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Tuesday, Dec 12 2017, 6AM
Damien Jurado from this year's Death & Music event. It’s a special event, hosted by DJ John Richards, that really goes beyond a traditional concert experience. It’s a time to reflect on grief, on the people we’ve lost, and heal with our community. Alongside performances from local artists, people shared their own stories, and “an exploration of the intersection of these two distinct veins of life and how they feed into one another.” This year’s sold out event included performances from Damien Jurado, Ian Moore, Sean Nelson, Tomo Nakayama, Star Anna, and Daniel Blue of Motopony.
You can check out another track from David Ramirez's latest album, We’re Not Going Anywhere, which he self-released via his Sweetworld label. "Watching From a Distance": blog.kexp.org
You can watch The Maldives' full in-studio performance from March here: bit.ly In addition to "Staring at the Sun" they performed "No Sense In A Slow Death," "A Day At The Beach," and "House Of Flames."
Daniel Blue says a new Motopony album titled "50 Katrinas" is on the way, including a surprising collaboration with Pegboard Nerds. Check out this single, "Free" which premiered on KEXP in August: blog.kexp.org
At David J's KEXP in-studio on April 27th, he performed "The Day That David Bowie Died," "In The Wake of Lady Blue," "Vesuvio's Window," and this track "The Dog End Of A Day Gone By." Watch the entire performance here: bit.ly
You can see Odesza live at the WaMu Theater in Seattle March 30th & 31st. You can also find Odesza's in-studio from September 8th here: bit.ly
This version of "Perfect Coffee" is from Kate Tempest's incredible in-studio in March which you can find here: bit.ly In April 2018 she will be transmitting music into space! As part of Sónar Festival's 25th anniversary, she will be part of an experiment to send a message to GJ273b, a potentially habitable exoplanet 12.4 light years from Earth. www.sonarcalling.com
This Hurray For The Riff Raff performance was live on The Morning Show June 15th: bit.ly
"Star Roving" was the KEXP Song of the Day for January 31st, featured on The Morning Show. Find & download the album version here: blog.kexp.org
In a chat with John Richards, David Byrne talks about the inspiration for the "Here Lies Love", the logistics of bringing the show to town, and what music means to him. Watch or listen:blog.kexp.org
Stockholm based project of Hannes Ferm from Umeå, Sweden. Find the album and more here: itisholy.bandcamp.com
Released on this day in 1980, Sandinista! is the fourth studio album by The Clash. It was released as a triple album containing 36 tracks, with 6 songs on each side.
Kyle Craft will be at the Tractor on February 1st for an album release show. Only $12?!
The Barr Brothers will be live on KEXP this Saturday at 1:00 PM. This show is open to the public so get down here as early as 11:30 to get on the list. Then Saturday night they're at Neumos.
"Steve Mason review – Beta Band troubadour, stripped back and sublime" Read the Guardian's full review of the Meet The Humans tour here: bit.ly
BRMC head out on a world tour in 2018 which brings them to the Showbox on February 20th. Find all the dates here: www.blackrebelmotorcycleclub.com
"Newly reissued as a boxed set, the Smiths’ 1986 masterpiece still stands as an enduring testament to England in the ’80s, the complex relationship between performer and fan, and the ecstasy of emptiness." Pitchfork gives the album a 10. If they hadn't we'd have to have words. bit.ly
The title of the album was chosen by Bernard Sumner from a 1981 conceptual art exhibition in Cologne, Germany. On the opening night of the exhibition the artist Gerhard Richter vandalized the exterior of the Kunsthalle by spray painting the text, "Power, Corruption, and Lies"
CCFX is a new supergroup out of Olympia, Washington resulting from a merger between two seminal Olympia pop music outfits; CC Dust and Trans FX. Pitchfork says: "McDonnell is clearly well-versed in sex and death and cigarette poetry, but the ooze of it can feel almost too smooth, until Mary Jane Dunphe arrives to trouble it." bit.ly
The music video for this song received heavy airplay on MTV. It follows the four band members as they track down an unspecified treasure, while constantly being pursued and bested by a woman who appears to be a rival treasure-hunter. See it here: bit.ly
The new record, Quiet And Peace, is out March 2nd. Buffalo Tom will also be playing Neumos on March 1st!
August 4th seems so far away but you can already get tickets for Pixies with Weezer at the White River Amphitheater in Auburn. Find all their dates here: www.pixiesmusic.com
Bully is playing Neumos on February 28th and then heading east to Spokane.
The song attacks the importance of image in the music industry. In one verse, Malkmus sarcastically recites a fictitious ad looking for a musician to join a band: "advertising looks and chops a must/ no big hair". In May 2007, NME magazine placed "Cut Your Hair" at number 28 in its list of the 50 Greatest Indie Anthems Ever.
Superchunk is out on tour and will be at Neumos on February 27th. While bassist Laura Ballance is on the album, she is not touring with the band as she is suffering from hearing loss. A reminder to protect your ears!
Medium.com walks you through "Why “Someone Great” by LCD Soundsystem is the Best Song About Loss Ever Written" bit.ly
Frank Sinatra was born on this date back in 1915. This song was parodied on The Simpsons episode "Duffless" (1993) as Homer poured his beloved Duff beer down the drain. See the clip here: bit.ly
He sang:
When I was seventeen/
I drank a very good beer/
I drank a very good beer/
I purchased with a fake I.D./
My name was 'Brian McGee'/
I stayed up listening to Queen/
When I was seventeen...
You can catch Noah Gunderson in Bellingham on January 18th and Spokane on the 19th. Find out more plus all the other tour dates here: noahgundersenmusic.com
Here's the full Violent Femmes performance from the Gathering Space including the now infamous barbecue: bit.ly
If you’ve been around the Seattle music scene long enough, you’ve almost surely seen or heard Matt Batey perform. Whether he’s playing in Cataldo or doing harmonies for artists like Rocky Votolato, Batey is always popping up around town. However, over the years Batey began performing his own solo material under the moniker Ruler. His vibrant, catchy pop-rock tracks are gems within themselves and it’s easy to hear why his contemporaries utilize him so much as a collaborator. We caught up with Batey to dig more into the project’s origins and how he writes such great hooks. Check out this KEXP spotlight on local artist Ruler: blog.kexp.org
The Posies embark on a 30th anniversary tour in 2018 which includes the Kirkland Performance Center on February 2nd. theposies.net
Bandwagonesque was voted 'album of the year' for 1991 by Spin magazine, beating Nirvana's landmark album Nevermind.
A House were an Irish rock band active from the 1980s into the 1990s, and recognized for the clever, "often bitter or irony laden lyrics of [frontman] Dave Couse ... bolstered by the [band's] seemingly effortless musicality"
Elvis Costello wrote this on the fire escape at a Newcastle hotel during Stiff Records 1977 tour. At the time he was upset that his road-mates were taking the sex and drugs and rock n roll philosophy rather too literally.
Ted Leo returned in 2017 with his first new music since 2010’s Brutalist Bricks. The long-awaited album is titled The Hanged Man, named for the tarot card that symbolizes letting go in order to move forward. It is an absolutely apt description for what Leo delivers with this new release. "You're Like Me" was August 15th's Song of the Day: blog.kexp.org
Strand of Oaks stopped by the Afternoon Show with Kevin Cole on March 24th. You can see that performance here: bit.ly
The song's Middle Eastern-tinged instrumentation was inspired by a vacation that bassist Les Pattinson and guitarist Will Sergeant spent in Russia. Pattinson told Uncut August 2014: "Me and Will had been in Russia for a holiday, and there was this band playing balalaikas in a hotel foyer, really cheesy cabaret. But it was fantastic and we just started messing about and the next thing is we've got a chorus for 'The Killing Moon'. It was just brilliant."
Formerly titled "South African Song," "Rise" was written by John Lydon about the oppression of blacks in South Africa during its hideous apartheid era. He told Smash Hits: "I read this manual on South African interrogation techniques, and 'Rise' is quotes from some of the victims. I put them together because I thought it fitted in aptly with my own feelings about daily existence."
The band brought in Anton Corbijn to do the visuals for the Music For The Masses album, including the photos and the videos. For this song, he put together an 8-minute black-and-white clip for the 12-inch single version, which was cut down to 4:23 for the single version. The video didn't shed any light on the meaning of the song, as we see a series of rather disjointed images, including a pair of shoes that walk themselves.
The video, directed by Don Letts, was filmed at the warehouse of singer Chris Farlowe, a collector of military items and paraphernalia, of which the band are dressed. Drummer Topper Headon is dressed as a World War II fighter pilot.: www.youtube.com