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Tuesday, Jan 29 2019, 10AM
Better Oblivion Community Center is Phoebe Bridgers and Conor Oberst. You can hear them at Neumos on Sunday, March 17th, 2019.
Roger Sellers, known by his stage name Bayonne, will be here in Seattle, playing Barboza on Friday, May 3rd, 2019. Watch the video for "Drastic Measures' on his Facebook page: www.facebook.com
Sharon Van Etten is playing the Neptune Theatre on Saturday, February 23rd, 2019. She talks about vulnerability and challenging her fears in this recent Jezebel interview: themuse.jezebel.com
“Andromeda.”is Weyes Blood's first original solo material since the release of 2016’s "Front Row Seat to Earth." “Andromeda” was co-produced by Weyes Blood and Foxygen’s Jonathan Rado. It’s set to appear on her next album, due this spring via Sub Pop.
The Atlantic magazine loves this song and calls it "among the first great thrills of 2019 pop": www.theatlantic.com
"With its Wurtlizer shimmies, chiming guitars and soulful backing vocals, the single "New Birth in New England" as good as pulls you on to a uplit dancefloor. An account of [Matthew] Houck and [Australian musician Jo] Schornikow’s meeting (the biographical accuracy of which makes Houck “wildly uncomfortable”), it bubbles over with delight." Read more about the fine new album, "C'est La Vie": www.theguardian.com
Cheryl Waters was the host for a great live performance in the KEXP studio last April.: www.youtube.com
When Nada Surf lead singer/guitarist Matthew Caws was young, his parents, both university professors, were based in New York City. This slow-building song from the band's seventh studio album "The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy" is about his childhood in the Big Apple.: www.youtube.com
Tommy James was born Thomas Jackson on April 20, 1947, in Dayton, OH. He was introduced to music at age three, when he was given a ukulele by his grandfather. Enjoy a biography of this Michigan artist who took bubblegum pop to new heights: www.allmusic.com
Yes, that's Tanya Donelly singing on this song.: www.youtube.com
Here's a 2006 Pitchfork review of Seattle band Pretty Girls Make Graves' "Elan Vital": pitchfork.com
In August of last year, Karen O revealed that the band is looking forward to recording new material together, their first since 2013's "Mosquito.": www.nme.com
Watch a live performance in the KEXP studio in 2016: www.youtube.com
The video for this song was directed by Brother Willis, who said, "I’m a long-time fan of Steve’s work so it was an honour to make a video for him. The concept and inspiration were very much a collaborative effort with Steve. We share a mutual love for the textures and warm personality that outdated formats have in contrast to the crisp HD 8K of today.” Now, watch the video: www.youtube.com
Aztec Camera was the brainchild of Roddy Frame, a Scottish songwriter and vocalist whose precocious talent -- he was still in his teens when the band cut their acclaimed debut album, High Land, Hard Rain -- earned the band a loyal cult following.: www.allmusic.com
Israel Nash was just in the KEXP studio, giving a live performance last October. Watch that session here: www.youtube.com
The song is about Hernán Cortés (Cortés' name has an alternate Anglicized spelling in the song title), a conquistador who conquered Mexico for Spain in the 16th century. It has been ranked #39 on Guitar World's 100 Greatest Guitar Solos and #329 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
"The opening track on Cigarettes After Sex’s self-titled debut album is a slow-as-molasses alt-rock ballad simply titled “K.” It chronicles lead singer Greg Gonzalez’s infatuation with a girl named Kristen, and pinpoints the very moment their relationship shifts from strictly casual to something more substantial. “We had made love earlier that day, with no strings attached/But I could tell that something had changed,” Gonzalez croons in a voice close to a whisper." Read the entire album review: pitchfork.com
Rhye will perform at Seattle's Neptune Theatre on Saturday, February 16th, 2019.
Ibibio Sound Machine is part of KEXP's International Clash Day event. They'll be playing at 2:00 p.m., London time, on Monday, February 4th. (That's 6:00 a.m., Seattle time): www.kexp.org
Cherry Glazerr will be LIVE on KEXP on Thursday, March 7th, at 1:30 PM. The public is invited to view that performance. Cherry Glazerr will be at Neumos that night.
Get this song, a KEXP Song of the Day, for your very own self --for free!: www.kexp.org
Watch Dean Wareham playing "Tiger Lily" live at NYC's Bowery Ballroom in 2014: www.youtube.com
Read "the forgotten story of Roky Erickson and his lost albums of the 1980’s": www.loudandquiet.com
Whitney performed this song, "Golden Days," live in the KEXP studio in 2016. See the full performance here: www.youtube.com
The Lemon Twigs are performing at The Columbia City Theater tonight, Tuesday, January 29th, 2019.
Read a review of "Go To School," the second album by Long Island brothers Michael and Brian D’Addario: pitchfork.com
"And I saw Shane, and everyone was pushing him...
And you could really feel his pain...
And then before you knew it...
All of a sudden there were these flames..." Here are the lyrics to "The Fire": genius.com
Enjoy an interview with these two D'Addario brothers: www.independent.co.uk
Talking about the impact this song had on Rundgren's songwriting, he said: "I wrote this song in 15 minutes from start to finish. It was one of the reason that caused me to change my style of writing. It doesn't matter how clever a song is - if it's written in 15 minutes, it is such a string of clichés that it just doesn't have lasting impact for me. And for me, the greatest disappointment in the world is not being able to listen to my own music and enjoy it."
NPR called this wonderful Memphis band "the unluckiest band in America": www.npr.org
Watch the video for "It Rains Love," Lee Fields' new single. The new album comes out on April 5th, 2019.: www.youtube.com
In this review, Consequence of Sound says, "The Wilco frontman proves capable of breaking hearts with an acoustic guitar.": consequenceofsound.net
Enjoy this songwriter interview with Gary Louris of The Jayhawks: www.songfacts.com
Pedro The Lion will perform at Fawcett Hall at Alma Mater in Tacoma, Washington on Saturday, February 23rd, 2019.
This is Charles Bradley's cover of the Rodriguez hit. Dating back three years before his defining Cold Fact album, ‘I’ll Slip Away’ was the Sugarman’s 1967 debut single for Impact Records. In Rodriguez’s hands, it’s shuffling, tropicalia-tinged folk. In Bradley’s hands and backed by the inimitable Menahan Street Band, it’s a vintage soul stomper. Bradley's version was part of the posthumous album, "Black Velvet."
This is also a cover-- of a truly great 1968 garage-rock single from Tommy James & The Shondells.
You can hear Goat Girl, part of KEXP's International Clash Day broadcast, at 6:00 a.m., Seattle time, On Thursday, February 7th, 2019.: www.kexp.org
Cincinnati band Wussy performed this excellent song live on KEXP: www.youtube.com
Happy birthday to Charles Bissell of The Wrens. In 2016, Bissell announced that he was battling multiple myeloma: consequenceofsound.net
The Breeders started as the side project of Kim Deal, who was with the Pixies at the time, but often at odds with their frontman, Frank Black. Written and sung by Deal, "Cannonball" made the US Hot 100 - something the Pixies never did. The song was originally titled "Grunggae," a combination of 'grunge' and 'reggae.' The name came from Kim Deal thinking the accented riff resembled the accent in Reggae.
Metric will be at The Moore Theatre on Saturday, March 16th, 2019.
You can hear Maggie Rogers at The Showbox on Tuesday, April 16th, 2019.
Lady Lamb will play The Tractor Tavern on Friday, May 3rd, 2019. Her third album, "Even in the Tremor," will be released on April 5th, 2019.: music.mxdwn.com
Watch the official video for Bradford Cox's powerful song, "Death in Midsummer": www.youtube.com
Vanishing Twin says, "Built around a series of improvisations, 'Dream By Numbers' is a soundtrack for the unsettling reality we find ourselves in." You can purchase it at their Bandcamp page: v-twin.bandcamp.com
Piroshka is led by former Lush frontwoman Miki Berenyi, with ex-members of Elastica and Modern English among their line-up.: completemusicupdate.com
In October, The Twilight Sad was in the KEXP studio for a great live performance and interview: www.youtube.com
TV on the Radio announced that Tunde Adebimpe has made a book about "Dear Science" for its 10th anniversary. Read about it (and purchase it ) here: www.facebook.com
Read a VERY positive review of this 2003 album: pitchfork.com