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Monday, Jun 25 2012, 6AM
KEXP is your Pride 2012 Hangover Headquarters (slogan: we're still extricating glitter from... places)
Other artists on this New Order covers compilation include Destroyer, Fujiya & Miyagi, Errors and more - soundcloud.com
Port St. Willow is the moniker of Brooklyn's Nick Principe - portstwillow.bandcamp.com
Port Royal (the city) was an infamous den of vice and iniquity in its role as a base for Dutch and British privateers to harass Spanish shipping in the Caribbean
Lotus Plaza is Deerhunter guitarist Lockett Pundt, whom Bradford Cox describes as "like my muse - my second half, my other half."
School of Seven Bells: undeniably handsome (as evidenced in this video of their live in-studio here at KEXP) - youtu.be
OMBRE is the newly formed duo of labelmates Julianna Barwick and Helado Negro with a full-length, Believe You Me, due out August 27th
Recently released full-length debut from NY's Exitmusic (married couple Aleksa Palladino and Devon Church). Check out more here, including video! - blog.kexp.org
Daughn Gibson used to play in a "stoner-metal" band before striking out with this album of electronic/sample-tinged country; it's a real grower
David Bowie's a fan - he personally invited the band to play his 50th birthday bash at Madison Square Garden in 1997
Elbow also recorded a version of "Mexican Standoff" sung in Spanish for a B-side to the "Leaders of the Free World" single. So, you know, try and find it...
Was employed as one of those people that sings telegrams when she was just starting out at the Dublin College of Music
Check out the Baltimore band's affinity for Julianna Barwick, Danny Brown (!), Faust and their favourite Simpsons episode - pitchfork.com
Featuring additional vocals from Tanya Donelly (Throwing Muses / Breeders / Belly)
Here's Merrill Garbus, a.k.a. Tune-Yards, chillaxing (people still say that right? No? Oh...) with Stas and Cat from TheeSatisfaction - tiny.cc
The Vancouver duo described Celebration Rock as "a little more cruising down the highway, and a little less doing crystal meth on New Year's…"
The Clash are on the London 2012 Olympics official soundtrack, believed to have been put together by director Danny Boyle and Underworld's Karl Hyde and Rick Smith. Here's the full list! - www.guardian.co.uk
The Sydney, AU band was featured recently in the KEXP Song of the Day Podcast - blog.kexp.org
R.I.P. to the Big Star singer (he also plays guitar on Pleased to Meet Me, "Can't Hardly Wait")
The new release from GBV certainly joins the ranks of their other strangely-named musical catalogue
Kicking off the KEXP Concerts at the Mural - Friday, August 3rd with Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside, Legendary Oaks and Fly Moon Royalty! Hosted by the splendiferous DJ El Toro - blog.kexp.org
Got their first taste of fame winning Iceland's Músíktilraunir contest in 2010, a sort-of nationwide battle of the bands.
Playing a series of shows with The Black Keys in October!
If you listen to the album closely, and I mean REALLY listen, you'll learn she's a big fan of California - kexp.org
The Poulsbo duo will be LIVE on KEXP - Saturday, July 7th at 8:00 pm on Audioasis!
Neko Case enlisted the musical talents of members of the Sadies and Calexico as well as Garth Hudson of the Band, Howe Gelb from Giant Sand, and Kelly Hogan for 2006's Fox Confessor
Did anybody who attended an impossibly swanky / posh Pride party yesterday have the good fortune of ending the night with a mouthful of diamonds?
B-side to the "Never Enough" single (both the 7" and 12" Big Mix)
Check out video from their uproariously fun in-studio here at KEXP - youtu.be
Here's Elvis riding one of those newfangled "mono-rails" that we've heard so much about - youtu.be
Ian MacKaye's probably a zen guy when it comes to waiting rooms, actually
The encore performance from Live at Reading (recorded August of 1992) includes some awesome covers of Shocking Blue, Fang and Wipers
Is that the magic number of Saltines that's, like, impossible to eat without water or something?
The Seattle band just embarked on a BIG tour but they'll be back in town August 2nd at the Funhouse. Take a listen to the rest of Restraint right here - orcateam.bandcamp.com
The onions to know are the ones at Paseo (and whatever they do with them to add miles of flavour. [Kilometres of flavour?])
Zach Rogue and Pat Spurgeon of Rogue Wave are hosting tomorrow's East Bay vinyl listening party / swap meet. More info here - do415.com
New music from SF's Adam Dishart who's releasing a series of singles conceptually centered on memory - books-on-tape.bandcamp.com
Have just started their run of huge summer festival shows, the apex of which must surely be the three dates upcoming in their native Manchester
Crocodiles had a fun time touring thorough Mexico. Check up on their progress - killkillkillcrocodiles.blogspot.com
Going on tour with Death Cab in July! There's also a cool Raspberries cover worth investigating on their site - www.surferblood.com
Frontman Peter Garrett once ran for the Australian Senate under the Nuclear Disarmament Party ticket
Check out video from Yppah and Anomie Belle's in-studio here at KEXP! They make a good team, no doubt - youtu.be
The production duo's debut album (they had just changed their name, too, from the Dust Brothers after the litigators came a'knocking)
Playing TONIGHT at the Rendezvous with Tim Cohen (Magic Trick, Fresh & Onlys)
