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Friday, Mar 31 2017, 6AM
Good morning! If you haven't seen it, the Pitchfork documentary for The Lonesome Crowded West is worth a watch. It includes live footage as well as footage from their recording sessions for the album at Moon Music in Olympia: pitchfork.com.
two local favorites teamed up for this live Talking Heads cover. Naked Giants are playing all three days of the Fisherman's Village Festival (3/31-4/2) in Everett. You can also catch Car Seat Headrest on May 29th at The Gorge for Sasquatch!
Apparently Steven Colbert came out on stage and covered this classic Talking Heads song at a fundraiser for the Montclair Film Festival. Check it out here: pitchfork.com
Smashing Pumpkins might be getting the original lineup back together for a reunion tour! Billy Corgan shared details with NME back in January. Check it out here: www.nme.com
Wake up! It's Friday!! Check out this KEXP in-studio performance of Arcade Fire covers from Seattle Rock Orchestra over on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com
Of Monsters and Men played this track live on KEXP from KEX Hostel in Reykjavik, Iceland back in 2011. Check it out here: www.youtube.com
The band behind the iconic Breakfast Club theme "Don't You Forget About Me" is still "Alive and Kicking," with tour dates all throughout Europe through the middle of May. No US dates seem to be scheduled, but if you happen to be anywhere near the UK, Italy, Spain, Belgium, or basically anywhere in Europe in the next few months, you can see these guys live!
This was a KEXP Song of the Day way back in 2009. Subscribe to the Song of the Day podcast for a new, free, handpicked-by-a-KEXP-DJ song delivered to your inbox every single day! Get this song over on the KEXP blog: blog.kexp.org
This two-disc set from Pixies frontman includes solo acoustic demos on the first disc, and the second disc features revisited and reworked Pixies songs and other material in his extensive catalogue.
Pavement's Stephen Malkmus (& the Jicks) were at KEXP in 2014. Enjoy Live Video of the In-studio here: blog.kexp.org.
2004 release w/Jack White, who also produced the album; www.youtube.com
PJ Harvey is playing the WaMu Theater on May 5th!
Watch the official video for "Y Control" here: www.youtube.com
The seventh album by American singer Harry Nilsson as well as his most commercially successful work - (holding three of his best-known songs).
The second of two albums these two worked on together, which sounds nothing like their first, "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts," released 27 years prior to this album.
This track is from Sorority Noise's third full-length album which released earlier this month. John famously spun this track twice in a row on The Morning Show because, well, it deserved it.
If you don't know the story behind Seattle's Sunny Day Real Estate, here's a great primer from our friends at Sub Pop records www.subpop.com
Check out a live in-studio performance from Superchunk over on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com
check out the official video for this song released back in 1979: www.youtube.com
Prince's Paisley Park Estate museum just opened a new room dedicated to Lovesexy. www.startribune.com
the newly-reunited Tribe is playing a number of shows around the US this summer, but the closest date on their tour schedule to Seattle is in LA for the Pitchfork Music Festival in mid-July.
Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins of Tones on Tail are back with a new band called Poptone that will be playing The Neptune on Friday, June 2nd!
This was the last song ever played on-air from KEXP's old studios located at Dexter & Denny on 12/9/2015, right before switching over to broadcasting from the new home at Seattle Center!
"Modern Love" is the opening track to Bowie’s fifteenth studio album ‘Let's Dance’ and was released as the third single from the album in 1983.
When asked how the song came to be, Chuck D repliled, "Spike [Lee], [producer] Bill Stephney, Hank and I had a meeting, and Spike simply said, 'Hey look, I've got this movie based on all this tension going on in the New York area, the clashing neighborhoods, and I'm looking for an anthem.' All I remember was Spike was saying, 'I'm looking for an anthem.' Hank Shocklee added, "Spike's original idea was to have Public Enemy do a hip-hop version of 'Lift Every Voice and Sing,' which is kind of like a Negro anthem or spiritual. But I was like, 'No.' I opened the window and asked him to stick your head outside. 'Man, what sounds do you hear? You're not going to hear 'Lift Every Voice and Sing' in every car that drives by.' We needed to make something that's going to resonate on the street level. After going back and forth, he said, 'All right, I'll let you guys go in there and see what you guys come back with.'" rol.st
Check out Dick Dale playing this track live in-studio here on KEXP way back in 2009! www.youtube.com
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet are best known for performing the theme song to the old TV show The Kids in the Hall
Produced over 2 years, compiled of almost entirely sampled content, Endtroducing... came out to some commercial success in the UK. Predictably, the US was several years behind.
Sleaford Mods play Neumos on April 5th, and are stopping by The Morning Show for a live in-studio performance on the same day!
The Joy Formidable stopped by the KEXP studios for a live in-studio performance in July of last year. Check it out here: www.youtube.com
Phantogram played this song live on The Morning Show back in 2009 from The Cutting Room Studios in NY. Check out video from that performance here: www.youtube.com
School of Seven Bells stopped by for a live in-studio performance back in 2011. Check out footage from that session over on the KEXP blog! blog.kexp.org
TV On The Radio has been pretty quiet since their release of Seeds back in 2014, but are playing one show in California this summer. If you happen to be around Mountain View, CA on June 25th, they're playing a show. Unfortunately, that seems like the only place you'll be able to see them live anytime soon.
KEXP went inside Paul's Boutique back in 2015, dedicating an entire 12-hour day of programming to the album and all samples used on the album. Relive some of the magic over on the KEXP blog: blog.kexp.org
DJ Shadow's Nobody Speak samples this song from Italian artist Caterina Valente
"We wanted to make a positive, life-affirming video that captures politicians at their election-year best," DJ Shadow said in a statement that accompanies the new visual for "Nobody Speak," his collaboration with Killer Mike and El-P of Run the Jewels. The video for this song shows a group of politicians start an all-out brawl. Check it out here: www.youtube.com
2016 took a plethora of artists away from us, including Leonard Cohen. Check out a collection of Leonard Cohen videos over on the KEXP blog in memoriam: blog.kexp.org
Nada Surf stopped by the KEXP studios in March of last year and played a killer set. Check it out over on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com
Low played a live in-studio set here at KEXP back in 2013. They're also playing The Neptune on June 16th! www.youtube.com
Luna played a live set here at KEXP back in 2015. Head over to the KEXP blog for video from their session! blog.kexp.org
Check out Deerhunter from 2007 live on KEXP from The Doug Fir in Portland on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com
while you wait for video of this live session to be released, you can relive The Maldives' last performance here on KEXP over on our blog: blog.kexp.org
we're streaming live video from this session right now over on our Facebook page! www.facebook.com