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Friday, Jan 31 2014, 6AM
Good morning, happy Friday, and GO HAWKS! Today, we are celebrating Seattle by playing the rich variety of music that comes from our city. Shawn Smith's song, "Ring That Bell," was a KEXP Song of the Day. Look at the wonderful picture when you download this song: blog.kexp.org
Hear Harvey Danger sing this song and others during a 2005 KEXP in-studio performance: kexp.org
At KEXP's first annual Yule Benefit in 2003, The Fire Theft gave a lovely live performance: kexp.org
Read an article about "how Death Cab broke through with "Transatlanticism'": news.radio.com
Listen to Death Cab for Cutie when they played Sasquatch! 2011: kexp.org
Hear the recent Blue Sky Black Death remix of Run the Jewels ""36" Chain": www.factmag.com
Here's "dance music infused with a bit of magical realism" as Beat Connection plays live: blog.kexp.org
Download Head Like a Kite's "Let's Start It All Again," a KEXP Song of the Day: blog.kexp.org
"The Saturday Knights have been a crucial part of the Seattle music scene, taking on a room of timid rock and rap dwarves with pop smarts as thick as Sonny Liston’s fists." Read a biography at the Light in the Attic website: lightintheattic.net
Here are Flickr pictures of The Saturday Knights in concert: www.flickr.com
"Amongst the evergreen canopies and moss–laden hills of the Pacific Northwest, a nocturnal ghost stalks its prey." Read more at the Tilso XOXO website: www.tilsonxoxo.com
Here are the Radio Nationals live, playing songs from their debut album, "Place You Call Home" in the KEXP studio: kexp.org
See live video of Gerald Collier when he performed in the studio with his collaborator Anna Horvitz last year: blog.kexp.org
Watch Fleet Foxes' Robin Pecknold cover Pearl Jam's "Corduroy" on Fallon: www.rollingstone.com
Hey Reverb lists Modest Mouse as having one of the 10 most anticipated albums of 2014: www.heyreverb.com
See live video of The Cave Singers performind "Northern Lights" and other songs from "Naomi": blog.kexp.org
This would be a wonderful day to donate to KEXP to keep this extraordinary station going: www.kexp.org Here's a free download of Pearl Jam's "Mind Your Manners" from the 2013 release, "Lightning Bolt": blog.kexp.org
"Before Pearl Jam, there was Mother Love Bone." Read a biography here: www.allmusic.com
The name, Temple of the Dog, came from an Andrew Wood song, "Man of Golden Words." Wood, singer for Mother Love Bone, died of a heroin overdose at age 24. Read about how his death influenced the formation of Temple of the Dog: www.fivehorizons.com
Pearl Jam's Mike McCready talks about Layne Staley and Mad Season in this interview: www.musicradar.com
The KEXP "Friday on My Mind" blog featured the best songs done by The Presidents of the United States of America (including "Lump"): blog.kexp.org
Go to PUSA's website to download their odeto the Seahawks' mascot, "This is a Blitz": www.presidentsrock.com
The Murder City Devils are touring!: www.themurdercitydevils.com You can read the lyrics to "Boom Swagger Boom" here: www.lyricsfreak.com
Hear a 2005 live in-studio performance by The Ruby Doe: kexp.org
This song has officially become a Seattle song, since it has been enthusiastically adopted by the children of the city.
"My city my city...." Here are the lyrics to this tribute to the late Dave Niehaus: www.azlyrics.com
Nirvana was the subject of a KEXP documentary, "Grunge--Nirvana": blog.kexp.org
"The stupefying success of Nirvana left a band, a city and an industry irrevocably changed, and shoved a reluctant Kurt Cobain in to the media spotlight." Read an October, 1993 Spin Magazine article on Nirvana's "In Utero": www.spin.com
Gits drummer Steve Moriarty recently blasted NBC for exploiting Mia Zapata's death: www.rollingstone.com
See the video for "When 2 Is 2" in this post about "Hammerbox versus Hole": www.ign.com
You can read a "7 Year Bitch Biography" here: www.sing365.com
Fastbacks (and The Gits, Bikini Kill, 7 Year Bitch, and Goodness) were featured in a KEXP blog on "Seattle Women Who Rock": blog.kexp.org
Go here to the official home of Sir Mix-A-Lot: sirmixalot.com
The Marshawn Lynch "Bout That Action remix is "hot fire": www.sportsgrid.com
"Widely recognized as one of the most creative and influential musicians of the twentieth century..." Here's a PBS American Masters biography of Jimi: www.pbs.org
Listen to Common Market when they rocked the Bumbershoot Music Lounge in 2009: kexp.org
Go to Blue Scholars' Facebook page to see a photoessay on the Philippines trip: www.facebook.com
See live video of Mudhoney performing on top of Seattle's Space Needle: blog.kexp.org
Magnet Magazine posits the five most overrated and five most underrated Sunny Day Real Estate songs: www.magnetmagazine.com
Here are wonderful pictures of Soundgarden playing at the Paramount Theatre last year: blog.kexp.org
In 2012, Love Battery came to the KEXP studio to play "a set of crunching, psychedelic numbers from their '90s catalog": kexp.org
Listen to the KEXP documentary, "Grunge--Alice in Chains": blog.kexp.org
Here's a 2012 retrospective interview with the members of Screaming Trees: www.spin.com
Here's a 2010 interview with Rachel Flotard of Visqueen: blog.kexp.org
Here's some rock history, as The Sonics played live on Shake the Shack with Leon Berman: blog.kexp.org
"Your boyfriend's too stupid to know about.." for example, Halo Benders. Read the lyrics: songmeanings.com
Read an album review of "Beautiful Bird": www.popmatters.com
Listen to a 2002 high-energy live set by The Briefs that is hijacked in the middle by fellow punk band The Splits: kexp.org
The Green Pajamas performed live in December 2013 on KEXP's Audioasis: kexp.org
Easy Big Fella are the"Northwest of USA's Ambassadors of Ska": www.facebook.com