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Monday, Mar 12 2012, 6AM
Lotus Plaza - a.k.a. Lockett Pundt - is probably best known as the guitarist for Deerhunter, and he'll be releasing his second solo LP, Spooky Action at a Distance, April 2nd (and will be in town May 5th at Barboza, the new venue within Neumos)
Bradford Cox, under his Atlas Sound moniker, played a KEXP in-studio very recently. Check out the performance, and his rambling, engaging interview, right here - www.kexp.org
While in high school she interned for Dave Matthews at his label, Bama Rags
Featuring Beirut's Zach Condon on vocals... She's playing the Neptune Theatre - Sunday, March 25th with the War on Drugs! Also at the Neptune, two days later: Young Jeezy
Spoon are from Austin, which is a so-so segue to introduce KEXP's most excellent LIVE SXSW lineup this year. Check it out, starts Wednesday! - kexp.org
For the music-loving, amateur astronomers out there, the limited edition CD version of DRRT unfolds to become a planetarium - lostlander.bandcamp.com
Coming to town April 10th at the Showbox SoDo with Kimbra. To record Making Mirrors he moved to a barn on his parent's farm in Australia for a spell, so I'm sure he'll dig playing indoors in a properly ventilated venue
Elbow teamed up with a Manchester brewery to make their very own 'Build a Rocket Boys!' golden ale. Admittedly, it's a pretty good way to get pissed AND broadcast that you're a big music fan to any nearby, fellow drink enthusiasts
The New York Times did a profile of the tumultuous, and triumphant, highs and lows experienced by Sinead O'Connor since the '90s - www.nytimes.com
Hope Sandoval (Mazzy Stars) co-wrote, and provides the vocals for, "Paradise Circus." It's also the theme song for the BBC series Luther, starring Stringer Bell, er, Idris Elba
"A Forest" first appeared in 1980 on Fiction Records as both a 12" and 7" single (both b/w "Another Journey By Train") prior to release of the band's second LP, Seventeen Seconds
Italian-born Mauro Remiddi, before recording as Porcelain Raft, worked a variety of jobs in the music industry, including a stint in North Korea (!!!) in the '90s where a troupe of performers reinterpreted traditional folk songs. Of the experience he said "I started feeling very paranoid."
Brits and Canadians agree; "manoeuvre" looks way cooler written out than "maneuver"
Check out the Athens (Greece) band's cover of "Just Like Honey" by the Jesus & Mary Chain - keepshellyinathens.blogspot.com - as well as their enchanting in-studio session on the Morning Show not long ago - youtu.be
Moby's (born Richard Melville Hall) great-great grand uncle is author Herman Melville, a family lineage that, presumably, informed his stage name
A just released preview from their upcoming album Bloom, out May 15th! About the record, Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally say they're crafting “their own Pet Sounds or Disintegration, not in sound, but as something which feels like a definitive statement.”
LIVE on KEXP - Saturday, March 24th at 2:30! The band is playing that night at the Crocodile in support of their new album, which was produced by Spoon's Britt Daniel
Seemingly anodyne at quick glance, but not sure what's depicted on the cover for this album...
Teenagers circa late '90s: "Should I wear my Cold War Kids or Jimmy Eat World t-shirt to school today?"
A fan of Lana Del Rey, evidently, who she says "is exactly what I was hoping to inspire when I took on the male rock establishment almost twenty years ago with my debut record..."
The soundtrack for The Hunger Games was put together and produced by T. Bone Burnett and features the likes of Arcade Fire (who wrote two new songs for the effort), Neko Case, The Decemberists, Taylor Swift and more
From the soundtrack for Jim Sheridan's 1994 eponymous film, based on the false convictions of the Guildford Four in Belfast, 1975
Playing an always all-ages show at the Vera Project, April 7th with Milk Music and Society Nurse
London's Placebo were personally asked by David Bowie to play at his 50th birthday party in 1997 (which just happened to be at Madison Square Garden)
FREE download of this EP from LA's Harriet available here - harrietmusic.com
SF three-piece Terry Malts were recent KEXP Song of the Day inductees - blog.kexp.org
LIVE on KEXP - Saturday, April 14th at 8:00 on Audioasis! You can stream their new album right now too (out April 17th) - absolutemonarchs.bandcamp.com
Recorded at Sweet Tea Studios in Oxford, Mississippi where Modest Mouse, Animal Collective, Wavves, Buddy Guy and more have cut albums
Took their name by combining the Brooklyn duo's respective surnames, Courtney Kaiser and Benjamin Cartel
The Swedish sisters of First Aid Kit are playing a LIVE in-studio Wednesday, April 11th at 3:00 on the Afternoon Show! Catch them that night at the Crocodile
Port of Morrow is out March 20th! In the meantime, sate your Shins craving for a short while with video from James Mercer's in-studio session for KEXP from February - blog.kexp.org
Will be playing this year's Sasquatch! Festival whereupon attendees will be wowed (and then sunburnt, probably)
Opening for Radiohead on the band's North American tour, including the Seattle show on April 9th at Key Arena
A.k.a. ex-Fleet Foxes drummer J. Tillman. He'll be LIVE on the Midday Show May 7th at 1:00. Here's the Aubrey Plaza-starring music vid for "Hollywood Forever Cemetary" - vimeo.com
Seattle's Beat Connection have a new album coming sometime soon and are playing a raft of dates at SXSW this year. Check 'em out here - www.facebook.com
Brooklyn label Captured Tracks is reissuing much of LA band Medicine's back catalogue this summer, an excellent opportunity to hear Brad Laner's amazing guitar work anew - capturedtracks.com
British techno legends Orbital are set to release their new album, Wonky, April 1st, their first in eight years
Bryce and Aaron Dessner are curating, along with this year's iteration of ATP, the Crossing Brooklyn Ferry festival May 3-5
