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Tuesday, Jun 21 2016, 6AM
Watch The Both, Aimee Mann and Ted Leo, perform at the Bumbershoot Music Lounge from a couple years ago! blog.kexp.org Bumbershoot is in a couple months and this will be the first year KEXP is next door!
Read an oral history of Liz Phair's iconic debut, Exile in Guyville, right here! www.spin.com
The Innocence Mission released a new record last year! You can listen to and buy it on their bandcamp along with their entire discography! theinnocencemission.bandcamp.com
Released as a limited 7" for record store, this song is the lead single for The Warm Inventions third album! The Warm Inventions are a collaboration between Hope Sandoval of Mazzy Star and Colm O Ciosoig of My Bloody Valentine! www.hopesandoval.com Here's the video for this song too! www.youtube.com
Sharon Van Etten has played at KEXP a couple different times! Watch her latest in studio from 2014 right here! blog.kexp.org
Marissa Nadler recorded this record with a lot of Seattle based musicians! She'll be starting her tour in July in Portland and Boise and ending it on Monday, August 8th at Barboza! www.marissanadler.com
Lush released the first music in 20 years earlier this year! Order the 4 song EP here www.lushofficial.com and watch a video for one of the songs too!
Big Thief is touring with Nada Surf, M. Ward and Kevin Morby and will be playing at the Sunset on July 8th! www.bigthief.net
New single from Mercury Girls! You can listen and buy it digitally or physically here mercurygirls.bandcamp.com
Read Kate Bush's statement to her fans about touring and what an extraordinary experience it was! www.katebush.com
Last night was a full moon in the northern hemisphere, the first full moon on the summer solstice since 1967! Beth Orton will be live on KEXP this Thursday, June 23rd at Noon and playing the Triple Door later that night! www.bethortonofficial.com
Featuring Beck! Chemical Brothers is one of the places Beth Orton got her start! Beck also just released a new song called Wow, sign up for email updates on his site to here when his new album is coming out! www.beck.com
Dan Boeckner of so many great bands including Wolf Parade, Divine Fits and Handsome Furs just released the debut album with his newest band, Operators! operatorsmusic.com
The Cure just finished up their 3 night run at MSG and have a few dates left in the US before embarking on a massive tour of Europe! I hope you got tickets to one of the shows because they still sound so great! Also Simon looks like he's 20 years younger than he really is! www.thecure.com
New single from Swedish band, The Amazing, who will be releasing a new album on July 22nd! Pre Order it here! shop.partisanrecords.com
Debut album from supergroup, Minor Victories, featuring Rachel Goswell of Slowdive, Stuart Braithwaite of Mogwai and Justin Lockey of Editors! Grab the record here minor-victories.com and also check out the 4 videos they have!
Belly are currently touring and will be playing at the Neptune on August 28th! bellyofficial.com
PJ Harvey just released a new record earlier this month! She's also touring, mostly in Europe, but will be playing a show in New York and LA in August! pjharvey.net She'll also be playing Iceland Airwaves in November! pjharvey.net
Local Natives released this new single in April, the first new music from them in 3 years, and will be releasing their full length on September 9th! Check out all the preorder bundles here! thelocalnatives.com They are also coming back through Seattle and playing the Moore on September 20th!
You can grab the new Band of Horses here www.bandofhorses.com or at your local record store! They'll also be playing at the Paramount on Thursday, August 18th!
The Hidden Cameras are playing two shows this year, Toronto and Berlin, and the post about the Berlin show has a cute gif of a cat in a glittery box! www.thehiddencameras.com
Young Fathers have played at KEXP twice and both are considered two of the greatest sessions to ever happen at KEXP! Watch the second one from last year here blog.kexp.org
The Budos Band play on a couple of songs on Charles Bradley's latest album, including the title track, Changes! The closest Budos Band are coming right now is Summer Meltdown Fest in Darrington, Washington on August 12th! summermeltdownfest.com
Get a sweet bundle for this album on the front page of Gary Clark Jr's website! www.garyclarkjr.com He's currently touring the world, but isn't coming to the northwest for the foreseeable future www.garyclarkjr.com
Pixies played at the old home over 2 years ago and debuted KEXP's streaming video service! blog.kexp.org
Debut solo album from Swans frontman, Michael Gira, came out 21 years ago! It was also recorded at the Seattle home of Bill Rieflin and features Rieflin throughout the album!
Explosions released a new album earlier this year and will be playing at Bumbershoot this labor day weekend with some great local bands like Death Cab, Erik Blood, Chastity Belt and Fly Moon Royalty! bumbershoot.com
Interpol is having a 4th of July sale from July 2nd to July 4th on most stuff in their store! interpolnyc.com
Whoa! LUH was just listening to Explosions like 4 hours ago and John just played Explosions! Check out LUH and their debut record here luh.international
KEXP stepping inside Paul's Boutique and played all the samples featured throughout the album! If you missed it or just want to listen to it again well you can! blog.kexp.org
New Peter Bjorn & John is out now! Listen to it on their website and then buy it there or from your local record store! www.peterbjornandjohn.com
Mitski will be playing at the Crocodile on July 13th! See what they have to say about the new album and the nature of happiness www.npr.org
Listen to more off this new album from New York based band, Beverly! thatssobeverly.bandcamp.com
Watch First Aid Kit cover Patti Smith's Dancing Barefoot in front of Patti Smith! Spoiler alert, it's beautiful and she cries a lot! www.youtube.com
Neko Case, K.D. Lang and Laura Veirs collaborated for this debut album! The new album is out now and they will be playing Woodland Park Zoo on June 30th! caselangveirs.com
Father John Misty is one of the many great bands playing Bumbershoot this year! bumbershoot.com
Lord Huron will be performing at the Paramount on August 19th! In the meantime watch Lord Huron perform at the Triple Door for KEXP Donors about a year ago! blog.kexp.org
The Twilight Sad are currently on tour with The Cure and playing some other shows on days off! www.thetwilightsad.com If you're seeing The Cure make sure to get there early because The Twilight Sad always put on a great show!
Prolapse is probably one of those bands you want to add music or band to while googling them, and you probably don't want to click images. Prolapse was formed in Leicester in 1991 with the goal to be the most depressing band ever
Danish band, Yung, just released this album a couple weeks ago! Listen to more from them and watch some videos here! yungbandstuff.com
James is visiting Australia for the very first time! It seems pretty crazy that in over 25 years James has never played in Australia! Check out more from James here www.wearejames.com
First album from The Posies in 6 years! Check out their expansive webpage with tour dates, sections for Jon and Ken, and merch! theposies.net
One of the many nice things about KEXP's new home is the sheer size of it! Bombay Bicycle Cub brought two of their own engineers with their own boards and the old home could barely fit them! And they're not the only ones, Alt-J packed the halls with gear and Jungle had an engineer running a board in the intern nook! Watch the Bombay Bicycle CLub in studio here blog.kexp.org
KEXP interviewed Kevin Haskins of Bauhaus and Love & Rockets about 8 years ago! Read it here! blog.kexp.org
Former Beta Band frontman released this record earlier this year! Check out the video and then grab the album here stevemasontheartist.com
Here's the music video which was directed by Bowie and David Mallet and was the most expensive music video ever made at the time! www.youtube.com
Margaret Glaspy just released this album last Friday and will be playing at the Sunset on July 13th! Get the record here! margaretglaspy.com
Helium has never played at KEXP, but Mary Timony is in Ex Hex and they performed here last year! blog.kexp.org Also there is a Helium shortage and is driving up the price of Helium
Read about The Magic Whip, Blur's first album in 12 years, and how it came to be www.blur.co.uk
Charly Bliss will be live on the Morning Show while John is in New York on Friday, July 1st at 9 AM! Check out more from Charly Bliss right here charlybliss.bandcamp.com
One of my favorite in studios ever was when Courtney Barnett and her band dressed up for Halloween, because we all know Halloween is the best holiday blog.kexp.org
50 Foot Wave haven't played here before, but you might recognize Kristin Hersh's other band, Throwing Muses, who played here a couple years ago! blog.kexp.org
Get your own copy of Kevin Morby's song, "I Have Been to the Mountain," a KEXP Song of the Day: blog.kexp.org