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Wednesday, Sep 13 2017, 1AM
Read a review of the last time Beach House came through Seattle--blog.kexp.org
Grizzly Bear will be playing in Seattle this winter, on Friday December 8th
A new release from the local group, you can find a Live on KEXP-and the FIRST in our newly LIT studio here: www.youtube.com
one of 2017 Nominees for the Mercury Prize. Her latest Let Them Eat Chaos is a narration of strangers awake at 4:16 am..and an approaching storm..see a Live on KEXP here: www.youtube.com
This album was shortlisted for the Mercury Prize in 2007
You can hear about the Cactus Blossoms on the new season of Twin Peaks with KEXP's own DJ Morgan as she talks with Music Supervisor Dean Hurley here: soundcloud.com
You can read about "I Took Your Picture" via the KEXP blog here: blog.kexp.org
"Pictures of You" was performed when the Cure stopped by Sasquatch two years ago... even better live than recorded.. check out a live version of the song here: www.youtube.com and read about the Sasquatch performance via the KEXP blog here: blog.kexp.org
The newest from London's HMLTD, a bit of the slower tune than their previous releases so far: www.youtube.com . You can find them as part of Abbie's Music that Matters playlist: blog.kexp.org
Shortlisted for the Mercury Prize in 1995 alongside Elastica, Oasis, Tricky, and more.
Collaborator Sara Quin writes "I always feel like an interloper on that side of town and the phrase 'freaking out and paralyzed' was suddenly looping in my head. I couldn't stop thinking about how finding someone who loves the more complicated parts of you is a relief, especially when they're not turned off by your socially awkward insecurities or tendencies to retreat inward. Matthew's music has always been my go-to for late-night bus rides in headphones and I still geek out that we made this together!"
Based from Seattle ! You can keep up with them here: murdervibes.com
Zola Jesus will be playing at the Crocodile on October 19th, you can find a Live on KEXP with Zola Jesus here: www.youtube.com
Winner of the Mercury Prize in 2003, The song heavily samples the main beat and vocals from "The Big Beat" by rock musician Billy Squier
you can find the song Live on KEXP from the Doug Fir Lounge during Musicfest Northwest 2013 here: www.youtube.com
St. Vincent has (finally!) made the official announcement about her forthcoming album! In a live press conference via Facebook, Annie Clark revealed that the album will be titled MASSEDUCTION (pronounced “mass-seduction” not “mass-education”) and will be released October 13 via Loma Vista. “Every record I make has an archetype. Strange Mercy was Housewives on Pills. St. Vincent was Near-Future Cult Leader. MASSEDUCTION is different, it’s pretty first person. You can’t fact-check it, but if you want to know about my life, listen to this record.”
So named because as they often watched CNN's coverage of the 2008 presidential election as they recorded, the pair noticed that nearly every issue was dubbed a generational issue.
If All I Was Was Black, consists of 11 songs written by Jeff Tweedy with three co-written with Mavis Staples, including the title track we're premiering here. (Jeff wrote the music while Mavis contributed to the lyrics).
A surprise win in 2005 for the Mercury Prize: www.youtube.com
Moses Sumney is playing the Crocodile on September 28th-You can read a live review from the last time he was in Seattle here: blog.kexp.org
Nominated for the Mercury Prize in 2015. The Prize has no categories, and is open to all genres of music. There are 12 shortlisted ‘Albums of the Year’ and 1 overall winner. The genres of music that are represented tend to vary from year to year.
Playing WaMu on October 13th, you can see a Live on KEXP with ALt-J here: www.youtube.com
Playing the LoFi Lounge on September 15th, you can keep up with them here: newagehealers.bandcamp.com
Kurt Vile and Courtney Barnett are playing TOGETHER on October 21st at the Moore Theatre and the Showbox on the 22nd--two of my favorite videos on the internet--Courtney: www.youtube.com Kurt: www.youtube.com
Rostam will be Live in our KEXP studios on September 18th at noon, RSVP and find more info here: www.facebook.com
Check out a Live on KEXP: www.youtube.com
L'appel du vide, literally "the call of the void", is a French phrase used to refer to intrusive thoughts or the urge to engage in a self-destructive behavior during everyday life--follow the band here: actors.bandcamp.com
Winner of the Mercury Prize in 1992, here's the song live: www.youtube.com
a Local artist and aspiring stand-up comic, you can find out more on the all local hip-hop comp here: lightintheattic.net
On the shortlist for the Mercury Prize tomorrow www.mercuryprize.com
Playing the Showbox on February 20th--check out the "static video" here: www.youtube.com
Nominated for the Mercury Prize in 1993. Stereo MCs are a British hip hop/electronic dance group which formed in Clapham, London, in 1985.
Check out the video here: www.youtube.com , which director Jon Emmony describes as “the creatures, formed from sections cut and twisted from insects, crustaceans and bone are arranged in sculptural compositions inspired by artists such as Hieronymus Bosch; finding the surreal within mixed forms and scales. The movement for the creatures is powered through generated simulations – randomised numbers and splines are generated and the position of each creature along these splines are calculated; seemingly without reason but born from the choices of software."
Radiohead has been nominated three times for the Mercury Prize, but has yet to win a single time--check out KEXP's Live review of when Radiohead stopped by this past April
If you missed the Mynabirds when they played at the Sunset Tavern on the 10th you can always find it Live on KEXP here: www.youtube.com
The War on Drugs are playing the Moore on Monday & Tuesday October 9 & 10
Check out a KEXP Song of the Day Post with Geowulf's "Saltwater": blog.kexp.org
"I had a lot of night terrors and sleep paralysis, so we wanted to incorporate that as a big element of the video, with me kind of having to struggle with not being sure if I’m waking up in reality, or being stuck and trapped in a dream," : www.youtube.com
"our feminist rap took like 3 years to finish, to get the words to say what we meant and the beats the right kind of weird. i’ve written about gender in the past, girls, being in the container of a girl, but I feel like I got my mouth around more of it this time. i generally talk too much I’m always throwing words around trying to nail my target so whenever I make a direct hit it’s pretty great. the b.s. of how gender has been organized can be kinda hard to talk about in a way that doesn’t feel bleh" : www.youtube.com
That harmonizing sound familiar? That's because Cende features Porches’ Cameron Wisch and LVL UP’s Greg Rutkin among its four members--this is the song it might remind you of: www.youtube.com
Read about it via the KEXP blog as a Song of the Day" blog.kexp.org
Ravenna Woods is playing at the first annual Lyftfest here in Seattle ! The festival is on Sunday, September 17 at the Mural Amphitheatre from 4:30 - 8:30 PM. Other local Lyft drivers will have art and things set up in the area as well !
Drab Majesty is playing at the Seattle Pacific Center Laser Dome on October 7th--
James Blake was the winner of the 2013 Mercury Prize, you can see his Live on KEXP here: www.youtube.com
Check out a beautiful Sharon Van Etten via KEXP Pickathon coverage: www.youtube.com
