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Thursday, Jul 25 2013, 1AM
BLOCK PARTY! - Playing this Sunday, July 28th at 2:30 pm opening up the Main Stage

wack as heck deep house from Olympia, WA braxtonpalmer.bandcamp.com
Sydney, AUS band makin' waves all around the world (#64 in UK & #72 in Australia)
Playing tomorrow, Friday, July 26th at the Main Stage (of Capitol Hill Block Party) at 9:15 pm!
Pulp had been playing for over a decade before they gained popularity with 1995's 'Different Class'; 'It' is their very first record
New music from San Francisco; exasperated vocals remindin' me of Christopher Owens
Playing Sunday, July 28th as a part of Capitol Hill Block Party// Red Bull Sound Select at 10:00 pm at Neumos! Get there early if you want to get in!
Early solo composition from the Yellow Magic Orchestra keyboardist and Japanese experimental composer: this is the title track from the soundtrack for the film starring Sakamoto and David Bowie
The fourth studio album (and the first since 1996) from the Santa Monica band was recorded sporadically over sixteen years in California and Norway

the Seattle band offers you FREE MUSIC thesebastiansofbremen.bandcamp.com
If you haven't watched the Pitchfork documentary on Belle & Sebastian, I highly recommend it youtu.be (also, this song is #17 on that music site's list of best songs of the 1990's)
BLOCK PARTY STUFF: playing Sunday, July 28th at Neumos at 4:15 PM!
Italian electronic musician Giuseppe Banfi released three albums from 1978-1981 outside of his work with prog rock band Biglietto per l'Inferno
Playing Monday, September 23rd at Boarboza with Prism Tats and Neighbors!
#rare live recording by KEXP of the North Carolina 1990's band that drew fans of indie and hardcore kexp.org

these bass noises invented the word "grime:" if you don't believe me check the OED
Parisian IDM artist Jackson Fourgeaud released his debut album Smash with Warp Records in 2005; 'Glow' is his late follow-up
"I'm dying."
- "Is it blissful?"
"It's like a dream."
- "I want to dream."
Playing Saturday, July 27th at Capitol Hill Block Party Vera Stage at 2 PM! Check out the live session at KEXP kexp.org
New single from Bolo Nef (of the Blue Sky Black Death affiliated Skull & Bones, produced by ILLFIGHTYOU's Khris P) - soundcloud.com
Screeching sounds from Britain's Matthew Barnes; his first official LP will be out in August
"I can lose myself in Chinese art and American girls"
If you're feeling mentally well at this hour, you gotta check it out the interactive video accompaniment which dropped earlier this week, it's 'very' dark: www.kanyewest.com
Playing TOMORROW (Friday, July 27th) at BLOCK PARTY Vera Stage at 7 pm!
Former guitarist for New Jersey band Titus Andronicus
It's gonna be the fourth album from Austin native Black Joe Lewis, who first picked up the guitar while working in a pawn shop
Playing Wednesday, Oct. 9th at Showbox at the Market with T. Williams!
uptempo (but still moody) shoegaze from Auckland, NZ
former freight train hopper Michael Collins made understandably trippy music as Run DMT and now Salvia Plath
From one of the greatest soul singers of all time; born the sixth of ten children to a family of sharecroppers in Arkansas
Keith Rankin (of Giant Claw) and Seth Graham make music you could imagine hearing in the club scene of a future-cop movie. Yeehaw

Playing Saturday, July 27th as a part of Capitol Hill Block Party at the Vera Stage at 8:30
Elizabeth Fraser is actually saying words - English words - on this track, although it's anyone's guess what a "sugar hiccup" is exactly (probably something amazing and really pretty)
Playing this Sunday, July 28th as a part of Capitol Hill Block Party at 6:20 PM at the Vera Stage! Don't miss it !
Christelle Gualdi makes music that sounds like someone dared him to cover Oneohtrix Point Never using only synth pads and trap hi-hat - i.e., really freaking good
Playing the "Bloc Party" - this Sunday with Charms, Lindseys and Gang Cult at Vostok Dumpling House (above QFC)
the Philadelphia band take an aggressive turn for their latest release, channeling more punk and less psychedelic pop
Playing this Saturday night at Heartland with The Iguana, Meth Dad, Yer Heart and Charlie Daugherty!
Playing Friday, July 26th (Tomorrow!) at CHBP, closing out the Vera stage at 12:45 AM!
the Chapel Hill, NC band's 10th album will be released this August. Jackie Mittoo was a Jamaican keyboardist, in case you were wondering
Playing Saturday, July 27th as a part of CHBP at the Vera Stage at 3:00 PM! Their new album will be out on the brand new Help Yourself Records - look out for other releases from Ubu Roi and Wimps on that label
Playing tomorrow, Friday, July 26th at Capitol Hill Block Party's Vera Stage at 5:45 PM!