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Still Corners will be Live in Seattle at the Sunset Tavern on Monday, November 5th.
Today, Radiohead was announced as a nominee for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2019 class. Other nominees include returning nominees: Rage Against the Machine, Janet Jackson, the Cure, Kraftwerk, MC5, Rufus & Chaka Khan, LL Cool J, The Zombies. And new nominees: Devo, Roxy Music, Stevie Nicks, Todd Rundgren, John Prine, and Def Leppard.
Despite working in the electronic genre, The Field has cited punk rock groups like Misfits and Dead Kennedys as some of his biggest musical inspirations.
Australian band, The Goon Sax will be live in Seattle on Monday, November 5th playing at Barboza with local band Zebra Hunt.
Noah and The Whale broke up in 2015, they released 4 studio albums between 2008 and 2013.
Horse Feathers will be performing live in Seattle at St. Mark's Cathedral on Saturday, November 3rd supporting Laura Gibson.
Watch The Head & the Heart perform live on KEXP from their 2013 session. www.kexp.org
Laura Gibson will be live in Seattle on Saturday, November 3rd at St. Mark's Cathedral... Download "Tenderness" on the KEXP Song of the Day podcast. www.kexp.org
Six years before Dev Hynes released his first record under the Blood Orange moniker, he played in short-lived dance-punk band Test Icicles.
In January of this year, Disclosure announced that they were in the process of recording their third studio album set for release in summer 2019. Since then six songs have been released.
Despite this songs popularity, it has rarely been performed live. Al Jourgensen explained in 2008 that as he doesn’t “have his heart into it,” he wouldn’t perform it without Gibby Haynes. Happy birthday Al Jourgensen!
Ian Matthias Bavitz said "I acquired the name Aesop from a movie I had acted in with some friends. It was my character's name and it sort of stuck. The rock part came later just from throwing it in rhymes."
The Joy Formidable will be LIVE in Seattle on Sunday October 28th at Neumos.
Happy birthday PJ Harvey! Harvey is the only artist to have been awarded the Mercury Prize twice, for Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea (2000) and Let England Shake (2011).
The new Anna Calvi album, Hunter was co-produced by Nick Launay, and features Adrian Utley from Portishead and Martyn P. Casey from the Bad Seeds.
The Peter Gabriel cover of "Book of Love" has been featured in the television shows South Park, and Scrubs.
Book of Love released 4 albums between 1986 and 1993. They have reunited several times after an initial 1994 break-up and have teased new music being worked on for several years now.
Roosevelt will be live in Seattle at Neumos on December 21st... Leading up to his second album, Roosevelt worked on remixes for CHVRCHES, Glass Animals, Rhye and more. This sophomore record began in his hometown of Cologne before being finished in Los Angeles, where it was mixed by Chris Coady (Beach House/Grizzly Bear/Future Islands).
Happy birthday to John Lennon! Here's a more obscure fun fact for y'all. Lennon wrote the White Album's closing track "Good Night". Several of the band members begged John to sing it because of how delicate he sang the song, but John insisted that Ringo has to be the one who sings it.
Spiritualized have released eight albums since their debut in 1992. Jason Pierce is the only member of the band who remains in the band from their formation.
You Said Strange opened for The Dandy Warhols on their French 2015 tour. A strong friendship was born out of this tour which led You Said Strange to fly over to Portland, OR to record the their first album with the Dandys’ guitar player Peter G Holmström.
Text 206-903-5397 now for your chance to enter for the Dessa prize pack!
Check out their full album on their bandcamp page. weareourgirl.bandcamp.com
Throwing Muses have released 9 studio albums since 1986. The band initially broke up in 1997 but have since reunited, toured, and released new music.
We lost a great one this year. Richard Swift worked with so many great acts. The Shins, The Black Keys, Damien Jurado, David Bazan, Foxygen, Jessie Baylin, Nathaniel Rateliff, Lucius, Lonnie Holley, The Mynabirds, Wake Owl, Laetitia Sadier of Stereolab, Gardens & Villa, Cayucas, and Guster.
Kevin Parker from Tame Impala stopped by Saturday Night Live over the weekend to play bass behind Travis Scott. Also in the live performance was John Mayer on guitar... Also worth mentioning that Kevin Parker's friends and collaborators in Pond are coming to Seattle on October 16th playing at The Neptune.
Fall Into the Sun is Swearin's first album of new music in 5 years.
Tell No One is the debut album by Washington D.C. band Bad Moves. It was recorded with Hop Along’s Joe Reinhart.
Idles recorded a great, energetic In-Studio with us last week. Stay tuned for the video to come out on our YouTube channel!
"Give Peace a Chance" is the first solo single by John Lennon, and despite that significance, the song was credited to Lennon and McCartney like their Beatles releases. Lennon later stated his regrets about being "guilty enough to give McCartney credit as co-writer on my first independent single instead of giving it to Yoko, who had actually written it with me." Happy birthday, John Lennon.
Writing about the album, Common said "With our history of pain here, we can write a new story — we can change the narrative now… Until this country distributes equality across the board, we’ll never be as great as we can be."
Check out KEXP's great 2014 interview with Gabriel Teodros. www.kexp.org
Júníus Meyvant is one of this year's Iceland Airwaves performers, playing November 10th.
The 2013 release of "Is This How You Feel?" attracted considerable success for Australian band The Preatures, winning the $50,000 Vanda & Young prize, being nominated for an ARIA Award for Best Pop Release, and being voted ninth in the Triple J Hottest 100.
Watch Spoon's iconic 2014 KEXP In-Studio performance. www.kexp.org
Cumulus will be LIVE in the KEXP studios on November 20th, in an open to the public session.
Christine and The Queens will be live in Seattle on Tuesday, October 23rd at Showbox SoDo.
Tune into KEXP on Wednesday, November 21st at noon to hear our broadcast of a new Phosphorescent In-Studio performance.
Happy birthday to John Lennon!
Novalima's style blends Afro-Peruvian music with Electronica, Latin American beats and other contemporary genres. See them perform LIVE in KEXP studio www.youtube.com