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Wednesday, Oct 3 2018, 6AM
From their eponymous live album, the basic tracks were recorded live at the Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles on January 26, 1987, with additional overdubs and corrections recorded at The Edge Studio in Los Angeles. An audience applause dub from a Los Lobos concert was overlaid onto the final mix.
Here's a live version of "To Build A Home" featuring Patrick Watson recorded at The Barbican in London in 2007 bit.ly
Here's a look back at "Disintegration", The Cure's best album -bit.ly
Produced by Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois, "The Unforgettable Fire" was released on October 1, 1984. Here's Daniel Lanois' KEXP in-studio from 2015 bit.ly
The band L'Altra is from Chicago and they formed in 1999 as a quartet and they've been a duo since the early 2000's.The band's name is Italian and means "the other one." www.laltramusic.com
Catch Advance Base live on December 7th at Barboza!
OMG! Remember when OMD played live on KEXP? No? Then watch this ASAP! bit.ly
Say Hi is touring in support in their new album and doing living room shows - While the Seattle dates (October 18 & 19) are sold out, maybe they're coming to a living room near you! undertowshows.com
Deerhunter finished up their new album at the end of August and it will be out later this year - no release date yet. Here's the deets -
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Here's a thoughtful look at Liz Phair's "Never Said" www.popmatters.com
Justin Sullivan, the man behind Night Shop, is a drummer and has spent the better part of a decade supporting the likes of Cassie Ramone and Kevin Morby. Only two years ago, Sullivan bowed out of touring life to try to write songs of his own and this is off his debut album - pretty good, huh? Go buy it! nightshop77.bandcamp.com
Lillie West is from Chicago and her band is Lala Lala. This track is from their second album which just came out on Friday. www.lalabandlala.com
The Breeders have a new video out for their song "Spacewoman", check it out! www.youtube.com
Swearin' released their "final" album, 'Surfing Strange', in 2013 and called it quits. But good news - they're back with their comeback album 'Fall Into The Sun"! Can't keep a good band down! swearin.bandcamp.com
Here's a live version from Pickathon 2017 www.youtube.com
Thanks for your request Dan - have a kick ass day!
The Icicle Works got their name from the 1960 short story "The Day the Icicle Works Closed" by science fiction author Frederik Pohl. If you like SF, you should check out his writing en.wikipedia.org
Word on the street (or should I say "in the booth") is that this is the best 80's video ever. EVAH! www.youtube.com
Sharon has been busy in the four years since she released her last album - scored an acting gig on the Netflix series 'The OA', played at the Bang Bang Bar on the final season of 'Twin Peaks', had a baby, wrote a movie score, reissued her debut and pursued a psychology degree. And now, recorded a new album which will be out in January. Whew, she's tiring me out just writing this!
Regardless what the album info says, Franz Ferdinand released this album 13 years ago today and it went gold in the good ole USA.
While Interpol's Seattle February 2019 date at the Moore (Feb 2nd) is sold out, tickets are still available for the Portland and Vancouver BC dates www.interpolnyc.com
Alien Boy say they are a "loud gay band from Portland, OR rockin' since 2015". Learn more here and buy their music! alienboypdx.bandcamp.com
Bob Mould says that this song came to him in a dream "“It was this dream song that just turned up as I was waking up one morning,” Mould recalls. “It came to me fully formed, and then it’s just all the baubles that make it that crazy baroque band thing. All that was pretty much in my head too, but you have to sit down and make these baubles shine. That’s the production stuff.” www.loudersound.com
Holy Crap! It's almost here! IDLES LIVE on The Morning Show, tomorrow Thursday, October 4th @ 9:30 am! Sign up starts at 8 am - get here early boys and girls, it's gonna be packed!
new from local band, Tres Leches, who worked with KEXP engineer Kevin Suggs on this new release.Read more here bit.ly
New Zealand band, The Beths, are on a world tour - go see them. Better yet, travel the globe with them starting this Friday in Chicago! thebeths.com
Lots of definitions in the Urban Dictionary for "Spesh". In the KEXP dictionary, they're defined as "great!" www.facebook.com
Great new shoegaze band from India who "weave dreams for a living" lopeninsula.bandcamp.com
Brand new from Thom Yorke (but DJ Morgan prolly has had it for weeks). It's off the 'Suspiria' soundtrack which is out on 10/26 and the movie, surprisingly also called 'Suspiria', is in theaters 11/2
Their new album, 'Dionysus', drops November 2nd. As most of you know, Dionysus was the Greek god of "Wine and Ecstasy" - now that's my kinda God! More here about the album and European tour dates www.brooklynvegan.com
ODEZA is a great live band, watch the opening to their 2017 shows www.youtube.com
Maribou State will be live at Neumos on Friday, February 22nd mariboustate.co.uk
Jamaican-born director Storm Saulter worked with the band for their new video “Peter Pan (Equiknoxx Remix).” check it out jamaicans.com
Here's St Vincent's cover of "Mistaken For Strangers" www.youtube.com
This one goes out to Shaun, Brooke, Daphne and Thad in memory of Sandra, Shaun's sister, who fought the good fight against cancer for 2 years and passed away this past Sunday. #fuckcancer
The Lumineers unveiled a stripped-down cover of Tom Petty’s “Walls” yesterday to mark the one-year anniversary of his death. Damn, it's been a year already? Seems like just yesterday. www.rollingstone.com
Happy Birthday to Lindsey Buckingham - 69 years old today!
From the late Richard Swift who passed away in July. His family is still facing some medical bills - it you'd like to help out, here you go www.gofundme.com
Richard Swift was the producer on this 2016 release from Damien Jurado secretlycanadian.com
Mr Lanegan stopped by KEXP in 2014 for this in-studio hosted by the loverly Cheryl Waters www.youtube.com
They'll be live at Showbox SoDo on Tuesday, October 23rd www.christineandthequeens.com
This track has been played 3 times on KEXP since its release last month. Did you know you can see this type of info on our KEXPlorer page? Sure can, and the next time you think we play a song too much or not enough (you know who you are), you can confirm it before you write us! www.kexplorer.com
From their new album, 'Ultra', which you can purchase using this handy link - support local music and BUY IT! hushhushrecords.bandcamp.com
