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Foals frontman Yannis Philippakis told NME the story of this song: "I'd recorded the beginning riff on my phone ages ago," he said. "At the beginning it had a baggy feel, but became less so with more work."
"The central image - 'I see a mountain at my gates' was from me getting more interested in seeing what would come out lyrically where there wasn't a pre-conceived idea," Philippakis added. "Normally I write voraciously in books and journals, then harvest a lot of that for the record. This, though, came out instantaneously in the room."
"The central image - 'I see a mountain at my gates' was from me getting more interested in seeing what would come out lyrically where there wasn't a pre-conceived idea," Philippakis added. "Normally I write voraciously in books and journals, then harvest a lot of that for the record. This, though, came out instantaneously in the room."
Spoon just dropped their ninth studio album, Hot Thoughts! They currently have a date in Spokane on August 28th and perhaps a Seattle date on the horizon? We sure hope so. Check our their KEXP session from 2014 here...www.youtube.com
The Jesus and Mary Chain will be gracing the Showbox SoDo stage on Tuesday, May 23rd. 19 years after their split, the Scottish duo returned with Damage & Joy this past week.
The Black Angels are back with Death Song on April 21st! No Seattle tour dates yet! “Why do people do what they do?” lead singer Alex Maas shared in an interview with Dangerous Minds, who premiered the 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.”
VU is an outtakes compilation album by The Velvet Underground released in February 1985 by Verve Records.
Former Screaming Trees frontman Mark Lanegan is set to return with a new album under his Mark Lanegan Band moniker on April 28th.
Mental Illness is the forthcoming solo album from Aimee Mann, slated for release on March 31st through her own SuperEgo Records.
Ben Lee is an Australian musician and actor who began his music career at age 14 and has released 11 solo albums to date.
Sera Cahoone will be live on the Morning Show this Thursday, March 30th! Then she will be celebrating the release of her new album, "From Where I Started" on April 1st at the Tractor Tavern.
Singer-songwriter Bethany Cosentino described the band's approach to the making of California Nights, stating: "In LA, there's a real darkness that you don't see unless you know where to look. That's a theme we very consciously decided to explore and play with when making this record. We related to the idea that things may look or sound fun and upbeat, but they may not actually always be that way."
The New Pornographers play the Moore Theatre on Saturday, April 15th! Following up Brill Bruisers, Whiteout Conditions will be released on April 7th.
R.E.M. released their fifth album Document on September 1st, 1987. Document was R.E.M.'s first album co-produced by Scott Litt and the band, a collaboration that continued through Green, Out of Time, Automatic for the People, Monster, and New Adventures in Hi-Fi.
Alt-J formed in 2007 in Leeds, by Gwil Sainsbury, Joe Newman, Thom Green and Gus Unger-Hamilton. They released This Is All Yours in 2014. Their new album, Relaxer is set to release on June 9th.
Playing The Crocodile on Friday, June 16th! In a recent interview, Alynda Segarra breaks down her new record: "Yeah, the idea of "The Navigator" really sparked a lot of concepts for me. You know, it asks questions like: Who’s driving us as a country? It asks questions like: Who’s driving you as you go through your journey through life? Is it your ancestors or your intuition? And also just the concept of navigating identities and obstacles through society. I feel like my whole life I was trying to learn: How can I, you know, divert these obstacles that are in my way?
Icelandic outfit Of Monsters and Men cover Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Skeletons" for their live record released in 2013.
Big Country is a Scottish rock band formed in Dunfermline, Fife, in 1981. The Crossing is the group's debut album released in 1983. Their heavy guitar driven sound often evoked the sounds of bagpipes.
Parklife is the third studio album of Blur released in 1994 and features stellar singles "Girls & Boys", "End of a Century", "Parklife" and "To the End".
After 22 years, Slowdive returned earlier this year with this new single, Star Roving. They are working on new material, but no word yet on when we will see a new record.
Drab Majesty is the solo project of Deb DeMure, the androgynous alter-ego of L.A.-based musician Andrew Clinco. The Demonstration is their third release drenched with 80s new wave and early 4AD aesthetic.
"Six Months in a Leaky Boat" is a single from New Zealand art rock group Split Enz's album Time and Tide released in 1982. The song is a reference to the time it took pioneers to sail to Australia and New Zealand.
Los Campesinos just dropped their new album, Sick Scenes on February 24th.
Papas Fritas formed in 1992 and released three full-lengths then broke up in 2000.
One of the best music videos in the 80s: www.youtube.com
Brother Ali says the LP, his first new release since Mourning in America and Dreaming in Color five years ago, is “completely about beauty and love and the truth that’s communicated when hearts are connected”.
"Jacqueline" is the first track off Glaswegian outfit Franz Ferdinand's debut album released in 2004.
Buzzcocks formed in Bolton, England in 1976 by singer-songwriter-guitarist Pete Shelley and singer-songwriter Howard Devoto (also of Magazine).
Minutemen originally recorded an "album's worth of material" with James in November 1983 in Radio Tokyo Studios. However, after hearing labelmates Hüsker Dü's double album Zen Arcade (1984), which had been recorded a month earlier, Minutemen decided to write more material. Watt later commented: "It wasn't really a competition even. When I wrote 'Take that Hüskers!" in [the album's liner notes] it was acknowledging that they gave us the idea to make a double album."
LA ten-piece, Jungle Fire released their album, Jambu at the beginning of the year.
This past August 26th, KEXP dedicated 12 hours to celebrating De La Soul‘s classic 1989 debut album 3 Feet High and Rising.
Happy Birthday Quentin! "Stuck in the Middle" was released on Stealers Wheel's 1972 eponymous debut album. Gerry Rafferty provided the lead vocals, with Joe Egan singing harmony.
Happy Birthday Quentin Tarantino, born on this day in 1963! Filmmaker and historian Peter Bogdanovich has called him "the single most influential director of his generation".
Across 110th Street, written by Bobby Womack and J.J. Johnson, was a No. 19 hit on the Billboard Hot Soul Singles chart in 1973, and was later featured in Quentin Tarantino's 1997 blaxploitation homage Jackie Brown.
Michael Kiwanuka rescheduled tour dates and is coming to Seattle's Showbox Theatre on May 22nd !
"Search and Destroy" is featured on Iggy and the Stooges 1973 album, Raw Power. Lead singer Iggy Pop said that the title was derived from a column heading in a Time article about the Vietnam War.
Italian outfit Soviet Soviet covers Underworld's "Born Slippy".
"Mountain Song" is a song by Jane's Addiction and the second single from their 1988 album Nothing's Shocking. "Mountain Song" was the first song written by the band in 1985, before a band name had even been decided upon.
The band took their moniker from the firework known as the Catherine wheel, which in turn had taken its name from the medieval torture device of the same name.
"Charm Assault" is one of two singles that Ride has released from their first record in twenty years titled The Weather Diaries set to drop on June 16th.
Arcade Fire and the amazing Mavis Staples collaborated on this one-off single.
GEMS shares the story behind "X Valentine": Going through the boxes Clifford and I had packed away was like going through a time capsule. There were photographs of us from years ago, young and blindly optimistic. There was a stack of cards and Valentines we’d written one another, each one proclaiming our undying love. Even when times were tough, as long as we had one another we could conquer anything. Even if we didn’t have a home, we had a home together. As it turns out, life marches on regardless, and sometimes the most vibrant love can cease to grow. However, ‘X Valentine’ isn’t a funeral dirge, but a recognition of a past great love and a resilience that two people share as they move forward through life alone.
"Die Young" is the third track from Sylvan Esso's new album, What Now which is set to release on April 28th. They will be playing the Neptune Theatre on August 18th and 19th.
