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Wednesday, Mar 29 2017, 6AM
Mark Kozelek—the artist behind Sun Kil Moon—has released a new EP under his own name, called 'Night Talks'.The five-song effort includes a cover of Kath Bloom’s “Pretty Little Flowers” (featuring Bloom) and a cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Famous Blue Raincoat” (which he performed at a Cohen tribute this past November). There is also an acoustic version of “I Love Portugal” from Sun Kil Moon’s 2017 LP Common as Light and Love Are Red Valleys of Blood.
On April 7th, Father John Misty will be on The Midday Show with Cheryl Waters and they will play the entire album and have a track by track discussion about the album.
New Fleet Foxes track and the new album will be out in June. What a great way to kick off summer! Wait, summer doesn't start until July 5th...
Remember that time Wilco did an all acoustic concert for KEXP as a fund raiser to help us build our new home? It was AWESOME! www.youtube.com
Okkervil River plays The Triple Door on Saturday, May 6th
Here's a good article on Fufanu from last November. Can you Fufanu? I knew that you could! www.stereogum.com
Here's the classic video...in glorious B&W, so you know it's serious! www.youtube.com
If you live in the NYC area, you can see LCD Soundsystem for not 1, not 2, not 3, but 5 nights starting April 6th (4/6 - 4/11! You lucky bastards. lcdsoundsystem.com
Damn, I'm winded from the last track, now this? Ok, gotta suck it up...must.not.stop.dancing.
Do you like the Spoon? Do you like record stores? Do you like vinyl 12"? Then get your ass to your local record store on Record Store Day and score a 12" version of Spoon's "Hot Thought" (April 22nd) www.recordstoreday.com
whoa, didn't see that coming...segues like this you can't learn, it's something you're born with
With a text like this "Can we get some operators up in here today?" how can we say anything except "absolfukinglutely"!
A Beginner's Guide to The Charlatans by their very own frontman Tim Burgess www.digitalspy.com
Requested by Tim who has this great quote by Jeff Buckley in his email signature - "Be The Best, No Negativity, No Weakness, No Acquiescence to Fear or Disaster, No Errors of Ignorance, No Evasion From Reality"
Happy Birthday Milo! Enjoy your bozo solo dance party (TM)
Anthony wrote in with a birthday request for his 2 year old son, Elliott, whose first live show was KEXP's Grand Opening with the late, great Sharon Jones. Now there's some great parenting!
This is an upcoming release from The Dip on Colemine Records, and it is out on April 7th. The Dip plays Neumos on Sat. May 13th with The True Loves
Take a gander at Black Joe Lewis's 2014 in-studio for KEXP, after The Morning Show of course, no, after The Midday Show...wait, after The Afternoon Show...ah, hell, just fit it in somewhere! www.youtube.com
Reverend Horton Heat with Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears and Piñata Protest
Saturday, Mar 1, 2025
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Founded in 1998, Antibalas (Spanish for "bulletproof") is a Brooklyn-based afrobeat band that is modeled after Fela Kuti's Africa 70 band and Eddie Palmieri's Harlem River Drive Orchestra. antibalas.com
Joe Tatton is the organ player for the fabulous New Mastersounds and has played with the Haggis Horns, Corinne Bailey Rae as well as his own band Rodina, named after KEXP's very own Tilly Rodina...naw, I'm kidding...but am I? I am. thejoetattontrio.bandcamp.com
They're kicking off a spring tour and will be in Seattle @ The Paramount on Thursday, July 20th www.portugaltheman.com
Back in 2013, Buzzfeed called Gems "the best new band you've never heard of" and they've only gotten better www.buzzfeed.com www.gemsmusic.com
According to the National Weather Service, since October 1st (178 days), Seattle has had 123 with rain or snow, 149 with more than 70% cloud cover and just 9, count 'em, 9 days with 30% or less cloud cover. Can you say raindrops?
We're giving away tickets to the sold out Mitski show on Saturday, April 8th. Text "puberty" to 206-903-5397 for a chance to win. and if you don't win this pair, keep listening...2 more pairs to give away between now and 10 am
Land of Talk will be LIVE on KEXP on Tuesday, June 27th @ 9:30 AM and at Neumos that night
Slowdive will stream a live show on Facebook TODAY at 4 pm eastern! pitchfork.com
They'll be live at The Crocodile on Friday, June 16th site.hurrayfortheriffraff.com
Live at Showbox Sodo on Wednesday, May 23rd! thejesusandmarychain.uk.com
Live version from Kate's in-studio yesterday. We'll be getting the video up shortly!
Happy Birthday to Erin in Brooklyn! You're not losing your edge, you're getting betta and betta!
Yeah, I know he's the boss and everything, but John is killing it this morning!
If you missed CYHSY when they were in town earlier this month, maybe this in-studio from 2014 will help www.youtube.com
little band from Minneapolis & they're pretty good. you should check 'em out.
little band from Issaquah & they're pretty good. you should check 'em out. www.thestranger.com
Yes, you heard right, Animal Collective will be in Seattle @ The Neptune on Thursday, June 29th! www.myanimalhome.net
I love their Twitter handle "bosshogbitches" You can also find them on a thing called "facebook" www.facebook.com
We had them in the KEXP studios a few years back and you can see the videos right here -> www.youtube.com
New album drops Friday and they are touring, but no SEA dates announced. good thing, 'cause as I understand it, they're whipping the audiences into disco-glam frenzies! Actually I need to get me some of that disco-glam frenzy....come to Seattle! www.independent.co.uk
And there you have it, your The New Pornographers DoubleShot (TM)!
Ride's new album, 'Weather Diaries", comes out on June 16th. It's their first new album in 20 years and you can pre-order some colored vinyl versions from their website www.thebandride.com
