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Wednesday, Sep 12 2018, 10AM
Jason Pierce's, a co-founder of Spacemen 3 and the center of Spiritualized, newest release
Avett Brothers/the Head and the Heart/Shovels and Rope at the Gorge THIS Saturday, September 15th. Stay tuned we have more tickets to give away though out the show today!
Canadian three-piece formed in 2002 in Toronto, consisting of Mark Sasso on lead vocals, guitar, banjo, ukulele, harmonica, and kazoo, Casey Laforet on guitar, lead vocals, backing vocals, bass pedals, keys, and ukulele, and Stephen Pitkin on percussion, sampler, and backing vocals.
Nada Surf performing their entire 2002 album, "Let Go" live in the KEXP studio www.youtube.com
All this week, we are celebrating Mexican Independence Day (officially on Sunday, September 16th). Tune in from 12-6pm on Sunday 9/16 as Stevie Zoom and Evie share songs, highlight organizations in our community that work with the local Latinx community and we’ll have a pop-up Mercado in the Gathering Space from 10am-4pm. Come by and support local Latinx vendors and enjoy great music on 90.3 FM and kexp.org.
Israel Nash will be LIVE on KEXP Tuesday, October 16th at 12:00 PM. This session is free, all ages and open the public. Israel Nash also plays @ the Tractor Tavern that evening.
Mesmerize your eyes as Kishi Bashi performs live from CMJ Union during CMJ 2012 www.youtube.com
This song was originally produced by Nick Lowe and was recorded in May 1977. The backing band on the song were Steve Goulding on drums and Andrew Bodnar on bass guitar, both from Graham Parker's band, The Rumour. Keyboard overdubs were added later by Steve Nason
Tears for Fears formed in Bath in 1981 by Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith. Founded after the dissolution of their first band, the mod-influenced Graduate.
Wreckless Eric wrote the song in May 1974 and recorded it in 1977, whilst an original member of the Stiff Records label. Additional musicians on the record were Nick Lowe on guitar and bass, and Steve Goulding on drums.
Watch J Mascis, guitarist and main songwriter for Dinosaur Jr, performing live on KEXP www.youtube.com
St. Louis musicians Foxing play @ Chop Suey Saturday, September 22nd
Enjoy the beautiful vocals of José González performing live in the KEXP studio www.youtube.com
Blood Orange plays THIS Saturday September 15th at the Moore Theatre
The True Loves are playing at the Tractor Tavern both Friday, September 14th and Saturday, September 15th!
Say HI is playing two Living Room Show's in Seattle: Thursday, October 18th and Friday, October 19th. For more information on these kind of shows visit undertowshows.com
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania based band. Give their bandcamp a peep here freecakeforeverycreature.bandcamp.com
Black Belt Eagle Scout plays in Spokane at the Bartlett Wednesday, October 3rd
"Mis-Shapes" was originally released as a double A-sided single with "Sorted for E's & Wizz" in September 1995
The Wedding Present formed in 1985 in Leeds, England, from the ashes of the Lost Pandas.
Ben Gibbard live on KEXP. Performing two songs from the new Death Cab for Cutie album "Thank You for Today" and then performing requests from a live audience!
Ben will be performing on September 24th at the Hult Center for Performing Arts in Eugene Oregon. He will perform in Portland the following day at the Keller Auditorium.
"I realized lot of the lyrics online are wrong"- Ben Gibbard on relearning his older material in preparation for this live session.
Ben and Cheryl are old friends. Here is Cheryl's account of booking Death Cab for Cutie's live session back in 1998: www.kexp.org
Check out the last time Ben stopped by the KEXP live room: www.youtube.com
"I started covering his cover of this song"- Ben referring to the Iron and Wine cover of "Such Great Heights".
Originally released on the Postal Service's "Give Up", this song is a reflection on the experience of flying in an airplane.
Ben came into this live session with no prior knowledge on what songs the live audience would request him to play. So far, he has not been stumped.
The opening track from Death Cab's 2005 release "Plans".
Ben was finally stumped when a audience member requested "The District Sleeps Alone Tonight". The prize for stumping Ben Gibbard is a free copy of Death Cab's new album "Thank you for Today".
The final song from Ben Gibbard's marathon in-studio session. If you weren't able to catch the entire session, the audio will be available on KEXP's streaming archive for the next 2 weeks: www.kexp.org
Enjoy a live performance from Built to Spill here www.youtube.com
Check out this exclusive Interview with Lol Tolhurst of The Cure on his memoir, Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys blog.kexp.org
Avett Brothers/the Head and the Heart/Shovels and Rope play at the Gorge THIS Saturday, September 15th
Enjoy The Moondoggies performing live in the KEXP studio www.youtube.com
Liz Phair plays Tuesday, September 18th at The Showbox w/ Speedy Ortiz
Wild Nothing will be LIVE on KEXP Thursday, November 1st at 12:00 PM. Wild Nothing will also be playing at Neumos that evening
Pitchfork just released their "200 best albums of the 80's" and "Music For the Masses" came in at #77.
In January, the duo announced they were focusing on recording sessions for their next album in 2018, sidelining their annual Wild Life festival until 2019. Their last full-length record, Caracal, was released in 2015.
Night Shop, the solo project of Justin Sullivan (Babies, Worriers, Kevin Morby’s band, Flat Worms), will release his debut album, In The Break, on September 14 via Morby’s Mare Records.
The album’s cover art adds a visual element to this aesthetic: Head thrown back, slicked with sweat, Calvi looks dazed but powerful. - Pitchfork
I got to watch and talk to John Maus when he visited KEXP recently. It's right here: www.youtube.com
Pitchfork released their "Top 200 albums of the 80's" and "Purple Rain came in at #1 !!
Playing at The Clock-Out Lounge on Saturday Oct. 20th!
Album produced by Dan Auerbach ; this song live: www.youtube.com ; new album “Alive and Well in Ohio” came out a couple months back ; www.facebook.com ; www.buffalokillers.com