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Friday, Apr 13 2018, 6AM
Did you catch Elbow's show last November at the Showbox? Read KEXP's live review over at our blog: bit.ly
U.S. Girls is the project of Toronto-based, American expatriate Meg Remy. usgirls.bandcamp.com
Beach House releases 7 - their appropriately titled seventh LP - on May 11th. Speaking on the creative process behind this album, the band had this to say: "The societal insanity of 2016-17 was also deeply influential, as it must be for most artists these days. Looking back, there is quite a bit of chaos happening in these songs, and a pervasive dark field that we had little control over. The discussions surrounding women’s issues were a constant source of inspiration and questioning. The energy, lyrics and moods of much of this record grew from ruminations on the roles, pressures and conditions that our society places on women, past and present." www.beachhousebaltimore.com
Wolf Alice stopped by KEXP for an in-studio performance last October, in support of their sophomore album Visions of a Life. Revisit their set here: bit.ly
Blackwater Holylight is a Portland supergroup that includes Cat Hoch, Sunny Faris (Grandparents), Sarah Mckenna (DAN DAN), and Laura Hopkins (Laura Palmer's DEATH PARADE). blackwaterholylight.bandcamp.com
blackwater holylight with Sandrider, Museum of Light, and Heldscalla
Saturday, Jan 18, 2025
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Portland pysch rock mainstays the Dandy Warhols stopped by KEXP for an in-studio back in 2016. bit.ly
The Avett Brothers play the Gorge on September 15th. The Head and The Heart and Shovels and Rope are also on the bill. www.theavettbrothers.com
A project of Danny Pearson (ex-American Music Club), Clodhopper played music that was as influenced by early 20th century folk music as it was by the ’90s alt-country movement. Read more about Clodhopper and their song "Cafe Joli" here: bit.ly // dannypearson.bandcamp.com
The Decemberists play the Paramount on Thursday, June 21st. KEXP recently spoke with frontman Colin Meloy about their latest album, I'll Be Your Girl. Read the exclusive interview here: bit.ly
The Afghan Whigs have teamed up with Built to Spill for a co-headlining tour. They'll be in town at the Showbox on May 15th and 16th. theafghanwhigs.com
Dolores O'Riordan passed away earlier this year at the age of 46.
Lord Huron plays two nights at the Moore Theatre June 7th and 8th. Looks like the first night is already sold out. www.lordhuron.com
David Byrne plays a sold out show at the Paramount on Thursday, May 24th. He'll also be at Sasquatch on Friday, May 25th. davidbyrne.com
Edinburgh-based trio Young Fathers stopped by KEXP's old studio back in 2015 for a live set. Revisit their performance here: bit.ly
Aladdin Sane was released on this day on 1973. Here's video of David Bowie performing "The Jean Genie" in 1973 on Top of the Pops. Long considered lost, the footage was recovered in 2011: bit.ly
The Smiths released their single "Sheila Take a Bow" on this day in 1987. It reached No. 10 on the UK Singles Chart, the highest chart placing of any single by the Smiths during the band's lifetime.
The Teenagers are a French synth pop band formed in 2005. www.facebook.com
Dublin band Fontaines DC will be live on the Morning Show on May 14th at 9:30 am. This in-studio is open to the public, so come on by. fontainesband.com
In a recent interview with BBC 6 Music, Robert Smith shared that The Cure will be returning to the studio next month to demo new songs. www.thecure.com
CCFX plays this year's Sasquatch! Music Festival on May 25th. Check out our interview with the Olympia-based band from earlier this week: bit.ly // ccfx.bandcamp.com
"Firewater was birthed in a Brooklyn basement in the long, hot summer of 1997. Depressed, broke, and desperate, ex-Cop Shoot Cop leader Tod A. tossed away a major label deal and a free meal ticket to launch what--at the time--was a crazy proposition: a punk band fueled by gypsy and klezmer tunes. Tod had stumbled upon a dusty box of records and cassettes in a Russian junk shop on West 14th Street, and had fallen in love with the happy/sad conflict embodied in Eastern European melodies. He wanted to combine the mystery and melodrama of these tragic-comic sounds with the energy of his first love: punk rock." www.bloodshotrecords.com
Possum Kingdom apparently refers to a lake near The Toadies' hometown of Fort Worth, Texas. In a 1995 interview with RIP magazine, Toadies lead singer Todd Lewis, who wrote the song, said: "It's just a story I heard long ago; it's just a really cool, eerie lake, and some stuff I heard and some stuff I just make up. I tend to do that. They dammed up this big river up there, and it's got all these spooky names like Hell's Gate. It's really cool." thetoadies.com
Yeah Yeah Yeahs released their fourth and most recent studio album, Mosquito, on this day in 2013. www.yeahyeahyeahs.com
Former Gossip frontwoman Beth Ditto's solo debut Fake Sugar came out last year. To say the album was born of change is an understatement. "It's my divorce, isn't it?" asks Ditto. "I was going through a breakup with the loves of my life. Gossip was the longest relationship I'd ever had." www.bethditto.com
It wouldn't be Friday without the Friday Song, but you already knew that!
Happy birthday to the Reverend Al Green, born on this day in 1946 in Forrest City, Arkansas.
James recently announced a new 4 song EP ‘Better Than That’, out on limited edition 10″ vinyl May 18th. wearejames.com
Aussie legends the Church released their debut album Of Skins and Heart on this day in 1981. The album was eventually re-sequenced with variant tracks and released internationally as The Church in 1982. thechurchband.net
Cincinnati indie rockers Wussy have a new album, What Heaven is Like, out May 18th. "Aliens in Our Midst" was originally recorded in the late ’70s by garage rock band the Twinkeyz. wussy.bandcamp.com
Baltimore expats Wye Oak play Neumos on July 15th in support of their recently released sixth studio album, The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs.
www.wyeoakmusic.com
Last month, Perry Farrell joined Pearl Jam on stage at Lollapalooza Brasil for a live performance of "Mountain Song." Check out the video here: bit.ly
Get acquainted with Sacramento shoegazers Soft Science at their facebook page: www.facebook.com
You can catch Japandroids at this year's Sasquatch Festival, Saturday, May 26th. japandroids.com
Revisit SoCal punks FIDLAR's KEXP in-studio session from way back in 2015: bit.ly
Naked Giants are currently on tour with Car Seat Headrest, acting as both opener and backing band for Will Toledo and company. They'll be at Timber! Outdoor Music Festival in Carnation, WA on Saturday, July 14th. www.nakedgiants.com
Arcade Fire's 2003 debut self-titled EP is being re-released on vinyl for the first time in transparent blue, limited and numbered. Pick it up on Record Store Day, April 21st. www.everythingnow.com
Good luck to everyone running the Boston Marathon this Monday, April 16th!
Berlin post-punk duo Lea Porcelain features producer Julien Bracht and vocalist Markus Nikolaus. www.leaporcelain.com
"Take Me With U" was initially intended to be credited to Apollonia 6 and it was included as the first track on an early configuration of the Apollonia 6 album, before being added to the final configuration of Purple Rain, compiled on 14 April 1984 (its inclusion made it necessary for Let's Go Crazy and Computer Blue to be shortened).
The recording used on both albums was the same (although edited for time restrictions on Purple Rain), and was always intended as a duet between Prince and Apollonia.
Against All Logic is Chilean-American electronica producer and recording artist Nicolas Jaar. nicolasjaar.net
Simian Mobile Disco release their fifth studio album, Murmurations, on May 11th. www.simianmobiledisco.co.uk
CHVRCHES' third album Love is Dead is out May 25th. www.chvrch.es
Brazilian Girls' first new album in a decade, Let's Make Love, is out today at your local record store. Opening the album with lead single “Pirates,” vocalist Sabina Sciubba notes of the modern-age new wave love song, “It’s a song about how we should all sleep more and sleep more together. It would change everything. Actually that's what the whole record is about. It may even be the true meaning of life." www.braziliangirlsmusic.com
You can catch Violent Femmes at the Woodland Park Zoo on Sunday, June 17th. vfemmes.com
Asheville, NC based artist Angel Olsen's video for "Shut Up Kiss Me" is a must watch: bit.ly
Sub Pop Release 284. Released as a promotional single to promote "Rebound" from Sebadoh's Bakesale, what makes this CD especially significant is the inclusion of the rarity "Social Medicine" and acoustic renditions of other songs in the band's discography. While songs like "On Fire" wouldn't be released until 1996's Harmacy, fans were treated to stripped down versions of the tracks to tide them over until their eventual full-band renditions would be revealed. www.kexp.org
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks will be live in the KEXP Gathering Space on May 21st at noon, and you're invited! You can also catch the indie rock elder statesman August 4th at the Neptune. stephenmalkmus.com
"The songs were written immediately after the Vietnam War and you forget, everybody felt like that then. It didn't matter how old you were, everybody experienced a radical change in the image they had of their country and of themselves. You were going to be a different type of American than the generation that immediately preceded you. A radically different type, so that line was just recognizing that fact. A lot of my heroes influenced that album. But I realized that I was not them. I was someone else; I was not them. I embraced what made us singular, individual." Bruce Springsteen details the making of his 1975 classic album Born to Run: rol.st
Parquet Courts' new album Wide Awake! drops May 18 via Rough Trade. This album sees the band teaming up with producer Brian Burton aka Danger Mouse, who approached the band about collaborating. “I personally liked the fact that I was writing a record that indebted to punk and funk, and Brian’s a pop producer who’s made some very polished records. I liked that it didn’t make sense” said singer/guitarist A Savage in a press release. parquetcourts.wordpress.com
Femi Kuti is the eldest son of Nigerian afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti, and a grandchild of political campaigner and women's rights activist Funmilayo Ransome Kuti. Femi's musical career started at age 15 when he began playing in his father's band, Egypt 80 in 1979. www.femikuti.com
Revisit !!!'s epic, sweaty dance party of a set live in KEXP's Gathering Space last June: bit.ly
Did you catch LCD Soundsystem's recent performance for Austin City Limits? You can watch the full set here: bit.ly
The Rapture's 2002 single "House of Jealous Lovers" was produced by James Murphy and Tim Goldsworthy of the DFA. Luke Jenner of the Rapture wasn't initially a fan: "I hated it for the first year it came out. It didn't sound finished. It didn't feel right to me." He eventually came around to it though. lat.ms