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Explosions In The Sky are marking their 20th anniversary of forming as a band this year. They played their first show at the University of Texas’ student radio station in the summer of 1999. For you west coasters, they're playing a few dates in California in September. www.explosionsinthesky.com
From Bon Iver's soon-to-be-released 4th album. Bon Iver will be playing at The Gorge September 6th - boniver.org
Amen Dunes' Damon McMahon says of the personal stories this album is based on: "I think you could say there’s a universal perspective on these people or some kind of spiritual perspective on them. So it’s not just telling the story of them, but there’s an objectivity to it all."
Gunn will be performing a solo set opening for Dinosaur Jr. at the Showbox on October 23rd. www.steve-gunn.com
From the new album! Hatchie makes us happy. You can catch her at Barboza on September 28th. hatchie.net
The xx are preparing to create their eagerly anticipated fourth album, the follow-up to 2017’s critically acclaimed 'I See You.'
While members of the band are often busy working away on their respected side projects, bassist and singer Oliver Sim revealed to Matt Everitt on BBC Radio 6 Music that the band have been in contact to bat around ideas.
Clairo's debut full-length album was produced by Rostam, and she'll be playing the Showbox October 8th!
Spirit Award will be performing at Big Flip, a free all-ages music festival on the Seattle waterfront, on Saturday the 24th! www.friendsofwaterfrontseattle.org
Apparently at the recent Deerhunter show at the Showbox, someone in the crowd yelled at Deerhunter's Bradford Cox, which led to him inviting her up onstage for a discussion about Twin Peaks and cultural appropriation. Read more, and watch the video over at Stereogum if you're curious. 🤔 www.stereogum.com
Local band Hibou will join us for a live in-studio performance this Wednesday, August 21st at noon! For more info on this and other in-studios, head over to www.kexp.org
Shoegaze out of Melbourne, Australia! 👟👀 flyyingcolours.com.au
The song was written in a less positive environment than its warm synths would suggest. Geowulf's Star Kendrick explains: “I was frustrated with maybe a lack of self-control and an inability to break patterns in my life… In a few areas. This song is my way to poking holes in how I handled that. The rest of the album follows a similar, emotional narrative, and is all about exploring those old things & how I’ve tried to leave them behind.” They'll be playing at Barboza November 15th. geowulf.bandcamp.com
Purple Mountains will be playing the Neptune Theatre September 13th. purplemountains.bandcamp.com
Damien Jurado will be back in town playing 2 nights at the Tractor Tavern October 3rd and 4th. damienjurado.com
Featuring Kamasi Washington! (And Jamie xx is credited as a co-writer!) . In a recent interview with The New York Times, Welch said that “Big God” is about “obviously, an unfillable hole in the soul… but mainly about someone not replying to my text.”
Local artist Lemolo — a project of singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Meagan Grandall — returns this fall with her latest LP, Swansea. Check out an interview between Grandall and KEXP's Owen Murphy over at the KEXP blog: www.kexp.org
An enormous but welcome departure from her shoegazey 2012 album, Tender New Signs, the new LP is Tamaryn at her best yet, and is "the album [she] always wanted to make." A swoon-worthy exploration of emotive dream pop, sample-heavy and psychedelic, Cranekiss brings forth a fresh, unapologetic take on pure experimental music. According to Tamaryn herself, "nothing is off-limits." Read (and watch!) more over at the KEXP blog: www.kexp.org
Olsen said in a statement, “In every way—from the making of it, to the words, to how I feel moving forward, this record is about owning up to your darkest side, finding the capacity for new love, and trusting change even when you feel like a stranger.” Angel Olsen will play the Moore Theatre on December 11th. angelolsen.com
Bask in the 80's-tastic vibe of the music video for this track: www.youtube.com
Written by John Lennon, this song was inspired by his experiences with the hallucinogenic drug LSD and from the book The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead by Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert and Ralph Metzner. 😵
Playing at the Clock-out Lounge September 7th - newagehealers.bandcamp.com
Not a lot of info out there about this band, but little simz recently said their debut album is "incredible". "Wow. HIGHLY recommended trust me. Don’t play yourself go listen to ‘5’ by @saultglobal now on all streaming platforms. Fav band 👏🏿👌🏿" sault.bandcamp.com
In 2008, Matt Sheehy moved to Aberdeen, Washington, where he started a job as a forester and took up residence in a cabin to process the recent death of his mother *and* a breakup. Years later, he revisited the material, which turned into this album and the "part rock concert, part podcast and part 'The Twilight Zone'" show that goes with it. www.lostlander.space
Bowie's performance of "'Heroes'" on June 6, 1987, at the German Reichstag in West Berlin has been considered a catalyst to the later fall of the Berlin Wall.Following his death in January 2016, the German government thanked Bowie for "helping to bring down the Wall", adding "you are now among Heroes" 💜
Featuring vocals from American folk singer-songwriter Jesca Hoop. Lyricist and singer Guy Garvey describes “Dexter & Sinister” as “a great, big, bewildered question dealing with my feelings on Brexit, the loss of family and friends and the general sense of disaffection you see all around at the moment.” elbow.co.uk
CAKE will be playing with Ben Folds at Marymoor Park Friday, September 6th! Please watch this amazing video of a kid singing EVERY word to this song: www.youtube.com
From their first album in eight years. friendlyfires.co.uk
You can catch Alex Cameron at Neumos December 13th. alkcm.bandcamp.com
All Them Witches performed live here at KEXP a couple years ago - check out the full performance over at our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com
Former Sleater-Kinney drummer Janet Weiss was involved in a serious car accident last weekend, spending 5 nights in the hospital. She's now recovering, though! Best wishes for healing...!
The track samples RZA's beat for GZA's iconic “Liquid Swords" 💯 Her third album, Eve, pays homage to the trailblazing black women who came before her. "I'm influenced by so many black women. A lot of people already know I'm heavily influenced by Lauryn Hill, MC Lyte, and Queen Latifah," she said in an interview recently. "It's just not all or nothing for me. I'm an extension of them, so every song is going to be a different woman and different energy of what makes Rapsody who she is."
Wu-Tang cover! ( Cash Rules Everything Around Me? More like ... 🐈 Cats Rule Everything Around Me 🐈)
In a recent interview, Ibibio Sound Machine's Eno Williams told IndyWeek Magazine that the new album built on the theme of women's liberation and representation explored in their first album "Uyai". "The overall theme is truth-seeking. It’s about asking questions and seeking answers. From listeners’ point-of-view, it’s about telling me what you’re feeling, telling me what you’d like to hear, or just telling me what you want me to do. But it’s still about women’s liberation and giving women the chance to be heard." Read more at indyweek.com
The song has been described as a tribute to Jimi Hendrix by Beastie Boys member MCA, and contains samples from several Hendrix songs including "Foxy Lady", "Happy Birthday", and "Still Raining, Still Dreaming".
The follow-up to her hi-fi tropical bricolage 'Amparo', Maria Usbeck’s new album is "a Spanglish synth-pop exploration of the aging process, mirror-polished and sun-dappled." mariausbeck.bandcamp.com
The Minneapolis electro-pop band Poliça's second album, Shulamith, is named for late feminist writer Shulamith Firestone, whom vocalist Channy Leaneagh has called her “mentor and muse from the grave.” www.thisispolica.com
