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This slowed down, more sultry version of the Pixies classic is prominently featured in the 1990 cult classic film Pump Up the Volume, starring Christian Slater : youtu.be --- Pixies play Climate Pledge Arena on Friday, Sept 8 - www.pixiesmusic.com
Happy Thursday and welcome to the Midday Show with Cheryl Waters! Today we’ll be giving away tickets for Janelle Monae at WAMU Theatre on August 30th. Be sure to keep your ears open for when to text in to win!
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Bassekou Kouyaté (born 1966) is a musician from Mali. His band is known as Ngoni ba. He is one of the true masters of the ngoni, an ancient traditional lute found throughout West Africa.
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Dreamland by Marcia Griffiths was written by Al Johnson and Bunny Wailer and was first released by The Wailers in 1971.
Withers was nominated for nine Grammy Awards over the course of his career.
He went on to win three Grammy Awards for “Ain’t No Sunshine” in 1971, “Just The Two Of Us” in 1981, and “Lean On Me” in 1987, respectively. He released a total of eight albums before his retirement. We lost Bill in 2020 at the age of 81.
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"It Ain't Me Babe" is the debut studio album by the American rock band the Turtles. It was released in October 1965 on White Whale Records.
Prior to recording, the band members required written permission from their parents due to being underage. Included on the album is original work from the band's high school performing days and their own interpretations of popular songs from other musicians. The most successful track "It Ain't Me Babe" reached #8 on the national charts.
This is a disco cover of the original 1963 song written by Bobby Hebb.
Hebb's timeless classic was inspired by two tragic events: the fatal stabbing of his older brother Harold outside a club in Nashville on November 23rd, 1963, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas the previous day. "All my intentions were just to think of happier times – basically looking for a brighter day – because times were at a low tide," said Hebb. "I needed to pick myself up, and 'Sunny' became that pick-me-up. It was, and is, an ode to a sunny disposition and a melodic plea for peace."
Janelle is kicking off her tour in Seattle on Wednesday, August 30th! She'll be playing an all-ages show at WaMu Theatre. Be sure to catch her on tour later this summer and into the fall.
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On "Beautiful People", Ware ups the ante and brings it back to the dance floor: “It’s got this kind of impatient energy. And it’s very much about that experience of being able to open those doors to a club, and the beautiful people are everywhere. That moment of feeling like you’re so part of a community, and that escapism. It’s about taking your life, putting it on hold for a moment, and just fuc*ing dancing and enjoying yourself.”
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Superstition came in at #258 of KEXP listener's favorite songs of all time in 2019.
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Taking a cue from Marvin Gaye, who put musician credits on his album What's Going On, Wonder included credits on Talking Book. On this track, Stevie played Hohner clavinet, drums, and Moog bass. Two of his band members also contributed: Steve Madaio played trumpet and Trevor Lawrence played tenor saxophone.
Seattle band La Fonda!
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La Fonda performed live at KEXP back in February.
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The whistling at the end of the song was the spontaneous result of Redding having a bit of a brain fart.
Okay, so maybe that’s the most diplomatic way to put it, but the fact of the matter is that Redding – per guitarist Steve Cropper – had worked up “this little fadeout rap he was gonna do, an adlib,” and when the time came for him to work his verbal magic, he blanked. “So he started whistling,” said Cropper, and the end result was one of the many instantly-memorable moments that stand out in the track.
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"Sunflower" is a song written by Neil Diamond and was recorded by American country music singer Glen Campbell. While the song was a big hit for Campbell, Diamond did not release his own version of this song until late 2018, when it was included the release of his 50th Anniversary Collectors Edition 6-CD set.
The first single off the group's third album, 'Under the Big Black Sun' (1982). Take a trip in the time machine and watch the video from 41 (!!) years ago.
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All I wanted was a Pepsi!!!
The song's video was one of the first by a hardcore band to get significant airplay on MTV. Directed by Bill Fishman, it shows songwriter and lead singer Mike Muir railing against his parents. The dad in the video was played by Jack Nance, who starred in the TV series Twin Peaks and also appeared in the David Lynch films Blue Velvet and Eraserhead. The mother in the video was played by Mary Woronov, whose credits include The Lady in Red and Warlock.: www.youtube.com
"We are the Voodoo Glow Skulls from Riverside, California. Traveling all around the world and bringing our sound of West Coast ska-core since 1988. We play fast. We play hard. We play the voodoo sound like no other."
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"Wildflowers" was enormously successful, selling 3 million copies in the U.S. and peaking at Number Eight on the Top 200. To producer Rick Rubin, the album’s sturdiness was a shock. “I think the reason I was surprised has to do with the idea of a grown-up making a good record,” he told Petty biographer Warren Zanes. “When you think of the great songwriters, they weren’t making great albums at that point. I can’t remember what Paul Simon record or what Paul McCartney record came out around that time. But I’m guessing they just weren’t as good.”
Here are 10 more interesting facts about this album that you might not know:
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Damien joined Kevin Cole a year ago in the KEXP Studios. Enjoy the full performance right here - www.youtube.com
"Let It Be Me" is a popular song originally published in French in 1955 as "Je t'appartiens" interpreted by Gilbert Bécaud. It became popular worldwide with an English version by the Everly Brothers and later with the duet by Betty Everett and Jerry Butler.
Here we have the brothers performing this together in 1964 - www.youtube.com
From the tenth studio album by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds. The album is completely piano-based, which was a slight change from band's mostly post-punk catalog.
Nick will be hitting the road later this Fall. Check out his tour schedule - www.nickcave.com
Well, yeah...of course you're going to watch this adventurous video in all of it's 1990 glory.
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In January 2023, 'The Magic Number' was officially released onto streaming services along with the announcement that De La Soul's first six albums would also be added on March 3. De La's back catalogue had been absent from streaming services for many years since many of the samples in their music had only been cleared for use on physical copies of their records. Warner, who had owned the rights to De La's music until 2017, had been reluctant to try to clear these samples and renegotiate contracts.
After several disputes and the rights trading hands a number of times, it was only until June 2021 when Reservoir Media bought Tommy Boy Records (who owned the catalog at the time) that the clearance process could begin. Though many samples were replayed in cases where the master couldn't be cleared, some vanished altogether – on the 2023 version of 'The Magic Number,' the sample of Eddie Murphy saying "Anybody in the audience ever get hit by a car?" was notably missing.
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The lyrics are about a dance called "Ché Ché Colé" that comes from Africa and is popular in different Latin American countries. The protagonist invites his friends to dance it together and even teaches those who don't know how to dance it. The chorus repeats the phrase "Ché Ché Colé" and other related phrases, emphasizing the joy of the dance and the fun of being together.
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Old & In the Way was a bluegrass supergroup formed in 1973. It was composed of Peter Rowan (guitar, vocals), Vassar Clements (fiddle), Jerry Garcia (banjo, vocals), David Grisman (mandolin, vocals), and John Kahn (string bass).
Garcia formed the band as a vehicle to play bluegrass banjo. The group grew out of living room jams between Garcia, Grisman and Rowan who all lived near each other in Marin County, California.
They were together for a total of nine months, and the Old & In The Way album was recorded in October of 1973 in front of an audience at The Boarding House in San Francisco, where most of the group’s discography was recorded.
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Luciano Pavarotti (1935-2007) was an Italian operatic tenor who during the late part of his career crossed over into popular music, eventually becoming one of the most acclaimed tenors of all time.
Who's got the best moves of the bunch??
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This was the first single released from the band's fourth album Beelzebubba (1988). The idea behind the song was to create a punk rock nursery rhyme; as such, it is a simple love song, written from the perspective of a sheltered boy dreaming of a rowdy, delinquent girlfriend. Lyrically, it depicts the duo bonding over record-shopping and eating pizza.
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“Up in Heaven (Not Only Here)” is a chorusless rant against public housing that pretty much says all it needs to say halfway through the song:
"Fear is just another commodity here
They sell us peeping holes to peek when we hear
A bang on the door resoundingly clear
Who would really want to move in here?
The children play faraway, the corridors are bare
This room is a cage its like captivity
How can anyone exist in such misery?"
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Join KEXP for El Sonido Live, celebrating Ibero-American music and community, July 21st, from 5-10pm, in the KEXP courtyard on our Music Heals stage. We invite you to watch performances from Rubio (Chile), Pahua (Mexico), Usted Señalemelo (Argentina), and Carolina Durante (Spain). This event is free and all-ages with access to a beer garden with ID.
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Gabriel joined us as part of Live on KEXP at home during the pandemic - www.youtube.com
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When Gabriel Garzón-Montano released his sophomore album, "Agüita", he described the album as "anti-genre" with him flirting with many diverse sounds including reggaeton, art rock, trap, hip hop, urbano, electronica, post-punk, folk and ambient music alongside the usual offerings of soul, funk and alternative R&B. gabrielgarzonmontano.com
Bomba Estéreo joined Cheryl in our KEXP studios back in April 2013.
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Ela Minus is the alias of Colombian-born, Brooklyn-based artist Gabriela Jimeno. She released her debut album 'acts of rebellion' in October of 2020.
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Ela Minus shared an exclusive live performance, recorded for KEXP, and spoke with El Sonido's Albina Cabrera in December 2020.
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Jonathan Richman just wrapped up playing 3 nights at Tractor Tavern in Seattle!
"Some Fantastic Place" is the tenth studio album by the British new wave group Squeeze, released in 1993.
The song was the third single released from the album. It peaked at #73 on the UK Singles Chart.
"Song Sung Blue" is a song written and recorded by Neil Diamond in 1972. It is inspired by the second movement of Mozart's piano concerto No. 21. The song was released on Neil Diamond's album Moods, and later appeared on several of his live and compilation albums. It reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States for one week, the week of July 1, and spent twelve weeks in the top 40. It also reached number 14 on the UK Singles Chart.
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Here's a live version from 1972 - www.youtube.com
"I wrote this for a friend of mine who died in a fire," Browne said of the poignant song in 2016. "He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad. He was a really interesting guy. Besides being a great dancer, he was an ice skater - he had a job in the Ice Follies. And he was a great tailor - he would make his friends clothes. He was a Renaissance man. When I wrote him the song - it's a song I've sung many times, other times when people have died - but I was making a metaphor out of the dance. Just the idea that your life is a dance. And there's a line in it, 'In the end, there is one dance you do alone.' That's one of the songs I've sung all through the years, and for me, it's like going to that place, and dealing with the fact that life will end. It's a sad song, but at the same time, it feels good to sort through that reality and touch base with it, and then go on."
Browne sang this at Phil Hartman's memorial service in 1998. It was also played at John Belushi's service in 1982.
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Andrew joined us in the KEXP studios in May of 2016. Relive that session on our archives - www.kexp.org
In 2017, this song was featured as part of Anthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown. The video includes footage of Bourdain going around Seattle and other iconic imagery of the city.
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It was almost inevitable that Baaba Maal would one day call an album "The Traveller" because for the Senegalese veteran travel and music are inextricable. The singer and guitarist belongs to the semi-nomadic Fulani people. He first left his homeland of Fouta, in the river valley region of northern Senegal, almost 40 years ago, to perform music hundreds of miles away as a teenage boy scout and he has been a wanderer ever since. “It’s part of my culture,” he says. “The songs travel from village to village, from country to country. It’s something natural to my tribe and this part of Africa.”
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Quantic, aka Will Holland, is a British born Musician, Producer & DJ making Electronic, Latin, Jazz and Soul Music saturated in soundwaves from across the world. Now based in New York, after recent years along the Colombian Pacific Coast, Holland has developed a sound that bridges heritage and progression, marrying spontaneous musicianship with deep, exciting tonality.
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Before he left The Hollies in 1968, Graham Nash offered this song to the band, but his bandmates rejected it as being not commercial enough. Their refusal to record this and other tunes he wrote was one of the main reasons Nash left the band and moved to Los Angeles to join up with Crosby and Stills. "After a couple months of that, a man is liable to go insane," Nash said of having his songs rejected, adding, "especially being the only one who was smoking grass at the time." Fortunately, his new bandmates liked the tune and it ended up on their debut album.
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"Marrakesh Express" was Crosby, Stills & Nash's first single. Their first album sold 4 million copies and made them a major touring attraction. For their next album (Déjà Vu in 1970), they added Neil Young and got even bigger.
Released in 1998, Aquamosh is the title of the first studio album by the Monterrey, Mexico-based band Plastilina Mosh. They are part of the musical movement known as Avanzada Regia. Jonás González is the lead singer and guitar player.
Happy Thursday and welcome to The Afternoon Show with Troy Nelson! Thank you so much for being here!
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Happy birthday to Joshua Paul Davis (DJ Shadow), born on June 29th, 1972. He is a pivotal figure in the art of sampling.: www.allmusic.com
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"To listen to DJ Shadow’s Endtroducing is to hear sampling approached as a spiritual practice, an aural document of one man’s lifelong reverence for hip-hop and his communion with the history of recorded music. After years of bending over record crates and inhaling dust from decades-old vinyl in the basement of the Sacramento record store, Joshua Davis pulled hundreds of samples together to create a record that reimagined and expanded the possibilities of the art form...." Here's a dive into one of the most influential albums ever made.: www.udiscovermusic.com