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Wednesday, Mar 2 2016, 6AM
Friday, March 25 -- Shearwater will be playing at the Crocodile! More info on the bands web site: shearwatermusic.com
RNDM features Pearl Jam's bassist Jeff Ament, singer-songwriter Joseph Arthur and drummer Richard Stuverud! They'll be at the Croc this Friday, March 4th. Find out more on the band's web site: rndmband.tumblr.com
Wussy's brand new album, "Forever Sounds" is out on Friday! Find out more on the new release via their web site: www.wussy.org/
Listener request! "America" was inspired by a five-day road excursion Simon undertook in September 1964 with his girlfriend Kathy Chitty. Instead of going to the studio to finalize the mixes for the band's debut "Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.", the couple drove - forgetting the album - and spending five days driving the country together.
Fun Fact: Janes Addiction opted to record their debut album live in an attempt to better capture the energy they were known for. This album's basic tracks were recorded live at the Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles in January of 1987, with additional overdubs and corrections added later!
Holy Esque's debut album is out now! The band recently mentioned what this 5 year effort of a record meant to them. "This album represents everything we've been through and everything that is yet to come". Read up more from the band via their web site: athopesravine.tumblr.com/
Frightened Rabbit recently announced the release of their 5th studio record, "Painting of a Panic Attack". "Get Out" is the second released single off the record being released in April.
Faris Badwan, frontman for UK goth-punkers the Horrors, and Canadian opera soprano and multi-instrumentalist Rachel Zeffira team up to form Cat's Eyes. Find out more on their upcoming releases via the groups web site: catseyes.tv
Singer, songwriter Elliott Smith was found dead in his Los Angeles apartment when he was only 34 years old. The circumstances of his passing are still a mystery. Visit the KEXP Docs site for an inside look at this reluctant rock star -- www.kexp.org
Vancouver veteran Ashley Shadow, known for her contributions to Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s Lie Down In The Light, Pink Mountaintops’ Outside Love, and the Cave Singers’ Welcome Joy, is now releasing a self-titled debut record on April 15th!
Local label Barsuk has announced the release of Laura Gibson's new record, Empire Builder. Gibson will be playing the Fremont Abbey on Friday, April 15th!
The first track off Mazzy Star's haunting debut album, She Hang Brightly.
James Chapman, better known as Maps, teams up with the electronically charged Mute Record-alumni Polly Scattergood for onDeadWaves debut.
BRAND NEW LUSH!! Make sure to get tickets for their Seattle date on Wednesday, April 20th at the Showbox.
Andrew Bird made his live debut of "Capsized" on Conan O'Brien back in February. Revisit his performance on the Team Coco web site: teamcoco.com/video/andrew-bird-02-04-16
The 6th track off Akron/Family's denut record -- released on Young God Record. It was also produced by Michael Gira (Swans, Young God Record)!
Fun Fact: Starman was the last song added to The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. Originally the song was intended to be a Chuck Berry cover "Round and Round"
Sub Pop's Mass Gothic just released his self titled debut! Find out more about Mass Gothic on the Sub Pop web site: www.subpop.com
Underworld is back and will be releasing their first album in 6 years! Karl Hyde released a couple albums with Brian Eno since then, but this will be the first Underworld album since 2010!
Revisit Cut Copy's gorgeous dance-pop tinged KEXP in studio back from 2011 on the KEXP Blog: kexp.org
Fun Fact: Originally forming in 1993, Snow Patrol's original name was Polar Bear until 1997.
New music from The Kills! Returning with their 5th album, it will be the bands first album in 5 years.
More new music from The Big Pink. Their Empire Underground EP, a 4 song collection, will be released on Friday!
The Voom Blooms were great, but sadly, short lived. The band only released two EPs since their start in 2005 before calling it quits in 2009.
Here's a video of Rogue Wave covering The Screaming Trees "Nearly Lost You" : www.youtube.com
Local duo Fly Moon Royalty are releasing their new record, Delicious Trouble, on April 22nd. For a refresher course, here's the group's KEXP In-studio from 2014 : kexp.org
Listener Request! Fun Fact: The original 2-track demo recorded by the band became the most-requested song by a local band in the history of WBCN in Boston
Portland based Battleme will be playing the 2016 John in the Morning at Night event on March 18th alongside The Dandy Warhols, Young Fathers, & some more special guests to be announced...
Lead singer Issac Brock on the optimism in "Float On": "It was a completely conscious thing. I was just kind of fed up with how bad stuff had been going, and how dark everything was, with bad news coming from everywhere... I just wanted to feel good for one day."
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This Talking Heads album contains live versions of songs that appear on Talking Heads: 77, More Songs About Buildings and Food, Fear of Music, and Remain in Light.
"Furr" was KEXP Song of the Day back in October of 2008! blog.kexp.org
Amigo the Devil with TK & The Holy Know-Nothings and Rattlesnake Milk
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Fruit Bats are releasing their new record, "Absolute Loser", in May via Sub Pop.
Watch Lord Huron perform "Time To Run" live on KEXP and plenty more off their Lonesome Dreams record via the KEXP Blog from 2012: blog.kexp.org
The Sun Days are a five piece indie pop outfit from Gothenburg, Sweden. You can pre order their new album via their bandcamp page: thesun-days.bandcamp.com
Fun Fact: The name for the Brooklyn based band Madder Rose came from the herb-based paint rose madder.
Juliana Hatfield (Blake Babies, Lemonheads) & Paul Westerberg (The Replacements) team up to form the new band, The I Don't Cares.
Woods recently announced their follow-up to their 2014 With Light and With Love. It's called City Sun Eater in the River of Light due out April 8 via the band's Woodsist label.
Local band Naked Giants with their new single, "Easy Eating". Download the song on the band's bandcamp page: nakedgiants.bandcamp.com
Revisit Portugal. The Man's intimate set at the Triple Door back in 2013 for KEXP members: blog.kexp.org
Dr. Dog's new album, The Pschedelic Swamp is out now via ANTI records. Download & listen in via the bands web site: www.drdogmusic.com
Smashing Pumpkins will be playing Wednesday, March 23rd at the Paramount! with Liz Phair (: