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Thursday, Dec 13 2012, 1AM
Debut album from NYC duo No Regular Play (well, they're receiving some play right now, so...)
The Babies were live at KEXP on December 1st; you might have caught them at Barboza the night before
"Memory" was song of the day here on KEXP back in September blog.kexp.org
Local Natives play the Neptune on April 26th, Hummingbird will be released next year
San Franciscan native; there are some sweet remixes on his SoundCloud soundcloud.com
Julia Holter opened for Sigur Ros when they played the Paramount this summer, read about that concert here: blog.kexp.org
Interesting article about Sub Pop's ties to New Zealand focusing on The Ruby Suns' signing www.seattlemet.com
Synth work courtesy of Daniel Lopatin (Oneohtrix Point Never)! New one from Ducktails - Matt Mondanile of Real Estate - out soon
Cass McCombs opened for John Cale at Showbox at the Market last week; read about that show here: blog.kexp.org
Memory Tapes was last in town July 19, 2011; hopefully you caught them because Dayve Hawk (a.k.a. Memory Tapes) doesn't much like flying and rarely tours
Rhye combines "synths, piano, lush strings, stylish horns, electronic beats, soft, sultry vocals and sophisticated melodies," in the words of resident music director Don Yates
One-half of Suicide, his website is pretty 90's-looking www.martinrev.com
Tamaryn played live at KEXP in May of 2011, you can stream that performance here: kexp.org
Marumari is Josh Presseisen out of Providence, RI www.youtube.com
The Lijadu sisters are actually twins, hear "Orere Elejigbo" here www.youtube.com
Sheffield, UK-based producer, out now on the fun 'n' funky Unknown to the Unknown label
Ace new reissue from the always reliable Numero label, this one focuses on Nicaraguan jazz / funk / soul trailblazer Alfonso Lovo; this LP originally came out in 1976, five years after he was shot several times during a skyjacking (!) by Sandinista rebels
El Perro del Mar, literally "The Dog of the Sea" in Spanish, is Sarah Assbring out of Gothenburg, Sweden
"Beck Hansen's Song Reader" is out as of yesterday, if you want sheet music of unrecorded and unreleased Beck songs
Here's Seattle producer DJAO's chopped and screwed take on "Vertical" - soundcloud.com
The German sound artist played with Seattle native Rafael Anton Irisarri (a.k.a The Sight Below) and KEXP was there to capture it www.kexp.org
Hammock's prodigious output is consistently cinematic, they've released five albums since their first in 2005
Chromatics had a song of the day with "These Streets Will Never Look The Same" earlier this year blog.kexp.org
Check out their label's tumblr for plenty of great links theoldblackberryway.tumblr.com
Second release from founding member of synthy New Age act Emeralds www.youtube.com
Out of Washington, D.C. Clever spoonerism of an EP available for streaming at their bandcamp: teenmomdc.com
By request! Playing on vinyl, ALTHOUGH the two women on the LP sleeve are conspicuously absent on our copy here at KEXP...
90's shoegazers that got their name from the spinning fireworks, which in turn got their name from a medieval torture device...
All his stuff is available for pay-what-you-want via his bandcamp chromesparks.bandcamp.com
A lot more remixes up on his soundcloud soundcloud.com
Monday, January 14th at the Triple Door with Chelsea Wolfe
Nick Cave's "Grinderman" project had a song of the day back in 2010; the slightly-NSFW video for that song features vikings dancing in space blog.kexp.org
Wednesday, December 19th at Barboza with Vox Mod and Group Rhoda
Playing Friday, February 22nd at the Crocodile with Kishi Bashi
Blank Dogs a.k.a. Mike Sniper runs the Captured Tracks label in NYC