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Thursday, Jan 7 2016, 6AM
Caspian released a new record last year and stopped by KEXP during their tour for an in studio! You can listen to it right here! kexp.org
Explosions in the Sky have also recorded an in studio for KEXP, but it was back in 2011 at Music Fest NW! It's weird saying 2011 is 5 years ago now instead of 4. kexp.org
Animal Collective will be releasing a new album on February 19th! You can pre order the album here, or just play with the extremely trippy website myanimalhome.net They will also be playing at the Neptune on Friday, March 4th!
Watch The Antlers perform at the old KEXP home from 2014! blog.kexp.org We're only two weeks away from the first live in studio at the new home with Ty Segall! kexp.org
Apparat has played at KEXP a couple of times including twice in 2009, once as a solo project and one with his collaboration project with Modeselektor! Listen to them both here www.kexp.org kexp.org
The first time I ever heard Boards of Canada was this song while driving back to a house after the most amazing Sasquatch day of my life and it was the perfect song, I immediately became obsessed. If you too enjoy them, check out some of their vinyl reissues! boardsofcanada.com
The Chemical Brothers released their first studio album in 5 years last year and it featured some pretty guests like St. Vincent, Beck and Q-Tip! www.thechemicalbrothers.com
Local duo, BSBD, has been known to collaborate with local hip hop artist, Nacho Picasso, they even recorded an in studio together for Audioasis a few years ago! kexp.org And if you like what you hear be sure to check out their bandcamp! bsbd.bandcamp.com
Listen to more from this latest Cymbals album right here! www.cymbalsmusic.com
Congrats to Ken Griffey Jr who was elected into the hall of fame with the highest percentage ever, 3 people out of 440 didn't vote for him! espn.go.com This song also has a great and emotional video! www.youtube.com RIP Niehaus
I wonder what the record is for longest time between in studios, Luna has to be close with 13, they performed at KEXP in 2002 and just a few years ago! www.kexp.org You can also watch Dean Wareham play a solo set from 2014! blog.kexp.org
New Ra Ra Riot album out on Barsuk on February 19th! Pre order the album or watch the video to this song right here! www.rarariot.com They will also be playing Neumos on Wednesday, March 30th! Local record stores also have a Barsuk sampler that gets you $2 off the new Ra Ra Riot album!
Watch the always amazing and ever changing band, Liars, perform at KEXP from their last album and string yarn throughout the studio! blog.kexp.org I highly recommend seeing them live too, they put on one of my favorite shows of all time
Seattle based artist, Pillar Point, will be releasing a new album in two weeks from tomorrow on January 22nd! He will also be playing at Chop Suey on Thursday, February 11th!
Hot Chip played a completely analog set at KEXP a few years ago, check it out right here! kexp.org
Ghostland Observatory have stopped by KEXP several times for in studios, here is their performance from when this album came out! kexp.org They also just played the Showbox Sodo, but I highly recommend seeing them next time they come through
New Santigold album is coming out on February 26th! Pre order here or just check out her crazy website tumblr.santigold.com
Culture Club is still a band?? They played some shows last year and their original lineup has reunited to release their first album in 15 years this year!
New Escort album came out the day before Halloween! Check it out right here! www.weareescort.com Escort is definitely one of those bands that is best searched for when you add the word band at the end, googling escort by itself might bring up some questionable results
KEXP Song of the Day 6 years ago! Subscribe to the KEXP Song of the Day podcast and you'll receive a new song every day of the week hand picked by John, Cheryl or Kevin! blog.kexp.org
De La Soul's front page of their website is their shop, that's pretty smart, most people hide their shop deep in their website! Get some sweet De La Soul swag here www.wearedelasoul.com
Ride was the very last band to play at the old KEXP home! Watch the video right here! blog.kexp.org And don't forget the first live band in the new home is Ty Segall on January 21st at 1:30 PM, two weeks from today!!
Holy Esque will be releasing their debut album on February 26th which you can pre order here athopesravine.tumblr.com Although Holy Esque have yet to release a full length they are already a KEXP favorite and even played at KEXP this past spring! Watch their energetic performance here blog.kexp.org
TKK is featured on The Crow soundtrack and are the band playing in the film during the big shoot out scene that killed Brandon Lee!
Mike Piazza was the only other person elected to the hall of fame this year! My two favorite teams, Mariners and Mets had a player elected to the hall of fame! espn.go.com
Lord Huron released a new album last year and it came with a comic book if you bought it from your local record store! Check out his website for news and tour dates or just to watch the video for this song! www.strangetrails.com
Want to hear what John thinks about Tom Petty? Here's his Friday on My Mind post about Tom Petty! blog.kexp.org
Deerhunter released a new album last year and I think this has to be one of the catchiest songs all year! Check out their website with a couple videos including a video for this song! They are both very Deerhunter/Bradford Cox and therefore very awesome! deerhuntermusic.com
Russian band, Pinkshinyultrablast, are releasing a new album on February 26th and they just did a 3rd pressing because of high demand on really pretty colored vinyl! www.facebook.com
Mew released their first album in 6 years last year and stopped by the old KEXP home shortly before we moved! Watch the video here! blog.kexp.org
Surprisingly Delays is one of those bands where it's best to add band to the end, otherwise you just get flight delay information! Listen to their in studio from over 10 years ago! www.kexp.org
Savages bassist, Ayşe Hassan, teamed up with fellow bassist, Kendra Frost, to form Kite Base! They currently have two singles out and a video for the other one! kiteba.se
Savages highly anticipated sophomore album is being released in two weeks from tomorrow! They just released a video for this song on their website! savagesband.com Jehnny Beth, lead singer, also lent her vocals to the latest Tindersticks single!
Johnette Napolitano released her debut book a couple of years ago! She is also playing some shows this year, but they are all in the south www.concreteblondeofficialwebsite.com
I think you might hear a little Brian Eno tomorrow during Intergalactic Bowie Day! Just a hunch of mine!
Back to back sets started with bassist side projects! Jennylee is the bassist of Warpaint and released this awesome debut solo album last month! www.jennyleelindberg.com
New album from Thao & The Get Down Stay Down is set to be released on March 4th, a day before my birthday, early birthday present? And only a couple weeks before John's birthday! Pre order the album here! www.thaoandthegetdownstaydown.com Thao will be be playing at the Neptune on Saturday, March 26th with local favorite, Car Seat Headrest!
Big Ups are opening for Bully and Metz at the Bowery Ballroom and Music Hall of Williamsburg on January 13th and 14th respectively! That sounds like two amazing shows! Listen to more from Big Ups here! bigups.bandcamp.com
Here's a cool interview of Ian MacKaye and Steve Albini interviewing each other! consequenceofsound.net
Lead by Michael Franti, he never played at KEXP as The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy but he has played here several times as Michael Franti & Spearhead! Here's the latest performance from 2014! kexp.org
Side project of Afrika Bambaataa who had various artists featured on different songs!
Juliana Hatfield has teamed up with Paul Westerberg to form this new band! There is no official release date for the album yet, but there are a couple singles out there! www.stereogum.com
Ryan Adams covered the entirety of Taylor Swift's album, 1989! Check it out here along with a bunch of other Ryan Adams releases! paxamrecords.com
Stream this album from Seattle based artist, Silver Torches, or download it and name your price! silvertorches.com
Happy Birthday to Clint Mansell, former lead singer of Pop Will Eat Itself! He has since gone on to score films like Pi, Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain, The Wrestler and Black Swan! He also scored the film Moon directed by Duncan Jones, son of David Bowie, who we will be celebrating all day tomorrow!
Stereo MC's released an album Connected with their song Connected, which was an international top 20 hit, and then started their own label called, you guessed it, Connected!
Still not very much information on this new Moby project, but we have two awesome songs with videos! And you can even subscribe to hear more about the new project before anyone else! mobyandthevoidpacificchoir.com
