Kevin Cole

Thank you Larry Mizell Jr and Evie for wrapping up an awesome Afternoon Show for our Fall Fund Drive You can keep KEXP listener-powered with a gift to wrap up the 2021 Fall Fund Drive: kexp.org

DRIVE TIME -- our drive to make the world a better place through the power of music! Kevin Cole is here with Troy Nelson to put a bow on the 2021 Fall Fund Drive, but we need your help! Help us take it across the finish line, and keep this amazing community thriving with your gift: kexp.org From Pitchfork: If Marie Davidson is ever looking for a side hustle, she should consider becoming a life coach. As “Work It” shows, the Montreal producer understands there’s no shortcut to success. “You wanna know how I get away with everything?” she politely asks before bluntly divulging the hard truth. “I work, all the f*cking time.” www.youtube.com

It's time to GO!!!! kexp.org "Everything gettin' harder to find... Everybody jumpin' out of they mind…" Read a second-by-second analysis of this hit, which features the pitched up guest vocals from Kamaal Ibn John Fareed, AKA Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest fame. bit.ly Watch the music video here: youtu.be www.thechemicalbrothers.com

KEXP and our listeners come together in a community of love, healing, and amazing music -- and we can do that thanks to our amazing donors. If you can give, please make a trip to kexp.org and take us across the finish line This gospel-house song was the first track Primal Scream recorded for their Mercury Prize-winning 'Screamadelica' album and it became the record's centerpiece. bit.ly "Come Together" live: youtu.be

We're going to be paranoid until we hit our goals to keep KEXP vibrant and on the air -- help settle us down with your gift -- kexp.org Bassist Geezer Butler said, "The song 'Paranoid' was written as an afterthought. We basically needed a 3-minute filler for the album, and Tony (Iommi) came up with the riff. I quickly did the lyrics, and Ozzy was reading them as he was singing.": tinyurl.com

Speaking to The FADER via email, singer Amy Taylor said: "'Got You' is about that feeling you get when you first start seeing someone and you're excited to see them, no matter what shit they got. You just see them at the pub and it feels like the most exciting thing in the world, like you're so lucky they're even there. " -- bit.ly

"With their unlikely but fascinating mix of arty concepts and raw sounds, the White Stripes were among the leaders of the early-2000s garage rock revival and helped define the sound of 21st century rock as the decade progressed. Jack and Meg White's clever use of limitations -- from their lineup to their instrumentation to their red, white, and black color scheme -- maximized their creativity, allowing them to bring a surprising number of facets to their seemingly back-to-basics approach." www.allmusic.com

KEXP wants you to know that You Are Not Alone In an interview with Pitchfork, Robyn talked about the main lyrical theme of the album: "The whole album is about being really lonely, but I think it's interesting to put that idea in a club where a lot of people are crammed into a small room." She particularly wrote "Dancing on My Own" with that in mind, and continued, "I've been touring so much the last three years and spent a lot of time in clubs just watching people, and it became impossible to not use that lyric—'dancing on my own'—because it's such a beautiful picture." bit.ly

"HELL-O Drive Time! Yolo and I just donated, you keep us hanging on with your right songs at the right time!' -- Greg and Yolo the Cat in Nevada Be like Greg and Yolo! Show your support for Drive Time at kexp.org According to the band's saxophonist Jerry Martini, as quoted in Joel Selvin's oral history of the band -- none of the band members liked this song at first -- it was produced when CBS Records' legendary executive Clive Davis demanded some commercially viable hits. A comprehensive look at how this legendary group began - here. slystonemusic.com

The inspiration for the song occurred during a tour of Japan mid-1979, when lead singer Billy Idol and bassist Tony James were struck by the sight of the young crowd in a Tokyo disco club dancing with their own reflections in walled mirrors rather than with one another. bit.ly --- www.kexp.org

You don't want to miss Arcade Fire's live performance of "Wake Up" at Coachella in 2011: --youtu.be "Arcade Fire in concert is probably the closest to a religious experience as I have ever had." -- tinyurl.com

KEXP hosts artists live -- in our studios, from home, and at festivals around the world. We can do that because of the support from listeners like you -- kexp.org Courtney Barnett has joined KEXP Live in our studios on several occasions, including this set from 2018 hosted by Cheryl Waters: youtu.be

We need 10 more gifts of $180 or $15/month to get an amazing challenge grant of $4500! That would be a Drive Time record! Help us make it happen: kexp.org UK duo Wet Leg hail from the Isle of Wight and are comprised of Rhian Teasdale (who previously made music as RHAIN) and Hester Chambers. According to their press release, the decided to start a band together while atop a ferris wheel and cite everything from The Ronettes and Jane Birkin to Bjork and Ty Segall as influences. bit.ly Amazing tongue-in-cheek video: youtu.be wetleg.bandcamp.com

Hey Ladies, where y'all going? To donate to KEXP! Yeah! www.kexp.org "The vocal sample is from this YouTube video of these girls walking down a hotel hallway to the pool and their instructor is leading them in this chant, it’s like a 10 second clip. I was like, oh, my God — that's the catchiest hook I've ever heard. I need to put a beat to this, and I had this old funk sample I've always wanted to use, but it just didn't feel finished without vocals. I felt like it just needed something over the top of it. So, I immediately had that come to mind, put it together and I was just like, oh my God, this is like meant to be. The universe had created these two songs to come together. It's like musical tinder." Read more of John Richards' interview with Rudy Willingham from 2019: kexp.org

In their memoir, "Beastie Boys Book", Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz wrote that "Sabotage" was about sticking it to the album's recording engineer “I decided it would be funny to write a song about how Mario was holding us all down, how he was trying to mess it all up, sabotaging our great works of art" -- tinyurl.com

IDLES’ album concerns the tragedies of illness and loss, the addict’s vacillation between sobriety and vice, and the discomfort of rational people at the current state of the world. Joe Talbot, the band’s sardonic, growling singer, lost his disabled mother, cleaned up his substance abuse, and watched the xenophobic Brexit go down—all while his Bristol-based post-punk quintet blew up in his home country. While they mined grief and addiction on their heralded 2017 debut, Brutalism, its follow-up seeks to further focus their notorious, explosive, tongue-in-cheek energy. Now the name of the game is to see past the pain: Joy as an Act of Resistance pitchfork.com

"The Vega Bodegas trip the light fantastic between surreal stand-up and unhinged rock and roll" ~ WalesOnline Kevin Cole selected "All My Fish Are Dead": as KEXP's Song of the Day on July 28 -- read more, download the track, subscribe to the podcast -- kexp.org

Bikini Kill are Olympia, Washington punk rock feminist heroes and part of the riot-grrl of the 90’s! bikinikill.bandcamp.com -- The song is an American Anthem. Enjoy this interview with Kathleen Hanna about "fascination, friendship, and desire": www.npr.org

Ted Lasso Believes. We Believe. If you Believe in the power of music to heal, to bring us together, we need your gift to keep KEXP listener-powered: kexp.org "The song 'Believe' addresses the subject of letting go of the pain felt from a broken relationship to embrace a new life. Cher recalls how much she tried to patch things up to no avail because her ex-lover was simply not up for it." Read more at: www.songmeaningsandfacts.com

For this album, Mould was joined on bass by Jason Narducy and on drums by Superchunk's Jon Wurster. For the release of Silver Age, the trio embarked on a series of concerts where, in addition to material from the new album and a few Hüsker Dü songs, they played the entirety of Sugar's Copper Blue in order. Copper Blue was simultaneously released in a 20th anniversary edition. Kevin Cole hosted Bob Mould Live in the KEXP Studio back in 2016, check it out: youtu.be

'Just increased my amplifier, guys! I believe!' -- Lucas Cheryl Waters hosted The Hold Steady Live in the KEXP Studio almost exactly two years ago: youtu.be

Three days after Innervisions was released, Wonder was asleep in the passenger seat of a car after a show in South Carolina, and was seriously injured in a car crash. He spent four days in a coma. Tour director Ira Tucker recalls, "I remember when I got to the hospital in Winston-Salem. Man, I couldn't even recognize him. His head was swollen up about five times normal size. And nobody could get through to him. I knew that he likes to listen to music really loud and I thought maybe if I shouted in his ear it might reach him. The doctor told me to go ahead and try, it couldn't hurt him. The first time I didn't get any response, but the next day I went back and I got right down in his ear and sang 'Higher Ground'. His hand was resting on my arm and after a while his fingers started going in time with the song. I said 'Yeah, yeah!!! This dude is going to make it!'" bit.ly

Three days after Innervisions was released, Wonder was asleep in the passenger seat of a car after a show in South Carolina, and was seriously injured in a car crash. He spent four days in a coma. Tour director Ira Tucker recalls, "I remember when I got to the hospital in Winston-Salem. Man, I couldn't even recognize him. His head was swollen up about five times normal size. And nobody could get through to him. I knew that he likes to listen to music really loud and I thought maybe if I shouted in his ear it might reach him. The doctor told me to go ahead and try, it couldn't hurt him. The first time I didn't get any response, but the next day I went back and I got right down in his ear and sang 'Higher Ground'. His hand was resting on my arm and after a while his fingers started going in time with the song. I said 'Yeah, yeah!!! This dude is going to make it!'" bit.ly

We need your help to complete the fund drive, to hit our goals, to keep this station and this community vibrant! HEY YA WE BELIEVE -- kexp.org The "Hey Ya!" video won four awards for Video of the Year, Best Hip-Hop Video, Best Special Effects, and Best Art Direction at the 2004 MTV Video Music Awards. www.youtube.com

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