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Tuesday, Aug 2 2016, 6AM
Watch one of the top 5 KEXP in studios ever right here! blog.kexp.org EL VY, comprised of Matt Berninger of the The National and Brent Knopf of Ramona Falls and formerly Menomena, dressed up to match the KEXP studio!
Check out the video for this song www.youtube.com Off their debut record from 1985! The video isn't very exciting, but fits the song pretty well, I think they should've made it darker
I'm in a music video mood right now, sometimes moody music videos are perfect for 6 AM. Check out The Smiths video for this song www.youtube.com
If you missed out on tickets for their show in Seattle you can still go see them at the best festival in the country, Treasure Island! It's a two day festival on an island in the San Francisco Bay, there are only two stages so there's no overlap, it's smaller than most festivals and it has beautiful views of San Francisco. It also happens to be the festival's last on the island, so I'm sure they'll be pulling out all the stops treasureislandfestival.com
Speaking of debuts, another mind blowing debut release! Also features a secret track of an a cappella cover of the Pixies song, Mr. Grieves. TVOTR only have one date right now but it's at the great Afropunk festival in Brooklyn, other artists playing include Ice Cube, The Internet and Flying Lotus just to name a couple afropunkfest.com
Tom Vek released a 10th anniversary box set for this album right here tummytouch.greedbag.com Brings me back to assisting John in New York for CMJ and being beyond sick and Tom Vek played a request for me on the Morning Show! Thanks Tom!
Collaboration between two people in huge New York based bands! Hamilton from The Walkmen and Rostam formerly of Vampire Weekend! From the upcoming Hamilton Leithauser record! hamiltonleithauser.com
Elliott Smith cover! Want to hear more from Yuck? Their website has some more songs that you can listen to! www.yuckband.com
Elliott's 47th birthday would have been in 4 days. A new tribute to Elliott is coming out on October 14th and features a bunch of great artists ranging from Julien Baker to J Mascis, it also has a cover by the great local musician Tomo Nakayama! Moe info and pre order here www.alr-music.com
Everything comes full circle, Julianna Hatfield plays on this record and recorded a beautiful cover of Elliott Smith a couple years ago that's featured on the Say Yes tribute! www.alr-music.com
Debut full length from Junius Meyvant! Listen to more on his website juniusmeyvant.com and then enter the KEXP Iceland Airwaves Flyaway contest and see him and Warpaint and PJ Harvey in beautiful Reykjavik! blog.kexp.org
New music from Band of Horses came out in June! They'll be playing at the Paramount on August 18th! www.bandofhorses.com
Cover of the Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood, featuring Barrie-James O'Neill of Kassidy and ex boyfriend of Lana Del Rey! Check out the video here www.youtube.com
Beautiful debut from the group comprised of Rachel Goswell of Slowdive, Stuart Braithwaite of Mogwai and Justin Lockey of Editors! They released several videos for this album, all with similar themes, check them out here www.minor-victories.com
New single from Phantogram, the new album titled, Three, is coming out on September 16th! They're also playing the Paramount on October 7th! Watch the video for You Don't Get Me High Anymore shot by the Salton Sea here www.youtube.com
Easily one of the least listened to Cure records and it's nice to see it get some love, especially the songs not titled A Forest! The Cure are still touring around Europe and I hope you got tickets because they still sound amazing and have been changing their set list pretty much every night! www.thecure.com
I wonder what inspired this British band's name? Chain of Flowers was a B side by The Cure from 1987! Check out more from this band chainofflowers-alter.bandcamp.com They'll be live on the Morning Show on August 19th at 9 AM!
Want to learn more about Elbow? Check out their biography on their website! elbow.co.uk You can also watch a bunch of their videos here elbow.co.uk
From the upcoming Drive-By Truckers record coming out on September 30th! They'll be playing at the Showbox on September 29th! www.drivebytruckers.com
Debut record from the collaboration comprised of Neko Case, K.D. Lang and Laura Veirs, but you probably got that from the band name! caselangveirs.com
Lord Huron will be playing at the Paramount on August 19th! www.strangetrails.com
David Byrne just debuted a new song and played a set of songs all recorded on phones! Check both of them out here pitchfork.com
New release out of Hamburg, the cover also reminds me of In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, more info here bigcrownrecords.com
New music from Seattle based band including members of the True Loves, Grace Love's backing band!
One of the coolest humans ever, Sharon Jones was recently on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me! pitchfork.com She also is currently battling cancer but isn't letting that dictate her life, she is still touring and recently released a killer song, but I guess that's a given with Sharon Jones! sharonjonesandthedapkings.com
Would have been a great addition to the Six Degrees of Greg Dulli day! Check out the connections KEXP made throughout the day on the fly to connect Greg Dulli with all sorts of music! blog.kexp.org
The Avalanches have returned after 16 years and they sound just as good as they did before! www.theavalanches.com The new album has a whole bunch of great guests including Danny Brown, MF Doom, Father John Misty and Biz Markie, and that's not even all of them!
The Dandy Warhols recently played John in the Morning at Night with Young Fathers and recorded an in studio the next day! Watch it here www.youtube.com
Watch a ton of amazing artists, including Bethany of Best Coast, come together to cover Anarchy in the UK earlier this year pitchfork.com Maybe fitting for the events in the UK and EU this year
It seems like Australia is such a powerhouse in the music world but I can only really think of Bailter Space and Flight of the Conchords out of New Zealand, maybe I need to dive into the New Zealand music scene.
Teenage Fanclub are touring in October, they aren't making it any farther West than Minneapolis but they said, "on this trip" so let's hope they add another tour and hit Seattle! www.teenagefanclub.com
Third record from this London based band! Listen to more, read about it and then grab a copy, all right here www.slumberlandrecords.com
The iconic voice of Kathleen Hanna! New music from The Julie Ruin just came out last month on local label, Hardly Art! They'll be playing at the Showbox on October 8th! www.thejulieruin.com
Check out the debut record from Portland based band, Blowout! You can grab the record and some merch here www.lauren-records.com including beer related products like cozies and bottle openers!
So many tours happening right now! How can I possibly make it to all the shows? Cold War Kids will be playing Showbox Sodo on October 14th! www.coldwarkids.com It also appears they are part of the vast majority stoked for new Frank Ocean on Friday!
Third record from PAWS came out just a couple months ago! Listen to the rest of the album here wehavepaws.bandcamp.com
Lord Huron is playing at the Paramount on Friday, August 19th! www.strangetrails.com
Tricky covered this song on his album False Idols, but brought in Peter Silbermann to sing his own parts! The Antlers feature Seattleite Michael Lerner of Telekinesis on drums!
Brand new song from Tycho from the upcoming record that we're still waiting to here more about! www.stereogum.com
Air just released a 20th anniversary greatest hits with some really cool rarities! Check out more from it here www.aircheology.com They're also playing two US dates this year, but they're at Outsidelands and FYF, both in California
First line on her bandcamp about her new record, "Ask Mitski Miyawaki about happiness and she'll warn you: 'Happiness fucks you.'" Listen to a couple of songs off this record on her bandcamp! mitski.bandcamp.com
Playing at the Showbox on Monday, September 19th! They just released this new song yesterday and announced their upcoming record, Heads Up, which is being released on September 23rd! Check out all the packages here! www.warpaintwarpaint.com
Garbage will also be in Seattle on Monday, September 19th at the Paramount! Decisions will be made! They also just released a new record! www.garbage.com
There's a lot of talk right now about Smashing Pumpkins original lineup reuniting after Billy Corgan posted a video telling people to expect something big soon!
L7 are still currently touring! Check if they're coming to a town near you! l7theband.com
Sonic Youth may have broken up but they're all staying busy, Kim recently released a book titled, Girl in a Band, Thurston is still releasing solo music and in other bands like Chelsea Light Moving, and Lee Ranaldo as released a few solo records in the last five years!
Another band from New Zealand! After some thinking I've realized New Zealand has a pretty great music history, it's just not as large as Australia! Some other great bands to come out of NZ are Split Enz, The Chills, The Clean and The Verlaines!
Brand new record from Dinosaur Jr! Their 4th record since the original lineup reunited! They'll be playing at the Showbox on October 1st! www.dinosaurjr.com
Brand new Thee Oh Sees is only 10 days out, being released on August 12th! They're also coming to town and playing Neumos on November 25th! www.theeohsees.com
New record from The Amazing came out just a couple of weeks ago! www.theamazing.se
Here's a review of the "chilling and impressive debut" by English duo Let's Eat Grandma: pitchfork.com