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Monday, May 1 2017, 6AM
Elbow is playing the Showbox on Friday, Nov 10th - tickets here: www.showboxpresents.com
Check out the "Under the Needle" session we did with London Grammar at soundcloud.com
New PJ Harvey! She'll be playing a sold-out show at WaMu theater on May 5th. pjharvey.net
Lucius joined us last May for a live in-studio. Give it a watch here: www.youtube.com
Sylvan Esso's singer and lyricist Amelia Meath describes this track as being "about life mimicking technology and technology mimicking life. Searching for truth and honesty in a sea of noise. How, despite all the changes to the ways we go about it, we all still want the same thing any human has ever wanted: to connect with other humans and feel understood."
You can catch Mark Lanegan at the Showbox on Thursday, August 24th. marklanegan.com
They'll be in town playing the Showbox on October 18th! theafghanwhigs.com
This group out of Australia will be playing the Moore on May 31: www.midnightoil.com
The Mountain Goats will be playing at the Showbox on June 5th: www.mountain-goats.com
This was our Podcast Song of the Day waaaay back in 2007! blog.kexp.org
This one's for Matt, who just opened up Coffee Shark! 🦈coffeeshark.com
Did you pick up the limited edition Record Store Day GLOW IN THE DARK vinyl version of this album? Yep, that's a thing: recordstoreday.com
The Jesus & Mary Chain are playing the Showbox SoDo Tuesday, May 23! thejesusandmarychain.uk.com
Want to see the most 90's-tastic music video? www.youtube.com, ok .. I'm sure it has some competition..)
New music from this folk-soul duo out of New York City. They're playing Barboza June 13th: www.overcoatsmusic.com
We're pretty excited about this new Slowdive album, out May 5th. www.slowdiveofficial.com
Watch a live in-studio performance of "Line of Fire" from the KEXP studios: www.youtube.com
Shearwater was in town last March, and stopped by KEXP's new home to record this in-studio: www.youtube.com
Eyelids are making a special trip to Seattle just to perform here at KEXP! Stay tuned for details... musicofeyelids.com
Want to see Stephin Merritt of The Magnetic Fields perform live in the men's room at KEXP? www.youtube.com
Uncertain smile... was this song inspired by the Mona Lisa? 🤔
Check out Menomena performing from the Doug Fir Lounge during MusicfestNW: www.youtube.com
Kevin Drew on the new song from their first new album in 7 years: "“It’s been 17 years together as a band, and you just pick up where you left off. It’s always been that way. We’ve been working on this album on and off for the last year, and we thought that, since we’re an anthemic band, we wanted to bring the celebration with this first song.”
New Shabazz Palaces! They'll be playing the Upstream Music fest May 13th. www.shabazzpalaces.com
Perfume Genius is playing the Capitol Hill Block Party this July 23rd! 🕺perfumegenius.org
Fun facts: They came up with the title after they found a huge number of "Ng" listings in the New York City phone book. The line, "I don't want the world / I just want your half," is said by Lisa Klapp, a friend of John and John's, and recorded through a telephone.
Just announced our next Six Degrees day will be about ✨DAVID BYRNE!✨ Yay! Tune in May 19th. In the meantime, check out our last Six Degrees of Robyn Hitchcock (who is performing a live in studio here at 9:30AM) at blog.kexp.org
Listen to John Richards' exclusive interview with David Byrne from just a couple weeks ago: blog.kexp.org
Brian Eno's debut solo album. Eno and David Byrne collaborated on the last album we played, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today.
From Beth Ditto's solo album "Fake Sugar", that will balance “blues, malt-shop pop, swooning rock, and countrified soul” and tackle themes of “love, loss, looking back, and moving forward”.
Desperate Journalists describe themselves as "Glowering indiegoth melody crunchers". We can dig it: desperatejournalist.co.uk
Check out this review from Methyl Ethel's performance at Neumo's last year: blog.kexp.org
