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Monday, Aug 27 2012, 6AM
New Order recorded Power, Corruption & Lies in early 1982 at Brittania Row Studios, famously built and used by Pink Floyd in the '70s, as well as a host of other artists
Miike Snow do go all out on their music videos, as evidenced by the one for "Burial" - www.miikesnow.com
If you like your indie boys falsetto, with a side of harp, L.A.'s Active Child may fit the bill - youtu.be
"West End Girls" was released twice as a single, first in 1984 and then in 1985 when they re-recorded it
Swedish duo The Knife were nominated for two Grammys in 2003 for Deep Cuts - Best Pop Group of the Year and Best Pop Album - but boycotted the awards show, sending two people dressed in gorilla suits to protest "the dominance of male acts in the music industry"
Speaking of monkeys, you may be interested in this hilarious account of streetwise wild Macaques monkeys evading law enforcement in Florida - www.nytimes.com
Baths is playing Decibel Festival - September 27th at Neumos with Star Slinger and Shlohmo
"Hey Hal, how's the darkness today?" "It's dark."
The group's sixth LP became their highest-charting album upon its release
Despite hailing from Texas, Neon Indian recorded Era Extraña in Helsinki, Finland in winter, where he, in his words, started to go a little crazy and "was stalked by a hobo"
"Harold and Joe" was the b-side to the "Never Enough" single in 1990
Kate Bush cover! Know who else is a HUGE Kate Bush fan? Big Boi from OutKast
Samples labelmates Shabazz Palaces and Tiny Vipers! Catch him in town August 30th at the Neptune Theatre with Yeasayer
Seattle duo's debut full-length! Get it, break into a warehouse and start a rave or something... and invite us... we won't stand in the corner and text (promise)
September 22nd at the Paramount Theatre with Washed Out! If you ask extra nicely, they'll probably play "Simple Song"
New track from NY's Freelance Whales! Their new album - Diluvia - is out October 9th
Lead track from the NY group's debut full-length, released in a mysterious decade popularly referred to as "The '90"
New band from L.A., where 'no' means 'yes' and 'yes' means 'I require my own trailer and personal stylist' and 'maybe' means 'I am dying to move back to New York' - nomusicfor.me
Maximo Park were really inspired by basic first aid procedures when they wrote this song
Hyperkinetic Baltimorean Dan Deacon will be playing the Neptune Theatre - October 27th. Bring your dancing shoes! (seriously, his concerts are basically organized dance competitions)
Check out Liars' recent in-studio performance here at KEXP - blog.kexp.org
Discovered by none other than Peter Gabriel, who signed Arthur to his label Real World Records
Watch Fang Island get hit by a fusillade of stuffed animals in their video for "Sisterly" - youtu.be
LIVE on KEXP - Friday, August 31st at 11:00 on the Midday Show! (see them the night before Crocodile) Divine Fits is a new group comprised of Spoon's Britt Daniel, Dan Boeckner of Wolf Parade and Handsome Furs, and New Bomb Turks' Sam Brown
New album from Firewater, their seventh. The group recorded it in Istanbul and Tel Aviv, incorporating Middle Eastern instrumentation, in 2011, which just happened to coincide with the Arab Spring
Remember that Cornershop song "Brimful of Asha" ? It kinda holds up, actually...
Fun fact: Devendra Banhart's middle name is "Obi," named after that Star Wars character that was a Jedi or something... got into a bar fight and, like, flipped out... oh, and turns out to be a ghost too
Here's The Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt performing in the KEXP men's room in one of the more memorable in-studio performances - youtu.be
Seventh album from the venerable Richard Hawley, with a more scuzzed-out sound. Stream the whole shebangy bang right here - richardhawley.co.uk
a.k.a. the Butterfly album (so-called as their first two albums were self-titled)
From Seattle! This is the debut full-length for Tokyoidaho, comprised of three ex-members of Voyager One
That's what the Spanish were lacking in 1588... groove. The English had it, however, and ran with it
8:56 AM
76th spin
Samples "Devika (Goddess)" by Lonnie Liston Smith and "Take the Country to NY City" by Bohannon
Sign up RIGHT NOW to be in the audience for Ana Tijoux's super-special KEXP Bumbershoot Music Lounge show! - kexp.org
Featuring Amber Coffman of Dirty Projectors on vocals!
Of all the Blonde Redhead albums, this is the one with the most 4-legged people playing tennis
LIVE on KEXP (from the Bumbershoot Music Lounge) - Sunday, September 2nd at 1:15pm ||| AND ||| LIVE on KEXP - Tuesday, September 11th at 9:30 on the Morning Show, the day of their album release!
Playing Cairo September 7th here in Seattle! New album out soon
LIVE on KEXP (from Bumbershoot Music Lounge) - Saturday, September 1st at 1:15pm!
Got their start in Glasgow squatting at an abandoned warehouse, which doubled as a practice space and party space
Actually written as a soundtrack to a British ballet production, put on by Michael Clark's dance company
Hendrix's version first appeared on wax on 1968's Electric Ladyland
Ben Gibbard is playing at Showbox Market on November 16th with Damien Jurado. www.deathcabforcutie.com