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Tuesday, Apr 26 2016, 6AM
Prince debuting Purple Rain at First Avenue in 1983! As with all Prince videos this will be taken down soon, so watch it here before it's gone! www.youtube.com
Many artists have been paying tribute to Prince by covering his songs! Here's a very moving cover of Purple Rain by Bruce Springsteen from a couple days ago www.youtube.com
From Live Aid in 1985! Queen were sandwiched between U2 and David Bowie and completely stole the show that night. Their set was only 25 minutes long, but it's some of the best 25 minutes in music www.youtube.com
LCD Soundsystem covered my second favorite Prince song, Controversy, during their set at Coachella over the weekend! www.nme.com
Billy Corgan is among all of the talented artists that have been paying tribute to Prince over the last couple of days. Here's his cover of The Cross www.rollingstone.com
Shawn Smith starting with a nod to Prince during his 2001 in studio! Due to the move to the new home all in studios are currently down, but check back soon to listen to the whole in studio!
Mother Love Bone is the most glam of any of the Seattle grunge bands and Andrew Wood was extremely influenced by Marc Bolan and Jim Morrison!
If you are in Europe right now you better be buying tickets for Shearwater! They put on an amazing performance and they covered all of Bowie's Lodger as their encore when they played Seattle! shearwatermusic.com
Hammock's new album is out now and you can buy it through their website on a cd, digitally or cool double vinyl! www.hammockmusic.com
Haelos just released their debut full length album and it's amazing! Watch their in studio from a couple months ago here blog.kexp.org And check them out if they're coming to a town near you because their live performance is spectacular
Moderat will be playing at the Showbox on Tuesday, May 24th! moderat.fm
Damien Jurado just released a new album and everybody is raving about it! I think it will definitely end up on some top ten lists! He'll also be playing at the Neptune on May 12th!
Jamie xx is one of the many amazing artists playing this year's Sasquatch Music Festival which is only about a month away!!! www.sasquatchfestival.com
Deep Sea Diver was one of the many amazing bands that played for KEXP's grand opening a week and a half ago! Watch their performance at KEXP from January! blog.kexp.org
Pixies played at the old KEXP home and you can watch the video right here! blog.kexp.org And if you like performances like this you can actually attend them now! Check out KEXP's website to see which live performances you can view live and in person! www.kexp.org
Operators were just at KEXP and although the video isn't published yet, you can still watch them perform in Iceland from last year! blog.kexp.org
OMD are playing at Marymoor Park on Saturday, July 16th! www.marymoorconcerts.com
Wussy are playing at EL Corazon on June 18th! You can also read the history of Wussy in DC on their website! www.wussy.org
Bob Mould played on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night! Watch it here! www.cbs.com
More sad news, Polvo founding member and drummer, Eddie Watkins, has passed away. www.brooklynvegan.com
Brand new music from Parquet Courts and it rules! Watch their live in studio from earlier this month here! blog.kexp.org
Modest Mouse will be playing at the Key Arena, next to KEXP, on Saturday, July 30th!
The Kills are releasing a new album on June 3rd and will be playing at the Showbox a couple days before that on June 1st!
Underworld released their first album in 6 years last month and you can order it straight from their website! www.underworldlive.com
Released on this day in 1994! First of many American Recordings with producer Rick Rubin!
Watch Phosphorescent perform songs from this album at KEXP from 2013! blog.kexp.org
The Stone Roses are reuniting this year for a few tour dates! Two in Manchester, one in Dublin, one in New York and one in Japan! Check them out here www.thestoneroses.org
The Church have worked with KEXP a few different times! Watch a video of them performing in 2011! blog.kexp.org
Newest Chemical Brothers came out last year and has a ton of great guests like Q-Tip, Annie Clark/St. Vincent and Beck! www.thechemicalbrothers.com
Beta Band frontman, Steve Mason, has released a solo album and it sounds amazing! Check out more from him here stevemasontheartist.com
Brand new album from Chad Valley! Check it out here www.chadvalley.net and then go see him at Barboza tomorrow, Wednesday, April 27th!
Watch Washed Out perform at the Doug Fir Lounge in Portland for MFNW a few years ago! blog.kexp.org Speaking of Portland, this is the theme song for Portlandia!
Read up on this album on our blog for a Midnight Album Feature post! blog.kexp.org
Santigold is playing KEXP's Little Big Show on Saturday, May 14th with DoNormaal! blog.kexp.org
Co-produced by Nine Inch Nails! And speaking of Trent Reznor, he's one of the many people joining the Twin Peaks revival cast!
The Dandy Warhols just played at KEXP, it hasn't been published yet, but keep an eye out for it! And if you missed their performance at John in the Morning at Night, don't worry, the Portland based band plays in Seattle for a holiday show every December!
Robert Smith's birthday was a few days ago and to honor it a couple years ago KEXP put together a video list of a bunch of great goth videos! Siouxsie of course made the cut! blog.kexp.org
Bjork cover! This is an all covers album and Dulli covers everything from John Coltrane to Fleetwood Mac to Mary J. Blige!
New album from Greys came out on Friday! Buy it here greys.bandcamp.com and then go see them at the Black Lodge on June 4th!
Falco, frontman of mclusky, has sine gone on to form Future of the Left and released a new album earlier this month! futureoftheleft.net
Kurt Cobain died 22 years ago and I think there's still a news story about him every single week. An angry letter to the head of Geffen is being auctioned off loudwire.com
Watch the official video for Miike Snow's "Genghis Khan" off the just-released "III": miikesnow.com