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Monday, Apr 24 2017, 6AM
The War on Drugs have now returned with their first new song in three years, ‘Thinking Of A Place’. The 11-minute track has been released on a limited 12″ for Record Store Day which took place on Saturday! The band have been working on their follow up to 2014's "Lost in a Dream" which is set to be released on Atlantic.
Just two weeks before the 2008 Coachella festival, the organizers announced that Prince had joined the lineup. He played an 8 minute long version of Radiohead's "Creep". It popped up on YouTube the next morning but was quickly taken down as usual with most Prince internet content. Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke found this hysterical. "Really? He’s blocked it?” Yorke asked an interviewer. “Surely we should block it. Hang on a moment. Well, tell him to unblock it. It’s our song.” It was shortly unblocked.
James Murphy tells Clash about a designer who responded to Sound of Silver: "And he was just saying that "Your music makes me feel like I’m not alone. That I can talk to you and we would understand each other". And I thought that was as good of a compliment as I could get about making music that he could feel that there would be something to talk about. They would feel not by themselves, not isolated"
Happy Monday? Happy Monday. Happy Mondays! Blue Monday is a name given to a day in January (typically the third Monday of the month) claimed to be the most depressing day of the year. The concept was first publicized as part of a 2005 press release from Sky Travel, which claimed to have calculated the date using an equation. Good thing we have this song pull us out of that.
Playing Showbox SoDo on May 23rd! Jim Reid talked to the Guardian recently about the new record, “We’re driven by the same things that made us make music then. In 1985, there was a kind of frustration about the status quo in music. So it’s the same thing as what it was then but more … I hate to use the word mellow, but it’s a kind of mellow rage.”
Playing MusicFest NW in Portland on August 27th and the Knitting Factory in Spokane on August 28th with White Reaper! Spoon recently returned with their new album Hot Thoughts.
Car Seat Headrest have shared an acoustic cover of the Smiths’ song “That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore.” The song originally appeared on the Smiths’ second album, Meat is Murder, released in 1985.
David J will be hanging out on the Morning Show this Thursday! "As with every David Bowie album from ‘Hunky Dory’ on, I purchased ‘Blackstar’ on the day of it’s release. I was on tour at the time and had set aside the evening of Saturday, January 9 to immerse myself in it (post show) via headphones in the dark, dark basement of that night’s venue, an old house in suburban Seattle. The album blew me away. Once again Bowie had dared to dive into wild unchartered territory and it was thrilling to tag along.
The following day I traveled by train to Portland having booked a recording session there on the Monday. That night David Bowie left the planet.
In a state of shock I played the new album for the second time. Now with an entirely different perspective. Listening to it in that very weird, poignant and strangely exalted state I was struck by the notion that Bowie had created an incredibly complex and layered swan song and had, in effect, transformed his death into an astonishing work of art. By the time the final track came on I was weeping copiously. Those tears needed somewhere to go. They ended up in a song. One that simply poured out of me. I recorded it the next day."
The The released their first new single in 15 years on Record Store Day. “We Can’t Stop What’s Coming,” is a tribute to frontman Matt Johnson’s late brother Andrew, aka Andy Dog, who designed many of the band’s record sleeves and who passed away last year. The song features Johnny Marr on guitar and former The The members Zeke Manyika and James Eller on percussion and bass.
Little Fictions is the seventh studio album by English rock band Elbow, released on February 3rd. Produced by pianist and keyboardist Craig Potter, the album is the band's first without founding drummer Richard Jupp, who departed from the band the previous year.
The Big Pink are from London and consist of multi-instrumentalists Robertson "Robbie" Furze, Mary Charteris, Nicole Emery and Bradford Lee Conroy. They stopped by in June last year, check out their KEXP session here: www.youtube.com
On this day in 1990, World Party released their second studio album, "Goodbye Jumbo" aided by a number of guest artists, including Sinéad O'Connor and frontman Karl Wallinger's former bandmates in The Waterboys.
Local outfit Zebra Hunt has returned with their latest record, "In Phrases".
The track "Heal" is featured in Strand of Oaks Live on KEXP session from 2014: www.youtube.com
Another great cover today! Arcade Fire and Mavis Staples covering Talking Heads "Slippery People".
Amazing cover of David Bowie's "Ziggy Stardust" from Bauhaus' Gotham release.
Playing the Neptune Theatre August 18th and 19th! New album, "What Now" is out this Friday! YAY!
Catch the xx LIVE on KEXP TODAY at 1 PM! They play tonight at WaMu Theatre! Jamie XX did an amazing mix on Midnight in a Perfect World, relive it here: www.mixcloud.com
Complete Surrender is the third album from English duo Slow Club released in 2014.
This is Abbie's favorite Ministry record! Before they industrialized their sound, Ministry dipped into the New Wave and it's worth your time.
New Feist! "Pleasure" is released on April 28th!“I was raw and so were the takes,” Leslie Feist wrote recently about her forthcoming fifth album, Pleasure. “Our desire was to record that state without guile or go-to's and to pin the songs down with conviction and our straight up human bodies.”
Bat for Lashes aka Natasha Khan released her debut, "Fur and Gold" in 2006
THIS NEW KENDRICK ALBUM. DAMN. Playing August 1st at the Tacoma Dome!
Richard D. James under the alias Aphex Twin released his third studio album ...I Care Because You Do on this day in 1995! It features recordings that he composed from 1990-1994.
Perfume Genius will be releasing his fourth full-length, "No Shape" on May 5th.
Happy Birthday and Happy Monday to Happy Mondays' bassist, Paul Ryder!
Slowdive's self-titled return to music drops on May 5th! No Seattle dates yet but we are crossing our fingers.
Happy Birthday David J! Catch him on the Morning Show this Thursday at 9:30! Love and Rockets were an English alternative rock band formed in 1985 by former Bauhaus members Daniel Ash (vocals, guitar and saxophone), David J (bass guitar and vocals) and Kevin Haskins (drums and synthesisers) after that group split in 1983.
"Hummer" was written after overcoming a period of crippling writers' block for The Smashing Pumpkins. They released their second album, Siamese Dream in 1993.
Released in 1993, Fuzzy is the debut album by Los Angeles rock group Grant Lee Buffalo.
Keep It Like a Secret is the fourth full-length album released by indie rock band Built to Spill released in 1999.
Diet Cig plays Barboza on April 28th! They just dropped their album, "Swear I'm Good at This".
Sugar and Husker Du's Bob Mould performed "Hoover Dam" for KEXP in 2013, check it out here: www.youtube.com
"I definitely feel like I'm a better songwriting than I was 15 years ago," Lanegan said in a statement. "I don't know if I'm just kidding myself or what, but it's definitely easier now to make something that is satisfying to me. Maybe I'm just easier on myself these days, but it's definitely not as painful a process, and therefore I feel I'm better at it now. But part of the way that I stay interested in making music is by collaborating with other people. When I see things through somebody else's perspective it's more exciting than if I'm left to my own devices."Gargoyle is also set to feature appearances from Josh Homme, Greg Dulli and Duke Garwood.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds released their eighth album "Let Love In" in April of 1994. The Bad Seeds in this line-up features amazing musicians including, Blixa Bargeld (of Einsturzende Neubauten),
Martyn P. Casey (of The Triffids), Mick Harvey (of The Birthday Party), Conway Savage, and Thomas Wydler (of Die Haut).
The Black Angels have returned with "Death Song" this past week and will be playing The Showbox on October 23rd. Relive their 2013 KEXP session here: www.youtube.com
BRMC named themselves after Marlon Brando's motorcycle gang in the 1953 film The Wild One.
Like a weird, punk Brady Bunch, Kelli and Peyton met after Kelli's father began dating Peyton's mother. The girls' families eventually moved in together and they began playing with various musical instruments that their parents owned. Their new album "New Trick" will be out this Friday!
Check out the full performance of Wolf Alice's 2015 KEXP session: www.youtube.com
Kitten is the LA-based project of Chloe Chaidez. Kitten was live on the Morning Show in 2014: www.youtube.com
Like what you hear? Trementina's "Please, Let's Go Away" is our KEXP Song of the Day! Subscribe and read more about this track here: blog.kexp.org
Chastity Belt will be playing the Crocodile on June 1st and will be officially releasing their new record, "I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone" on June 2nd!
The New Pornographers stopped our studio this past weekend! Can't wait till their session is up! The supergroup just released their album, Whiteout Conditions
The Fiery Furnances are Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger. The siblings are originally from Oak Park, Illinois, a near-western suburb of Chicago. They released their third album, EP in 2005. Check them out live on KEXP in 2009: www.youtube.com
Sampha LIVE on KEXP Monday, April 24, 2017, 4:00 PM, and later tonight at WaMu Theater (opening for The xx). Want to attend the FREE, Public KEXP In-Studio Viewing? Here's how: blog.kexp.org.