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Friday, May 17 2013, 1PM
You can watch live video from the Cave Singers' March 8th, 2013 KEXP in-studio performance, which includes them playing the song "Northern Lights", on our Blog: blog.kexp.org
You can check out Caribou's 2010 KEXP in-studio performance on the KEXP Website here: kexp.org
Red Bull Music Academy recently did a documentary on James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem's DFA Records called "Too Old To Be New, Too New To Be Classice". The short documentary is available here: www.redbullmusicacademy.com
Sasquatch is just around the corner (next Friday) and as a primer, check out photos from last year's Sasquatch! on the KEXP Blog. It includes photos of Beck, Silversun Pickups, and more. blog.kexp.org
Because the interwebs have a "how-to" on just about everything, here's "How To Be Twee", bit.ly - Quick guide: listen to Tullycraft, wear polka dots, cardigans, scarves and "kid jewelery."
Watch Dee Dee Penny in Dum Dum Girls' music video for Bedroom Eyes: bit.ly
Get wrapped up in the rhythms of The Little Ones on their Bandcamp page. The Little Ones: Making something out of nothing and "delivering amnesia" to listeners since 2006. bit.ly
Did anyone get the limited edition 45rpm vinyl edition of the Flaming Lips' Zaireeka? Four vinyl records, designed for simultaneous playback. You've really got to be quite the vinyl junkie to have a four record player listening station. For the rest of us, there's Block Party: bit.ly
Daniel Moon King on the origin of this song: "I was in Vienna on the last night of a tour and after the show decided to wander around the city for a while. This turned into an all-nighter type thing, of course (aka I got lost), and I ended up spending a few hours in this train station around dawn, just singing to myself. So all the melodies were originally recorded in this echoey Austrian train station..." Read more on Fader: bit.ly
Montreal duo, Majical Cloudz recently put up another track from Impersonator on their Tumblr, check out "Bugs don't Buzz" here: bit.ly
West London jazzy trip-hop duo Jake Wherry and Ollie Teeba make up The Herbaliser. Same As They Never Was since the early 90's. Official website: bit.ly
The Sugarman Three are saxophonist Neal Sugarman, organist Adam Scone and drummer Rudy Albin. Sugarman is also a member of the Dap-Kings and the combo have recorded a few sides with Lee Fields. Sugarman Three are what the world needs now. Pure retro funk. Pure awesome.
Dip in to Daptone records, saving soul one groove at a time: bit.ly
Can you spot PJ Harvey in The Family Cat's music video for Colour Me Grey? bit.ly
Don Yates' mini review: "Bleached is the LA-based sister duo of Jennifer and Jessica Clavin (both formerly with the LA punk band Mika Miko). Their debut album is a promising blend of buzzing Ramones/early Blondie punk-pop and sunny ‘60s girl group melodies."
Playing the Columbia City Theater tomorrow night (5/18) with Baltic Cousins and Nu Klezmer Army!
Need more Besnard Lakes? Check out their instagram here: bit.ly
Stream the whole new album over at Paste Music here: bit.ly
As a teen, Shuggie would put on sun glasses and a disguise to look of-age enough to play bars and clubs with his father, famous bandleader Johnny Otis.
The Tempts! Listener request. See The Temptations and other Motown artist over at Pinterest: bit.ly
Watch JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound perform live on KEXP from the Bumbershoot Music Lounge last year: bit.ly
Phrenology had its heyday from 1810 until 1840, brains were apparently much simpler things back then. The Roots have been having their heyday from the late 1980's through the aughts and will undoubtedly continue it well into the twenty teens.
Playing Sasquatch! Stream KEXP's live Tame Impala performance here: bit.ly
Stay up to date with The Polyphonic Spree news here: bit.ly. New album drops August 13th of this year.
Playing Bumbershoot this year! Deerhunter's Bradford Cox is also the creative force behind Atlas Sound. Check out some live KEXP footage of Cox at CMJ: bit.ly
Stream a live version of this song, recorded at KEXP: bit.ly
"...Don Draper himself couldn’t draw up a marketing plan that take could take a band from 600-capacity clubs to headlining Coachella in just under four years. But songs like “Lisztomania”, “Lasso”, and “Consolation Prizes” can, so it shouldn’t be a surprise that Bankrupt! is chock full of sugar rush instrumentation and sharp dynamics..." Read KEXP's full album review of Bankrupt! here: bit.ly
Check out a recently published music video for another song of the new album, "Dancing Shell": bit.ly
Four days ago a different Still Corners song was KEXP's Song of the Day: bit.ly. Playing Portland’s Wonder Ballroom on May 28th.
ex Czars' frontman's second solo outing, featuring Biggi Veira of GusGus. Playing Thursday, June 20th at Barboza. Tune in at 1:00pm the same day to hear live on KEXP!
Playing Sunday, May 19th at The Tractor Tavern and Friday, May 31st at The Sunset Tavern. Stream KEXP's live Massy Ferguson performance here: bit.ly
John Doe and Exene Cervenka of the legendary roots-music-loving Los Angeles punk group X stopped by KEXP for a killer acoustic live performance available for your streaming pleasures here: bit.ly
Steve Wynn and The Miracle 3's live KEXP set from Mellow Johnny's at SXSW 2011: bit.ly
The National recorded a KEXP in studio just last week, stream the whole thing here: bit.ly
Antenna to the Afterworld, the new album from Sonny will be out June 11th on Polyvinyl Records.
Let the stripes unfurl, gettin' rich singin' "Poor boy, poor boy."
Smith on album reviews: "y'know they'll review your record in two sentences and put you in this little stupid box that you don't want to be in." We used stickers mostly - KEXP's Elliott Smith Review Revue: bit.ly
The B-side to this single was The Sundays cover of The Rolling Stones' Wild Horses. Watch the music video for that track here: bit.ly
Watch Mould perform selections from his new solo album, Silver Age + Hüsker Dü, Sugar and solo classics at Bumbershoot this September!
Get another track from Desperate Ground FREE as a KEXP Song of the Day download here: bit.ly
Don't follow this link, unless you'd like to see The New York Dolls as cats: bit.ly
Named after Lucious Brown "Luke" Jackson, power forward for the Philadelphia 76ers from 1964–1972: bit.ly
Playing Thursday, May 30th at The Triple Door. Thanks for listening to the Afternoon Show! Welcome to the Official Start of the Weekend. Now get shakin', babies.