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Tuesday, Feb 13 2024, 10AM
Good morning and happy Tuesday. You're listening to The Midday show with the inimitable Cheryl Waters! We're glad you're here!
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Jesamine began in the small town of Galion, Ohio before relocating to Seattle, where they earned notice for "Your Head Is So Small..., " a 1994 single on the Sub Pop label. Here's an extensive biography: www.scaruffi.com
Tom Cullinan played the guitar, Ben Hopkin played the bass, Joe Dilworth pounded the drums and former Falcon barperson Roxanne Stephen did the vox-thing. Here's a biography: thfaithhealers.aardvark.at
Watch a full hour-and-a-quarter show by British band Th' Faith Healers in 1991: www.youtube.com
Angie McMahon will be LIVE on KEXP on Monday, March 11th, on The Midday Show at 11:00 a.m. She'll be at The Crocodile that night!
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Here's a fine NPR interview with Australian singer-songwriter McMahon about her wonderful sophomore album, "Light, Dark, Light Again": www.npr.org
Happy birthday to Matt Berninger of The National, born on February 13th, 1971.
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Matt Berninger talked about dealing with depression and writer's block, working with Phoebe Bridgers and Taylor Swift, and more in this long interview last year: www.youtube.com
In 2015, El Vy (Matt Berninger and Brent Knopf) performed live in our studio. Watch that entire session, which included "Need a Friend": www.youtube.com
In January, David Garza announced on Facebook that tapes of a 30-year-old live performance from Denton, Texas had been found and were being mixed for a 2024 release: www.facebook.com
"Do everything...feel nothing..."
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Cheryl was the host when Dry Cleaning performed "Scratchcard Lanyard" and other songs in a live performance in our studio in 2020: www.youtube.com
The Leeds band's Lily Fontaine said, "“Nearly Daffodils” is about heartbreak and acceptance of unfulfilled potential. How, no matter how much you may want something, no matter how much effort you may put into something’s growth or development, no matter how beautiful you can envision its fruition; life is a bitch and about as unstoppable as a freight train."
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See the black-and-white lyric video: www.youtube.com
Formed in Manchester in 1963, they were part of "the British Invasion." The group's manager and producer, Mickie Most (who controlled the band's output), emphasized a simple, non-threatening and clean-cut image.: www.allmusic.com
See Nirvana perform "Drain You" live in Seattle in 1993: www.youtube.com
Don't you love this song? Katie Crutchfield (Waxahatchee) said, " “I’m really interested in writing love songs that are gritty and unromantic. I wanted to make a song about the ebb and flow of a longtime love story. I thought it might feel untraditional, but a little more in alignment with my experience to write about feeling insecure or foiled in some way internally, but always finding your way back to a newness or an intimacy with the same person.”
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This song was recently selected as a free KEXP Song of the Day: www.kexp.org
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That's MJ Lenderman on vocals and electric guitar, Phil Cook on banjo, and Spencer Tweedy on percussion.
Join the "Gloom Club" for this Nashville band, compared to "Hole, Television, and The Pretenders.": www.gloomgirlmfg.com
The Geraldine Fibbers were the bluesy, country-tinged vehicle of singer/songwriter Carla Bozulich.
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The 1995 classic "Lost Somewhere Between the Earth and My Home" was re-released in 2020. You can purchase it here: carlabozulichofficial.bandcamp.com
Wow! Watch Frankie and The Witch Fingers performing live in our studio last August: www.youtube.com
Alejandro Escovedo will release "Echo Dancing," his first album in six years, on March 29th. He revisited and reinvented songs from throughout his career. “I always feel that a well-written song can withstand a lot of abuse,” Escovedo says. “Turning a past song inside out leads to discovery of new ideas you might not have understood about the song. "
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“Bury Me” is a song he wrote in the early ’90s wondering what would happen if he “should die before he turns 43.” For the record, Alejandro recently turned 73.
Emmylou Harris sings backup on this tune.
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"Taneytown" is a story song set in the western Maryland town. An angry encounter between a young black man and a gang of rock-throwing whites escalates into violence and two deaths. Instead of the simple morality tale one might expect, however, Earle constructs a more ambiguous narrative in which no one is completely innocent or completely guilty, where racial misunderstanding makes doing the right thing a near impossibility. "I want my characters to be more ambiguous," Earle says, "because real people are not cut and dried."
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He sang this song live in Sydney in 2012: www.youtube.com
The songs from "Black Tape EP" were recorded at the same time as 2018's "Wrong Creatures" and, according to the band, are now available on all streaming services: www.facebook.com
Yard Act will be performing at The Crocodile on Saturday, June 8th.
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The video for the new song "Petroleum" stars Rose Matafeo, New Zealand comedian and creator of "Starstruck.": www.youtube.com
"Stealing kisses from the leprous faces…" What did he say?: genius.com
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The main riff for this song is from "I Can Only Give You Everything" by Them, a Belfast R&B band led by a young Van Morrison in 1965. The drums in the chorus and drum breaks come from Pretty Purdie’s “Soul Drums”.
Enjoy this live version form NYC in 1991: www.youtube.com
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That's "Teenage" Steve Douglas on saxophone.
At the heart of the song is the notion that indigenous people who were forcibly removed from parts of Australia to make way for agriculture and mining should have ownership rights. “It belongs to them, let’s give it back,” Peter Garrett sings with urgency.: ig.ft.com
Royel Otis is playing at The Tractor Tavern on Wednesday, May 22nd.!
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Meet Sydney duo, Royel Otis, the brainchild of Otis Pavlovic and Royel Maddell.: www.10magazine.com.au
The Murlocs performed Live on KEXP at Home in 2021: www.youtube.com
Sleater-Kinney will be playing The Showbox on Tuesday and Wednesday, April 2nd and 3rd.
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"The one feature of 'Little Rope' that makes it stand out from the rest of the band’s work is the pervasive grief that seeps out in the quieter spaces."
Here's a Northwest Public Radio review of Sleater-Kinney's eleventh album, "Little Rope": www.nwpb.org
Portland's Quasi is Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss. Cheryl was the host when they played live in our studio last March.: www.youtube.com
R.I.P., vocalist and drummer Mimi Parker, who died in 2022 at age 53: www.npr.org
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Here's Low performing "Witches" live on KEXP in 2011 - www.youtube.com
Happy Mardi Gras! Have you made/bought your king cake? King cake is a New Orleans tradition that involves a pastry, a tiny plastic baby, and a party! The cake is baked with a tiny plastic baby hidden inside; whoever gets the slice with the baby in it has to host the next party. Oh, here's a recipe: www.allrecipes.com
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It was absolutely wonderful to have the great Aaron Neville in our studio in 2013. Here's that entire performance, which included "Ting A Ling": www.youtube.com
Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue performed "Hurricane Season" live from the Bumbershoot Music Lounge in 2011: www.youtube.com
Laissez le bon temps rouler...
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R.I.P., Malcolm John Rebennack Jr., (Dr. John). born in New Orleans in 1941 and died in New Orleans in 2019: www.rollingstone.com
After a three year hiatus, Goat Girl's third album, "Below The Waste." will be out in June. "ride around" is the first single.
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Vocalist Lottie Pendlebury says of this song, "I was yearning for honesty and authenticity in relationships I held with people, probably partly because at the time, like everyone, we were so isolated from one another. But it also felt deeper than that, like the conversations I dreamt of stripped away all of the etiquettes we desperately clung onto and went below the surface to where the most interesting parts of ourselves tend to be suppressed.”
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See the video: www.youtube.com
LEATHERS is the electro-pop project of Canadian musician and visual artist, Shannon Hemmett (also the keyboardist of acclaimed Vancouver post punk band ACTORS).
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Hemmett comments on the new single: “I’ve been exploring the theme of danger in my writing. Crash is about the literal danger we find ourselves in, but also the tempting and insidious kind of trouble we can get into with the right company.”
The Decemberists are back with their first new music in six years. Colin Meloy describes this song as “a paean to hanging out in graveyards. “The melody hook came to me in a dream and I hummed it into my phone on waking. Most dream-songs are bad; this was the exception.”
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The band's 30-stop U.S. tour concludes with a performance at McMenamins Edgefield in Troutdale, Oregon, on Saturday, August 3rd.
Oh, happy Valentine's Day tomorrow!! Devotchka will be LIVE in our Gathering Space at noon tomorrow! The performance is free and open to all ages. Devotchka will play The Showbox tomorrow night.
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They're playing an intimate set at Easy Street Records tonight (Tuesday, February 13th) at 7:00 p.m. to celebrate the 20th anniversary of "How It Ends": www.facebook.com
Read the story of this experimental band from Livonia, Michigan and its only permanent member, Warren Defever: 4ad.com
The Sea and Cake were formed in the early ‘90s, making a super group of sorts out of drummer John McEntire (of Tortoise and occasional collaboration with Gastr del Sol), guitarist Archer Prewitt (of The Coctails), bassist Eric Claridge, and guitarist and vocalist Sam Prekop (both formerly of Shrimp Boat).: www.allmusic.com
"As a band leader, producer and a multi-instrumentalist, Brittany Howard is in total control of the album's genre-defying odyssey through this thing called life. She has an ear for carving out memorable hooks and sparse chord progressions, these gorgeous moments of interplay between voice and keys that ground the ever-shifting songs (see: 'Samson)."
NPR says "On 'What Now,' Brittany Howard is a virtuoso in pursuit of a flow state": www.npr.org
The Lemon Twigs (brothers Brian and Michael D’Addario) are releasing their newest album less than a year after "Everything Harmony." You can pre-order it right here: thelemontwigs.bandcamp.com
Consisting of the Posies former rhythm section Mike Musburger and Dave Fox, as well as primary songwriters Gavin Guss and Brian Naubert, Tube Top represented a gathering of Seattle power pop veterans.: futuremanrecords.bandcamp.com
Here's a biography of The Model Rockets, formed in Seattle in 1992 and disbanded in 2003: www.allmusic.com
Happy birthday to Peter Gabriel, born on this date in 1950.
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See Peter Gabriel perform this one live in Hamburg last June: www.youtube.com
This gorgeous song by Katherine Paul, a gift to her Indigenous Swinomish, WA community, was selected by Cheryl as a KEXP Song of the Day: www.kexp.org
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Watch this 2023 KEXP live performance which included "Don't Give Up": www.youtube.com
"The Softies are a musical duo, Rose Melberg and Jen Sbragia, known for their minimal approach to pop music. Beginning in 1994, the combo's intent was to be a side project for both artists that has blossomed into a magnificent other."
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thesofties.bandcamp.com
Kara Jackson will be in Seattle, May 4th at the Crocodile!
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Check out this full performance from Kara Jackson from when she was LIVE on KEXP last October, enjoy:
www.youtube.com
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www.karajacksonmusic.com
Per Sampha, the experience of fatherhood heavily influenced his work on his latest album "Lahai".
Sampha will be at The Showbox on April 13th.
Check out this full performance by Sampha, Live on KEXP from 2017:
www.youtube.com
www.sampha.com
Check out the official visualizer for 'Junkies and Rarities' here, enjoy:
www.youtube.com
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"Aspan" is the second full-length from Tel Aviv based group Sababa 5.
sababa5.bandcamp.com
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Straight Outta Tampa, FL
theyhatechange.bandcamp.com
Future Islands will play The Paramount Theatre on Friday, September 13th!
With singular vocalist Samuel T. Herring at the helm, this instantly recognizable outfit continues to deliver almost two decades into their career." www.kexp.org futureislands.bandcamp.com
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www.future-islands.com
Latest from the L.A.-based Canadian dark-waver - trst.bandcamp.com
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Check out full this performance from TR/ST LIVE on KEXP from 2019, enjoy:
www.youtube.com
Shout Out Jatt!
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You can pick up an exclusive LP bundle including the CD, a slipmat, and a clear LP with purple swirl: www.coleminerecords.com --- The trio KILLED with their set from last year- Live in the KEXP Studio: youtu.be
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www.saysheshe.com
saysheshe.bandcamp.com
Kings Go Forth is a 10-member, intergenerational band from Milwaukee Wisconsin. They describe their song as "borrowed from the past to make the soul music of the future."
kingsgoforth.bandcamp.com
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www.luakabop.com
Raised in Cumbria and now based in London, Bryony Jarman-Pinto is an expressive and adventurous singer-songwriter, combining harmonious vocals and mesmerizing jazz-fused melodies with personal and complex lyrics.
bryonyjarman-pinto.bandcamp.com
www.bryonyjarmanpinto.com