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Coming to Seattle's Showbox on December 8th! Kiwanuka worked as a session guitarist, playing with Chipmunk and Bashy, before working as a solo artist. 'Love & Hate' is his second release that dropped early in July.
"Ain't No Sunshine" is a song by Bill Withers from his 1971 album Just As I Am, produced by Booker T. Jones. The record featured musicians Donald "Duck" Dunn on bass guitar, Al Jackson, Jr. on drums and Stephen Stills on guitar
Originally released in 1970 and reissued in 2008 by local Light in the Attic Records. Although 'Cold Fact; did poorly in the US, it was highly influential according to the film-makers of the documentary about him, 'Searching for Sugar Man', sales of his records outnumbered those of Elvis Presley in South Africa
Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions is composed of Hope Sandoval from the band Mazzy Star and Colm Ó Cíosóig of My Bloody Valentine.
"There is a period of time I felt that music was the reason why I had gotten sick," Escovedo tells Rolling Stone Country about his disease and going through a hurricane while on honeymoon with his wife, Nancy --events that inspired his first album in four years.
A project of Danny Pearson (ex-American Music Club), Clodhopper played music that was as influenced by early 20th century folk music as it was by the ’90s alt-country movement.
Hidden Cameras operator Joel Gibb returned to his Canadian homeland after a long stint in Berlin, Germany to craft this debut with guest appearances by Mary Margaret O'Hara, Rufus Wainwright, Feist, Neil Tennant, Bahamas, and Ron Sexsmith.
Playing SMooCH on Saturday, December 3rd! SMooCH (Seattle Musicians for Children’s Hospital) is back for its 6th year and is ready to rock the Showbox. This year’s stellar lineup includes Father John Misty, J Mascis, Naked Giants, and The New Pornographers!! More info here: blog.kexp.org
It's the 'Mats! 'All Shook Down' is the seventh and final album released in 1990 by this Minneapolis outfit. Fun Fact: It was originally intended to be frontman Paul Westerberg's solo debut.
After going through several line-up changes since forming in 2008, this is their first full-length with a solidified trio composed of guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Chad Peck, bassist Devin Peck, and drummer Paul Brown. The album also arrives after the group's van was stolen in 2013, including thousands of dollars' worth of instruments and equipment. This forced them to rebuild their arsenal of guitars, amplifiers, and pedals, and approach making music from a fresh perspective. This track was also featured on our 'Song of the Day' podcast which you can read more about/subscribe to here...blog.kexp.org
Kitchens of Distinction formed in Tooting, South London in 1986. They released four studio albums and a handful of singles and EPs before disbanding in 1996. 'Strange Free World' is their second release from 1990.
LIVE on KEXP on December 1st at 1 PM and playing Barboza that night! Formed as a trio in Tampa, Florida in 2008, the band has undergone revision and reinvention including stripping down to their original trio for their latest release. “We were ‘reborn’ as a rock band for 'After The End'," says guitarist Dave Vassalotti, “and then we straight-up died again. It couldn’t last. The result is this distended corpse responding to you from both sides of the Atlantic, forever singing in spite of everything.”
Love and Rockets formed in 1985 by former Bauhaus members Daniel Ash (vocals, guitar and saxophone), David J (bass guitar and vocals) and Kevin Haskins (drums and synthesisers) after that group split in 1983. Their second album, 'Express' was seen as a greater departure from Bauhaus' with their fusing fusion of pop styles and underground rock.
The Blow is Olympia, WA duo Khaela Maricich and Melissa Dyne. The live shows often incorporate monologues and other performance elements. Melissa Dyne began collaborating with Maricich on the live Blow shows starting in 2007, gradually incorporating her background in installation, sound, and conceptual art into the live show
The Thompson Twins were named after the two bumbling detectives Thomson and Thompson in Hergé's comic strip The Adventures of Tintin.
Temples will be releasing their follow-up to Sun Structures, titled 'Volcano', on March 3rd, 2017. Relive their Live on KEXP session here...www.youtube.com
Bombay Bicycle Club are an English outfit from Crouch End, London, consisting of Jack Steadman, Jamie MacColl, Suren de Saram and Ed Nash. 'So Long...See You Tomorrow' is their fourth album and is named after the novel of the same name by William Maxwell.
"Age of Consent" appears on New Order's 1983 album Power, Corruption & Lies. The title of the album was chosen by member Bernard Sumner from a 1981 conceptual art exhibition in Cologne, Germany. On the opening night of the exhibition the artist Gerhard Richter vandalised the exterior of the Kunsthalle by spray painting the text, "Power, Corruption, and Lies"
New Model Army are an English rock band formed in Bradford, West Yorkshire in 1980 by lead singer and main composer Justin Sullivan, bassist Stuart Morrow and drummer Phil Tompkins. This is a live version of "Green and Grey".
Before the Dawn documents a 22-show residency at London’s Hammersmith Apollo. The shows were presented as a multi-media performance involving dancers, puppets, shadows, maskwork, conceptual staging, 3D animation and an illusionist. Bush spent three days in a flotation tank for filmed scenes that were played during the performance and featured dialogue written by novelist David Mitchell.
The song, "Gloria" started off as a poem that Smith wrote called “Oath” in 1970, opening with a line that wouldn’t become famous for five more years: “Christ died for somebody sins but not mine.” Only 6 lines of the poem made it to the version you know now.
Check out their 2010 KEXP session here...blog.kexp.org
Request for "Don't Change" from INXS' 1982 release, 'Shabooh Shoobah'.
Miami trio Jacuzzi Boys just dropped their fourth effort, 'Ping Pong'.
Transmissions from the Satellite Heart is The Flaming Lips' sixth album, released in 1993.
Opening up SMooCH on Saturday, December 3rd! SMooCH (Seattle Musicians for Children’s Hospital) returns with Father John Misty, J Mascis, Naked Giants, and The New Pornographers! Guests can take part in bidding on amazing silent auction items and in raising their glasses to support uncompensated care at Seattle Children’s Hospital. 100% of all event proceeds will go to benefit Seattle Children’s Hospital
Morphine was a group formed by Mark Sandman, Dana Colley, and Jerome Deupree in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1989.
Common's music career spans 24 years and he has just released his 11th installment, 'Black America Again'.
Desperate Journalist formed in North London in 2013 and just dropped their single, "Hollow" this past October. The band's name is taken from the response of The Cure to a critical review of their debut album Three Imaginary Boys by Paul Morley.
Check out the Live on KEXP version of this track here...www.youtube.com
Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon has been making music for over 35 years and has never released anything under her own name until now. Gordon worked on "Murdered Out" with Sky Ferreira/Angel Olsen producer Justin Raisen, with Warpaint’s Stella Mozgawa playing drums.
Nightlife is the third EP released by New York duo Phantogram in 2011. Need more Phantogram? Watch their Live Performance on KEXP from 2014 here: www.youtube.com
Wolf Alice were formed in 2010, and began as an acoustic act between Ellie Rowsell and Joff Oddie. Their name came from a short story by Angela Carter.Wolf Alice stopped by last year and delivered this amazing session that you can view here...www.youtube.com
Seattle outfit My Goodness just dropped their new EP, 'Islands' this past Friday!
Perfect from Now On is the third full-length album released by Built to Spill, and the band's first major label release. It was recorded at the Avast! Recording Company in Seattle, Washington by Phil Ek.
Coming to Chop Suey on November 13th! Philly's Purling Hiss returns with 'High Bias'.
'Democracy' is the tenth album released in 1996 from industrial outfit, Killing Joke. Participate in democracy and turn out for the election!
New single from England's Swampmeat! 'Gin & Tonic' is set to release on November 25th!
Toronto based Casper Skulls just dropped their EP, 'Lips & Skulls'.
Faith No More hails from San Francisco, California and formed in 1979. Before settling on their current name in 1983, the band performed under the names Sharp Young Men and later Faith No Man.
Joshua Paul "Josh" Davis, better known by his stage name DJ Shadow, is an American record producer and DJ.
'The Impossible Kid' draws in Aesop Rock's vulnerabilities: depression, his sometimes rocky relationship with his family, and the years that culminated in Aesop leaving his adopted home of San Francisco to live in a barn out in the woods, where he recorded the foundations of his latest record.