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New Zealand Indie outfit Tiny Ruins dropped their third album "Olympic Girls" back February, and are currently on a World Tour.
The National will be playing at Marymoor Park on August 29th!
The National's new album "I Am Easy to Find" drops May 17th! This track features guest vocals from Gail Ann Dorsey
This was members Michael Rother and Klaus Dinger's first recording together after they left Kraftwerk in 1971. They continued to work with Konrad "Conny" Plank, who had been producing the Kraftwerk recording sessions. Having broken off from Kraftwerk, Rother and Dinger quickly began the recording sessions for what would become Neu!. The band was named by Dinger, and a pop-art style logo was created, featuring italic capitals.
"No Geography" is the ninth album from English electro duo The Chemical Brothers, and their first album in four years! No Geography was released on April 12th to critical acclaim
Seattle's own New Age Healers is the brainchild of Owen Murphy, with pals Scott Matthews (The Wannabes / The Piniellas) on drum / vocal bots, Adam Vernick (Lemuria / Devotion) on guitar based technology, and Allen Murray (Modern Athletics) on the bass propulsion system. newagehealers.bandcamp.com
Catch them at Lo-Fi Tomorrow night!
Catch them at Lo-Fi Tomorrow night!
Strand of Oaks will be stopping by KEXP tomorrow at 1PM, Free and Open to the Public! Then tomorrow night you can catch them at Neumos!
Hollywood Town Hall is the third album from alt-country rockers The Jayhawks. The cover art for the album was shot in Hollywood Township, Carver County, Minnesota by British photographer Andrew Caitlin
Happy Birthday Maggie Rogers! (b. April 25th,1994) Rogers rose to famw with this track 'Alaska' in 2016. She wrote this song in about 15 minutes abouta National Leadership School course for a masterclass with Pharrell Williams.
Maggie will be playing at The WaMu Theater on September 14th!
Maggie will be playing at The WaMu Theater on September 14th!
Stella Donnelly is a Welsh-Australian singer who just released her debut album through the label Secretly Canadian. She's currently touring The U.S. in support of the album
Allo Darlin' called it quits back in 2016 but luckily they had already recorded this awesome session right here at KEXP, check it out here: www.youtube.com
Berlin based Lea Porcelain is comprised of producer Julien Bracht and vocalist Markus Nikolaus. Their debut album "Hymns to the Night" is out now!
Canadian shoegaze cowboy Orville Peck dropped his debut album "Pony" through Sub Pop. He'll be playing at Barboza on May 18th, he'll also be playing at KEXP on the 20th!
As its title indicates, "69 Love Songs" is a three-volume concept album composed of 69 love songs, all written by Magnetic Fields frontman Stephin Merritt.
Tank and the Bangas will be part of the the THING music Festival in Port Townsend August 24-25th. Their sophomore album "Green Balloon" will be released May 3rd!
Parisalexa will be part of the Everett Fisherman's Festival May 16th-18th in Everett WA!
Four Tet, AKA Kieran Hebden is an English musician. Hebden first came to prominence as a member of the band Fridge before establishing himself as a solo artist.
Hebden has remixed tracks by artists including Aphex Twin, Bicep, Explosions in the Sky, Super Furry Animals, Radiohead, Ellie Goulding, Lana Del Rey, Manic Street Preachers, Sia, Black Sabbath and Madvillain, and has produced two albums by psychedelic improvisational group Sunburned Hand of the Man. Hebden's recent output includes a number of improvisational works with jazz drummer Steve Reid and collaborations with Burial and Thom Yorke.
FKA Tigs is back after having underwent surgery to remove fibroid tumors from her uterus in December 2017. She described her experience as "living with a fruit bowl of pain every day" and saluted the bravery of other women living with the condition , she dropped this new single 'Cellophane' yesterday. Her fist release since 2016's 'Good to Love'
Jonsi & Alex Somers of Sigur Ros will be playing at The Parmount Theater on October 11th! Tune in today for a chance to win a pair of tickets!
After the stress of promoting Radiohead's acclaimed 1997 album OK Computer, songwriter Thom Yorke envisioned a radical change in direction. The band replaced their guitar rock sound with synthesisers, drum machines, the ondes Martenot, string orchestras and brass instruments, drawing influence from electronic music, krautrock, jazz, and 20th-century classical music. They recorded Kid A with OK Computer producer Nigel Godrich in Paris, Copenhagen, Gloucestershire and their hometown Oxford, England. The sessions produced over 20 tracks, and Radiohead split the work into two albums: Kid A, and Amnesiac, released the following year.
Beck's new single 'Saw Lighting' just dropped last week, the track was co-written by Pharrell Williams. The track came along with the announcement of Beck's new album "Hyperspace"
"XO" was Elliott Smith's fourth album and was his first solo record on a major label. The album was released through DreamWorks in 1998
Ten Fé dropped their sophomore album "Future Perfect, Present Tense" back in March and played a killer show at Barboza on April 15th!
'Little Trouble' was previously only available as a 7" to be purchased on the Better Oblivion Community Center's Tour. Now that the tour is wrapped this non-album track is now available everywhere!
Lucy Dacus revelaed this year that she's planning on releaseing a string of Holiday inspired songs starting with a cover of 'La Vie en Rose' back in February. 'My Mother and I' is dedicated to her Mother for Mother's Day. Additional tunes are expected in celebration of Independence Day, Bruce Springsteen’s Birthday, Halloween, Christmas and New Year’s.
Featuring Kim Deal on lead vocals, the song is one of Pixies' biggest hits and a crowd favorite at concerts, often played as the encore. The melody line comes from Deal's simple but effective bass playing—the same bassline is repeated throughout the song.
"Gigantic" never achieved a ranking on any major charts and was their only release from Surfer Rosa. However, it was a fairly successful first hit for Pixies and maintains radio play to this day. The single version of the song appeared on Pixies' 2004 best-of compilation, "Wave of Mutilation: Best of Pixies".
The Mountain Goats' seventeenth album "In League with Dragons" will drop tomorrow! Inspired by tabletop role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons, the album has been described as a "partial rock opera" with influences from noir literature.
Catch The Mountain Goats at The Showbox on September 4th!
Catch The Mountain Goats at The Showbox on September 4th!
"For the Throne: Music Inspired by the HBO Series Game of Thrones" is a collaborative album featuring the likes of Marren Morris, Ellie Goulding, THe Lumineers, Mumford & Sons and many more. The album drops tomorrow!
OLIGARKH is a Russian trio based out of St. Petersburg. Listen to more from these guys here: oligarkhofficial.bandcamp.com
Lizzo will be playing at Showbox SoDo this Sunday, April 28th then again on July 20th as part of Capitol Hill Block Party!
"Parade" was the fourth and final album to feature The Revolution as Prince's backing band. It also was the soundtrack album to the 1986 film Under the Cherry Moon, directed by and starring Prince. It was released on March 31, 1986 by Paisley Park Records and Warner Bros. Records
Jónsi is an Icelandic musician, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist for the Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós. He is known for his use of a cello bow on guitar and his falsetto or countertenor voice. He is blind in his right eye from birth as a result of a broken optic nerve from the brain. He is openly gay. Apart from Sigur Rós, Jónsi also performs together with his partner Alex Somers as an art collaboration called Jónsi & Alex
American synthpop duo Holy Ghost!'s third album "Work" is set to drop June 21st!
Claude Fontaine's debut self-titled album is set to drop tomorrow!
"To the 5 Boroughs" was the fourth album released by the Beastie Boys The album debuted #1 on the Billboard 200 with 360,000 copies sold in its first week and is certified Platinum by the RIAA for sales of over 1,000,000 in the U.S.
Like many garage rock bands, lead singer Sky Saxon's vocal style was influenced by the vocals of Rolling Stones front man Mick Jagger, but have also received comparisons to the vocals of rockabilly acts such as Buddy Holly and Eddie Cochran.
"No More Heroes" was produced by Martin Rushent. The album consists of new material with three songs left over from the Rattus Norvegicus (their debut album) sessions.
The album cover features a photo of a wreath placed on a coffin with the tails of several rats (the Stranglers' trademark). The brass plaque on the album cover was engraved by Steven Stapleton of Nurse with Wound.
With half the band having left their native Texas for New York, "Readjusting the Locks" is the first Institute album written across the country. Despite the distance it sounds every bit as cohesive as if they were all still hanging out every night in the same Austin dives. The newly NYC-based Moses Brown and Arak Avakian flew to Houston in October 2018, where they joined Barry Elkanick and Adam Cahoon to demo the entirety of the new album in a single day. In December, the band got back together in Brooklyn to record with their longtime producer Ben Greenberg (Uniform).
"Readjusting the Locks" drops May 17th through Sacred Bones
"Readjusting the Locks" drops May 17th through Sacred Bones
"Ventura" is the fourth album from Anderson .Paak It features guest appearances from André 3000, Smokey Robinson, Lalah Hathaway, Jazmine Sullivan, Sonyae Elise, and Brandy, along with posthumous vocals from Nate Dogg.
Catch Anderson .Paak and the Free Nationals at WaMu Theater on June 20th!
Catch Anderson .Paak and the Free Nationals at WaMu Theater on June 20th!
A Tribe Called Quest formed in Queens, New York in 1985. After establishing a friendship with hip-hop act Jungle Brothers, both groups formed a collective dubbed Native Tongues, which also included De La Soul.
Several years prior to recording "People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm", group member Q-Tip created much of the album's production on pause tapes when he was in the 10th grade. He would have his first studio experience while recording with Jungle Brothers on their debut album "Straight out the Jungle" in 1988. Although this was a learning experience, he acquired more recording and producing knowledge being present at all of De La Soul's "3 Feet High and Rising" sessions. Recording engineer Shane Faber taught Q-Tip how to use equipment such as the E-mu SP-1200 and Akai S950 samplers, and soon-after, renowned producer Large Professor taught him how to use other equipment, for which he would expand upon on "People’s Instinctive Travels..."
This eponymous sophomore album by Citizen Cope is his only album for DreamWorks Records. The record boasts a lengthy cast of session musicians. most of whom are veterans and produced by Bob Power.
The first single from the album "Contact" featured bass playing from Me'Shell Ndegeocello. Most of the bass on the album was played by Preston Crump, a session musician who was previously known for playing on songs produced by the production team Organized Noize.
IDLES will be playing a SOLD OUT show on May 28th at Neumos along with Fontaines D.C. then the next day on the 29th they'll be here in the KEXP Gathering Space!
Fontaines D.C. will be joining IDLES on that destined to be killer show at Neumos on the 28th, they will also be at KEXP that afternoon at 3 pm!
The subject of the song, Janie Jones, was a famous madam in London during the 1970s and had been a pop singer during the 1960s. Martin Scorsese, a fan of The Clash, said that he considers "Janie Jones" to be the greatest British rock and roll song. He used the song in the film "Bringing Out the Dead".
UK Post-Punk outfit Crows dropped their debut album "Silver Tongues" through Joe Talbot (of IDLES)'s Label Balley Records
All the lyrics for the album were originally intended to be in English, but in the end the band decided that Icelandic felt more natural to them. Some lyrics were translated back into Icelandic, while some songs got completely new texts. It is the band's first album to feature a track sung in English ("All Alright"). The first track on the album, "Gobbledigook", premiered on Zane Lowe's BBC Radio 1 music show in the UK on May 27, 2008. "Festival" was premiered on Colin Murray's Radio 1 show on June 3, 2008. "Inní mér syngur vitleysingur" was used as the theme tune for Colin Murray's Gold Run, which aired on BBC Radio 5 Live during the run-up to the 2012 Summer Olympics.
In general, the music continues Sigur Rós' departure from their generally ethereal and minimalist music, being (as the title and cover suggest) more playful and fanciful than their early work, featuring more traditional guitar melodies, acoustic instrumentation, and folk-oriented compositions following in the vein of their later albums
The song is based upon an electronic drum beat by Stephen Morris, accompanied by a high-pitched keyboard line by Bernard Sumner. Midway through the song, a rushing drum and hi-hat motif come in, propelling the song toward its dramatic end.
Icelandic singer Junius Meyvant will be part of the Thing Music Festival in Port Townsend, August 24th- 25th!
On this day in 2006 Feist released her album "Open Season" The album contains alternate versions and remixes of songs from her award winning album "Let It Die" and features collaborations with Peaches, The Postal Service, Kings of Convenience, others. In the liner notes Feist claims that "she didn't really understand what remixes were" when she started working on the project.
Feist will be performing at Woodland Park Zoo on August 11th!
Feist will be performing at Woodland Park Zoo on August 11th!
The Head and the Heart's new album "Living Mirage" is set to drop on May 17th!