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Good morning and happy Friday. "Where's the Revolution" is the first single off Depeche Mode's new album, "Spirit," due out on March 17th. It's the band's 14th studio album and their first new music in four years. This song is both humanitarian and political as Dave Gahan sings, "Come on people, you're letting me down.": www.billboard.com
Haelso describes their sound as "a kind of dark euphoria.": noisey.vice.com Watch Haelos perform "Pray" live at SXSW last year: www.youtube.com
The words for "In My Heart" are derived from the American gospel hymn, "Lord, I Want to Be a Christian"
Here are the translated lyrics to "Inside me a madman/fool sings": lyricstranslate.com
This "don't forget the songs that made you cry/and the songs that saved your life" article has a wonderful "analysis"/celebration of "Plainsong": neverletmedown.wordpress.com
Here's Elbow performing this joyous song with the BBC Orchestra and the choir Chantage: vimeo.com
This album was released in 2002 and "went straight to number 1." Read a "Dusting Them Off" retrospective from 2014, written in anticipation of a solo album by Jimi Goodwin: consequenceofsound.net
Watch a stripped-down in-studio live session by Foals at KEXP in 2013: blog.kexp.org
Arcade Fire's new live collection includes "Wake Up." Learn more about it and watch the live video for "Reflektor": www.rollingstone.com
This song comes from Japandroids' eagerly anticipated second album. They will be here in Seattle on March 18th, 2017, playing the Neptune Theatre.
Cloud Nothings will be LIVE on KEXP at 1:00 p.m. on Friday, February 17th, 2017. The public is invited to sign up and attend that performance. They will be playing Barboza on Friday, February 17th, and Saturday, March 18th.
You'll want to see the official music video for "Pure Comedy.": www.youtube.com Follow that up with this interview with Josh Tillman: www.stereogum.com
The next time you listen to “Welcome To The Occupation,” try to imagine it without any drums at all. The character of the song changes considerably, revealing itself to be a bleak folk song about American intervention in Central America buried beneath booming arena rock percussion. The song is mainly addressed to North Americans who are either unaware or forgiving of these short-sighted, destructive policies: popsongs.wordpress.com
This is the second track on French rock band Phoenix's fourth studio album, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix. It was released as a free download when Phoenix's redesigned official website was launched. Phoenix's 2009 performance of this song on Saturday Night Live was a career-defining moment for the band. Daniel Glass, head of Glassnote Records, recalled getting the initial call from SNL looking to get the band on the show just after the label had leaked "1901." "We gave the song away for free and it shot up to number one on the blogs," Glass explained to Radio.com. "They wanted to book the band in a few weeks, which was unheard of because the band would be on SNL way before their album would be out."
"Cause it's one thing to start it with a positive jam..and it's another thing to see it on through..." Here are the lyrics to "Stay Positive": www.songlyrics.com
Lemonheads (the candy) were invented by Ferrara Pan Candy Company. Lemonheads (the band) have a different history: www.thelemonheads.net
Here's Luna performing this song live: www.thelemonheads.net
"Giddy up." The lyrics are fascinating: www.azlyrics.com And the video that features Beck dancing with his children is fun: www.npr.org
"Shad's time has come and that time is now because upon hearing the single, "Fam Jam (Fe Sum Immigrins)", your love for this dude is going to double and so is the amount of ears that are going to be gravitating towards him. Based around subjects of being an immigrant in the Western world, Shad portrays what it's like to be in the shoes of someone going through such things." : www.hillydilly.com
K'Naan iis a Somali-Canadian singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist. His name means "traveler" in the Somali language. "How did Mandela get the will to surpass the everyday when injustice had him caged and trapped in every way? How did Gandhi ever withstand the hunger-strikes at all?: www.azlyrics.com See the video: www.youtube.com
Don't miss the opportunity to hear Michael Kiwanuka at The Showbox on Monday, May 22nd, 2017.
Ahhh....the Friday song. Don't forget that KEXP is celebrating International Clash Day next Tuesday, February 7th, 2017, from dawn until dusk: blog.kexp.org
British singer/songwriter Jack Penate performed "Tonight's Today" live in the KEXP studio iin 2009. Watch!: blog.kexp.org
Ahhh....Friday song #2. You can't buy those fabulous costumes, but you can purchase Empire of the Sun merch here: www.empireofthesunofficialmerch.com
Escort founders Dan Balis and Eugene Cho met at Vassar College and started making house singles in the early 2000s.[4] Escort started as a studio project for the duo who, "wanted to make records in the spirit of the old ones we were sampling." Here's the video for "Cocaine Blues': www.youtube.com
R.I.P., Sharon Jones. Here's that wondefrul artist singing a live cover of that wonderful Woody Guthrie song: blog.jivewired.com
"Give me a half teaspoon of bass..." Here's a biography of Curtis Ousley, Texas R &B saxophonist who was murdered in 1971.: www.allmusic.com
Architectural Digest featured Mike D's Malibu beach house this week: www.architecturaldigest.com
Watch Pearl Jam's tribute to Cheap Trick with this cover of "Surrender": www.rollingstone.com In concert, this is the song where Rick Nielsen would break out his famous 5-necked guitar. Nielsen owns hundreds of guitars, many with outrageous designs built by the Hamer Guitar company.
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"The song, written by Nick Lowe in 1974 and performed by his band Brinsley Schwarz, is as timely as it’s ever been, its searching questions begging for answers now more than ever." Read this American Songwriter essay (replete with videos) about this song: americansongwriter.com
You should follow Sorority Noise on their Facebook page: www.facebook.com
Did you know that this song came out iin 1968, performed by Status Quo? The "matchstick men" of the song refers to the paintings of Salford, England artist L. S. Lowry.
Spoon's "Hot Thoughts" will be released on March 17th. You can pre-order it here: www.spoontheband.com
"The politically-charged, wholly on-the-nose anthem, which ultimately asks the listener to “get onboard” the “train” (speeding, presumably, toward cathartic sociopolitical upheaval), is the lead single from the band’s new album Spirit, which will be available in both standard and deluxe editions on March 17...": www.spin.com
Happy birthday, Tim Booth, born February 4th, 1960. In this interview, he talks about sex, death, and growing up.: www.nme.com
This is a listener birthday request. Watch this LA band performing live at Sun Liquor in 2015: blog.kexp.org
He'll be playing The Showbox on Monday, May 22nd, 2017. Watch the video for "One More Night": www.youtube.com
"Hey hey..." Watch the video for this powerful song: www.youtube.com
The Guardian calls "Little Fictions" "as fine an album as they have made.": www.theguardian.com
This album, "Porcupine," celebrates its thirty-third birthday tomorrow. Here's an Allmusic review: www.allmusic.com
This year we also celebrate all of the world governments that have declared International Clash Day an official holiday: The City of Seattle, The State of Washington, The City of San Francisco, The City of Vancouver, BC, The City of Austin, and many others : blog.kexp.org
Perhaps you don't know much about English band Heaven 17. There's no excuse now: www.heaven17.com
Read this article about how "Pump Up the Volume" became "dance music's first pop hit": www.rollingstone.com
Talking about ten weird Primal Scream songs, Bobby Gillespie said "We're the Junkie F**king Band": www.spin.com
Wow! "Rumours" was released on February 4th, 1977. That's forty years ago, honey. Read the band's biography from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: www.rockhall.com
“Do You Remember Rock ’N’ Roll Radio?” is Joey’s love letter to the past. Specifically the early ’60s—an era of musical innocence that the Ramones, in a perverse kind of way, were committed to keeping alive.: www.avclub.com
Happy birthday, Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth, born this day in 1956. Public Enemy's Chuck D contributes some vocals in the song. The collaboration came about as Public Enemy and Sonic Youth were both recording albums in the same small studio. Singer and guitarist Thurston Moore said: "It was real exciting for us. We're big fans."
Another birthday! Dave Davies of The Kinks was born on February 3rd, 1947. You can visit the official Dave Davies website here: www.davedavies.com
Today is the anniversary of The Day the Music Died. A plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, The Big Bopper and pilot Roger Peterson in 1959.
He was born Richard Steven Valenzuela near Los Angeles in 1941.: www.biography.com
Thanks for this request, Anna. Here's the video for Nick Cave's "Bring It On": www.youtube.com
Firewater formed in 1997 in Brooklyn, by frontman Tod Ashley (stage name Tod A.), they call everywhere home and have never looked back. Watch their KEXP performance here: www.youtube.com