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"There are three challenges in my life. The first is being black in a white culture. The second is being transgendered in a hetero-normative culture. The third is being an artist in a business culture” - Glenn-Copeland
Keyboard Fantasies (1986) is an ahead-of-it’s-time synth exploration which somehow combines the essence of new-age minimalism, early Detroit techno and the warmth of traditional songwriting.
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“Cities in Dust” is a song written and produced by British rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees. It was released in 1985 as the first single from their seventh studio album, Tinderbox.
Check out Say She She's KEXP in-studio performance (Nov 2022): youtu.be
They'll be in town at Neumos on Friday, Feb 2, 2024. Sorry to break it to you, but they already sold the place out! Go girls!
“More, More, More,” recorded in 1976 with a studio ensemble called the Andrea True Connection, reached No. 4 on the Billboard chart and became the rage of the New York disco scene."
"True, born Andrea Marie Truden in 1943, was just another teenage girl seeking fame on the movie screen in 1960s New York. Her biggest break came in a surprising place: Jamaica. True was hired by a realtor to shoot commercials when a failed political coup left her stuck on the island, unable to leave as long as there was money in her pocket. Rather than waste her time or money doing nothing, she made a bold move: she called a friend, producer Gregg Diamond (of Bionic Boogie fame) to her side to record some music with local talent under the moniker The Andrea True Connection." theseconddisc.com
“Rasputin” is a 1978 euro disco hit single by the Germany-based pop and disco group Boney M.
With a tune resembling the second half of the Turkish folk song “Kâtibim”, it is a semi-biographical song about Grigori Rasputin, a friend and advisor of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family during the early 20th century. Although “Rasputin” was written and performed in English, it enjoyed great popularity in the USSR and is credited with reviving Rasputin’s fame there. The song was, however, omitted from the Soviet pressing of the album and Boney M. were barred from singing it in any of their ten performances in Moscow in December 1978.
-- Watch Boney M. performing "Rasputin" at Sopot Festival in 1979: youtu.be
“My masters use art as a magical refuge and I, in turn, take them along masked, free of themselves into the sovereign realm of their own dreams. Made in a few days, in an emergency with fabulous friends, generous strangers, the inhabitants of Venice the beautiful, this is our fond farewell to 2023.” Chris says of Saturday Night Fever cover
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Check out Chris, aka Christine & The Queens, performing an exclusive KEXP from home set with DJ Morgan (May 2020, i.e., deepCOVID): www.youtube.com
The Slits were a London-based punk band that "came together in the melting pot of London’s scorching punk scene" in 1976. This is their dub-punk version of the Marvin Gaye classic. "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong, for Motown Records in 1966.
"The year 1989 saw The Veldt collaborate with Robin Guthrie of Cocteau Twins fame, birthing an original full-length masterpiece. Capitol Records, however, had different plans, shelving the recording and nudging the band back into the studio with producer Lincoln Fong. The result was ‘Marigolds,’ the debut album as the world knows it. Now, ‘Illuminated 1989’ emerges from the archives, an authentic sonic time capsule."
www.desertislandcloud.com
The Veldt from North Carolina was formed by identical twin brothers Daniel and Danny Chavis. The band's name comes from a Ray Bradbury story of the same name. theveldtmusic.bandcamp.com
Telehealth is the Seattle-based project of Alexander Attitude (Deep Sea Diver, Brian John Appleby) and Kendra Cox (Lemolo) that make Devo-esque synthscapes targeting capitalism and the absurdities of our modern world.
Check out Telehealth's live in-studio performance at KEXP with Troy Nelson (August 2023): youtu.be
Diamonds & Rust is a 1975 album by Joan Baez. On this album she covered songs by Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, The Allman Brothers, and Jackson Browne. But Diamonds & Rust also contained a number of her own compositions, including the acclaimed title track, a distinctive song written about Bob Dylan.
The Smile have announced their next album, Wall of Eyes. The project is out January 26, 2024 via XL.
www.thesmiletheband.com
The band has also shared a video for the title track, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and starring Thom Yorke.
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#208 on KEXP's countdown of the top songs from the past 50 years!
"Heart of Gold" features backup vocals by James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt. It is one of a series of soft acoustic pieces the Young wrote while dealing with a back injury. Unable to stand for long periods of time, Young could not play his electric guitar and so returned to his acoustic guitar. He also played his harmonica during the three instrumental portions, including the introduction to the song.
“Thanks anyway,” quips Hendrix on this previously unreleased recording of Killing Floor – the first taster from the new Hollywood Bowl 1967 live album.
Hollywood Bowl August 18, 1967 was captured just five days before the US release of Are You Experienced, their album debut. It is notable for being one of the last times the band performed in front of an audience as relative unknowns. The vast majority of the 17,000 plus Los Angeles concert goers were there to see headliners The Mamas & The Papas and were caught off guard by Jimi Hendrix’s electrifying musicality and showmanship. Amazingly, not a single second of this unique, two-track live recording has ever been released before in any capacity, either via official channels or elsewise.
www.jimihendrix.com
Dessa will be playing Polaris Hall (PDX, OR) on January 13, 2024 and the Crocodile (SEA, WA) on January 14, 2024.
www.dessawander.com
"For the past few years, daily life has been something of a hurricane party: with catastrophic threats looming on the horizon, nothing to do but indulge while you can. The verses of the song are a flurry of vignettes from this moment on the planet: alarmism on the TV, a little hedonism, sustained political scandal, some gestures towards revolution." --Dessa
🐸 Aesop Rock's “Long Legged Larry” is a story-song about a bearded bullfrog superhero. "Go Larry, go Larry, go go go Larry"
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Aesop Rock teamed up with artist Jeremy Fish to make a video with visionary director Rob Shaw. Here's the official video: www.youtube.com
"Big Hit Single is me trying to wind up our label," says vocalist Genevieve Glynn-Reeves about their label Marshall Records.
www.genandthedegenerates.com
It was such a hit here at KEXP that we selected it as a Song of the Day: www.kexp.org
"'Bang' reflects the joy and liberation felt in saying NO: NO as a powerful act against what does not benefit us and diverts us from our path, from our 'now'." The album’s title ('now') is a reflection of the importance of time, to reflect on how we live our everyday lives, with whom we share our moments and how we want (or don’t want) to do it." tinyurl.com
KEXP's Song of the Day back in September: www.kexp.org
Brittany Howard's hotly anticipated second solo album, "What Now," will be out on February 2nd.
The single “Red Flags” was written and produced by Brittany with co-production from Shawn Everett (Kacey Musgraves, SZA), with whom she has a longstanding creative relationship since Alabama Shakes. Recording took place at the legendary Sound Emporium and historic RCA Studio A in Nashville, Brittany’s hometown
Here's the lyric video: www.youtube.com
Happy Birthday, Dave!
No other band in rock's history went to such great lengths to shut down bootleggers as the Dave Matthews Band. They shut down stores that sold live boots of Matthews' concerts and they shut down labels that pressed the bootlegs, essentially crippling the underground industry. Matthews finally retaliated in the fall of 1997 with the double-disc Live at Red Rocks 8.15.95, the first in a series of official live albums from the band. Live at Red Rocks 8.15.95 shouldn't disappoint fans already familiar with the band's loose-limbed, jazzy live show, but it should come as a revelation to listeners unacquainted with that aspect of Matthews. In fact, the record often sounds livelier and more energetic than its studio counterparts, and that alone makes it a necessary purchase for dedicated fans. (Stephen Thomas Erlewine)
James Patrick “Jimmy” Page was born on this date in 1944, making him 80 today. Every day he went to school, Page would take his guitar and it would be confiscated and returned to him after class.
Jimmy Page played a Fender 10-string steel guitar on "Your Time Is Gonna Come", and Jones played a church-style organ, using a pedal to generate the bass.
Page told Guitar Player magazine: "I had never played steel before, but I just picked it up. It sounds like a slide or something. It's more out of tune on the first album because I hadn't got a kit to put it together."
In the February 2006 issue of Guitar World magazine, Jimmy Page was told that Led Zeppelin's biggest hits - "Stairway To Heaven," "Kashmir," "Over The Hills And Far Away" - don't have choruses.
Page replied: "As far as I'm concerned, the riff in Led Zeppelin's 'The Wanton Song,' for example, is the chorus. It could go on for a half an hour and I would be completely riveted and satisfied. It's so powerful and concise that it never gets boring."
Robert Plant and Jimmy Page play 'The Wanton Song' on Tuesday 12th May 1998 accompanied by the late Michael Lee (Drums) and Charlie Jones (Bass): www.youtube.com.
Jump! was Van Halen's first #1 hit in America, and their only #1 with David Lee Roth as lead singer. 1984 was David Lee Roth's last album with Van Halen before he left the band in 1985; the video for "Jump" inflamed the tensions that led to his departure. - bit.ly www.kexp.org