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Friday, Sep 9 2016, 6AM
From Virginia to Sweden to Australia, he's touring all around (but, alas, not here): www.grantleephillips.com Watch live video of a 2010 KEXP in-studio session: blog.kexp.org
"Revel in the electrified heartbreak" of Nada Surf in this extended in-studio performance earlier this year: blog.kexp.org
dinosaur Jr. will be at the Showbox with Moon Duo on Saturday, October 1st, 2016.
Read about how Love and Rockets evolved from Bauhaus: diffuser.fm
"And now when the rain comes we can be thankful...." Here are the marvelous lyrics to "Roscoe": www.azlyrics.com
In 2006, KEXP shone its NW Music Spotlight on The Long Winters: blog.kexp.org
Watch this "psychedelic, fully animated trip." It's the video for "Life Like This," directed and animated by Adam Avilla: pitchfork.com
This song by M. Ward is available to you for free as a KEXP Song of the Day: blog.kexp.org
In 2013, Empire of the Sun's Luke Steele broke his silence on The Sleepy Jackson, saying, "I think sleepy will have its time." (But, nothing yet...): fasterlouder.junkee.com
Watch video of this extraordinary band in the KEXP studio in 2015: blog.kexp.org
See the official video for what a Chicago listener says was the old Friday song: www.youtube.com
At Robert Earl Keen's website, you can read about the tribute to Guy Clark at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium. “I told my friend Rodney Crowell backstage, ‘Can you imagine a three-hour show with no shitty songs?'”: www.robertearlkeen.com
"Please beware of them that stare..." Here are the llyrics to this song that suggests that things aren't what they seem: www.nickdrake.com
This wonderful band played live in the kEXP studio in 2015. Watch that performance here: blog.kexp.org
Visit Australian band Middle Kids' Facebook page: www.facebook.com
Get Angel Olsen's "Shut Up Kiss Me" from this great new album, "My Woman." It was a recent KEXP Song of the Day: blog.kexp.org
Did you know that Joy Division's Ian Curtis borrowed the name of this song from author Nikolai Gogol's "Dead Souls"?: flavorwire.com
It's fun to watch the eeriely, "mirrorily" video for Love and Rockets' "Mirror People": www.youtube.com
"Heavenly Bodies" came out on August 26th, 2016. You can buy a deluxe vinyl copy at their Bandcamp age: midnightfaces.bandcamp.com
The verses to "Blasphemous Rumours" describe a 16-year-old girl who attempts suicide but fails. She experiences a religious revival but is killed in a car accident at age 18. The chorus uses these incidents to conclude, "I don't want to start any blasphemous rumours / but I think that God's got a sick sense of humour / and when I die, I expect to find him laughing.": songmeanings.com
Wild Beasts is touring in Europe and the United States this fall in support of the new album, "Boy King.," but the closest they come to Seattle is San Francisco on November 6th, 2016.: wild-beasts.co.uk
Here's a review of the self-titled album by the Jenny Lewis project, Nice as Fuck: consequenceofsound.net
See the Youtube video for Dutch band Urban Dance Squad's "Deeper Shade of Soul": www.youtube.com
This song features deliberately humorous lyrics, presenting The Clash as the Four Horsemen of the apocalypse in the style of Monty Python-esque parodies who are in the middle of a bit of a rubbish day ("One was over the edge, one was over the cliff, One was lickin' em dry with a bloody great spliff. When they picked up the hiker he didn't want the lift, from the horsemen"). It acts as an attempt to poke fun at themselves, showing that they acknowledge that their lyrics veer close to pretentious at times.
Read about the strange, brilliant, chaotic career of this song's author, Harry Nilsson: www.fandor.com
You can read a history of Love and Rockets in both English and Italian here: www.scaruffi.com
Echo & The Bunnymen will play Seattle's Moore Theatre on Friday, September 23rd, 2016. This 1987 song has been covered by Coldplay, Seal, Solina, and the Smashing Pumpkins.
Ahh...the Friday song. KEXP urges everyone to get registered and vote this year. Tune In and Turn Out: vote.usa.gov
De La Soul enlisted Snoop Dogg for this great new song: www.popmatters.com Thanks for the request and happy 28th birthday, Tommy.
In this interview this week, Talib Kweli talks about curbing racism and resisting gentrification: www.truth-out.org
"Get it off, get off, get off of me!" The lyrics to this song will be on the quiz: www.lyricsmode.com
They named themselves after a song on The Clash's debut album. Read a biography of this New Zealand band: www.allmusic.com
This powerful song was inspired by the cruel and surrealistic movie Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog) by Spanish moviemaker Luis Bunuel. The reference to "Slicing up eyeballs" in the opening lyrics is to a shocking scene in Un Chien Andalou where an eyeball is being sliced open.
Read a KEXP review of Sleater-Kinney's performance with Thee Satisfaction at Seattle's Showbox last year: blog.kexp.org
Don't miss local band Hobosexual's website (Enjoy that opening graphic.): hobosexualband.com
The Furry Freak Brothers? (Gilbert Shelton's 60's cartoon:www.freaknet.org.uk ). There are fascinating culture references in this song: www.songlyrics.com
Watch the official music video for Faith No More's "We Care A Lot": www.youtube.com
Thirty years after the band's last live show in 1986, The Atlantic Magazine looked at the band's psychic impact: www.theatlantic.com
"To listen to the Avalanches is to wrestle with time...": pitchfork.com
Read a biography of Australian band The Avalanches: www.mtv.com
"Look you've been in there three weeks. Now come on, open up...." : genius.com
Watch Lauryn Hill honor Prince with this cover of "Nothing Compares 2 U"at First Avenue in Minneapolis: www.citypages.com
See Buffalo Springfield sing "For What It's Worth," the song that Public Enemy covered and sampled here: www.youtube.com
In 2014, The Quietus featured an American take on a"classic British indie album": thequietus.com
Read about the vinyl reissue of this 1987 classic album: www.punkvinyl.com
He died in a plane crash at the tender age of 26 with "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay" still unfinished. It became the country's first #1 posthumous song.: www.history.com
Watch that historic 1991 live performance at Seattle's OK Hotel: consequenceofsound.net
Today is the 20th birthday of R.E.M.'s "New Adventures in Hi-Fi": www.salon.com
Did you know that today is the birthday of guitarist Johnny Hickman from Cracker--- and that tomorrow is the birthday of singer David Lowery?: www.crackersoul.com
