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Wednesday, Jul 1 2015, 6AM
Seattle's own. Marela recorded her debut album, 'All Around Us in Iceland', with Sigur Rós producer Alex Somers. Sigur Rós collaborators Amiina added strings to the album. “Surrender,” the first single from her album. brianamarela.bandcamp.com
Irish singer songwriter SOAK will be LIVE on The Morning Show on Monday August 10th at 9:30AM. She'll then play Barboza later that night.
A new one from Flume with Andrew Wyatt of Miike Snow on vocals. An official video was released for this song at the end of May. The video is the result of a collaboration between Flume, the Sydney Opera House and the video director Clemens Habicht (Tame Impala, Bloc Party, The Presets). It features dance and choreography from Australian Ballet member Callum Linnane. Granted exclusive access to the iconic Australian building, the shoot took place throughout the night one Saturday in April. Watch here: www.youtube.com
Catch Jamie xx at this year's Captiol Hill Block Party on Friday July 24th. He'll be playing the same night as TVOR and Built to Spill. capitolhillblockparty.com www.jamiexx.com
School of Seven Bells stopped by the KEXP studios a total of four times, including a performance they gave for KEXP lAmplifiers at The Triple Door, all prior to the passing of founding member Benjamin Curtis. Stream that final KEXP session here: kexp.org
New music from Portland, OR based Valet, which was formerly the solo work of singer Honey Owens, who is a former touring member of Bradford Cox's Atlas Sound project. Valet is now a trio and this is the first album from the project in seven years. www.kranky.net
More Canadian-ness from Vancouver BC! www.facebook.com
Tycho stopped by KEXP to give an instudio performance that included projections and lights. Watch the video from that performance on our blog here: blog.kexp.org
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Happy big 4-0 to Sufjan Stevens.
A new project of Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys. For this project, Auerbach teams up with Truth and Soul Records founder Leon Michels, Black Keys touring bassist Richard Swift, Menahan Street Band member Homer Steinweiss, Amy Winehouse collaborator Nick Movshon, guitarist Kenny Vaughan, plus the members of all-female mariachi band Mariachi Flor de Toloache. www.thearcs.com
On This Day, 'OK Computer' was released 18 years ago in the US. This past May the National Recording Registry announced that it will be preserving 'OK Computer' within the Library of Congress. To be selected, an album has to be considered "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" pitchfork.com
Returning to Seattle on Wed. August 12th at Neumos. Watch the video footage of their performance during The Morning Show from this past March on the KEXP blog here: blog.kexp.org
Featured on the deluxe version of Will's debut album, Policy.
Catch Will Butler tonight in Brooklyn at The Well for a FREE show in celebration of Canada Day! www.brooklynvegan.com
