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Friday, Jan 30 2015, 6AM
Good morning and happy Friday. Go Hawks!! Read a biography of Richard Ashcroft, lead vocalist for The Verve: www.biography.com
Follow this link to Jane's Addiction's official website: www.janesaddiction.com
Elbow's "The Take Off And Landing..." was one of John Richards' top ten albums of 2014. Read his list: blog.kexp.org
The debut album from Black Rivers, the project of Jez and Andy Williams of Doves, is due out on February 9th, 2015: www.blackriversofficial.com
Did you know that Tears For Fears’ Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal didn’t say a single word to each for a decade after the band broke up? Here are some more interesting facts about New Wave bands: www.hitfix.com
Washed Out, , aka Ernest Greene, will do a Washed Out DJ set at Seattle's Lo Fi Performance Gallery on Friday, February 20th, 2015: washedout.net
Here's one list of the "ten best New Order songs": www.stereogum.com
Go back a decade to hear an acoustic set by Zero 7 in the KEXP studio: www.kexp.org
DJ Krush played with masters of Japanese traditional instruments at the Red Bull Music Academy in Tokyo last year: www.japantimes.co.jp
Watch Norman Reedus of The Walking Dead star in Radiohead's "Fake Plastic Trees" video: undeadwalking.com
Here's a link to Morcheeba's official website: www.morcheeba.co.uk
Prince is, of course, a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee: rockhall.com
Here's a live in-studio performance by Brother Ali: www.kexp.org
Run-D.M.C.'s producer Larry Smith died in December at the age of 63: www.rollingstone.com
Watch Barack Obama singing Mark Ronson's "Uptown Funk": www.gigwise.com
Check out Michael Jackson's halftime performance at the Superbowl in 1993: www.si.com
The Smashing Pumpkins announced that they will be profiled on the "Rock Icons" show on VH1: www.smashingpumpkinsnexus.com
Boston band Buffalo Tom's "Guilty Girls" was a KEXP Song of the Day: blog.kexp.org
"I am un chien andalusia..." Here are the lyrics to "Debaser": www.metrolyrics.com
Echo & The Bunnymen were featured in a KEXP documentary--"Portraits of Post Punk": kexp.org
This song by Vancouver, B.C. duo Japandroids should be on your running playlist. Get it for free as a KEXP Song of the Day: blog.kexp.org
Read "A Woefully Incomplete Oral History of Weezer’s “Pinkerton” Years": www.altpress.com
Listen to a live performance for KEXP listeners by Bob Mould from NYC's Cutting Room Studios last year: kexp.org
Watch Nirvana's infamous 1992 Buenos Aires concert: consequenceofsound.net
Soundgarden was profiled in this KEXP documentary--"Grunge": blog.kexp.org
Some fabulous musicians are part of Seattle 's legacy. Jimi Hendrix played his last show with Band of Gypsys 45 years ago on January 28th, 1970: ultimateclassicrock.com
These lyrics are for New England: "shame to play against my men..." Here are the complete lyrics to "Show Me": www.lyricsmania.com
Read Iggy Pop's powerful BBC John Peel lecture last year: www.gigwise.com
"I closed my eyes and I slipped away ("slipped away" being the appropriate words for the Patriots here)....": www.lyricsmode.com
"No one has been able to approach the political power that Public Enemy brought to hip-hop,” Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys told Rolling Stone in 2004. Read their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame biography: rockhall.com
The Game's website features a biography of this rapper: www.comptongame.com
Here's an album review of Kate Tempest's new release, "Everybody Down": www.thefourohfive.com
Here's a 2013 live performance by Glasgow rockers Franz Ferdinand from NYC's Avatar Studios: kexp.org
Last year, two ex-members of The Rapture started a new band, Vito & Druzzi, and released an EP: pitchfork.com
Watch video of LCD Soundsystem performing "Losing My Edge" at Madison Square Garden: www.youtube.com
"Thou shalt not put musicians and recording artists on ridiculous pedestals no matter how great they are or were. The Beatles: Were just a band." Here are the lyrics to "Thou Shalt Always Kill": www.azlyrics.com
Here's a very positive Pitchfork album review of Mylo's "Destroy Rock & Roll: pitchfork.com
PWEI reports that their online shop is all stocked up with new merchandise: www.popwilleatitself.net
Michael Stipe was great friends with actor River Phoenix (older brother of actor Joaquin Phoenix). When Phoenix died in 1993, at the age of 23; the band dedicated their 1994 album "Monster" to River. "Monster" reached number 1 in both the UK and the US. More interesting facts about R.E.M.: www.noiseaddicts.com
Read this NY Times article about the last days of Jim Carroll, musician and author of "The Basketball Diaries," who died of a heart attack in 2009: www.nytimes.com
This biography says that Butthole Surfers engaged in "gleefully gross noise terrorism": www.allmusic.com
"I had to buy it off him..." Read the lyrics to "Detachable Penis": www.metrolyrics.com
Bob Dylan has just released an album of Frank Sinatra covers, "Shadow in the Night": www.thedailybeast.com
He has been everywhere. Read this list of places he visited in this song: www.azlyrics.com
They started in 1972 as The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, a name taken from the Amos 'n Andy TV show and a substitute Swahili term: www.bandnameexplained.com
Go to The Dead Milkmen's official website to read about their 2014 release, "Pretty Music for Pretty People": www.deadmilkmen.com
Listen to a live in-studio session by They Might Be Giants in 2011: www.kexp.org
Watch the video for the Violent Femmes' "Gone Daddy Gone": www.google.com
Enjoy this biography of Camper Van Beethoven: www.allmusic.com
Here are The Smiths' 30 greatest songs (according to The Smiths): www.uncut.co.uk
