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Monday, Aug 20 2012, 6AM
Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Karen O is contributing a song to Tim Burton's new movie Frankenweenie, whose soundtrack also features the Flaming Lips (of course), Passion Pit and Robert Smith (!)
I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got serves up a lot of personal details from her life at the time and relationship with drummer John Reynolds
Stream Port St. Willow's Holiday right here - portstwillow.bandcamp.com
You're on fire? Stop, drop and roll! "For your health" - youtu.be
Her new album - The Haunted Man (Natasha Khan's third LP) - is due out October 15th
The Danish band is touring Denmark in October, so get ready for a raucous time you denizens of Køge, Vordingborg and Horsens!
The Portland band is playing the Tractor Tavern Sunday, September 16th with Royal Canoe!
New EP from Brooklyn's Antlers. They'll be veering near Seattle in September, playing Vancouver and Victoria on the 14th and 15th, respectively
Dusted is Brian Borcherdt (Holy Fuck, LIDS) and Leon Taheny (Final Fantasy, Rituals, Bruce Peninsula)
Telex is a "switched network of teleprinters" for the purpose of sending text-based messages
Neko Case doesn't need to hitch rides on the front of cars anymore... not with all that Hunger Games soundtrack $
Some video from the Seattle duo's in-studio on Audioasis - blog.kexp.org
A surreal cover / homage of Public Enemy's "Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos"
Woah, nearly 10 years to the day since Turn On the Bright Lights came out... which means you'll probably hear it at your first high school reunion and very little will have changed
Debut from Bloomington, IN brothers Douglass and Bryan Enas. Back story: they lived in a really shabby basement suite that flooded frequently (not really)
The Horrors cover band name idea: The Colonel Kurtzs
Dear collectors: "Oh! Brother" appears on the CD release but NOT the original LP version of 1984's The Wonder and Frightening World of The Fall
LIVE on KEXP - Friday, August 31st at 1:00 on the Midday Show! (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)
A cover of Aussie band Architecture in Helsinki
Priceless: "Teen Who Just Discovered Led Zeppelin Starting to Piss Off Friends" - www.theonion.com
Won the 1972 Academy Award for Best Original Song, the first African American to do so (and the first in any non-acting category) as well as the first winner to both write and perform the song in question
The iconic cover is based on a photograph (and oft-used phrase) of Malcolm X peering out the window of his house, holding a rifle, during a time he was receiving a high number of death threats
Today's featured Song of the Day, now with context! - blog.kexp.org
The L.A. group's debut single! They're playing their hometown neighbourhood Echo Park Rising Festival this Saturday
When you listen to this on headphones you can turn any stroll around town into a real life Donnie Darko-style opening sequence! (minus the scary hallucinations, hopefully)
Take a listen to the Cambridge, UK quartet's terrific KEXP in-studio from this month - kexp.org
Some hilarious comments from KEXP / KCMU DJs on Doolittle in a little featured called "Review Revue" - blog.kexp.org
Orbital are BACK in a big way, with a new album (featuring Zola Jesus on this track) and a headlining slot at this September's Decibel Fest here in Seattle, September 27th at the Paramount Theatre
Still delivering the hits - blog.kexp.org
Playing Cairo September 7th! The Vancouver / Montreal indie pop crooner is releasing his full-length debut October 16th. Free download here - capturedtracks.com
Any Britons suffering an extended Olympic hangover would be wise to check out the Mark Lanegan Band live, currently touring the UK- marklanegan.com
Wayne Coyne's though process: "I wonder what I can do with this enormous container ship foghorn I picked up at that yard sale... WAIT... I've got it!"
When you read Icelandic group The Sugarcubes (compilcated) biography, it sort of looks like this: iiaerörkööö gundmundsdottir purrkur pillnikk Einar Benediktsson killöö Siggi Baldursson... ANYHOO, it's quite the read - www.allmusic.com
Cheeky little cover, eh? Also, don't the background yelps sorta sound like Mario when you play Mario Kart?
Running neck-and-neck with "medical" for best kind of healing
Cee-Lo Green cover! It's from a split 7" with Cee-Lo, who covers Band of Horses' "No One's Gonna Love You"
Iron & Wine recently participated in a Johnny Cash tribute show honouring the Man in Black; here's his cover of "Long Black Veil" - youtu.be
The Helio Sequence have a busy September: their new album's out September 11th AND they'll be LIVE from Bumbershoot Music Lounge - Sunday, September 2nd at 1:15pm AND they'll be playing an in-studio - Tuesday, September 11th at 9:30 on the Morning Show!
If your dentist plays this in their waiting room then you should patronize that dentist (works for other professionals too)
The mashup album that finally answered the question (really well) "how would Ian MacKaye and the Ol' Dirty Bastard sound smushed together?"
Stream the album here, thought you have to solve a puzzle to do so - www.electricguest.com
Hopefully not down that waterfall depicted on the cover... unless you're one of those daredevils that goes off waterfalls in a barrel, in which case it's probably pedestrian by now
LIVE on KEXP TODAY at 1:30! Also playing at the Tractor tonight! kexp.org