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Monday, Mar 6 2017, 6AM
We recorded Shelby Earl performing "James" in our DJ booth last week from her new album, "The Man Who Made Himself a Name". She recently told Seattle Met: "James is both a real person in my life—though that’s not his actual name—and also something I could play around with. In my mind, everyone has James. And many of us have been a James. So James is everyone!"
To commemorate the 20th Anniversary of Elliott Smith’s Either/Or Release, KRS is releasing an expanded edition of the record on March 10th featuring a b-side, a few unreleased songs, and live tracks like this one.
Check out this track live at our New Home Grand Opening: www.youtube.com
The Sundays cover Rolling Stones' 1971 track, "Wild Horses" featured on their album, Blind in 1992.
Following her 2013 debut, Pushin’ Against a Stone, Valerie June will release The Order of Time this Friday blending genres – folk, classic pop, soul and Appalachian bluegrass.
The Maldives will be celebrating the release of Mad Lives at the Triple Door on April 1st. Check out their 2013 session here: www.youtube.com
LA band, Froth recently dropped their third album 'Outside (briefly)' this past month.
Happy Birthday Guy Garvey! Little Fictions is the seventh studio album by Mercury prize winning Elbow. It was recorded in Scotland and Manchester and includes collaborations with the string players of The Halle Orchestra, the Halle Ancoats Community Choir and members of London Contemporary Voices.
Pisces Iscariot is a compilation album by The Smashing Pumpkins released in 1994 through Virgin Records, consisting of B-sides and outtakes.
"Crank" is the first single from Catherine Wheel's second album, Chrome. Chrome was produced by former Pixies producer Gil Norton.
Sandinista! is the fourth studio album by the English band the Clash. It was released on 12 December 1980 as a triple album containing 36 tracks and it features funk, reggae, jazz, gospel, rockabilly, folk, dub, rhythm and blues, calypso, disco, and rap.
"We never forget the roots, the genesis of the group. We know that the group started out of a desire to play music to make people feel the funk and make people want to dance. That's our aim: to keep making music we like and that b-boys can dance to," says percussionist Alberto Lopez
"Why Can't I Be You?" was the first single released from the album Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me—the band's seventh LP in 1987. The music video is great to dance along to: www.youtube.com
Shoegaze pioneers Ride return after 20 years and will release an album later this Summer!
Congrats on your engagement Julie in Utah!
The music video for this track makes us long for Summer and Softball: www.youtube.com
Beach Slang recently released the second installment of their Mixtape with this cover of The Jesus & Mary Chain and others like Tommy Keene, the Modern Lovers, and the Candyskins.
The Jesus and Mary Chain will be at the Showbox SoDo on Tuesday, May 13th. Their new album, "Damage and Joy" will be released on March 24th.
In an interview with The Tech in 1988 about the track, "Mandinkas are an African tribe. They're mentioned in a book called Roots by Alex Haley, which is what the song is about. In order to understand it you must read the book."
Rose Elinor Dougall (formerly of The Pipettes) just dropped her new album, Stellular.t is, in Rose’s own words ”something bolder, less apologetic, more decisive… a sophisticated pop record” It is an album rooted in the London lives that shaped its lyrics, the lives and experiences of Rose's friends as their 20s slipped by in a haze of late nights, broken hearts and struggles in an increasingly unforgiving capital. "The last decade in this country has been a really weird time to be young. There's a theme of promises that are falling apart, and negotiating the wreckage of choices you might make that actually start to become less flippant and do have long-standing effects on your future.”
Text 206-903-5397 to win tickets to Sylvan Esso of Friday, August 18th. They are playing the Neptune on August 18th and 19th! New album due later this year!
Lindsey of GEMS talks about "X Valentine": This Valentine’s Day will be the first we won’t spend together. I had that realization recently when I flew back east to visit my parents for the holidays. 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.
The Do recorded Shake Shook Shaken in a “pastoral 18th century water tower” — the duo “deliberately set down their acoustic instruments to focus on a more minimal set-up of a keyboard and laptop.” Explains Merilahti, “We quickly became obsessed with this set-up; this form of minimalism, banning ‘real’ instruments to the point of creating a new work ethic.
40 years ago The Ramones rattled Seattle's Olympic Hotel. Their music literally shook the guests in the lobby as a crowd of 400 to 500, mostly kids, overflowed from the 150-person-capacity venue March 6, 1977. Read more at the Seattle Times: www.seattletimes.com
After three EPs and a single, the Washington, D.C., band spent the last two years on its debut album, Nothing Feels Natural. Worked out in practice spaces and during numerous tours across the U.S. and Europe, these songs were originally laid to tape in Olympia, Wash., but scrapped. In its five years, the band's members have become perfectionists, Nothing Feels Natural had to be recorded in D.C.
Guitarist Matt O’Keefe told Spin that Pixies had a strong influence on the recordings. “I think that’s where a lot of trying to make the songs and the guitar parts very simple was coming from, because the Pixies are kings of that,” he explained. “We’ve always been a simple band, but this time it was about trying to keep everything straightforward, nothing flashy.”
Robert "Rob" Zabrecky began as a musician while being the front man for the band Possum Dixon. He later found success as a magician and actor.
“I wanted to capture my own relationship to LA.,” Willett told NME about writing their new record, L.A. Divine out on April 7th. "Lots of talk about long term relationships. There are too many songs about new love and breakups. What are the songs that dig deeper? LA became the backdrop and how being an artist in entertainment while being in a grounded relationship is like being pulled in two different directions."
20 years since "Low", Guitarist Johnny Hickman was asked by Spin if he ever gets sick of playing the track: I honestly don’t ever get sick of it because that one put us on the map. We’re chagrinned by people who won’t play their hits, although we’ve done “Low”-less gigs once in a while. I’ll sometimes think to myself onstage, “I probably would not be playing this show in small-town Wisconsin with my friend David Lowery if not for this one.” The working-class kid who used to paint houses and play in scrappy punk bands in the early ’80s is still very grateful."
We are on our second pot of coffee here on the Morning Show so this songs fits perfectly in addition to this Sylvan Esso ticket giveaway! Text 206-903-5397 for you chance to win tickets to their August 18th show at the Neptune Theater.
Catch SOHN at the Neptune Theatre on April 9th in support of their new album, Rennen. SOHN stopped by a couple of years ago and delivered this amazing KEXP session: www.youtube.com
Following the demise of the critically and commercially successful Jane's Addiction, frontman Perry Farrell and drummer Stephen Perkins formed Porno for Pyros after acquiring guitarist Peter DiStefano and bass player Martyn LeNoble. Farrell named the band after viewing an ad for fireworks in a pornographic magazine.
All Them Witches will be rocking the Tractor Tavern on Friday, May 5th!
"That's obviously the state I feel right now... not really, but I may as well make some sarcastic comment on the phenomenon of Nirvana," Cobain told writer Michael Azerrad. In liner notes he wrote (and then crossed out) for "Serve the Servants," he noted that the lyrics were directed toward his father: "I don't hate him. I simply don't have anything to say to him."
Leeds fuzz sculptors Menace Beach kicked off the year with their new album, Lemon Memory.
10 years ago, Arcade Fire released their sophomore album Neon Bible!
Japandroids released their long awaited Near to the Wild Heart of Life earlier this year and they are back on tour--check them out at the Neptune Theater on March 18th!
Whiteout Conditions is due out April 7 and play the Moore Theatre with Waxahatchee on April 15th.
PIxies covered the late, great Leonard Cohen in 1991 with the track, "I Can't Forget". The track originally appears on Cohen's 1988 release, "I'm Your Man".
We are currently giving away tickets to Sylvan Esso's August 18th show at the Neptune Theatre! Text 206-903-5397
Kate Tempest will be live on KEXP Tuesday, March 28th at 10 AM and you can catch her the night before at the Neptune Theatre. Check out this amazing session we caught at Iceland Airwaves: www.youtube.com
"Teardrop" is the second single from their third album, Mezzanine, and features lead vocals and lyrics from Elizabeth Fraser, the lead singer for the dream pop band Cocteau Twins.
Playing the Key Arena on October 21st! New album, Spirit drops on March 17th!
