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Monday, Apr 2 2018, 6AM
Ellery James Robert and Ebony Hoorn share a new song after the following comeback announcement back in January: "If ya’ll still with me, I am going to begin to break this radio silence. Last year passed in constant flux, dancing from revelation to amnesia, engagement to disillusionment, sober clarity, and sedated confusion… it was a year of upheaval, uncertainty, but all finds its eventual resolution. I sit here type typing with calm confidence all will come to be. Ammunition’s been a-piling up for months, lookin’ forwards to getting out blazin’, time to sing these lovers’ songs again.” lostunderheaven.com
Bauhaus founder David J joined us in the studio for a really amazing performance last year - check it out at www.youtube.com
Live on KEXP on the Morning Show TOMORROW at 9:30am! More info at www.kexp.org
From the band's ninth album, released this month back in 1992. Robert Smith will be curating the upcoming Meltdown festival in London happening June 15-24. It will feature The Psychedelic Furs, Placebo, The Libertines, Manic Street Preachers, Nine Inch Nails, Mogwai, and more. www.thecure.com for more info..
“We wanted this song to feel something like a Raymond Chandler story, a desperate search through a rain-soaked, neon-lit city,” bandleader Ben Schneider said in a statement. “The groove section in the middle is one of my favorite passages on the album.” Lord Huron will be playing two nights here in Seattle at the Moore Theatre, June 7th and 8th. www.lordhuron.com
If you didn't see Kurt Vile's cameo on Portlandia as Carrie Brownstein's roadie, it was pretty funny. Check it out: youtu.be
Is there a chance Seattle will get a Beach House show? They'll be in Portland on August 10th, and Vancouver on the 12th ... fingers crossed! www.beachhousebaltimore.com
From their fifth album, named after a small German archipelago in the North Sea.
Featuring guest vocals from Matt Berninger of The National. www.chvrch.es
The latest single from U.S. Girls’ forthcoming In a Poem Unlimited. 4ad.com
Sylvan Esso will be playing at Marymoor Park on July 14th - www.sylvanesso.com
Simian Mobile Disco have announced that they have cancelled their US tour after member Jas Shaw was diagnosed with a rare disease.
The electronic duo had been scheduled to tour America in June, but they’ve now had to cancel all dates after Shaw was diagnosed with AL amyloidosis.
Thanking fans for their “continued support”, a statement from the group described Shaw’s condition as “a rare disease caused by abnormal deposition and accumulation of proteins in the tissues of the body”.
Check out the video premier over on the KEXP blog: blog.kexp.org
“Aliens In Our Midst” was originally released in the late ’70s by garage rock band, the Twinkeyz. It's on Wussy's upcoming seventh album. wussy.ella.net
Iggy Pop allegedly wrote the song while traveling on Berlin’s S-Bahn (subway).
They'll be here Monday May 14th @ Barboza, and they'll be live on the morning show that same day at 9am!
The video for this song has a real Donnie Darko/Stranger Things vibe. vimeo.com
Buffalo Tom connection: Cold Water Flat was formed by Paul Janovitz (vocals, guitar), Ted Silva (bass), and Paul Harding (drums) at the University of Massachusetts in 1990. Paul Janovitz's brother Bill is in Buffalo Tom.
If you missed their in-studio performance from last November, it was IMPRESSIVE. Check it out at www.youtube.com
She's one half of The Fiery Furnaces, alongside her older brother Matthew. www.eleanorfriedberger.com
Courtney Barnett will play at the Paramount Theatre on October 8th with Waxahatchee. courtneybarnett.com.au
A "California Star" is a complex geometric pattern used in making quilts. Woody Guthrie wrote the lyrics to the song, but never recorded it. In 1998 it was recorded as part of Mermaid Avenue, a collection of Guthrie's work that was put to music and recorded by British singer Billy Bragg and Wilco.
Crack open the KEXP blog time capsule for some coverage of the band from 2008: blog.kexp.org
From the band: “The song is really simple, confident and fun and we wanted our role in the video to reflect that. but we also wanted the video to represent these vicious cycles that we often get ourselves into but have no control over - they can feel confusing, isolating and violent. and we liked the idea of juxtaposing that energy and emotion with beautiful exteriors and a warm environment. i think its easy to forget sometimes that bad things can happen in beautiful places”.
Mastersystem is a new collaboration between 2 sets of brothers — Frightened Rabbit's Scott and Grant Hutchison, plus Justin and James Lockey from Editors and Minor Victories. mastersystemband.com
They'll be at the Neptune Theatre August 4. stephenmalkmus.com
They play Barboza June 7th. Lead singer Hether Fortune describes this track: "Finding inspiration in one of my favorite poems, 'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night' by Dylan Thomas, I used this song as a vehicle to meditate on the concept of free will and how one could choose to exercise it even at the brink of death. The protagonist is someone who is young, madly in love and desperately wants to live — though they know that they will not. They have chosen to use their final seconds, the only breath in their lungs, to scream out the name of the one that they love." waxidols.bandcamp.com
It was on this day in 1990 that Nirvana began recording demos with Butch Vig at Smart Studios in Madison, Wisconsin. This is one of them.
Happy birthday to Marvin Gaye! And to Sheila - have fun dancing around today!! 💃
Did you catch the recent Music That Matters podcast, featuring the Dapper Derp? It's the dapper derpiest Music That Matters podcast yet, AND it's embedded with a secret message at the end. Check it out at www.kexp.org
Seattle electronic collaboration between Shawn Smith and Steve Fisk. Soundgarden lead guitarist Kim Thayil provided instrumental contributions to their album.
Released on this day in 2001.
Sub Pop catalog #192! Released April 26th, 1993. Though Sebadoh officially made their Sub Pop debut the year before with the LP "Smash Your Head on the Punk Rock", that album was a compilation of two early EP's, Rocking the Forest and Sebadoh vs. Helmet. So, Bubble & Scrape was the first album of new material from the despondent songwriting duo of Eric Gaffney and Lou Barlow, and the last album of songs from Gaffney who left the band shortly thereafter.
The single version of "Holland, 1945" was released in October 1998. It was the second single released by the band, and was the band's last official release before a decade-long hiatus and their subsequent reunion in 2011.
Sub Pop says "Stoked to announce we signed Canadian rippers Jo Passed, and on May 25th we’ll release Their Prime, the band’s first full-length record. The album, which features the singles “ MDM,” “Glass” and “Millennial Trash Blues,” was recorded during the fall / winter of 2016/17 at Thor’s Palace & KW Studios, both in the band’s hometown of Vancouver, British Columbia." Check out their performance at KEXP from last November: www.youtube.com
Belly announced their first album in 23 years, DOVE. They'll play the Neptune Theatre on August 12th! bellyofficial.com
Released in May, 1984, this was the first single from the group's second studio album Reckoning.
