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Thursday, Apr 21 2016, 6AM
Released 24 years ago today! (And happy birthday Robert Smith)
Recently in Long Island, NYC group TV On The Radio performed a few songs at a rally for Bernie Sanders - you can check out the live performance here: www.youtube.com
Check out this review and photos from when New Order played a show at The Paramount in 2014 - blog.kexp.org
Watch a live performance of "Space Needle" at Iceland Airwaves with the Dan Boeckner led project (joined with his Divine Furs bandmate Sam Brown and multi-instrumentalist Devojka) - www.youtube.com
Brooklyn band The National is touring - no Seattle dates listed yet, but they do plan to debut some new songs while on tour - americanmary.com
Playing LIVE at our studios at 12:00PM today! You can come down and sign up to watch this UK band up to 90 minutes before the show, more details here: blog.kexp.org
This Boston band only released two albums in the early 90's - frontman Josh Clayton-Felt released a solo album (Inarticulate Nature Boy) in 1996; he later died of cancer on January 19, 2000
Australian trio consisting of Johnny Took, Tommy O’Dell, and Matt Mason - Hills End is their debut full-length release.
Five-piece London band SULK recorded their sophomore release 'No Illusions' at Big Jelly Studios, a converted church in Ramsgate
This Manchester based band (consisting of Justin Crawford, Dolan Hewison, Perry Saunders, and Andy Spearpoint) managed to release five EPs, and three full-lengths, in only roughly four years.
Happy 69th birthday Iggy Pop! (Who is in the middle of a giant tour for his latest album 'Post Pop Depression')
New music from this Austin based rock duo! No tour dates listed for this area yet, but you can catch our live in-studio session with Black Pistol Fire from May 2014: www.youtube.com
The debut album from this Denver alt-country band, released on February 6, 1996
The third full-length from Kentucky country artist, Sturgill Simpson, inspired by the birth of his son. Say Sturgill about the album's ultimate message: "Love. Just thinking about a lot of points in my life when you're young and you're angry or confused or just misplaced or lost and you have this tendency to not be aware of how much [love] really is around you, and even shut it out. So, it's kind of a reminder."
Seattle duo Fly Moon Royalty will be playing their Delicious Trouble album release show tomorrow at Chop Suey, April 22: chopsuey.strangertickets.com
Strawberry Letter 23 started life on Shuggie Otis' 1971 Freedom Flight album, and became a late-'70s hit for the Brothers Johnson
For those that nabbed tickets, our Little Big Show with Santigold was rescheduled to May 14 - blog.kexp.org
New single from Honduran-American songwriter Lorely Rodriguez
Led by guitarist/vocalist Jessica Boudreaux, and joined with Devon Shirley & Jenny Logan this Portland based trio's new album Full Of It is set to release via Kill Rock Stars on May 27, 2016
Watch this Vancouver band perform for us live back in 2014! www.youtube.com
Led by Jeff Magnum, and formed in Athens in 1989, they released only two albums in the late 90's
Hold your horses Radiohead fans - the band denies the rumor that they have a new album coming in June (DOH): "At an industry event in London last night Brian Message was asked about new Radiohead music. Quotes attributed to him and taken from his talk have subsequently appeared, describing him as Radiohead’s manager. Brian Message is not Radiohead’s manager – he is a partner in Courtyard Management but plays no operational role, and therefore any quotes from last night’s event, or any supposition arising from them, should not be attributed to Radiohead’s management or be seen as official quotes on behalf of the group. Radiohead are managed by Chris Hufford and Bryce Edge at Courtyard Management.”
Battleme was in our new studio in February for a live performance, catch it here: www.youtube.com
Check out our 2014 in-studio from this Cincinnati band here: www.youtube.com
This fifth album from The Lemonheads was re-released later with a punk-pop version of Simon & Garfunkel's "Mrs. Robinson" as a bonus track
This London quartet will be playing Sasquatch in May! - sasquatchfestival.com
PJ Harvey will be playing with Savages at Eden Sessions on Monday, June 27 - catch footage here: www.youtube.com
The eleventh full length release from this English based artist, coming five years after the Mercy Prize-winning Let England Shake
Off the sophomore release from this Dublin-born artist, prompted by the collapse of her marriage to drummer John Reynolds.
Curated by Aaron and Bryce Dessner of The National, this album will feature Grateful Dead covers by The War On Drugs, Courtney Barnett, The Flaming Lips, Charles Bradley and many more: www.dayofthedeadmusic.com
Formed in England in 1990 by Rob Dickinson and featuring Brian Futter, Dave Hawes, and Neil Sims. They declined an offer to record with Brian Eno after he watched them perform on John Peel's BBC show early in their career.
This Oxford, England band came by our studios for a live session in 2013, watch it here! www.youtube.com
Check Your Head turns 24 years old today!
Born in New Orleans on August 1, 1901, Louis Armstrong went on to become the most influential musician in jazz history
Formed in 1982 in Garden City, NY, and led by Chuck D and Flavor Fav, Public Enemy was one of the most controversial and influential rap groups of the late '80s
Helped by the cult following that Paul's Boutique created, Check Your Head made its record debut in the Top Ten upon its April 1992 release
Formed in Lanarkshire, Scotland in 2011 to aid in leaving their small town life behind, frontman Pat Hynes (along with bandmates Shug, Keir Reed, Ralph McClure) moved to Glasgow. At Hope's Ravine is their debut full-length album.
Formed in 1988 in NYC, but a radio session for John Peel's BBC program in April 2001 helped expand the band's audience overseas
Says Billy Corgan recently regarding any new releases: “I would say right now I would probably lean towards making a solo album, which the irony would be everybody that was on stage in Chicago would probably be on the album. I just don’t think a Smashing Pumpkins acoustic album is going to work right now, because the expectation is we’re going to go back to playing epic flaming rock, and I don’t have a problem with that. But if I said, ‘Well, I want to do this first, and put it out, and then we’re going to do that.’
From their Record Store Day 2016 release - features this cover of S'Express "Mantra For A State Of Mind" and the new instrumental track, "Gravitational Waves (Drifter's Song)"
"Would?" made its first appearance on the platinum selling soundtrack for the Seattle-based film 'Singles' in 1992
By way of Clarkston, WA and Lewiston, ID, The Valley consists of members Dan Beloit, Doug Manis, Colin Faddis, and Tim Basaraba
The sixth album from this Riot Grrrl era band, formed in Olympia in 1994 and consisting of Corin Tucker, Carrie Brownstein, and Janet Weiss
Portland band The Thermals will be playing a show at Neumos on May 12 with local bands Wimps and Dude York! neumos.com
Happy 69th Birthday to the godfather of punk, Iggy Pop!
Deerhunter was formed in Atlanta in 2001 by Bradford Cox, Moses Archuleta, Colin Mee, Lockett Pundt, and Josh Fauver
Prince may have passed away today. Waiting to hear total confirmation on this tragic loss. Hoping it's not true.
