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Wednesday, Nov 22 2017, 10AM
Atlas Sound is the solo project of Bradford Cox(frontman of Deerhunter). Parallax is the 3rd official album released by Bradford Cox.
If you're looking for an excuse to visit Canada in 2018...Alvvays is playing in Vancouver, BC at the Commodore Ballroom Wednesday, April 4th, 2018.
Dutch-Croatian singer-songwriter Marina Tadic sort of accidentally started her group Eerie Wanda while she was working post-art school as guitarist for Amsterdam band Earth Mk. II. At some point, one of Tadic's bedroom demo tapes found its way to Jasper Verhulst, the bassist of Jacco Gardner, who soon thereafter decided to join forces with her. Dummer Nic Niggebrugge, also of Jacco Gardner, and Bram Vervaet followed suit, and together they became the band now known as Eerie Wanda.
LA based band Gothic Tropic is Cecilia Della Peruti's (on vocals and guitar) current project.
Mavis Staples new album If All I Was Was Black consists of ten songs about contemporary America today, a present day filled with ghosts of the past. "Nothing has changed," Mavis remarked in early August, just days before neo-Nazis marched with swastika flags in Charlottesville, Virginia, as a young woman was murdered. "We are still in it.” The new album is produced by Jeff Tweedy. www.mavisstaples.com
Canadian quartet BadBadNotGood also just recently released a 21 track compilation titled Late Night Tales featuring artists like Stereolab and Thundercat
This is Charlotte Gainsbourg's fourth full-length album in 20-odd years. She has opted for the first time to write most of her own lyrics and has teamed with French DJ and producer SebastiAn.
The Clientele is a London-based British band with Alasdair MacLean on vocals and guitar, Mark Keen on drums, and James Hornsey on bass.
Enjoy a wonderful live performance by Big Thief in the KEXP studios www.youtube.com
Patti Smith performed at the The Moore Theatre in 2016 in honor of her 1975 debut album Horses. Check out the live review here blog.kexp.org
Ride was recently at KEXP for an excellent in-studio performance. The video team is working hard editing their most recent session, but in the mean time watch Ride's 2015 footage from when they played at Dexter and Denny www.youtube.com
Writer, actor, director, songwriter, rapper, and all around entertainment superman, Donald Glover is a man who wears many hats. His hip-hop career under the moniker Childish Gambino hit full stride in back in 2011 with his Glassnote debut, Camp. Read more on Childish Gambino by visiting blog.kexp.org
My Morning Jacket’s Jim James wrote this song after attending a Los Angeles rally the day after the tragic shootings at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando. He said in a press release, “It’s a song about speaking out and trying to be there for people in spirit even if you can’t be at every rally and battle."
Become mesmerized with Golden Gardens performing live in the KEXP studio www.youtube.com
Destroyer plays at The Neptune on Thursday, February 8th, with opener Mega Bog.
Another Green World is the third studio album by Brian Eno. The album was produced by Eno and Rhett Davies, and features several guest musicians including Robert Fripp, Phil Collins, and John Cale.
Oshin is the debut studio album by DIIV, produced by frontman Zachary Cole Smith.
Watch the magnificent Angel Olsen perform live on KEXP www.youtube.com
This album was co-produced by the Expressions' Leon Michels and Thomas Benneck
Check out this exclusive interview with Jimmy James of The True Loves blog.kexp.org
El Perro Del Mar (literally "The Dog of the Sea" in Spanish) is the musical project of Sarah Assbring from Gothenburg, Sweden.
Download the track "Took Your Picture” from this Cult album Offering....for free by visiting blog.kexp.org
Chastity Belt stopped by the KEXP studio earlier this year...it's worth a gander... www.youtube.com
Keen on The War On Drugs? Watch this fantastic in-studio performance from earlier this summer www.youtube.com
Fever Ray aka Karin Elisabeth Dreijer is a Swedish singer, songwriter and record producer. She was one half of the electronic music duo The Knife, formed with her brother Olof Dreijer.
New Energy is Kieran Hebden’s ninth full-length album
Robert Smith co-produced for the first time with Mike Hedges for this album Seventeen Seconds. After the departure of original bassist Michael Dempsey, Simon Gallup became an official member along with keyboardist Matthieu Hartley. This specific track "A Forest" was the band's first entry in the Top 40 of the UK Singles Chart.
You can download this track (for free!!) "On and On” by Curtis Harding from his album Face Your Fear blog.kexp.org
Bette Smith moved from Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn to Water Valley, Mississippi, where she recorded the album Jetlagger with Jimbo Mathus, a roots music connoisseur who used to play with legendary bluesman Buddy Guy.
According to the band’s guitarist Derek Miller, inspiration for the new material for the album "Kid Kruschev" came pretty quickly thanks to singer Alexis Krauss’ new home in the more rural areas of New York City, where she embraced the isolation from the city’s traditional hustle and bustle.
Download "Mothers of the Sun” by Black Mountain by visting blog.kexp.org
Rose Windows performing live during KEXP's New Home Ground Breaking at Seattle Center www.youtube.com
Memphis, Tennessee artist Julien Baker plays Friday, December 8th at the Neptune Theatre
Sharon Jones died last November after a battle with pancreatic cancer. The release of the album The Soul of a Woman is a fitting cap to her career
Al Green covers "I Can't Get Next to You" by The Temptations, which was released in 1969, written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong for the Gordy (Motown) label.
Neon Indian features on new Boulevards song “Nu Burn Ave (Intercruise)” from Boulevards’ upcoming album Hurtown, USA
St. Vincent plays both Thursday, January 18th and Friday, January 19th at the Moore Theatre!
"Heart of Glass" was written by singer Debbie Harry and guitarist Chris Stein. It was released as the album's third single in January 1979 and reached number one on the charts in several countries, including the United States and the United Kingdom.
Check out this review from when M83 played Sasquatch in 2016 blog.kexp.org
“The lyrics are kind of about anxiety. But there’s also a current of the culture of crucifying and internet shaming. Getting into that world of these people that are doing things that are harmful to society and the world, they probably have this intense feeling of guilt and shame. This song is kind of calling them out.” Go behind the scenes of MGMT's 'Little Dark Age' music video...ew.com
