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Monday, Feb 25 2019, 6AM
The new album, due out March 15th, is their first in 12 years. www.cinematicorchestra.com
Michael Kiwanuka will be playing 2 shows supporting Gary Clark Jr. in Santa Barbara and LA in September. www.michaelkiwanuka.com
Unbeknownst to Rodquguez, he became the soundtrack for the whites' anti-apartheid movement in South Africa in the 70's. The story of this unlikely series of events, and of a South African super fan tracking the singer down, leading to a resurgence in popularity for the artist, is detailed in the film "Searching for Sugarman". www.sugarman.org
Damien Jurado will be playing Revolution Hall in Portland April 5th, and will be at Pickathon in August as well. damienjurado.com
“When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings” is featured in the new Coen brothers movie The Ballad of Buster Scruggs and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song. gillianwelch.com
The new album pays tribute to Earle's mentor Guy Clark, covering 16 songs by the great Nashville-via-Houston artist. www.steveearle.com
Billy Bragg will be playing THREE sold-out shows here in Seattle this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at the Tractor Tavern. www.billybragg.co.uk
Australia-by-way-of-Tasmania 4-piece band Quivers are back with new song “You’re Not Always On My Mind”, via Hotel Motel Records. It's their first release since debut LP We’ll Go Riding On The Hearses. They'll be playing a couple shows at SXSW in March! More at quiversss.bandcamp.com
And if you want to hear it a third time (who wouldn't?), the video is very fun. www.youtube.com You can also purchase the track at quiversss.bandcamp.com
Arcade Fire's Win Butler and Régine Chassagne joined Preservation Hall Jazz Band frontman Ben Jaffe to lead a Haitian-inspired Mardi Gras march through New Orleans' French Quarter on Friday. Check out the photos at www.nola.com
Secretary will be playing at the Sunset Tavery on March 08. secretaryband.bandcamp.com
The video is directed by Michel Gondry and is as weird as you're probably already imagining! www.youtube.com
"My friend says we're like the dinosaurs only we are doing ourselves in much faster than they ever did"
Strand of Oaks are playing Neumos on April 26th - www.strandofoaks.net
George Harrison was born on this day in 1943. He wrote this song!
Leathers "is the darkwave dream of visual artist and musician, Shannon Hemmett of Vancouver, BC based outfit, Actors." leathers.bandcamp.com
Recorded while Trent Reznor was working nights as a handyman and janitor at the Right Track Studio in Cleveland, Ohio. Reznor used studio "down-time" to record and develop his first Nine Inch Nails album. www.nin.com
Playing at El Corazon on April 19th with Failure! www.swervedriver.com
Formed in 2015 as a Makthaverskan side project, Westkust will be releasing its self-titled sophomore LP later this week. westkust.bandcamp.com
"'Ripe For Anarchy' is a quote from Sandra Cisneros’s poem "One Last Poem For Richard". It perfectly summed up the songs for me. The album is about living in the moment, shedding neurosis, and the desire to discard the general societal malaise we’ve been roped into." businessofdreams.bandcamp.com
Fun fact: Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones, later of Led Zeppelin, play on the recording.
According to Dave Dederer, the song was based "as far as I know" on a true story about "a bad little cat that lived in some apt. Chris shared with some folks in Boston".
In case you hadn't heard of Spike Lee's reaction at last night's Oscars: When asked about Green Book's best picture win, Spike Lee said: 'The ref made a bad call.' The film won over a diverse field including Lee’s BlacKkKlansman, Roma, Vice, A Star Is Born, The Favourite, Black Panther and Bohemian Rhapsody. Green Book has also been dogged by controversy and its handling of race has been criticised as conforming to Hollywood's 'white saviour' trope.
Samples the theme from Shaft, Incredible Bongo Band's "Apache", the Ohio Players, and many other tracks
From the Seattle band's 3rd album, which also features a series of short films inspired by the music. The video, for this track is a commentary on basketball in Seattle and the memories it left behind. youtu.be
Star Slinger is a DJ out of Nottingham, UK. The words are excerpts from the James Altucher book 'Choose Yourself'. starslingeruk.bandcamp.com
Seattle renaissance man Rudy Willingham holds a number of titles including DJ, producer, photographer, and advertising guru. As a DJ, he’s known for throwing over the top yacht parties which he’s channeling in today’s Song of the Day, “Pool Party.” www.rudywillingham.com
Includes snippets of late '60s Dial-A-Poem monologues. (The phone-based service was run by American poet John Giorno after a phone conversation with his friend William Burroughs.)
Wonder credited the song title and chorus "signed, sealed, delivered, I'm yours" to his mother Lula, who exclaimed the words after listening to her son experiment with the melody.
Credit to Muddy Waters, who recorded a blues vocal, "You Need Love", which included some verrrrry similar lyrics.
While on tour in 1990, Bowie introduced the song by saying "You fall in love, you write a love song. This is a love song."
Beirut will be playing at the Paramount Theatre on Wednesday. www.beirutband.com
Joe Strummer admitted in an interview with Melody Maker in 1988 that he had nicked the bassline from the Queen hit "Another One Bites The Dust"
