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Thursday, Oct 18 2018, 6AM
Good morning Seattle, and welcome to the Thursday edition of The Morning Show! Austin-based band Okkervil River was in our studio for a live performance this past June. Watch it in full here: bit.ly
Featuring members of Okkervil River (Will Sheff) and Kingfisher (Jonathan Meiburg), Shearwater was formed in Austin in 2000. Jet Plane and Oxbow is the ninth LP for the band, and their second on local label Sub Pop. shearwatermusic.com
Revisit when Strand of Oaks played our New Home grand opening on April 26, 2016 here! bit.ly
Spesh is playing Neumos TONIGHT with other local band Spirit Award! Find ticket info here: bit.ly
Check out our exclusive interview with Jason Pierce of Spiritualized on his latest album And Nothing Hurt here: bit.ly
The first single off of The Flaming Lips 1999 album The Soft Bulletin. Watch the video for "Race For The Prize" here: bit.ly
The posthumous release from Richard Swift, who passed away in Tacoma on July 3rd of this year. Read Pitchfork's review of The Hex here: bit.ly
The album title comes from an exaggerated spelling of the Welsh word for "bear" (arth). Catch The Joy Formidable at Neumos on October 28th! Find tickets here: bit.ly
London band Wolf Alice stopped by KEXP again in October 2017, watch the full performance here! bit.ly
The 1996 track labeled a "commercial success" for Luscious Jackson, which peaked at #36 on the Billboard Hot 100 after its release
Keep up with Jenny Lewis' whereabouts and latest news here: www.jennylewis.com
The latest solo project from the 50 Foot Wave and Throwing Muses frontwoman. Keep up with Kristen's current tour dates and more here: www.kristinhersh.com
Mitski is playing a sold-out show at Showbox Sodo on October 31st! Watch her performing live at KEXP in 2016 here: bit.ly
The first new album in six years from Matthew Dear. He'll be at Nectar Lounge on November 11th, find ticket info here: bit.ly
The second LP from LCD Soundsystem, which was nominated for a Grammy for Best Electronic/Dance Album but lost out to We Are the Night from The Chemical Brothers
The latest release from Petite Noir, the stage name of South African-raised singer Yannick Ilunga. Find his work here: petitenoir.ochre.store
Knife Knights is the collaboration of producer/musician Erik Blood, and Shabazz Palace's Ishmael Butler. Read more about the project and see their recent KEXP live performance here: bit.ly
London-based rap duo composed of Kevin Clark and Don Weekes, who first recorded together as Top Billin'
The U.S. hit single found on the 1990 debut from the Amsterdam-based rap collective
If you DIDN'T just win tickets to see The True Loves at Neumos on October 31st, then derp your way over here to find some! bit.ly
Released on this day in 1988, it's the first release from the (mega) supergroup made up of Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison and Tom Petty | bit.ly
The seventh solo album from Kurt Vile, released this month. Catch him at the Moore Theater on December 15th: bit.ly
Dilly Dally will be live on KEXP at 11:00 AM on October 30th, and you can come see it in action! Find out how here: www.kexp.org
Off the first new album from the Philly-based band in five years! Find Fall Into The Sun here: swearin.bandcamp.com
Joan Jett has a brand new documentary out, and it's not playing anywhere in Seattle right now and that makes us sad. Stream it from home and find out more about "Bad Reputation" here: www.badreputationfilm.com
Featuring a sample from Joan Jett's classic "I Love Rock 'n Roll"
The promoted single off the soundtrack to the 1971 movie of the same name
"Theme For Shaft" won the Oscar in 1972 for Best Original Song because sometimes awards shows get it right.
The new album from Jon Spencer WITHOUT his Blues Explosion can be pre-ordered here: bit.ly
Ty Segall will be probably be releasing yet more new music tomorrow and the next day into infinity, keep up here: www.ty-segall.com
This Manchester band formed in 2011, and got production help on this 2017 single from The Kills Jamie Hince | www.wearepins.co.uk
Opening track off the debut album from this Brooklyn band. Find Endless Scroll here: bodegabk.bandcamp.com
Radiohead's Thom Yorke just released a new single in support of Greenpeace titled "Hands Off the Antarctic." Said Yorke in a statement: “There are some places on this planet that are meant to stay raw and wild and not destroyed by humanity’s footprint" Listen to the instrumental track here: bit.ly
A poem Soul Coughing's Mike Doughty dreamed up about L.A. while actually living in New York. It was inspired after a trip out to Huntington Beach the previous summer with his mom
The debut LP from this U.K. band is due out tomorrow, October 19th, and you can pre-order it here: tvamindustries.com
This debut album from London's Miss World is self-described as: "A raw, 13 track power-pop, garage-party movie scene that plays out like a thumb numbing Instagram scroll fest." Get it here! missworld.bandcamp.com
Watch the video for this single released from the Scottish group in 1995 here: bit.ly
Well, we don't have IDLES live Morning Show performance from two weeks ago up yet, but here's the official ones from them to keep you entertained in the meantime! www.idlesband.com
Opening track off the major-label debut from Helmet that arrived in 1992. (It's just past 9:00 AM are y'all awake yet?)
Off the third full-length album from this fiercely political L.A. band
From our exclusive interview with Public Enemy's Chuck D earlier this year: "...music is, without all getting all cryptic, but it's that vibration that moves us, just like, I mean, every heart got a beat that's for the living beings. So if you break down music and the vibrations and the notes it's probably the sound of our existence. You know, before it even becomes a song. Like almost like life is a song." Read the full interview here: bit.ly
New from the Tennessee-raised, Turin-based Sean Bowie, known professionally as Yves Tumor. Find more here: bit.ly
“Aldous Huxley once remarked “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music”… but that sh*t has nothing to do with this track. We give you “BODY/PRISON,” a collaboration between HEALTH and Perturbator.” Alrighty, and here you go, try to find it here! youwillloveeachother.com
