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Friday, Feb 10 2017, 6AM
"Star Roving" is Slowdive's first new song in 22 years.: pitchfork.com
The lyrics were likely inspired by Robert Smith's wife Mary, who he's been with since he was fourteen. "And all I want is to keep it like this ," Smith sings. "You and me alone, a secret kiss/And don't go home, don't go away/Don't let this end, please stay." In honor of Robert and Mary Poole Smith, here's a post about the love songs of The Cure: chainofroberts.blogspot.com
"Under the wheel of the running train...Like a dog in the pouring rain..." Watch the video for "Yin and Yang (The Flowerpot Man)": www.youtube.com
Whoa!! Will Toledo, aka Car Seat Headrest, knocked our socks off with this live in-studio performance last month: blog.kexp.org
Listen to Morrissey and David Bowie cover T. Rex's "Cosmic Dancer": www.rollingstone.com
"As consistent as it is beloved, Spoon never fails to hit its mark — delivered forcefully, and with hooks for days." Spoon's new album, "Hot Thoughts," is scheduled for release on March 17th, 2017. : www.npr.org
Watch The Walkmen in a live performance of "The Rat": www.youtube.com
This self-titled album came out twenty years ago today. " Blur are at their best when they are trying to live up to their own pretensions, because of Damon Albarn's exceptional sense of songcraft and the band's knack for detailed arrangements that flesh out the songs to their fullest. There might be dark overtones to the record, but the band sounds positively joyous, not only in making noise but wreaking havoc with the expectations of its audience and critics.": www.allmusic.com
The catchy organ riff was lifted from Deep Purple's 1968 hit "Hush." Sadly, the Hammond organ player responsible for this sound, Rob Collins, was killed in a 1996 car crash. However the band carried on together and continued producing UK Top 40 hits into the '00s.
Read Professor Fitzgerald's biography of Cornershop: www.cornershop.com
This supergroup began with Midlake's Eric Pulido's idea of a "poor man's Traveling Willburys.": consequenceofsound.net
In addition to being the name for Jeff Lynne's group,ELO is a rating system for calculating the relative skill levels of players in competitor-versus-competitor games such as chess. It is named after its creator Arpad Elo, a Hungarian-born American physics professor.
Here are the unexpurgated lyrics to this quite political song: genius.com
Watch the dystopian video for Depeche Mode's new "Where's the Revolution": www.youtube.com "Spirit" is due out on March 17th, 2017.
This article asks if Depeche Mode is metal's biggest secret influence: www.rollingstone.com
This song is a tribute to the '50s and '60s blonde bombshell actress Jayne Mansfield. She, along with two other adults, was killed in a grisly car accident on the way to New Olreans for a gig.: www.youtube.com
Goldfrapp is the duo Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory. Their new album, "Silver Eye," will be out on March 31st. You can pre-order it right here, right now: www.facebook.com
Ahh....the Friday song. KEXP offers you the opportunity to walk in and see many live performances in our New Home. Find out how to do view these in-studio sessions: blog.kexp.org
Watch a Star Trek video set to the tune of William Shatner's cover of Pulp's "Common People": www.avclub.com
"How did three beer-chugging, groupie-grabbing white boys in matching Chinese gym suits become hip-hop elder statesmen and the brains and conscience of alternative culture?" Here's an oral history of Beastie Boys: www.spin.com
Watch the Youtube video for "Pattern Against User": www.youtube.com
The anti-greed anthem, "Currency," is off the Black Angels' new album, "Death Song," due out on April 21st, 2017. The band has scheduled an extensive tour in support of the new album: americansongwriter.com
This was written by Grace Slick's brother-in-law, Darby Slick, in 1965. They were in a San Francisco band called The Great Society, which also included Jerry Slick, who was Grace's husband and Darby's brother (Jerry played drums; Darby played guitar). The Great Society released the song as a single in late 1965 with another Darby Slick composition, "Free Advice," on the B-side.
The single went nowhere, and when Darby started exploring Indian music in 1966, the group broke up and Grace joined Jefferson Airplane, which was already established.
This is a cover of "Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos," a 1989 song by the American hip hop group Public Enemy. Tricky changed the name to "Black Steel." Here's the official video: www.youtube.com
Cliff Burton, bass player for Metallica, was born on this date in 1962. He was killed in a bus crash in 1986 at the age of 24: loudwire.com
Frank Zappa absolutely loved Black Sabbath's "Supernaut": dangerousminds.net
"Connection" was the subject of controversy, due to its overt similarity to another band's work. The intro synthesizer part (later repeated as a guitar figure) is lifted from the guitar riff in Wire's "Three Girl Rhumba" and transposed down a semitone. A judgment resulted in an out-of-court settlement and the credits were rewritten.
Here's the Wire original which provided "inspiration" for Elastica.
This song from Norwegian songstress Ida Maria borrows from The Banana Splits Adventure Hour's opening theme, "The Tra La La Song", and pays homage to them in its music video.: www.youtube.com
Empress Of is the solo project of Los Angeles-based, American singer-songwriter, Lorely Rodriguez. On her Facebook page, she says that her current location is "a small room with no windows.": www.facebook.com
Watch the sun appear of Empire of the Sun's official website: www.facebook.com
John Richards chose Slow Club's "Complete Surrender" as a KEXP Song of the Day. Download it for free here: blog.kexp.org
Who, you ask, are these folks? DJ-Producer Simon Dine and chanteuse extraordinaire Daisy Martey teamed up to create Noonday Underground. Learn a bit more about them here:www.bar-none.com
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When this song came out in 2004, Johnny Boy was feted by Manic Street Preachers frontman James Dean Bradfield and Mick Jones, who may well have heard an echo of his post-Clash band Big Audio Dynamite amid the track's audacious melange of styles. Johnny Marr said it was "the best thing out all year", while film-maker and DJ Don Letts went further: he announced that the track had given him an erection. In the States, USA Today proclaimed it single of the year, undaunted by the fact that the single wasn't actually released in the States.
"Great DJ" by The Ting Tings was another John Richards' Song of the Day pick: blog.kexp.org
This song features Santigold, Vybz Kartel, Danielle Haim & Yasmin. Watch the video: www.youtube.com
"SOHN’s 'Rennen' is just what we need - music to which we can both dance and cry." Read the very positive review here: www.thelineofbestfit.com
"I'm not as clever as I thought I was..." Read the lyrics to "Record Collection": genius.com
Last year, Joe Jackson talked with Canadian Broadcasting about what keeps him going in music after all these years: www.cbc.ca
“It’s about supernatural love — looking for inspiration and meaning, surrendering to feeling, love calling out your name and that journey we must go on to find it,” said frontman Nathan Willett, talking about "Love Is Mystical."
"In the chorus, which ignites with guitar squall and communal shouting, Cameron Boucher relays, “I didn’t show up to your funeral, but I showed up to your house / I didn’t move a muscle, I was quiet as a mouse / And I swore I saw you in there, but I was looking at myself.”: www.pastemagazine.com
Don't miss the opportunity to hear Hurray for the Riff Raff when they play The Crocodile on Friday, June 16th, 2017.
Last year, Band of Horses graced KEXP's Public Gathering Space with a wonderful performance. See photos and read a live review of that event: blog.kexp.org
If you were listening for 12 hours on Tuesday, February 7th, 2017, this band may sound familiar. Watch a video roundup of songs from The Clash: blog.kexp.org
This song, live from the top of the Space Needle, was a KEXP Song of the Day: blog.kexp.org
Kathleen Hanna from Bikini Kill scrawled the phrase “Kurt Smells Like Teen Spirit” in spray paint on a wall, from which Kurt Cobain took the title. Kurt took it as a call for a revolution, but it was later revealed Hanna was referring to the brand of deodorant worn by Kurt’s then-girlfriend (and Hanna’s then-bandmate) Tobi Vail.
This revered band was the subject of a KEXP documentary --"Grunge--Soundgarden": blog.kexp.org
“No one has been able to approach the political power that Public Enemy brought to hip-hop,” Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys told Rolling Stone in 2004. Read their biography from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: www.rockhall.com
Jungle Fire was originally conceived as a one-off Afro Latin funk jam between friends in 2011. It's become much, much more. Read about this 10-piece group here: junglefiremusic.com
Watch video of an in-studio performance by these talented musicians in 2014: blog.kexp.org
Read an Allmusic biography of this Eugene, Oregon band: www.allmusic.com
Hear TacocaT sing "I Love Seattle" at Real Art Tacoma on Wednesday, March 1st, 2017.
Here is the "#1 Fansite for PUSA": www.pusafan.com The KEXP blog featured the best songs of PUSA, including "Lump": blog.kexp.org
Read about how David Bowie created the "alter ego that changed rock": www.rollingstone.com
American Wrestlers are from St. Louis, Missouri. They formed in 2014 by Scottish musician Gary McClure.
Named after the Jack Kerouac book, Dharma Bums came out of Portland in 1987. Nirvana used to open at their shows. The band broke up in 1992.
Soul Asylum formed in Minneapolis in 1981, they released their 11th and most recent album, Change of Fortune, just last year.