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Tuesday, May 8 2012, 9PM
Song of the Day: Georgia Anne Muldrow – Kali Yuga blog.kexp.org
Before they perfected the electronica-meets-tango sound of the Gotan Project, Paris musicians Philippe Cohen Solal and Christoph H. Mueller worked together in the Boys from Brazil and Stereo Action Unlimited.
Playing tomorrow night, 5/9, with Craft Spells and Part Time at Neumo's.
July 27, 2010 - Song of the Day: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – Say No To Love blog.kexp.org
Playing tomorrow night, 5/9, with The Drums and Part Time at Neumo's.
As a solo project with a revolving door of members, the heart and face of Santigold is vivacious frontwoman Santi White. Playing the Sasquatch! Music Festival Friday, May 25.
MC 900 Ft. Jesus is the stage name of Mark Griffin, a classically trained musician turned rapper and experimental musician born in Dallas, Texas. Track taken from his sophomore full-length as MC 900 Ft. Jesus.
Excellent new music from BJM. See the KEXP Album Review here: kexp.org
May 10, 2011 - Song of the Day: Black Lips Modern Art blog.kexp.org
Playing the Sasquatch! Music Festival Monday, May 28.
Calexico, a Tucson collective of musicians focused around Joey Burns and John Convertino, forged an eclectic identity through their exploration of Southwestern culture.
Album Review: New Build – Yesterday Was Lived and Lost blog.kexp.org
KEXP Documentary: POP Goes ELECTRONIC kexp.org
The Brooklyn-based Bear in Heaven was initially started in 1998 as a way for Jon Philpot, who was then still living in his hometown of Atlanta.
A Japanese-born duo relocated to New York and christened with an Italian band name, Cibo Matto's music mirrored the melting-pot aesthetics of their origins.
Appearing at the Sasquatch! Music Festival Monday, May 28th.
Check the boisterous folk-rock of Brooklyn's Bear Hands in this session recorded live on KEXP. kexp.org
The Television Personalities are an English group with a varying line-up. The only constant member is singer–songwriter Dan Treacy, who uses the band as a vehicle for his music
Past members
'Slaughter Joe' Foster
Edward Ball
John Bennett
Gerard Bennett
Mark 'Empire' Sheppard
Bernard Cooper
Dave Musker
Mark Flunder (The McTells)
Jeffrey Bloom
Jowe Head (Swell Maps)
Victoria Yeulet
The Television Personalities are an English group with a varying line-up. The only constant member is singer–songwriter Dan Treacy (b. 19 June 1960), who uses the band as a vehicle for his musi
Dom is a five-piece band hailing from Worcester, Massachusetts.
The 2005 debut full-length release from Scottish artist Myles MacInnes, aka Mylo.
Porcelain Raft is the project of Italian-born, Brooklyn-based musician Mauro Remiddi.
Played the Key Arena tonight. Playing tomorrow night in Vancouver, BC at Rogers Arena.
Song of the Day: Father John Misty – Hollywood Forever Cemetery blog.kexp.org
Dizzee Rascal, is a UK and US-based rapper, songwriter and record producer of Ghanaian and Nigerian descent.
This Baltimore duo’s fourth album is a masterfully crafted set of expansive dream pop that rivals their 2010 breakthrough album Teen Dream.
Athens, Greece’s mysterious duo known only as Keep Shelly in Athens (well, that and “RΠЯ and Sarah P.”) makes a unique blend of laid back Balearic Beat.
For Gainsbourg, IRM is dramatic and personal. It's inspired, in part, by her health scare in 2007, in which she suffered a brain hemorrhage following a water-skiing accident; she required frequent hospital trips for MRI scans — or "IRM" in French.
Gainsbourg's words from the previous song, IRM, — "Hold still and press the button / Looking through a glass onion / Following the X-ray eye / From the cortex to medulla" reference this song by The Beatles.
Musical duo from Mali, composed of the couple Amadou Bagayoko (guitar and vocals) and Mariam Doumbia (vocals). Track taken from their just released seventh full-length.
The Pica Beats began in Vermont in 2005 as a solo vehicle for Ryan Barrett, who soon made his way to the West Coast and had settled in Seattle by the time of his debut, 2007's, All Mysteries Solve Themselves.
The second track on Beastie Boys' second studio album Paul's Boutique, released July 25, 1989. RIP MCA.
The first single from the third studio album Check Your Head by Beastie Boys, released on April 7, 1992.
The sixth single on their debut studio album Licensed to Ill. RIP Adam Yauch.
Written by Karen O and Nick Zinner for the 2009 film Where the Wild Things Are. RIP Maurice Sendak.
Bradford Cox drops by KEXP under his "Atlas Sound" moniker to unfold a number of his "Parallax" singles into a live set of sprawling, spiraling sonic landscapes. kexp.org
Mike Sniper — aka Blank Dogs — has turned the head of many a music nerd with his one two punch of lo-fi pop dreamscapery and DIY ethics.
This song reworks the OMD track of the same name from 1983's Dazzle Ships.
Blue Scholars are a hip hop duo based in Seattle, Washington, created in 2002 while the members, DJ Sabzi and MC Geologic, were students at the University of Washington.
New music from The Dandy Warhols! Playing Sunday, June 17 at Showbox at the Market.
Television's roots can be traced to the teenage friendship between Tom Verlaine and Richard Hell. Both moved to New York, separately, in the early 1970s, aspiring to be poets. Television formed in New York City in 1973.
While this Brooklyn artist has spearheaded a number of different musical projects through the years (Aarktika, Dead Leaves Rising, Pale Horse and Rider), this is the first album he’s released under his own name.
Kurt Vile is a lo-fi indie rock singer/songwriter from Philadelphia who made his commercial recording debut in 2008.
Beastie Boys’ Adam Yauch Remembered blog.kexp.org
Jack White is playing Sasquatch May 26th. jackwhiteiii.com