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The only US date their website lists is Chicago for Lollapalooza in August... but you can see their most recent appearance on KEXP here: www.youtube.com
Annelotte de Graaf's day job is as a legal aide in The Netherlands, often supporting UN war crime tribunals and cases involving Syrian refugees. Hear more from Amber Arcades with the Song of the Day from April 18th 2016, "Right Now" . blog.kexp.org
When he couldn't get his songs on the radio, Moby started licensing them for commercials to get them exposure. His album Play is the first to have every song used in commercials.
When recording this song, no one from Massive Attack actually met Hope Sandoval. It was all done "by wire."
The new Slowdive is out soon! Closer with every day. Hear more from the new album with the Song of the Day from back in January . blog.kexp.org
After the release and success of The K&D Sessions, the duo received several requests to remix their music which they turned down. Dorfmeister stated that they had "felt like we'd already done it," and "I'd rather release nothing than something that is half and half...Perhaps we don't have so much output, but at least then we don't release some bullshit."
Groove Armada are a band with a split personality. They create one set of tracks to release as recordings, and another set of remixed dance versions of those songs to play live. Check out more Groove Armada with a spotlight on them with DJ Michelle Myers: blog.kexp.org
If you missed The xx last night, you can see them tonight in Vancouver BC! Or you can catch their KEXP in-studio from 2012 here: blog.kexp.org
Björk is performing in Los Angeles on May 30th with a full orchestra at the Walt Disney concert hall.... but it is sold out.
Ella would have been 100 today.
For the 20th anniversary of No. 2 Live Dinner, Robert has released a double LP "Live Dinner Reunion" featuring hits and collaborations... Featured Tracks: 1. Cody Canada tell it like it is 2. Feelin good again 3. Gringo honeymoon 4. State of thanks address 5. I gotta go 6. Luck weather 7.This old porch with Lyle Lovett 8. T for texas with Lyle Lovett 9. Write a drinking song 10. Hot corn, cold corn 11. Cory’s story 12. I’ll go on downtown with Cory Morrow 13. Ding dong daddy from dumas with brian duckworth and Mark Patterson 14. Bruce Robison on the money 15. No kinda dancer with Bruce Robison 16. Boys in the band 17. Shade of gray 18. Deliverance dry cleaning 19. Ninety-nine years For one dark day 20. Amarillo highway 21. Wild wind with Cody Braun 22. Merry Christmas from the fam-o-lee 23. Corpus Christi bay 24. Lonely feelin with Cody Canada 25. Grateful Cred 26. The road goes on forever with Joe Ely
Gargoyle is out in only a couple days! To hold you over here is his most recent in-studio: www.youtube.com
Looks like there are still tickets available for the Portland show August 27th, Spokane on the 28th, and Vancouver BC September 2nd. That's right, no Seattle stop.
"My politics are starting to align perfectly with Sandinista-era Clash." John Vanderslice via Twitter on April 20th.
Playing The Knitting Factory in Spokane on May 23rd and Eugene, OR on the 24th.
Playing the Tacoma Dome on August 1st and Rogers Arena in Vancouver BC on August 2nd
Debut of new Odesza! No release date for the album yet. AND Odesza will be headlining Bumbershoot!
New album is out Friday! Sylvan is playing two sold out Seattle shows at the Neptune, August 18th and 19th. Portland and Vancouver are sold out as well!
Lo Moon is one of those young bands that seemed to come out of nowhere, fully formed. Its members knocked around the scene in other projects — Lowell had a solo outing, multi-instrumentalists Samuel Stewart and Crisanta Baker played in Nightmare & the Cat and Surf Riot.
Two Dots was Song of the Day back in September 2009 . blog.kexp.org . You can hear a recent track from Lusine the was Song of the Day this month..."Just a Cloud" . blog.kexp.org . And Lusine will be live on KEXP tomorrow at 9:30. Get down here up to 90 minutes early to sign up and see them!
John Lennon's hand-written lyrics for this song sold for 1 Million pounds in the summer of 2005. Lennon left them in the BBC studios after The Beatles' last live TV appearance, and they were rescued by an employee.
June 16th at the Crocodile! Here's another track from the new album, this one is "Rican Beach" . blog.kexp.org
EMA – the project of South Dakota native and Portland, OR-based artist Erika M. Anderson
"The creative arc of the band Talk Talk is a fascinating thing to behold. While the band is known to most of the world for their synth-pop 1984 hit “It’s My Life,” and considered pretty much a one-hit wonder, if considered at all, their last two albums — Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock, created in 1988 and 1991 – are another beast altogether: sprawling, expansive, acoustic, experimental, filled with drone and roomsound and darkness. " Find out more: blog.kexp.org
This was written as a stand against assault for International Women's Day. Proceeds from the single will go to Women for Women International.
Possum Kingdom is a lake in Texas, near Dallas/Fort Worth. 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."
The video features cowboys having a "lowdown throwdown at a hoedown." Heh.
"Since starting as a joke between friends who could barely play their instruments, they’ve now released three albums on progressively larger indie labels, each one tip-toeing the group’s garage rock sound into new arenas." Get Romance Distractions, April 13th's Song of the Day. blog.kexp.org
"Sorority Noise know brutal honesty can be uncomfortable, but they employ it so well on their latest album, a rafter-reaching emo record about the raw stages of grief and loneliness." Check out the full Pichfork review here: pitchfork.com