (vocals, guitar) and Noah Dietterich (keyboards, vocals), a duo from Los Angeles, who make brilliant mashups and cover songs as well as original tunes. Their tools are a drum machine, an acoustic guitar, a keyboard, and a synth. Check out more of their songs here: yoyatheband.com
"Radiohead is just a band." Check out another track from Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip with the Song of the Day podcast. Thou Shalt Always Kill . blog.kexp.org
Playing next door at Key Arena on Saturday April 8th. Already sold out of course! All the US dates are sold out.
Some of that Christian Slater shirtless in his basement. Just like John is everyday in the booth . youtu.be
Frank Black when asked about this song "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."
The band realized that the song had drawn in many casual fans who did not care about the rest of the group's material; thus the band began to play the song "early in the set, so that the people who didn't like us could leave, and we could play for the people who cared. That worked out well. People did leave."
All about Flight of the Conchords' show at Marymoor last year where Seattle corrupted them! blog.kexp.org
You know you want to watch the video . www.youtube.com
The Dead Milkmen existed on paper before they were ever a live act. The band are well known for their sly humor and, fittingly, started out as something of a joke. Founder Joe Genaro was writing a parody of fan club letters of popular bands, finding the style and tone of them ludicrous and over the top. He invented 'The Dead Milkmen' as a fictitious band for the satirical newsletter to revolve around. This spur-of-the-moment creation inspired Joe and the other members to actually form the band.
In 1983, more than 100 miles from Seattle in the Eastern Washington town of Ellensburg, a group of high school students started a band and named it Screaming Trees. The four members didn’t have much in common, other than the fact that they all liked obscure music and went to the same school. blog.kexp.org
Find out what you missed at Sigur Rós' show last September. Unless you were there, then you can relive it blog.kexp.org
According to the liner notes to Paul Simon's Anthology album, the strange sounding rhythm to this particular track was Paul and Art slapping their thighs, while Paul's brother Eddie thumped a piano bench and a friend named Stewie Scharff strummed a guitar with its strings slackened to the point of atonality.
This version was recorded at the Irvine Meadows Amphitheater in California on July 24, 1991 during the very first Lollapalooza tour.
Hard to classify but impossible not to enjoy. Watch Young Fathers' in-studio including Nest: blog.kexp.org
All you want to know about Gil Scott-Heron . blog.kexp.org
