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Friday, Oct 25 2013, 2PM
Welcome to the Friday edition of The Afternoon Show! We love you, babies!
Check out KEXP's Battles performance from a past Block Party: bit.ly
Don Yates' mini review: "This Philadelphia band’s fifth album finds them moving away from their more zany, freewheeling beginnings in favor of a less busy, more focused and pop-oriented sound, while still retaining plenty of the band’s trademark energy, colorful instrumentation and eclectic genre-blending on a variety of imaginative prog-pop songs that are often as poignant as they are ear-catching."
Follow Ryan Hemsworth (aka Canadian Prince aka Internet Zack Morris aka Remix Ryan Gosling aka mr. Steal Your Wifi aka Producer Game Omar Al Galaaka) on the Twitter: bit.ly
Tune into KEXP while we broadcast live from Iceland Airwaves! Oct 30th - Nov. 1st. Wake up to the voice of this sensitive new age guy on Friday (11/1) at 6:00am! bit.ly
Thursday, November 7th through Sunday the 10th Barsuk Records are celebrating their 15 Year Anniversary! Wrist bands are sold out, but you can still get individual tickets here: bit.ly. Bands performing include Nada Surf, Mates of State, The Prom, The Long Winters, David Bazan, Chris Walla, Minor Alps, Sunset Valley, Phantogram, Menomena, Maps & Atlases, Yellow Ostrich, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Say Hi, Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter, Rocky Votolato, Laura Gibson (solo), Ra Ra Riot and Aqueduct!
Dino Wipeout is KEXP's Song of the Day today! Free download available here: bit.ly
Get deets on the upcoming 14 track release, Produit Collecté, which includes tracks from the handmade (and now out-of-print) series of BNLX quarterly EP’s here: bit.ly
Ned's Atomic Dustbin take their name from a 1959 broadcast of BBC's radio comedy program, The Goon Show. See the script for that episode here: bit.ly
From Andy Kellman's review "Whir, whoosh, haze, swirl, ad nauseum -- this record holds all of these elements at their most exciting and mastered." Read the rest here: bit.ly
Listen to Arcade Fire perform Reflector in its entirety live on KEXP on Monday, October 28, at 7PM: bit.ly
Sunday, November 17th at The Showbox at the Market with Kid Koala!
See them December 7th at The Neptune with Telekinesis!
Releasing their first collection of new music in ten years! Purgatory Paradise is being released as a book by Harper Collins (with a 32-track CD). Hot off the press over at The Independent: ind.pn
No, the Spanish Castle was not in Spain. It was in Des Moines (or unincorporated King County at the time) on Highway 99 south of Seattle. A young Jimi used to walk there (with his guitar in a garbage bag to protect it from the rain) and ask to sit in on sets by artists like the the Wailers and the Dave Lewis Combo. Many of these bands cut him off or would ask him to quit soloing through their songs. bit.ly
Free Widowspeak Song of the Day from earlier this year: bit.ly
Restored Footage From 1979, Iggy covers Sinatra: "Pat Ivers and Emily Armstrong recorded more than 300 hours of footage at CBGB, Mudd Clubb, and Danceteria, of performances by Iggy Pop, the Cramps, the Go-Go's, and many more. Most of the tapes somehow sat untouched in a closet until New York University restored them for the Nightclubbing archive." bit.ly Yes, the Nightclubbing Archive is a thing, it's actually just a small part of the New York University Downtown Collection. bit.ly
Scheduled for an 11/11 show at the now closed :( Comet Tavern. Rescheduled at the LoFi. Monday November, 11th.
Happy birthday to Richard Lloyd! Born on this day in 1951. Check out the Television gigography: bit.ly
New track available as free KEXP Song of the Day from August: bit.ly
Lucius were just live on KEXP! Keep your eye on our YouTube channel for live video! Watch the music video for this track here: bit.ly
Brand new album! Check out the Juana Molina episode in KEXP's "The New World" documentary series here: bit.ly
#8 on KEXP listeners top 40 albums of the last 40 years. Okay Computer was #2. Which is your favorite? See the whole list here: bit.ly
Did you know that Kevin Parker of Tame Impala wrote and recorded ALL of the music for Innerspeaker? Parker was interviewed for Magnet recently saying that he doesn't like having the radio on while driving because he's usually coming up new melodies or guitar riffs in his head. He also talked a lot about his friends being "taken" by sharks.
Watch Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' full performance from the KEXP studio earlier this year: bit.ly
Read KEXP's mini reviews of a number of Thiever Corporation's albums here: bit.ly
New album from this 25 year old Melbourne-based singer & guitar player & songwriter.
Tune in for Arcade Fire Day this coming Monday! They will also be performing Reflector in its entirety! Live on KEXP on Monday, October 28, at 7PM (from the historic Capitol Records studio in L.A.). bit.ly
Fact: You can't have too much Talking Heads in your life.
Jerry Harrison was an original member of Jonathan Richman's Modern Lovers, he later went on to be the keyboardist for the Talking Heads.
The Psychedelic Furs love you, but not nearly as much as the Afternoon Show loves you. We really do love you, babies. It's been fun!
