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Friday, Nov 18 2016, 6AM
The first New Order song to do well on the Billboard Hot 100 charts back in the early 90s, reaching #28.
This track is Public Enemy's most popular song for a reason! This song was written for the 1989 Spike Lee film Do The Right Thing, and features some James Brown samples
Nothing like a little James Brown to pump up the morning. This song has been sampled in over 300 other songs, according to whosampled.com. Happy Friday everyone!
DJ Shadow sampled the 1963 Los Inca's song El Condor Pasa in this track
Paul Simon heard Los Inca's play this song in 1964 at a concert they were both performing at in Paris and loved it so much that he asked for permission to use their instrumental track. Paul Simon wrote some English lyrics on top of it and released it in 1970!
The music video for this song, unsurprisingly, features a bunch of cats. This song was originally released as a standalone single back in 1983 and climbed the charts in the UK and Australia. This was first of their songs to break the top 10 in the UK
A supergroup featuring Lykke Li, Miike Snow, Peter Bjorn & John! Li describes their music as "a love child between ABBA and Fleetwood Mac"
Middle Kids are traveling all the way from Sydney, Australia to play Barboza on February 21, 2017!
Steve Albini produced this song for Pixies in 1988. This song was featured as the closing theme to the movie Fight Club, but we probably shouldn't talk about that, should we?
Prior to forming Guided By Voices, Robert Pollard was a schoolteacher that formed this lo-fi indie rock band with a number of rotating members including his brother Jim.
Temple of the Dog is back! They're playing two nights at The Paramount Theatre! November 20th and 21st. There aren't many tickets left for either performance, so you better get tickets quick!
Thom Yorke says this track is about "someone who is elected into power by people and who then blatantly betrays them – just like Blair did."
Catherine Wheel first introduced this song in a BBC Session back in 1991, and the subsequent release of this track led to the band's breakthrough in the US music scene. MTV put the video for this song into heavy rotation, back when they actually played music videos.
The Kills features Alison Mosshart of the band VV, and Jamie Hince, drummer/guitarist/vocalist of Hotel. They toured alongside the Raconteurs in support of this album Midnight Boom
Polly Jean Harvey grew up on a sheep farm in England and learned how to play guitar and saxophone at a very young age. PJ Harvey was formed in 1991, and recorded their first album for under $5,000.
The Cure proves that two chords is all it really takes to make a great song.
This Depeche Mode song talks about corporate greed and corruption. It also features both of the band's lead singers singing the various parts of this song.
Empire of the Sun is coming to the Key Arena on Tuesday, December 6th!!
The Shoes is comprised of Guillaume Brière and Benjamin Lebeau who have produced and remixed tracks for artists like Lana Del Rey and Shakira. The music video for this song features Jake Gyllenhaal.
Chemicals is a band out of Portland fronted by Jeff Truhn.
It's almost been a year since we found out that LCD Soundsystem was getting back together, proving that the impossible is indeed possible.
A famous nod to Orwell's novel 1984: "Who controls the past now, controls the future. Who controls the present now, controls the past". Let that one soak in for a second...
The drummer for The Jesus and Mary Chain started this indie-pop/dance fusion band and released the album Screamadelica in 1991.
This song is based on a demo that Bono recorded called "Fat Boy", but didn't do much with it until approached by the German filmmaker Wim Wenders, who wanted a track to use in his film "Unti the End of the World".
Love and Rockets features three former member of the band Bauhaus, but pursued a completely different sound. The band formed because the fourth member of Bauhaus refused to reunite the band, so the other three members decided to do something completely different.
The National is fronted by Matt Berninger who is supported by a couple sets of brothers: Scott and Bryan Devendorf, and Aaron and Bryce Dessner.
Train In Vain was originally a hidden track on the album because the band thought it was "too commercial". It turned out to be one of the biggest hits from the album.
Nada Surf performed live in the KEXP studios back in March of this year! www.youtube.com
This alternative supergroup features Dean Wareham (Galaxie 500), Justin Harwood (Chills), and Stanley Demeski (Feelies). They stopped by the KEXP studios in 2015 and played a live in-studio set which you can check out here: www.youtube.com
"Everybody knows that the dice are loaded / everybody knows that the good guys lost". We'll miss you, Leonard.
Nick Cave formed this band in 1983 after the breakup of his previous band The Birthday Party
This song is most notably recognized as the theme song to the old TV show House. Vocals for this album were done by Elizabeth Fraser of The Cocteau Twins.
Released this year, Schmilco is the Chicago based band's 10th album. Watch their in-studio performance here: blog.kexp.org