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Tuesday, Nov 15 2016, 6AM
Fifty fans got to see Jose Gonzalez and christen the live room. Watch the full performance here: blog.kexp.org
Find more Yeah Yeah Yeahs on the Running Podcast. Yes, there's a running podcast. It'll keep you going through this rainy Seattle weather. blog.kexp.org
Phantogram will be back in Seattle on December 6th. Also in Portland on the 8th but that show is already sold out.
Grant Lee Phillips will be at the Crocodile on March 18th. He's also playing a lot of small venues so look for him near you! In the meantime he was featured recently on the Song of the Day podcast blog.kexp.org
According to the Bon Iver site, 22 stands for Justin Vernon. "The number's recurrence in his life has become a meaningful pattern through encounter and recognition" and a million is the rest of the world. The millions of people they will never know.
Crowded House live webcast from their Auckland rehearsals tomorrow neilfinn.com You can also check out the video of Neil Finn's stop by KEXP blog.kexp.org
"... no goddamn timpani rolls, no boys to keep strummin’ those guitars, just Oberst on harmonica, acoustic and piano with ten songs written during an Omaha winter and recorded in 48 hours." Read more about Ruminations pitchfork.com
it is suspected that this song could have been inspired by Dylan's then girlfriend, Suze Rotolo. Dylan left England for Italy to search for Suze, whose continuation of studies there had caused a serious rift in their relationship. Unbeknownst to Dylan, Rotolo had already returned to the United States, leaving about the same time that Dylan arrived in Italy. See Johnny & Bob performing it www.youtube.com
Nick Drake's cremated remains lie under an oak tree on the churchyard of St. Mary's Magdalene, in the small Warwickshire of Tamworth-in-Arden, where he was born. The headstone inscription - "Now we rise. And we are everywhere" - is a line from "From The Morning," the last track on his final album, Pink Moon.
The moon is a big deal to Neil Young. It shows up in 28 of his songs, and he uses it to guide him. Industry folks know that he is more likely to take on a project if it coincides with a full moon. In a 2005 interview with Harp, he explained: "Before there was organized religion, there was the moon. The Indians knew about the moon. Pagans followed the moon. I've followed it for as long as I can remember, and that's just my religion. I'm not a practicing anything, I don't have a book that I have to read. It can be dangerous working in a full moon atmosphere, because if there are things that are going to go wrong, they can really go wrong. But that's great, especially for rock 'n' roll."
Hopefully you didn't miss Neko in Tacoma last week opening her tour!
Hopefully you saw case/lang/viers at the zoo last summer. Read about the show here blog.kexp.org and stay up to date with the shows to see on the KEXP events calendar www.kexp.org
In a 1990 interview with SongTalk magazine, Simon said: "I liked the 'aaahhhs,' the voices singing 'aaah.' That was the best I think that we ever did it. It was quite a lot of voices we put on, maybe twelve or fifteen voices. We sang it in the echo-chamber."
In 1990, Bob Dylan visited sessions for the final Replacements album. Engineer Cliff Norrell recalled in Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements: "He was saying, 'My son's really into your band.' You could see their eyes light up, and then Dylan goes: 'You're R.E.M., right?'" I'm guessing it was a Tuesday.
Drummer David Lovering says he borrowed a friend's drum set when the band recorded this at Fort Apache Studios in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Hear the latest from Pixies with the Song of the Day podcast blog.kexp.org
Read about the follow-up to this album, Monomania and how the albums differ blog.kexp.org
Listen to the KEXP documentary on Pink Floyd as part of the Psychedelics series http://blog.kexp.org/2009/08/26/kexp-documentaries-psychedelics-–-pink-floyd/
The last song (Pink Floyd Fearless) ends by fading into a recording of Liverpool Football Club fans singing this Rogers & Hammerstein song which was originally written for the 1945 musical Carousel.
My favorite thing about the wikipedia entry for TV On The Radio is the first line "Not to be confused with TV radios". Gee, thanks Wikipedia.
Stephen Malkmus of Pavement with the 'anti-band' Soldiers of Fortune that formed with the battle cry that they were “never gonna write songs, never gonna practice, never gonna record music, make any product for public consumption, or ever hit the road.”blog.kexp.org
The Joy Formidable's in-studio from earlier this year where they previewed their Capitol Hill Block Party set blog.kexp.org
Fifteen years later, Garbage have outlasted the naysayers and jilted ex-lovers. Read about their latest album Strange Little Birds here: pitchfork.com
The song was always a popular live fixture, and Simonon's moment of glory onstage as he took lead vocals. He would swap instruments with Joe Strummer, who would play bass whilst Simonon played some rhythm guitar and sang (or usually bellowed) his vocals with great gusto.
Important message to remember in these troubled times. Don't give up the fight.
This started as an improvisation by U2 guitarist The Edge, with the others joining in. It was recorded in three takes however, The Wide Awake In America version contains an edit. They screwed up the last note, so a good one from another show was spliced on.
Watch Foals performing this song in addition to '2 Trees' and 'Public Embarrassment Blues' live at KEXP blog.kexp.org
Lured with the prize of two albums from The Cure, KEXP held a "Goths In Trees" Photo contest. Just as it sounds. See the winners: blog.kexp.org
Definitive collection of Depeche Mode's videos from 1981-2013 is released on November 18th as a 3 DVD set www.depechemode.com
We were excited when we heard legendary singer/songwriter Paul Weller would stop by the KEXP studios for an acoustic session, but little did we know, he’d be bringing his five-piece band with him for this very special unplugged set. The intimate performance spotlighted his twelfth solo release Saturns Pattern, as well as old favorites from both his older bands, The Jam and Style Council. KEXP felt truly blessed to be in the presence of “The Modfather.” Watch this stripped-down session: blog.kexp.org
Back in September KEXP celebrated the 25th anniversary of Nirvana’s Nevermind and asked our listeners to share their memories of this iconic release. Here are a few of their stories blog.kexp.org
Not to remind you but here is a collection of songs about work including 'Birth, School, Work, Death' in honor of Bike to Work day, 2014 blog.kexp.org
Bowie's guitarist, Mick Ronson, quit in 1973 in order to pursue a solo career, so Bowie played guitar on this song. Bowie spoke to Performing Songwriter magazine about the legendary riff: "When I was high school, that was the riff by which all of us young guitarists would prove ourselves in the local music store. It's a real air guitar thing, isn't it? I can tell you a very funny story about that. One night, I was in London in a hotel trying to get some sleep. It was quite late, like eleven or twelve at night, and I had some big deal thing on the next day, a TV show or something, and I heard this riff being played really badly from upstairs. I thought, 'Who the hell is doing this at this time of night?' On an electric guitar, over and over [sings riff to 'Rebel Rebel' in a very hesitant, stop and start way]. So I went upstairs to show the person how to play the thing (laughs). So I bang on the door. The door opens, and I say, 'Listen, if you're going to play...' and it was John McEnroe
Missing the in-studio right now? Go see Mike tonight at Silver Platters - 7pm. If you can't make that either, he'll be at the Crocodile on February 7th
From Mike's website: "By his ninth solo album, The Heart Watches While the Brain Burns, you’d figure he would have slipped into a comfortable pattern, but Mike Doughty is not that kind of artist. The former frontman of Soul Coughing is obsessively, constantly driven to sound new. The elegant, charming album swerves between lonesome country influences, and trap beats."
That instrument you're hearing is a Critter & Guitari Pocket Piano www.critterandguitari.com After today's performance you can go back and see Mike from 4 years ago at KEXP www.youtube.com
You can stream (and buy!) the new album on Mike's site... www.mikedoughty.com
Ruby Vroom's lone guest is Rachel Benbow Murdy, band founder Mike Doughty's ex-girlfriend, who supplies a vocal on "Janine". Doughty had Murdy go out to a payphone in Sheridan Square in New York and improvise a long, meandering song into their answering machine.
The Eels have stopped by KEXP a couple times. Check out both their in-studios blog.kexp.org blog.kexp.org
They'll be at the Crocodile on January 1st with Camper Van Beethoven
You can hear "No Direction" From their 2008 album "Secrets Are Sinister" with the Song of the Day blog.kexp.org
The last album from School of Seven Bells came out this year. Check outa review of it blog.kexp.org
