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Wednesday, Jan 18 2017, 6AM
#11 on Paste's 20 Best Leonard Cohen songs. #1? "Suzanne", the first song off his first album...guess it was all downhill from there! jk www.pastemagazine.com
What's Mazzy Star's Hope Sandoval been up to? Recording with My Bloody Valentine's drummer, Colm Ó'Cíosóig and they call themselves Warm Inventions. www.rollingstone.com
The remastered and expanded edition will be released the first week of March
The song was originally recorded by Link Cromwell & The Zoo. Yes, that Link Cromwell! www.aquariumdrunkard.com
New Spoon coming at you on March 17th! Damn, St Paddy's Day and new Spoon! Sign me up! Pre-order is up on their website www.spoontheband.com
They're from Sydney Australia and their new album is out February 17th and they will be at Barboza on February 21st.
Here's "Waitress Song" played live for KEXP by our friends First Aid Kit www.youtube.com
Amy wins the first request award this morning! Nicely done, Amy. Nicely done.
Los Angeles trio The Wild Reeds new album 'The World We Built' drops April 7 and you can see 'em live at the Tractor Tavern on Monday, May 15th
Originally formed in San Francisco in 1988, the band toured and recorded until 2001. Several members of the band (including frontman/primary songwriter Mark Kozelek)continued to perform in the band Sun Kil Moon until 2010.
New album is out in March and they will be on tour! No SEA dates yet theshins.com
For Tristan, Happy Birthday. Love, Claudine.
I always liked Carrie Fisher's husband...old what's his name...
Here's Young Father's in-studio from May 2015, only from KEXP! www.youtube.com
No SEA dates but you can see Bonobo at Coachella or maybe score tickets to the sold out Vancouver dates...bonobomusic.com
HÆLOS performing live in the KEXP studio from January 2016 and hosted by the lovely Cheryl Waters www.youtube.com
Did you hear the "yelp" at the beginning of this track? It's on the 12" only and happened when a bandmate shoved a snowball down Bernard Sumner's shirt during recording
KEXP, AKA Radio Clash on February 7th! #InternationalClashDay
Despite this song's popularity, as of 2014, DM hadn't played it live since 1988.
Speaking of D.C., here's Washington D.C.'s own, Fugazi! And here's the band on their favorite live moments www.npr.org
Say what? According to CoS "A collaboration between Car Seat Headrest and Smash Mouth may happen" consequenceofsound.net
Is something going in D.C. on Friday?
we're your safe place at the left hand end of the dial and we're glad you're here!
Due out on March 24th, 'Damage and Joy' is their first new studio album in 18 years. Hope it's all as good as this track.
Soviet Soviet will be LIVE on KEXP on Thursday, March 09th @ 9:00 AM. We're being nice and letting them sleep in a little...very little.
From Wikipedia - "Prolapse formed in the summer of 1991 under a table at Leicester Polytechnic's Friday night disco, "With the aim of being the most depressing band ever". Fortunately they didn't live up to their own expectations!
I feel that I can say this to you because we're close and you won't tell anyone - I'm always starving when I'm stoned. There, it's out there and I feel so much better. thank you for being a friend
You can pre-order the album now direct from our friends at Sub Pop megamart.subpop.com
Nancy wanted to hear a little Neutral Milk Hotel this morning - good call!
Here's Sebadoh performing live in ye olde KEXP studio back in 2013 www.youtube.com
here's Nada Surf performing live in our gathering space last March www.youtube.com
Roy wrote in and said he "lives in White Salmon, WA [and we] are experiencing our 265th snow day of the season" and wanted to hear some Lonely Forest. Well, considering it's only the 265th snow day, certainly!
Catch Natasha live at Nectar Lounge with your sweetie on Tuesday, February 14th!
What a great album, in addition to the title track, it features "Running Up That Hill", "Cloudbursting", and "Big Sky". She hit it out of the park with this album
The Futureheads' cover of Kate Bush's song did better than her original release (topped out at #18) and was a top 10 hit in the UK
In addition to her musical talent, Kate is also a playwright and her new play "Wasted" recently had its Irish premiere www.advertiser.ie
Up and coming band Radiohead plays Key Arena on Saturday April 8th. www.wasteheadquarters.com
William Onyeabor died aged 70, peacefully, on Monday. He leaves four children and four grandchildren. Onyeabor "self-released eight albums between 1977 and 1985 and then became a born-again Christian, refusing to ever speak about himself or his music again." great documentaries about him here: www.youtube.com and David Byrne performing some of his music here www.youtube.com
L.A. duo Filip Nikolic and Jeffrey Paradise became famous thanks to our helpful friend Youtube and their first well known track "Do You Believe?"