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Wednesday, May 4 2016, 6AM
HÆLOS came through the KEXP studios in February and played some songs off their album Full Circle for us. Check out their live performance on the KEXP Blog : blog.kexp.org
"Memory Gospel" was originally a B-Side to his single "Honey" back in 1998. In 2000, Moby released Play: The B Sides, a large collection of mostly unheard singles spanning throughout his career.
Moderat's third studio album, III, came out earlier last month! Check out the band's web site for more info on their release: moderat.fm
Joe Corrales Jr., also known as Yppah, is a solo electronic artist based from Houston. Find more of his music on Yppah's bandcamp page: yppah.bandcamp.com
Hammock's newest release Everything and Nothing, the Nashville duo’s first full-length album since 2013’s Oblivion Hymns. Buy the record via the band's bandcamp page: shop.hammockmusic.com
Bowery Electtric were born in New York's East Village in 1993 by Lawrence Chandler and Martha Schwendener. The two met while working at Andy Warhol's Interview magazine.
Brand new music from Radiohead! Keep your eyes peeled for album & tour announcements soon! www.wasteheadquarters.com
Showing signs of what was to come, TV on the Radio's second EP, New Health Rock, was released after their first album Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes. Keep tabs on TV on the Radio via their web site: www.tvontheradio.com
Brand new music from Steve Mason ( Beta Band )! More info on the release via his website: stevemasontheartist.com
They Might Be Giants debut single, "Don't Let's Start" off their debut self titled record.
Originally a backing band for burlesque shows, in their early years DeVotchKa also toured with burlesque performer and model Dita Von Teese.
The title of Arcade Fire's debuyt album refers to the deaths of several relatives of band members during its recording. Alongside the theme, "Haïti" was written as singer Régine Chassagne's elegy to her homeland.
Wix (aka Paul Wickens) plays accordion on "This Is the Day". Wix has also played accordion for Paul McCartney, Nik Kershaw, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Bon Jovi, and more!
Bowie used the in-house session player Rick Wakeman to play Melotron on "Space Oddity". Years later, Wakeman would go on to form the band Yes.
Prince wrote "Sign "☮" the Times" almost entirely on the Fairlight sampling synthesizer, which provides the primary keyboard riff and sampled electronic bass sounds heard on the track. Unlike some artists, Prince did not program new sounds for this song. He simply used the stock sounds the Fairlight offered, including the famed orchestra hit towards the end of the song.
The last track off Gabriel's 1980 S/T release (aka Melt). "Biko" was written about Steve Biko, a noted black South African anti-apartheid activist who died in 1977 due to police brutality. Note: Phil Collins plays the drums on this track.
The title of Come On Pilgrim derives from Christian rock singer Larry Norman, whose catchphrase was "Come on pilgrim, you know He loves you", which was used as a lyric in the song "Levitate Me".
Louisiana to Portland based singer songwriter Kyle Craft was living under a friend’s pool table while he demoed new songs which would become his excellent, Sub Pop release Dolls of Highland. More info on Kraft and his new album on the Sub Pop web site: www.subpop.com
"The Dead Heart" deals with the mistreatment of indigenous Australians and the nonrecognition of indigenous cultures in Australia, and was part of efforts to raise awareness of Australia's Stolen Generations -- the forcible removal of Australian Aboriginal children from their families between 1909 and the 1970s.
RIP Adam Yauch. MCA (Adam Yauch) passed away on this day in 2012.
Super Disco Breakin' is the first song off Hello Nasty, the fifth studio album by the Beastie Boys. The album took home two awards at the 1999 Grammys, in the categories of Best Alternative Music Album and Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for "Intergalactic".
Aesop Rock has returned! His new album, The Impossible Kid is out now! Check out his web store to download his new record: www.thegiantpeach.com
The Cure are playing Sunday, May 29th at 11:00 PM at Sasquatch Music Festival! More info on the bands web site: www.thecure.com
South were originally conceived as an electronic act! The band were also mentored by ex-Stone Roses frontman Ian Brown and later worked under the tutelage of UNKLE's James Lavelle, who signed the band to his personal record label.
LUH's new album, Spiritual Songs for Lovers To Sing, is out on Friday! More info on the release via their label's web site: mute.com
Tones on Tail was a musical side project of Daniel Ash of the gothic rock group Bauhaus, along with art school friend, flatmate and "Bauhaus roadie" Glenn Campling in 1982. The band's name is a reference to the way calibration tones were recorded on the "tail" of reel-to-reel tape. Later, the group would split and go on to form Love & Rockets.
Protomartyr are playing Saturday, May 28 at 5pm at Sasquatch Music Festival! More info on the festival's web site: lineup.sasquatchfestival.com
Defying many genre's, Prong influenced many artists such as Korn's Jonathan Davis, Demon Hunter's Ryan Clark, and Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor.
Vancouver's own, White Lung, are releasing their new album Paradise on Friday! Download the album via the band's bandcamp page: whitelung.bandcamp.com
