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From the Seattle rock supergroup's only album. Mad Season was formed in 1994 by members of three popular Seattle-based bands: Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam and Screaming Trees. Maybe you've heard of these bands...
Speaking of supergroups, Lykke Li formed LIV, with producer Jeff Bhasker, Miike Snow members Andrew Wyatt and Pontus Winnberg, and Björn Yttling of Peter Bjorn and John. They've released a couple of singles so far, including this one. The other single is "Wings of Love" and you can hear and read about it here pitchfork.com
Elbow's new album is out and is getting good reviews. They are touring, but no US dates announced at this point. Check out tour dates and more at their website elbow.co.uk
Foals stopped by ye olde KEXP studios in 2013 for a great in-studio hosted by Cheryl Waters. check it out! www.youtube.com
Up and coming band, U2, plays CenturyLink Field on Sunday, May 14th
Vocals on this track are by Nick Murphy, fka Chet Faker. Bonobo plays Sasquatch! on Memorial Day weekend www.sasquatchfestival.com
If you want to see LCD Soundsystem live this year, it currently looks like your only chance will be July 14 -16 @ Forecastle Festival 2017 in Louisville KY. lcdsoundsystem.com
"Sing" is also on Blur's debut album 'Leisure'.The original version of "Sing", entitled "Sing (To Me)", was recorded as a demo in late 1989 under the band's former name, Seymour. BTW, the photograph for the cover of 'Leisure' was taken in May 1954 by Charles Hewitt, for a fashion feature on bathing hats entitled, "Glamour In The Swim."
Mighty is the project of Atlanta based Pittsburgh transplant Angelo Fiaretti. Mighty was conceived when Angelo dropped out of high school 4 years ago at age 16. You can learn more about him and buy his music from his website.mightytheband.com
Watch The Barr Brothers do a live version of this song on this video from their 2014 in-studio for KEXP hosted by Mr Troy Nelson www.youtube.com
The Morning Show is brought to you by you! Thanks for supporting us and if you want to get in on fighting the good fight, donate now! www.kexp.org
The Maldives will have a record release party for their new album 'Mad Lives' at The Triple Door on April 1st brought to you by KEXP www.facebook.com
Did you catch the new song from The Long Winter's last November? It's their first new song since 2006 and it's called "Make America Great Again" and you can hear it here www.30days30songs.com
Check out Star's in-studio from 2015 www.youtube.com
Do you like New Order? Do you like beer? Then you'll love Stray Dog beer brewed by Moorhouse’s Brewery. It is named 'Stray Dog' after a track on the band’s most recent album 'Music Complete' www.neworder.com
This is the Reykjavik-based group's second release and it is produced by Nick Zinner of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs,
Here's promo video for 'Staring at the Sun' - pretty, pretty, pretty good. www.youtube.com
thanks for the great request!
This double-CD documents a central aspect of the cultural environment of the Civil Rights Movement, acknowledging songs as the language that focused people's energy. These 43 tracks are a series of musical images, of a people in conversation about their determination to be free. Many of the songs were recorded live in mass meetings held in churches, where people from different life experiences, predominantly black, with a few white supporters, came together in a common struggle. www.folkways.si.edu
"Charm Assault" is Ride's first new song in 20 years and is taken from their forthcoming album, due to be released Summer 2017. The album was produced by Erol Alkan and mixed by the band's longtime collaborator, Alan Moulder. www.stereogum.com
The Walkmen’s Walter Martin has announced a new solo album called 'My Kinda Music' and comes out May 5 and features a collaboration with the National’s Matt Berninger, called, well, “Hey Matt.” It’s the second time they've worked together on one of Martin's projects. In 2014 they did the song “We Like the Zoo (’Cause We’re Animals Too) on We’re All Young Together.
hand selected from our extensive Pixies collection by Mr Arlie Richards.
The Orwells' ode to Frank Black - “Felt long overdue that we paid him some direct respect,” guitarist Matt O’Keefe explained in a press release. “We’ve been ripping him off for years, hopefully this chips away at the massive debt we’ve got to him.”
Safari is a four song EP by The Breeders released in 1992 on 4AD/Elektra Records. By the time of this release, Kim Deal had enlisted her twin sister Kelley to play guitar for The Breeders. This is the only Breeders recording that features both Kelley Deal and Tanya Donelly.
You can get their new album on 180g Yellow vinyl with a scratch'n'sniff cover from their bandcamp site, but you better hurry (and be thankful that it's a lemon on the cover)! menacebeach.bandcamp.com
Chuck Prophet describes his new album ‘Bobby Fuller Died For Your Sins’ as a “California Noir,” an album inspired partly by the mysterious death of rocker Bobby Fuller in LA in 1966. The 13 tracks also include songs about the death of David Bowie, and the killing of San Francisco security guard Alex Nieto that drew international headlines as “Death By Gentrification.” Only Mr Prophet could make this sound upbeat!
"Destroyer" was initially planned to appear on the band's previous album, 'Low Budget' but was dropped because the band could not create a satisfactory mix.The lyrics are a continuation of The Kinks' 1970 hit song, "Lola" and borrows the main riff from The Kinks' 1964 song, "All Day and All of the Night", which was one of the band's first hits.
"Can I Sit Next To You" has been a bit of a mystery until now. For the past several months, bits of the song have been used as background music in various clubs and venues. The house band for the Late Show With Stephen Colbert has performed it going into commercial breaks, and American Airlines has been using it as unidentified boarding music. Here's the video (if strobe lights bother you, watch with care) www.npr.org
Mark your calendars - HFTRR play The Crocodile on Friday June 16th with Making Movies
Sebadoh has announced a VERY brief spring east coast tour. Here's the deets - www.brooklynvegan.com
Sinkane will be LIVE on KEXP on Tuesday, February 28th at noon. The session is open to the public and signup starts at 10:30 am. You can also catch Sinkane that evening at The Tractor
Did you know the theme from Mad Men wasn't written for Mad Men at all; it was actually originally an unknown rap song by DJ RJD2 and rapper Aceyalone and before Matt Weiner came across this song, he originally wanted a song from Beck, but he turned them down? Well here's the story mic.com
Ahh, The Cult...did Larry David get his Seinfeld pirate shirt from this band? Watch the video and you decide www.youtube.com
according to their FB page, the band's interests include "tea and irn bru" and if you're wondering what the heck is irn bru, it is a Scottish carbonated soft drink, often described as "Scotland's other national drink" (after whisky)
Requested by Brent who says "if your kiddo doesn't like the Smiths yet, this will get him hooked!" it's not working...maybe "girlfriend in a coma" will do the trick!
Andy Warhol passed away on this date in 1987. Was there foul play? www.huffingtonpost.com
Guitarist and vocalist Nick Zammuto and cellist Paul de Jong covered the Nick Drake song "Cello Song" in collaboration with José González for the Red Hot Organization's Dark Was the Night fund-raising album in 2009