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WEDNESDAY - EVIE SAVES OUR BACON...
...err, Seitan #VeganDadJokes. Seriously, we curated ourselves into a cul-de-sac and Evie got us out through the powers of LCD Soundsystem and Nation of Language! She was AMAZING to hang with and create this incredible unique show in celebrating Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament!
TUESDAY WITH KEVIN SUR
That time DJ Kevin Sur joined us for six degrees of Stone Gossard (Pearl Jam/Brad) on KEXP and it was as awesome! How did we get from Fugazi to We Are The World? Click the link to find out! CLICK HERE TO LISTEN
MONDAY WITH SIR KEVIN COLE
We celebrated six degrees of Mike McCready (Pearl Jam, Mad Season, etc.) on KEXP with our pal Kevin Cole this morning. Listen to find out how we get from Mad Season (featuring Chris Cornell) to Black Keys with a stop along the way to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the launch of Space Ghost Coast to Coast. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN
I should suspend myself for that dad joke. Anyhooo....
MAGGIE ROGERS: 2024 TOUR DATES OF NOTE
Maggie Rogers‘ third album, Don’t Forget Me, comes out TODAY and she just announced a North American tour including stops in some of our favorite places like...
A SKETCH FROM RYAN IN RHODE ISLAND
THERE'S NO FUTURE IN HISTORY
Births
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1932 – Tiny Tim (born Herbert Buckingham Khaury), American singer, ukulele player, and archivist (d. November 30, 1996 age 64) ✅
1940 – Herbie Hancock, American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer ✅
1944 - John Kay (born Joachim Fritz Krauledat) is a German-born American[a] rock singer, songwriter and guitarist known as the frontman of Steppenwolf. Kay was born in East Prussia, Germany (now Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia). His father Fritz was killed a month before Kay was born. In early 1945, Kay's mother fled with him from the advancing Soviet troops during the evacuation of East Prussia in harsh winter conditions. Their train got stuck near Arnstadt, which was first occupied by the Americans, but then became part of the East German Soviet occupation zone. In 1949, they crossed the already-fortified border to resettle in Hanover, West Germany. Now living in the British occupation zone, the young Joachim, who had eye problems and could not speak or understand English, was first inspired by and learned about rock 'n' roll music while listening to Little Richard on U.S. Armed Forces radio. ✅
1958 – Will Sergeant, English guitarist (Echo & the Bunnymen and Electrafixion) ✅
1961 – Lisa Gerrard, Australian singer, musician, and composer (Dead Can Dance) ✅
1963 - Wanda Dee (born Lawanda McFarland) is an American hip hop artist.✅
1964 – Amy Ray, American singer-songwriter (Indigo Girls) ✅
1965 - Sarah Cracknell, English singer-songwriter and lead singer of Saint Etienne. ✅
1967 – Mellow Man Ace (born Ulpiano Sergio Reyes), Cuban-American rapper (Cypress Hill) ✅
1967 – Sarah Cracknell, English singer-songwriter of Saint Etienne. ✅
1978 – Guy Berryman, bassist for Coldplay ✅
1987 – Brendon Urie, American singer-songwriter and musician (Panic at the Disco) ✅
Deaths
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2017 - Comedian Charlie Murphy (Chapelle Show), Eddie Murphy's brother, passed away at 57-years old. B. July 12, 1959
Events
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1961 – Ray Charles won four Grammy awards, including Best Male Vocal Performance for "Georgia On My Mind" ✅
1966 - Frank Sinatra releases the single "Strangers in the Night" from the album Strangers in the Night. ✅
1971 – The Jackson 5 release their album "Maybe Tomorrow" ✅
1971 – Stevie Wonder releases his album "Where I'm Coming From" ✅
1973 - Stevie Wonder appears on Sesame Street performing "Superstition" and a song called "1, 2, 3 Sesame Street." Both are great. ✅
1975 – David Bowie announces his second career retirement. "'I've rocked my roll. It's a boring dead end, there will be no more rock 'n' roll records from me" ✅
1983 – R.E.M. released their debut album "Murmur" ✅
1985 – Louie Louie Day is held in Olympia, the first state to hold this now international holiday. WA almost made this Richard Berry song the state song, which is one of the most recorded rock songs of all time. (Berry received little compensation for his songwriting until the 1980s, as he had sold the rights to the song in 1959 at the price of $750 to pay for his wedding. A settlement was finally reached out of court in the mid 1980s after the company California Cooler wanted to use the song in a drinks commercial.) ✅
1988 – Neil Young releases his album "This Note's For You" ✅
1988 - Boogie Down Productions released their sophomore album By All Means Necessary. ✅
1994 – Hole release their album "Live Through This." It was released by DGC Records on April 12, 1994, one week after frontwoman Courtney Love's husband, Kurt Cobain, died in their home. It is the only Hole album to feature bassist Kristen Pfaff before her death in June 1994. ✅
2005 – The National released their album "Alligator" ✅
2011 – Foo Fighters release their album "Wasting Light" ✅
2011 – Paul Simon releases his album "So Beautiful or So What" ✅
2011 - Vivian Girls release Share The Joy ✅
2013 - Yeah Yeah Yeahs release Mosquito. ✅
2019 - The Chemical Brothers release "No Geography." ✅
2019 - The Black Tones release Cobain & Cornbread ✅
2019 Fontaine's D.C. release Dogrel ✅
2019 - Anderson .Paak releases Ventura featuring "Come Home" w/ André 3000) ✅=======
John’s Top Albums of March of 2024
1. Pixies - Surfer Rosa 13
2. Middle Kids - Faith Crisis Pt 1 5
3. Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band - BRSB 4
4. Salt Cathedral - Before It’s Gone 4
5. Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven 4
6. GHLOW - Levitate 4
7. The Waterboys - This Is the Sea 4
8. Sleater‐Kinney - Little Rope 4
9. IDLES - TANGK 4
10. Chalk - Conditions II 3
11. Depeche Mode - Violator 3
12. Ride - Interplay 3
13. Pillow Queens - Name Your Sorrow 3
14. Yard Act - Where’s My Utopia? 3
15. Iron & Wine - Light Verse 3
16. Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us 3
17. The Black Keys - Ohio Players 3
18. St. Vincent - All Born Screaming 3
19. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Glasgow Eyes 3
20. Sinéad O’Connor - I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got 3
21. Brimheim - RATKING 3
22. Ducks Ltd. - Harm’s Way 3
23. Sugar - Copper Blue 3
24. English Teacher - This Could Be Texas 3
25. Kate Bush - Hounds of Love 3
26. U2 - The Joshua Tree 3
(A whole bunch played twice after this)
John’s Top Played Songs March 2024
1. Iron & Wine - All in Good Time 3
2. Salt Cathedral - Terminal Woes 3
3. English Teacher - R&B 3
4. Chalk - Bliss 3
5. Brimheim - No Liver, No Lungs 3
6. St. Vincent - Broken Man 3
7. The Black Keys - This Is Nowhere 3
(A whole bunch played twice after this)
GET TO KNOW LOCAL BAND BYLAND...
...who have just released their new album Heavy For A While. KEXP music director Chris Sanley writes "The new album from Seattle’s Byland is a dynamic, intimate folk-rock record with beautifully layered guitar, strings, keys and pedal steel to carry Alie’s gorgeous vocals that saunter atop the arrangements, taking their rightful place in the spotlight. With weighted emotional lyricism and haunting soundscapes, Heavy For A While leaves a lasting impression."
Seattle Shows: May 9 @ The Crocodile + May 16 @ Fisherman’s Village (Everett)
The Most Played Fool Songs on KEXP
THERE'S NO FUTURE IN HISTORY
Did you now that in 2001 The National Museum of American History named April as Jazz Appreciation Month (fondly known as "JAM"). Well now you do.
Births
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1939 – Rudolph Isley, American singer-songwriter and is one of the founding members of The Isley Brothers. ✅
1945 – John Barbata (drummer for The Turtles, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Jefferson Airplane-for its final album and tour only- and Jefferson Starship) ✅
1947 - "M" (real name Robin Edmond Scott) is an English singer best known for his 1979 hit "Pop Muzik." Shooby dooby doo wop. Pop pop...ahem. ✅
1949 - Gil Scott-Heron (April 1, 1949 – May 27, 2011) was an American soul and jazz poet, musician, and author, known primarily for his work as a spoken-word performer in the 1970s and 1980s. ✅
1958 – D. Boon, American musician (Minutemen and The Reactionaries) (d. December 22, 1985, age 27.) ✅
1971 - Boots Riley (Raymond Lawrence ) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, rapper, and communist activist. He is the lead vocalist of The Coup and Street Sweeper Social Club. He made his feature-film directorial debut with Sorry to Bother You (released July 2018), which he also wrote. ✅
1972 – Jesse Tobias, American guitarist (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Morrissey, and Splendid) ✅
1988 - Sub Pop Records. ✅
Deaths
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1984 – Marvin Gaye, American singer, songwriter and record producer who helped to shape the sound of Motown in the 1960s. (The Moonglows) (b. April 2, 1939) 44 years old ✅
1992 – Nigel Preston (drummer for The Cult) died, age 28. (b. April 4 1963) ✅
2004 – Paul Atkinson (guitarist for The Zombies) died, age 58. (b. March 19 1946) He was also an A&R exec for RCA and Columbia, signing acts such as ABBA, Bruce Hornsby, Mr. Mister, Judas Priest, and Michael Penn ✅
Events
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1962 - Ray Charles releases Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music ✅
1964 – Marvin Gaye released 'When I'm Alone I Cry' ✅
1966 – David Bowie released his first single, "Do Anything You Say" as David Bowie, having previously gone by David Jones and the Lower Third. (B Side was "Good Morning Girl") ✅
1970 - The Joni Mitchell album Ladies Of The Canyon, with the songs "Big Yellow Taxi" and "The Circle Game," is released.✅
1986 – Book of Love released "Book of Love". ✅
1987 - Public Enemy released their debut album Yo! Bum Rush The Show.✅
1989 - Dramarama released the album Stuck in Wonderamaland ✅
1989 - EPMD released their second album Unfinished Business ✅
1990 – The Afghan Wigs released "Up In It" on Sub Pop. ✅
1991 - Ned's Atomic Dustbin release God Fodder ✅
1991 - School of Fish release their eponymous debut album, featuring their lone hit "3 Strange Days."✅
1994 - The Roots released the EP From The Ground Up.✅
2002 - Mclusky release Mclusky Do Dallas ✅
2002 – Simple Minds released "Cry" ✅
2003 - Liam Lynch releases Fake Songs featuring "United States of Whatever". ✅
2003 – The White Stripes released "Elephant" ✅
2008 – R.E.M. released "Accelerate" ✅
2008 - The Black Keys release Attack & Release.✅
2013 - The Flaming Lips release The Terror.✅
2013 - British Sea Power release Machineries of Joy.✅
2014 – Cloud Nothings release the album Here and Nowhere Else featuring "I'm Not a Part of Me" ✅
2014 – Mac Demarco releases the album Salad Days featuring "Blue Boy" ✅
2016 – Tacocat release "Lost Time." ✅
2020 - Dolly Parton makes a $1 million donation to the Vanderbilt University Medical Center to help fund research for a coronavirus vaccine. ✅
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THERE'S NO FUTURE IN HISTORY
Births
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1918 – Pearl Bailey, American actress and singer. (d. in 1990 age 72) ✅
1940 – Ray Davis, American singer and musician in The Parliaments, Parliament, and Funkadelic. (d. in 2005 age 65) ✅
1943 – Eric Idle, Actor/ Comedian with "Monty Python" ✅
1944 - Terry Jacks, Canadian singer, songwriter, guitarist and record producer known for his 1974 hit song "Seasons in the Sun", which was originally written by Belgian composer and singer Jacques Brel in 1961. ✅
1949 – Dave Greenfield, English keyboardist for The Stranglers (D. May 3 2020) ✅
1956 – Patty Donahue, lead singer for The Waitresses. (d. December 9, 1996 age 40 of lung cancer.) ✅
1959 – Perry Farrell (born Peretz Bernstein) American singer and musician for Jane's Addiction, Porno for Pyros, Psi com, and Satellite Party and founder of the US 'Lollapalooza' tours. ✅
1965 - Bernard Georges, best known for his bass guitar work in Throwing Muses and 50 Foot Wave. ✅
1983 – Luiza Sá, Brazilian guitarist for Cansei de Ser Sexy (CSS) ✅
1983 – Jamie Woon, British singer, songwriter and producer ✅
1989 - Michelle Zauner, Korean - American singer, songwriter, guitarist of Japanese Breakfast ✅
Events
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1973 – The Jackson 5 release their album 'Skywriter' ✅
1975 – Jeff Beck released his first solo album, Blow by Blow. ✅
1975 - Led Zeppelin becomes the first band in history to have six entries on the Billboard Albums chart at once. Their latest release, Physical Graffiti, is at #1, with their previous five albums also on the chart: Led Zeppelin IV (#83), House of the Holy (#92), Led Zeppelin II (#104), Led Zeppelin (#116) and Led Zeppelin III (#124).✅
1979 - Supertramp release Breakfast in America.✅
1986 – Austrian singer Falco started a three-week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Rock Me Amadeus'. Falco became the first German speaking artist to achieve a No.1 on the US charts. ✅
1988 - DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince released their second studio album He’s The DJ, I’m The Rapper ✅
1993 – The Kinks release their final album 'Phobia' ✅
1993 – Suede released their debut, self-titled album ✅
1994-- The soundtrack to the movie, "The Crow," was released.✅
1999 - Mogwai release Come On Die Young. ✅
2004 - Prince releases Musicology. ✅
2005 - Beck releases Guero. ✅
2007 – U2 singer Bono receives honorary knighthood, but cannot be called Sir, as he is not a British citizen. Instead, his title is Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (KBE) ✅
2010 - Das Racist release Shut Up, Dude featuring the CLASSIC "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell" ✅
2019 - Marvin Gaye's You're the Man is posthumously released, originally intended to be released in 1972 as the follow-up to What's Going On. ✅
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SOMESURPRISES LIVE ON THE MORNING SHOW
We could not be more excited to have local dream pop heroes somesurprises play LIVE on KEXP Mon. Apr. 22 at 9:30AM. They are TRULY a GREAT live band who build trance sets via dream pop...does that even make sense? Here's what they say about their forthcoming album (which we have heard and think is EXCELLENT), out April 19th via Doom Trip Records.
"The return of somesurprises takes the form of Perseids, a full length LP, and their first new music in 5 years. More than just a memorable record, it is unquestionably the band’s finest moment. Led by founding member Natasha El-Sergany, Perseids is not a reinvention of the group’s sound, it is the perfecting of it. Within seconds of album opener “Be Reasonable,” El-Sergany’s rich, commanding vocal arrives, galactic in size and unearthly in nature."
WHOA, ANOTHER SURPRISE IN OUR INBOX...NEW DROP NINETEENS
Drop Nineteens released their first album in 30-years last year with Hard Light, and it was excellent. Today these bi-coastal shoegaze heroes have announced a reissue of their classic debut Delaware and sharing a new song called “Nest.”
Frontman Greg Ackell says this new song "was originally intended to either open or close our album Hard Light. When we realized we had a better opener and closer, we were unable to find the right place for it on the album. (I)’s the the last song Drop Nineteens will be releasing for a while, or perhaps ever, because you know, you never know… The ruminative lyrics make it well suited for this position."
A portion of proceeds from the new edition will go to Artists for Action to Prevent Gun Violence.
SHOWS
04/17 – Washington, DC @ The Atlantis w/ Greg Mendez
04/18 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer w/ Hotline TNT
04/19 – Boston, MA @ The Paradise w/ Greg Mendez
04/20 – Brooklyn, NYC @ Warsaw w/ Greg Mendez
04/24 – Oakland, CA @ New Parish w/ Winter
04/25 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Balasco w/ Winter
TICKET GIVES ARE IN THE (DEAR GOD FORGIVE ME) IN THE AIR TONIGHT
KEXP would like to send you and a friend to see Air play Moon Safari at Benaroya Hall on Friday September 27th, an All ages event. TEXT MOON to 206-903-5397 for your chance to win.
OTHER GREAT, LOCAL STUFF WE ARE EXCITED ABOUT
TV Star & Spiral XP “Space Person” check this banger out, here from this Seattle supergroup. See them live Apr 29 at the Sunset Tavern with KEXP favs Versing.
Black Nite Crash "Electric" from their latest Signal to Noise and check `em out at the Sunset Tavern on June 13th.
WHAT'S HAPPENING AT KEXP TODAY...WHOA
At 11 AM, on The Mid Day Show w/ Cheryl Waters she premieres a new song from Seattle band Warren Dunes called “Take the Train.” That new song comes off the band’s upcoming album ‘Aquamarine,’ set to release on May 17th. Plus, HEALTH LIVE on KEXP AND Open to Public AND AND AND
Ticket Give - Air on Friday, September 27th at Benaroya Hall.
Then on “DRIVE TIME” w/ Kevin Cole - Tune in, turn up at 5pm! Get ready for it! Prepare for the blistering heat! Kevin is delighted to share the world’s first play of “I Can Do Better” by Thunderpussy. The brand new album comes out in early May.
SHOWS IN KEXP LAND
Seattle
DakhaBrakha at The Moore Theater
HEALTH LIVE on KEXP 12p
HEALTH at Showbox Market
KMFDM at The Crocodile
Ladysmith Black Mambazo at Neptune Theater
San Fran
Bruce Springsteen - Chase Center
DeVotchKa - Great American Music Hall
Portland
Hurray for the Riff Raff - Aladdin Theater,
NYC
Khruangbin @ Bowery Ballroom
POWERFUL LISTENER REQUESTS TODAY
Jessi (North Seattle)
I was standing in my kitchen, crying, and feeding my dogs. I knew what I had to do: turn on KEXP. You've long been my ever reliable source of comfort when I am in the thick of it all. I am not just sad but also heartbroken, having finally decided, last night, that I had to end a relationship with someone who proved to be unable to love me in return. I feel simultaneously shattered & empowered. As soon as I turned on KEXP, all I heard was John say, "I'm proud of you." I just wanted say thank you from the bottom of my heart because until I heard him say that, I didn't realize that .. I AM PROUD OF ME, TOO. I burst into tears, a sense of relief washed over me in that moment. If you've got time for it.. I'd like to request Joy Division's, "Love Will Tear Us Apart." Thanks for everything you guys.
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Morning John & Owen! I'm on my way to SF right now to:
1. Spread the good news of KEXP to music lovers down in the Bay
and
2. See Bruce Springsteen live in concert tonight with one of my oldest and best friends. We grew up in NJ together and have seen Bruce 3 times together over the years.
Will you send one out to Billy in the Bay? Maybe one of your Bruce faves.
Thank you! 🤘
Meghan in NE Seattle
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Morning!
My uncle Chuckie Betz passed this past September and today is his birthday- he would have been 73 today.
He was an amazing and generous spirit that lived his life boldly and without compromise. He had an incredible wit and style that left an impression on everyone he met. He is dearly missed.
He spent several years in San Francisco, prominently involved in the 70s LGBTQ scene - working at iconic gay bar The Stud, creating art, and just generally living it up! Now that KEXP broadcasts out there, I thought it would be great to honor his legacy with one of his favorite artists - David Bowie. “Heroes” would be great.
He was interviewed for a podcast (see below) and that picture is of him - just to give you a flavor of his incredible self.
Thank you!
Nicole
THERE'S NO FUTURE IN HISTORY
Births
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1945 – Chuck Portz, original bass guitarist for The Turtles ✅
1965 – Steve Turner, guitarist (Mudhoney, Green River, Mr. Epp and the Calculations) ✅
1966 – Cheryl James, American rapper and actress (Salt-n-Pepa) ✅
1968 - Bill Barbot, guitarist, singer Jawbox. ✅
1968 – Jon Lee, Welsh drummer (The Darling Buds, Feeder, Raindancer) (d. 7 January 2002) ✅
1969 - James Atkin, guitar and vocals with British dance music/rock band EMF who had the 1990 UK No.3 & US No.1 single 'Unbelievable'. Their debut album, Schubert Dip, went to No.3 on the UK albums chart.✅
1974 - Mystic (Mandolyn Wind Ludlum), is an American singer and rapper from the San Francisco Bay Area. ✅
1976 – Dave Keuning, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Killers) ✅
1986 – Lady Gaga (born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta), American singer and songwriter ✅
Deaths
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1958 – W. C. Handy, American composer. He was widely known as the "Father of the Blues" passed away at the age of 84 (born on November 16, 1873) ✅
1974 – Delta blues singer and guitarist Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup died of a stroke at the age of 69. He wrote 'That's All Right (Mama)' covered by Elvis Presley and 'My Baby Left Me'. (b. August 24, 1905) ✅
Events
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1973 - Led Zeppelin releases Houses Of The Holy. ✅
1981 – Blondie started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Rapture', the group's fourth US No.1. ✅
1988 - The Primitives release Lovely featuring "Crash." (NOTE: info from musicbrainz) ✅
1994 – Pink Floyd release their album "The Division Bell" ✅
1995 – Ol' Dirty Bastard released "Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version" ✅
1995 - Wilco release their debut A.M. ✅
1995 - The Tank Girl soundtrack was released featuring songs from Bjork, Portishead, Hole and more. The film's soundtrack was assembled by Courtney Love; Graeme Revell composed the original music. Love's band Hole contributed the song "Drown Soda". Greg Graffin from Bad Religion was originally supposed to sing the duet of "Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love" with Joan Jett, but due to contractual restrictions he was replaced by Paul Westerberg from the Replacements. Devo recorded a new version of their song "Girl U Want" specifically for the film, as they were big fans of the comic.✅
1988 - DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince released their second studio album He’s The DJ, I’m The Rapper March 29, 1988
2005 – New Order release their album "Waiting for the Siren's Call" in the UK (US release April 25) ✅
2014 - Nas headlines the One Mic: Hip-Hop Culture Worldwide festival at the Kennedy Center in New York City with a performance of his album Illmatic with the National Symphony Orchestra. ✅
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NEW MUSIC FROM SEATTLE LOCALS BLOOCOCOON
Got this note from Seattle's bloococoon (featuring former members of Black Nite Crash, The Knast and New Candys) in which leader Sharim writes "bloococoon-has released the 1st single from our forthcoming debut album on Little Cloud Records (PDX) and we were hoping that you would consider it for a spin. We'll be playing Seagaze Festival on April 5th with a bunch of other local bands and perhaps it'll fit to help promote the show? Ok, hope you like it and thank
you. Cheers!"
We like it. You should, too. Check out Bloococoon, here.
TODAY ON KEXP...WOW!
“THE MIDDAY SHOW” w/ Cheryl Waters has Arlo Parks LIVE, plus a ticket give for Hurray For The Riff Raff on Monday, April 1st at August Hall in San Fransisco. Plus, at 5PM: DakhaBrakha will be LIVE IN THE GATHERING SPACE and Then DriveTime with Kevin Cole will share a world premiere of Mt Fog’s “Drifting” from their eagerly anticipated forthcoming album, ‘ultraviolet heart machine’!
Remember that time Mt Fog played live on KEXP? THAT WAS AWESOME.
SHOWS IN SOME OF OUR FAV CITIES
Seattle
Waves Crashing- Central Saloon (taping Band in Seattle)
DakhaBrakha live in the Gathering Space at 5p AND at the Moore Theatre on Thursday evening
San Fran
Neko Case - Rio Theatre, Santa Cruz
Hotline TNT - Rickshaw Stop
Israel Nash - Café du Nord
Portland
Chelsea Wolfe Roseland Theater
KMFDM - Wonder Ballroom
Torres - Mississippi Studios
Madi Diaz - The Get Down, Portland, OR, US
NYC
Khruangbin @ Bowery Ballroom
Waxahatchee @ Rough Trade (signing)
THERE'S NO FUTURE IN HISTORY
Births
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1924 – Sarah Vaughan, jazz singer (d. April 3,1990 age 66 years) ✅
1932 – Junior Parker, American blues singer/songwriter (d. November 18, 1971 age 39) ✅
1940 - Ska musician Derrick Morgan is born in Jamaica. ✅
1959 – Andrew Farriss, Australian musician keyboard and main composer for INXS. ✅
1963 – Quentin Tarantino, American director, writer, and producer. ✅
Some of our fav' the songs from his movies:
1969 - Mariah Carey. Come on, "Fantasy" is a JAM! And DO NOT sleep on "Vision of Love." ✅
Deaths
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2000 – Singer, songwriter, poet and actor, Ian Dury (The Blockheads, Kilburn and the High Roads) died after a long battle with cancer aged 57. Dury had been disabled by polio as a child, formed Kilburn and the High Roads during the 70's. His first album 'New Boot's And Panties' became a punk classic. ✅
2016 - Joe Skyward, aka Joe Bass, (real last name Howard), bass player for Sky Cries Mary, and the Posies (1996's Amazing Disgrace and 1998's Success), and Sunny Day Real Estate. In the 2000s, died following a two-year battle with prostate cancer. He was 57. In the 2000's he also played with the Walkabouts, the Long Winters, and Sunny Day Real Estate's Jeremy Enigk and released some solo recordings under the name Skyward.
Events
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1965 – The Supremes scored their fourth US No.1 single with 'Stop! In The Name Of Love.' ✅
1984 - Run–D.M.C. release their debut, called, yep, Run–D.M.C. ✅
1981 - Bauhaus release the single "Kick in The Eye." ✅
1987 – U2 performed from the roof of a store in downtown LA to make the video for 'Where The Streets Have No Name', attracting thousands of spectators and bringing traffic to a standstill. The police eventually stop the shoot. (Extended research in google docs) ✅
1991 - Slint release the hugely influential Spiderland. ✅
2006 - Be Your Own Pet release Be Your Own Pet. ✅
2010 – THEESatisfaction released "awE naturalE" on Sub Pop ✅
2020 - Pearl Jam release Gigaton ✅
2020 - Waxahatchee release Saint Cloud ✅
SOME NEW STUFF WE DIG FOR TODAY
Blondshell and Bully have come together on a new song that we'll debut 9a-ish,.
Vancouver BC's Spectres new song “One Day” is on our list of must plays!
The band Mama Zu and their song “Lip." For those who don't know, Mama Zu was the musical project between Jessi Zazu and Linwood Regensburg after the break up of their previous band, Those Darlins, in 2016. They began working on an album under the name Mama Zu while Zazu was battling cervical cancer, which claimed her life at age twenty-eight in September 2017.
The new Cloud Nothings song “Final Summer." The Cleveland based three-piece whose new album Final Summer out April 19th will be in some of our favorite cities coming up including...
May 9 Le Poisson Rouge New York (NYC), NY
May 26 - Café du Nord San Francisco, CA
May 28 Hawthorne Theatre Portland, OR
May 29 Tractor Tavern Seattle, WA
PLUS, A TON OF STUFF HAPPENING AT KEXP TODAY INCLUDING...
Cheryl has Kim Gordon gives for a SF show today PLUS at noon TORRES LIVE on KEXP (Open to Public)
9:00 AM: Sleater-Kinney LIVE on KEXP session posting to KEXP’s YouTube Channel
VERITY DEN: A COOL NC BASED BAND FEATURING BELLINGHAM NATIVE...
...songwriter/engineer Casey Proctor, Trevor Reece and Mike Wallace who formed Verity Den in early 2023. The tiro comes at rock and pop music through a path cleared by mid-80's experimental Sonic Youth and early 90's My Bloody Valentine eperimentations like "Sometimes." As with those bands, layered guitars and bass, tribal drums, and vocal melodies blend into cascading frequencies that create a sonic landscape for Proctor and Reece to express lyrics of "existential exhaustion and impressionistic reflections." There's true beauty, and maybe hope amidst despair found in their dense sound. Check them out here. (KEXP Senior Producer Owen Murphy)
GREAT LISTENER MESSAGE TODAY
Shannon writes
Hey John and team- I used to listen to news every morning, but after I started working in the ER I found I just couldn't-- there was too much bad news rolling in the door every morning. This morning I happened to see something really awful on social media right after I woke up, and it was a gut punch that sent me right into a horrible mood. But i knew the fix: I closed Instagram and opened up the KEXP app and have been dancing myself around the kitchen since. Your positive, supportive, ever-loving messages and music turned that shit right around. No need to acknowledge. Just thank you, thank you, thank you and much love ❤️ 🙏
THERE'S NO FUTURE IN HISTORY
Births
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1917 - Soul singer Rufus Thomas, known for his recordings at Stax Records, is born in Mississippi.✅.
1944 – Diana Ross, American singer, songwriter, actress, and record producer (Supremes) ✅
1948 – Richard Tandy, English musician/keyboardist (Electric Light Orchestra) ✅
1948 – Steven Tyler (born born Steven Victor Tallarico), American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (Aerosmith) ✅
1949 – Fran Sheehan, bass guitarist (Boston) ✅
1950 – Teddy Pendergrass, American singer. (d. January 13, 2010 age 59) (Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes.) ✅
1968 – James Iha, American musician (The Smashing Pumpkins and A Perfect Circle) ✅
1969 - Fatlip (Derrick Lemel Stewart ) of The Pharcyde. ✅
1981 - Anaïs Mitchell (/əˈneɪ.ɪs/) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and playwright, and singer with Bonny Light Horseman and Big Red Machine.✅
Deaths
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1995 – Eazy-E, American rapper Eric Lynn Wright (N.W.A) (b. September 7, 1963, age 31) ✅
2004 – Jan Berry, American singer (Jan and Dean) (b. April 3, 1941, age 62) ✅
2005 – Paul Hester, Australian drummer (Split Enz, Crowded House, Deckchairs Overboard and Tarmac Adam) (b. 8 January 1959, age 46) ✅
2006 – Nikki Sudden (born Adrian Nicholas Godfrey), British singer-songwriter (Jacobites and Swell Maps) (b. July 19, 1956) ✅
2019 - Ranking Roger (Roger Charlery), singer for General Public and The English Beat, dies at 56 after a battle with cancer. ✅
Events
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1976 - Thin Lizzy release Jailbreak. ✅
1977 - The Hall & Oates song "Rich Girl" becomes the band's first of six number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100. ✅
1990 - Digital Underground released their debut album Sex Packets ✅
1996 - Neutral Milk Hotel release On Avery Island ✅
1996 - Busta Rhymes released his debut album The Coming ✅
2001 - Gorillaz release their the eponymous debut. ✅
2002 - The Walkmen release Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me Is Gone ✅
2002 – French DJ Ludovic Navarre releases the album 'Boulevard' under the name St. Germaine in the US (UK release of July 28 1995) ✅
2012 - Supergroup Rocket Juice & the Moon, featuring Damon Albarn, Tony Allen and Flea, with contributions from Erykah Badu, Thundercat, Fatoumata Diawara, M.anifest and more released their only album Rocket Juice & the Moon. ✅
2021 - El Michels Affair release Yeti Season. ✅
2021 - serpentwithfeet releases Deacon ✅
2021 - Tune-Yards release Sketchy ✅
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If you live in the Bay Area, KEXP would like to send you and a friend to see Sleater Kinney @ The Regency on March 31st, an All ages event. Text "BAY" to 206-903-KEXP (5397) for your chance to win.
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BTW, ICYMI, here's KEXP music director Chris Sanley's review of Sleater-Kinney's latest Little Rope (Loma Vista)
On their gripping 10th studio album Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker have perfected the tightrope walk between anguish and hope, beauty and ugly, restraint and abandon. This dichotomy enables these deeply emotional and raw songs to acutely connect with their listener throughout this modern rock masterpiece. Tucker primarily assumes the role of lead vocalist with dynamic guitar riffs, driving drums, memorable hooks and layered atmospherics. The bond between Tucker and Brownstein is deeply felt nearly 30 years into their musical partnership, as they usher in this next era of Sleater-Kinney on Little Rope.
THERE'S NO FUTURE IN HISTORY
Births
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1923 - Bonnie Guitar, known for the 1957 country-pop hit "Dark Moon," is born Bonnie Buckingham in Seattle, Washington.✅
1942 - Richard O'Brien, is a British-New Zealand actor, writer, musician, and television presenter. He wrote the musical stage show The Rocky Horror Show in 1973, which has remained in continuous production. ✅
1942 – Aretha Franklin, American singer...maybe the greatest ever. What else is there to say? (Died: August 16, 2018 (aged 76). ✅
1947 – Elton John, English singer and songwriter ✅
1964 - Buzz Osborne (King Buzzo), guitarist/vocalist/songwriter and founding member of the Melvins ✅
1974 - Finley Quaye is a Scottish musician of Ghanaian descent. ✅
1975 - Rapper Juvenile (of The Hot Boys) is born Terius Gray in New Orleans, Louisiana. ✅
1988 – DJ/producer Ryan Lewis (of Macklemore & Ryan Lewis) is born in Spokane, Washington. ✅
1990 - Jason Balla, vocals/guitar, DEHD. ✅
1994 - Jay Som, aka Melina Mae Duterte is a DIY and bedroom-pop singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer.✅
Deaths
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2022 – Taylor Hawkins (Born: February 17, 1972) , American singer-songwriter and drummer (Foo Fighters, Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders). ✅
Foo Fighters hit songs he co-wrote include “The Pretender” “Learn to Fly” "Times Like These" "All My Life" "Best of You" “These Days” and “Walk.”
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1958 - Ray Charles records "Georgia On My Mind." ✅
1960 - Roy Orbison records "Only The Lonely." ✅
1974 - Gordon Lightfoot releases the single "Sundown." ✅
1974 - Earth, Wind & Fire release Open Our Eyes featuring "Mighty Mighty", "Kalimba Story" and "Devotion". ✅
1975 – John Cale releases "Slow Dazzle" ✅
1979 - The Fatback band release "King Tim III (Personality Jock)" a few months before "Rapper's Delight" (which is widely regarded as the first commercially released hip hop song), this song is often cited as the beginning of recorded hip hop. ✅
1983 - The Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever special is recorded at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium; it is broadcast on NBC in May. Highlights of the show include Michael Jackson's Moonwalk and a The Supremes reunion. ✅
1985 - Prince wins an Oscar for Best Original Score for the film Purple Rain. ✅
1996 - Sleater-Kinney release Call the Doctor ✅
1997 - The Notorious B.I.G.’s second and final studio album Life After Death was released.✅
2005 – New Order release their album "Waiting for the Siren's Call" ✅
2006 – Capitol Hill massacre: A gunman kills six people before taking his own life at a party in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood. ✅
2008 - The Raconteurs release Consolers of the Lonely. ✅
2022 - Electricity by Ibibio Sound Machine is released. ✅
2023 - Parannoul releases After the Night. ✅
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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.
