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Future Islands will play Neptune Theatre on Saturday, September 23rd.
Foxygen is only one of the great bands playing this year's Sasquatch! Music Festival. Tickets are still available. www.sasquatchfestival.com
Thundercat is playing Capital Hill Block Party on Friday, July 21st. He also just announced additional tour dates if you can't be in Seattle that weekend. www.rollingstone.com
Cold Beat's latest release, 'Chaos By Invitation', is out now coldbeatsf.bandcamp.com
Air is playing a few dates in California at the end of next month 6/23-6/25 (San Francisco, Santa Barbara and LA) but that's the closest they're coming to Seattle. Road trip! www.aircheology.com
We don't have Pond's latest in-studio up yet, so in the meantime please enjoy their 2014 in-studio on us! www.youtube.com
From their January 2017 in-studio, here's 46 minutes of Car Seat Headrest! www.youtube.com and you can catch them live at Sasquatch! over Memorial Day Weekend.
From 2015, here's Ought performing live in the KEXP studio www.youtube.com
Tune in Friday, May 19th, as KEXP celebrates Six Degrees of David Byrne, a day of “on-the-fly” programming inspired by the music of David Byrne. Starting at 6 am on The Morning Show, John will start his show with a song by Byrne and one of his many projects, and each song played thereafter will somehow link to the song played before it and we'll continue all day wrapping up on The Afternoon Show @ 6 pm. You're taking a PTO day, right?
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Sylvan Esso are playing two sold out shows @ Neptune Theatre on Friday, August 18th and Saturday, August 19th. www.sylvanesso.com
On describing his live set Clark states "If you see me play, my hands are all over the place – literally I’m doing every single thing. Everything that happens on stage is being played and created live. It’s very interactive. So in that respect, it is very much based on live instrumentation." www.facebook.com
Not only is he playing at Sasquatch! this month, but you can also catch him at Bumbershoot in September. Check out tour dates here porterray.bandcamp.com
From their upcoming release 'Chariot - B-Sides and Rarities' out June 30
Keith Mitchell, longtime drummer for Mazzy Star and a member of Opal, Monitor and Green on Red, died Sunday. The band confirmed Mitchell's death, though a cause of death was not revealed. Mitchell provided drums on all four of Mazzy Star's albums: 1990's She Hangs Brightly, their breakout 1993 album So Tonight That I Might See (featuring the hit "Fade Into You"), 1996's Among My Swan and the band's 2013 reunion album Seasons of Your Day.
Lots of great bands on this Carpenter's tribute album. Check out Cracker's "Rainy Days and Mondays" sometime. it's shiny.
digging that bass line? That's Ali Friend who was a member of the British instrumental band, Red Snapper. They were an acid jazz trio that was active from 1993 to 2002.
Let's wake this joint up! this is the Cut Chemist Mix from DJ HERO Game & here's the track list en.wikipedia.org
Considered the first recognized popular single to feature scratching and other turntablist techniques, performed by GrandMixer D.ST - an influential DJ in the early years of turntablism.
Kevin Garcia, the original and longtime bassist for the band Grandaddy passed away earlier this month after suffering a massive stroke; he was 41 years old. He is survived by his wife and two sons. A GoFundMe site has been set up to help his family www.gofundme.com
She's on Merge Records and, according to the label, "With little more than a bass, drum machine, and deadpan vocals, Sneaks, a.k.a. Eva Moolchan, makes minimalist music that takes up space—something she herself has made a point of doing in the male-heavy Washington, D.C., DIY punk scene that has been her home." Sound pretty good, right? www.mergerecords.com
Catch 'em live on Thursday, August 17th at Black Lodge www.facebook.com
From 2013, here's Savages' powerful in-studio. strap in! www.youtube.com
My Bloody Valentine took almost 2 years and spent over £250,000 to record this album. Following the record's release, My Bloody Valentine were removed from their record label, Creation Records, due to the difficulty and expense of working with band leader, Kevin Shields, a factor that was alleged to have contributed to the bankruptcy of the label. The album didn't have much commercial success when released, but has gone on to be known as one of the best albums released in the 1990s and a landmark shoegaze album.
Here's Moon Duo's in-studio from April and it includes a live version of "Cold Fear" www.youtube.com
Here's Little Dragon's in-studio from September 2014, hosted by Mr Larry Rose www.youtube.com
Here's their in-studio (hosted by Troy Nelson) from last month and they are playing Sasquatch! over Memorial Day weekend www.youtube.com
This version too short for you? There's an 8-minute version of the song, remixed by U.N.K.L.E., on Can's double remix album Sacrilege.
A KEXP premiere! This is a brand new song from Grizzly Bear's upcoming 'Painted Ruins' album due out August 18th. They've also announced a fall tour and will be playing The Moore Theatre on Friday, December 8th
Girlpool will be live at Neumos on Friday, May 26th. Holy Crap! That's next week!
A lot of great tracks on this album and the first single from the album,“Anymore” was recently remixed by Ralphi Rosario and you can check it out right here! www.popmatters.com
DARKSIDE is the collaboration of electronic musician Nicolas Jaar and Brooklyn multi-instrumentalist Dave Harrington who first met while they were both students at Brown University. They started recording together in 2011 and have been on hiatus since 2014. www.darksideusa.com
Harding has worked as a backup singer for Cee Lo Green, spent time in a Georgia rap group Proseed and has also played in Black Lips guitarist Cole Alexander's band, Night Sun. This track is from his 2014 release 'Soul Power'
It's the KEXP Song Of The Day! Grab a free copy...I command thee! blog.kexp.org
Here's their classic in-studio, only from KEXP! www.youtube.com
Perfume Genius plays Capital Hill Block Party on Sunday, July 23rd www.capitolhillblockparty.com