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Monday, Apr 13 2015, 6AM
Tranquility Bass, the project of Mike Kandel, has released one album- 1997's Let The Freak Flag Fly- in his 20+ year career. This track was released on a stand-alone 1993 single.
Best Spiritualized album? Spiritualized (aka J Spaceman) has yet to announce a follow-up to 2012's quite good Sweet Heart Sweet Light, but he has seven+ records to play on repeat while we wait.
Long Winters frontman/local stalwart John Roderick is running for city council, which is ridiculously cool. Roderick also has a weekly podcast Roderick on the Line- www.merlinmann.com.
ballboy's 2001 release Club Anthems collects songs from the band's first three EPs. The Scotland group has released four full-length albums between 2002 and 2008.
DO NOT Google American Wrestlers... American Wrestlers' self-titled debut LP was described by Allmusic as "one of the best crummy-sounding pop albums in recent memory." The band contains members of Working for a Nuclear Free City.
Small Black have no tour dates as of right now. Back in 2011, the Brooklyn group played a live set on the KEXP airwaves- blog.kexp.org.
Porcelain Raft recently announced on Facebook that he will soon release new tracks. This will be Porcelain Raft's first release since the Permanent Signal LP from 2013.
Washed Out's Life of Leisure EP came out back in 2009. This particular track ("New Theory) contains a sample of Revelation's 1980 track "Feel It." Washed Out has yet to announce a new LP.
Django Django's new LP, Born Under Saturn, will be released on May 5th. The group has several US tour dates- New York, LA, etc- but no Seattle date as of yet!
Request for (newlyweds) Jen & Scott! This particular track by Nick Drake features piano, organ and celesta arrangements by Velvet Underground's John Cale. Also, Nick Drake was 6'3'', which is interesting.
Back in 2013, Villagers played LIVE on KEXP from the Cutting Room Studios. This was following the release of their last LP, Awayland- www.kexp.org.
New track from Tallest Man on Earth! His soon-to-be-released LP is titled Dark Bird Is Home. Remember that moment when you learned that Kristian Matsson is just 5'7''?
Birthday request for David! Prior to her hyper-prolific solo career, Laura Marling was a member of Noah and the Whale. She sings back-up vocals on this track and was 18 (!) when it was recorded.
New solo album from Superchunk frontman Mac MaCaughan. MaCaughan previously released solo LPs under the Portastic moniker, so Non-Believers is his first official solo LP.
Ryan Adams will be at this year's Sasquatch Music Festival. It is unknown whether the Cardinals will accompany him. Remember when Adams and Mandy Moore got married? Adams probably doesn't.
Old 97s frontman Rhett Miller has a new solo LP, The Traveler, which will be released on May 12th. He will play the Tractor Tavern on June 15th, followed by dates in Portland (et al.)
Everyone's favorite shoegaze band out of St. Petersburg, Russia, Pinkshinyultrablast recently released their debut LP, titled Everything Else Matters. The band lists as influence everyone from Neu to Steve Reich.
Earlier this year, Swervedriver played a live set on KEXP. This was following this release of their first album in 17 years, I Wasn't Born To Lose You- www.kexp.org.
Best Posies song? The Posies will be debuting new material in several European shows in early May. Also, Ken Stringfellow and HOLLY are working on a collaborative country album, which should be interesting.
Beauty & Ruin is the eleventh solo LP from Bob Mould, and earned some of the best reviews of his career. Mould is supported by Jason Narducy and (Superchunk/ Best Show's) Jon Wurster on the record.
Subterranean Homesick Blues was Bob Dylan's first Top 40 hit in the US. In a 2007 study of legal opinions and briefs, it was found that Bob Dylan (in particular this song) was quoted more than any other artist.
Love and Rockets formed out of the break-up of Bauhaus, featuring Daniel Ash, David J, and Kevin Haskins. This track comes from the band's 1986 sophomore album, Express, and reached No. 49 on the US Single Charts.
This track is a cover of a track by The Call. The original was used by Al Gore as a campaign song during the 2000 Presidential Elections. BRMC's most recent album, Specter At The Feast, came out back in 2013.
Sigur Ros frontman Jonsi contributed several songs to the How To Train Your Dragon 2 soundtrack. A reissue of the band's second LP, Ágætis byrjun, is set to come out later this summer.
Scary Monsters and Super Creeps was Bowie's first record following his Berlin trilogy, and remains one of his most commercially successful LPs. This was the first track to revisit the Major Tom character from "Space Oddity."
Local electronic duo NAAVI will be at The Sunset Tavern on April 21st. The group's first EP, //, was released in late 2014. Check out a review on the KEXP blog- blog.kexp.org.
Haerts released their debut self-titled LP in late 2014. They will play this year's Coachella Music Festival. Check out the band's KEXP in-studio from earlier this year- blog.kexp.org.
The lyrics of this track are a translation of a 17th century Irish poem. Sinéad's hyper successful second LP, I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got, was produced by frequent Bjork collaborator Nellee Hooper.
New Helio Sequence! Self-titled album set to be released in mid-May. The duo will be at Easy Street Records on May 19th (day of album release), and the Fisherman's Village Music Festival in Everett (May 16-17).
Hot Chip's new LP, Why Make Sense?, is set to be released on May 18th. The band will be at Sasquatch Music Festival over Memorial Day Weekend. In PDX on May 26th at Roseland Theater.
Around the release of the 2013 Innocents LP, Moby said that he asked Wayne Coyne to sing on this track because the Lips "have evolved in this very open, celebratory band when they play live, and that was the perfect vibe."
Maps is the moniker of Northampton, UK-based musician James Chapman. This track comes from his 2007 debut, titled We Can Create. It was shortlisted for the Mercury Music Prize of that year (lost to Klaxons).
"There She Goes" was The La's biggest hit, peaking at No. 13 on the UK Singles Charts. The first time I learned this song was about heroin, it broke my mind. Catchy tune though.
LA trio Marriages recently embarked on a tour of Europe. The band's debut LP, Salome, was released just last week. The band opened for Deafhaven in Seattle back in 2013, which seems apt.
London group Desperate Journalist released their debut LP last year. The group was described as "thoroughly ace" by The Quietus, which seems like the highest praise possible.
"Austere" was the debut single by The Joy Formidable, released back in 2008. It was later re-recorded for their first album, The Big Roar. No word of a follow-up to 2013's Wolf's Law as of yet.
While waiting for Phantogram to come back to Seattle, check out this session recorded in mid-2014 (following the release of their Voices LP)- blog.kexp.org.
Remember when Trent Reznor appeared at the 2014 Grammys with Dave Grohl, Queens of the Stone Age, and Lindsey Buckingham? Weird night. Reznor recently composed the soundtrack to Gone Girl, along with Atticus Ross.
Speedy Ortiz's third LP, Foil Deer, will be released next week. It is available for streaming this week on NPR- www.npr.org.
This Breeders record featured Slint's Britt Walford on drums. Walford insisted on being credited as "Shannon Doughton," on the album release. Jim Macpherson was later recruited as drummer.
Wolf Alice will be at The Crocodile on May 12. The London band was just live on the KEXP airwaves, in support of their debut full-length, My Love is Cool- blog.kexp.org.
In writing Black Love, Greg Dulli was inspired by film noir and the books of James Ellroy. Around this time, Afghan Whigs played a series of shows supporting Neil Young. Interestingly, Jewel was also on the bill. (She played after the Whigs).
Akron band Annabel will release their third full-length album, Having It All, sometime in May. The band is frequently compared to The Promise Ring and Get Up Kids, for whatever that's worth.
This track comes from Los Campesinos' 2013 LP, No Blues. Interestingly, the bassist for Los Campesinos just played a show with Perfume Genius at the Paramount.
Weed's new LP, Running Back, came out earlier this month. Back in 2013, the band played LIVE on the Morning Show in support of their last release- blog.kexp.org.
Shout Out Louds are currently prepping new material for a forthcoming record. This track comes from their sophomore album, titled Our Ill Wills. The cover art features the band's name spelled out in maritime flag signals.
This track originally appeared as a b-side on the "Never Enough" single. It was later released as part of the 1990 Mixed Up album, which collected remixes and other assorted tracks from the Cure's career.
The Very Best will soon release a new album, titled Makes A King. The band's music has been described as a mix between dance, hip-hop, pop, and traditional music from Malawi.
Late last year, Neon Indian announced that he will be releasing a new album sometime in 2015. This LP, Era Extrana, was recorded during in Helsinki, Finland during the winter (Palomo was living there for four weeks).
THEESatisfaction is opening 3 sold out shows at the Showbox with Sleater-Kinney (May 7-9). You can also see their Live KEXP In-Studio from February, here: blog.kexp.org.