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Wednesday, Oct 24 2012, 6AM
Perfume Genius is currently touring behind this most recent album. he will be stopping in San Francisco tonight. He'll return home to Seattle this Saturday at the Frye Art Museum. www.facebook.com
Sufjan Stevens will be returning to Seattle on Sat. December 8th at the Neptune Theatre. The show will consist entirely of Christmas music. He is calling this tour the "Surfjohn Stevens Christmas Sing-A-Long Seasonal Affective Disorder Yuletide Disaster Pageant On Ice. Read more about this Christmas extravaganza at his site: sufjan.com
Currently touring. Lord Huron played a Sold Out show here in Seattle at Barboza this past Sunday. They stopped by the KEXP studios during the Midday Show the following day. Stream the performance beginning at 11:15AM here: www.kexp.org www.lordhuron.com
Richard Ashcroft continues to keep busy. Read about the latest Richard news on his official site here: www.richardashcroft.co.uk
Stopping in Seattle at Barboza on Sat. Dec. 8th. howtodresswell.com howtodresswell.blogspot.com
Playing in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada tonight before playing a handful of East Coast dates and then heading back overseas to Europe. Stream their most recent KEXP in studio performance from this past September here: kexp.org Watch the video of the performance here: blog.kexp.org thexx.info
Currently on a huge tour. Appearing tonight in Colmar, France. They'll continue to play European dates on through November before returning to the United States. Their first US date will take place on December 4th in Washington DC. www.caspianmusic.net
Out of Austin, TX. Yet another band currently on tour. Balmorhea will be stopping in Seattle this Friday at the Columbia City Theatre. balmorheamusic.com
Elbow will be re-releasing all of their albums as a vinyl boxset on Nov. 26th. They'll be playing six arena dates in England at the end of November and beginning of December. The first date will take place in Nottingham on Mon. Nov. 26th. Stream their last KEXP in studio session from May 2008 here: www.kexp.org
Hands of Glory is the companion cd to Andrew's last album Break It Yourself. It will be in record stores next Tues. Oct. 30th. www.andrewbird.net
Beirut will be playing dates in Australia at the beginning of November. beirutband.com
"I will now sell five copies of The Three E.P.s by the Beta Band...." "Do it" www.youtube.com
Django Django gave us a fabulous in studio performance two weeks ago kexp.org
Jonn talks about the history of the band and their recent reunion tour www.sflinsider.com
Neither Brazilian nor girls, the band has reunited and are working on a new album
Britt Daniels of Spoon now working on a little super-group side project called the Divine Fits who recently performed in our studio kexp.org
That one off their 2010 album. The Black Keys visited us recently before that one kexp.org
Menahan Street Band is a collaboration between musicians from Sharon Jones' Dap Kings and Budos Band
Bloc Party's newest album is called "Four" and you can hear songs and read the review on our blog blog.kexp.org
Hear that song and more from their performance at CMJ last year kexp.org
Devotchka just played in town with the Seattle Rock Orchestra- listen to their most recent live performance kexp.org
Moby worked on the sound track to the newest Borne film www.moby.com
Arcade Fire collaborated with Spike Jonze on a short film called Scenes From the Suburbs www.arcadefire.com
Hard to believe that one is from 1981- David Byrne has always been ahead of the times. Now collaborating with St. Vincent!
For our NYC listeners- several up coming dates www.djspooky.com
New album from Matthew Dear! That track was the song of the day! blog.kexp.org
Aphex Twin one of the pioneers of "intelligent dance music" (or IDM)- definitely an electronic innovator blog.kexp.org
If this song hits you (or even if it doesn't) get your ballot in! Song of the day a while ago- our friends Macklemore and Ryan Lewis have sold out their Heist tour! We're so proud! blog.kexp.org
New album from Tame Impala! Hear some oldies but goodies from their in studio on our blog kexp.org
Good Morning! The Magical Mystery Tour film has been re-released with new interviews and commentary www.thebeatles.com
Mr. Lif also part of the Perceptionists- check out the live performance kexp.org
Dutch group that combined genres from funk to punk released 5 albums in the '90s
Los Angeles listeners- Peter Murphey will play Deep in it's entirety on the 27! www.petermurphy.info
KEXP listeners have the best requests! Check out our Portraits of Post Punk documentary featuring the Cure kexp.org
Their new album just came out on Tuesday! check out their tour dates andyouwillknowusbythetrailofdead.bandpage.com
Their website includes "brief guides to Kiwi culture and phrases": flightoftheconchords.co.nz