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Tuesday, May 17 2016, 6AM
Sinead went missing Sunday night but was found safe yesterday! www.bbc.com
PJ Harvey just released a new album and will be playing two shows in the US, one in New York and one in LA! pjharvey.net This song also features Thom Yorke of Radiohead and I'm sure you've heard all about Radiohead's new album, but here's the link to their website anyway where you can buy the new album www.radiohead.com
Speaking of the brand new Radiohead! You can buy it digitally now, vinyl and CD come out on June 17th and the special edition vinyl box that comes with a piece of Radiohead master tape comes out in September! You can buy all the versions here www.radiohead.com Also a 7" of Burn the Witch and Spectre was released yesterday, only 2500 were pressed and I hope you got yours because they're going for a lot of money on ebay now
James Blake also just released a new album and you can buy it from his website here! jamesblakemusic.com He's also playing shows in London, LA and New York this month! Also the video from his performance here is great blog.kexp.org
Washed Out has performed for KEXP a couple different times, here's one of those videos from 2012! blog.kexp.org
The Dandy Warhols released this new record about a month ago and even playing John in the Morning at Night! They'll be back around the holidays as they always play a show here and a show in Portland in December! In the meantime you can watch their in studio from a few years ago! blog.kexp.org
Sulk's new record came out a month ago, and you can listen to the new record and another record on their website! www.sulktheband.com
Nowhere turned 25 last year and Ride released a 25th anniversary edition and toured behind it last year! Learn more about it here ridemusic.net
Listen to more from the record here, aloha.bandcamp.com where you can also buy the record! You can also buy their entire digital catalog for less than $50!
Lumineers are playing 3 sold out shows at Marymoor in a few weeks! They have some cool packages on their website for the new album with T-shirts included or a cool grey and black wax deluxe record! thelumineers.com
DCFC is one of the headliners of the Bumbershoot Music Festival this Labor Day Weekend! Check out the rest of the lineup bumbershoot.com
The Shins covering the Postal Service! Also I've heard that The Shins are working on new music and might have a new album this year! Keep up on them right here theshins.com
Santigold released her third album, 99¢, earlier this year, and unfortunately it costs more than 99¢. Check out her interactive video on her website though! tumblr.santigold.com
There is a Tribe Called Quest tribute party happening tomorrow night at Barboza to remember the life of Phife Dawg. RIP Phife thebarboza.com
Aesop Rock was just in town but you can still get some sweet merch from his store! www.thegiantpeach.com Also don't forget this graph somebody put together of popular rappers and the number of unique words they used! Aesop Rock broke the scale poly-graph.co
One of the greatest songs ever written, and one of the many songs that almost anybody will recognize but not many know who wrote it. And speaking of writing it, Booker T wrote this song when he was just 17 years old! Also originally released as B side on Volt, a subsidiary of Stax before it was quickly turned around as an A side on Stax!
New PB&J album comes out on June 10th! You can listen to all three singles and pre order the album here www.peterbjornandjohn.com
Australian band, The Avalanches, have only ever released this one album! This album absolutely blew up and they have been working on a second album for close to 15 years now
Oscar's debut album is out now and if you buy it from his website you might just get a Fuji instant film selfie of Oscar, and he's one good looking dude! www.oscaroscar.co.uk
The Temper Trap have a new album coming out on June 10th and will be touring around the world! Check out their latest music video and pre order the album here www.thetempertrap.com
June is killing it with the releases! New Caveman record is coming out on June 17th! You can also watch a Caveman video and pre order their record here cavemantheband.com
R.E.M. have been busy, Peter Buck produced the new Jayhawks record and Michael Stipe recently payed tribute to David Bowie on the Tonight Show! www.remhq.com
The Notwist are a German band who released their last record a couple years ago on local label Sub Pop! You can watch them performing on KEXP right here! blog.kexp.org
New album from producer Shit Robot came out just a couple weeks ago on DFA, another killer DFA release! Also features a bunch of people from the DFA family including Museum of Love on this song! www.facebook.com
Happy 51st birthday to the one and only Trent Reznor! Trent Reznor along with Eddie Vedder and Laura Dern are said to have joined the Twin Peaks reboot! Also Apple Music asked Trent Reznor to help them out with some stuff! www.rollingstone.com
This is Wire's 15th album, and it came out almost 40 years after their first album, and it's still so good! It's impressive when bands can stay good for that long www.pinkflag.com
Wheedles Groove is a compilation put together by Light in the Attic of a bunch of Seattle funk and soul from the 60's and 70's! Seattle is very lucky to have Light in the Attic within it's city limits! This is just one of the many great releases they have, check out more from Wheedles Groove here! lightintheattic.net
DJ Spooky is still going strong and keeping busy! Read all about his current work and his bio on his website! www.djspooky.com
New album come out in about a week and a half! Watch the video for the single here! holyholyfuckfuck.tumblr.com They'll also be playing at the Crocodile on Saturday, June 18th!
Tricky is still keeping relevant as he recently reunited with Massive Attack for a song on their new EP, the first time they were together in over 20 years! He is also working on Tricky Presents Skilled Mechanics who released their debut album earlier this year! Tricky also just released a new clothing line! You can find all of this right here tricky.greedbag.com
KEXP recently held an entire day dedicated to samples and named it after one of the most common samples, Funky Drummer! Read all about Funky Drummer right here blog.kexp.org
Get some limited versions of this album here! theecommons.bandcamp.com Also if you ever want to just lose yourself in a mass amount of cool music? Well then check out Burger Records! They put out more records than any one human can keep up with, but they're usually all good! www.burgerrecords.org
Sonic Youth never played at KEXP Lee Ranaldo and Thurston Moore have both been here and you can watch both videos simultaneously and then it will be like seeing half of Sonic Youth at KEXP! blog.kexp.org blog.kexp.org
Another album coming out on June 10th! That's going to be a great day for music! Diarrhea Planet was just at KEXP for an in studio and why not watch their last video from KEXP while you wait for the new one to be posted? blog.kexp.org
Speaking of legends stopping by KEXP, here's a video of Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks from a couple years ago! blog.kexp.org Stephen Malkmus is even wearing a Speedy Ortiz shirt!
Perry Farrell and Stephen Perkins of Jane's Addiction formed Porno for Pyros after the initial breakup of Jane's in 1992 and went on to release two albums!
St. Vincent has to be one of the coolest people alive, and if you have not seen her live you owe yourself a favor when she goes on tour next! She also recently designed her own guitar www.music-man.com and has been on Portlandia a couple times and even has a music video based in Portlandia! www.music-man.com I know this is a lot of info but she's also dating Cara Delevingne and if that's not like the coolest couple ever then I don't know what is
If you missed any of Kevin Cole's Prince Tribute show or if you just want to listen to it again you're in luck! KEXP's tech team saved the show and created a player for it on our website! blog.kexp.org
Brand new Black Pistol Fire comes out on Friday! Watch their in studio from a couple years ago right here! blog.kexp.org
Watch JSBX play at KEXP back in 2012! blog.kexp.org They played on the morning show last year from The Cutting Room Studios and you could feel the energy coming from the New York based studio, you didn't have to see them to know they were killing it!
R.L. Burnside was a blues musician who was born in 1926 and played music from the 60's until his death in 2005! He didn't gain notoriety until the early 90's and toured with Jon Spencer during the late 90's!
Towa Tei is a Japanese producer who was part of Deee-Lite and has released several solo albums! This is is sophomore effort and features collaborations from Kylie Minogue and on this song in particular, Biz Markie and Mos Def!
I shared this graph earlier during an Aesop Rock song, but it's relevant here too! It shows rapper's unique words used out of their first 35,000 lyrics! Method Man landed in the top 75% along with the rest of Wu-Tang! There's even a Wu-Tang button to separate them out because their all such great lyricists poly-graph.co
Brand new album from British band, Underworld! John paid tribute to Brian Eno yesterday, a day after his birthday, and played Eno/Hyde, a collaboration between Brian Eno and Karl Hyde of Underworld, second to last yesterday! Stream the show for the next 13 days here! www.kexp.org
Nortec is a portmanteau of Norteño music, similar to polka in Mexico, and Techno music that was made famous in Tijuana around 2001! That's when this album was released, I wonder if there's a correlation?
Tones on Tail was a side project of Daniel Ash, and later joined by Kevin Haskins, both of Bauhaus, after Bauhaus broke up! They only released one album before joining another former Bauhaus member, David J, and forming Love & Rockets!
Check out Operators' performance at Iceland Airwaves from last year while you wait for their most recent in studio to be released! blog.kexp.org Frontman, Dan Boeckner, is also in Wolf Parade and Sub Pop just reissued their classic album, Apologies to the Queen Mary, on 3xLP! www.subpop.com
Matt Berninger of The National is part of EL VY with Brent Knopf of Ramona Falls and formerly Menomena and they played at the old home, they even wore sweaters to match the backdrop! www.youtube.com
Desert Mountain Tribe were just at KEXP and their in studio should be posted soon, it was the only break in Prince on KEXP the day Prince passed away. You can always play with the stars on their website while you wait for the in studio to be posted www.desertmountaintribe.com
Ellery James Roberts of WU LYF has gone on to for LUH, he really likes acronyms! Their debut album came out a couple weeks ago and you can check out more from LUH here luh.international
Well if you're looking for something to do on July 1st you should be at Hyde Park in London watching TV on the Radio, Massive Attack and Young Fathers! www.tvontheradio.com
These New Puritans' debut album from 2007 when they were just 18 and 19! Check out some more info here www.thesenewpuritans.com
Toronto based band released this album last month and will be playing at the Black Lodge on June 4th! greys.bandcamp.com
Pity Sex will be performing at Seattle's Vera Project on Saturday, July 2nd, 2016.