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Friday, Apr 20 2012, 6AM
Tomorrow is Robert James Smith's birthday. He was born in Blackpool, England in 1959.
Have a black celebration and get goth and get into a tree. Share your photos via Twitter or Instagram: hashtag #GothsinTrees and tag us at @KEXP. We also invite you to tag us on Facebook, and on Tumblr with #KEXP.
Modern goth! Watch live videos from this opera trained, 22-year old's visit to KEXP: blog.kexp.org and download the track "Vessel" here: blog.kexp.org
Goth inspired! Desire is the project of Johnny Jewel, producer of Glass Candy/Chromatics and Montreal-based singer Megan Louise.
The Cure opened for the Banshees when they toured to promote their record Join Hands. In late 1982, McGeoch was replaced by Robert Smith and Smith became a full-time member between 1982 and 1984.
Goth! More photos of KEXP staff goth and up in the branches: blog.kexp.org.
KEXP listeners vote for their favorite songs of all time, featuring goth influence tracks like Mad World: kexp.org
A goth perspective on Earth Day? For more on R.E.M. check out the KEXP documentary: kexp.org.
Goth inspired! In 1978, Ian McCullouch, Will Sergeant and Les Pattinsonand picked up a drum machine they affectionately called “Echo.” Nearly three decades later they visited KEXP for a live in-studio: kexp.org.
New album from Killing Joke titled MMXXI: www.killingjoke.com. Killing Joke sued Nirvana, claiming they stole the riff to “Come As You Are” from their track "Eighties." They dropped the lawsuit after Cobain’s death.
"Tell Bill Clinton to go and inhale," raps Cypress Hill. Happy 4/20 from this California based hip-hop group.
Released just a year after the first Earth Day, "Mercy Mercy Me" became an anthem of the sorrow regarding environmental destruction.
Midnight Oil were an Australian rock band from Sydney originally performing as Farm.
Influenced by both goth and environmentalism! Morrissey is a vocal vegetarian, read an interview with PETA: www.peta2.com.
Goth! The Cure are headlining a number of European festivals this summer, for dates go here: www.thecure.com.
Ian Curtis hung himself just as Joy Division was to release Closer and go on tour. The remaining band members reformed and became New Order.
Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross recently composed the music for the U.S. adaptation of The Girl With the Dragon. Listen here: www.youtube.com.
In late 1987, artist/performer Groovie Mann and musician Buzz McCoy met in Chicago bar. The signed to industrial-dance label Wax Trax Records the following year.
Earth Day was founded by Gaylord Nelson, then a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, after he witnessed the 1969 oil spill in Santa Barbara, California.
"It's April 21st and everybody knows today is Earth Day..." On the first Earth Day in 1070 20 million Americans took to the streets and parks!
Earth Day is tomorrow! Band leader Tanya Donnely also played with her stepsister Kristin Hersh in Throwing Muses and in The Breeders.
Earth Day is tomorrow! The band formed in Stourbridge, West Midlands in November 1987 and took their name from an episode of The Goon Show.
Tomorrow is Earth Day. In this environmentally inclined song Black Francis sings "there was a guy, an under water guy who controlled the sea, got killed by ten million pounds of sludge, from New York and New Jersey."
In 2011 The Weeknd sampled "Happy House in his track "House of Balloons." John McGeoch from Magazine and Budgie from The Slits joined Siouxie and the Banchees on Kaleidoscope.
We are celebrating all things Goth since tomorrow is Robert Smith's birthday. Cranes formed in Portsmouth, England in 1986. The group is lead by siblings Alison and Jim Shaw.
Goth inspired! Read a review of this British quintet live, blog.kexp.org.
Read a review with Kevin Haskins of Bauhaus and Love & Rockets: blog.kexp.org. Bauhaus formed in Northampton in 1978 and would go on to influence bands like The Horrors.
After Bauhaus first broke up in 1983 former members Daniel Ash, David J and Kevin Haskins formed Love and Rockets.
Not only is it goth day, Earth Day and 4/20 but today in 2008 Depeche Mode released their twelfth studio album Sounds of the Universe.
Trust is the goth inspired and Toronto based duo Robert Alfons and Maya Postepski. ttrustt.com
We are celebrating goth today in light of Robert Smith's birthday. In 1985 Craig Adams and Wayne Hussey left The Sisters of Mercy to form The Mission. Sisters Of Mercy leader Andrew Eldritch re-formed the band in 1987 and took a stab at formed members in the track "This Corrosion."
Robert Smith of The Cure teams up with The Cure influenced Crystal Castles for this cover of the 1980s Canadian new wave band Platinum Blonde.
The Conner brothers formed Screaming Trees with Mark Lanegan and Mark Pickerel in 1985 in Ellensburg, Washington. Listen to a recent in-studio from Lanegan: kexp.org
An apocalyptic song for Earth Day. “There was thunder, there was lightning, then the stars went out..."
All kinds of tree happening today with Earth Day and 4/20. Check out more goths in trees: gothsuptrees.net.
Dead Can Dance are playing August 10th at Marymoor Park in Redmond.
In celebration of Robert Smiths birthday KEXP is going goth - some in trees and others with cheese: blog.kexp.org
Australians The Church visited KEXP for a live in-studio: blog.kexp.org
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry formed in Leeds, England in early 1981. The band's 1985 debut album was titled Talk about the Weather, another Earth Day connection?
To celebrate Goths In Trees Day your afternoon host Kevin Cole posed up in a tree: blog.kexp.org.
Curve formed in 1990 around the collaboration of Toni Halliday and Dean Garcia. Garcia briefly played with Eurythmics.
Not everyone can celebrate 4/20 with Snoop Dogg, "So we gonna smoke a ounce to this..." Snoop Dogg recently performed at Coachella with a 2Pac hologram.
Into the Wild follows Christopher McCandless as he abandons his privileged life and hitchhikes to Alaska.
More recommendations from John Richards to accompany your Earth Day: blog.kexp.org
"Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth" was originally sung by Sparks.
Listen to Guided by Voices live from 2011's Sasquatch: kexp.org
Friday, Earth Day, Robert Smith's birthday... www.youtube.com.
In Anticipation of Robert Smith's birthday and Earth Day, KEXP brings you Goth in Trees! You can listen to and watch music videos of bands like the Smiths on the KEXP Blog: blog.kexp.org