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track off their new album out September 8th. Playing live Saturday 28 October 2017
The Showbox, Seattle. Their debut album, Alvvays, was released in 2014, peaking at number one on the U.S. college charts.
This Is the Kit is the alias of British musician Kate Stables, who is based in Bristol and Paris. She is playing live in seattle at the tractor tavern Tues Oct. 10th, the paramount theatere Tues Novemb 28th, and Paramount theatere Wed november 29th. Moonshine Freeze is the bands 4th lp
Playing live Dec 16 Neumos Seattle, he Barr Brothers is a folk quartet founded in Montreal, Quebec. This will be their third studio LP
Upon its original release, it failed to reach the Top 40 in the UK Albums Chart, peaking at No. 42, even after a yearlong tour. After featuring in a popular Vodafone advertisement, it was re-released in 2001 and peaked at No. 5. The song was the subject of a minor controversy in 2011 when British conservative politician Theresa May played the song as she walked from a conference speech.
Playing live Sep 08 Sunset Tavern Seattle, WA. Broncho is an American indie rock band based in Norman, Oklahoma. The band formed in Norman in 2010
member of wolf parade talks about the recording of this song : " The version of Shine a Light that came out is not the studio version. We recorded it at our jam space on home recording equipment basically and just slotted it in with the record. Disco Sheets was also recorded this way.
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Released 31 years ago. Although it only peaked at 14 in the UK Albums Chart, it stayed on the chart for 30 weeks, making it by far The The's most commercially successful album.
Arcade Fire - Infinite Content 2017
Sun 10/15 @ 7:30pm
KeyArena. The album was produced by Arcade Fire alongside Thomas Bangalter of the electronic-house duo Daft Punk and Pulp bassist Steve Mackey.
Katie Kate played this song and others live on KEXP in 2014, video can be found on KEXP's official youtube channel
Nominations: Grammy Award for Best Urban/Alternative Performance. The song and video feature a guest appearance by Pharcyde rapper Bootie Brown,
Released 53 years ago. Rolling Stone magazine ranked the song as No. 206 in their 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list. In 1989 a Bristol music promoter purchased an old KB Discomatic jukebox that had once belonged to John Lennon during the mid-1960s. A copy of Dylan's "Positively 4th Street" single was found among the 41 7" singles loaded onto the machine.[14] As a result, the song appears on the John Lennon's Jukebox compilation album,
Released 24 years ago as a radio-only single from her debut album Exile in Guyville. Although no physical single was released for the song, a music video was released, directed by Katy McGuire.
Little Plastic Castle is the eighth studio album by singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco, released in 1998. It is her highest charting album on the Billboard charts, reaching #22 on the Top 200 list.
the bass line, derives from Grandmaster Flash's protest rap song "The Message". Released 33 years ago. Won the Brit Award for British Single. The song is influenced by hip hop music, with lyrics concerned with class and the pressures of inner-city life which were inspired partly by T. S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land.
The song was inspired by the experiences of workers at the Wittenoom asbestos mines who contracted various asbestos-related diseases. The "blue" refers to blue asbestos, and the "sugar refining company" refers to the Colonial Sugar Refining Company Ltd (CSR), the owner of the mines.
Marsh and Waddington soon fell under the influence of the burgeoning Acid House scene emerging in London at the time, from clubs such as Shoom. The duo changed their style from the New Order-influenced synthpop, and took in influences from acid house, pop and techno (the record also features Chicago house diva Kym Mazelle on female vocals).
"This and That" reached No.10 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart.
KEXP Celebrates National Radio Week by Honoring Great Influential Radio Stations From The Past
After a prolonged delay in which an entire album's worth of work was scrapped, The Blue Nile released Hats to rave reviews, including a rare five-star rating from Q magazine. It also became the band's most successful album, reaching number 12 on the UK album charts and spawning three singles: "The Downtown Lights", "Headlights on the Parade", and "Saturday Night".
El Momento Descuidado is the eighteenth album by the Australian psychedelic rock band The Church. The band decided to revisit past material in an all-acoustic setting, along with five new songs.
NIC HARCOURT talks about what makes WDST special. KEXP Celebrates National Radio Week by Honoring Great Influential Radio Stations From The Past.
The album was nominated for four Grammy Awards in 1991, including Record of the Year, Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, and Best Music Video, Short Form for "Nothing Compares 2 U", winning the award for Best Alternative Music Performance. However, O'Connor refused to accept the nominations and award.
The Mission are an English gothic rock band formed in 1986.
The song became Murphy's most successful release, topping at Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart, as well as charting on Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks charts.
Nic Harcourt discusses seeing other radio stations shut down. KEXP Celebrates National Radio Week by Honoring Great Influential Radio Stations From The Past
The album's opening track, "Kiss This Thing Goodbye", entered the top 40 of the US Billboard Hot 100 when released as a single for the second time.
fifth studio album debuted at number 44 on the Billboard 200.live Sep 03 Bumbershoot, and in studio IVE on KEXP (OPEN TO THE PUBLIC - SIGN UP) Monday, September 04, 2017, 1:00 PM
This song samples Isaac Hayes -
Walk on By. Hooverphonic are a Belgium group
Samples Reverend W. Leo Daniels
'The Answer to Watergate'. Halfway Between The Gutter And The Stars is his 3rd studio album.
Released 22 years ago today. This song samples The Beatles
Revolution 9. The title is a reference to their departure from their earlier name The Dust Brothers.
Let Go is the third album by Nada Surf, which currently consists of Matthew Caws (guitar, vocals), Ira Elliot (drums), Doug Gillard (guitar) and Daniel Lorca (bass, backing vocals). Based in New York City and formed in the 1990s,
Big Thief is a band based in Brooklyn, New York. Its members are Adrianne Lenker (guitar, vocals), Buck Meek (guitar), Max Oleartchik (bass), and James Krivchenia (drums).
Screaming Trees was an American rock band formed in Ellensburg, Washington in 1985 by vocalist Mark Lanegan, guitarist Gary Lee Conner, bass player Van Conner and drummer Mark Pickerel.
This song and the new album 'Villains' was produced by Mark Ronson who produced the song 'Uptown Funk'
Dummy is the debut studio album by English electronic band Portishead. The album received critical acclaim, winning the 1995 Mercury Music Prize.
reaching #39 in the UK Singles Chart as the highest charting single from the album. In 2012, the band rewrote some of the lyrics to the song to make a fight song for their hometown NBA team: the Oklahoma City Thunder. The new song is called "Thunder Up: Race for the Prize." The Thunder played in the NBA Finals that year.
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion is an American alternative rock trio, formed in 1991 and based in New York City. "Wail" became a brief hit for the band and its music video was directed by "Weird Al" Yankovic.
White dedicated the album to deceased blues musician Son House. Christmas 2011 limited edition white stripes mini theramin kit
