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Births
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1943 – Jack Bruce, Scottish singer-songwriter and musician (Cream, Blues Incorporated, The Graham Bond Organisation, and West, Bruce and Laing). D. October 25th, 2014. ✅
1952 – David Byrne, Scottish-American singer-songwriter, musician, producer, and actor (guitarist and vocals for Talking Heads, solo stuff and many many collaborations including Brian Eno and St. Vincent).✅
1962 – Ian Astbury, English singer-songwriter and musician (The Cult).✅
1966 – Mike Inez, American musician and songwriter (bassist for Alice in Chains, Black Label Society, Slash's Snakepit, and Spys4Darwin).✅
1966 - Raphael Saadiq (/səˈdiːk/; born Charles Ray Wiggins; May 14, 1966) is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. He rose to fame as a member of the multiplatinum group Tony! Toni! Toné! In addition to his solo and group career, he has also produced songs for such artists as D'Angelo, TLC, En Vogue, Solange Knowles and John Legend, and many more.
Song ideas: "Keep Marchin'," "Heart Attack," "100 Yard Dash," "Stone Rollin'," "Let's Take A Walk and "Radio." ✅
1971 – Sofia Coppola, American director. ✅
1979 – Dan Auerbach, American guitarist and vocalist for The Black Keys, The Arcs, and his solo stuff.✅
1986 - Madi Diaz is an American singer-songwriter and musician.✅
Deaths
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1998 – Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor (b. December 12, 1915) 82 years old. Died of a heart attack✅
2015 – Blues singer, guitarist, and producer B.B. King,"The King of Blues" dies at age 82.✅
Events
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1832 - German composer Felix Mendelssohn's "The Hebrides Overture" also known as "Fingal's Cave" is premiered in London.✅
1969 – Neil Young releases his album "Everybody Knows This is Nowhere", the first with his backing band Crazy Horse and featuring the amazing "Cinnamon Girl" ✅
1977 - Heart release their album Little Queen featuring "Barracuda" and “Kick It Out” ✅
1982 – The Clash release their album "Combat Rock" ✅
1990 - The Charlatans release the single "The Only One I Know" from the album Some Friendly. ✅
1991 - Ice-T releases his fourth studio album "O.G. Original Gangster". ✅
1991 - Primus' major label debut (and eventual commercial breakthrough), Sailing the Seas of Cheese, is released. The album spawns the alt-rock classics "Jerry Was a Race Car Driver," "Tommy the Cat," and "Those Damned Blue-Collar Tweekers." ✅
1991 - De La Soul release De La Soul Is Dead ✅
2001 – Depeche Mode release their album "Exciter" in the UK (US release date is the next day, May 15).✅
2001 – R.E.M. release their album "Reveal"✅
2002 - El-P released Fantastic Damage. ✅
2002 - Automaton release Clarions And Banners ✅
2002 – Weezer release their album "Maladroit"✅
2002 - Girls Against Boys release You Can't Fight What You Can't See ✅
2002 - Moby releases 18. ✅
2013 - Vampire Weekend release Modern Vampires of the City.✅
2013 - Small Black release Limits of Desire. ✅
2021 - St. Vincent releases Daddy's Home. ✅
SUNNY DAY REAL ESTATE TICKETS
KEXP would like to send you and a friend to see Sunny Day Real Estate at The Showbox on August 20th, an all ages event. WHEN JOHN ASKS YOU, NOT BEFORE, TEXT SUNNY to 206-903-KEXP (5397) for your chance to win.
(September 7, 1948 – May 9, 2024)
Dennis “Machine Gun” Thompson, the longtime drummer of Detroit proto-punk band MC5 has died. He was 75 years old.
Thompson was born Dennis Tomich in Detroit in 1948. He began playing drums at the age of nine. Joining the MC5 in 1965, he was later given the nickname "Machine Gun" because of his "assault" style of fast, hard-hitting drumming that sonically resembles the sound of his namesake Thompson machine gun (aka "Tommy Gun").
His influences include Elvin Jones of John Coltrane's quartet, The Who’s Keith Moon and Mitch Mitchell of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, and Motown.
Earlier this year, MC5’s lead guitarist and co-founder, Wayne Kramer, died of pancreatic cancer. Before his death, Dennis “Machine Gun” Thompson was the last surviving member of MC5. The band will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame later this year.
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THERE MAY BE SOME FUTURE IN HISTORY
Births
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1941 – Ritchie Valens, Mexican-American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. February 3, 1959) 17 years old.✅
1950 – Stevie Wonder (Stevland Judkins) American singer-songwriter, musician, producer, and activist.✅
1950 – Danny Kirwan, guitar and singer-songwriter for Fleetwood Mac from 1968-72.✅
1951 – Paul Thompson, English drummer (Roxy Music and Concrete Blonde).✅
1964 – Stephen Colbert, American comedian, writer, and actor.✅
1966 – Alison Goldfrapp, English singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Goldfrapp).✅
1968 – PMD, American rapper (EPMD). ✅
1969 - Dan Hoerner is an American guitarist, vocalist and author. He is known for being the lead guitarist and backing vocalist of the Seattle-based band Sunny Day Real Estate. ✅
1977 - Pusha T. ✅
Deaths
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1988 - Jazz trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker dies at age 58 after falling from a second floor window at a hotel in Amsterdam, Netherlands. An autopsy reveals traces of heroin and cocaine in his body, and the death is ruled an accident.✅
2012 – Donald "Duck" Dunn, American bass player, songwriter, producer, and actor (Booker T. & the M.G.'s, The Blues Brothers, and The Mar-Keys) (b. November 24, 1941) 70 years old.✅
Events
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1938 – Louis Armstrong and his Orchestra record "When the Saints Go Marching In" bringing the hymn to the general public and establishing it as a jazz standard.✅
1970 – The Beatles documentary Let It Be is released in New York City.✅
1977 - Donna Summer releases I Remember Yesterday featuring “I Feel Love.” ✅
1981 - Filmmaker James Szalapski releases his Outlaw Country documentary Heartworn Highways. The film follows numerous musicians, including David Allan Coe, Charlie Daniels, Steve Earle, Guy Clark, and Townes Van Zandt.✅
1985 – New Order release their album Low-Life. ✅
1985 - The Cult release the single "She Sells Sanctuary" from their second album Love. ✅
1985 - The Cult release "She Sells Sanctuary", the first single from their second studio album "Love". ✅
1994 - The single "Black Hole Sun" is released as the second single off Soundgarden's album Superunknown.✅
2002 - Moby releases 18, his sixth studio album (NOTE: it was released on May 13, 2002 by Mute Records in the UK and on May 14, 2002 by V2 Records.✅
2011 - Moby releases Destroyed Electronic.✅
2011 - Austra releases Feel It Break.✅
2016 - Chance the Rapper releases his Coloring Book mixtape featuring "Blessings" and "Summer Friends." ✅
2017 - Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio record Live at KEXP! at Little London Plane during Upstream Music Fest. The album is later released in 2018. ✅
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John's Fav Songs on a Flight Home After a Funeral in The UK
in order 1-147
Pixies “Where is My MInd”
The Waterboys “This is the Sea”
Talking Heads “This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)”
Joy Division “Love Will Tear Us Apart”
David Bowie “Heroes”
Sigur Ros “Hoppipolla”
The Cure “Plainsong”
U2 “With Or Without You”
Talking Heads “Once in a Lifetime (from Stop Making Sense)”
Sugar “Hoover Dam”
Radiohead “Karma Police”
PJ Harvey “You Said Something”
The Rolling Stones “She’s a Rainbow”
Tears for Fears “Everybody Wants to Rule the World”
LCD Soundsystem “Someone Great’
Kate Bush “Running Up that Hill”
The The “This is the Day”
Mint Royale “Show Me”
Depeche Mode “Enjoy the Silence”
New Order “Your Silent Face”
David Bowie “Ashes to Ashes”
PIxies “Gigantic”
REM “Belong”
Public Enemy “Fight the Power”
New Order “Love Vigilantes”
Stevie Wonder “Superstition”
David Bowie “Life On Mars?”
U2 “Red Hill Mining Town”
Joy Division “Transmission”
Pixies “Debaser”
New Order “Age of Consent”
Queen “Under Pressure”
Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash “Girl From the North Country”
Sinead O Connor “I Am Stretched On Your Grave”
The Stone Roses “I Wanna Be Adored”
M83 “Outro”
The Cure “Just LIke Heaven”
Ride “Vapour Trail”
Quivers “You’re Not Always on My Mind”
The Church “Under the Milky Way”
Fleetwood Mac “Dreams”
Lea Porcelain “I am Ok”
New Radicals “You Get What You Give”
James “Sometimes”
Massive Attack “Teardrop”
U2 “Bad”
The Kinks “Celluloid Heroes”
Pink Floyd “Fearless”
Screaming Trees “Butterfly”
Depeche Mode “Never Let Me Down Again”
Echo & The Bunnymen “The Killing Moon”
Siouxsie and the Banshees “Kiss Them For Me”
Jane’s Addiction “Jane Says”
Sigur Ros “Med Sud I Eyrum”
Beatles “Tomorrow Never Knows”
The Cure “Pictures of You”
JAMC “Just Like Honey”
The Velvet Underground “Sweet Jane”
De La Soul “Eye Know”
Japandroids “The House that Heaven Built”
Pearl Jam “Alive”
Ned's Atomic Dustbin “Grey Cell Green”
INXS “Don’t Change”
Oasis “Wonderwall”
Prince “Raspberry Beret”
The Clash “Police On My Back”
Duran Duran “The Chauffeur”
The Cars “Since You’re Gone”
Echo and the Bunnymen “Bring on the Dancing Horses”
Pixies “Wave of Mutilation (UK Surf)”
Cowboy Junkies “Sweet Jane”
James “Getting Away With it”
Buffalo Tom “Larry”
The Clash “Should I Stay or Should I Go”
Stranglers “Golden Brown”
The Smiths “How Soon is Now”
Ennio Morricone “The Good, The Bad and Ugly”
Prince “Take Me With You”
Love and Rockets “No New Tale To Tell”
Talk Talk “It’s My Life”
NIN “Head like a Hole”
Sisters of Mercy “This Corrosion”
The Replacements “I Will Dare”
Psych Furs “Love My Way”
Peter Murphy “Cuts You Up”
The Godfathers “Work, School, Birth Death”
Pet Shop Boys “West End Girls”
Elbow “One Day Like This”
Bob Marley “Three Little Birds”
Queen “Bohemian Rhapsody/Radio Ga Ga”
Shawn Smith “Wrapped in my Memory”
Death Cab For Cutie “Sound of Settling”
David Bowie “Changes”
Radiohead “Let Down”
The Verve “Lucky Man”
Tom Petty “Wildflowers”
Lou Reed “Perfect Day”
Robert Earl Keen “Feeling Good Again”
The La’s “There She Goes”
TV on the Radio “Trouble”
The Reindeer Section “you are my joy”
Johnny Cash “Folsom Prison Blues”
Tones on Tail “Go”
Simon and Garfunkel “The Boxer”
World Party “Ship of Fools”
Suzanne Vega and DNA “Tom’s Diner”
Yeah Yeah Yeahs “Hysteric”
Snow Patrol “Run”
The Prayers and Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers - Lisa
Prince and the Revolution “When Doves Cry”
Throwing Muses “Not Too Soon”
The Wrens “This Boy is Exhausted”
Sunny Day Real Estate “In Circles”
Nick Drake “Pink Moon”
Cat Stevens “Moonshadow”
Spiritualized “Ladies and Gentlemen…”
The Cars “Drive”
Cinematic Orchestra “To Build A Home”
Smashing Pumpkins “I am One”
Kate Bush “Hounds of Love”
The Cure “Boys Don’t Cry”
Sky Cries Mary “Shipwrecked”
Blur “Song 2”
The Beatles “A Day in the Life”
Peter Gabriel “In Your Eyes”
The Lightning Seeds “Pure”
Catherine Wheel “Crank”
The Waterboys “The Whole of the Moon”
Underworld “Born Slippy”
Billy Idol “Eyes Without a Face”
Dead Can Dance “The Ubiquitous Mr Lovegrove”
Jane’s Addiction “Classic Girls”
Billy Bragg and Wilco “California Stars”
Harvey Danger “Little Round Mirrors”
Bob Dylan “Like a Rolling Stone”
David Bowie “Let’s Dance”
Fleetwood Mac “Tusk”
INXS “Need You Tonight/Mediate”
U2 “Where the Streets Have No Name”
TMBG “Ana Ng”
Built To Spill “In the Morning”
House of Love “I Don’t Know Why I Love You”
English Beat “Save it For Later”
Pixies “Bone Machine”
Stevie Nicks “Stand Back”
James “We’re Going To Miss You (Orchestral Version)”
Cut Copy “So Haunted”
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Susie Tennant's daugther Ella Swenson, husband Chris, Dow Constantine, Marco Collins, and John Richard plus Dow holding the Susie proclamation
SUB POP CEO MEGAN JASPER ON SUSIE TENNANT
Susie Tennant was a giver. That was her deal, she helped people. When Doug Pray was working on the Hype! documentary, she told him who to speak to. She helped me put together a resume when it seemed like the most daunting task in the world. Last week, a colleague asked me if I had a moment to talk about a keynote speech that she was doing about mentors and role models. She asked to pick my brain because Igave the same speech last year. When I opened my notebook to go through last year's notes, my heart melted. There was Susie,front and center, on my very short list. With all of the things that I learned from her, be kind, don't talk shit, we are always stronger together. How fucking lucky were we to have had Susie in our lives. Let's all walk in her footsteps and do some good in the world. I'm certain that we will feel her smile.
STEPH FAIRWEATHER SHARES THIS NOTE ON SUSIE
"Little known fact: Susie helped promote Mother Love Bone early on at Seattle University District Tower Records! It's "little known" because a total of about 8 people were in the store at their record release promo day including staff and band girlfriends! Susie didn't care, she just bopped around chatting up the band and cracking Artie Fufkin Spinal Tap jokes. Susie's enthusiasm and fun-ness made the best of a bust day, and well, soon more people got to know about this band!
We love you dearly Susie."
AN ADVENTURE IN NYC, 1989
Ella mentioned that Susie always sang Brown-eyed Girl to her. On a whirlwind 5 day trip to NYC in December 1989, Susie invited myself and our friend Nikki to share her hotel room at the Chelsea Hotel while she was there on business with Geffen. True to form, it was a whirlwind of fun with Susie seamlessly juggling work and play. We were watching a guy in a bar doing Van Morrison songs. He started to sing Moondance and she quickly and deftly corrected him to play Brown-Eyed Girl for her. She hated Moondance. He didn't quite know what had happened, but he had experienced the positive whirlwind that was Susie. What a gal!
Jane
THERE'S NOT FUTURE IN HISTORY - FRIDAY, FEB 23
Births
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1685 - German-English baroque composer George Frideric Handel is born in Halle, Duchy of Magdeburg, in modern day Germany. ✅
1868 – W. E. B. Du Bois, American civil rights leader (d. August 27, 1963) 95 years old ✅
1948 – Steve Priest, British bass, co-vocalist, (Sweet) ✅
1955 - Howard Jones is born in Southampton, England. ✅
1958 - David Sylvian is an English singer-songwriter and musician who came to prominence in the late 1970s as frontman of the band Japan. ✅
1963 – Rob Collins, keyboards with The Charlatans (d. July 22, 1996 age 33) ✅
1967 – Chris Vrenna, Grammy-winning producer, engineer, worked with Tweaker, Nine Inch Nails, Rammstein, U2, Weezer, David Bowie, The Smashing Pumpkins, Hole, Marilyn Manson and the Japanese rock band Dir en grey. ✅
1973 – Olaf Lasse Johansson, Swedish keyboardist (The Cardigans) ✅
1975 - Sabina Sciubba (singer, Brazilian Girls). ✅
1994 - Little Simz, (real name Simbiatu 'Simbi' Abisola Abiola Ajikawo) ✅
Deaths
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2003 – Howie Epstein, bassist with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers died of a suspected drug overdose in New Mexico. He had replaced The Heartbreakers original bassist Ron Blair, Epstein also worked with Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Stevie Nicks, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins, Linda Ronstadt and Del Shannon. ✅
Events
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1940 – Folk singer Woody Guthrie writes one of his best-known songs, "This Land is Your Land." Guthrie wrote the lyrics to 'This Land Is Your Land' in his room at the Hanover House Hotel in New York City. The song was brought back to life in the 1960s, when several artists of the new folk movement, including Bob Dylan, The Kingston Trio, Trini Lopez, Jay and the Americans, and The New Christy Minstrels all recorded versions, inspired by its political message. ✅
-> http://www.npr.org/2000/07/03/1076186/this-land-is-your-land
1974 – David Bowie's 'Rebel Rebel' single first charted in the UK, eventually reaching No.5 the following month. Originally written for an aborted Ziggy Stardust musical in late 1973, 'Rebel Rebel' was Bowie's last single in the glam rock style that had been his trademark. It was also his first hit since 1969 not to feature lead guitarist Mick Ronson; Bowie himself played guitar on this track. ✅
1988 - Biz Markie releases Goin' Off featuring classics like "The Vapors" and "Pickin' Boogers."
"The Vapors" Contains samples of 1 song "Papa Don't Take No Mess" by James Brown (1974) and was sampled in 92 songs including
-A Penny for My Thoughts by Common (1992)
-All the Places by Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth (1994)
-Take You There by Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth (1994)
-Putting Shame in Your Game by Beastie Boys (1998)
-Dial 7 (Axioms of Creamy Spies) by Digable Planets (1994)
-Mister Cee's Master Plan by Big Daddy Kane (1988)
-Dewitt to Do It by J Dilla (2013)
and a whole bunch more.
https://www.whosampled.com/Biz-Markie/Vapors/sampled/ ✅
1993 – Naughty by Nature, released their third album, "19 Naughty III" featuring “Hip Hop Hooray” which contains samples of "Funky President" by James Brown, "Don't Change Your Love" by Five Stairsteps, "Make Me Say it Again, Girl" by Isley Brothers, "You Can't Turn Me Away" by Sylvia Striplin and "Sledgehammer" by Peter Gabriel.✅
1999 - The Roots release Things Fall Apart. Featuring "You Got Me". ✅
1999 - Sleater-Kinney release The Hot Rock. ✅
1999 - TLC's third album, FanMail, is released featuring "No Scrubs" ✅
1999 - Sleater-Kinney released the album 'The Hot Rock' ✅
2010 - Shearwater release The Golden Archipelago ✅
2011 – The Obama administration said it would no longer defend the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act, a federal law banning recognition of same-sex marriage. ✅
2015 - Public Service Broadcasting released The Race for Space. ✅
2018 - Mint Field release Pasar de las Luces. ✅
It’s hard to write this but my dear friend, brother in music, the man who started Loveless Records with me one drunken night at the Crocodile has died. With a heavy heart, the legend, Michael Hukin died from a brain aneurysm.
He was one of a kind. Wicked humor, impeccable taste in music, always in black but a heart of gold. He will always be one of my favorite music writers and someone who didn’t back down. He was one of those friends that understood you without explaining yourself, he cared deeply for me and my sister and reached out right after she died to say he had lost a sister. Well, today I lost a brother.
I love you man. I’m so happy we saw each other when I was in the UK. I loved your emails each week while you listened to the show. My heart goes out to your loved ones, especially the one who found you again, and you, her….he is irreplaceable.
Listen to the show below.
