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Monday, Aug 12 2013, 6AM
The L.A. songstress covering Montreal's Majical Cloudz (who are playing Tuesday, August 20th at Barboza, incidentally)
More from this Sydney, AU-based producer - soundcloud.com
What a mensch, that Johnny Jewel; he's made the After Dark 2 compilation available as a free download for all of us! - soundcloud.com
Out September 24th! It will be the band's first album since 1996's Among My Swan and was recorded with the original lineup, plus guest spots from Bert Jansch (!) and My Bloody Valentine's Colm Ó Cíosóig
The Innocence Mission - centred around the husband-and-wife pair of Don and Karen Peris - formed in Lancaster, PA circa 1982
Hounds of Love was originally conceived and released as a double album, side A being the "Hounds of Love" suite while the flip was "The Ninth Wave" suite, a rumination on experiences of birth and rebirth
Debut EP from the London band, with a full-length expected before the end of the year!
Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Nina Simone and more as remixed by top flight musicians like Toro Y Moi, Maya Jane Coles, Miike Snow and others
Break out the day-glo, start practising your rave moves and be sure to hydrate - Pretty Lights is in town Friday, November 22nd at the ShoWare Center in Kent
Santigold was in a punk band called Stiffed in the early 2000s (they put out two albums, both produced by Bad Brains bassist Darryl Jenifer)
"The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco" (so sayeth Samuel Clemens)
Mike Doughty met his future Soul Coughing bandmates while working the door at the Knitting Factory in NYC in the early '90s
Project of Thomas Wincek, also of Volcano Choir (with Justin Vernon) and Collections of Colonies of Bees
New album due out October 15th, their first in over a decade! Catch 'em in town - Saturday, December 7th at the Neptune
Thanks, in part, to an obscure station called M.T.V. popular with itinerant youths and neon-coloured astronauts ("music tele-vision"), Flood went GOLD back in 1990
Playing Bumbershoot - Monday, September 2nd! They'll be heading down south after that to Portland for MusicFest NW too
Yesssssss, 2013 is a year of musical comebacks, ya'll... The reformed KoD are putting out Folly - their first in 19 (!) years - September 30th
The lead single from Drums and Wires proved to be the band's first real hit
PUNS: "Despite Sheridan’s unwavering enthusiasm about his investment group’s acquisition, many analysts reportedly have expressed their concerns as to its long-term growth potential, pointing to the disastrous IPOs of competing equine social networks Foal Follow, YearLink, and MareFinder." - www.theonion.com
BE STILL till October 15th when this comes out. Only then can you move around and, uh, dunno, scratch your butt or whatever... maybe get a snack
Bet you a silver dollar these Brooklyn dudes have a poster of Morrissey at their practice space... or at the very least some Morrissey-style blouse-y shirts #Moz
Opening for The National at the Paramount September 19th -and- 20th
This never gets old: ornery senior citizens discussing contemporary music (The Walkmen and Cold War Kids in this episode) - youtu.be
Look at that Bighorn Sheep on the cover... just lurking in the background, eh?
The band broke up after touring in support of this album in 1997
LIVE on KEXP - Friday, October 4th at 1:00 on the Midday Show! // Playing that night at the Tractor Tavern with Karl Blau
Fun, fun debut album from Sydney, AU band Jagwar Ma! Here's the video for "Howlin," whose YouTube comments devolve into a weird discussion of the Illuminati, for some reason. Choice comment: "Triangles aren't all illuminati. Toblerones. Don't be hatin' on triangles." Yah, what they said - youtu.be
LIVE on KEXP - Saturday, August 24th at 6:30 pm on Audioasis, KEXP's local music show!
One must observe proper decorum and tact when addressing science
LIVE on KEXP - Friday, August 16th 1:00 on the Midday Show! // That night at Barboza with Tomten! (also, did you know the UN banned weather modification in 1978, or in their words, the "Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques")
If you've not seen Stephin Merritt hanging out with DJ El Toro and playing music in the KEXP men's room then YOU HAVE NOT LIVED, SIR - youtu.be
Check out his KEXP in-studio session, playing tunes off of Young Hunger - youtu.be
Saturday, August 31st at Bumbershoot! Check out a recent interview with Ernest Greene whereupon he touches on Paracosm, makeout songs and flying into fits of rage (sort of) - pitchfork.com
The band that made obscure grammatical rules on punctuation cool again
The best thing to come out of Vancouver, B.C. since Vij's... and, like, the local greenery... and their Japanese food is pretty stellar too... OK, the city has a lot of things going for it, but definitely include Bear Mountain on that list. You can check 'em out at MusicFest NW in Portland on September 6th, too!
Dig these sounds? Then check out KEXP's Latin show, El Sonido, every Monday night 6-9 pm hosted by DJ Chilly!
This album features all original compositions from the legendary New Orleans group. Check out their swinging KEXP in-studio performance too - youtu.be
LIVE on KEXP - this Wednesday, the 14th, at 9:00 on the Morning Show!
Perhaps you heard Jack White, head honcho at Third Man records (see below) had a bit of a tiff recently with a member of The Black Keys... can't they all just get along and appropriate music together in harmony??
The crux of this song is: please, come to my party. You can grab Electric Slave on August 27th + bide your time with this free download! - www.blackjoelewis.com
Bauhaus initially were known as Bauhaus 1919, but removed the "1919" because, brevity (if you're into that)
Brad Laner and co. are back! It's been 18 years since these L.A. noise poppers shredded together, but they're back and better than ever. Their label, Captured Tracks, also reissued their back catalogue before teaming up with the band for To the Happy Few
Out September 17th. Costello and The Roots hooked up after jamming together following the former's appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
New Release out September 17th from veteran UK producer George Evelyn (still plagued by 180 gram night terrors, evidently)
Have you heard R.E.M. and Warren Zevon's cover? (as Hindu Love Gods) - youtu.be
We have a live performance with Alaskan group Portugal. The Man recorded just a few weeks ago on KEXP: kexp.org