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Friday, Mar 9 2012, 6AM
Luna is lead by former Galaxie 500 frontman Dean Wareham.
Perkins' father named his son after Elvis Presley.
The 10th album from Stephin Merritt's project The Magnetic Fields. Playing two shows at The Neptune on March 19th and March 20th with Holcombe Waller.
Terry Lee Hale was born in San Antonio, Texas but finished high school in Yakima, Washington.
Download another track from The Mountain Goats: blog.kexp.org
This Seattle based band is playing the Cypress Lounge in Bellevue on Friday, March 16th.
Playing the Crocodile on Thursday, April 19th. Seattle's Perfume Genius recently visited KEXP for a live in-studio: kexp.org.
Seattle's Damien Jurado recently visited KEXP backed by musicians from The Shins, The Head & the Heart and Campfire OK: blog.kexp.org
Sinéad O'Connor's 9th studio album after a 25 year career beginning with 1987's hit "Mandinka." She has collaborated with Peter Gabriel, Massive Attack and the Chieftains.
Playing the Crocodile on April 16th. Download another track from this Italian musician: blog.kexp.org.
San Diego's Pinback visited KEXP back in 2007, listen here: kexp.org
Download a track from, the Song of the Day Blog from Ontario's Tokyo Police Club: blog.kexp.org
Listen to an in-studio from this Brooklyn band, kexp.org, and visit their site for free downloads, yellowostrich.com.
Hospitality recently played the Cutting Room Studios in New York, listen here: kexp.org. Download their single "Club 8" here blog.kexp.org.
Released 25 years ago today, Joshua Tree was produced by Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno and was U2's fifth studio album.
The National's Bryce and Aaron Dessner are curating Crossing Brooklyn Ferry in May. The title pays homage Walt Whitman and the lineup features The Walkmen, St. Vincent,
Beirut and many others.
Playing the Neptune on Monday, April 9th with Band of Skulls and Posse and coming to KEXP that same day at 4:30.
Covered by Iron and Wine, listen to his version here: www.youtube.com.
New release covering New Order, check out the other covers including ones by Fujiya & Miyagi and Destroyer: soundcloud.com.
Glaswegian's Errors are touring Europe this spring. www.havesomefaithinmagic.com
The Flaming Lips will perform "The Dark Side of the Moon" at this year's Hangout Festival in Gulf Shores, AL, happening May 18-20.
The Lightning Seeds were formed by Ian Broudie in 1989. The band has four festival dates scheduled for this summer.
Download another track from Boston's Passion Pit: blog.kexp.org
Australia's Cut Copy visited KEXP and played this track, listen here: kexp.org
This song was originally done by the 1980s Canadian new wave band Platinum Blonde.
Check out the KEXP documentary on Depeche Mode: kexp.org
Daft Punk are allegedly collaborating with Nile Rodgers. Rodgers is the producer behind tracks like "Le Freak" by Chic, "Like A Virgin" by Madonna, "Let's Dance" by David Bowie, "We Are Family" by Sister Sledge and "I'm Coming Out" by Diana Ross.
The video for "DoYaThing," the collaboration between James Murphy, Andre 3000 and Gorillaz was just release, www.youtube.com.
The Hammersmith Palais was a ballroom and entertainment venue in London that operated from 1919 until 2007. It hosted The Cure, David Bowie, The Rolling Stones, The Who, U2 and the Sex Pistols.
Download this track from Sweden's Little Dragon, blog.kexp.org, and catch them live at Sasquatch.
Download this track from Detroit's Zoos of Berlin: blog.kexp.org
Live from the Cutting Room Studios in New York! Download their four track EP: ohdaughter.bandcamp.com
Pearl Jam fans check out the new documentary Pearl Jam Twenty directed by Cameron Crowe.
The Hunger Games Soundtrack, produced by T Bone Burnett, features two Arcade Fire tracks including “Abraham’s Daughter.”
Another great soundtrack... this one is produced by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and features this cover of Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song" with Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman Karen O on vocals.
Read a review of the Sleigh Bell's show last month at the Showbox: blog.kexp.org
Rev. Run is one of the founding members of Run–D.M.C. His brother Russell Simmons is the co-founder of Def Jam Records.
Playing live from the Cutting Room Studios on Wednesday April 18th at 9:00am.