Cheryl Waters

Good morning and happy Tuesday! You are listening to The Midday Show with Cheryl Waters. Welcome! --- Here are almost all the lyrics to Piece "O'Peace": www.azlyrics.com -- Watch Michael Franti & Spearhead playing live in the KEXP studio in 2016: www.youtube.com

Sevda Alizadeh was born in 1987 in Tehran, Iran. She is of Azerbaijani, Persian, and Russian descent. She moved with her family to the Netherlands at the age of five. At 16, she left home after obtaining a basketball scholarship, eventually playing on the Dutch national basketball team. Find her music here: www.sevdaliza.com -- Yesterday, Sevdaliza walked for Iris van Herpen’s spring 2021 couture show titled Roots of Rebirth. Read Vogue's description of this event and see her clothing: www.vogue.com

Tei Shi is the moniker of Los Angeles-based Colombian-Canadian singer, songwriter, and producer Valerie Teicher. Growing up between Bogotá, Colombia and Vancouver, BC, Tei Shi's ever-changing environment and cross-cultural identity has influenced her unique visionary pop that blends R&B and electro-pop with her South American roots. Tei Shei was our guest DJ for Midnight in a Perfect World last year. Check out her playlist here: www.kexp.org

Lorely Rodriguez, aka Empress Of, joined us live on KEXP at Home last July.: www.youtube.com

The eagerly awaited Cyberpunk 2077 was released on December 10th, after over eight years of anticipation from gamers around the world. Learn more about the score and soundtrack to this worldwide phenomenon on YouTube: youtu.be --- Did you know that Grimes is a character named Lizzy Wizzy in Cyberpunk 2077? --- In 2019, Grimes offered a spoiler-filled description of her character, saying during a livestream, “I play a pop star who committed suicide on stage, and they had to quickly come and perform emergency surgery and replace her whole body with cybernetics while she was dead for an hour. And then she finished the show as a cyborg. One of the greatest pieces of performance art ever made.”

Thanks, Skyler, for this request. -- "Second Song" is part of this list of "the 10 best TV on the Radio songs": www.stereogum.com

Tune in on Thursday, February 18th, for our focus on how live music heals. Share your stories about what live music has meant to you by leaving us a voice message at 1-833-303-KEXP or by emailing stories@kexp.org. --- Here's the video of the very talented Courtney Barnett performing "Avant Gardner" live for KEXP VIP Club members at the Triple Door in 2014: www.youtube.com

Watch the official video for "Baby C'mon": www.youtube.com

Happy birthday, Lucinda Williams, born on this date in 1953. : www.allmusic.com She played and chatted with Cheryl Waters for over an hour in a KEXP Live at Home session last year. Watch that performance here: youtu.be

See a great live performance by Wilco for KEXP at the Columbia City Theater in 2015: www.youtube.com

This song was written the first day Modest Mouse began collaborating with guitarist Johnny Marr, who was not yet an official member of the band. Marr is known for his work with The Smiths. Johnny Marr recalled: "On the first night we (Marr and Isaac Brock) just set up two amps opposite each other and just got louder and louder and improvised. I just started playing 'Dashboard,' which I'd been playing a few weeks before and forgotten about. And he instantly started improvising the lyrics, which knocked me out. To see someone produce those lyrics just off the top of his head is amazing: I've never seen it done in such a way."

"Everybody’s angry And everybody’s lonely Maybe it’s hopeless and maybe Love is not enough But let’s not rule out The possibility..." -- The song is off their surprise album "Sympathetic Magic" that came out last Friday. The 11 piece band recorded the record through remote and individually socially distant sessions, but it still retains the swelling sound of a large band playing together.: morethanmeh.net

Hey Marseilles performed "Eyes On You" at KEXP's Grand Opening in April, 2016. See that entire performance: www.youtube.com

Tomo Nakayama said, "The power and the comfort of the radio, I think, is the idea that at any particular time, there are hundreds and thousands of other people in the world listening to the same song, experiencing the same sound waves. It really helps you feel more connected and less alone in the world." Read his interview about this song here: www.kexp.org Listen to a KEXP Live at Home performance in November that included this song: www.kexp.org

This song was one of the songs that KEXP daytime DJs identified as songs that got them through the very difficult 2020. See the complete Weekly Mix here: www.kexp.org Bartees Strange took part recently in a KEXP and Starbucks sponsored And to All a Good Home live session that benefited Mary's Place. (It included "Stone Meadows."): www.youtube.com

There’s an excerpt that Yves Tumor quotes on ‘Medicine Burn’, the second track on "Heaven To A Tortured Mind," taken from Hunter S. Thompson’s "Better Than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie." The letter, written in the wake of the 1992 US General Election, includes a frightening description of the devil, a warped, terrifying thing with “seven heads and 600 teeth” that Thompson says is, “a nasty thing to feel getting hold of your leg when you’re trying to stay afloat in the lake of fire”. This article about the 2020 album says, "Therein lies the heart of Yves Tumor’s artistry. They possess a stunning, depraved magnetism that pulls you closer the more you try to resist.": thequietus.com

Algiers describe themselves this way on their Bandcamp page: "Algiers is a band of musicians born in Atlanta, Georgia, the rotten hub of the Ol’ American South, where W.E.B. Dubois once saw a riot goin’ on, and where the hell and highwater swirls ‘round to the knees.: algierstheband.bandcamp.com -- This third album from Algiers is built around the title and the mood of Atlanta author Blake Butler's 2011 novel, "There Is No Year.": pitchfork.com

In a recent KEXP Sound & Vision episode, Anjimile Chithambo, who performs under their first name, Anjimile, talks about their new album "Giver Taker": www.kexp.org

This song was co-written and co-produced by Sampha and Lil Silva, who both join serpent in the song’s chorus. "DEACON," the new album, will be out on March 26th.

Junip formed in 1998 in Gothenburg, Sweden, by childhood friends José González (guitar, vocals), Elias Araya (drums) along with Tobias Winterkorn (organ, moog). Here's Junip performing live in the KEXP studio in 2013: www.youtube.com

See Sharon Van Etten performing "Taking Chances" live in the KEXP studio in 2014: www.youtube.com -- Don't you love live music? Join KEXP on Thursday, February 18th for Live Music Heals. At a time when beloved music venues are shuttered, and artists and other workers who make their living from live music are struggling, it's more important than ever to share stories about why live music matters. Did you meet your future significant other at a show? Discover your all-time favorite band opening for a band you already loved? Submit your story today by leaving us a voice message at 1-833-303-KEXP or by emailing stories@kexp.org. Then tune in on Thursday, February 18th to revel in amazing memories of live music with your fellow listeners.

"Hello from the children of Planet Earth...." The music video for "Wherever You Go" was filmed in quarantine and features musicians from NASA Ames Research Center, the SETI Institute, Singularity University, and the International Space University playing a wide variety of instruments in tin foil-covered surroundings.: www.youtube.com

Hey Cheryl, can you please play something by the Lemonheads? The turnpike down or confetti?...Sometimes I turn to the sweet crooning voice of Evan Dando and it makes things better.... Hope all is well, thanks for all the great tunes! Doug from Toronto --- Watch the video for "Confetti": www.youtube.com

Read a biography of this Southampton post-Britpop band: www.allmusic.com

"There is a lot going on in this song, and somehow it all fits seamlessly together. The end result doesn’t sound like any other Doves song; it sticks out even on the diverse The Last Broadcast. But it doesn’t matter one way or another. It remains a monumental achievement and an anchor for any appraisal of Doves’ work." This song is part of the list of Doves; best songs: www.stereogum.com

This request is from Ryan for his dear friend (and long-time listener) Mary's birthday! -- "And maybe that's why "Bloodbuzz Ohio" has burrowed its way into my skull. With its odd, loose-thread lyrics and visceral sadness, it sounds to me more honestly about a place and more honestly political than any political speech I've heard in, well, forever. Even if The National had no intention of it." Read a powerful essay about the impact of this song: www.popmatters.com

This one's for you, James, in your classroom. -- "When a bowl, teapot or precious vase falls and breaks into a thousand pieces, we throw them away angrily and regretfully. Yet there is an alternative, a Japanese practice that highlights and enhances the breaks thus adding value to the broken object. It’s called kintsugi....": www.lifegate.com

Watch an exclusive KEXP Live at Home performance that included "Temple": www.youtube.com

The Guardian gives five stars to this Dublin band's sophomore album.: www.theguardian.com fontainesdc.bandcamp.com

Cheryl welcomed this English band to the KEXP studio for a live performance a century ago in 2018: www.youtube.com

"Echo of the Low Light is a collective of Pacific Northwest artists experimenting with an aleatoric approach to creating music. While the ‘skeleton’ of each song is written, large parts of the composition are left open to chance, each collaborator bringing their own style and feel—unaware of what the others have done. The only instruction given is to keep with the emotional integrity of the song. All parts are recorded individually in the studio, then generatively mixed again and again, until we arrive at a finished piece.": www.echoofthelowlight.com

The xx performed "Crystalised" live at the Cutting Room Studios NYC during KEXP's broadcast from CMJ in 2009.: www.youtube.com

This song was debuted by Thom Yorke at a warm-up show with his other band Atoms For Peace on October 2, 2009 at the Echoplex in Los Angeles. Radiohead first performed the track during a January 2010 Haiti benefit concert in Los Angeles. Its music video, featuring Yorke's erratic dancing, attracted millions of views and spawned an internet meme: youtu.be

She is sharper than a switchblade in this live performance at the Lowlands in 2014: www.youtube.com --- Prince contributed lyrics, vocals, bass, and guitar to the studio album's second track, "Givin' Em What They Love." It would end up being the only time the two artists officially collaborated in the studio.

Read a track-by-track guide to "Controversy," Prince's fourth album, "Controversy," which presaged ""Purple Rain," three years later. Like on most of his works, Prince produced, wrote and played every instrument on the album, save for keyboards, drums and vocals on "Jack U Off.": theboombox.com

Arlo Parks describes herself this way: "Arlo Parks is a poet/singer from London. In her words she spent most of school feeling like that black kid who couldn't dance for shit, listening to too much emo music and crushing on some girl in her Spanish class. Her songs are confessional and tender, mainly inspired by Portishead and Earl Sweatshirt.": arloparks.bandcamp.com “Green Eyes." which boasts backing vocals and guitar from Clairo, is the lead single from her debut album, due out on Friday, January 29th.: consequenceofsound.net

Watch Goat Girl's live performance for KEXP listeners during our International Clash Day broadcast from London last year: www.youtube.com

Sage advice from local band DLO3. "Call Your Mom" is the first single from the group's upcoming sophomore record, I Told You So, out this Friday, January 29th, on Colemine Records.: delvonlamarrorgantrio.bandcamp.com Learn more about the funky blend of soul and jazz put out by DLO3 in our local artist spotlight: bit.ly