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Friday, Jan 11 2013, 2PM
Check out the KEXP Review Revue of another great Jimi release here: bit.ly
Song of the Day subscribers received a free copy of this track for free this past November. Get it here: bit.ly
Watch KEXP's live footage of The Seattle Rock Orchestra performing Arcade Fire songs: bit.ly
Song of the Day subscribers received a free copy of this track for free this past November. Get it here: bit.ly
Spiritualized will be touring the West Coast in April with dates TBA. Follow here: bit.ly
Listen to members of Joy Division talking about Ian Curtis' dancing. bit.ly
Norwegian electronic music duo Mungolian Jet Set operate as channelers for a parrallel world of Mungsters, an ancient breed of intergalactic travellers in sound, working within the time-space continuum.
Good advice from Cloud Cult: "You gotta do what must be done, so learn to do it with some melody." Read more about their upcoming album, Love, out March 6th here: bit.ly
For our Brooklyn listeners, this sounds amazing: Bryce Dessner of The National will be performing Planetarium at Disney Concert Hall and the Brooklyn Academy of Music this spring. Planetarium is a collaborative songs cycle written by Sufjan Stevens, Nico Muhly & Bryce Dessner.The show celebrates the planets with a fantastical stage production of celestial bodies and a giant orb. bit.ly
Atoms For Peace will be releasing Amok on February 25th. Watch the video for Judge Jury and Executioner hereL: bit.ly
Seattle's The Comettes will be playing February 16th at the Tractor!
Listen to a live version of this song recorded in 1994 at the Crocodile Cafe: bit.ly
Tune in to KEXP next Friday for a live in-studio performance from Yo La Tengo. Also, catch them live at Easy Street Records Queen Anne location later that night!
Stream The Babies in-studio performance from last month here: bit.ly
This classic Iggy Pop record released in 1977 was his second solo release after leaving the stooges and was produced by David Bowie.
These Bay area psych-rockers like Jimi Hendrix. Listen to their cover of 1983 (A Merman I Should Turn to Be) here: bit.ly
The Black Keys will be performing at the 2013 Grammy Awards show (February 10th). The Grammy Awards show is an out of date event once known as "Music's Biggest Night." Now more commonly defined as "An awards show whose sole purpose is to promote artists who have already sold millions of records so that they can sell even more records." (Urban Dictionary, 2012). You really should buy Black Keys albums though.
Watch the official music video for this song here: bit.ly
Stream KEXP's Cutting Room Studios performance of this and other songs by Stellastarr* here: bit.ly
Watch TVOTR's Nine Types of Light on the KEXP blog here: bit.ly
Happy Birthday Slim, born on this day in 1924. Slim Harpo's vocals were described by Peter Guralnick as sounding as "if a black country & western singer or a white rhythm & blues singer were attempting to impersonate a member of the opposite genre."
Shake Your Hips was written by Slim Harpo, and first recorded in 1966.
Peforming live on Audioasis tomorrow at 8:30pm. Playing at Neumos on Friday, February 1st.
Interpol performed a KEXP VIP Club Concert back in 2005, you can stream it here: bit.ly
Chaz Bundick of Toro Y Moi is looking for a psych band to open the show in Dublin, Athens and Paris (send him a link here: bit.ly). Playing in Seattle at the Crocodile on Wednesday, February 27th.
KEXP review of Crystal Castles' recent Seattle show: bit.ly
Digitalism remixes are up on their SoundCloud page here: bit.ly
Flu season has reached epidemic levels with 7.3 percent of deaths last week caused by pneumonia and the flu, according to the Center for Disease Control. KEXP will now attempt to rock you back to good health.
Here's another, less FCC friendly, Mudhoney song that you may like to hear: bit.ly
Don Yates mini review: "This British band debuts with an excellent album of New Wave-influenced dance-rock that shows them equally adept at cooking up funky dance-floor rhythms and soaring pop melodies in ways similar to other dance-friendly bands like Talking Heads, the Rapture, New Order and LCD Soundsystem."
Meg's least favorite song on the album. "Oh, Meg, you have no faith in medicine..."
KEXP's YouTube channel has some great footage of We Were Promised Jetpacks live from The Doug Fir. bit.ly
Cloud Cult fit a whole orchestra into our tiny KEXP studio: bit.ly
The number of hours the flu virus can live on surfaces is 48. The CDC has recommendations and Guidelines related to the flu, vaccines, and the like here: 1.usa.gov
Stream audio from The Twilight Sad's KEXP / Triple Door set here: bit.ly
Watch this performed live in L.A. in, or around, 1981: bit.ly
According to a non-authoritative blog, somewhere deep inside the internet: "this was a topical song, referring to the resurgence of the "Asiatic Flu," which had first appeared in Russia during the last years of the 19th Century. The 1957 pandemic began in China early in the year and had spread to the United States by the summer... the whole thing is a pretty transparent rewrite of Huey "Piano" Smith's 'Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu' from the previous year." bit.ly
We hope you've enjoyed our hour of audio echinacea! Welcome to the official start of the weekend!