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Friday, Dec 2 2016, 6AM
This album may be on several top ten lists for 2016. Be sure to vote for your favorites at KEXP for the opportunity to win vinyl copies of the year's top ten: polls.kexp.org
Lo Moon's website says, "Always look towards the light when darkness looms.": lomoonofficial.com
The lyric: "Another sunrise with my sad captains, with you I choose to lose my mind" comes from a line in Shakespeare's play "Antony and Cleopatra." It's adapted from when Mark Antony speaks about his drinking partners: "Come, let's have one other gaudy night; call to me all my sad captains; fill our bowls; once more, let's mock the midnight bell."
The song "Your Hand in Mine" is featured in the films Friday Night Lights, The Big Empty, Love Happens, the TV series Prisoners' Wives, the documentary Gideon's Army and the Chinese web series "Addicted".: www.avclub.com
Watch an unearthed early video of Arcade Fire playing "No Cars Go" in 2003: www.stereogum.com
Rob Dickinson is now producing custom-designed Porsches but, before that, he participated in this interview in 2010: www.sheknows.com
6:49 AM
14th spin
Actually, the patent is still pending on John Richards' Cash-Clash connection.
"Number three
You have the right to free
Speech as long as you're not
Dumb enough to actually try it..." Learn the lyrics to "Know Your Rights": www.lyricsfreak.com
Here's the young Clash, live in Tokyo in 1982: www.youtube.com
6:58 AM
50th spin
A book of 41 of Johnny Cash's poems has just been published by his estate: www.statesman.com
The song has often interpreted to be about Mick Jones' volatile relationship with the Slits guitarist Viv Albertine who commented "I'm really proud to have inspired that but often he won't admit to it. He used to get the train to my place in Shepherds Bush and I would not let him in. He was bleating on the doorstep. That was cruel". The couple separated around the time of the London Calling recording sessions.
June Carter wrote this song while driving around aimlessly one night, worried about Cash's wildman ways - and aware that she couldn't resist him. "There is no way to be in that kind of hell, no way to extinguish a flame that burns, burns, burns," she wrote.
See the video for Melbourne's Flying Colours' "Long Holiday" and learn a little more about the band here: www.northerntransmissions.com
Those Dandys will be here in Seattle, playing the Showbox next Wednesday, December 7th, 2016.
This quartet's last release was "Tarantula" in 1996. They will release their first album in more than 20 years in 2017. Watch video of this legendary band, live in the KEXP studio in late 2015: blog.kexp.org
F.U., 2016. In October, three more tracks from the late David Bowie were released for the first time. Here's a review: www.telegraph.co.uk
R.I.P., brave, gritty, and powerful Sharon Jones, here covering Mr. Woody Guthrie. Read the NY Tiimes obituary for Sharon Jones, who died much too young at age 60: www.nytimes.com
ATCQ has announced one final world tour. Learn more about it and see the teaser for the video for "We the People...": consequenceofsound.net
Aesop Rock is peripatetic, constantly touring. He'll be in Portland at the Wonder Ballroom on Tuessday, December 20th, 2016.
Ahh.....the Friday song. Did you know that Light in the Attic Records has opened a record store in the lobby of KEXP's Gathering Space?: blog.kexp.org
Learn more than it's possible to remember about The Chemical Brothers in this Allmusic biography: www.allmusic.com
Go back in time to 2007 to acquire a free Justice Song of the Day--"D.A.N.C.E.": blog.kexp.org
7:50 AM
15th spin
Watch the Larson sisters, aka Prince Rama, in this live performance with Animal Collective in London in 2012: blog.kexp.org
"House of Jealous Lovers" received acclaim from music critics. Stylus Magazine described the track as all four band members "playing their instruments as if they were leads" and continued that "nobody's been able to pull this off so well since Joy Division" AllMusic said that its rhythm section was "as dynamite as anything from the late-'70s U.K. post-punk bands."] Pitchfork Media called the song "the unparalleled champion of 2002's summer anthem sweepstakes".
Put Ritzy Bryan's shredding on your playlist when you download this KEXP Song of the Day for free: blog.kexp.org
Here are the lyrics for "Stop!," including the Spanish introduction and its translation: trivialalternatives.wordpress.com
Chuck D guest stars on the latest “Where Are They Now?” episode on the Oprah Network: www.publicenemy.com
This reviewer argues that rock is not a "toothless old whore" and that "Anarchy in the UK," about 40 years old, is more relevant than ever.: ajournalofmusicalthings.com
The Pixies on tour--"screaming surrealism and animal howling": www.standard.co.uk
Where do you think this band is from? If you said the east coast of Italy, you'd be correct.: www.facebook.com
John Richards picked "Quiet Little Voices" by We Were Promised Jetpacks as a KEXP Song of the Day back in 2008: blog.kexp.org
You can purchase a "biography" of Longwave and the New Yoork music scene, "Wake Me When It's Over," here: wakeme.net
Read about "the INXS confession Kirk Pengilly kept secret for 16 years..." www.news.com.au
No offense, Colorado, but we say, "Bow down to Washington." Let the Purple Reign!
The beat came from the guitar riff on The Knack's 1979 hit "My Sharona." Here's the video: www.youtube.com
"1994’s “Supernova” reveals Phair as a true pioneer of women being unafraid to rawly talk about their sexuality through music. In fact, she even compares a guy’s lips to a “cherub’s bare wet ass,” an image that is impossible to remove from your brain." Read more about Liz Phair's ten best songs: www.stereogum.com
Watch Bob Mould iin a terrific live performance and interview with KEXP DJ Kevin Cole earlier this year: blog.kexp.org
Mission of Burma's Facebook page is featuring swag for the "xmas list. Yes, I said xmas!": www.facebook.com
You can watch the video for "Bastards of Young" at The Replacements' official website: thereplacementsofficial.com
"Star-belly sneetch?" You don't often hear Dr. Seuss references in contemporary music.: www.azlyrics.com
Brownout's second album of Black Sabbath covers is ""a reflection of the kind of cross-cultural life many Latinos in the U.S. live in, one where a 1970s English heavy metal prototype shares record shelf space with Latin music.": www.npr.org
You know that they're in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: www.rockhall.com
Here's LCD Soundsystem performing "North American Scum" from their "final" show at Madison Square Garden in 2011: www.youtube.com
Read a positive review for DJ Shadow's recent "The Mountain Will Fall": www.avclub.com
Get a KEXP Song of the Day, "Always Winnin," by Shad & DJ T.Lo: blog.kexp.org
On Friday, August 26th, 2016, KEXP spent twelve hours breaking down "# Feet High and Rising" in its entirety: blog.kexp.org
“Pink Triangle” is a love song about a boy who falls for the wrong girl (i.e., one who isn’t into boys at all).
As Rivers explained in a 1996 interview:
"I had a really intense crush on a girl and then I dreamed about her all through the fall semester. And then I found out she was a lesbian." Here are the lyrics: genius.com
Perhaps you would like to know more about Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet: shadowy.brainiac.com
Watch the undisputed king of surf rock, live in the KEXP studio: blog.kexp.org
"You're telling me it's in the trees, in the trees
It's not, it's inside me..." This is a wonderful running song and here are the lyrics: www.metrolyrics.com
Read a biography and see the complete discography at the Matador Records' website; www.matadorrecords.com
In 2013, here was one critic's choices of Spoon albums--from worst to best: www.stereogum.com
Stephen Colbert played "Holland, 1945" in a tribute to his father and two brothers who tragically died in a plane crash in 1974.: consequenceofsound.net
Watch the Tiny Tunes video for "Particle Man": www.youtube.com
Enjoy this biography of The Psychedelic Furs: ww.thepsychedelicfurs.com/bio.html