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Friday, Mar 25 2016, 6AM
He was born Stephen Demetre Georgiou, achieved fame as Cat Stevens, and became Yusuf Islam. Read a biography of this talented and intriguing musician: www.biography.com
Watch live video of Rodriguez' concert for KEXP VIP Club members at Seattle's Triple Door in 2009: blog.kexp.org
Sigur Ros will be touring in Europe this summer and promise that they will be releasing new music: consequenceofsound.net
Read a positive Pitchfork review of Swedish psych band The Amazing's 2015 release, "Picture You": pitchfork.com
Scottish band and KEXP favorite Frightened Rabbit will be LIVE on KEXP on Tuesday, April 19th, 2016, at noon. Get their song, "Get Out," a recent KEXP Song of the Day: blog.kexp.org
Be sure and listen to a live session by RNDM on Friday, April 1st, 2016, at noon. Joseph Arthur will be back in Seattle at the Triple Door on Thursday, May 19th, 2016.
Ian Brown of The Stone Roses has confirmed that the band is recording "glorious" new music in a very(!) long-awaited follow-up to 1994's "Second Coming": www.nme.com
Wussy will indubitably play this song when they perform at Seattle's El Corazon on Saturday, June 18th, 2016. Read a glowing review of the just-released "Forever Sounds": www.spin.com
You can purchase Seattle band Timbre Barons' "False Idols EP" at their Bandcamp page: timbrebarons.bandcamp.com
Anderson .Paak is the "new 'it' guy of the place where R & B and hip-hop overlap." Watch his entire powerful performance at SXSW this year: www.npr.org
Happy birthday to the Queen of Soul. She was the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: rockhall.com
Watch live video of an acoustic in-studio performance by Grant Lee Phillips in 2010: blog.kexp.org
"Grab a cold can of beer and fire up the lawnmower..." Here's Craig Finn and The Hold Steady in the KEXP studio in 2014: blog.kexp.org
Follow this London band who have just released their"astonishingly excellent" debut album, "Either That or the Moon": www.facebook.com
Read this New Yorker article about the bandmates who formed, broke up, and reunited: www.newyorker.com
"Everythin' out here is broken, or blemished and battered, and tattered, but mine...." Here are the lyrics: genius.com
Malik Taylor, Phife Dawg of A Tribe Called Quest, died this week at the age of 45 of complications of diabetes: www.nytimes.com
Merge Records is excited to have A Giant Dog as one of their artists: www.mergerecords.com
"From Caplan to Belsize" is "10 tracks of melancholic indie punk....": munciegirls.bandcamp.com
Here's the official video for Ned's Atomic Dustbin's "Gray Cell Green": vimeo.com
Read about "the guys in the New York Dolls," featuring David Johansen, Johnny Thunder, Sylvain Sylvain, Arthur Kane, and Billy Doll: www.theguardian.com
Yesterday, The NY Times ran an article on "the legacy of A Tribe Called Quest": www.nytimes.com
Listen to a pre-recorded live session by Portland band Radiation City tomorrow afternoon, Saturday, March 26th, 2016, at 4:00 p.m.
"Hey, yo..." Here's a review of Doomtree's "All Hands": hiphopdx.com
The Atlantic just published an article on David Bowie as one of rock's most potent lyricists: www.theatlantic.com
Hey Marseilles will grace KEXP's Grand Opening Celebration for our New Home on Saturday, April 16th, 2016, from noon until 9:00 p.m. Read all about it and make plans to attend: blog.kexp.org
Swoon to this live performance by DeVotchKa in the KEXP studio last year: blog.kexp.org
There's llots of whisstling on this first single from PB & J's new album:consequenceofsound.net
The Lumineers are performing at an exclusive concert to benefit KEXP's New Home at the Columbia City Theater on Friday, April 1st, 2016. Read more about it and buy tickets here: blog.kexp.org
Jeff Magnum has said that this song was inspired by the diary of Anne Frank. Read the lyrics here: genius.com
It's "one basement show at a time." Read about Sheer Mag's American invasion: noisey.vice.com
Ultimate Guitar featured a rather complete history of The Jam: www.ultimate-guitar.com
Go hear this terrific band when they play Neumos on Thursday, May 12th, 2016.
Thee Oh Sees will rock the Pickathon Festival in Happy Valley, Oregon, Friday, August 5th through Sunday, August 7th, 2016.
"The music never stops; neither does the energy..." Read this Allmusic review of The Descendents' 1982 release, "Milo Goes to College": www.allmusic.com
Seattle band CRATER will be performing at Barboza on Friday, April 15th, 2016.
Download the free "Night Rally" mixtape at the Twin Shadow website: www.twinshadow.net
Watch The Edge "geek out" about his first-ever signature custom guitars: www.rollingstone.com
Pere Ubu says, "We don't promote chaos. We preserve it.": www.ubuprojex.com
Ahhh....the Friday song. "Hey, yo......" Don't miss KEXP's Grand Opening on Saturday, April 16th, 2016, from noon until 9:00 p.m.: blog.kexp.org
Here's a brief history of New Order: www.worldinmotion.net
Watch the video for "Dance-Off": www.youtube.com
Acquire "In the Grace of Your Love," a KEXP Song of the Day by The Rapture: blog.kexp.org
Go inside "the debauched recording session that hastened the end of The Replacements": theweek.com
The So So Glos "take no prisoners in the punk anthem, "'Missionary'": www.facebook.com
Keep listening (and watching). Shearwater will be LIVE today!!, Friday, March 25th, 2016, at noon on KEXP. You can see that performance as we stream it in real time.
"Today is her birthday; they're sucking cigars..." Read the slightly disturbing lyrics to "Birthday": www.metrolyrics.com
Ladytron's song, "White Elephant," was a KEXP Song of the Day and can be yours for free. Download it here: blog.kexp.org
Lucius will be playing Seattle's Neptune Theatre on Wednesday, May 11th, 2016.
Read this review of School of Seven Bells' "SVIIB," an album that was colored by Benjamin Curtis' death from leukemia in 2013: www.npr.org
"Master of Puppets" is the first heavy metal album added to the Library of Congress registry of seminal works: metallica.com
Gazebos are currently finishing up a tour across the US, including an April 1st date in Portland at Mississippi Studios. The local group put out their debut album, Die Alone, back in mid-February on Hardly Art. Guitarist TV Coahran has also been collaborating with lo-fi legend R. Stevie Moore for the past couple years.