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Tuesday, Sep 8 2020, 10AM
Good morning, happy Tuesday, and welcome to The Midday Show! Can you believe that Built to Spill's second album is twenty-six years old this month?: consequenceofsound.net
See a live 8-song set by The Posies in the KEXP studio in 2016: www.youtube.com
Crumb is a New York City psych rock band: crumbtheband.bandcamp.com This song was featured on KEXP's 90.Teen show, a show programmed and produced by teens. The DJ was DJ Vega Vi. Learn more about them, the other teen DJ's, and the program here.: www.kexp.org
DJ Vega Vi selected this one for KEXP's 90.Teen Show. Watch Unknown Moral Orchestra perform it live in the KEXP studio in 2018: www.youtube.com
"Can you forgive your people?...They're just hurting inside..." Here are the lyrics to this important song by SAULT, selected by our teen DJ Vega Vi: genius.com
Starchild & The New Romantic is a musical project lead by New York singer/multi instrumentalist and writer Bryndon Cook.: newromanticworld.bandcamp.com
90.TEEN is programmed by the participants in the KEXP Youth DJs program. The goal of this program is to teach young people confidence, skills, and develop career goals, positive thinking, practice, curation, technical and programmatic knowledge, and training through the art of broadcast journalism and DJing.: www.kexp.org Teen DJ Vega Vi selected this Depeche Mode classic for their show on Saturday, September 5th, 6:00-7:00 a.m.: www.youtube.com
Happy 40th birthday, Zach! According to John Flansburgh, this is the only TMBG song played using an alternate guitar tuning—the high E is dropped to a D for slide guitar playing.
"Friday night cookin' show, with a...Horse-meat dish...I had to stay in the freezer...All Thursday eve": genius.com
Go to Seattle punk band Monsterwatch's official website to subscribe to their newsletter: www.monsterwatchnoise.com
Grant Hart, Husker Du drummer and singer, died of cancer in September, 2017, at age 56: www.theguardian.com
This Washington, D.C. band formed in 1977 and are considered among the pioneers of hardcore punk.: theundefeated.com
The Bob Baker Marionettes steal the show in this new video from punk rocker Alice Bag: buzzbands.la
See Throwing Muses rock the KEXP studio in a live performance from 2014: www.kexp.org
Here's a lovely review by the NY Times of Katie Crutchfield's "Saint Cloud," arguably one of the best albums of 2020: www.nytimes.com
The previous song, Waxahatchee's "The Eye," was an ode to Crutchfield's partner, Kevin Morby. "Sundowner" is Kevin Morby's sixth full-length in seven years. It will be out on October 16th and you can pre-order it now: kevinmorby.bandcamp.com
Last year, Spoon released an early demo of "Inside Out," featuring Britt Daniel on a piano. He said, "I wrote that on piano. It was just the chords and a melody, and I remember singing it for my girlfriend at the time and she was not impressed. I was like “Are you kidding me? I know this is f**king great!”: www.undertheradarmag.com
Cheryl Waters welcomed Spoon to the KEXP studio in 2014 for a great live performance: www.youtube.com
Recognize that voice? Back in 2017, Pedro The Lion’s David Bazan and TW Walsh got together with Starflyer 59’s Trey Many and Jason Martin to form a new band called Lo Tom and to release a self-titled debut album. On September 11th, they're releasing their second, entitled "LP2.": lotomlotom.bandcamp.com
Myles MacInnes, better known by his stage name Mylo, is a Scottish electronic musician and record producer. He sampled "Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes and "Waiting for a Star to Fall" by Boy Meets Girl in this tune.
Cheryl Waters selected this powerful song by singer/songwriter Fantastic Negrito (real name: Xavier Amin Dphrepaulezz) as today's KEXP Song of the Day. You can read more about it, download it for free, and see the video here: www.kexp.org
Benjamin Booker performed "Truth Is Heavy" in a live performance in Austin, Texas in 2017: www.youtube.com
The Arcs are Dan Auerbach, Leon Michels, Richard Swift, Homer Steinweiss, and Nick Movshon. The inspiration for this song came from a surprisingly innocent source: a little girl. Leon Michels, told how his daughter gave him the idea: "She was just picking flowers and she's like: 'I'm gonna to put a flower in my pocket.' And I felt like, oh, 'Put a Flower in Your Pocket,' that's like a cool Temptations' song title or something. So, I just gave that to Dan and then he turned it into something else."
Auerbach added: "I just thought about somebody putting like a dime bag in their pocket and we turned it into basically a drug dealer anthem."
London-based saxophonist, composer, bandleader, and DJ Nubya Garcia is one of the leading lights in the resurgence of jazz-influenced sounds in the U.K.'s club culture and one of its prime Afro-futurist exports. Enjoy a biography of this important musician: guyanesegirlsrock.com
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Janelle Monae has just released "Turntables" today. The track appears in "All In: The Fight for Democracy," a forthcoming Amazon Studios documentary on voter suppression that features Stacy Abrams. The film hits selects theaters on September 9 and arrives on Amazon Prime Video on September 18.: www.nme.com
Somebody wrote, "That's not a voice. That's a weapon." Watch Aretha Franklin sing this song in the "Blues Brothers" film: www.youtube.com
"The Black Hole Understands," Cloud Nothings' seventh album, was recorded remotely in quarantine and primarily features Dylan Baldi and drummer Jayson Gercyz. : pitchfork.com
Pavement's experimental, endearing third LP, "Wowee Zowee," turned twenty-five this year. Read what musicians have to say in tribute: www.spin.com
"And in the taxi home I'll sing you a Triffids song..." Watch Courtney Barnett & the Courtney Barnetts performing "History Eraser" live in the KEXP studio in 2014: www.youtube.com
Catch up with frontwoman Romy Vager of Melbourne band RVG in this recent interview: louderthanwar.com
Here's a review of this L.A. trio's second album, "Play With Fire": www.gigwise.com Go here to purchase it: lawitches.bandcamp.com
Racoma is Glenn Haider,Sean Collopy, Eliot Stone. and Spencer Templeman. This new song by this Seattle quartet is available here: racoma.bandcamp.com
See the entire performance from last January by this talented Seattle rapper: www.youtube.com
Okkervil River sang "Unless It Kicks" along with other songs during a live performance in 2016: www.youtube.com
In the video for "My Desire," director Markus Lundqvist chooses to focus on the creepy, melancholic narrative: an unnamed man drinks alone at a Lower East Side bar while sifting through old Polaroids that begin to come alive.: www.youtube.com
TV on the Radio created an accompanying film to go with the album, an hourlong visual companion that offers music videos for all of "Nine Types of Light"'s tracks. Packaged with a deluxe version of the CD, the film also exists on YouTube in its entirety.: filmmakermagazine.com
Perhaps this Chicago trio will perform "Haha" when they grace KEXP's Live at Home this Thursday, September 10th, at 1:00 p.m. You can stream that performance on KEXP's YouTube and Facebook channels.
illuminati hotties is Sarah Tudzin from Loa Angeles. Buy this digital album here: illuminatihotties.bandcamp.com
This is one of several tracks on "Reflektor" where there's a dance-music influence. Win Butler said that it was the album's co-producer, LCD Soundsystem mainman James Murphy, that provided the band with a guiding path for their more rhythmic direction. "If you can get James tapping his foot," Butler said, "you know you're on the right track."
According to his publicist, Toots Hibbert, who is credited with "inventing Reggae," is still on a ventilator, but his condition is gradually improving.: www.dancehallmag.com
Arrested Development are a progressive rap collective fusing soul, blues, hip-hop, and Sly & the Family Stone-influenced funk with political, socially conscious lyrics. The group was founded in the late '80s by rapper Speech and DJ Headliner, who decided to make the transition to a more positive, Afrocentric viewpoint after hearing Public Enemy.: www.allmusic.com
This is The Staple Singers' fine cover of the 1968 Sly & The Family Stone hit.
“If you’re tired of walking,” Victoria sings, “let the children lead the way.” Produced by T Bone Burnett, this new single "is a prayer, an affirmation, and a battle cry all at once. It is a promise to engage in the kind of ‘good trouble’ John Lewis understood necessary to form a more perfect union.” In August, Nahville artist Victoria participated in a panel that addressed black equity in the Americana music world. “We’re not the problem,” she said, imploring her white peers to take on the task of making the Americana space more equitable. “And we’re not going to be the solution.”: www.rollingstone.com
Happy 50th birthday, Neko Case, born on this date in 1970 in Alexandria, Virginia. She sang "Maybe Sparrow" live in Austin, Texas in 2017: www.youtube.com
BUMPER is the new quarantine project of Japanese Breakfast‘s Michelle Zauner and Crying‘s Ryan Galloway. The two started trading tracks in early June, adding layers back and forth over email, of synth and sample, track and tune.: northerntransmissions.com
Sylvan Esso will be Live on KEXP at Home on Thursday, September 24th, at 3:00 p.m. Stream that live performance on KEXP's Youtube and Facebook channels.