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Monday, Jun 11 2012, 6AM
"cause it's Monday; you ain't got no job... and you ain't got shit to do." - the movie Friday if it was set on a Monday
Santigold enlisted the help of Diplo, Q-Tip, Buraka Som Sistema and Dave Sitek for production duties
Longtime Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich sought out Here We Go Magic after being one of the few in attendance during their 2010 slot at Glastonbury, eventually producing A Different Ship, the group's third album
Dig Your Own Hole was the duo's first number one hit in the UK
Playing a record release party (with Brain Fruit and Not To Reason Why) - Friday, July 6th at the Sunset Tavern
Playing "Come to the City" LIVE on KEXP - youtu.be (come for the music, stay for the hilarious back-and-forth comments)
What kind of fuzzbox do you think Dan uses? Ibanez Standard? Gibson Maestro? Sovtek Big Muff?
Spektor's sixth full-length, but the first expressing her admiration for the loge
Check out the music video for another track off I Love You, It's Cool that's decidedly lysergic in nature - youtu.be
Zombies cover! This was a Record Store Day release (on orange vinyl)
LIVE on KEXP - Friday, August 3rd at 1:00 on the Midday Show
Cover-wise, the only difference between the two releases (Lennon's and Ono's) is that Yoko is lying on John's lap on the latter
Apropos of John Lennon below, Caveman was also a 1981 film starring Ringo Starr
Womack's first album of new material in 18 years, co-produced by Damon Albarn (Blur, Gorillaz) and Richard Russell (who also did Gil Scott-Heron's I'm New Here)
Debut album out June 19th! Check out their CD release party at the Crocodile on June 23rd with Head Like A Kite
The London, ON singer/songwriter (who goes by the pseudonym Al Spx) is coming to town August 15th at Barboza
Splurge on the sumptuous 2xLP... totally worth it for the sleeve and gatefold alone - lightintheattic.net
Fellow Sonic Youth band member Steve Shelley also plays on this album, drums naturally
Don't drop the soapp... they'll be playing this year's Capitol Hill Block Party so stay tuned
Dude, crocodiles have been around for over 200 million years... chew on that for a while
Their somewhat awkward interview with Nardwuar (and a strange anecdote involving Google Street View) - youtu.be
First of the Berlin Trilogy with Brian Eno
Play TONIGHT at Neumos with Cadence Weapon. Unofficial show tagline? "A lineup you can really sweat to"
This is the 'mosh-in-place-while-listening-to-KEXP' set, just watch your elbows... safety's important, ya'know?
Rumours abound over a collaboration with Radiohead. Stay tuned!
The eternal badass' 11th full-length and still sounding, well, badass. Television's Tom Verlaine (!) also plays guitar on several of the tracks
S.C.U.M. bassist Huw Webb is the younger brother of the Horrors' Rhys Webb
Yppah, then living in Texas, went surfing so frequently during the album's recording that he picked up and moved to Long Beach, CA where he finished up the album
Another cut from Heaven, this one featured on the KEXP Song of the Day Podcast not long ago - blog.kexp.org
Overheard in the station - "they're working on a new album!"
Check out video from their in-studio session here at KEXP - youtu.be
For Blockhead's fifth album he drew inspiration from "an after hours New York City public access show that ran throughout the 80’s and early 90’s"
New music from Simiam Mobile Disco, going into more of a house jam direction on this one
Side D4 on the original 3XLP from 1980, in case you were wondering
In which April from Parks & Rec (Aubrey Plaza) goes crazy at a wake - youtu.be
Have you ever wondered what senior citizens think about The Walkmen? Well, here you go (spoiler alert: they don't like them) - youtu.be
"Academy Fight Song" was the band's first single, released in 1980 as a 7" on Ace of Hearts Records
Hard not to picture the Supreme Pontiff voguing to this song...
Radiohead released this on last year's Record Store Day, shipping out the 12"s with the labels misapplied on the wrong side... whoops
An interview with Kevin Shields on the Loveless reissue and why record labels are "psychopathic" - pitchfork.com
Playing a sold out show with Grouplove tomorrow at Webster Hall in New York. reptarmusic.com