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Hammock is Nashville duo Marc Byrd and Andrew Thompson. shop.hammockmusic.com
Featuring Thom Yorke, and from Lars von Trier's musical film " Dancer in the Dark" .
Anna Calvi has lots of upcoming tour dates throughout Europe if that's where you are.. annacalvi.com
UNKLE's James Lavelle explains the new album: "It wasn’t about trying to make people dance in a nightclub. It was a breath of fresh air, and about playing a more eclectic mix. The Road: Part II was made in the same way – it’s a mixtape and a journey. You’re in your car, starting in the day and driving into the night. The language of it was to be the ultimate road trip."
LUH's Ellery James Roberts says “We’re essentially trying to keep it as straight up as possible, whilst maintaining the sonic ambition of the productions. Since we last toured, Ebony – along with singing – learnt to play bass, allowing us to play as a three-piece.”
A cover of the Polaris song (Are you tuned in on your KrebStar radio while you listen to this? Polaris was led by tribute-album beneficiary Mark Mulcahy, and created music for the *excellent* Nickelodeon show "The Adventures of Pete & Pete" back in the 90's.)
“I just happen to like looking at people and wondering what’s up,” says Tunde Adebimpe, frontman for TV on the Radio. “We got some people together, some of whom we ran into on the street while we were shooting, and did that. We asked if they could quietly (or not) go to brighter or darker places inside themselves let us be there with them for a little while. Everyone’s sifting through something, right?”
This goes out to everyone waiting at bus stops... and onramps ... and train stations ... in traffic ... good luck out there. 🚗
Sharon Van Etten will be playing at the Neptune on February 23rd. www.sharonvanetten.com
Released on this day in 1977. As a recovering cocaine addict, Bowie's songwriting on Low dealt with difficult issues: "There's oodles of pain in the Low album. That was my first attempt to kick cocaine, so that was an awful lot of pain. And I moved to Berlin to do it. I moved out of the coke centre of the world [i.e. Los Angeles, where Station to Station was recorded] into the smack centre of the world. Thankfully, I didn't have a feeling for smack, so it wasn't a threat". Visconti contended that the title was partly a reference to Bowie's "low" moods during the album's writing and recording.
First new track in 3 years from Broken Bells, which is a collaboration between Brian Burton and James Mercer, the lead vocalist and guitarist for The Shins. www.brokenbells.com
Idles will return to Seattle to play Neumos on May 28th... www.idlesband.com (If you're on the fence, well.. GET OFF IT, and check out their live performance from a few months ago over on the YouTubes: www.youtube.com )
Born on this day: Nirvana's Dave Grohl! The DJ comments on this CD are amazing, by the by. One gem: "Two words: 💩 sandwich. Not as good as Atomizer"
You can catch them at Neumos on March 7th. cherryglazerr.bandcamp.com
In an interview, Ministry's Jourgensen said this song was partially inspired by his experiences as a child with his stepfather, a stock car driver and mechanic. Commenting on Ministry's work for Spin Alternative Record Guide, writer Eric Weisbard likened it to “an updated, theorized” version of the Trashmen 1963 hit “Surfin' Bird”
Corey Cunningham's Business of Dreams is all about emotional catharsis. When his father passed away a few years ago, Cunningham took leave from his long-running Bay Area/LA musical partnerships Magic Bullets and Terry Malts to return to his home state of Tennessee to grieve and confront his past.
Making music to cope with this loss resulted in this, Business of Dreams' lovely eponymous debut album. businessofdreams.bandcamp.com
The Jesus and Mary Chain Built My Hotrod is our new Jesus and Mary Chain/Ministry cover band
From the band's upcoming 5th album, which singer James Graham described as "heavier" than previous albums: "It's all pretty full on but there's some lighter shades and some hope on there.." thetwilightsad.com
From her follow-up to 2017's 'Rest', which was her first album in 7 years. Glad to be getting more of this goodness!
'Feel Nothing' is the first single from the Vancouver, BC band's debut studio LP 'Lash' out early 2019 on Afterlife Music. mesaluna.bandcamp.com
Girlpool's new album 'What Chaos Is Imaginary' comes out via ANTI- Records on February 1. They'll be playing at Neumos on April 12th supporting Hatchie! www.girlpoolmusic.com
Kurt Cobain called Teenage Fanclub “the best band in the world”.
LCD Soundsystem's debut single! James Murphy explains the inspiration for the song: "I started going to different types of things and meeting different people, and started throwing parties. And all of a sudden, I was kind of cool, I'd always just been a total... not even an outsider, just sort of a nobody, a sort of invisible, sad and kind of shy. And all of a sudden I was DJing, and felt cool, throwing parties. And then one night I went to go see a band, and somebody else was playing the records that I was playing. Nobody else was playing the records that I was playing, that was sort of my thing! And I got really mad, and I got really defensive. And I was like 'What the heck, that's mine! What the--who the hell is this? Some 22-year-old...', and I got really embarrassed by being like 'These aren't your records, you didn't write them, you just... play them, you just own them, you can't be proud of yourself for owning them' but I was mad at the same time because I was like 'I know that kid was at one of my parties...'. It was this really dense conflict that I couldn't resolve, and that's where 'Losing My Edge' came from. "
Fun fact for you young whippersnappers... The original release of this single featured a die-cut sleeve designed to resemble a 5¼" floppy disk. Yes, that's right ... that little "save" symbol in all those new-fangled apps. You might have seen it around in icon form. Well, not only did they have little floppy disks back in the day, but they had big-ass 5 1/4 inch ones, too. This has been your history lesson of the day. NOW GET OFF MY LAWN.
Toro Y Moi will be playing 2 shows here in Seattle this week! You can catch either the Saturday or Sunday show, January 19th or 20th at the Neptune Theatre w/ Valley Marker. toroymoi.com
Happy birthday to LL Cool J, born on this day in 1968. (What does LL Cool J stand for, you might ask? It's short for "Ladies Love Cool James". 😍
From the London based band's upcoming third full-length album due out April 19th on Domino. fatwhitefamily.bandcamp.com
Released 10 years ago, and the band is working on a new album, ‘Into The Fire’, the first material These New Puritans have released in five years. soundcloud.com
The video for the song is dedicated to Czech student Jan Palach who, in 1969, set himself on fire in protest against renewed Soviet suppression of Czechoslovakia. The video also refers to the Soviet government's intervention in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 on a banner showing the text in Hungarian (Szabad Európa Rádió) which translates as "Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty".
One of two recent singles from Jack White's band, the first in over a decade. Check out the video: youtu.be
More new music! Hooray for January! This band out of Oslo describes how they came up with their name: "Recording our EP with our producer Tord Øverland Knudsen, we still had not decided on a name for the band. The upcoming EP “Distant Star” features a song inspired by the score for Steven Spielberg’s “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” While recording, Tord had to sit through hours of heated discussions about a name for the band and the – as it was known then – “Spielberg-song”. Eventually he said: “Guys, why don’t you just call the band “Spielbergs”. And to that we said “OK!”
Tender will be playing at the Columbia City Theatre on April 2nd. www.tenderofficial.com
🚨 International Clash Day Alert! 🚨 This year, KEXP will travel to London for a 4-day live broadcast and online event, featuring live performances, exclusive interviews, with a special focus on music and message in the Clash’s landmark album London Calling, which celebrates its 40th year in 2019.
The 2019 London broadcast and live video stream will take place February 4th-7th, live from Studio 9294 in London’s Hackney Wick neighborhood, featuring live performances by Idles, Heavy Lungs, Goat Girl, Ibibio Sound Machine and many many more.
It will all be broadcast live on KEXP 90.3 FM in Seattle, online at KEXP.ORG, and streaming live on KEXP’s YouTube channel.