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Wednesday, Dec 16 2015, 6AM
The second single from MONEY’s forthcoming sophomore album, Suicide Songs. It'll be out January 29th. More information can be found on the label's web site: bellaunion.com
Then She Did… is a Jane’s Addiction song written in 1987, shortly after the death of Xila Blue. According to Stephen Perkins, the song was originally titled Then She Died. It is a song about Perry Farrell’s mother’s suicide and the accidental overdose of his friend and former lover Xiola Blue. In the final verse of the song, Perry is asking Xiola to visit his mother in heaven.
"Wish" was the Cure's highest charting album and most commercially successful in the band's career, where it sold more than 1.2 million copies. "Wish" was also nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album in 1993.
Please enjoy this video of Kermit the Frog with his rendition of LCD Soundsystem's "New York I Love You" on the KEXP Blog: blog.kexp.org
The title of this album was chosen by lead singer Bernard Sumner from a conceptual art exhibition in Germany back in 1981. On the opening night of the exhibition the artist Gerhard Richter vandalized the exterior of the Kunsthalle by spray painting the text, "Power, Corruption, and Lies".
Damien Jurado announced his new record, Visions of Us On the Land yesterday! It'll be the final piece to his trilogy which started back in 2012 with Maraqopa and 2014’s Brothers And Sisters Of The Eternal Sun. The record will be out in March! More info on Secretly Canadian's web site: www.secretlycanadian.com
DJ Michele Myers is a huge Love and Rockets fan! Here's her review of this record back from 2007: blog.kexp.org
Brand new debut record from the Belfast duo, Exmagician! More information on the Bella Union web site: bellaunion.com
New from local Everett, Washington duo, I Will Keep Your Ghost. Keep track of the band on their Facebook page: www.facebook.com
It's that time of the year to vote for your favorite albums of 2015 on the KEXP web site! I voted Holy Fire as my #1 album of 2013: blog.kexp.org
Listener request! Curated by Nora Gutherie, Mermaid Avenue is the collaboration of Billy Bragg & Wilco putting music to unheard lyrics written by legend Woodie Gutherie. The projects are named after the song "Mermaid's Avenue", written by Guthrie. This was also the name of the street in Coney Island, New York on which Guthrie lived.
First single off the Jayhawks major label debut album back from 1992! Anyways, here's a video of the Jayhawks from earlier this year on the KEXP Blog: blog.kexp.org
New Music!! Nada Surf has announced the release of its new album, You Know Who You Are, out March 4, 2016. Local label Barsuk has more information on their web site: www.barsuk.com
First single from Shearwater's upcoming new album, Jet Plane and Oxbow. It's out January 22 via Sub Pop! An exciting quote from the sub pop HQ: "This is definitely Shearwater’s loudest record... But it’s also, strangely, their most intricate and beautiful one."
Here's a classic from his band, Sugar. Nearly 35 years in music and Bob Mould shows no signs of slowing down! blog.kexp.org
First single from The Big Pink's new record--Empire Underground EP due out next year! The band haven’t released anything since 2012’s Future This... so we're pretty excited.
This song was released on December 1st alongside an online advent calendar featuring daily reveals of covers, poems and other festive treats from some very well known indie stars as well as the boys themselves. Look it up here: palmaviolets.co.uk
Does the backup singer on the chorus of this song sound familiar? OH YEAH - that's David Bowie. Neat.
Songwriter Chris Butler explained the lyrics for "Christmas Wrapping" came from... "just very much that for years I hated Christmas ... Everybody I knew in New York was running around like a bunch of fiends. It wasn't about joy. It was something to cope with."
Remember when Florence & The Machine played for KEXP? RAD! blog.kexp.org
Kim Deal of the Pixies paired up with her twin Sister, Kelley, to form the Breeders. Their record "POD" was listed as Kurt Cobain's #2 album of all time.
David Bazan's cover of The Killer's classic! This song came as part of Polyvinyl’s 4-track Singles Series, every month during the year, a different artist will record a new song via a Tascam four-track recorder, and subscribers get it on 7″ vinyl. More information on Polyvinyl's web site: www.polyvinylrecords.com
This one goes out to the DJs who have to work on Christmas.
Built to Spill will be playing two nights in Seattle on February 5th & 6th at the Showbox!
Ex-lead singer of Hooray for Earth, Noel Heroux. has gone solo, taking on the name Mass Gothic in his new project. His new record will be released on Sub Pop in February. More information on the Sub Pop web site: www.subpop.com
Slowly turning this morning's show into a Christmas theme.
The I Don’t Cares comprises none other than the Replacements’ Paul Westerberg and Juliana Hatfield. The album is due out January 22nd according to Westerberg's web site: www.paulwesterberg.com
Canoer Van Beethoven will be in Seattle on New Years Day! January 1st at the Crocodile everybody. More info on the band's web site: www.campervanbeethoven.com
In case you were wondering, Sufjan Stevens has written over 100 Christmas songs. Here's an article ranking them all: www.theverge.com
"Fool For Love" was KEXP Song of the Day back in May! Read up about the band & more on the KEXP Blog: blog.kexp.org
M. Ward is back! "More Rain" will be his first solo album since 2012’s A Wasteland Companion. The new album is coming out on Merge Records in March. More info can be found on their web site: www.mergerecords.com
Interesting Fact: This album (and song) was inspired partially by a club owner who called everyone 'Ray'. Band leader Evan Dando later saw the actual line, "It's a shame about Ray" in a Sydney newspaper article about something that happened to a child named Ray.
Get "The Unwanted Things" as a free KEXP Song of the Day Download: blog.kexp.org
The best Christmas song from the best Christmas movie... Die Hard.
It's Wednesday & you know what time it is... IT'S BUSINESS TIMEEEE. You know when I'm down to just my socks...
Fun Fact: This album was co-produced by Dinosaur Jr's J. Mascis! Buffalo Tom singer/guitarist Bill Janovitz said that Mascis' influence probably accented the band's edgier side on this record.
This is your daily Morning Show reminder that Holy Esque has a new record coming out February 26th. Keep track of the band on their web site: athopesravine.tumblr.com
Also known as "Whoo-Hooo," -- The title is not in the lyrics, as the name "Song 2" was originally just a working title, with Blur introducing it that way during live performances. Fans soon identified the song as "Song 2" and the title stuck.
Fun Fact: All of the Kings go by their middle names. So what are their real first names? Singer Anthony "Caleb" Followill, drummer Ivan "Nathan" Followill, guitarist Cameron "Matthew" Followill and bassist Michael "Jared" Followill.
According to lead singer Tyler Spencer, the idea for the song came up from incorrectly hearing the lyrics of DEVO's "Girl U Want" as "it's just a girl, it's just a girl at a gay bar" while the song was playing in a very loud nightclub.
New music from Toronto based shoegaze band, Beliefs! They just released an awesome video for "Tidal Wave" that you can watch on their web site: beliefsmusic.com
"Don't Bring Me Down" was dedicated to the NASA Skylab space station, which re-entered the Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean and Western Australia on 11 July 1979
Here's a video of Rogue Wave doing a cover of "Nearly Lost You" : www.youtube.com
After Nirvana released "Come As You Are", members of Killing Joke claimed the main guitar riff of "Come as You Are" plagiarized the riff of "Eighties", but according to Rolling Stone magazine, they did not file a copyright infringement lawsuit, because of "personal and financial reasons".
The Cave Singers are playing at Neumos Saturday, February 20th!
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