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Monday, Dec 10 2012, 6AM
Sigur Ros are releasing the compiled short films they commissioned to accompany their latest album - entitled the Valtari Mystery Film Experiment - in February
Mazzy Star cover from the Bristol, UK producer - stumbleine.bandcamp.com
Latest from SF's Blackbird Blackbird, playing in town at the Neptune Theatre - February 26th with Portland's Starfucker
Brand new "mini-album" from Glasgow group Errors, also available on VHS (!)
WERE YOU AWARE: OMD played a live set for KEXP at last year's SXSW? It's true - youtu.be
Free download of the Seattle duo's Summer's Gone album here - soundcloud.com
Catch the Mancunian electronic musician January 19th at the Crocodile with local boy Kid Smpl. Expect some churning bass, and lots of it
Protest song written for the South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko, who passed away three years earlier prior to the single's release in 1980
A pretty good pickup line to use on the end of the world, December 21st. Also, amidst all the necking and heavy petting, be sure to tune in to KEXP for end-of-the-world related songs!
The band employed a variety of techniques to achieved the distinctive mix of sounds on "Peek-A-Boo," including reversing a sample of John Cale's "Gun," adding further instrumentation and using multiple mics to capture different lines sung by Siouxsie Sioux
7:21 AM
71st spin
Uh, arch support?
Did Beach House find a place in your top albums of 2012? Vote here for your top albums and let it be known that your opinion counts the most - kexp.org
One British music publication described the Scottish group's sound as "the sound of a flight of stairs falling down a flight of stairs"
R.I.P. Mr. Redding; he passed away on this day in 1967 in a tragic plane crash, just three days after recording "Dock of the Bay"
Otis Redding's cover of 'Try a Little Tenderness" (made popular in the '30s by Bing Crosby, most notably) first came out in 1966 and subsequently appeared on a number of live and compiled singles LPs
Covering the great Sam Cooke (from Redding's 1965 Otis Blue LP, recorded in one 24 hour period at Stax)
Although six years removed from Endtroducing....., The Private Press was only DJ Shadow's second full-length album at that point
"Uncertain Smile" has several iterations, all different: the LP version found on Soul Mining, as the lead single for Soul Mining in 1982 and its first appearance in 1981, when it was called "Cold Spell Ahead"
3+ hours of Christmas music from Sufjan Stevens, or as he describes it ..."the existential emptiness that perseveres in the heart of modern man as he recklessly pursues his search for happiness and comes up empty handed." Festive!
Perfect opportunity to link to this Built to Spill group promo shot - tiny.cc
The band's fourth album, Naomi, is due out March 5th!
See them play cuts from their new album at Barboza - Friday, January 25th with The Purrs and Little Hearts
Brand new from RNDM, the new project comprised of Jeff Ament, Joseph Arthur and Richard Stuverud
Check 'em out December 15th at the Knitting Factory in NYC
The Smashing Pumpkins have been reissuing their back catalogue over the past year... easy gift idea for the Smashing Pumpkins nerd in your life...
The 18 year old Jake Bugg became a big deal in his native UK upon the release of his debut full-length, Two Fingers (it hit #1 on the charts there)
Learned to play guitar in high school under the tutelage of the Knack's Prescott Niles
Sex! Glamour! James Franco! Uh... R.E.M.! It's there in the Lindsey Lohan-starring music video for the band's song "Blue" - youtu.be
Another fairly recent entry in KEXP's Song of the Day - blog.kexp.org
Massive debut album from Seattle's Rose Windows, tentatively scheduled for release in early 2013! Here's another preview - blog.kexp.org
From The Chameleons' 1983 debut LP, Script of the Bridge; The songs found on The Peel Sessions were compiled from several performances for the legendary British DJ in 1981, 1983 and 1984
Fast-rising UK electro-trio Chvrches have already been booked for London's summertime festival Field Day. Take a listen to their material here - soundcloud.com
Jenny Lewis also famous for starring in 1989's extended Nintendo commercial of a movie, The Wizard ("I love the Power Glove... it's so bad") - youtu.be
There are moments when Morrissey has something on his mind... like this cat! - tiny.cc
Sophomore album from Local Natives is out January 29th (co-produced by The National's Aaron Dessner too). They'll be in town April 26th at the Neptune Theatre