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Monday, Dec 17 2012, 6AM
Jónsi and his compatriots in Sigur Rós are heading out on a big world tour starting in February. Dates and more here - www.sigur-ros.co.uk
Seattle production duo Blue Sky Black Death have had a busy 2012 making beats for local MC Nacho Picasso on three of his albums
You may recognize this tune as the music that played during the climactic finale in the movie Heat (in which Pacino bests De Niro in the scenery chewing dept)
New album from Minneapolis' Cloud Cult - entitled Love, their 9th full-length - is out March 5th
"This kid's in the ninth grade, Dude, and his father is - are you ready for this? Arthur Digby Sellers."
Liars' KEXP in-studio performance from 2012 - youtu.be
A deluxe edition of Hurry Up, We're Dreaming was just released, with a batch of remixes from Trentemøller, Mylo, Team Ghost (former M83 member Nicolas Fromageau), White Sea and more
Insightful interview with James Murphy from earlier this year conducted on NPR's Fresh Air - tiny.cc
The American Analog Set passed along Explosions in the Sky's demo to the Temporary Residence label with an accompanying note that read "this totally fucking destroys."
Passengers is Brian Eno and U2, a collaboration whose premise centred on creating songs for fictional movie soundtracks (although the collaboration did yield songs used in the films Ghost in the Shell, Miss Sarajevo, and Beyond the Clouds)
Did Perfume Genius factor into your top albums of 2012? Vote for YOUR faves here and, remember, voting ends this Friday, the 21st! - kexp.org
This album chock full of Christian allegories. Oh, and plenty of banjo
"The Kids" are Deerhunter's Bradford Cox, Liars' Aaron Hemphill, The Dead Weather's Dean Fertita and Jack Lawrence from The Raconteurs
7:25 AM
3rd spin
"Hey Yoko, what should I call my new compilation album?" "Well John, Shaved Fish has a nice ring to it."
Sorry to break it to you kid, but that frog had psychoactive properties... which is damned magical in the right set and setting, granted
Pretty serious song, but the background dancing in this video is TOO FUNNY - youtu.be
Video from Nada Surf's intimate performance at the Triple Door earlier this for KEXP - blog.kexp.org
Playing the Tacoma Dome May 20th for the Rumours 35th anniversary tour
Bush received a lot of pressure from EMI to change the song's title, saying "You see, for me it is still called 'Deal With God,' that was its title. But we were told that if we kept this title that it would not be played in any of the religious countries, Italy wouldn't play it, France wouldn't play it, and Australia wouldn't play it! Ireland wouldn't play it, and that generally we might get it blacked purely because it had God in the title."
Thom Yorke was big into Aphex Twin and Autechre during the recording of Kid A
There's also a song on the The Blue Depths called "The Case of the Great Irish Elk," which doesn't quite conjure up the same romantic imagery as "Harmless Lover's Discourse" (for, ahem, most people)
Another taste from L.A. singer / songwriter Lord Huron's Lonesome Dreams album - blog.kexp.org
A whopper of an album from Nashville's Hammock, their fifth
Were you aware: John Lennon was in a band called with three other mop-topped lads called "The Beetles" ?
Covering The Vaselines, a band Kurt championed time and time again (maybe Sir Paul will sing this on SNL?)
Fun fact: the string arrangement was written by Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones
The takeaway from this song is: our protagonist is rather afraid of people, namely all of them (also, can't score drugs)
Reissued earlier this year, along with much of The Smashing Pumpkins' back catalogue, in a super-duper deluxe package
"Angel in the Snow" was initially recorded during the sessions for Smith's S/T debut
Some call Mr. Cohen "the master of erotic despair," which is really the best kind of despair
Vedder got sued in 2009 for, it was alleged, recording an unauthorized cover of "Hard Sun," although it was eventually cleared up and was totally the label's fault (cuz, you know, Eddie's a nice guy and wouldn't do that on purpose)
Saskatchewan's own, Rah Rah, released a new album in October entitled The Poet's Dead, the band's third
Mark Mulcahy was the frontman of the band Miracle Legion
