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Tuesday, Jan 10 2017, 6AM
"Patience, in fact, is the key to understanding dal Forno’s solo work: You Know What It’s Like is a grower, and one that demands repeated listening." thequietus.com
Check out some of the Chromatics' remixes of their Cyndi Lauper cover... Girls Just Wanna Have Dub and Girls Just Wanna Have Some blog.kexp.org
School of Seven Bells performed Half Asleep in-studio back in 2009 www.youtube.com
C. Duncan is the son of two classical musicians. Surrounded by music throughout his childhood, Christopher initially took up piano and viola. His teens led him to school bands, learning to play guitar, bass and drums. His music combines those two common threads between his interests in classical and modern music.
Portland-based musician Douglas Appling, Emancipator sat in for a guest DJ set on Midnight in a Perfect World. Listen to his mix and hear Midnight in a Perfect World every Friday at midnight blog.kexp.org
According to Q magazine April 2008, this delicate acoustic track, which mocks macho vanity, was never intended for the album. Thom Yorke dismissed it as "not bad... it's very bad." Eventually it was included on The Bends because of its presumed commercial appeal.
Hurray For The Riff Raff is touring the US in 2017 but no west coast dates listed yet. You can watch her in-studio session, live in The Roadhouse with Greg Vandy, from 2014 blog.kexp.org
Here's a special live acoustic set by Animal Collective that KEXP recorded at the Cutting Room Studios back in 2012 blog.kexp.org
Bowie transcended every style over the past 50 years, and there will truly be no one else like him in music history. He has influenced pretty much everyone and here is a collection of artists covering him to prove it: blog.kexp.org
"Savoy Motel recreate the sounds of the ’70s using the ’90s pastiche techniques of Beck, Ween and Royal Trux, compacting glam-rock, southern boogie, and Stax sax stabs into 8-bit videogame proportions." pitchfork.com
Considering themselves artists rather than musicians, Devo planned on releasing laser discs. Remember those? "Devo would be like The 3 Stooges, you'd watch these film shorts that were music-driven with stories. We were going to put out one a year, we didn't even want a record deal." -Casale
In Seattle February 7th at Victory Lounge and in Portland the 8th at Mississippi Studios
“Fire Dance” is a cut from Merchandise’s Carson Cox, Parquet Court’s Austin Brown, and WALL’s Sam York. It is Cox's ode to downtown New York.
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Find more from Prince Rama on the Music That Matters Podcast, Vol. 508 – Little Screams of Joy. Prince Rama shows up on track 9 with Now Is The Time of Emotion blog.kexp.org
Here are a couple more from Ladytron, featured on the Song of the Day podcast, Black Cat (blog.kexp.org) and White Elephant (blog.kexp.org)
The Joy Formidable's live in-studio which includes this track but a stripped down, acoustic version! blog.kexp.org
If you want a sense of where things are headed in bass music through the near future, it's always a good idea to keep tabs on the Night Slugs label. And if you're liking Jam City you can download his latest mixtape, 'Trouble' from his website www.jam-city.net
Did you know that The Art of Noise performed the theme to the 1987 movie version of Dragnet starring Dan Aykroyd & Tom Hanks? Yep.
Vinyl reissues of the entire Chemical Brothers catalog are out January 13th twitter.com
Hot Chip's Alexis Taylor told Mojo magazine September 2012 that Over and Over was written, "when I was interested in hypnotic, repetitive music like Terry Riley's 'A Rainbow in Curved Air.' If you get a good loop going, you could listen to it forever. You hear something different every repeat."
Jackson kept it in the family for the song's backing singers. The two females singing "na na na" back to Michael towards the end of the song were two of his sisters, Janet and La Toya, in the guise of the P.Y.T.s.
"This self-titled debut on Daptone Records follows a tried-and-true formula for the records: Hire incredible musicians and get out of their way." pitchfork.com
Hear some of Lady Gray's influences with a playlist she created for La Redaction: www.djamlarevue.com
The songs captured on Slugger may dial the fuzz levels back from Speedy Ortiz levels, but that doesn’t mean they’ve stopped gunning for the heart. blog.kexp.org
Self-described from Rudy's Facebook "New single 'Why?' is out now!!! Featuring vintage vox, fresh flutes, and sultry sax." Find more from Rudy on Bandcamp, including his latest single The Eight Day Mill rudywillingham.bandcamp.com
You may know Buddy Ross as part of Tacoma electronic folk/R&B outfit Motopony or the Gorillaz-ish hip hop duo Buddy Ross and Vile. Hear Merry Man again with the Song of the Day podcast http://blog.kexp.org/2010/10/29/song-of-the-day-buddy-ross-–-merry-man/
Check out The Drums' KEXP comeback session, and their thoughtful interview with DJ Cheryl Waters blog.kexp.org
No strangers to KEXP, you can check out Imperial Teen with Runaway on the Song of the Day as well as two in-studio performances they've had, all from here: blog.kexp.org
No tour dates set but hopefully there will be some following the release of her album in March. Until then check out her last in-studio for 2012 blog.kexp.org
Recent Song of the Day - Van William feat. First Aid Kit – Revolution blog.kexp.org
On the original vinyl copy of the album "Train Is Vain" isn't listed on the tracklisting on the sleeve. The story is that the song was recorded for an NME promotional flexi-disc once the London Calling sessions were done, and the flexi-disc idea then fell through, leaving the song with no home. The band hastily tacked the song onto the end of the album just before vinyl pressing, but the sleeve had already been designed and there was no time to add it to the tracklisting.
Trent Reznor told Rolling Stone "One of the greatest moments of my life was standing onstage next to David Bowie while he sang 'Hurt' with me. I was outside of myself, thinking, 'I'm standing onstage next to the most important influence I've ever had, and he's singing a song I wrote in my bedroom.'" You can see a performance of it here: youtu.be
Car Seat Headrest Live today at noon! Get down here at 10:30 and the first 75 to sign up get to see the performance. If you can't make it, here is their in-studio from a year ago blog.kexp.org
"This LA band follows up their 2013 debut album of raucous, hedonistic garage-punk with a more expansive second album that finds them branching out stylistically while also striking an uneasy balance between partying and getting sober, defiance and regret." - Don Yates
Leah Shapiro (BRMC's drummer) will be performing on Late Night with Seth Meyers January 16th - 19th
Here's a couple more from The Bernard Lakes from the Song of the Day podcast. People of the Sticks blog.kexp.org and Golden Lion blog.kexp.org
Listen to all of Endless on Soviet Soviet's soundcloud soundcloud.com
Joey was an avid online stock trader in the late '90s. He was a big fan of cable network CNBC, and wrote a song named after his favorite anchor, Maria Bartiromo.
In addition to Merchandise’s Carson Cox, KEXP chatted with a few more artists about the influence Bowie had on them. blog.kexp.org
Bowie performed this when he appeared on the TV show, Soul Train, in 1975. He was one of the first white singers to appear on the show. Bowie reportedly got drunk beforehand to try and calm his nerves and the footage does appear to show him stumbling over his lyrics.
