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Friday, Feb 13 2015, 6AM
Good morning and happy Friday. "You thought it could never happen to all the people you became..." Let's open the show about songs of love and hate with Leonard Cohen saying, "Love Calls You by Your Name": www.lyricsfreak.com
Watch the music video for Mazzy Star's "Fade Into You": www.youtube.com
Sinead O'Connor's performance on Saturday Night Live in 1992 remains one of the show's most memorable moments: www.nydailynews.com
The Sundays were recently featured in an in-flight magazine article: hub.aa.com
The Church will be performing at Seattle's Triple Door on Monday through Wednesday, February 23rd to 25th, 2015.
Go here to the Facebook page of this Minneapolis musician: www.facebook.com
"With love one can live even without happiness." — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Here's a history of Australian band INXS: thebest80smusic.blogspot.com
Buffalo Tom performed live for KEXP listeners during KEXP's Ballard Hood to Hood Day in 2011: www.kexp.org
"Viva Last Blues" was listed as one of Pitchfork's top 100 albums of the 1990's: pitchfork.com
"Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop." — H. L. Mencken Watch The Afghan Whigs playing live in the KEXP studio last year: blog.kexp.org
Watch the video for this extraordinary song: www.youtube.com
"And threw her arms around my neck..." "Why won't you ever know that I'm in love with you?..." Great lyrics: www.metrolyrics.com
Watch Billy Corgan perform "Love Will Tear Us Apart" with Peter Hook: consequenceofsound.net
Here's Stereogum's list of "the 10 best New Order songs": www.stereogum.com
Here's a 2012 interview with Stephin Merritt on adolescence, alcoholism, and albums: www.cbsnews.com
Stephin Merritt has just published a book of short poems< 101 Two-Letter Words," illustrated by Roz Chast: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/sarah-larson/little-words-stephin-merritt-aa-za
You can see one of KEXP's malfunctioning bathrooms when you watch Stephin Merritt in our men's room: blog.kexp.org
Visit The Magnetic Fields' Facebook page to learn about songs composed for HBO and "This American Life": www.facebook.com
"Love is so short, forgetting is so long." ― Pablo Neruda "I'm Sorry But I'm Beginning to Hate Your Face" is a KEXP Song of the Day and can be yours here: blog.kexp.org
“Sometime Around Midnight”, a heart-wrenching, honest description of a love lost, found and lost again, was a KEXP Song of the Day: blog.kexp.org
"The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times." -- Paulo Coelho "Your lies to me won't win again..." Here are the lyrics to "Happy": www.metrolyrics.com
Read more about The Helio Sequence at the Sub Pop Records website: www.subpop.com
The Mountain Goats will perform at the Showbox on Friday, May 29th, 2015.
The Smiths were a featured Saturday Afternoon Artist on KEXP: blog.kexp.org
Enjoy video of a 2014 in-studio performance by the Pixies: blog.kexp.org
The Cure was the subject of a KEXP documentary --"Portraits of Post-Punk": kexp.org
The Guardian has a moving interview with Julian Cope: www.theguardian.com
Bobby Bare Jr. will be playing at Seattle's Sunset Tavern on Tuesday, April 7th, 2015. Listen to a recent in-studio session at KEXP: kexp.org
Bobby Bare Jr. will serenade your valentine for money. "Kill your valentine – WITH LOVE AND MUSIC!
For $100, Bobby will sing 2 of his songs along with a personal message from you to your Valentine! Each song set will be recorded just for your Valentine." Read more about it here: www.bobbybarejr.com
Read more about Bobby Bare Jr. at this Bloodshot Records website: www.bloodshotrecords.com
Acquire "Let It Go," a KEXP Song of the Day by The Asteroid No. 4: www.kexp.org
This reviewer wants to "rescue under-rated albums from critical oblivion": www.nme.com
Listen to a 2009 performance by Built to Spill in the KEXP studio: www.kexp.org
"The songs were earnest and spoke plainly, with their hearts clearly exposed. This was music that felt almost too personal but also had the capacity to devastate in its honesty." Read this review of the "gentle pop fascination" of "Up a Tree": nooga.com
Here's a live performance by Noah and the Whale from Sasquatch 2011: www.kexp.org
"I let you bleed because you were falling..." Read the lyrics to all the songs on Phantogam's "Voices": www.phantogram.com
See the Youtube video for Crystal Castles' "Not In Love (f. Robert Smith)": www.youtube.com
"This is a tune explicitly about BDSM, a topic the group addresses both lyrically and sonically with full gusto." Read this discussion of "Master and Servant": www.popmatters.com
"Once I ran to you; now I'll run from you...." Here are the lyrics to "Tainted Love": www.metrolyrics.com
"Trio was a German band, formed in the small German town of Großenkneten in 1980.": www.allmusic.com
There is something about Seattle... Listen to The Hot Toddies perform this song in the KEXP studio: kexp.org
Unfortunately, the Vaselines didn't perform "Rory Rides Me Raw" during their recent in-studio performance, but they are great to see always: blog.kexp.org
Learn a little more about King Missile, best known for their monster hit, "Detachable Penis": www.allmusic.com
See the video for "If You're Into It": www.youtube.com
Jermaine Clement is producing, directing, and starring in a new camp-vampire show, "What We Do in the Shadows": news.nationalpost.com
The KEXP blog featured 20 questions with Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow of The Posies: blog.kexp.org
Johnny Cash's love letter to June Carter has been named the most romantic of all time: www.rollingstone.com
"Home" is a KEXP Song of the Day. Download it for free here: blog.kexp.org
Paul Simon will appear on the Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special on Sunday night, February 15th, 2015: www.paulsimon.com
"She sits alone, waiting for suggestions..." Watch the video for this terrific cover: www.youtube.com
In 2014, John Richards shared his favorite R.E.M. videos: blog.kexp.org
Read a biography of The Psychedelic Furs at their official website: www.thepsychedelicfurs.com
Ride is currently touring, but Seattle is not on their schedule: www.facebook.com
Allmusic has an artist biography of Fruit Bats: www.allmusic.com
"What a wanker...what a wanker...I'm going away from here..." Here are the lyrics to this song about the end of a relationship: www.lyricsmania.com
Here's the video for Dramarama's "Anything Anything": www.youtube.com
Go here for the latest news about The Chemical Brothers: www.thechemicalbrothers.com
"Prince Steals the 2015 Grammys With Just One Sneer": www.rollingstone.com
Here's a link to Australian band Muscles' Facebook page: www.facebook.com
CSS (or Cansei De Ser Sexy) is Portuguese for “Tired Of Being Sexy," but they don't mean it. Listen to a live in-studio performance: kexp.org
Stars will be LIVE on KEXP Monday, March 2nd. They play the Neptune Theater the next day on Tuesday, March 3rd. kexp.org
Check out this blog post about Elbow's performance at last year's Sasquatch!. blog.kexp.org