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Number 609 - Strawberry Jam is Animal Collective's seventh studio album and the band's first on Domino Records.
Number 608 - The White Stripes named De Stijl after the dutch art movement of the same name, which included the painter Mondrian and furniture designer Gerrit Rietveld.
Number 607 - Manipulator is the seventh studio album by Ty Segall, released on August 25, 2014 on Drag City. The album took 14 months to complete, much longer than any previous Segall release.
Number 605 - Bandwagonesque was voted 'album of the year' for 1991 by music magazine Spin, famously beating Nirvana's landmark album Nevermind.
Number 604 - Producer Joe Boyd recruited Fairport Convention guitarist Richard Thompson and Pentangle bassist Danny Thompson to back Nick Drake on this album.
Number 603 - "Little Trouble Girl" features vocals by Kim Gordon, Kim Deal (from the Pixies and The Breeders) along with Memphis singer-songwriters Melissa Dunn and Lorette Velvette.
Number 602 - Not a Pretty Girl is the sixth studio album released by Ani DiFranco. It was released July 18, 1995.
Number 601 - Blessings was a truly collaborative project. The mixtape credits 12 co-different producers, including Kaytranada and Kanye West, and over twenty guest vocalists, including Jamila Woods, Noname and more.
Number 600 - Mothership Connection became Parliament's first album to be certified gold and later platinum. It was also the first P-Funk album to feature Maceo Parker and Fred Wesley, who had left The J.B.'s, James Brown's backing band
Number 599 - The Campfire Headphase is the third studio album by Boards of Canada, released by Warp Records in October 2005. The album is notable for its extensive use of organic musical elements, including heavily treated acoustic guitars.
Number 598 - Iggy Pop relocated to London to record this album, which was co-produced by David Bowie.
Number 596 - Former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr joined Modest Mouse for We Were Dead Before the Ship Sank.
"We've Got Everything" features back-up vocals from James Mercer of the Shins and Broken Bells.
"We've Got Everything" features back-up vocals from James Mercer of the Shins and Broken Bells.
Number 595 - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn is Pink Floyd's debut album, released 4 August 1967 on EMI Columbia. It is the only one made under founding member Syd Barrett's leadership.
Number 594 - Going Blank Again is the second studio album by Ride, released in 1992.
Ride play the Crocodile on Tuesday, October 8.
Ride play the Crocodile on Tuesday, October 8.
Number 593 - The Mirror Conspiracy is the second studio album by electronic duo Thievery Corporation, released on April 2, 2000 by ESL Music.
"Le Monde" features guest vocals from LouLou Ghelichkhani and guest guitar from Chris Vreinos.
Number 592 - Liquid Swords is the second solo studio album by Wu-Tang Clan member GZA, released on November 7, 1995. Recording sessions for the album began midway through 1995 at producer RZA's basement studio in Staten Island. The album heavily samples dialogue from the martial arts film Shogun Assassin.
Number 591 - Beck co-produced Mutations with Nigel Godrich, who had recently finished producing Radiohead's OK Computer.
Number 590 - Franz Ferdinand won the 2004 Mercury Prize for this album.
Number 589 - Candy Apple Grey is Hüsker Dü's fifth studio album, released in 1986. It was their first major label album, though Warner Bros.
Number 588 - Carnavas is Silversun Pickup's debut studio album. The title is an homage to lead guitarist and vocalist Brian Aubert's Greek heritage.
Number 587 - Tell Me How You Really Feel is Courtney Barnett's second studio album.
Barack Obama selected "Need a Little Time," another song from this album, as one of his favorite songs of 2018. See more: www.facebook.com
Barack Obama selected "Need a Little Time," another song from this album, as one of his favorite songs of 2018. See more: www.facebook.com
Number 586 - Springsteen celebrated the 35th anniversary of The River by releasing this boxed set, The Ties That Bind: The River Collection on December 4, 2015.
Number 585 - Rabbit Fur Coat was Jenny Lewis' first recording venture outside of Rilo Kiley, a solo album of sorts, featuring support from Kentucky duo the Watson Twins.
Number 584 - The song title "Baba O'Riley" is a combination of the names of two of The Who guitarist Pete Townshend's philosophical and musical influences: Meher Baba and Terry Riley.
Number 583 - The Age of Adz is the sixth studio album by Sufjan Stevens, released on October 12, 2010 by Asthmatic Kitty. It was Stevens' first song-based full-length album in five years, since the release of Illinois in 2005.
Number 582 - Hold on Now, Youngster... was the debut album from British indie pop group Los Campesinos!
Number 581 - Mark Lanegan's second studio album turned 25 in January of this year!
Number 580 - The Weight Is a Gift was released by Seattle-based record label Barsuk Records and was produced by Death Cab for Cutie guitarist Chris Walla
Number 579 - Future Island's 2014 performance of this song on Letterman was a career trajectory-changing moment. Video of the performance went viral and led the band to bigger stages. See it here: www.youtube.com
Number 578 - Mink Car is the eighth studio album by They Might Be Giants, released on September 11, 2001, on the Restless Records label.
Number 577 - Separation Sunday is the second studio album by the Hold Steady, a concept album that follows the interconnected stories of several fictional characters as they travel from city to city and party to party.
Number 576 - Let England Shake was written over a two-and-a-half year period, and recorded in five weeks at a church in Dorset, England during April and May 2010.
Number 575 - Muchacho (Spanish for "boy") is the sixth studio album by Phosphorescent, released on March 19, 2013 on Dead Oceans. Matthew Houck produced the album himself, working out of his studio in Greenpoint, NY.
Number 574 - Time (The Revelator) was the first album released on Gillian Welch's label Acony Records. Welch named her label after the acony bell flower, which is typically first to bloom in spring, even with snow still on the ground.
Number 573 - The Sophtware Slump is Grandaddy's second studio album. The album was written and recorded by frontman Jason Lytle alone in a remote farmhouse.
He has been quoted as saying: "I just remember everything out there was dusty. Humidity and dust" and described having made the recordings "in my boxer shorts, bent over keyboards with sweat dripping off my forehead, frustrated, hungover."
He has been quoted as saying: "I just remember everything out there was dusty. Humidity and dust" and described having made the recordings "in my boxer shorts, bent over keyboards with sweat dripping off my forehead, frustrated, hungover."
Number 572 - Noble Beast is Andrew Bird's fifth studio album.
Number 571 - Florence + the Machine hold the record for most-viewed in-studio at KEXP. The group's 2010 performance of "Cosmic Love" has over 32 million views. See it here: www.youtube.com
Number 570 - Emotional Mugger is the eighth studio album by Ty Segall, released on January 22, 2016 on Drag City Records.
To tour in support of Emotional Mugger, Segall assembled a backing band featuring the album's various collaborators. Performing under the name of Ty Segall and the Muggers, the band toured extensively, with Segall often wearing a baby mask and adopting the name of Sloppo. See their performance on KEXP from that tour cycle: www.youtube.com
To tour in support of Emotional Mugger, Segall assembled a backing band featuring the album's various collaborators. Performing under the name of Ty Segall and the Muggers, the band toured extensively, with Segall often wearing a baby mask and adopting the name of Sloppo. See their performance on KEXP from that tour cycle: www.youtube.com
Number 569 - dubnobasswithmyheadman is Underworld's third studio album and their first featuring Darren Emerson as a band member.
Number 568 - Awaken, My Love is the third studio album by Donald Glover, under his stage name Childish Gambino.
Number 567 - One Beat is the sixth studio album by Sleater-Kinney, released on August 20, 2002, by Kill Rock Stars. It was produced by John Goodmanson and recorded between March and April 2002 at Jackpot! Studio in Portland, Oregon.
Number 566 - After the Gold Rush is the third studio album by Neil Young, which was released in 1970 in the wake of the chart-topping Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young record Déjà Vu
Number 565 - Over the course of her career, Billie Holiday released twelve studio albums. The track, "Gloomy Sunday," was composed by Hungarian pianist and composer Rezső Seress
Number 564 - Seen as a landmark album of post-punk, Juju is the fourth album from Siouxsie and the Banshees and was released in 1981.
Number 563 - Voodoo is D'Angelo's second studio album. D'Angelo wrote most of Voodoo at Electric Lady Studio in New York.
Number 562 - Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space) is Digable Planets' debut studio album.
Number 560 - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga is Spoon's sixth studio album. Spoon struggled to write "You Got Yr Cherry Bomb," recording three entirely different versions before settling on this arrangement.
Number 559 - Black on Both Sides is Yasiin Bey aka Mos Def's debut studio album. Bey had previously collaborated with Talib Kweli for the album Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star in 1998, which raised high expectations for Bey's debut.
Number 558 - St Vincent is the St. Vincent's fourth album. She has described the album as "a party record you could play at a funeral."
Number 557 - Vampire Weekend play WaMu Theater with Soccer Mommy next Friday, September 27.
Number 556 - Crosby, Stills & Nash is Crosby, Stills & Nash's self-titled debut, released in 1969 on the Atlantic.
