Posts Tagged ‘Live on KEXP’

KEVIN MORBY – ” Live on KEXP ” Recorded at The Triple Door 21st August 2017

Posted: January 4, 2018 in MUSIC
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Kevin Morby

Kevin Morby has carved out a niche over the course of four solo albums as a generous songwriter and lyricist, a chronicler of details from city and rural life. Morby’s latest album, “City Music”, finds him reflecting on city landscapes and experiences, as well as old friends which take the form of ghosts. “Come to Me Now,” is emblematic of Morby’s gift of imbuing songs with an air of religiosity, using space and gaps to conjure images of spectral lovers and rotted city structures.

City Music was Morby’s first album recorded with his talented live band, which consists of amazing Meg Duffy (guitar), Justin Sullivan (drums), and Cyrus Gengras (bass). Recorded near Stinson Beach, California, and produced by the ubiquitous Richard Swift, the album greatly benefits from the symbiotic relationship between players and instruments. Duffy’s guitar, in particular, adds layers of texture and melody, ringing softly against Morby’s resonant voice. Though not as guitar-laden as the titular “City Music” or “Crybaby,” the guitar rings in and out of earshot acting as Morby’s past love, glistening organ and drums taking the track to its conclusion.

KEXP presents Kevin Morby performing “City Music” live at The Triple Door as part of KEXP’s VIP Club concert series. Recorded August 21, 2017.

Songs: City Music,  Crybaby , 1234,  Aboard My Train,  Destroyer,  I Have Been To The Mountain, Parade, Downtown’s Lights, Beautiful Strangers,

The BARR BROTHERS – ” Live On KEXP “

Posted: December 31, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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On their third full-length album, the Barr Brothers (featuring core members and actual brothers Brad and Andrew Barr, and Sarah Pagé) retain their set-up of bluesy, wild, fuzzed-out guitars, percussion derived from just about anything than makes a sound when hit, and amplified harp. Whereas their self-titled debut fell more in an amplified folk tradition, and 2014’s Sleeping Operator dabbled in hypnoses, Queens of the Breakers looks inward, featuring some of the best personal and reflective lyrics Brad Barr has ever written. It’s an exciting evolution from a band whose sonic curiosity never ceases to amaze me. The Barr Brothers performing “Queens Of The Breakers” live at Breakglass Studios during POP Montreal 2017. Recorded September 16th, 2017.

Songs: You Would Have To Lose Your Mind, Kompromat, Queens Of The Breakers, Song That I Heard It Came To Me

The Barr Brothers performing “You Would Have To Lose Your Mind” live at Breakglass Studios during POP Montreal 2017. Recorded September 16th, 2017.

The Barr Brothers performing “It Came To Me” live at Breakglass Studios during POP Montreal 2017. Recorded September 16th, 2017.

The Barr Brothers performing “Kompromat” live at Breakglass Studios during POP Montreal 2017. Recorded September 16th, 2017.

COURTNEY MARIE ANDREWS – ” Live On KEXP “

Posted: November 25, 2017 in MUSIC
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Courtney Marie Andrews performing live in the KEXP studio. Recorded September 7th, 2016.

Andrews is only 25 but has already spent almost a decade on the road as a professional musician, touring since she was 16, singing backing vocals for arena rock band Jimmy Eat World and travelling as lead guitarist for cult Americana star Damien Jurado.

She has also recorded five previous albums of poetic heart-on-her-sleeve sensitive singer-songwriting, so when she tells us “this ain’t no rookie dreaming” on the opening of her sixth release, you can genuinely sense the weight of experience in her voice. Her album “Honest Life” is full of songs of longing and regret, tinged by a belief in the redemptive possibilities of change and wrapped up in stories of everyday, hard-working lives. Classic country material, in other words.

Songs: How Quickly Your Heart Mends,  Irene,  Table For One,  Rookie Dreaming

WAXAHATCHEE – ” Live On KEXP “

Posted: September 13, 2017 in MUSIC
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Katie Crutchfield should be exhausted. Since 2012’s American Weekend LP, the debut record from Crutchfield’s Waxahatchee moniker, the musician has toured regularly and recorded three additional Waxahatchee records, most recently the forthcoming Out in the Storm (released on July 14th). Along with her twin sister, Allison, the Crutchfields have released some of the most emotionally honest, uncannily catchy pop music over the past handful of years. Included in the set is “Silver,” the debut single off Out in the Storm, The song, builds upon the Waxahatchee mold of songwriting, mixing Katie’s evocative, articulate lyrics, with a guitar muscle visible on 2015’s Ivy Tripp.

Katie Crutchfield said that Out in the Storm was recorded in the midst and aftermath of a break-up, though the record can not be considered a traditional break-up record. Crutchfield’s lyrics on “Silver” hint at this emotional backdrop (“I went out in the storm// I felt the house burning// the kiss on my lips starts to feel unfamiliar”) though her focus on the track seems more rooted in issues of self-discovery, as she sings “a part of me rots// my skin all turns silver.” Crutchfield may be newly transformed, but “Silver” retains the clarity and spirit which has characterized her best work.

Waxahatchee performing live in the KEXP studio. Recorded July 24, 2017.

Songs: Recite Remorse Silver Hear You Never Been Wrong

BIG STAR THIRD – ” Live On KEXP “

Posted: March 4, 2017 in MUSIC
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The classic lineup of Big Star only existed between 1971 and 1974 (though a version of the band reformed in 1993), but in that short time, with three albums that ranged from euphoric power pop to despairing ballads, the Memphis band created a musical legacy that has spawned generations of fans.

One of the most passionate of those fans is R.E.M’s Mike Mills,  While recording at Memphis Ardent Studios with REM in the 80s, he met and befriended Big Star’s drummer Jody Stephens. When Stephens became the only surviving member of the band after frontman Alex Chilton died of a heart attack in 2010, he invited Mills to join an all-star tribute band, called Big Star Third after their darkest and most revered album.

On Wednesday at the Concord in LA, the band – which also includes Jeff Tweedy and Pat Sansone from Wilco, Robyn Hitchcock, Dan Wilson of Semisonic, Ira Kaplan of Yo La Tengo, Jon Auer of the Posies, Benmont Tench from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – will play the Third album in its entirety, along with other Big Star classics. They’ll be accompanied by a chamber orchestra led by the Kronos Quartet, and the show will be released as a film and record next year. Meanwhile, a Big Star live album, a radio session recorded for WLIR in 1974, has just been re-released.

Big Star’s Third performing live from the Bumbershoot Music Lounge. Recorded August 31, 2014.

Songs:
For You
Take Care
Nightime
Give Me Another Chance
Thirteen
Blue Moon
I Am The Cosmos
In The Street

WOODS – ” Live On KEXP “

Posted: December 29, 2016 in MUSIC
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Woods are an American folk rock band from Brooklyn formed in 2005. The band consists of Jeremy Earl (vocals, guitar), Jarvis Taveniere (various instruments, production), Aaron Neveu (drums), Chuck Van Dyck (bass) and Kyle Forester (keyboards, sax). 

Woods have released nine albums, the latest being City Sun Eater In The River Of Light giving the band its “Best New Music” designation and described the sound as “a distinctive blend of spooky campfire folk, lo-fi rock, homemade tape collages, and other noisy interludes, all anchored by deceptively sturdy melodies.

Singer-guitarist and founder Jeremy Earl also runs the rising Brooklyn label Woodsist, for whom the band releases their work.

Woods performing live in the KEXP studio. Recorded July 23rd, 2016.

Songs:
Sun City Creeps
Suffering Season
Creature Comfort
The Take

KYLE CRAFT – ” Live On KEXP “

Posted: December 18, 2016 in MUSIC
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Kyle Craft grew up in a tiny Louisiana town on the banks of the Mississippi, where he spent most of his time catching alligators and rattlesnakes instead of playing football or picking up the guitar. He’s not the born product of a musical family, and bands never came through town–it was only a chance trip to K-Mart that gave him his first album, a David Bowie hits compilation that helped inspire him eventually to channel his innate feral energy into songwriting and rock and roll.

That self-made talent drives every note of Dolls of Highland, Craft’s exhilarating, fearless solo debut.

Kyle Craft performing live in the KEXP studio. Recorded April 28th, 2016.

Songs:
Pentecost
Future Midcity Massacre
Eye of a Hurricane
Lady of the Ark

DAUGHTER – ” Live On KEXP “

Posted: April 10, 2016 in MUSIC
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Daughter – the word alone inspires feelings of love, protection, fostering, sharing and hope. In KEXP listeners and viewers, there’s even a stronger bond, as the band Daughter have become, since their first appearance on our airwaves in 2012, one of the most endearing bands to ever perform live in our studio, accruing over two million views from just two sessions (they performed a third session at the Cutting Room Studios as well). The North London trio offered what our Music Director, Don Yates, calls “a more refined and nuanced version of their brooding, folk-tinged dream-pop” in their hotly anticipated sophomore LP, Not to Disappear. Daughter need not worry now that will ever happen, as with yet another absolutely gorgeous live session, they’ll be forever sealed in our memories.

http://KEXP.ORG presents Daughter performing live in the KEXP studio. Recorded March 19, 2016.

Songs:
New Ways
How
Numbers
Doing The Right Thing

ULTIMATE PAINTING – ” Live on KEXP “

Posted: August 1, 2015 in MUSIC
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Ultimate Painting performing live in the KEXP studio. Recorded March 31st, 2015. With the new album due soon titled ‘Green Lanes’ the second album from London-based band Ultimate Painting. Formed as a loose collaboration by Jack Cooper (Mazes) and James Hoare (Veronica Falls) the project quickly turned into a full-fledged band in 2014 with the release of their self titled debut album on Trouble In Mind Records.

New album ‘Green Lanes’ is focused and cohesive, the result of two voices becoming one and each member’s songs complimenting the other, carving out a distinct and unified voice as Ultimate Painting. Slinking out of the gate, the first song ‘Kodiak’ is an hummable future-classic with Cooper and Hoare’s guitars dancing around each other with ease. The licks and lyrics conjuring up images of Sixties California and Seventies New York; a picture of dark clouds on a sunny day. The rest of the album follows suit with the airy, lush harmonies of ‘Sweet Chris’ and ‘Two From The Vault’ and even kicks up some dust with the chooglin’ ‘(I’ve Got The) Sanctioned Blues’ and the manic ‘Woken By Noises’. While their self titled debut was all Cooper and Hoare, this time out, they are augmented by the addition of their live drummer Neil Robinson who provides propulsion on all but one of ‘Green Lanes”s tracks. The album artwork was once again provided by Portland artist Bradley Kerl, who portrayed Hoare’s London flat and recording space chock full of the equipment used to record both the band’s albums casually tumbling toward the viewer. For fans of Velvet Underground,  Feelies, Parquet Courts, Television, The Kinks, Pavement and The Bats.

Songs:
Ultimate Painting
Rolling In The Deep End
Riverside
Ten Street

WOLF ALICE – ” Live On KEXP “

Posted: April 6, 2015 in MUSIC
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presents Wolf Alice performing live in the KEXP studio. Recorded March 10th, 2015.

Songs:
Moaning Lisa Smile
Your Love’s Whore
Fluffy
Giant Peach

Wolf Alice have showcased three songs from their upcoming debut album ‘My Love is Cool’.
The band performed new single ‘Giant Peach’, plus the unheard ‘Your Love’s Whore’ and ‘Moaning Lisa’, in session for KEXP in the US. Watch the full performance here. Wolf Alice will release their upcoming debut album ‘My Love Is Cool’ on June 22nd. The band recently spoke about the mix of genres on their debut album, saying “it’s 100 per cent not a grunge record” and that it “will surprise people”.
Singer Ellie Rowsell detailed the band’s experimentation on the record, which will be their first release since 2014’s ‘Creature Songs’ EP. “It’s 100 percent not a grunge record. It’s a much braver record than that,” Rowsell said. “There’s a mix of genres on it. We’re using our instruments in different ways, like Joff [Oddie] using his guitar as a synth.”
She continued: “We’ve been making sounds that don’t necessarily sound like guitar and experimenting with the way we use our voices. We’ve tried to match the emotion of the songs in how they’re performed and recorded, tried to make a sad song really feel and sound sad.”

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