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James played on KEXP from the Cutting Room Studios during CMJ last year! kexp.org
If you loved the KEXP INXS night then I'm sure you'll enjoy KEXP's 80's Ladies Night on Wednesday, August 26th! blog.kexp.org
Watch The Waterboys perform at KEXP from a couple years ago! blog.kexp.org
Lead singer, Peter Garrett, has always been pretty involved with politics, but in 2004 was elected as a member of the Australian Parliament and served in the government until 2013
Frightened Rabbit have stopped by KEXP quite a few times, in fact they performed for KEXP twice the year this album came out! Here's their performance from the Triple Door that year! blog.kexp.org
PJ Harvey, who is recording a new album in public, will be performing at the London Literature Festival in October. She will be reading her own poetry, showing photographs and performing songs from the upcoming album! It looks like there will also be a 4 day reading of Moby Dick there www.nme.com
Wilco surprise released an album titled, Star Wars, a couple weeks ago! You can download it for free on their website and they will send you a list of some awesome bands that they love that they hope you will support! wilcoworld.net
Björk cover! The Twilight Singers have been by KEXP a few times throughout the past decade, here's a performance from a few years ago at the Triple Door! kexp.org
Debut album from English duo, Maribou State! You can listen to more Maribou State right here! soundcloud.com
Debut album from Chris Baio, bassist of Vampire Weekend, set to be released on September 18th! baiobaio.com This song is also extremely similar to Mother of Pearl by Roxy Music
Watch some videos of Oscar on his website, where you can also listen to more Oscar and check if he's coming to a town near you! www.oscaroscar.co.uk
Youth Lagoon is releasing a new album on September 25th and will be playing Neumos on November 20th!
New album out August 28th and you can preorder it right here! www.foals.co.uk
Brothers Jez and Andy Williams of Doves released an album last summer, you can check it out here www.blackriversofficial.com and frontman Jimi Goodwin released a solo record early last year as well!
The Verve made it big with this album, especially their song Bittersweet Symphony, but they disbanded shortly after in 1999 because of internal conflicts. They reunited in 2007 to release a new album and toured around before disbanding again in 2009
Original duet sang by Marc Almond and Nico in 1988! Mark Lanegan will be headlining Macefield Music Festival which is taking place October 2nd to 4th!
Future Islands puts on one of the best shows out there right now, Sam will dance until he drops and performs with so much emotion that you can't look away! Watch them performing at KEXP from last year! blog.kexp.org
Local band, Song Sparrow Research are playing a couple of upcoming Seattle shows! They will be playing Summit Block Party on Saturday, August 22nd and will also be playing at the Hard Rock Cafe on Sunday, September 20th!
Beat Connection's album release show will be at the Neptune on Saturday, September 19th! www.beatconnection.co
Big Country is currently touring, unfortunately all of the dates are in Europe! www.bigcountry.co.uk
Check out what KCMU DJs said about one of the Dukes of Stratosphear albums, XTC's alternate ego! blog.kexp.org
The Chills will be releasing their first album in almost 20 years on October 30th!
The Passions were a post punk band formed in 1978, they are mostly considered a one hit wonder with this song being their one hit!
Tanlines have a sweet website! It's made to look exactly like Netflix! tanlinesinternet.com
El VY is a collaboration between Matt Berninger of the National and Brent Knopf of Menomena/Ramona Falls! Their debut album is being released October 30th and they will be playing at Neumos on November 4th!
Tame Impala performed at KEXP in 2011, right in between the release of their albums Innerspeaker and Lonerism! kexp.org
Built to Spill just played an awesome in studio at KEXP a couple weeks ago! Watch it right here! blog.kexp.org
Check out this awesome interview with Ian Mackaye about sticking to the side roads! www.huckmagazine.com
Want to learn more about The Clash? Well you're in luck, KEXP put together a documentary on the evolution of Punk! www.kexp.org
Ought has a new record coming out on September 18th and you can pre-order it here! ought.bandcamp.com They will also be playing at the Sunset on October 15th!
Modest Mouse will be playing two shows at the Paramount on Monday and Tuesday, August 24th and 25th!
Tom Vek played on KEXP from The Cutting Room Studios last fall during CMJ! kexp.org
Check out David J's solo session he played at KEXP a few years ago! kexp.org
New Foals album is set to be released on August 28th, pre-order it here www.foals.co.uk!
Here's an interview with Friendly Fires during CMJ from 2008! It's worth clicking the link just to see younger John Richards with Friendly Fires blog.kexp.org
Shout hit number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and reached the top ten in 25 different countries!
This Girl Talk Remix includes songs by Clipse featuring Slim Thug, Yin Yang Twins and Shout by Tears for Fears!
Glass Animals have absolutely blown up, they played the EL Chupacabra Stage at Sasquatch and I have never seen it so full, the people spilled out of the tent back towards the local stage! Check out their in studio from last year! kexp.org
Scroobius Pip took his name from an unfinished Edward Lear poem titled The Scroobious Pip, he intentionally misspelled his name.
Queen played Under Pressure at every show from 1981 to 1986, when Queen stopped touring. Bowie never played it live until the Freddie Mercury tribute concert in 1992 when he performed it with Annie Lennox and the remaining members of Queen
John Roderick ran for Seattle City Council Position 8 and did not win, we still love you John!
Featuring Q-Tip! Chemical Brothers just released their first album in 5 years and features Q-Tip, Beck and St. Vincent among others!
Q-Tip said N.W.A's Straight Outta Compton was an inspiration for this album!
One of the most popular Dutch bands of the 90's, Urban Dance Squad formed for a one off festival performance before rejoining and recording this debut album
Matt & Kim stopped by KEXP a few years ago for an in studio and played this song among others! kexp.org
Check out KEXP's recap of the Mountain Goats' John Darnielle at KEXP's Hood to Hood day this year! blog.kexp.org