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Friday, Jan 13 2017, 6AM
Good morning and happy Friday (named for Freya, the Teutonic goddess of love, beauty, and fecundity). It's only a week until KEXP's "Bed-In For Peace: blog.kexp.org This,by the way, is the Pixies.
Depeche Mode's new album, "Spirit," will be released in Spring, 2017, followed by a 32-stop European tour.: www.rollingstone.com
Don't you continue to love this music, now almost 34 years old, from New Order?: thequietus.com
Kate Tempest's extraordinary performance was a highlight of Iceland Airwaves this year. Read a KEXP review of her session at the KEX Hostel: blog.kexp.org
"Soothsayers think we’re at the dystopian end of the Age of Aquarius; if so, Santigold is riding out like a boss." Read a glowing review of Santigold's 2012 release: www.spin.com
This wonderful song features lead vocals and lyrics from Elizabeth Fraser, the lead singer for the dream pop band Cocteau Twins. "Teardrop on the fire...Fearless on my...." Here are the lyrics: genius.com
The eagerly-awaited new album will be released later this month and they'll be here!! in Seattle at the Neptune Theatre on Saturday, March 18th, 2017.
You probably want to know more about this "seminal Washington, D.C., post-hardcore/punk indie rock band of the 1990s.": www.allmusic.com
Watch an in-studio session with Kurt Vile playing songs from "B'lieve I'm Goin Down" in 2015: blog.kexp.org
Here's Mr. Pop performing "The Passenger" live at the Royal Albert Hall last year: www.youtube.com
"Workin' this job is a kick in the pants..." This is a request from a listener whose last day on the job is today: www.azlyrics.com
Visit the "official Ugly Duckling website": www.uglyduckling.us
Urban Dance Squad was a Dutch rap rock band formed after what was originally intended as a one-time jam-session at a festival in Utrecht on December 20, 1986.: www.scaruffi.com
"All you ... (Fill in the blank.)...folks, you must go..." Watch the video for this great song: www.youtube.com
The focus of a new exhibition last year, Bjork talked with an interviewer, saying, "I'm not into normcore sexuality": www.standard.co.uk
Happy 3rd birthday, Hurricane Dumptruck. [We are] gonna make it through this year...if it kills [us].: www.youtube.com
In an interview on Tuesday, Billy Corgan revealed what drugs he was using when the early Smashing Pumpkins played live: www.alternativenation.net
Thank you, Violet. You can power John in the Morning and all of KEXP when you make a donation: www.kexp.org Allmusic calls "The Problem With Me" "one of the best albums of the early '90's": www.allmusic.com
Watch Bruce Springsteen cover "Don't Change" during his recent Australian tour: www.youtube.com
The xx will be here in Seattle in support of the new album, "I See You," at WaMu Theater on Monday, April 24th, 2017.
Slowdive's new album, due out soon, will be their first release in more than two decades: www.allmusic.com
This is what UK quartet LOYAL said about this song: “Moving As One” isn’t about nostalgia, questioning a love or hoping there’s something better ahead (unlike our first two more conscious records) This is about the moment, fearlessness and raw emotion. Think of this as the scream... not thinking about having a good old scream or worrying after you’ve done it.... just the actual scream!!!"
Ahhh......the Friday song. KEXP is presenting the 17th Annual MLK Unity Party on Sunday, January 15th, 2017. Find out more and purchase tickets here: blog.kexp.org
If you're in Brooklyn, you can hear Baby Dayliner at Union Pool on Saturday, January 28th, 2017. If you're elsewhere, console yourself by downloading "You Push, I'll Go," a KEXP Song of the Day: blog.kexp.org
Rural Alberta Advantage will be here in Seattle, playing The Tractor Tavern on Friday, February 24th, 2017.
Los Campesinos will be LIVE on KEXP on Monday, February 20th, 2017, at noon. The public is invited to sign up and attend that performance. The band will play at the Neptune Theatre that night.
This is the first single of the year for French-American band Freedom Fry. They encourage you to "enjoy it and share.": www.freedomfrymusic.com
John Richards thinks that James is a great live band. In this music video, they are awash in the sea as they play "Sometimes": www.youtube.com Oh, and here they are, performing it live: blog.kexp.org
Another song that features "the sea..." KEXP was honored to have The Waterboys live in the studio in 2013: blog.kexp.org
There is a beautiful blue sky today. This Montreal band performed this song live for KEXP listeners in 2015: blog.kexp.org
"I'm sorry and I miss you. I've grown taller now. I want the police to be notified." Memorize the lyrics to this fine song: songmeanings.com
In an inteview a year ago, Thurston Moore said that he found it "really strange" that he's blamed for breaking up Sonic Youth: www.spin.com
"Mad-eyed stares and howling into the darkness with North London's most exciting new punks..." Learn more about the band in this interview: www.nme.com
"Their attitude alone, dressed in black, angry with the world, playing short sets drenched in feedback, set the bench mark in the post Sex Pistols music scene of London." Tickets for the "Damage and Joy" UK and European tour are now on sale: thejesusandmarychain.uk.com
Here's the link to the official Twitter feed for the UK band Kasabian: twitter.com
The band hopes that "Holy Water" puts out a message of positivity and hope. Mixed by Joe Visciano (The Kills, Jamie xx, and Beck), the single is the follow up to the band’s previous “Can’t Run Forever.”: www.northerntransmissions.com
Yes, photography students in Shoreline, this is your teacher's favorite album. Here's a biography of the band: www.jango.com
British Sea Power's new album, "Let the Dancers Inherit the Party," will be released on March 31st, 2017.: www.britishseapower.co.uk
Watch 1000 musicians perform "Rebel Rebel" in Italy last year: www.rollingstone.com
"Folsom Prison Blues" was a #1 Country hit for four weeks and generated a great deal of interest in the rebellious Johnny Cash, who made prison reform his political cause of choice and started regularly performing in jails, doing about 12 shows a year - for free - mostly in Folsom and San Quentin. Said Cash: "I don't see anything good come out of prison. You put them in like animals and tear out the souls and guts of them, and let them out worse than they went in."
Watch an energetic performance by Throwing Muses in the KEXP studio in 2014: blog.kexp.org
Watch Vancouver, BC's Japandroids cover "To Hell With Good Intentions": www.youtube.com
John Peel called them "the mighty Fall." Read about the book, "Perverted by Language: Fiction Inspired by The Fall": www.theguardian.com
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They are touring all over the place in support of their new album, "Oczy Mlody," this year, but they're not coming to Seattle (yet): flaminglips.com
A serial killer played by Jake Gyllenhaal travels through the hippest parties on a killing spree in the video for The Shoes' "Time To Dance": www.youtube.com
This is a "one-off single," a follow-up to "Born in the Echoes": consequenceofsound.net
"You were such a P.Y.T (Pretty Young Thing?)" Here are are the lyrics to "D.A.N.C.E.": www.metrolyrics.com
Become familiar with the Schoolhouse Rock version of "Three is the Magic Number": www.youtube.com
Land of the Loops is the project of Boston area artist Alan Sutherland.: www.wonderingsound.com
As they say, this is an "attempt" to create a complete Folk Implosion discography: www.underwaternow.com
Savoy Motel will be LIVE on KEXP during The Morning Show at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, January 31st, 2017. They will be at Barboza that night.
Mark Griffin, better known as MC 900 Ft. Jesus, is an American classically trained musician turned rapper and experimental musician.: www.allmusic.com
Don't miss the video for The Avalanches' "Frontier Psychiatrist": www.youtube.com
Here's the Nobel Prize winner himself, singing this song in 1964: www.youtube.com