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Lou Barlow has kept a pretty busy man in the last 20 years with multiple bands, he's played at KEXP quite a few times, here's Sebadoh's performance from a couple of years ago blog.kexp.org
Pavement have never played at KEXP before, but Stephen Malkmus played at KEXP just over a year ago wearing a Speedy Ortiz shirt! Watch it here! blog.kexp.org
Taylor Swift just played a week of sold out shows at the Staples Center in LA and brought out different guests most nights. One night she brought out Annie Clark/St. Vincent and Beck to play Beck's newest song, Dreams. pitchfork.com
Check out KEXP's interview with Liz Phair from about 5 years ago blog.kexp.org
Another band with Lou Barlow in it! Dinosaur Jr. played for KEXP at MFNW a few years ago! blog.kexp.org They also played with Henry Rollins at KEXP earlier that year! blog.kexp.org How does Lou Barlow have time to do anything but play music? I guess that's the dream right?
It sure does seem like fall right now, and although I love the summer, this cool weather and rain is oddly pleasing
The Dandy Warhols will be playing their annual Christmas shows in Seattle on Wednesday, December 9th at the Showbox(21+), and Saturday, December 12th in Portland at the Crystal Ballroom(All Ages)! I'll see you in Portland, Courtney!
Terribly Yours is a project from Sean Bones, a Brooklyn musician, formerly of Sam Champion. Sean recorded this album in his basement while taking time off to raise his daughter and man does it sound great! Read more about it and listen to more here www.stereogum.com
Seattle based band Arthur & Yu released this album on Hardly Art back in 2007! Read a little blurb on them right here www.hardlyart.com
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert premieres in exactly 1 week and they are starting to announce the first couple of week's guests, they all look amazing so far. In anticipation for the show I like to watch this video of Stephen Colbert clearing out his stuff from the Colbert Report and selling Michael Stipe at his garage sale! pitchfork.com
If you are just discovering Stereolab and don't know where to start, you can use this list of the 10 best Stereolab songs and then branch out from there! www.stereogum.com
This album was produced by Kevin Bacon, unfortunately not the Footloose Kevin Bacon. Long Pig is slang for human flesh prepared as food, sounds delicious.
Radiohead are still working on that 9th studio album, I think I've been writing that as a comment since about this time last year, but it's understandable. It's hard getting 5 guys together to write a whole album, Jonny Greenwood has been busy making soundtracks and Thom Yorke released a solo album last year and is currently working on music for the Broadway play Old Times!
Jagjaguwar has been putting out some killer music lately and this is no different! New album from Brooklyn based band, Small Black is being released on October 16th, you can pre order the colored vinyl here! www.small-black.com They will also be playing at the Crocodile Back Bar with Painted Palms on Wednesday, October 28th!
If you missed John in the Morning at Night from a couple months ago then you really missed out, but no worries, you can read all about the awesome performances by bands like NAVVI, Haerts and a Seattle supergroup who sang the Friday song! blog.kexp.org
What's not to love about LCD Soundsystem? Well, maybe that they broke up and I'll never see them ever, but hey, James Murphy still does DJ sets and DFA is still releasing tons of great music! dfa-records.tumblr.com
!!!, pronounced chk chk chk, also the best way to google them because google doesn't recognize exclamation marks, are releasing a new album on October 16th! !!! put together a playlist of songs that influenced them in the making of this new album www.chkchkchk.net
First Chemical Brothers album in 5 years, Born in the Echoes has some killer guests like Q-Tip, on this song, and Annie Clark/St. Vincent and Beck on other songs on the album! They're currently hitting the festival circuit and will be playing Electric Zoo in New York City in 3 days!
A movie about Joe Strummer trying to find his Dodge in Spain was screened last year and will be released on DVD on October 16th! www.ineedadodge.com
KEXP's Song of the Day from back in 2012! Subscribe to KEXP's Song of the Day podcast and receive a new song hand picked by John, Cheryl or Kevin every day of the week! blog.kexp.org
Document was released on this day 28 years ago! Watch John's favorite R.E.M. videos right here! blog.kexp.org
Karen O released her first solo album, Crush Songs, last year on Julian Casablanca's label, Cult Records! The songs were written and recorded when she was around 27 and during a time where she crushed on a lot of people. www.karenomusic.com
Painted Palms are releasing a new album this Friday on pretty red vinyl! www.polyvinylrecords.com They will also be playing at the Crocodile with Small Black on Wednesday, October 28th!
Washington DC band,Gems, are releasing their debut album, Kill The One You Love, on October 30th, a day before Halloween! I'm getting pretty excited for Halloween. www.killtheoneyoulove.com
New album from Beach House was just released on Sub Pop last Friday! Pick up the album at your local record store because the sleeve is made of velvet! Also still no Northwest tour dates announced, but they are on Sub Pop and I'm sure they will come here eventually!
Back to back Sub Pop bands! Check out Washed Out's performance on KEXP from a few years ago! kexp.org
ODESZA are playing three sold out shows at the Paramount from Saturday, December 5th to Monday, December 7th! That's so crazy! It seems like they blew up in the matter of a year! odesza.com
Oscar will be live on KEXP on Monday, October 5th at 9:30 AM! Listen to more from Oscar right here www.oscaroscar.co.uk
The La's are mostly known for their song There She Goes, but this is also a jam! The La's only released one album which certainly didn't help the one hit wonder idea
I posted this earlier today, but I'm gonna post it again. Beck was brought out during one of Taylor Swift's sold out shows at LA's Staples Center with Annie Clark/St. Vincent to perform this song! Watch it here www.rollingstone.com
13 songs is a compilation of the first two Fugazi EP's! 13 songs was released on this day in 1989, 26 years ago, which is divisible by 13!
Happy Damage EP from Miami based band, Jacuzzi Boys, is set to be released as a free download on September 18th! Here's their crazy website where you can listen to more or watch their video for Happy Damage, or even buy a cool T-Shirt www.jacuzziboys.com
Courtney Barnett posted a photo of plant last night with the caption Not Art, a shout out to fellow Australian band Big Scary who used the same plant as their album cover titled, Not Art! instagram.com
The 10th anniversary of this KEXP in studio is in just 5 days! kexp.org It's like you're time traveling!
Into the City single with Aim as the B-side was released yesterday for free!! You can download it right here! 3108.bandcamp.com
The Black Angels are probably the coolest band out there right now. If you watch movies or TV shows you are guaranteed to hear a Black Angels song at some point, the same Black Angels song was used in the credits during Season 1 and 2 of True Detective! They haven't released an album for a couple years, so hopefully one is coming soon!
Foals new album, What Went Down, was released last Friday! Listen to an album sampler here and then buy it on their website or at your local record store! www.foals.co.uk One of the options is a boxset that comes with a polaroid personally taken by the band
Some exciting news for Phantogram! Big Grams, Phantogram and Big Boi collaboration, is officially done and they have put out a website that says coming soon! biggrams.com They had their live debut in LA to what appears to be 7 people, watch it here pitchfork.com Sarah Barthel is also featured on Miley Cyrus' surprise album that was co-written and produced by The Flaming Lips!
Ever wonder what DJ Shadow is up to nowadays? Well he launched a digital music label in 2014 to showcase emerging artists! Listen to some of the releases here liquidambermusic.com
The Brighton Port Authority is a project by Norman Cook who usually goes by Fatboy Slim! The first song was a collaboration with David Byrne and Dizzee Rascal and has a video where naked people's censor bars creating images and words, it's pretty cool. www.youtube.com
Telekinesis is releasing a new album on September 18th! That's less than three weeks away! September and October are going to be amazing months for releases and I'm going to have no money by the end of them! Telekinesis is also performing several shows around Seattle In early October and then will be closing out their tour at Neumos on November 7th!
Neko Case will be closing out the Wild Turkey stage at Bumbershoot this Sunday, September 6th! bumbershoot.com
I think we've played about half of this album throughout the show, but who cares, every song is a hit! This album was released on this day 28 years ago! I'm just saying maybe take out one R.E.M. song to fit in Miley Cyrus?
Check out more from Menace Beach here and purchase some of their rad music! menacebeach.co.uk
Interpol have been to KEXP a couple of times over 10 years ago! Here's their performance from a month after this album was released, right before they blew up! www.kexp.org
Father John Misty covered Arcade Fire's The Suburbs and it's incredibly good, I think I've listened to it pretty much everyday for the past few weeks www.youtube.com
Fugazi's first album, although it is a compilation of their two first EP's, was released on this date 26 years ago!
Listen to Reticence by Girls Names - one of the KEXP Songs of the Day from July blog.kexp.org
