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Tracey Thorn: "It Was Hard To Tell If Massive Attack Liked Protection" Read more from her interview with Mojo here: bit.ly
Despite 4AD president Ivo Watts-Russell proclaiming this one of the best-ever releases on his label, he released the group from their contract at the end of 1990 because his relationship with the band had soured.
Earlier this year, it was announced that Perfume Genius’ Mike Hadreas would be collaborating with Seattle choreographer Kate Wallich on a new contemporary dance and live music performance piece titled The Sun Still Burns Here. Today, he shares the first piece of music from the project titled "Eye in the Wall." In a press release, he states:
"I think of “Eye in the Wall’ as a cosmic peep show. Watching, being watched, dancers unlatched from the Matrix and truly LIVING. Creating new rituals on the other side. Whole bodies braiding, spit glowing in the dark and a camera floating just above. We spent a lot of time in the studio alternating between the math of the song and the magic of it — which was very much like the process of creating the dance itself. Working with Kate Wallich and YC, really being with my body, really being with other bodies — there is control and a real formula but a portal opened up in parallel that is completely free and overwhelmingly full of feeling."
The Sun Still Burns Here premieres here in Seattle on October 4th at the Moore Theatre.
The third album by St. Vincent, Strange Mercy was written in Seattle. She came here to escape from the information overload she was experiencing at home and recorded Strange Mercy in a studio provided by Death Cab For Cutie drummer Jason McGerr.
This song was inspired by an exhibit of the same name the band saw at the Chicago Peace Museum while on tour in 1983. The exhibit featured artwork from Japanese victims of the Hiroshima bombing. The Chicago Peace Museum also had a Martin Luther King exhibit, which would inspire U2's song "Pride (In The Name Of Love)."
"Lucy" is available on limited (isn't it always?) 7" vinyl from Soccer Mommy's bandcamp page: sopharela.bandcamp.com
Angel Olsen is playing The Moore on December 11th. Tickets & info here: bit.ly
This is the personal favorite Lungs track of Florence Welch the frontwoman of Florence + the Machine. She told The Sunday Times in 2009 that she created it with her keyboard player, Isabella Summers, "in about half an hour with the worst hangover ever."
Bombay Bicycle Club's new album is coming out on January 17th. The album will be called Everything Else Has Gone Wrong. On their website the band says:
"This is an album for anyone who’s ever turned to music in a time of crisis, whether personal or political. It’s about the solace one can get from listening to music or playing music when everything else in your life or the world has gone wrong. It’s about finding kernels of hope and renewal in dire situations."
This track finds Father John Misty singing about communicating through technology rather than face-to-face, and how isolated the process made him feel. In an interview he said: "I wrote it on tour while trying to woo someone with text message and email and trying to make a connection that way and the frustration of that. So that song had to be synthetic and inorganic."
The New Pornographers are playing The Neptune on January 30th. Tickets go on sale Friday but you can sign up for pre-sale which starts tomorrow! bit.ly
Fifty years ago, The Beatles returned to the EMI Recording Studios (later renamed Abbey Road) and made their last album together. To celebrate this milestone, Abbey Road has been remixed and newly released in a remarkable box set, with alternate takes, demo recordings and surround-sound mixes, all done by producer Giles Martin and engineer Sam Okell.
The Budos Band performed live in the KEXP studio back in April: bit.ly
The Shivas are playing the Sunset Tavern on November 14th for the Freak Out Festival. Tickets and info: www.the-freakout.com
The Black Keys are at The Tacoma Dome on November 23rd: bit.ly
The late Jeff Buckley was utterly mesmerized by this song: "The first time I heard 'How Soon Is Now,' I can remember things changing in myself. It was 1984, in my friend's apartment in this really horrible building in Hollywood. We were there eating some sort of horrible food, with ketchup 'cause we didn't have any money, and it came on the television. The video was great, but the song completely blew everything away. It was the first time I ever heard writing like that over music like that. It influenced me because the writing was so great, because Morrissey's lyrics were so great in such a way, I don't know, like just completely freaky, unique."
The Helio Sequence are playing in Tacoma on November 23rd at Fawcett Hall at Alma Mater: bit.ly Think they'll play "October" in November?
October is being re-released on limited edition cream colored vinyl. Preorder here: u2.lnk.to
On September 27th, Broken Bells released a new single, "Good Luck" brokenbells.lnk.to
“I have crazy dreams, and always have done,” Just Mustard's Katie Ball said.
“I love talking about them. I have a general mad time when I’m asleep. I just find it really interesting… a bit more interesting than being awake sometimes,” she chuckles. “I really like writing about dreams. Some mad stuff happens there…”
"Sharon Van Etten: ‘The more I let go, the more I progress as a human being’" Read The Guardian's interview here: bit.ly
The Sun June 5, 2009 asked Everett why he made the werewolf Spanish. He replied: "Originally, I was thinking about calling the album American Werewolf but then I realised I didn't want to be tied into those movies. I thought I'd just put him in another language. I live in Los Angeles, which is heavily populated with Spanish speakers, so it seemed like the coolest sounding one. So he became a Spanish werewolf."
Speaking to NME June 23, 2012 about his memories of the track, drummer Stephen Morris said: "I just thought 'Yeah, this is a good song', someone might like it. It was a great period for the band, but Ian's personal life – that was all going badly. In retrospect, when you listen to it in light of what happened, it seems bloody obvious. I honestly didn't realise that he was writing about himself. I just said 'These are great lyrics, Ian'. That makes it a bit difficult to listen to now'."
Lead guitarist Bernard Sumner added regarding Curtis: "He'd got married very, very young. And by the time of that song, he'd come to a fork in the road, relationship-wise. His life had changed enormously, and he had to make a choice. We thought his headspace was OK. But Ian had two faces – the public face for the band and the private troubles he had at home and the way they came out through his lyrics. We didn't really listen to the lyrics. Joy Division was four people on pedestals, and we didn't communicate with each other about what the songs are about."
LCD Soundsystem with Arcade Fire - "North American Scum" live at Madison Square Garden (4/2/11): bit.ly
Best description of Hot Chip: "Two dads who have known each other since they were 11"
Per a press release, this song originated as part of a spontaneous live session, which they then sent to Four Tet, who picked it out as a highlight from the material he got, and then they sent it on to Taylor to do vocals in place of the band’s usual vocalist Brian Borcherdt.
When HÆLOS performed live in the KEXP studio in March they opened with this song. See the full performance here: bit.ly
"Fifteen months in the making, the band's fourth album is almost entirely sublime" Read more from NME at bit.ly
The brand new feature-length film, directed by award-winning filmmaker and long-time artistic collaborator Anton Corbijn, "Depeche Mode: SPIRITS in the Forest", delves deeply into the emotional stories of six special Depeche Mode fans from across the globe, giving audiences a unique look into music's incredible power to connect and empower people. Along with these key fan stories, the film integrates performance footage from the two final shows of the band's 2017/2018 Global Spirit Tour, which saw them play to over 3 million fans at 115 performance dates around the world.
SPIRITS in the Forest will be screened in more than 2,400 cinemas around the world on November 21. www.spiritsintheforest.com
Tune in on October 17th at noon for Ride's live session from The Triple Door. You can also see them on October 8th at The Crocodile!
Charles Bradley took a stroll through his native Bed-Stuy neighborhood in Brooklyn after a long European tour in his video for “Good to Be Back Home” bit.ly
People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm, a seminal record that the Village Voice once described as "upliftingly dope." Take the song "Ham 'N' Eggs," for instance; it constitutes, basically, a long list of food with a little bit of commentary. There's the titular breakfast, plus some fish, asparagus tips, candied yams, "collard greens and an occasional steak," "applesauce and some nice red beets." The song's a celebration of delicious things, a wary recognition of the temptation all that stuff offers, and a little bit of food-related anxiety all wrapped up together. And it's awfully fun to listen to.
Moby explained this track to Rolling Stone: "Basically just me playing slide guitar over a vocal sample. I added what I thought were hip-hop drums to it. In the '80s I was DJing a lot of hip-hop. At one point I was working at Mars and I used to keep a microphone by the turntables. Big Daddy Kane and Run-D.M.C. and 3rd Bass and Flavor Flav and everybody would go to this club and get drunk, and I had the microphone. I was the weird white DJ for where all these rappers were drinking and rapping to impress their girlfriends."
The Free Nationals,are probably best known to most of us as Anderson .Paak’s backing band
Elbow's new album, Giants of All Sizes come out on October 11th. You can preorder on clear vinyl, cd, or cassette. bit.ly
"On his second album as Nightlands, the War on Drugs' Dave Hartley has made a crush mixtape for the Uncanny Valley; exploring a similar palette to that of Destroyer's Kaputt, but rendered with an intentionally android effect.: -Pitchfork bit.ly
Moon Duo are coming to Neumos on November 26th! Tickets & info: bit.ly
David Bowie told Q magazine's 1001 Best Songs Ever: "It's a bitch to sing, 'cos I really have to give it some towards the end. I pace myself throughout the show and often place it near to a point where I can take a vocal break afterwards. As long as I'm touring I don't see a time when I won't be singing 'Heroes.' It's a good one to belt out and I get a kick out of it every time."