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Monday, Apr 16 2018, 6AM
First new track from Florence Welch's band since 2016. florenceandthemachine.net
Fun fact: Miya Folick started her band using Tinder, where she created a profile that said, "looking for a band." miya.bandcamp.com
Sinead O’Connor has announced that she'll be touring again this year, under her new name Magda Davitt, a name she adopted for herself to be “free of parental curses.”
Damien Jurado will be joining us on Friday, May 4th to play his new album in its entirety - find out more that and other upcoming live in-studio performances at www.kexp.org
From his 6th and final album, released posthumously one year after his death.
Kurt joined Yo La Tengo in Philadelphia last week to play 'Friday I'm In Love' - watch here: youtu.be
Playing Sasquatch, plus a show in Bend, OR with Neko Case a couple days later. www.raylamontagne.com
Paul Simon wrote this as a not-so-thinly veiled message to Art Garfunkel, after
Garfunkel went to Mexico to act in the film Catch-22. Simon was left alone in New York, feeling like "The Only Living Boy in New York."
The Lonely Forest's ode to the PNW: "Give to me miles of tall evergreens/
And the smell of the ocean/
And cool mountain breeze/
Won't you please?"
To celebrate the 15th anniversary of “Let Go”, Nada Surf is releasing “Standing at the Gates: The Songs of Nada Surf’s Let Go,” an album benefitting the ACLU and The Pablove Foundation (which helps children with cancer). The album features covers by an incredible group of artists including Ron Gallo, Aimee Mann, Manchester Orchestra, Ed Harcourt, Rogue Wave and many more. They'll also be playing here in Settle on May 9th (venue TBD.) www.nadasurf.com
Stereogum has an in-depth look into the album - check it out at www.stereogum.com
Playing April 25th at the Crocodile - www.rollingblackoutsband.com
New James EP ‘Better Than That’! was produced by Charlie Andrew (He's worked with alt-J and Wolf Alice) and comes out May 18. wearejames.com
Happy birthday to Midnight Oil's Peter Garrett, born on this day in 1953. Midnight Oil were Australia’s most political band, driven by a passion for Indigenous rights and the environment. They will be playing the Moore Theatre here in Seattle on May 31st. www.midnightoil.com
New album out May 18th! Courtney Barnett will be playing at the Paramount on October 8th. courtneybarnett.com.au
Did you know that the Decemberists have a board game? It's called Illimat, it was designed by the band and game designer Keith Baker, and it's fun. Check it out: www.illimat.com
New from Sunflower Bean! You can catch them playing June 20th @ the Crocodile. sunflowerbean.bandcamp.com
Lead singer Clementine Creevy explains that “‘Juicy Socks’ is about vocalization. Using one’s voice as a strong weapon and needing to be heard in order to not feel like shit." We approve. cherry-glazerr.com
Did you catch Superorganism's recent live performance here at KEXP? It was GREAT. If you missed it, watch here: www.facebook.com
Back in January, David Byrne teamed up with Choir! Choir! Choir! for a performance as part of New York’s Under the Radar Festival. In tribute to the late, great David Bowie, the Talking Heads frontman and the crowd-sourced singing group covered Bowie's “Heroes”. Watch here: youtu.be
Hatchie is Brisbane, Australia native Hariette Pilbeam, and her debut EP Sugar & Spice will be released on May 25. hatchie.net
Pretty catchy for a song that's apparently about the life and grisly death of actress Jayne Mansfield. www.signature-reads.com
The bandcamp bio says it all: "U.S. Girls (Meg Remy), a woman who clearly spends a lot of time in her apartment with the shades drawn, wired together a bunch of drum machines, effects pedals, a mixer, and a Walkman, and unleashed a set of seriously damaged tracks that evoked particularly blunted Lee “Scratch” Perry remixes of Cambodian Rocks covers of Western pop tunes." 4ad.com
Perera Elsewhere is the experimental pop project of London-born, Berlin-based artist Sasha Perera. This new five-song EP is out May 4 via Friends of Friends. pereraelsewhere.bandcamp.com
First single from the upcoming "Sink" release from this LA-by-way-of-Ohio songwriter. “‘Sink’ describes the way I want my music to make you feel,” she said. “It’s inspired by my love of fluidity, movement of jellyfish and water.” It's out May 25! www.stonesthrow.com
Oh hey - this was performed live on KEXP just last year! Check it out: www.youtube.com
The 80's-est thing that has ever 80's-ed: The album launch party was held at the London Planetarium on 5 September 1985. The invited guests were treated to a playback of the entire album while watching a laser show inside the Planetarium.
OK first of all, John's dream story reminds me of that episode of The Simpsons where Homer eats Chief Wiggum's Guatemalan insanity peppers and has this trippy dream where he talks to a psychedelic coyote voiced by Johnny Cash. ALSO, you can read more about Lonnie Holley in the latest Esopus: www.esopus.org
Giving away tickets to see Django Django live at Neomos on Monday, April 23rd - text "dj" to (206) 903-5397 to be entered to win! 📲
Out of Sacramento, California, Soft Science just released their first single from their third album, Maps. testpatternrecords.bandcamp.com
No Seattle date, but Zola Jesus will be playing in Portland on May 1st at the Aladdin Theater. www.zolajesus.com
Minneapolis shoegaze/psychedelic/space rock band Chatham Rise is back with the first single from their new album "Meadowsweet" on Picture In My Ear Records. chathamrise.bandcamp.com
From the fourth full-length release from the San Diego, California band. Fun fact: the album artwork was done by Mike Sutfin, who has also done work for the Magic: The Gathering card game. www.pinback.com
Cary Brothers has just released his new single "Crush", an 80's inspired track which is Cary's ode to what he imagines Molly Ringwald would've danced to in the classic film, The Breakfast Club. It's his first full-length album in 8 years. "It's about getting beaten down and getting back up again," Cary said of the new record. "Mostly the getting up part." soundcloud.com
Sup Pop CountUP! #308. Scud Mountain Boys introduced all of our ears to the beautifully plaintive voice and smart, dark, melodic songwriting of one Joe Pernice (later of The Pernice Brothers). In the early days, the band members would sit around the kitchen table writing songs, so when they made the choice to play live, they would bring the table to the venue and set it up on stage. ⚡️ Fun fact: Pernice now lives in Toronto and is married to Canadian musician Laura Stein, the “L” in the band Jale (See SP0235)
From the third studio album by Will Oldham, released as
Palace Music in 1995. The album features Oldham on vocals and guitar, and was recorded by Steve Albini.
Released on this day in 1991. Temple of the Dog put the SUPER in supergroup: Chris Cornell of Soundgarden on vocals. Stone Gossard on rhythm guitar. Jeff Ament on bass guitar. Mike McCready on lead guitar. Matt Cameron on drums. Oh, and Eddie Vedder appeared as a guest to provide some lead and backing vocals. No big deal.
SP 309, released September 12 1995. Five Style (a name taken from a martial arts technique called "Five Style Fist"), was a Chicago funk band that released their debut full-length for the label, ten tracks of groove-makin’ ass-shakin’ funk-fusion. The list of talent in this band is undeniable (featuring members ofThe Fire Theft), Wilco), Tortoise), and Jeremy Jacobsen (aka The Lonesome Organist).