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Monday, Jul 15 2013, 6AM
Good morning! (it took three days to get rescued from the top of the Space Needle)
Listen to a super rare all-acoustic set Animal Collective did for KEXP last year! (now with sound) - blog.kexp.org
Coming 'round these here parts Saturday, September 7th, playing at the Gorge
... is 22 minutes too long. The bonus track on Penthouse, the band's 4th album, is a cover of Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot's "Bonnie and Clyde," featuring Dean Wareham teaming up with Stereolab's Laetitia Sadier
Did you know: Morrissey was president of the official UK New York Dolls fan club in the '70s?
GLOW STICK ALERT - Pretty Lights is playing the ShoWare Center in Kent on Friday, November 22nd
Montreal's wrote and recorded a new single every month starting in 2012, plus making an accompanying video, with the end result being Phases. Read more about it here - www.montag.ca
A million+ selling LP in the US upon its release
LIVE on KEXP from the Cutting Room Studios in NYC - TOMORROW, the 16th, at 9:00 am PST on the Morning Show!
Co-founded Be Good Tanyas in Vancouver in 1999
Check out video from Laura Marling's in-studio set here at KEXP from May! - youtu.be
Power forward Lucious Jackson was on the 1966–67 Philadelphia '76ers squad that ended the Celtics' streak of eight straight NBA Championships
Easier said than done... unless it's some sort of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind situation... but even then!
Playing this THURSDAY, the 18th, at Key Arena
Pro top: if you encounter bears in the wilderness, be sure you can run faster than the person you're hiking with
Junior Boys' Jeremy Greenspan recently remixed Seattle producer Lusine's track "Lucky" for a new 12" - soundcloud.com
Playing this Wednesday, the 17th, at Showbox Market with Avi Buffalo! Be sure to catch their KEXP in-studio session at 5:00 on the Afternoon Show that same day
Apparently a real person who was an occasional bully from Britt Daniel's junior high school days
Video from Mudhoney's performance at the top of the Space Needle from last week. Shit was BANANAS - blog.kexp.org
Playing the Summer Meltdown festival out in Darrington, WA at the Whitehorse Mountain Amphitheater - Saturday, August 10th!
See 'em Saturday, July 27th at Capitol Hill Block Party -&- Friday, August 2nd at the *free* KEXP Concert's at the Mural, No Depression Night show with JD McPherson and River Giant!
Cannabis puns aside, Vancouver's Weed really hits the spot. Their Deserve full-length is out July 23rd! - weed.bandcamp.com
Ian Curtis born this day in 1956
Stream the Brooklyn band's debut right here, replete with ASCII website graphics! - ayenako.org
Fun fact: Bob Mould wrote the theme song to The Daily Show with Jon Stewart #TRIVIA
Googling "Pity Sex" is not as scintillating as you'd expect... BUT, you can definitely stream the band's new album here - soundcloud.com
Playing this Thursday, the 18th, at Barboza in support of their new album, along with The Purrs and Wayfinders!
Folks like Toro Y Moi, Flume, Miike Snow and more remixing the likes of Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Billie Holliday and Sarah Vaughan!
Drops August 6th! Wish Mrs. Sharon Jones the best as she battles (recently, and thankfully early, diagnosed) cancer
Playing a free in-store performance at Everyday Music this Saturday at 2:00 pm!
Take a listen to their KEXP in-studio performance from a couple years back - kexp.org
Johnny Cash almost single-handedly wiped out the entire California Condor species when, in 1965, his truck caught fire and caused 503 acres of Los Padres National Forest to burn down, the Condor's only habitat
Surprisingly, Paul's Boutique peaked at only #24 on Billboard's 1989 Top R&B / Hip-Hop Album's chart
Out now as a 12" single b/w the same song, but stretched out over 15 minutes
Another cut from the British band's Dream Machines LP, as featured on KEXP's Song of the Day Podcast - blog.kexp.org
John Simon Ritchie a.k.a. Sid Vicious was briefly the Banshees drummer at the very, very beginning
Or as they're known to their Mexican fanbase ¡Hey! ¡Hello!
Remember when those Britpop bands would perform, like, in winter parkas? Weren't they warm? Wuz up with that?
SECOND best band to come out Scotland... The first is Strawberry Switchblade, duh
Congratulations to all our ticket winners!
THIS FRIDAY - Sharon Van Etten day at KEXP. We're starting off with her and then programming on the fly, linking each song / artist back to her. It's gonna be wild. Listen in and send requests!
Don't forget to check out the Smith Westerns LIVE on KEXP Friday, August 16th at 11:00 AM! They will also be playing the Crocodile at 8:00 pm!