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Tuesday, Jun 18 2019, 2PM
Car Wheels on a Gravel Road was Lucinda Williams' first record to go gold!
Hang Time was the major label debut for Minneapolis rockers Soul Asylum!
Anderson .Paak will play WaMu Theater this Thursday!
Want to add a spooky edge to your day? Check out John Grant's top horror film soundtracks, compiled exclusively for KEXP: www.kexp.org
Sacred Paws is a Scottish rock band comprised of Rachel Aggs and Eilidh Rodgers, who met as members of the band Golden Grrrls. Run Around the Sun is their sophomore effort.
Keep your eyes peeled for videos of Fontaines D.C.'s recent in-studio session on the KEXP YouTube channel!
Bagdad Brothers are playing Vera Project tonight!
Local Natives are back with their fourth album and aren't afraid to dig into the fears and anxieties of the modern age.
Check out Los Campesinos! performing live on KEXP: www.youtube.com
Benjamin John Power will release his latest album under the Blanck Mass moniker, Animated Violence Mild, on August 16th! He's released three solo albums, and is one half of the electronic noise duo F*ck Buttons.
The Comet is Coming will play Barboza on Thursday night!
Check out videos from Johnny Marr's performance at KEXP last year: www.youtube.com
According to the album sleeve, the song was dedicated to women such as (painter and sculptor) Amedeo Modigliani's mistress, Jeanne Hébuterne.
Brooklyn power pop outfit Charly Bliss released their sophomore album, Young Enough, this May
Paul McCartney called into the Afternoon Show to chat with me while he was on his way to play a sold out show at Safeco Field on June 19, 2013!
Frightened Rabbit announced yesterday that they’ll release a reimagining of their 2008 album this year, called Tiny Changes: A Celebration of the Midnight Organ Fight. It was recorded by friends of the band, in honor of their 10th anniversary.
Along with Aaron Dessner, Lauren Mayberry, Sarah Silverman, and others, Julien Baker is one of the collaborators on Tiny Changes: A Celebration of the Midnight Organ Fight.
This track is named after one of the members of the group, rapper Scorpio (Eddie Morris aka Mr. Ness).
The band describes as a “satirical look at disregarding the apocalyptic aspects of humanity and focusing on the now.” The band continues, “It’s a bit more tongue-in-cheek than some of the other tracks on the record. We’re all humans in the end — you often need to turn yourself off from the news and enjoy the moment.”
A clip from a phone interview Kevin did with Paul McCartney while Paul was driving to Safeco Field to play a sold out show on June 19, 2013!
According to Alyse Vellturo, the mastermind behind pronoun, “‘temporary tantrum’ was written about that moment in the relationship when you realize you’ve been played. “Although in that moment it’s heart breaking and you feel like the biggest idiot, you know that eventually you will come out on the other end and use that experience to grow.”
Remembering The Big Man, saxophonist Clarence Clemons, on the anniversary of his passing. Beyond the E Street Band, Clemons released several solo albums and in 1985, had a hit single with "You're a Friend of Mine," a duet with Jackson Browne.
Check out JOHN performing as part of KEXP's International Clash Day broadcast from London this February: www.youtube.com
Baltimore-based band Lower Dens will release their first new music in four years, an LP called The Competition, which is a pop album built around the ravages of capitalism.
Bowie would call the sound of Young Americans as "plastic soul," describing it as "the squashed remains of ethnic music as it survives in the age of Muzak rock, written and sung by a white limey."
Watch Young Fathers perform live on KEXP from Avast! Studios last year: www.youtube.com
Paul McCartney was actually the person to recommend that The Jimi Hendrix Experience play the Monterey Pop Festival, on this day in 1967!
An epic live cover of Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone," recorded in San Francisco in 1968!
In 2013, Paul McCartney teamed up with Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic in a collaboration that would be dubbed "Sirvana."
Paul McCartney was turned on to Nirvana by his son, who was a massive fan!
Frankie Cosmos will release their latest album, Close It Quietly, on September 6th. The first single is “Windows,” Greta Klein says, “this song takes place during the waiting period of healing, not knowing how to proceed or how to find the path to forgiveness. The inner versus the outer- learning to see yourself as part of the whole. For me the lyrics cover some of the slow movements of relationships, the shifts that occur in ways of thinking over time.”
Sleater-Kinney have announced the release date of their new St. Vincent-produced album, The Center Won’t Hold: due out August 16th via Mom+Pop Records.
Regina Spektor left her home in the USSR as a refugee at the age of 9. Stay tuned for a World Refugee Day show on Wo'Pop, and tune in this Thursday as we celebrate the contributions of refugee artists all day long on KEXP!
