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Wednesday, Feb 20 2019, 6AM
Mark Anthony Thompson aka Chocolate Genius reflects about a return visit to his mother in his childhood home.
The Prayers & Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers, alias Perry Wright, was named after a character from The Big Lebowski.
Junip played "Line of Fire" when they visited the KEXP studio back in 2013! Check out the full performance here: www.youtube.com
From Arcade Fire's fourth album, the "Afterlife" video is bittersweet and runs nearly eight minutes in length. See the official video for here: www.youtube.com
Watch the full performance of Broken Social Scene when they stopped by the KEXP studio back in 2017: www.youtube.com
HÆLOS performs at The Crocodile on Saturday, March 23rd! You can also see a video of their full performance at the KEXP studio in 2016: www.youtube.com
Sylvan Esso played "Uncatena" and more when they performed at KEXP in 2014: www.youtube.com
Canadian-born electronic artist TR/ST will release not one but two albums this year - both called The Destroyer. Read more here: www.billboard.com
From Depeche Mode's sixth studio album, you can see the official video here: www.youtube.com
New song from the new, and seventh, album from Brooklyn-based band, LCD Soundsystem!
Tamaryn, the stage name of New Zealand songwriter and vocalist Tamaryn Brown, performed in the KEXP studio back in 2015. See the full performance here: www.youtube.com
Lady Lamb will play at The Tractor Tavern on Friday, May 3rd! You can also see the full performance when Lady Lamb visited KEXP in 2015 here: www.youtube.com
Tickets are still available for Sharon Van Etten at The Neptune Theatre this Saturday, Feb 23rd! Tour info here: www.sharonvanetten.com
Congratulations to Beck who won Best Alternative Music Album and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical for his album 'Colors' at the 2018 Grammy Awards. He has now had 7 Grammy wins and 20 nominations! www.grammy.com
The Police released only 5 studio albums from when the band formed in 1977 until they broke up in 1983 - still managing to top the Billboard charts 7 times! According to Sting, the band ended because just didn't have a lot in common. www.rollingstone.com
Request for Olivia on Whidbey Island! Shame performed in the KEXP Gathering Space last year! Watch the full performance here: www.youtube.com
See the official video here: www.youtube.com
The new album from Los Angeles based band Business of Dreams was reviewed on our blog: www.kexp.org
The National performed at KEXP in 2017. See the full performance here: www.youtube.com
Of Monsters and Men performed "Dirty Paws" when they performed live at the KEXP Hostel in Reykjavik during Iceland Airwaves 2011! www.youtube.com
The Stone Roses were way into the music James Brown, and his song "The Funky Drummer" was the rhythmic inspiration for their song "Fool's Gold": www.nme.com
Boy Harsher plays the Highline on Saturday, April 13th! boyharsher.com
Read KEXP's review of Cold Cave's new single "Promised Land" and see the video here: www.kexp.org
A massive hit, "Cuts You Up" was the second single from the ex-Bauhaus frontman Peter Murphy. The song spent seven weeks at No. 1 on Billboard's Alternative Songs chart. Read why and see the video here: www.billboard.com
Need more goth? See the video here: www.youtube.com
Beirut plays The Paramount Theatre on Wednesday, Feb 27th! www.beirutband.com
Happy birthday Kurt Cobain! Did you know KEXP was the first to play Nirvana’s debut album Bleach on the radio waves? In fact, Kurt himself dropped off the demo for the grunge band’s premiere single, “Love Buzz”. www.washington.edu
Pixies will release a new album in September! Read more about the upcoming album, as well as new podcast in the works, and see their 2014 KEXP performance here: www.kexp.org
Leathers is the solo project of Shannon Hemmett, who plays keyboards in the Vancouver based band Actors. Actors played live in the KEXP studio last year: www.youtube.com
The Twilight Sad plays The Crocodile on Sunday, May 26th! See when they played this song live in the KEXP studio last year: www.youtube.com
The video for Ladytron's "The Island" is an interesting short film: www.youtube.com
Clodhopper is the project of San Francisco-based multi-instrumentalist Danny Pearson.
Seattle-based band The Green Pajamas played live at KEXP in 2014. See the full performance here: www.youtube.com
First Aid Kit also played live at KEXP in 2014! Watch them perform "Waitress Song" here: www.youtube.com
Because of this song, Suzanne Vega is sometimes called "“the mother of the MP3”! Read more facts about "Tom's Diner" here: mentalfloss.com
Nick Cave loves to connect with his audiences. Read more here: www.rollingstone.com
The Murder Capital are a five-piece Dublin-based band. www.youtube.com
Snapped Ankles performed as part of our International Clash Day celebration! Here's the official band video for this song: www.youtube.com
Foals' new album, Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost, Part 1, comes out March 8. Part 2 comes out in the fall. You can catch Foals live at the Paramount Theatre on Wednesday, March 20th! www.foals.co.uk
The Yawpers played live at KEXP in 2016! Their name is a nod to the Walt Whitman poem “Leaves of Grass”: “I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.” See their full live KEXP performance here: www.youtube.com
Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore was at KEXP in 2014: www.youtube.com
Filthy Friends will play Neumos on Thursday, May 9th! www.eventbrite.com
See Beirut live at the Paramount Theatre on Wednesday, Feb 27th, and stay tuned cuz KEXP is giving tickets away all day! Here's the video for Beirut's "Nantes": www.youtube.com