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Tuesday, Oct 11 2016, 6AM
The Cinematic Orchestra's sound employs a live band which improvises along with a turntablist and electronic elements such as samples provided by Swinscoe. In their studio releases Swinscoe will often remix the live source material to produce a combination of live jazz improvisation with electronica, such that it is difficult to tell where the improvisation ends and the production begins.
"LushLife's blend of psychedelic texture and 90s drums and beats makes for a chilled-out but contemplative experience." Read a review of LushLife's last album, Plateau Vision here: blog.kexp.org
Find out all about Common and Stevie Wonder's politically-charged new song and see the video which begins with the shooting of Alton Sterling: pitchfork.com
Just last week Michael Kiwanuka performed live on BBC6. Check out a video here: www.bbc.co.uk
Hear this headphone-friendly track again with the Song of the Day podcast - blog.kexp.org
All about Justin Vernon's return to Bon Iver and 22, A Million: blog.kexp.org
Guitarist Jonny Greenwood wanted to recapture the sensation of white noise generated by "a band playing loudly in a room, when 'all this chaos kicks up." Unable to produce the sound in a formal recording studio, Greenwood instead had a string section play every note of the scale, blanketing the audio frequencies.
Back in August, Band of Horses played in the gathering space - blog.kexp.org
Funeral was given its title because several band members had recently lost members of their families. A reviewer called it "celebratory, emotionally rich and life-affirming" Perfect.
Take a trip to the vinyl library and check out the handwritten notes on Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me: blog.kexp.org
Crooked Fingers visiting the old home: blog.kexp.org
Alexander was written, played, and recorded by Ebert at home during tour breaks with the Magnetic Zeros. You can read Pitchfork's review here: pitchfork.com
Conor Oberst's Ruminations is out on the 14th. Get a sneak peek @ NPR - www.npr.org
When asked to describe Merchandise’s sound Carson Cox joked, “We play both kinds, we play country and western.” They'll be in Seattle December 1st @ Barboza.
In a 2007 interview, Rob Dickinson said that members of Death Cab for Cutie and Interpol told him that without this album, their bands "wouldn't exist."
In Seattle @ Chop Suey on Nov 13th Check out the lead track off the new album on the Music that Matters Podcast: blog.kexp.org
More Clap Your Hands Say Yeah live in-studio: blog.kexp.org
Fifty fans christened KEXP’s live room during an exclusive tear-soaked performance with José González blog.kexp.org
The Aussie songwriter pairs vivid guitar pop with lyrical warnings of ecological doom. He explains why he’s concerned about the Earth’s future: www.theguardian.com
For the 50th anniversary on August 5th, 2016, Tomorrow Never Knows was remixed into a 50 minute long version. dangerousminds.net
Want more from Goat's new album? Listen to Try My Robe as the Song of the Day: blog.kexp.org
Digging into the Song of the Day archives... Lakeside back in 2009 blog.kexp.org
Read all about Tame Impala's Currents: blog.kexp.org
Depeche Mode are releasing a new album, Spirit, in the spring followed by a tour! www.rollingstone.com
"a slow creep of buzzing electronics under Lyndsey Lupe’s narcotized vocals." - www.stereogum.com
In Seattle tonight at the Paramount! Looks like there are still tickets available...
Cut Copy just released an extremely limited cassette tape of instrumentals. That's right, cassette only. Hear Lights and Music again on the podcast: blog.kexp.org
First off, LIV is pronounced "leave". Thanks Owen for tracking that down.. Lykke Li described LIV as “the love child of ABBA and Fleetwood Mac.” Makes sense to me. In other news, Lykke Li is also making her own brand of mezcal.
Phantogram at the Triple Door for a VIP concert in 2014: www.youtube.com
BRMC performed an in-studio in 2013 blog.kexp.org
See Young In The City on October 31st in Seattle at the Tractor, November 1st in Portland at the Doug Fir or November 5th in Wenatchee!
From the band's FB "Young In The City was born from an old band and an empty summer."
More from the band "Inspired by elements of Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, The Strokes, and Huey Lewis and The News, Young In The City’s priority is to follow their intuition of musical fun, without pretense. The lyrics are full of images of youthful abandon and excess, sexuality and recklessness. It is a celebration of youth, for any age."
Wish was the Song of the Day back on September 26th. See what you're missing if you're not subscribed? blog.kexp.org
In Seattle at the Showbox Sodo on the 14th and Portland's Crystal Ballroom on the 15th!
Today's Song of the Day! blog.kexp.org Snake River Blues is self-described as “psychedelic desert folk”
American critic Eric Schafer said this of the song - "it is a magnificent, daring, challenging record that was years ahead of its time; one of the great rock records of the 1980s, it has never been given its just credit. Twenty-eight years after its debut, were it released today it would still burn up the radio."
Here's a video roundup including Beercan to celebrate Beck's birthday back in July: blog.kexp.org
The video for Kirby stars Dina, a spunky tortoiseshell kitten rescued from downtown LA blog.kexp.org
The Avalanches' latest came out earlier this year. Check out a review on the KEXP blog: blog.kexp.org
MC 900 FT Jesus is musician Mark Griffin. If you go to his Facebook page, you can get a free download of "Live in Vienna 1992": www.facebook.com