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Wednesday, Nov 9 2016, 6AM
Thanks for all of your emails this morning. glad we're here for each other.
The Canadian immigration website crashed last night www.cnn.com
Facts about Pet Ownership in the U.S.: It's estimated that 70-80 million dogs and 74-96 million cats are owned in the United States. Approximately 37-47% of all households in the United States have a dog, and 30-37% have a cat
Cool infographic on how the 'Sign "☮" the Times' album came to be www.flipflopflyin.com
Are you all right, are you all right? You are my friend, are you all right?
This track is from Sinead's debut album released in 1987 when she was 20 years old. The title of the album is from Psalm 91:13 "you will tread upon the lion and cobra".
Mike Scott, leader of The Waterboys, describes 'This Is the Sea' as "the record on which I achieved all my youthful musical ambitions",the final, fully realized expression of the early Waterboys sound". It was the first Waterboys album to enter the United Kingdom charts, peaking at number 37
Here's First Aid Kit performing live in the KEXP studio on November 15, 2014. www.youtube.com
Junip performed live in the KEXP studios back in 2013 and here's the video - www.youtube.com
'Stop Making Sense', Talking Head's live 1984 album (the soundtrack to the film of the same name), spent more than two years (118 weeks) on the Billboard 200 chart
Did you know that The Black Angel's logo is feature a high-contrast negative image of Velvet's vocalist Nico? Of course you did, our listeners are smart!
Written by Grace Slick, "White Rabbit" was originally recorded when she was in the band The Great Society. After becoming the new lead singer for the Jefferson Airplane, she provided two songs from her previous group: her own "White Rabbit" and "Somebody to Love", written by her brother-in-law Darby Slick which was also recorded by The Great Society. Great Society? Fascinating.
requested by Josh in West Seattle who needed something to clear his head. How'd it work for you?
Apocalypse 91 produced 4 singles including "By the Time I Get to Arizona" which featured a controversial music video where Public Enemy was depicted killing the 17th Governor of Arizona, Evan Mecham, who refused to recognize Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday as a national holiday.
Guns N' Roses used to use this song as their introduction music on their two-year-long Use Your Illusion world tour in the early 1990's.
Here's The Church performing live at the Triple Door as part of KEXP's VIP Club concert series www.youtube.com
"Welch’s narratives tend to be accounts of resignation, misfortune, or torment. Her characters include itinerant laborers, solitary wanderers, misfits, poor people, outlaws, criminals, love-wrecked women, etc". www.newyorker.com