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Tuesday, Jul 12 2016, 6AM
Ride treated us to a stunning in-studio performance at our old Dexter & Denny studios right before we packed up and moved to the new home at Seattle Center. Check it out here: blog.kexp.org
Check out our documentary from 2011 on Pearl Jam over on the KEXP blog! blog.kexp.org
Nada Surf gave a fantastic live in-studio performance in our new home back in April! blog.kexp.org
Frightened Rabbit visited the KEXP studios back in May to perform a few tracks (including this one) off their latest release, Painting of a Panic Attack: blog.kexp.org
Car Seat Headrest joined us at the old KEXP studios on Dexter & Denny for a live in-studio performance: blog.kexp.org. Be sure to catch them at this year's Capitol Hill Block Party on July 22nd!
Jose Gonzalez, lead singer of Junip, is touring around this summer to various festivals across the world, check them out here! jose-gonzalez.com One of them includes the Denver Botanical Gardens which just sounds beautiful
It seemed that every person in the world was losing their mind when LCD Soundsystem announced a reunion tour, but it looks like they had a very small crowd show up to their show at T in the Park when they were pitted up against Red Hot Chili Peppers www.independent.co.uk
Standalone single released by Factory in 1982, Temptation was released as a 7" and 12", however both of them share the same number, FAC 63. Also weirdly the 7" plays at 33 1/3 to accommodate the length of the single. Sumner also gives out a yelp at the beginning of this song which is from Peter Hook shoving a snowball down his shirt
Out of Glasgow, PAWS released this album last month! Listen to and then grab a copy right here! wehavepaws.bandcamp.com They also stopped by the old home a couple of years ago! blog.kexp.org
Modest Mouse are playing next door to KEXP at the Key Arena on Saturday, July 30th with Brand New!
OMD are playing this Saturday, July 16th at Marymoor Park! If you end up going remember it's at Marymoor and the show starts at 6 PM! www.marymoorconcerts.com
Holy Fuck were just in town but you can still watch awesome videos of theirs! they have some cool music videos and some cool live videos like the one shot at Cake Shop in New York where they packed the stage with gear! holyholyfuckfuck.tumblr.com
The very definition of post punk! First album from former Sex Pistols lead singer, Johnny Rotten, released in 1978 and recently rereleased by Light in the Attic!
Archie Bronson Outfit aren't currently touring, but they did release they latest album two years ago so hopefully a new one is coming soon! In the meantime you can watch one their many videos www.archiebronsonoutfit.com
Brighton Port Authority, or BPA, is a side project of Norman Cook, also known as Fatboy Slim! The BPA debuted with a song featuring David Byrne and Dizzee Rascal and later had a song with Iggy Pop on vocals!
The Avalanches are back! 16 years since their first and only other album and it doesn't sound like they ever left! This album features a bunch of great guests, this song features Camp Lo and the rest of the album has Danny Brown, MF Doom, Biz Markie, Toro y Moi, Ariel Pink, Father John Misty, and Warren Ellis, and that's not even all of them!
Watch Escort play Cocaine Blues on Last Call with Carson Daly www.nbc.com I also advise adding band or music to the end of your google search when you look for them
New single from Courtship Ritual who released their debut back in 2014! It was described as sounding like The xx or early Factory Records and I can definitely see both of those www.stereogum.com
New album from the Durham based band Martha! Listen to the whole thing here and then buy it when you fall in love with it! marthadiy.bandcamp.com Also the first 300 are on red vinyl! Order it for the US here www.dirtnaprecs.com
Boss Hog, featuring Jon Spencer and his wife Cristina Martinez will be live streaming on KEXP at noon Pacific time! www.kexp.org
Next Wednesday, July 20th, KEXP will be celebrating the release of Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements with author Bob Mehr and Peter Jesperson, former Replacements manager and cofounder of Twin/Tone Records! Kevin Cole will be there, which is reason enough to go, and features live performances from Stag, Prom Queen and special guests yet to be announced!
Nice As Fuck is Jenny Lewis, Au Revoir Simone's Erika Forster and Tennessee Thomas of the Likes! Originally played for a Bernie rally in NYC, Nice As Fuck is now going on tour with M. Ward! Also Forster and Thomas started another supergroup a couple years ago with Nikolai from the Strokes and New York musician Lewis Lazar!
8:56 AM
76th spin
Digable Planets, featuring Ishmael Butler from Seattle and later of Shabazz Palaces, reunited earlier this year and played Seattle and Sasquatch! They're ending their tour in Portland for Project Pabst with some bands like Duran Duran, Tame Impala and Kyle Craft among others! portland.projectpabst.com
Debut of the new single from Jamie Lidell! The new album will be out on October 14th!
A Moon Shaped Pool was released physically about a month ago! Grab a copy at your local record store or right here www.amoonshapedpool.com you can still order the $86 deluxe version that comes out in September too!
Lead single for Phantogram's third album which comes out on September 16th! They will also be playing at the Paramount on October 7th! www.phantogram.com Also here's one of my favorite in studios ever blog.kexp.org
From The Preatures self titled, debut album, Blue Planet Eyes! It's been a couple of years since we've heard from The Preatures so hopefully there's something new soon! Australia must be putting something in the water because they are just pumping out great band after great band
9:14 AM
71st spin
Johnny Boy is a project from Lolly Hayes and Andrew Davitt, a keyboard tech for Manic Street Preachers! This album was co produced by James Dean Bradfield of Manic Street Preachers! I wonder how they landed that?
Featuring the unmistakeable voice of Karin Dreijer Andersson of The Knife and Fever Ray! Several of the songs off this album were used in commercials, shows and video games!
Read a letter Kate Bush wrote to all of her fans after retiring from music here www.katebush.com
Supergroup comprised of Rachel Goswell of Slowdive, Stuart Braithwaite of Mogwai and Justin Lockey of the Editors! Their debut album is out now and they are currently touring across Europe! minor-victories.com
The Horrors haven't done anything for a couple of years, but lead singer, Faris Badwan, has released a new album with Rachel Zeffira under the name Cat's Eyes! Check it out here and watch the kinda disturbing video as well catseyes.tv
The Big Pink released the Empire Underground EP earlier this year! Check it out and other Big Pink music here! www.musicfromthebigpink.com
Bloc Party stopped by KEXP a couple of years ago! Watch their in studio right here! blog.kexp.org
9:44 AM
18th spin
The Flaming Lips were one of the many people who covered David Bowie shortly after his death. Listen and watch the video here www.youtube.com
Pixies just released a new single and are releasing a new album on September 30th! Hopefully they come back through town! www.pixiesmusic.com
French Style Furs is comprised of Nathan Willet and Matt Maust of Cold War Kids and We Barbarians drummer, Nathan Warketin! www.frenchstylefurs.com
Watch the official music video (featuring Idris Elba) for "Dance-Off": www.youtube.com
Tomorrow, PJ Harvey will release a new track, "Guilty," from her new album, "The Hope Six Demolition Project': thequietus.com