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Thursday, Oct 8 2015, 6AM
Massive Attack just announced a 2016 European tour and new music later this year! Who wants to go to Europe with me? Also featuring Hope Sandoval of Mazzy Star! pitchfork.com
The Chemical Brothers recently released a new album, their first in 5 years and it has some pretty great featured artists on it like Beck, Q-Tip and St.Vincent! www.thechemicalbrothers.com
Björk seems to be very busy since her divorce as she's released a new album, some remixes and touring and she just announced that she will be releasing an all strings version of Vulnicura digitally and on CD on November 6th and on vinyl on December 4th! pitchfork.com
Julia Holter's 4th album has been out for a couple weeks now and you can stream or buy it on her website! www.juliashammasholter.com She will also be opening for Beirut at the Paramount on Tuesday, October 13th!
This new Yppah album is coming out a week from tomorrow, and you can pre order it from his bandcamp! yppah.bandcamp.com Also don't forget to listen to his Midnight in a Perfect World if you haven't already! blog.kexp.org
This is New Order's first album of new material in 10 years! It's also their first without founding member Peter Hook, and although both of those kinda scared me, it's actually pretty good! Here's an interview they did about the new album! thequietus.com
Everything NIN on their website! You can watch videos and listen to Trent and Atticus' latest soundtrack, Gone Girl, and even buy some sweet merch if you want! www.nin.com
Tamaryn was just in Seattle a couple of months ago and stopped by KEXP for an in studio! Watch it here blog.kexp.org You can also discover more Tamaryn on her website! tamarynmusic.com
Making Plans for Nigel was released in 1979 on XTC's third studio album and was a mild chart success in the UK and Canada, I wonder why Canada and not the US? Also this is one of two songs from this album that Primus have covered! I wouldn't have guessed that Primus would be such big XTC fans!
No Goats, No Glory is The Goats second album and was recorded as a duo as lead rapper, Oatie Kato, left after the first album!
Ugly Duckling named themselves over the fact that they felt like outcasts in the southern California hip hop scene of the 90's and 2000's!
This song has a pretty great video directed by Spike Jonze, one of the most versatile directors out there, and was also in a Beavis and Butt-head episode! www.youtube.com
Basehead's first two albums, this is the first, focus on real life issues like drugs, depression and politics, I guess typical lyrical content, but their third album and on turned into Christian based albums and are all based around Christianity! I wonder what they play when they tour, just new stuff or also the old stuff?
Urban Dance Squad are a Dutch band who were originally formed as a one off performance at a musical festival before becoming a band and releasing their debut album 3 years later!
KEXP broke the internet a couple of months ago as we stepped inside Paul's Boutique! Usually shows can only be listened to for two weeks after they air, but we managed to archive all 12 hours! Next time you have 12 hours to spare, maybe a long road trip, you should listen to it in its entirety! blog.kexp.org
Black Lips are releasing a new album in November and will be playing at the Modern Sky Festival in Seattle in 3 days on Sunday, October 11th with bands like Gang of Four and Ariel Pink at the Mural Amphitheater! modernskyfestivalseattle.com
If you have ever been to a Pixies show they want you to add photos and videos to their gigography that they have created! www.pixiesmusic.com And while you're doing that you can watch their in studio at KEXP from last year! blog.kexp.org
Brian Wilson released a solo album earlier this year and the movie on the Beach Boys starring Paul Dano and John Cusack was just released on dvd!
John is heading out to New York for CMJ next week and he will hosting a New Home Benefit show at City Winery with Joseph Arthur, Hamilton Leithauser, Kevin Devine and Soren Juul on Monday, October 19th! Here is some more info! blog.kexp.org
Speaking of CMJ, it looks like Heaters will be playing in New York at the Elvis Guesthouse on October 13th! You can buy this 7" for the low price of $1,000 on their bandcamp! heaters.bandcamp.com
This 7" is a little bit cheaper and you can buy it right off of Sub Pop's website! megamart.subpop.com LB3GF, I just made that up, it might be a real thing but I'm not sure, are currently touring, but only in the south for now, I'm sure they'll add northwest dates soon, especially with them being signed to Sub Pop!
The Undertones have a massive website that has biographies and their discography and lyrics for songs and tv and radio performances, and that's only scratching the surface! www.theundertones.com
Danish duo, The Raveonettes, have played at KEXP 7 different times!! I wonder what the record is? Here is their in studio from just after this album was released! www.kexp.org
This new album from Beach Slang will be released on October 30th and you can pre order it and listen to this single over and over again while you wait for your purple vinyl to arrive! beachslang.bandcamp.com They will also be playing a couple of showcases in New York for CMJ!
Moby has a new project and it looks like he is being deliberately vague on any details, they only really thing that really know so far is the name of the band, a cideo sent out with this song and one other song. www.stereogum.com
Supergroup, The Dead Weather, featuring Jack White, Alison Mosshart, Dean Fertita and Jack Lawrence have released their third album and first in 5 years! You can stream it here or buy it at any local record stores or on their website! www.thedeadweather.com
All of Curve's music is on their bandcamp for you to stream or buy! curve.bandcamp.com
Sexwitch is one of the coolest projects I've heard of in a while, it's a collaboration between British band, Toy, and Natasha Khan from Bat for Lashes! They released this album a couple weeks ago and it is all covers of 70's psych and folk songs from places like Iran, Morocco and Thailand! They found cool old psych records from different countries and that's where they got these songs. They also learned and recorded all 6 songs in one day! Definitely worth checking out!
Check out KEXP's Saturday Afternoon Artist blog post on Santigold! blog.kexp.org Also speaking of Halloween, she will be playing at Voodoo Music and Arts in New Orleans on Halloween! www.santigold.com
Yeah Yeah Yeahs haven't released an album for a couple of years, but Karen O did release her first solo album last year! www.karenomusic.com
PiL just released their 10th studio album and only the second since the beginning of the 90's! They will also be playing at the Showbox on Monday, November 23rd! I'll see you there!
Laced is a new project from Dustin Payseur from Beach Fossils, Ryan Naideau from Warthog and Nude Beach and Ian Judd, Co-founder of Couple Skate Records! The trio will be releasing their debut EP later this month! It was recorded by Mac DeMarco at his beach house in the rockaways, he gives out his address at the end of his new album, and is being released on Bayonet Records, Payseur's label that he formed with his wife!
The Church has performed at KEXP and for KEXP many different times and for many different reasons! Just this year alone they have played a New Home benefit and a VIP Club Concert! Listen to their performance from the Triple Door earlier this year right here! kexp.org
Protomartyr's third album, and second on Hardly Art, is being released tomorrow! They've played here recently but I'm sure they'll swing by again in the near future! www.protomartyrband.com
Jamie xx backed his giant tour bus into the alley behind KEXP before playing at Capitol Hill Block Party to record an awesome Midnight in a Perfect World set! Listen to it and others here! www.kexp.org He's also been known to do cool mixes with people like Four Tet on BBC shows so look out for that!
Phantogram have not been relaxing since the release of this amazing album last year! They just released an album with bio Boi under the name Big Grams and are now working on a third album!
Wayne Coyne and Sarah Barthel from Phantogram are really good friends, along with Miley Cyrus, so you'll often see the three of them posting pictures of each other! The Flaming Lips also just collaborated with Miley Cyrus on her recent surprise album! www.mileycyrus.com
FIDLAR released their second album last month and will be playing live on KEXP on Friday, October 23rd at 1 PM and then later that night at the Showbox! You can buy the new record on their website and you can even buy it in a bundle that comes with a sweet shirt! fidlarmusic.com
U.S. Girls just played last night with Peaches at the Showbox so you missed your opportunity to see them! And normally I'd say just go to Portland or Vancouver to see them, but this was their last US date before heading off to Europe! We have a lot of European listeners though who should go to those shows! yousgirls.blogspot.com
Damon Albarn has been one of the busiest musicians since the early 1990's! From his time in Blur to Gorillaz to the Good the Bad and the Queen to guest appearances like on Massive Attack songs to his first solo album released last year! And Blur released their first album in 12 years earlier this year!
Run DMC's website has a cool history page where it has little tidbits of info by the numbers like D owns 200 pairs of his glasses and King of Rock was certified gold in 1985, the same year it was released and certified platinum by 1997! www.rundmc.com
DIIV's sophomore album, Is the Is Are, is supposed to come out later this year! DIIV has also played at KEXP a couple different times, watch them perform in New York for CMJ from a few years ago! blog.kexp.org
The Slits opened for the Clash on their debut tour and had to have Mick Jones tune their guitars for them!
The Cure just announced a 25 date US tour for 2016! So far the only dates announced are LA, Chicago and New York with the rest coming in January! I can't contain my excitement! I've been waiting for this day for years!! www.thecure.com
Painted Palms will be playing at the Crocodile on Wednesday, October 28th with Small Black!
Petite Noir's debut record was released last month! You can get it on his website or just watch a music video on his website! Unfortunately no tour dates have been announced yet! petitenoirmusic.com
Young Fathers have put on two of the greatest in studios this building has ever seen! Here's the video for this one! blog.kexp.org Young Fathers will also be going out on tour with Massive Attack next year!
Don't Feel Right features the vocals of Maimouna Youssef and samples Jungle Boogie by Kool & The Gang and Ecstasy by Ohio Players!
This is Blackalicious' first album in 10 years! They played on KEXP from New York right around the time their last album was released in 2005! Listen to that in studio right here! www.kexp.org
Prince has released over 30 studio albums since 1978 and he says that he has a gazillion songs recorded and he could probably release an album everyday for like a thousand years! Prince just released a new album last month following two albums he released last year!
Small Black's new album is coming out a week from tomorrow and you can get it on really pretty colored vinyl, pre orders can be taken here! www.small-black.com They will also be live on KEXP on Wednesday, October 28th at 1 PM and then playing later that night at the Crocodile with Painted Palms!
The Charlatans are currently on tour and the only northwest date they have is in Portland at the Crystal Ballroom on Thursday, November 19th! But they did just release a new album, their first in 5 years!
Listen to an awesome 5 song set that Graig Markel & the 88th Street Band played on Audioasis last winter: www.kexp.org
Midday Veil will be LIVE on KEXP tomorrow at 3PM, and will be playing Reykjavik Calling at Neumos on Saturday (which is a FREE SHOW!)