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The duo has numerous dates throughout the US this summer. odesza.com To get hyped, checkout their KEXP session. www.youtube.com
In an interview with Time Out magazine, she said: "It was my idea to work with Thom. We spent four days in Spain just singing as and when we felt like it. He's a very pure soul and I know he doesn't do things lightly. So it was great that he agreed".
PJ has done the music for Shane Meadows' new show `The Virtues'. The 4-part drama tackles themes of repressed memory, apocalyptic revenge and the hope of redemption.
‘The Crowded Cell,’ a new song by PJ Harvey, closes each of the 4 episodes.
The trailer for ‘The Virtues’ can be viewed here: youtu.be
Bombay Bicycle Club will be embarking on a US tour this fall.
"I joke with my friends that pronoun is so sad and vulnerable," says Alyse Vellturo, the woman behind synth-pop sensation pronoun. "Like tiny teeny, woe is her. Everything is all small."
Check out Books on Fate's 2013 performance at KEXP here: www.youtube.com
As opposed to the recording of the debut album (which had only taken one week), this album's recordings were spread out over two years in multiple studios and would involve the work of four different producers as well as production involvement by the band members themselves. The band would find themselves at odds with their A&R man Dave Bates, who saw the band as generators of hit singles and who had selected the album producers (whom Chadwick deemed "quite obviously wrong for us") as well as commissioning remixes which the band loathed and had not authorised.
Yo La Tengo will be playing the Huichica Festival in Walla Walla, WA September 13-14.
Check out Silversun Pickups' live in-studio at KEXP here: www.youtube.com
New song from Lost Under Heaven, who recommends, "listening to it LOUD preferably on headphones whilst stomping thru dirt ridden streets."
Take a look at KEXP's recent article with LCD Soundsystem detailing their 'Electric Lady Sessions': www.kexp.org
Their album, Small Mercies, was just released on 4AD. They will be playing at Barboza on August 6th!
'Beneath the Eyrie' album will be released September 13th. Happy birthday Joey Santiago!
Check out Aldous Harding's live in-studio session (2017) here: www.youtube.com
Kishi Bashi will be playing at the Washington Hall next Sunday June 16.
The re-pressing of Feels LP was released last year (2018) and includes a live recording from August 2004 at Neumos in Seattle.
"I wanted to write a song that presented a resigned, even joyful look at doom," recalls David Byrne in the liner notes of Once in a Lifetime: The Best of Talking Heads. "At our deaths and at the apocalypse… (always looming, folks). I think it succeeded. The front bit, the white gospel choir, is kind of tacked on, 'cause I didn't think the rest of the song was enough… I mean, it was only two chords. So, out of embarrassment, or shame, I wrote an intro section that had a couple more in it."
In another first for R.E.M., who had opposed including the lyrics with their albums, many of the words of "Can't Get There from Here" appeared in the video for the song. The video features band members frolicking in hay fields, throwing popcorn at each other at a drive-in movie, and big insects. "We used the new-to-us 'blue screen' process," Buck explained to MTV UK in 2001, during An Hour with R.E.M. "So we have dinosaurs and monsters in the background. It's probably the most humorous video we've ever done. For a band that's kind of noted for not having a sense of humor, I kind of enjoy that aspect of it."
Happy birthday Mike Doughty! Irresistible Bliss was Soul Coughing's second studio album, released in 1996. The band initially planned for Tchad Blake, producer of their first album Ruby Vroom, to produce the album, but the death of a family member in a car accident caused Blake to take a hiatus. Over the objections of his bandmates and his record label, Slash Records/Warner Bros., frontman Mike Doughty hired producer David Kahne (Fishbone, The Bangles, Sublime, Tony Bennett, Sugar Ray, The Strokes); he was intent on following up the wild sonics of Ruby Vroom with a tightly wound, trembly, New Wave–inspired record.
Geto Boys’ Bushwick Bill died Sunday evening, his publicist confirmed to Associated Press and on Instagram. Earlier this year, he was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. He was 52. Bushwick Bill was born Richard Stephen Shaw in Kingston, Jamaica and raised in Brooklyn. He made his name in Houston, joining Geto Boys in the late 1980s as a dancer under the name “Little Billy”—a reference to his height (which is commonly listed as 3'9"). He was encouraged to start rapping when his peers heard him performing his favorite Public Enemy songs.
This was sampled in the Geto Boys song "Mind Playing Tricks on Me."
Mavis Staples will be performing at the CHOMP Food & Sustainability Fair (August 17) in Redmond, WA.
"Could You Be Loved" was released in 1980 on their last album Uprising and is included on Bob Marley & The Wailers greatest hits album Legend. It was written in 1979 on an aeroplane while The Wailers were experimenting on guitar.
In the middle of the song, background singers quote a verse from Bob Marley's first single "Judge Not": "The road of life is rocky; And you may stumble too. So while you point your fingers, someone else is judging you".
Smashing Pumpkins is currently on tour with Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds.
Check out Fontaines D.C. perform this live here at KEXP at www.youtube.com
"Ça plane pour moi" was conceived as a pastiche, a caricature of the punk movement. Lou Deprijck explained: "Everything started from the text of Pipou [nickname of Yves Lacomblez] which required a very staccato singing, as did, in England, the then fashionable punk singers. I only brought to the text the title, by reference to a song by Michel Delpech, Tu me fais planer. What we wanted to do was pogo-pogoing, the punk dance. A kind of pastiche. I had three simple chords, A E and D, and musicians that I had chosen to fit the bill. I did not want virtuosos but guys a little bit wild. Once in the studio, with this text and my three chords, I told them 'Get by yourselves' and we did it."
About the song: "We have a new song + video for you. it's called "kill appeal," the video was directed by Allison Johnston and Shehzaad Jiwani, and it stars a number of Toronto legends. see/hear it plus read about its genesis via Consequence of Sound" bit.ly
Amyl and the Sniffers are an Australian pub rock and punk band based in Melbourne, consisting of vocalist Amy Taylor, drummer Bryce Wilson, guitarist Dec Martens, and bassist Gus Romer.
'Can't Tell Me No' will be released on the 28th of this month. They will be in Tacom June 13 and in Seattle at the Sunset Tavern June 14.
"Liz began her career in the early 1990s by self-releasing audio cassettes under the name Girly Sound, before signing with the independent record label Matador Records. Her 1993 debut studio album Exile in Guyville was released to acclaim; it has been ranked by Rolling Stone as one of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Phair has sold nearly three million records worldwide and had two Grammy nominations. More than two decades after the release of her debut, Phair's influence over female voices in alternative music can still be felt today." Here's info and more: www.lizphairofficial.com
Keep an eye out for Sleater-Kinney's upcoming fall tour. They will be in seattle at the Paramount Theatre on Nov 23.
We are so excited for Yeasayer's June 26 show at the Neptune Theatre!
Written by the band's lead singer and bassist Sting, the song is ostensibly about a story of a castaway on an island, who sends out a message in a bottle to seek love. A year later, he has not received any sort of response, and despairs, thinking he is destined to be alone. The next day, he sees "a hundred billion bottles" on the shore, finding out that there are more people like him out there.
Maybe the wildest Live on KEXP session belongs to Ty Segall, Check it out Live on KEXP: www.youtube.com
