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Monday, Oct 29 2012, 6AM
Hurricane Sandy is projected to be a rare hybrid storm caused by the "Arctic jet stream wrapping itself around a tropical storm"
Live updates from the New York Times - www.nytimes.com
Although the great majority of businesses and public institutions voluntarily closed their doors, New Jersey casinos were ordered closed to close
Here's Google's live-updating hurricane hazards map - google.org
If you see these two giant faces up in the sky, run! - tiny.cc
Cohen was briefly a Scientologist - referenced in this song - because it was a "good place to meet women"
Volume 5 documents the 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue tour that featured Dylan, Joan Baez, Roger McGuinn, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Kinky Friedman and Bob Neuwirth
Here's Cash's most iconic performance of "Five Feet High and Rising," as seen on Sesame Street (bonus: you'll learn to count to five) - youtu.be
The Carter Family - A.P., Maybelle and Sara Carter - recorded between 1927 and 1956 and proved to be important in inspiring many artists associated with the '60s Folk revival
Finishing off their tour at (hometown) Portland's Crystal Ballroom - November 11th
Amigo the Devil with TK & The Holy Know-Nothings and Rattlesnake Milk
Monday, Nov 25, 2024
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The song is originally attributed to husband-and-wife duo Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie, who wrote the song in 1929 in response to the disastrous Great Mississippi Flood of two years earlier
Seattle's Beat Connection are playing an all-ages show at Neumos - Saturday, November 17th!
Scheduled to play several East Coast dates in the next couple days... hope they're able to! - msmr.bandcamp.com
Unbeknownst to outsiders, The Sugarcubes' "Birthday" is actually the traditional song sung at birthday celebrations and gatherings in Iceland (it's very hard for most people to sing)
Pretty obvious to link to this scene from High Fidelity but blah blah blah it's not like you're that busy at work to watch a movie clip - youtu.be (unless you are, in which case get back to work!)
Psychedelic live set from UK band Django Django here at KEXP - kexp.org
Longwave eating from a fruit platter at KEXP headquarters (and playing, you know, music and stuff) - blog.kexp.org
The Helio Sequence are coming to YOUR town! (but only if you, uh, live in those towns) - www.subpop.com
It only takes a little wind to get School of Seven Bells' hair-game of point, so be careful! - tiny.cc
The Seattle band is playing with Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter (hereafter referred to as Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter) Thursday, November 8th at the Tractor!
Great video off the NY band playing cuts off their most recent LP Belong here at KEXP - blog.kexp.org
Brand new album from SF-based, NZ-born, Cranes-loving (guessing) musician Tamaryn
Still need a costume idea for Halloween? Why not go as the Raveonettes! You'll need a squall of noise as accompaniment to really make it work, though - tiny.cc
The Kills just put out a book of candid tour photographs because, why not? - www.thekills.tv
First appeared on the soundtrack to the 1979 Ramones-starring film Rock 'n' Roll High School, whose premise sounds wonderfully quaint, innocent these days (take it away Wikipedia: "Set in 1980, Vince Lombardi High School keeps losing principals to nervous breakdowns because of the students' love of rock 'n' roll")
Sophomore album from the Perth, AU band! Get some friends together, put it on the 'ole turntable and do a little That '70s Show-style hangout session
To accentuate the lampshade-on-the-head party classic, why not consider adding a little dance routine to it à la David Byrne? - youtu.be
Ben Gibbard's playing the Showbox Market with Damien Jurado - Friday, November 16th!
Elvis is the son of actor Anthony Perkins of Psycho fame
Unfortunately Morrissey has cancelled his remaining tour dates - including an upcoming on at the Moore Theatre - due to his mother falling ill. Get well Mother Moz!
The Walkmen here at the KEXP studios playing some Johnny Cash - blog.kexp.org
The Austin band's eighth album because, hey!, they found some songs somewhere (in their brains, likely)
Dinosaur Jr playing at KEXP plus plus an interview conducted by none other than Henry Rollins, esq. - youtu.be
Title taken from British author's Alan Sillitoe's 1959 short story "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner"
Playing next Friday, November 9th at the Crocodile!
