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Thursday, Oct 22 2015, 6AM
Jamie xx stopped by KEXP while he was in town for Capitol Hill Block Party and recorded an awesome Midnight in a Perfect World! You can check it out, along with other great sets, right here! www.kexp.org Jamie xx likes doing DJ sets all around so look for more from him, one of my favorites was one he did with Four Tet for BBC Radio 1!
Youth Lagoon release his 3rd album last month and will be playing at Neumos on Friday, November 20th! I'd get your tickets now, I'm sure this show is going to sell out!
If you're not tired out from Youth Lagoon on Friday then you should stop by the Crocodile on Saturday, November 21st for Low! They always put on a great show!
Say Hi is currently on tour with Telekinesis and Michael Lerner is playing in Say Hi's band and Eric Elbogen is playing in Telekinesis! That seems like it would be so tiring! They will be ending their country wide tour at Neumos on Saturday, November 7th! This is also Say Hi's second vampire themed record!
12" single version of Never Stop! This version is a whole minute and 15 seconds longer than the 7" version! December will mark the 10th anniversary of legendary band, Echo & The Bunnymen performing at KEXP! www.kexp.org
Painted Palms will be stopping by KEXP on Tuesday, October 27th at 1 PM and will be playing at the Crocodile the next day with Small Black!
New Majical Cloudz came out last week! They will be playing at Barboza on Saturday, January 23rd! Who knows, maybe they'll stop by KEXP too? It's still a ways down the road so it's hard to say!
Atlas Sound opened up for Deerhunter at a sold out Showbox last night! I bet Bradford Cox is pretty tired after they completed the first leg of their tour last night! They'll be heading off to Europe next week! Be sure to check out the new Deerhunter album, it's great deerhuntermusic.com
Song for song cover of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon by The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and featuring Henry Rollins and Peaches on most of the songs! It was originally released digitally and has only been released on vinyl for Record Store Day in 2010!
The Chemical Brothers released their first album in 5 years this past summer and it has some pretty great guests on it, like Cate Le Bon on this song! The album also features Q-Tip, Annie Clark/St. Vincent and Beck! www.thechemicalbrothers.com
You can pick up Metric's new album, released last month, on their website or any of your local record shops! www.ilovemetric.com They are currently touring, but nowhere near Seattle right now
Soft Cell's biggest song, Tainted Love, is a cover of a Gloria Jones song from 1964! Gloria Jones was most known for dating Marc Bolan of T.Rex and the one driving during the accident that killed Bolan!
Dan Auerbach is one of the busiest people in music! This is his new project on top of the Black Keys and producing a bunch of great albums like Ultraviolence by Lana Del Rey, one of the biggest albums of the year last year! Check out videos and stuff from The Arcs right here www.thearcs.com
Protomartyr just released their second album in a little over a year and second on Hardly Art! Pick it up at your local record store because not only is it super cheap, it's also on really pretty vinyl and comes with a zine of the lyrics! They're not stopping in Seattle soon, but their label is based here so I wouldn't be surprised if it happens soon! In the meantime check out their in studio from last year! kexp.org
Want to learn more about Mission of Burma? Check out this awesome book about the lives of bands such as Mission of Burma, Black Flag, Fugazi, Sonic Youth, Mudhoney and even moer great bands! www.amazon.com
Australian band, Blank Realm, were featured on a mix tape for Cassette Store Day this past weekend, and it looks pretty cool! www.riceisnice.net
R.E.M. have been around for over 30 years and have released 15 studio albums in that time! Read more about them on their website, well kind of, it just links you to other biographies about them! www.remhq.com
Aloe Blacc isn't up to much at the moment, he released an album about a year ago and probably finished up touring not too long ago! Take a look at his website though and you'll find his music and his merch www.aloeblacc.com
Leonard Cohen released his first album in 1967, almost 50 years ago and is still releasing albums! He has 13 overall, which isn't very many for such a long time! To put that in perspective, Bob Dylan, has released 36 albums in 52 years! And for the most part Cohen has been consistently releasing albums every 4 years or so!
Childbirth are a supergroup of Julia Shapiro of Chastity Belt, Bree McKenna of TacocaT and Stacy Peck of Ponytime! Buy Childbirth underwear right here! childbirth.bandcamp.com
X-Ray Spex are an unusual punk band in that they featured a saxophone as one of their instruments! And behind the saxophone? A 15 year old girl who went by Lora Logic. Her parts went uncredited but she later played for The Raincoats, The Stranglers and Boy George!
All I wanted was a Pepsi!!!!!!!!!!!! This is one of the videos parodied by FIDLAR from their video for 40 oz. on Repeat! www.youtube.com
!!! will be playing at the Crocodile on Tuesday, December 1st! And here's the website because it's always hard to search for !!!(chk chk chk) www.chkchkchk.net
Growing up I always loved this song and it seems like such a happy song, I soon learned that it was about the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan. The song has a great dynamic of feelings
It looks like a new Gorillaz album will be arriving next year! Here's an update from Albarn! pitchfork.com
Telekinesis is on a country wide touring with Say Hi with Eric Elbogen of Say Hi playing in Telekinesis and Michael Lerner of Telekinesis playing in Say Hi! They will be closing out their tour at Neumos on Saturday, November 7th!
Grace Love & The True Loves have been taking Seattle by storm the past year! They will be live on KEXP on Wednesday, January 13th at 3 PM, and if you can't wait that long they will be playing at Easy Street Records next Friday, October 30th at 7 PM!
George Clinton released a book last year, check out the details here! georgeclinton.com
Public Enemy released their 13th studio album earlier this year! www.publicenemy.com
Broken Bells released this single ahead of the release of their concert film, Broken Bells: Live at the Orpheum! pitchfork.com
Iron & Wine keep on releasing new stuff! He just released a 7" of covers of Neil Young and The Four Tops! ironandwine.com He also recently teamed up with Ben Bridwell of Band of Horses for an all cover album!
Radiohead have announced that they have finished recording their new album and just need to mix it and select the songs they want to release! They are also hoping to tour next year!
Like what you hear? Listen to more from Tijuana Panthers here! tijuanapanthers.com
One of KEXP's favorites, Courtney Barnett, just stopped by Third Man Records to record a 7" with Jack White! You can pick it up at a record store near you or listen to it here! www.theguardian.com
Listen to more from Jacuzzi Boys right here! www.jacuzziboys.com They also have a video for the title track to this EP!
Listen to Hot Chip's in studio from a couple years ago where they perform an analog session! kexp.org
For the 10th anniversary of Feels Animal Collective are releasing a live recording from 2004! www.musictimes.com
Dilly Dally will be playing live on KEXP on Wednesday, October 28th at 3 PM and then playing later that night at the Sunset!
Check out the Wavves store, you'll find some CD and vinyl bundles and some pretty great shirts! Take a look for yourself! shop.thehyv.net
Josh Homme has been a staple in the music scene for almost 30 years now! I highly recommend watching the LA episode of Sonic Highways just to hear about Kyuss and the desert rock scene that surrounded them!
Watch some sweet JSBX videos right here! thejonspencerbluesexplosion.com
The Libertines released their first album in over 10 years! www.thelibertines.com
Ride will be performing at the Neptune Theater on Monday, November 16!