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Tuesday, Jan 23 2018, 10AM
"We are together." Scottish band Primal Scream sampled a Reverend Jesse Jackson speech in this terrific song: wildesound.wordpress.com
"'I will now sell five copies of The Three EPs by the Beta Band.' The line is from one of the best scenes in "High Fidelity" that summed up the power of Steve Mason’s little quartet from Scotland who, despite their modest demeanor, managed to woo everyone from Noel Gallagher to Thom Yorke before the millennium hit. " Read about the ten best Beta Band songs: www.stereogum.com
Spirit Award will be playing with Jessica Lea Mayfield at The Tractor Tavern on Saturday, February 3rd, 2018.: www.facebook.com
MGMT will be playing songs from "Little Dark Age" at the Showbox SoDo on Saturday, May 12th, 2018.
This song features a guest appearance from Prince. The Purple One previously remixed The Electric Lady's lead single "Q.U.E.E.N" and included Monae in his list of favorite musicians.
Mary Beth Patterson, known by her stage name Beth Ditto, will play The Showbox on Thursday, March 29th, 2018. Here's the official video for "Fire": www.youtube.com
Car Seat Headrest will be playing with Naked Giants at Real Art in Tacoma, Washington on Thursday, April 12th, 2018. "You should've seen my cursive back then....
Every letter was above the line..." Here are the lyrics to "Nervous Young Inhumans": genius.com
Los Angeles duo No Age will be right next door, performing at The Vera Project on Friday, February 23rd, 2018.
Watch Nirvana playing "Been a Son" live in 1992: www.youtube.com
Tune-Yards was in the kEXP studio last Monday, January 15th, at noon. You can stream that show at KEXP's streaming archive: www.kexp.org
You can hear Porches at Neumos on Saturday, March 3rd, 2018. Here's a review for the new release, "The House": www.spin.com
"'Harder Love' is the latest release from Strand of Oaks, a collection of Tim Showalter’s original recordings for the album 'Hard Love.' Pairing the earliest versions Hard Love tracks with previously-unreleased material (including some songs deemed 'too weird' for the official release), Harder Love feels like Hard Love in an alternate dimension. A whole lot stranger and even more raw, it’s like the tripped out, spiritual brother to its predecessor.": strandofoaks.bandcamp.com
Moby's fifteenth studio album is due out on March 2nd. This song is the first single from that release. Read about it and see the official video: www.rollingstone.com
Watch this D.C. duo plus 10 additional musicians playing live in the KEXP studio in 2016: blog.kexp.org
These talented local musicians will be at The Tractor Tavern on Saturday, February 17th, 2018. They were the subject of a recent Artist Profile on the KEXP blog: blog.kexp.org
This is, of course, a cover of the famous Velvet Underground song. Watch the fine black-and-white video for "Femme Fatale": www.youtube.com
It was January 15th, 1994, the day that Harry Nilsson died.: ultimateclassicrock.com
Watch Madonna cover Elliott Smith's "Between the Bars": people.com
A release date for Jack White's third solo album hasn't been set yet. "Respect Commander" is the second single released from the album.: consequenceofsound.net
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club will come roaring up to The Showbox on Tuesday, February 20th, 2018.
You can order "Habitat" for yourself at Beliefs' Bandcamp page.: beliefsband.bandcamp.com
Los Angeles artist Ramona Gonzalez, who records as Nite Jewel, was KEXP's guest host on Midnight in a Perfect World last year. Examine her wide-ranging playlist here: blog.kexp.org
Ride will have a new EP, "Tomorrow's Shore," out on February 16th, 2018. "Catch You Dreaming" will appear on that EP. Ride’s Andy Bell explained the song's genesis:
“Catch You Dreaming” is written from the perspective of being one of the last two people alive, watching as the Universe is ending. The protagonist looks back over the time when humanity existed, realising that we as humans brought about our own inevitable demise.
That's Erykah Badu's "disembodied hovering voice" on this song: www.stereogum.com
Brooklyn artist Erin Fein records as Psychic Twin. Visit her Facebook page here: www.facebook.com
A retrospective John Maus vinyl box set will be released in April of this year.: www.brooklynvegan.com
Read a review of John Maus' "Screen Memories," released in the fall of last year: pitchfork.com
This single was released in 2009 to coincide with the Record Store Day offshoot, Vinyl Saturday. The song itself is a cover of Suicide vocalist Alan Vega's 1980 song of the same name.
OMD will be playing The Showbox on Saturday, March 24th, 2018. "Enola Gay" is the name of the B-29 that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945.: ilovehistory.utah.gov
Seattle duo Crater is Ceci Gomez and Kessiah Gordon. Watch a fine in-studio performance at KEXP in 2016: blog.kexp.org
KEXP swung its local artist spotlight on Seattle artist SassyBlack recently: blog.kexp.org She will play The Shakedown in Bellingham on Friday, March 30th, 2018.
This excellent singer/songwriter will be LIVE on KEXP on Wednesday, March 28, 2018, at 12:00 PM This performance is open to the public. Lucy Dacus will perform at The Tractor Tavern that evening.
Go back, back, back in time to watch a KEXP in-studio session by these artists: blog.kexp.org
Get "Sun City Creeps," a KEXP Song of the Day by Woods: blog.kexp.org
Here's another band that's coming to town!! They'll be at The Crocodile on Tuesday, May 22nd, 2018.
Enjoy a brief biography of Vancouver's Pink Mountaintops:www.allmusic.com
Here are the lyrics, superimposed on some interesting pictures: www.youtube.com
This rocker from Brooklyn's Bette Smith is available to you as today's KEXP Song of the Day: blog.kexp.org
Here's Mr. Lewis in a live performance in the KEXP studio in September, 2016: www.youtube.com
Hooded Fang wants you to read a Playboy interview with Miles Davis in 1962. Find the link on their Facebook page: www.facebook.com
Kyle Craft will LIVE on KEXP on Wednesday, January 31, 2018, at 12:00 PM. that performance is open to the public. He will play The Tractor Tavern the following night, February 1st, 2018.
"Sonny & the Sunsets are a beautiful west coast thing. Birthed from the sand, the surf, and twilight campfires down in Ocean Beach, Sonny & the Sunsets’ busted beach-pop songs spark recollections of doo wop's otherworldly despair, a dose of goofball humor from the Michael Hurley school, and positive possibilities exuded by Jonathan Richman." That's what their Bandcamp page says.: sonnyandthesunsets.bandcamp.com
See the official video for "Afterglow" by these local musicians: www.youtube.com
Get the latest news from Raphael Francis Saadiq: www.raphaelsaadiqofficial.com
The Nigerian music pioneer William Onyeabor died on January 16th of last year. Go here to learn more about him: williamonyeabor.com
Sound-tracking her unerring dedication to absorbing, selecting, making, living and breathing dance music and club culture around the world, Classic Music Company presents Honey Dijon’s album ‘The Best of Both Worlds’.