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"It’s very difficult to do this, it has taken a lot of time and energy as a musician, so it’s not a f-ing cover. I’m taking something that’s really old and pulling it into the now.”
Read the rest of Aftab's recent Pitchfork interview:
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Destroyer will play The Neptune Theatre on Saturday, April 23.
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Dan Bejar has announced a new Destroyer album, 'LABYRINTHITIS,' releasing March 25.
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"I had an idea of writing a couple lines on the idea of ‘mystery’ and ‘goin nowhere,’ as they are two of my favourite themes,” bandleader Dan Bejar explained in a statement. “That and the Grim Reaper and being pursued by some silent, unnamable thing that constantly lurks one foot to the left of you. Especially as the world’s decay becomes increasingly less abstract. Also wanted to write on the romance of terror. The song ‘Tintoretto, It’s for You’ speaks to all these things, oddly enough so does the video.”: www.youtube.com
Bob Moses will be at The Showbox on Friday, May 20.
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Grammy Award-winning duo Bob Moses are launching their third studio album 'The Silence in Between' with the new single “Love Brand New.” The album will be released via Astralwerks on March 4.
“‘Love Brand New’ is about being newly in love and trying not to lose yourself as you navigate the world feeling as though you’re seeing everything for the first time, as if it’s brand new,” Bob Moses shares in a statement.
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alt-J and Portugal, The Man with special guest Cherry Glazerr will be at the WaMu Theater in Seattle on Tuesday, March 29th, 2022. bit.ly
"It’s about being at a festival with your best friends, having a good time, togetherness, and the feeling in life that nothing could be any better than it is right now," explains keyboardist/vocalist Gus Unger-Hamilton. bit.ly
Big Country was originally formed in 1981 by guitar-playing founder members Stuart Adamson and Bruce Watson, both natives of the band’s hometown Dunfermline in Scotland. Initially driven by a shared vision of widescreen guitar melody, harmony and lyric, the classic Big Country sound was further enhanced later that summer by the arrival of drummer Mark Brzezicki and bass player Tony Butler. www.bigcountry.co.uk
Sadly, Stuart Adamson took his own life in 2001. The surviving members of the band did an interview a few years back: bit.ly.
The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is a United States-based suicide prevention network of over 160 crisis centers that provides 24/7 service toll-free at 1-800-273-8255. It is available to anyone in suicidal crisis or emotional distress.
Found on U2's classic 1987 album 'The Joshua Tree,' and written in response to the National Union of Mineworkers' 1984 strike in Great Britain.
Midnight Oil performed this in front of a worldwide audience of billions, (including then Prime Minister John Howard, who had claimed it as his favorite Midnight Oil song) at the closing ceremony of the 2000 Sydney Olympics. The whole band were dressed in black, with the words "sorry" printed conspicuously on their clothes. This was a reference to the Prime Minister's refusal to apologize, on behalf of Australia, to the Aboriginal Australians for the way they have been treated over the last 200 years.
New cover of the Nada Surf 90's classic! And a shot for shot remake of the original music video, with all of the parts played by Mia Berrin of Pom Pom Squad. It was even shot at the same High School: youtu.be
Pom Pom Squad will be at Neumo's on Friday, March 11th
The Smile is a new group comprising Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood and Sons Of Kemet’s Tom Skinner. Super Group Alert!
The Smile will play & stream three consecutive live shows within a twenty-four hour period at Magazine London on January 29 & 30. Performing to a seated audience in the round, the three shows will also be broadcast in real time via livestream.
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KEXP & Cloudbreak Music Festival Present: Smokey Brights 10 year Anniversary 2024
Friday, Nov 22, 2024
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Off of their seventh studio album, released in 1987, which was their first to reach the top 40 on the Billboard 200. The album was the last to feature Porl Thompson on keys, as he went on to only play guitar on all future releases.
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It’s KEXP’s 50th birthday! To celebrate we’re playing songs you know and love from 1987! kexp.org/50/
"Music for the Masses" was released on in 1987!
Back in 2017, Albumism published a fabulous retrospective on "Music for the Masses" for its 30th anniversary.
'The beauty of the album is that 30 years after its release it still feels modern and as a whole entity offers the listener a cauldron of emotions that strike at the core of all of our existence. There is a subtle power at work here. A rawness and honesty that draws you in.
With 'Music For The Masses', Depeche Mode stepped up their level of artistry—thanks in no short measure to the increasing influence of Alan Wilder—and reached for something more.'
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We're celebrating 50 years of KEXP with an in-depth look at each year in our history! This week we're highlighting tracks from 1987! kexp.org/50/
"This Is Not America" is a collaboration between David Bowie and American jazz fusion band Pat Metheny Group, taken from the soundtrack to the 1985 film The Falcon and the Snowman.
Return of the Mack was a No. 1 or Top 10 hit in several European countries in 1996. The song peaked at No. 2 in the United States the following year. In July 2020, McDonald's featured "Return of the Mack" in a UK television commercial as part of a post-COVID-19 lockdown promotional campaign to mark the reopening of restaruants.
New single from the duo of Nicolas Jaar & Dave Harrington. darkside.bandcamp.com
Beach House are releasing a new album, 'Once Twice Melody,' on February 18 via Sub Pop, but they are releasing the album in four parts. Now they have released the third part, featuring five new songs: “Sunset,” “Only You Know,” “Another Go Around,” “Masquerade,” and “Illusion of Forever.” It’s tracks 9-13 from the album.
'Once Twice Melody' is the first album to be produced entirely by the duo. The production features use of a live string ensemble (another first for them) and arrangements by Dave Campbell.
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As Prince became a Jehovah's Witness, he began to change the lyrics when performing this song live, reflecting his newer beliefs that Jesus died on "stauros" (a single stake, rather than a two-beamed cross), and the song became known as "The Christ," causing some controversy amongst Prince's online fanbase.
According to songwriter Mike Peters, the key lines in this song are:
"If I run fast enough
I can leave all the pain and the sadness behind.."
"That's really what that song is trying to communicate," he says.
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Watch the hair in the video for "Rain in the Summertime": www.youtube.com
Gabriels is an LA based group consisting of lead singer Jacob Lusk and producers Ari Balouzian and Ryan Hope. gabriels.bandcamp.com
Frontman James Smith said of the new release, ""Pour Another" zooms in on the post-party conversations many hedonists will be all too familiar with. It leaves the impending doom of daily life in a world on fire at the door, at that point in the night when you don't want to let go of the moment you're in, when everything is perfect and everyone is your new best friend. Those moments fade, because nothing stays as it was. You’re woken with a bang and you have to face the truth."
Fontaines D.C. will play the Showbox SoDo on Saturday, May 14th, 2022! bit.ly
The phrase “skinty fia” is Irish, translating to “the damnation of the deer.” The title and cover art are both references to the extinct Irish giant deer, with a press release alluding to the idea that the band seized on the symbol for an album that meditates on their Irish identity.
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Check out Fontaines D.C. Live on KEXP at Home session from November 2020:
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CHAI kick off the new year with brand new single “WHOLE”. The new single is confirmed as the theme song for Japan’s public broadcaster NHK’s new romantic comedy drama series “Koi-senuFutari”.
The lyrics, inspired by the TV series’ storyline featuring an aromantic/asexual couple, touches on the theme of universal and unconditional love. It speaks on the desire to accept one another’s differences, to love one another as a “whole”, and the wish to “turn this anger into something beautiful” –a message that reverts back to CHAI’s philosophy as an artist.
Yuuki, who penned the lyrics, says of this song: “Sometimes, no one empathizes with you. But is that really a bad thing? I don’t want to make my thing, or someone else’s thing, something to be ashamed of. Because our ‘differences’ may not be our enemies. I wish we could love each other’s little differences and little similarities entirely –that’s the hope behind this song.”
The Orb on how this famous track came to be:
"A fan who worked in a record shop in Birmingham sent me a tape with a note saying it would be perfect for the Orb. On one side, Pat Metheny was playing Steve Reich’s 'Electric Counterpoint'. On the other was an interview with Rickie Lee Jones. Someone asked her: “So what were the skies like when you were young?” and she launched into a trippy monologue about stars and clouds. I sampled it and put it over a basic pulse. That was the start of Little Fluffy Clouds." bit.ly
The cover to this album features an image of the famous Battersea Power Station, seen on many other album covers, superimposed with clouds taken from space by the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1983.
"Girls on Film" was released in 1981. This song is best known for its video, which was the first extended video ever made and was quite racy. In an interview on the band's Greatest Hits DVD collection, Simon Le Bon says that the controversy over the song's notoriously raunchy music video eclipsed the song's message of fashion model exploitation. The video was directed by Lol Creme and Kevin Godley, who were the leaders of the group 10cc and also recorded as Godley & Creme. bit.ly Watch the video here: youtu.be