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Tuesday, Jun 16 2015, 9PM
Luna is headed by Dean Wareham of Galaxie 500. Sterling Morrison of The Velvet Underground contributed to a few tracks on this LP.
Trails and Ways are out of Oakland, California. Pathology was released on June 2nd as their debut album. They will be playing LIVE at the Sunset Tavern on July 10th.
Kid Wave are out of London, UK. They are a quartet consisting of Harry Deacon, Lea Emmery, Serra Petale and Mattias Bhatt. Their album Wonderlust was released May 29th of this year.
Forming in 1989 In Manchester, England, The Charlatans released Some Friendly as their debut album one year later in 1990.
The Second Summer of Love was originally a single released on Soundcloud by the band Pink Mountaintops, later released on their album Get Back in April of 2014. They are from Los Angeles.
Local music from highly acclaimed Seattle band Soundgarden. This is a cover of Devo's "Girl U Want". They formed in 1984
Icelandic band Of MOnsters and Men will be playing LIVE at the Marymoor Amphitheatre on Sunday August 9th.
Michael B. Lerner of Telekinesis will be on KEXP LIVE tomorrow at 8:30am to play a debut track from his upcoming album and potential tell us about some release dates.
FFS is Scottish band Franz Ferdinand and veterans of pop Sparks team up to create amazing-blow-your-mind music. Released last week!
Sparks are out of 1970's Los Angeles, California. They are Ron and Russel Mael(brothers).
Boxed In is Oli Bayston, an engineer and producer from London, England. He is touring and will be playing at Barboza on Monday, July 20th.
Bomba Estero will be playing LIVE at the Tractor Tavern on July 19th at The Tractor Tavern, Seattle, WA
Unknown Mortal Orchestra will be playing Friday July 24th at the Capital Hill Block Party. If you can't wait till then to see a live performance listen to his last performance hear in our studios back in May www.kexp.org
Don't miss FIDLAR playing LIVE at The Showbox on Friday October 23rd.
KEXP is hosting a New Home Benefit with John Doe Friday June 19th blog.kexp.org
Sick Sad World is playing LIVE Wednesday, July 1st at Hilliards.
Iconic band from the 70's. They formed in 1977 and are from New Jersey.
2Pac attended Baltimore School for the Arts where he took ballet classes. He was a roadie and MC for Digital Underground in the 1990s. His albums Me against the World and All Eyez on Me are widely considered classics of hip hop.
Hot Chip released their first EP in 2002 but are still going strong and touring with their new 2015 album Why Make Sense? Check out a KEXP album review of Why Make Sense? at blog.kexp.org
Ioanna Gika and Leopold Ross are the two artists who make up the duo IO Echo.
Out of Stillwater, Oklahoma Other Lives formed back in 2004. This is their third and latest full length release.
Local music from 90's artist Pedro the Lion, headed by David Bazan. Casey Foubert of Seattle band Seldom collaborated with Bazan on this album, joining on drums and keyboard.
Released in 1977 on the seventh record from ELO, "Out of the Blue".
Northside are from Manchester, England and were founded in 1990. www.facebook.com
Gruff Rhys are from Cardiff, Wales, UK www.facebook.com
Lower Dens is playing Capitol Hill Block Party Friday, July 24th.
Jamie xx of The xx with his new album In Colour. He will be playing Capitol Hill Block Party Friday, July 24th.
Dutch duo famous for their 1992 release James Brown is Dead.
KEXP will stream a LIVE video of PINS on Friday, June 19th at 9:30AM. They are based in Manchester.
Khaela Maricich and Melissa Dyne make up the Brooklyn based duo The Blow. Kaela previously worked with Jona Bechtolt of YACHT but Melissa joined The Blow for the Paper Television album.
Bouquet just released a music video to the song "Come to Your House" earlier today vimeo.com The duo is out of Los Angeles, California and is made up of Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs and Max Foreman.
Los Angeles, California band Made in Heights released their new album "Without My Enemy What Would I Do" just last month.
Surf was released last month and includes collaborators such as Chance the Rapper, Big Sean and many more.
Julie Campbell is LoneLady, based in Ashton, Manchester, England. She bought her first guitar for 10 euros at the Ashton Market at age 16. Since then she has gained her Fine Arts Degree from Manchester Metropolitan University.
Christopher Owens will be playing LIVE at Barboza Tuesday, June 30th.
Check out an instudio performance from 2014 with Robyn Hitchcock at KEXP kexp.org
Annabel are from Akron, Ohio. On the band's facebook interests: "do you like smashing pumpkins?" ... "are you kidding, i love doing that!"
Today is the anniversary of the premiere of the 1960's Hitchcock thriller Psycho. This song was used in the remake of Psycho. Although the song didn't take off during that time it has since been covered by Elvis Costello and Jack Kittel and has since become popular.
Lord Huron is based in Los Angeles, Calirfornia although Ben Schneider the founding member was born in Okemos, Michigan which may explain the midwestern-sounding influence on this track.
TV On the Radio will be playing Capitol Hill Block Party Friday July 24th.
Ryan Newmyer and Jen Goma (A Sunny Day in Glasgow) are Roman a Clef. Roman a clef translates to "novel with a key", a novel that illustrates true events.
Belle and Sebastian will be playing LIVE at Portland, OR MusicfestNW on August 22nd, 2015
Iji will be playing a LIVE show at Hilliard's on Wednesday, July 1st.
KEXP is partnering with Michael Benjamin Lerner of Telekinesis, Sean Nelson, Wild Ones, Silver Torches, Cataldo, and Ruler to put on KEXP INXS Night. All artists will be performing songs of INXS at The Tractor Tavern on Tuesday, June 30th. More info at blog.kexp.org
Django Django are from Dalston, London, England and formed in 2008.