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The Fleet Foxes are working on other projects now. Most notably Josh Tillman who you might know as Father John Misty, and Robin Pecknold of Poor Moon.
You can watch Martin Scorsese's documentary about George Harrison, Living In A Material World, online now www.georgeharrison.com
Elbow released a b sides and rarities comp called Dead in the Boot. www.elbow.co.uk
The Helio Sequence have a tour coming up. You can catch them in Eugene or in Vancouver February. or you can watch their live performance from Bumbershoot this summer blog.kexp.org
Check out the live video from Lord Huron's in studio performance on our blog blog.kexp.org
Drummer Bobby Gillespie was also in Primal Scream.
New music by Tamaryn featured on our song of the day blog blog.kexp.org
Portraits of post punk documentary on our blog featuring the Cure! kexp.org
Sigur Rós have given a dozen film makers the same modest budget and asked them to create whatever comes into their head when they listen to songs from the band's new album valtari. Info on that and on their tour at www.sigur-ros.co.uk
Check out our pop goes electric documentary featuring New Order at kexp.org
Jonny Pierce released a solo song/video on the Drums' website thedrums.com
Happy Birthday to Oliver!
You can see a live performance of that song and others from Cold Specks' in studio at www.kexp.org
Yo La Tengo have a new album coming out on Jan. 15
Death Cab For Cutie are releasing a collection of vinyls from their Barsuk years. www.deathcabforcutie.com
Alt J just played the Crocodile on Monday. Keep your eye on the KEXP blog for our review of that show. That song was our song of the day blog.kexp.org
Screaming Trees from Ellensberg was fronted buy Mark Lanegan
Golden Gardens are a duo from Seattle that released an album this year. Make sure local music is well represented on our countdown by voting for them on kexp.org
After Chapterhouse called it quits Andrew Sheriff went on to form Biocom
BellaMaine are from Anacortes, WA. They have a new EP, “An Anxious Mind”, produced by John Goodmanson (Nada Surf, Blonde Redhead, Death Cab For Cutie).
The Replacements are so wild they were banned from SNL! That's pretty wild!
Nada Surf played an exclusive show for our VIP members at the Triple Door earlier this year. You TOO can be invited to these exclusive shows by donating and becoming a VIP member at kexp.org. The great thing about it is not only do you get all the perks of membership, but KEXP gets double the donations up to $15,000 thanks to some generous donors!
Hear more from Midlake at blog.kexp.org
Bjork fronted Sugarcubes with her then husband before her solo career. Legend has it she gave birth to their son the day the band formed....
That song is a cover version of a cabaret-pop song by Yé-yé girl Genevieve Waite, from her 1974 album, Romance is on the Rise.
Dean Wareham signed a demo deal with Elektra and after recording a few tracks with Mercury Rev drummer Jimmy Chambers he formed Luna
ES&TMZ released a new album this year entitled "Here" and fans had a great time with the release as you can see here edwardsharpeandthemagneticzeros.com
And Alexander Ebert of Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros has some solo stuff too alexanderebert.com
Aren't all Sufjan Stevens' songs Christmas songs? Well this one is blog.kexp.org
You can download videos of Pixies shows on their website- conveniently sorted by tour www.pixiesmusic.com
Song of the Day!!! blog.kexp.org
Kitten recently signed to Elektra- way to go Kitten! www.kittentheband.com
One of the sisters of Chaos Chaos also in Daydream Vacation with members of Head Like a Kite. You can see Chaos Chaos' in studio performance on our blog kexp.org
The Posies formed in Bellingham in 1987. They're finishing up their European tour tonight in Ireland.
Modest Mouse's last album was released in 2007 but Isaac Brock has been keeping busy with his label Glacial Pace which features Love As Laughter, Talk Demonic, Mason Jennings.
Showbox, 90.3 KEXP and The Stranger present The Sonics and Mudhoney at Showbox at The Market on Feb. 2!
Check out this live performance from Built to Spill www.kexp.org
Halo Benders were a side project of Doug Martsch of Built to Spill and Calvin Johnson of Beat Happening.
Jeremy Enigk of Sunny Day Real Estate doing solo work now. You can follow him at jeremyenigk.com
Damien Jurado's album "Maraqopa" is in the running for Top Ten Album of the Year. read what KEXP DJ's and staff have picked and cast your own vote at kexp.org