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“It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)” is from the Korea-via-Berlin producer’s EP Once.
Seattle based band Tacocat released their new album 'This Mess is a Place' on Sub Pop Records last week on May 3rd.
Check out their interview with KEXP: www.kexp.org
Hatchie performed last year at KEXP. Hear the session on KEXP's archive: www.kexp.org
'A Deeper Understanding' is the fourth studio album by American indie rock band The War on Drugs. It was released on August 25, 2017, through Atlantic Records. The album was mixed by engineer Shawn Everett. The album won Best Rock Album at the 60th Annual Grammy Awards.
The 1998 teen comedy film Can't Hardly Wait is named after The Replacement's single, and the song itself plays over the end credits.
Earlier this year, London based band Crows signed to Balley Records, run by IDLES' Joe Talbot. To coincide with the signing they've also brought news of their long-awaited debut album, and the lead single "Chain of Being".
Join KEXP in the Gathering Space for a live performance from infectiously energetic IDLES, on a world tour in support of their second album Joy As An Act Of Resistance. Wednesday, May 29 at 1:30PM. FREE and All Ages as part of KEXP’s Uptown Concerts series.
The song’s title has a double meaning, as it relates to both passing time on the road and listening with appreciation to the influential jazz trumpeter, Miles Davis.
"Pedestrian at Best" is the lead single from Courtney Barnett's LP 'Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit'.
Down with Wilco is the fifth album by American rock band The Minus 5. Produced by Scott McCaughey and Jeff Tweedy, it is a collaboration between McCaughey and Wilco, recorded at SOMA Studios Chicago in September and December 2001.
Ichiro played for the Mariners for 28 year and retired from the team in March of this year.
Filthy Friends are comprised of Pacific Northwest superstars. They are Corin Tucker, vocals, guitar; Peter Buck, guitar; Kurt Bloch, guitar; Scott McCaughey, bass, vocals and Linda Pitmon, drums
Filthy Friends are performing tonight at Neumos, tomorrow at Rickshaw Theare in Vancouver, B.C., and Saturday, May 11th at Mississippi Studios in Portland, OR.
Filthy Friends are performing material from their 2019 release " Emerald Valley".
Very, Very Powerful Motor is the second studio album by the Fastbacks, released in 1990 on PopLlama Records.
Telekinesis is Michael Benjamin Lerner, an indie rocker based out of Seattle who is currently signed to Merge Records. telekinesis.bandcamp.com
"Cut Your Hair" was written by Pavement songwriter and lead singer Stephen Malkmus. The song snidely attacks the importance of image in the music industry. In one verse, Malkmus sarcastically recites a fictitious ad looking for a musician to join a band: "advertising looks and chops a must/ no big hair".
Black Pumas, an up-and-coming, soul- and hip-hop-influenced duo from Austin that made a splash at last month’s South By Southwest, have announced they will release their self-titled debut full-length album on June 21 via ATO Records.
Backatown is an album released by jazz musician Troy 'Trombone Shorty' Andrews. The album was released in 2010 by Verve Forecast Records and was produced by Galactic's Ben Ellman. It reached number 3 on the Billboard Jazz Albums Chart and was nominated for the 2011 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album.
The Dip performed live at KEXP on The Morning Show with John Richards. Hear the session through the KEXP archive: www.kexp.org
Júníus Meyvant is performing at The THING festival at Port Townsend’s Fort Worden State Park Aug. 24-25.
FKA Twigs returned a couple weeks ago with her first new song in three years, “Cellophane,” and a new album is expected later this year.
Flying Lotus has a gargantuan 27-track album coming out soon called Flamagra, his first full-length since 2014’s You’re Dead! Flying Lotus is performing 08/11 at Seattle's Showbox Sodo
"This Is America" is featured in a scene in Donald Glover's film Guava Island, which premiered at Coachella 2019.
"Games Without Frontiers" is a song written and recorded by the English rock musician Peter Gabriel. It was released on his 1980 self-titled solo album and included backing vocals by Kate Bush. The song's lyrics are interpreted as a commentary on war and international diplomacy being like children's games.
Up-and-coming Aussie songwriter Stella Donnelly is due to drop her debut album, Beware of the Dogs, next month through Secretly Canadian. The 13-track effort sees Donnelly defiantly standing up to racists, creeps, and oppressors to reclaim her freedom.
Ten Fé released their brand new album ‘Future Perfect, Present Tense’ via Some Kinda Love/PIAS on March 8th.
"If I hadn't listened to 'Subterranean Homesick Blues' I could never have written 'Perfect Skin'. I was totally drunk on Dylan at the time I wrote that song and all the imagery is deliberately Dylanesque. I thought, 'why not be blatant?' The only difference is, Dylan would have written a song like 'Perfect Skin' in an hour. It took me a week!"
—Lloyd Cole on his debut single, August 1984
Orville Peck's show at Barboza on 5/18 is sold out, but you can see him perform live at Easy Street on 5/20 at 7pm.
"Sleep Walk" is an instrumental tune written, recorded, and released in 1959 by brothers Santo & Johnny Farina, with their uncle Mike Dee playing the drums.Prominently featuring steel guitar, the song was recorded at Trinity Music in Manhattan, New York City. "Sleep Walk" entered Billboard's Top 40 on August 17, 1959.
Remembering the life and legacy of Nokie Edwards, who was born on this day. Edwards was the guatarist of Tacoma based surf rock band The Ventures. The group wrote the iconic theme music to Hawaii Five-O.
Alex Schaaf, hailing from Minneapolis, MN, released his new record Armistice on April 1st.
alexschaaf.bandcamp.com
In "Seventeen", Van Etten looks at the young dreamers in New York City today as reflections of her own hope and freedom when she was their age.
“Nice Things” is the latest single from the 2017 winners of the NPR Tiny Desk Contest’s sophomore studio album, Green Balloon, which released on May 3 via Verve Forecast.
Happy birthday Ghostface Killah of Wu-Tang Clan! Ghostface Killah is critically acclaimed for his loud, fast-paced flows and his emotional stream-of-consciousness narratives containing cryptic slang and non-sequiturs In 2006, MTV included him on their honorable mention list of The Greatest MCs of All Time.
Operators will be performing at Neumos on 6/9! They visited KEXP in 2014: www.youtube.com
Part one of TR/ST's new album The Destroyer came out on April 19, with part two on the way this November. TR/ST will be performing at KEXP on May 15 at 12pm on The Midday Show with Cheryl Waters. They will also be performing at Neumo later that evening.
Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost – Part 1 by Foals was recently released on 8 March 2019. The album is considered the first half of a two-piece project, being supplemented by their consecutive sixth studio album Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost – Part 2, to be released in the fourth quarter of 2019.
Pixx is the chamelonic project of British artist Hannah Rodgers. She’s gearing up to release her 4AD sophomore full-length Small Mercies on June 7th, which follows up her debut The Age Of Anxiety. She is performing 8/6 at Barboza!
On this day in 1961, producer George Martin agreed to do a recording test with The Beatles. A couple of months before the test, The Beatles were rejected by Decca Records because they were told, "guitar groups are on the way out”.
Fontaines DC will be performing live on KEXP on 5/28 at 3pm on The Afternoon Show. www.kexp.org
"Someday" is a song by the indie rock band the Strokes, and the third single from Is This It. It peaked at number 17 on the U.S. Alternative Songs chart and at number 27 on the U.K. Singles Chart.
KEXP presents Queen Zee performing "Boy" live at Studio 9294 in Hackney Wick, London, during KEXP's International Clash Day broadcast. Recorded February 7, 2019. Check out the performance here: www.youtube.com
Of Monsters and Men will performing at Iceland Airwaves 2019!
“I saw rock & roll future, and its name is Bruce Springsteen.” Journalist Jon Landau, spoke these famous words after seeing Spingsteen open for Bonnie Raitt on this day in 1974. Landau later became Springsteen’s manager & co-produced Born To Run.
The Lumineers will release their new album, III, September 13 via Dualtone/Decca. The band has dropped “Gloria,” the first single off the album, which singer Wesley Schultz says “is about love between an addict and her family.”
Mavis Staples has announced a new album titled We Get By. The record, written and produced by Ben Harper, is out May 10 via Anti.
Watch Black Belt Eagle Scout's live performance on KEXP here: www.youtube.com