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Tuesday, Oct 2 2018, 10AM
Thievery Corporation will be here in Seattle, playing The Showbox on Friday, December 28th, 2018.
Here's a glowing review of Yves Tumor's new album: pitchfork.com
Get out your calendar! Maribou State will be at Neumos on Friday, February 22nd, 2019.
Watch Tame Impala's official video for "Solitude Is Bliss": www.youtube.com
Tom Petty's daughter, Adria, recently talked about the pain and catharsis of making "an American Treasure," a tribute to her father: www.cbsnews.com
This fine artist from Louisville, Kentucky will perform at Barboza on Thursday, December 13th, 2018.
Anna Calvi wrote recently, "“I gave everything to this record, all my love, all my passion, every inch of me is found in this music. Now I let it go and I hope it finds you. Thank you for being so patient, thank you for being there.
“Primal and beautiful, vulnerable and strong, this is my record, ‘Hunter’.”
Watch Widowspeak in a live performance for KEXP listeners from The Cutting Room Studios in New York City: www.youtube.com
Snowpony was a British "supergroup," composed of vocalist/keyboardist Katharine Gifford -- a former member of Stereolab and Moonshake -- as well as one-time My Bloody Valentine bassist Debbie Googe and ex-Quickspace/Rollerskate Skinny drummer Max Corradi.
Happy birthday, Gillian Welch, 50 years old today. Tonight, Tuesday, October 2nd, 2018, Welch will receive the Thomas Wolfe Prize for Literature from the University of North Carolina. The Thomas Wolfe Prize recognizes contemporary writers with a distinguished body of work and she is the first musician to ever receive this reward.
Amber Arcades is the stage name of Annelotte de Graaf, a Dutch singer-songwriter from Utrecht. Get "Right Now," a 2016 KEXP Song of the Day from Amber Arcades: www.kexp.org
Mazzy Star are slated to perform at this year’s Tropicália music and taco festival in Long Beach, California, which takes place on November 3 and 4. This marks the group’s first U.S. performance in five years.
The Seattle Times says that former busker Whitney Monge might be our next big star: www.seattletimes.com
IDLES will be LIVE on KEXP this Thursday, October 4th, 2018, at 9:30 a.m. This performance is open to the public. IDLES will be playing The Sunset Tavern on Saturday, October 6th, 2018.
Scottish band We Were Promised Jetpacks will be LIVE on KEXP tomorrow, Wednesday, October 3, at 1pm. They will be at Neumos tomorrow night, Wednesday, October 3rd, 2018. Their new album, "The More I Sleep The Less I Dream" was released on September 14th.: www.theskinny.co.uk
Sun Breaks is the new band of singer/guitarist John Atkins (764-Hero, Hush Harbor) and drummer/producer James van Leuven (Plan B, Automaton).: www.facebook.com
Richard Swift, talented producer and musician, died in July at age 41.: www.npr.org
Isn't she great? Watch a live KEXP in-studio performance by angel Olsen in 2017.: www.youtube.com
Oooh! Courtney Barnett will be LIVE at KEXP next Monday, October 8th, at noon. That performance is open to the public. Courtney Barnett will be at The Paramount Theatre that night.
Explaining "Miki Dora," a song from his fourth album as Amen Dunes, Damon McMahon wrote in January that the iconic surfer of the title served as "a true embodiment of the distorted male psyche" and "a reflection on all manifestations of mythical heroic maleness and its illusions.": www.npr.org
The Damnwells were an indie rock band originally from the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Here they are, performing "Electric Harmony" live: www.youtube.com
Download "Silver Velvet," a KEXP Song of the Day from The Courtneys: www.kexp.org
Camera Obscura's Traceyanne Campbell talks about her new music project and her massive grief after losing her bandmate Carey Lander to cancer two years ago.: www.dailyrecord.co.uk
The Beths are playing a sold-out show at Seattle's Timbre Room tonight, Tuesday, October 2nd, 2018.
Play "the matching game' at The Beths' official website: thebeths.com
Learn how The Beths actually record in the studio: www.emusician.com
This reviewer says "Present-day me loves The Beths.": www.thefourohfive.com
Another New Zealand band, The Chills have been around since 1980. They released their seventh album, "Snow Bound," on September 14th, 2018.: www.thechills.band
You can keep up with Miss World at their Bandcamp page.: missworld.bandcamp.com
On "52 Girls," Kate and Cindy simply list off names of girls (including their own), and only note that you can "see them on the beach / Or in New York City". Although they say that these are the "principle girls" in the U.S.A., their only other challenge is to see if you, the listener, can name them today. That's it. These are not the topics that great insight can be culled from, but when married with Wilson's multi-tiered melodies and Keith Strickland's well-placed tom hits, there is a thunderous energy that's generated with Kate and Cindy shout out "Name them all today!": www.popmatters.com
See a Black Joe Lewis live performance in the KEXP studio in September, 2016: www.youtube.com
Reverend Horton Heat with Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears and Piñata Protest
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Benjamin Booker performed "Happy Homes" live at KEXP in 2014: www.youtube.com
Vancouver, BC band recorded their album "IV" right here in Seattle with Randall Dunn at Avast Studios. "Randall Dunn is kind-of a legend around these parts," explained drummer Joshua Wells. "He's known for the big crushing weight of darkness that he brings, and it's exactly what we wanted." See an in-studio session that featured songs from "IV": www.kexp.org
Johnny Marr was live on KEXP at noon on Friday, September 21st, 2018. You can still stream that live performance here: www.kexp.org
Yaeji will play The Showbox on Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018. Read an article that introduces you to this New York artist: pitchfork.com
Cheryl Waters hosted Knife Knights in the KEXP studio in July.: www.youtube.com Enjoy a biography at the Sub Pop website: www.subpop.com
You can hear a live
Jenn Champion session on KEXP Tuesday, October 30th, 2018, at 3:00 PM.
Jenn Champion will perform at the Olympia Film Society Theater in Olympia, Washington on Wednesday, October 24th, 2018.
Watch Regine Chassagne dancing in the great video for "Spawl II": www.youtube.com
Brandi Carlile wrote "The Joke" as a comment on the sociopolitical climate following the 2016 US presidential election.
"Let 'em laugh while they can...
Let 'em spin, let 'em scatter in the wind...
I have been to the movies, I've seen how it ends...
And the joke's on them..."
Carlile explained to NPR that "there are so many people feeling misrepresented. So many people feeling unloved. The song is just for people that feel under-represented, unloved or illegal."
The Moondoggies will be performing at "R" Day on Airport Way this Saturday, October 6th,. 2018.: www.facebook.com
"Cuyahoga" is the name of the river in Northern Ohio that the city of Cleveland was built around. There were many tribes of Indians which used to live in the region ("This is where they walked, swam, hunted, danced and sang"), and they simply called the river the Crooked River due to its zig-zag nature and many U-shaped turns. "Cuyahoga" is an Indian word meaning "crooked." R.E.M. lead singer Michael Stipe explained in the November 12, 2009 issue of Rolling Stone: "It's an Indian word I mispronounce in the song. The Cuyahoga River in Ohio caught fire in 1969 because of pollution dumped into it. The song addresses environmental devastation and our history with Native Americans, which isn't pleasant."
You can hear a Ty Segall & White Fence session on KEXP next Tuesday, October 9th, 2018, at 12:00 PM. Ty Segall & White Fence will be at Neumos the previous night, Monday, October 8th, 2018.
These kids were alright when they sang at the Royal Albert Hall: www.youtube.com
This was the first time Paul McCartney wrote the words to a song before the music. The song began as a poem he conceived while he was shaving one morning thinking about his girlfriend Jane Asher, whom he met when she interviewed him for the magazine Radio Times. He wrote the music that night. He originally envisioned it as a country/western song.
Jeff Tweedy has announced that he is releasing a memoir on November 13th, 2018. Read all about it: www.kexp.org
These three talented musicians will be at The Moore Theatre on Saturday, November 24th, 2018.: www.billboard.com
Ian Sweet will play The Sunset Tavern on Wednesday, October 24th, 2018. "Crush Crusher" will be out on October 26th, 2018.: www.iansweetmusic.com
Adia Victoria says of this song, “I wrote it about when I was down in Atlanta, when I lived there in my early 20s. It was a hazy, wild, debaucherous time. I was putting myself back in the shoes of that 20 year old that had just absolute freedom. We were making money and blowing it. It was a carefree time when we reveled in all of our vices.”
They were in Sydney when they performed this song live: www.youtube.com
Young has stated in concert that he wrote the song while studying history in high school in Winnipeg. According to Young's notes for the album Decade, the song was banned in Spain under Francisco Franco.