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Friday, Feb 14 2014, 6AM
Good morning, happy Friday, and welcome to "Songs of Love and Hate." Last year, Leonard Cohen won Canada's Juno Award as both Songwriter of the Year and Artist of the Year: www.leonardcohen.com
Here's video of The Helio Sequence's live performance at Judson Memorial Church in NYC during CMJ 2013: blog.kexp.org
Read an oral history--interviews with bandmembers, friends, managers, and others---of Elliott Smith: pitchfork.com
"No one to play with..." Read the painful lyrics here: www.lyricsfreak.com
Here's an interview with "the world's only cheerful Icelandic surrealist": www.rollingstone.com
The House of Love has just released a deluxe vinyl box set of their debut album: www.facebook.com
Listen to a live in-studio performance by The Cinematic Orchestra from 2007: kexp.org
See a Youtube video of "You Will Miss Me When I Burn": www.youtube.com
"And an astronaut could've seen the hunger in my eyes from space..." Here are the lyrics to this poignant song: www.azlyrics.com
Listen to Mark Mulcahy singing "Love's The Only Thing That Shuts Me Up" from the Cutting Room Studios in NYC: kexp.org
"Imagine, for a moment, a world in which Jane's Addiction never existed." That's how this biography begins: www.janesaddiction.com
Listen to Brooklyn band The National perform songs from "Trouble Will Find Me" last year: kexp.org
Because nothing takes the sting out of romantic turbulence like playing a video game about romantic turbulence, a European game developer has a video game based on this song: www.rollingstone.com
Here's one list of the 10 best New Order songs: www.stereogum.com
"There were times when I could have murdered her..." Read the lyrics: www.metrolyrics.com
You decide whether The Smiths are "the best or worst band of the last 30 years": www.telegraph.co.uk
Watch Arcade Fire cover INXS' "Devil Inside" here: pitchfork.com
The Thompson Twins, named after characters in the Tin Tin cartoons, formed in 1977 and disbanded in 1993: www.allmusic.com
OMD performed this song live on The Morning Show with John Richards in 2013: www.kexp.org
Pixies will be LIVE!! on The Morning Show next Tuesday, February 11th, 2014 at 9:30 a.m. We will inaugurate live streaming video with that performance . Pixies will play with Best Coast at the Paramount Theatre that night.
The Wrens' website's motto is "keeping folks waiting since 1989": www.wrens.com
The Airborne Toxic Event performed this song and others in a live in-studio performance at KEXP: kexp.org
"Lately, I don't think of you at all...." Here are the lyrics: songmeanings.com
Go back in time to hear a live performance by Nebraska band Eagle Seagull from CMJ 2007: kexp.org
Read a brief biography and see a discography of this London five-piece band: www.allmusic.com
"Ill Love" was a KEXP Song of the Day and can be downloaded for free here: blog.kexp.org
"I've seen her naked...TWICE." Enjoy this live in-studio performance by Art Brut in the KEXP studio: kexp.org
Here's a link to the Youtube video for "Anything Anything": www.youtube.com
Bobby Bare jr. is performing in a Seattle "I Killed My Valentine" concert tonight. For more information, go here: www.bobbybarejr.com
Sigur Ros' Facebook page features a short montage from the 16 Valtari films: www.facebook.com
See a video of The Asteroid No. 4's "My Love" at their website: www.asteroid4.com
Get this lovely song for yourself, for it was a KEXP Song of the Day: blog.kexp.org
New Dead Milkmen skateboards are here. Find out more on their official website: www.deadmilkmen.com
"She split my head open with a pick axe and I asked for it.." Here are the lyrics to this King Missile song: www.allthelyrics.com
Let's hope Violent Femmes plays "Kiss Off" when they perform at Sasquatch! 2014 on Saturday, May 24th, over the Memorial Day weekend.
See the Youtube video of Flight of the Conchords' "The Most Beautiful Girl...": www.youtube.com
This band got its name when Ministry frontman Al Jourgensen and his friends were thrown out of a bar. The bartender called them a bunch of revolting cocks: www.allmusic.com
Here's a KEXP album review of NIN's "Hesitation Marks": blog.kexp.org
This song was banned by some UK radio stations for offensive lyrics, which helped make it a hit. Learn more facts about "Relax": www.songfacts.com
Prince is suing 22 bootleggers for $1 million each for bootlegging his live shows: www.nydailynews.com
Get "Andrew in Drag" by The Magnetic Fields, a KEXP Song of the Day: blog.kexp.org
A great song for a wedding dance, "The Book of Love's" lyrics are here: www.sing365.com
Here's an acoustic performance by Stephin Merritt with his little ukelele in the KEXP men's bathroom: kexp.org
This Waitresses' hit "transcended its own novelty": www.chicagoreader.com
Plato said, "Love is a grave mental disease." Here's a Youtube video of "No Children": www.youtube.com
"Thank you girl, thank you girl, I'll love you till the end of the world": www.metrolyrics.com
The Fruit Bats performed this song and three others live in the KEXP studio late last year: kexp.org
"To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia." ---H.L. Mencken Here are the lyrics to "Laid": www.azlyrics.com
The Cure will be performing for the Teenage Cancer Trust benefit at the Royal Albert Hall in March, 2014: www.thecure.com
Crystal Castles was a featured KEXP Saturday Afternoon Artist: blog.kexp.org
Visit Manchester electronic musicians The Chemical Brothers' official website here: www.thechemicalbrothers.com
"Hatred can only be overcome by love." --Mahatma Gandhi Here's live video of Nada Surf performing "Always Love" in a VIP Club Concert at the Triple Door: blog.kexp.org
The Prayers and Tears...was a name adopted by artist Perry Wright in 2003, based upon a character in the film "The Big Lebowski". Read a biography: www.allmusic.com
"And they lit the whole thing up...." Enjoy these Looper lyrics: www.lyricsfreak.com
Here's a live performance by Noah and the Whale at Sasquatch! 2011: kexp.org
