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Tuesday, Jun 13 2017, 6AM
New Unkle album, 'The Road Pt. 1' is out June 23rd. You can preorder a signed limited edition with orange and purple vinyl with a 36 page booklet in a gatefold sleeve.
DJ Shadow recently spoke to FactMag.com about the enduring allure of Twin Peaks, what Shadow describes as “the creeping darkness just below the surface” and “the celebration of the normal and abnormal.” Read the full interview here: www.factmag.com . DJ Shadow is at the Neptune on July 14th for The Mountain Will Fall tour.... tickets are still available!
Jurassic 5 is at the Showbox on the 22nd! Cheryl will be giving away tickets on the Midday show. Jurassic 5's web shop has some unique items in it... Handwritten lyrics by Chali 2na or a record shopping trip with Cut Chemist among others. Check them out here www.jurassic5.com
Their sixth album (and first in 18 years), We Got It From Here...Thank You 4 Your Service made it to #2 on the 2016 listener top albums. We're at the halfway mark for 2017, what's on your list for this year? blog.kexp.org
They announced they're playing 7 nights at Brooklyn Steel, June 16/17/19/20/21/23/24. Tickets go on sale the 15th . From the band's facebook: "i had a lot of back and forth about these shows with our very wonderful, concerned, thoughtful and on it managers and agents, and the professional consensus was that playing them was, frankly, a bad idea. to explain: we just did this in april, so they might seem “less special” now. for reasons i can’t seem to quantify, the earlier gigs were considered special, so they were in higher demand and sold out very quickly. but the undermining of some of the specialness is precisely what we’d love to accomplish with these gigs. they’re just some gigs. they’re in our home town, so we can totally walk there. they’re no more special than any other gigs. nothing unusual will be happening, other than what always happens at our gigs, which is us playing a bunch of songs as well as we can. we’re going to be playing a LOT in the near future, so they’re certainly not worth getting on a plane for, in our opinion. it’s NOT a finite resource. it is certainly 100% not worth paying some crazy amount over face value for them. we’re playing in other places this year, a lot, and that’s likely close to wherever it is you live (unless you live far from things, which i’m sorry about—but it still wouldn’t be worth flying to these.)"
The Drums are playing Neumos July 17th. Check out a couple of their past in-studio performances here: blog.kexp.org and here: blog.kexp.org
The Hotel Yorba is a real hotel. It is located in a run-down section of Detroit at 4020 Lafayette Boulevard, near a bus station. Jack White grew up in Detroit and heard rumors about the hotel when he was growing up.
Wilhelm Reich was an Austrian psychiatrist who was trained in Vienna by Sigmund Freud. In the 1930s, Reich came up with the concept of "orgone," orgasmic energy contained in the atmosphere and in all living matter. The "Cloudbuster" was a device he came up with to manipulate the orgone energy in the atmosphere, which would force clouds to form and bring rain. Check out pictures of his cloudbuster (which still exists) and all about him www.slate.com
Steroegum put this new Feist album at #19 for the top albums of 2017 so far . www.stereogum.com
Michael sold out every stop on his North American tour that just finished up in Nashville on the 11th . www.facebook.com
Junip live in-studio including 'Your Life Your Call' . www.youtube.com
"Clem Snide" is a character in several novels by William S. Burroughs, including Naked Lunch, The Ticket That Exploded and Exterminator!.
There is a 25th Anniversary re-release of their debut album Ferment on June 23rd. On orange and gold vinyl . www.recordstore.co.uk
Two nights in Seattle at the Paramount, November 28th & 29th. You can pre-order the album on 2x12" vinyl, blue or white.
Pearl Jam was inducted into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame this year and the KEXP DJs took time to tell their Pearl Jam stories including John's tale: blog.kexp.org
"Auckland bedroom pop artist Amelia Murray is the latest signee to Flying Nun. She honors her label’s history of making effortless pop songs that are far less effortless than people think." Read Pitchfork's review or 'Morningside' here: pitchfork.com
"Listening to Great Grandpa is like being engulfed in an inner monologue coping with the anxieties of everyday life. " Hear more from Great Grandpa this time 'Teen Challenge' featured on the song of the day June 9th
She'll be in Portland on July 24th and at Marymoor Park on August 12th
All proceeds from sales of this tape will benefit the American Civil Liberties Union, and it features appearances from Killer Mike, Moor Mother, Kool A.D., Sad13, and others. Find out more and get it here: idolsandenemies.com
"Pop icon Björk started out as a child star in her home country of Iceland when she released an album of covers in 1976. She was only 11 years-old. The album was called Björk, and even though it brought her fame, Björk was ashamed of the record. “I felt funny about having an album out that said ‘Björk’ on it, and it wasn’t my work. I’d been collaborating and wrote just one song. But I promised to myself that I would never do that again unless it was my album.” And from that point on she committed herself to full-blown originality." Hear all about Bjork with KEXP's Electronic Innovators documentary blog.kexp.org
“Gwan” begins with Rostam murmuring, “Don’t listen to me/I only believe myself/So I’m going somewhere to do that alone,” which is a perfect invitation for like-minded spirits to be alone in their thoughts together with his music. Read the review of GWAN and check out the video on pitchfork: pitchfork.com
Gabriel expressed an interest in covering this song while speaking to BBC 6 Music. "I actually do like that song a lot," he said. "I haven't quite worked out whether I should be [singing my own name] or substituting it with a name that might be appropriate to me - I think playing with yourself makes you go blind after a while."
Big Thief is at the Paramount on August 8th with Belle and Sebastian
Pinback is taking the Autumn of the Seraphs 10th Anniversary tour to the east coast starting in September. Find all the date on their site: www.pinback.com
Kurt will be in Seattle With Courtney Barnett for two nights and two venues. October 21st @ The Moore and the 22nd @ The Showbox. You can see him perform more tracks from this album with his 2015 KEXP in-studio: www.youtube.com
'Lisa' is John's #1 (or sometimes #2) favorite song. Let’s face it, making a favorite 100 songs list is impossible. You risk the knowledge that you’ve had to leave out songs that you know are actually better than the ones you’ve put down. There are classic songs that should be on your list, songs that are found on all best of lists… but THIS list, this list is harder because its YOUR favorite and not anyone else’s. Here is John's circa 2011: blog.kexp.org
Gary Jules covered this for the 2001 movie Donnie Darko. The director Richard Kelly hoped to end the film with the U2 track "MLK," but he couldn't afford the rights. So composer Michael Andrews and childhood friend Gary Jules made a rough recording of this Tears for Fears song to see if Kelly thought it would be suitable. Kelly was so impressed that he used that same recording on the film.
Okkervil River stopped by back in October for an in-studio with Troy: www.youtube.com
Morning Glory was named Best British Album of the past 30 Years in a special category created to celebrate the 30th Brits ceremony. Liam Gallagher accepted the award with no sign of brother Noel, and threw the statuette straight into the crowd.
They're playing ZooTunes August 2nd but the show is sold out. You can still see them at the Portland Zoo on the 1st!
They're at the Moore on December 8th! Grizzly Bear recently spoke to Pitchfork about Painted Ruins, the first new album in five years: pitchfork.com
The Horrors return today with “Machine”, their first new music since 2014’s Luminous. The track was recorded at The Church Studios in London and produced by Paul Epworth
NIN have announced a new EP, which will arrive this year “before the first shows” of their planned tour dates. The news was relayed to fans via an email from Trent Reznor: “DID YOU KNOW NOT THE ACTUAL EVENTS WAS THE FIRST PART OF A TRILOGY OF RELATED EPS THAT WILL BE RELEASED ABOUT 6-8 MONTHS APART? NOW YOU DO,” a part of the message reads, referring to the band’s 2016 release Not the Actual Events EP. If that schedule holds, we should see the second installment of the three-EP trilogy before July 23. pitchfork.com
This is the most covered song amongst all of Mike Scott's compositions. He told us: "There are more than 50 recorded cover versions of it. It's been covered in French, Norwegian and Spanish. There are also jam band, country rock, torch song and hip-hop versions. My favorites are the ones where people make the song their own. My very favorite is a Japanese punk version that came out in the late '90s by a band called Pealout. It's really great, really crunching electric guitar and punky lead singer. I love it. There's also a great version by a Canadian band called Great Aunt Ida, which came out I think in 2005, a beautiful slow version, kind of like if Neil Young covered it."
