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Tuesday, Feb 5 2019, 6AM
In addition to Fatima, we have Kero Kero Bonita playing live at 8:30am, Vanishing Twin at 11am and Snapped Ankles at 1:30pm PST.
Wanna learn more about International Clash Day? Check it: www.internationalclashday.com
Check out Martin Douglas's feature on Porter Ray: www.kexp.org
This track features a sample of ‘Ain’t Nothin’ Wrong' by KC & the Sunshine Band.
Take a look at what the KEXP (then KCMU) DJs were saying about 3 Feet High and Rising when it first came out: www.kexp.org
Tallies hail from the Great White North, Toronto to be exact. You can purchase their 2019 self titled release here: handdrawndracula.bandcamp.com
The Twilight Sad dropped by the KEXP studio last fall: www.youtube.com
Pitchfork ranked Against Perfection as the 42nd Best Shoegaze album of all time: pitchfork.com
"I hadn’t picked up the uke to write a song in a long time when I started this. I plugged it into an old fender tube amp with the nice tube reverb and crunch. It pleased me so much I pulled the accordion out for the first time in years as well."- Zach Condon
Craig Finn hung out with Troy Nelson in the KEXP live room back in 2017: www.youtube.com
First Impressions of Earth was the first Stroke's album that featured Julian Casablancas singing without running his mic through a guitar amp.
Our next live performance with Kero Kero Bonito airs at 8:30am PST.
Kurt Cobain listed this song as his favorite tune of 1991. Apparently, the favor wasn't returned: noisey.vice.com
The organ in this song was taken from Deep Purple's "Hush".
A cover of " He’s Gonna Step On You Again" by South African musician John Kongos.
Kurt Cobain listed the Clash's Combat Rock in his Top 50 albums.
Renown UK radio host John Peel announced Ian Curtis's death on the air on May 19th 1980 and then played this song.
"I still play Teenage Kicks to remind myself how a great record should sound." - John Peel
Check out Kurt Vile's KEXP in-studio from 2015: www.youtube.com
Collaboration between the frontmen of Superdrag and Nada Surf.
Malibu Ken are Aesop Rock and Tobacco of Black Moth Super Rainbow.
Kero Kero Bonito is coming to Seattle! Plan to see them live at Neumos on Thursday, April 25th, 2019.
This review calls the second album, "Time 'n' Place" (released in October, 2018}, by this London trio a "skuzzy, awesome rebirth": noisey.vice.com
Here's the purple-headed video for Kero Kero Bonito's "Only Acting": www.youtube.com
Folow Kero Kero Bonito on their Facebook page: www.facebook.com
Kero Kero Bonito talks about "poptomism" in this interview last year: www.dailycal.org
The previous song, "Flyaway," was a recent KEXP Song of the Day. You can download it for free here: www.kexp.org
Did you know that the band's name comes from from the "Japanese words onomatopoeia for a frog’s croak and a type of fish."?: genius.com
Here's what is known, so far, about the St. Vincent-produced new Sleater-Kinney album.: www.pastemagazine.com
"That girl thinks she's the queen of the neighborhood...
I GOT NEWS FOR YOU - SHE IS!"
is one of the most exciting, immediate and electrifying declarations of sisterhood I've ever heard." Read an exciting essay about this song: birthmoviesdeath.com
Here are The Runaways performing "Cherry Bomb" live in Japan in 1977: www.youtube.com
Band of Skulls says that "Cool Your Battles" is “an anti-war cry for our turbulent times.” All the energy we spend fighting amongst ourselves can be used to do something positive, something real. So don’t forget to go out, to fall in love and to feel alive.”: www.paris-move.com
Maybe they'll play this song when they perform at Minneapolis' "First Avenue" on Sunday, May 12th, 2019.
Will Toledo (aka Car Seat Headrest) performed this song live in the KEXP studio in 2016: www.youtube.com
Dave Gahan explained the meaning of the song's Anton Corbijn-directed music video: "Anton came to me - he's Dutch you know - and said [in clipped Dutch accent], 'So Dave, I have an idea. You're gonna wear a crown. You're this king walking everywhere, and you're gonna carry a deck chair…' And I didn't get it at all. But once we started and he showed me the footage I got what he was doing: The man who has everything, but really feels nothing. And we were in such remote places - like, five miles up in the Alps walking in the snow, in the Algarve in Portugal on these remote beaches, at Balmoral in Scotland, where we could walk for days and days and not see anyone.": www.youtube.com
Perhaps you would like to know more about this band that formed in Portland, Oregon in 2001: www.allmusic.com
"Not In Love" is a cover of Toronto band Platinum Blonde’s song of the same name. The original album version featured pitch-shifted vocals by Ethan Kath, but they were replaced on later versions of the album with vocals by Robert Smith of the British band The Cure.
The Chemical Brothers have detailed their new album, "No Geography," and shared the LP’s latest single, “Got to Keep On.” The album arrives April 12th via Astralwerks. Hear the single and read more about the album: www.rollingstone.com
Melbourne, Australia band Cut Copy performed "Lights and Music" live as part of a terrific KEXP in-studio session in 2013: www.kexp.org
Minneapolis based artist Brother Ali will be playing in Camden, London at the Jazz Cafe on Tuesday, March 19th.
Ohhh, Curtis Mayfield! Here's The Guardian's list of 10 of his best: www.theguardian.com
Be sure to listen to KEXP tomorrow, Wednesday, February 6th, at 6:00 a.m., Seattle time, for Ghostpoet's live performance on KEXP from London.