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Minor Victories is a super group made up of Rachel Goswell of Slowdive, Stuart Braithwaite of Mogwai and Justin Lockey of the Editors! Also their website has a cool and funny video on the front page minor-victories.com
Beach House are still on tour, and if you missed them in Seattle you can catch them across the US in August! www.beachhousebaltimore.com
SVIIB stopped by KEXP for an in studio 5 years ago! You can watch it here! blog.kexp.org Benjamin passed away only a year after that and Alejandra released their final album earlier this year that they had been working on before Benjamin's passing www.sviib.com
Superstition, released in 1991, is the penultimate and 10th album overall for Siouxsie and the Banshees! This song was their first ever Top 40 hit in the United States, hitting as high as 23!
onDeadWaves only have one tour date listed right now, but it happens to be today, and it's free! Unfortunately it's in London, so we can't go, but if you're in London right now you're in luck! www.ondeadwaves.com
Blonde Redhead released a new album a couple years ago titled Barragán and they just released a remix album of it titled, Freedom of Expression on Barragán! www.blonde-redhead.com
You can grab this single, physical or digital, from the Mercury Girls bandcamp right here! mercurygirls.bandcamp.com
Bettie Serveert are a Dutch band named after a book of the same name written by Betty Stove, a Dutch tennis player that made it to the Wimbledon finals in 1977! Nardwuar the Human Serviette should interview Bettie Serveert!
KEXP Songs of the Day are usually new songs, but John picked this song as a song of the day a few years ago because it's a Morning Show staple blog.kexp.org
Watch the legendary band The Jayhawks play at the old KEXP from about a year and a half ago! blog.kexp.org
Bobby Bare cover! Local musician, Karl Blau, just released this album of all covers and even covers the Bee Gees! karlblau.com
Bigger bands are easy to look up with just their name and then I remember that there's an international police organization that's bigger than the band! Keep up with all things Interpol, the band, here! interpolnyc.com
Sonic Youth ahve never played at KEXP, but Thurston and Lee have both been here in the last couple of years! Here's Lee's in studio blog.kexp.org and here's Thurston's blog.kexp.org
Here are some top photos of the day from yesterday including some of Bjork's iconic dresses that are being auctioned off! www.theguardian.com
Learn more about Brazilian artist Gui Boratto right here! www.guiboratto.com.br
What can you even say about Eddie Vedder? You can read a brief bio on the Pearl Jam frontman on their website www.pearljam.com
The Waterboys swung by KEXP for an in studio a few years ago! blog.kexp.org
Elbow played at the Manchester Apollo and released the entire 2 hour long video earlier this year for you to enjoy! elbow.co.uk
One of the most recognizable and iconic voices in music, Tom Waits was the subject of one of KEXP's documentaries on Poets and Music! You can read a brief blurb and listen to the whole documentary here blog.kexp.org
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds have announced a new album titled, Skeleton Tree, set to be released on September 9th! It will also be released globally with a feature film showing one night only! It will be the first since 2013, but Cave has not been lazy during these past 3 years, he's recorded a couple soundtracks, starred in a movie, and wrote a lyric book! Also Nick Cave might be the greatest show I have ever seen and you must add him to your bucket list of musicians to see! nickcave.com
International Clash Day has been officially recognized by the city of Seattle and King County! Read about the 4th annual International Clash Day from this past February! blog.kexp.org
What a great video, but then again what Beastie Boy video isn't? www.youtube.com
This new 4 song EP is the first new music released by Lush in 20 years! Watch a video or get the 10" record here www.lushofficial.com
New Order released a new album last year, their first in 10 years and their first without founding Joy Division and New Order member, Peter Hook! Even without the work of Hook it received tons of great reviews! www.neworder.com
Gish turned 25 just a couple of weeks ago! Check out more from the Smashing Pumpkins here! www.smashingpumpkinsnexus.com
Parquet Courts are coming back through town and playing at the Showbox on August 26th! parquetcourts.wordpress.com
Originally released as a single this song was included on the Singles Going Steady comp released in 1979 and the first Buzzcocks album released in the US!
Check out these amazing photos of The Smiths during their tour in 1985 and 1986! medium.com
Want some sweet Lemonheads merch? They got some sweet t shirts and records here! www.merchaye-revolve.com
This is the first album recorded in a studio by Car Seat Headrest! They'll be playing next month at the Capitol Hill Block Party! Also all physical copies were destroyed because Ric Ocasek wouldn't approve a Cars sample at the last minute! You can still get the digital version here carseatheadrest.bandcamp.com
Watch Silversun Pickups perform at Sun Liquor for a KEXP New Home benefit last year! blog.kexp.org
The Kills just played in Seattle, and are currently on a massive worldwide tour! You can stream the new album on their website and then buy it in all versions! thekills.tv
Jeff Lynne founded the Traveling Wilburys with Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Tom Petty and Roy Orbison and they just reissued all of their albums in a deluxe package! www.travelingwilburys.com
Nada Surf also played a KEXP New Home benefit earlier this year! Watch it right here! blog.kexp.org
The Joy Formidable are playing Capitol Hill Block Party this year on Sunday, July 24th! capitolhillblockparty.com
Washed Out are playing this year's Capitol Hill Block Party on Friday, July 22nd at the end of the night! capitolhillblockparty.com In the meantime you can watch one of their performances at KEXP! blog.kexp.org
Emancipator will be playing the main stage at Capitol Hill Block Party on Friday, July 22nd! capitolhillblockparty.com
Campout XII at Pappy and Harriet's in California is happening in just a couple months and features Camper Van Beethoven one night and Cracker the next! www.campervanbeethoven.com
Jack White released an interactive video for his last album! jackwhiteiii.com The last album was also that crazy ultra LP with all the fancy tricks associated with it! This song also has a great video for it directed by the inimitable Michel Gondry www.youtube.com
Bethany Consentino was recently on The Daily Show to discuss industry sexism pitchfork.com
Prince cover! Watch the video of everybody performing this cover right here www.stereogum.com
Beck is almost done with the followup to Morning Phase and it sounds like it's going to be more upbeat and fun! Also he wanted Chance the Rapper on this song and things ended up falling through pitchfork.com You can also watch the lyric video with that link
The Johnny Cash Show premiered on this date back in 1969! Ray Charles covering Ring of Fire, originally written by June Carter Cash and recorded by her sister, Johnny Cash later covered it and made it a hit
