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Tuesday, May 1 2018, 6AM
Morning! David Bowie personally selected The Dandy Warhols to play at his Meltdown festival in 2002. Bowie also joined the band onstage to perform "White Light/White Heat" during the gig. The Dandys later supported Bowie on his 2003 A Reality tour. Check out their most recent in-studio (2016) here: bit.ly
We could think of no better band to close out the live room at KEXP's Dexter and Denny studio than legendary shoegazers Ride. Watch that show here: www.kexp.org In September, Ride performed on the Midday Show: bit.ly
The Decemberists are at the Paramount on June 21st with M. Ward. Tickets: bit.ly
Lord Huron has two nights each coming up in Portland and Seattle. June 5th & 6th at the Crystal Ballroom in Portland and 7th & 8th at the Moore in Seattle! See all the dates and links to tickets: www.lordhuron.com
Unknown Mortal Orchestra come to Seattle on Monday. They'll be live in-studio at noon! Looks like there are still tickets for their show that night at the Moore: bit.ly
Future Islands play tonight in Guadalajara! Let's all go. There were in Seattle in September and performed live on the Midday show with DJ Cheryl Waters: bit.ly
Curtis Harding is playing Sasquatch! on Saturday May 26th. Catch him Sunday the 27th at the Doug Fir in Portland.
Charlotte Gainsbourg has added a couple US dates to her tour but only July 22nd in L.A. and the 27th in NYC.
The UK music publication NME asked Win Butler what track on the album he is most proud of lyrically. He replied: "I guess it'd be either 'The Suburbs' or 'Sprawl 2 (Mountains Beyond Mountains) because in each of those tracks there's kind of a whole world. There's more going on in the margins of those songs, and I think if you really get into the lyrics, there's a lot of new stuff to find."
"If their lyrics give any sense of how tough the ladies of Warpaint are, the Los Angeles quartet aren't a band so much as they are a gang. Not in the organized crime sense, but in the "don't mess with us" sense." Read the entire review of the album Warpaint on the KEXP blog: www.kexp.org
The xx played live in-studio a year ago. They played Say Something Loving, I Dare You, Basic Space, & On Hold. bit.ly
The song was debuted by Thom Yorke at a warm-up show with his other band Atoms For Peace on October 2, 2009 at the Echoplex in Los Angeles. Radiohead first performed the track during a January 2010 Haiti benefit concert in Los Angeles.
Wye Oak play Neumos on July 15th and then on the 16th will be live on KEXP at noon!
Catch Amen Dunes at the Crocodile on Monday August 13th! Miki Dora was the featured Song of the Day on March 22nd: www.kexp.org
That's Why was the Song of the Day 2-25-16. www.kexp.org You can see The Cave Singers this summer at the Kaslo Jazz Festival in Kaslo, BC on August 3rd
At the Crocodile on Wednesday June 20th. Everyone is coming to the Crocodile!
This was released as the first single from Street Songs, beating out "Super Freak". Like "Super Freak," it's the funky sound that carries the tune, and certainly not the message. James explained to Musician magazine, "'Give It To Me Baby' was another silly song. Matter of fact, most of my songs that are hit records are silly. Most of my serious stuff is stuck on albums."
Tickets go on sale tomorrow for Janelle Monáe at Marymoor Park on June 11th.
Comprised of vocalist Charlie Steen, guitarists Sean Coyle-Smith and Eddie Green, bassist Josh Finerty, and drummer Charlie Forbes, the London-based five-piece began as school boys. From the outset, Shame built the band up from a foundation of DIY ethos while citing Eddy Current Suppression Ring and The Fall among their biggest musical influences.
The band was conceived in 1995 by schoolmates Elin Almered and Johan Duncanson, who named the group after a gas-station-turned-radio-repair-shop called "Radioavdelningen" (Swedish for The Radio Department). However, Almered and Duncanson soon stopped playing music together, putting the band on hiatus. Then three years later, in 1998, Duncanson started making music again but now with Martin Larsson and they decided to adopt the same name. In 2001, Larsson's then girlfriend Lisa Carlberg joined the group on bass, followed by Per Blomgren on drums and Daniel Tjäder on keyboards.
No Seattle shows scheduled but Kali Uchis is booked for the Westward Music Festival in Vancouver BC in September
Nathaniel Merriweather Presents... Lovage: Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By is the only album by Lovage, released in 2001. Lovage is a studio supergroup featuring Dan the Automator producing, Mike Patton and Jennifer Charles on vocals, Kid Koala on the turntables, Brandon Arnovick (as Astacio the Nudist) on guitar, Daniels Spills on keyboards and SweetP on harpsichord & noseflute.
Way back in 1996, Kool Keith, Dan The Automator and DJ QBert recorded Dr. Octagonecologyst. All three of them went their separate ways afterward, but now they’ve reunited for a new album called Moosebumps: An Exploration Into Modern Day Horripilation.
The trio recorded the new album in marathon sessions at Automator’s studio, and it resurrects Keith’s Dr. Octagon character. Fellow Automator collaborator Del The Funky Homosapien makes an appearance. “Octagon Octagon,” the first track that the trio have made in 22 years.
World in My Eyes released on 2 September 1990 as the fourth and final single from their seventh studio album, Violator (1990). It peaked at number 17 on the UK Singles Chart and number 52 on the US Billboard Hot 100.
Damien Jurado will be on the Morning Show this Friday with John playing his entire new album. Damien is performing on Saturday at St. Mark's Cathedral, more info & tickets: bit.ly
Jim James has a new album, 'Uniform Distortion' out June 29th
Motown Records signed him when he was 11 and released his first album when he was 12. He was billed as "Little" Stevie Wonder, the boy genius. His 1963 album Recorded Live: The 12 Year Old Genius, went to #1. The 'Little' part was only dropped when he hit 6ft.
Simian Mobile Disco are playing the Neptune on June 14th - one of only 5 US dates!
The Seattle rock trio is heading out on a world tour but they'll be back this summer to play the Timber! music festival July 14th
The dirty guitar riff on this song was actually created with a keyboard.
"Feedback and distortion are the training wheels of indie rock—obfuscating agents that provide nervous upstarts with a sense of confidence as they face the public, secure in the knowledge that no one’s really going to be able to decipher what the hell they’re singing about. " Read what Pitchfork has to say about this, Hookworm's third album here: pitchfork.com
Samuel Lunsford, aka Stimulator Jones, from Roanoke, Virginia plays and sings every note on this album, as well as assuming production duties.
"The latest from the gothic avant-rock band sees the four-piece loosen up and let slip the forces begging for release since their debut." Here is Pitchfork's review of their latest album, Felt: bit.ly
Sub Pop #426. Munki is the sixth studio album released by The Jesus and Mary Chain. After leaving Blanco y Negro, the Reid brothers signed to Sub Pop in the U.S. and Creation, who had released their debut single "Upside Down" in 1984, in the UK.
Acme was released in October 1998. In the US the first single to be released from the album was "Talk About The Blues". This song was recorded during a session with Calvin Johnson at Dub Narcotic, Olympia, Washington.
Rising Down is the eighth studio album by The Roots. The album's title is adapted from William T. Vollmann's book 'Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means'.
A song for a day just as bad as Monday but more sneaky.
"September Gurls" was penned by vocalist Alex Chilton for Big Star's second album Radio City. Released as a single, it did not chart despite receiving excellent reviews, due mainly to poor marketing. The song was rated #178 by Rolling Stone in their 2004 list of the Top 500 songs of all time.
Speedy Ortiz are live on KEXP on June 13th at noon!. That night they're next door at the Vera Project.
Many of the tracks on Nicolas Jaar's (A.A.L.) "2012-2017"were previously released in continuously mixed form on an A.A.L. mix from 2016, though a handful appear to be brand new.