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Tuesday, Feb 13 2018, 10AM
Will Toledo, aka Car Seat Headrest, is performing at Easy Street Records on Friday, February 16th, at 7:00 p.m. You can pre-order his new album to reserve tickets: EasyStreetOnline.com He'll be playing Real Art in Tacoma on Thursday, April 12th, 2018.
You can hear Beth Ditto at The Showbox on Thursday, March 29th, 2018.
This Clash Magazine review says that The Spook School's new release is "accessible and utterly irresistible...": www.clashmusic.com
Happy 10th birthday, Declan. Here's "I Used To" footage from LCD Soundsystem's sold-out gig in London in September, 2017: www.youtube.com
Enjoy a history of this Lou Barlow side project: www.allmusic.com
Watch a terrific in-studio performance by The War on Drugs last year: www.youtube.com
Courtney Barnett's new album is just about here! See a teaser video from that sophomore release: www.stereogum.com
You can hear this fabulous duo at an all ages show at The Showbox on Monday, February 26th, 2018.
Lucius' new album, :Nudes," will be released on March 2nd, 2018. They'll go on tour throughout the spring in support of the album: www.facebook.com
Wolf Alice played "Giant Peach" during a live session in the KEXP studio in 2015: blog.kexp.org
Chuck Mosley, former vocalist for Faith No More, died last November at the age of 57.: www.rollingstone.com
Watch an NPR Tiny Desk concert by this "handsome devil with a heart-stopping voice": www.npr.org
Louisiana artist Robert Finley's album, "Goin' Platinum!," was released last fall through Dan Auerbach's Easy Eye Records. Learn more about this talented veteran:
You can pre-order the limited edition coke bottle vinyl of "Mirrors" right here: www.monophonics.com
Yay! Superchunk will perform at Neumos on Tuesday, February 27th, 2018.
See the video for "I Wanna Be Everybody" at Hockey Dad's Facebook page: www.facebook.com
Cheryl Waters welcomed Twin Peaks to the KEXP studio in 2016. Watch!: www.youtube.com
Katie Crutchfield said about "Out in the Storm" that “I really, really want to make more country or folk-sounding music." She certainly accomplishes that on "Brass Beam": www.newyorker.com
You may have "The Deconstruction" by Eels as your very own. Cheryl Waters chose it this week as today's KEXP Song of the Day: www.kexp.org
You can hear The Moondoggies at The Neptune Theatre on Friday, April 13th, 2018, the same day their new album,"A Love Sleeps Deep," is released.
Look at the terrific cover for Jonathan Wilson's new album, "Rare Birds," due out on March 2nd, 2018.: songsofjonathanwilson.com
Austin City Limits launched its 2018 season on January 6th with Father John Misty and a 16-piece orchestra. You can see a video clip here: www.rollingstone.com
The video for "She's Not Me" was directed by Jenny Lewis and starred Fred Armisen, Zosia Mamet, Leo Fitzpatrick, Feist, and Vanessa Bayer.: www.youtube.com
Portland band Eyelids performed live in the KEXP studio in June of last year: www.youtube.com
Kevin Garcia of Grandaddy died last year of a massive stroke.: blog.kexp.org
Read the heartbreaking story of Virtute the cat, the three-song trilogy by John K. Samson: heartbreakingbravery.com
Watch the live performance by All Them Witches that included "Talisman": www.youtube.com
Polica was hosted by Cheryl Waters in a wonderful in-studio live performance in 2016: www.youtube.com
Watch this in-studio performance that included "Easier Said": www.youtube.com
See these great second line photo stills to the tune of "Mardi Gras Day": www.youtube.com
"Don't tell the DJ got to turn it low...
We keep it rockin'til the early morn I say..." It IS Mardi Gras, after all, and Ash Wednesday awaits.: www.azlyrics.com
You can order your very own blue and yellow J5 hoodie right here: www.jurassic5.com
Chastity Belt is part of this year's Sasquatch! Music Festival lineup, May 25th-27th, 2018.
In January, Camp Cope confirmed they have pulled out of an upcoming US tour with Virginia band, Turnover.
The move comes after Turnover parted ways with former guitarist Eric Soucy last year due to allegations of emotional abuse.: themusic.com.au
Scott McCaughey of The Minus 5 suffered a stroke late last year. Read about how musicians have rallied to support him.: www.heraldnet.com
"Eliot St." by Boston-based Quilt was chosen as a KEXP Song of the Day. Download it for free here: blog.kexp.org
MGMT will play The Showbox SoDo on Saturday, May 12th, and Sunday, May 13th, 2018.
Read about Sparklehorse's idiosyncratic songwriter, Mark Linkous, who died in 2010 at the age of 47: pitchfork.com
"Considering their relatively brief existence, Sunny Day Real Estate racked up enough dramatic twists and turns to rank with some of the great rock soap operas. Their key members engaged in just about every rock cliché imaginable, including finding religion, refusing to work with the media, breaking up, joining a big-name group, and even recording an ambitious full-orchestra pop album -- all before reuniting in 1997." Read more of Sunny Day Real Estate's biography: www.allmusic.com
Read a positive Pitchfork review of Pinback's third album, "Summer in Abaddon": pitchfork.com
Wolf Parade's "Valley Boy" from their 2017 album, "Cry Cry Cry", was chose by Cheryl Waters as a KEXP Song of the Day: blog.kexp.org
Watch a live excerpt of Wolf Parade's live performance "The Grey Estates" in Portland in 2008: www.youtube.com
Residente, also known as René Pérez Joglar, has a new audiovisual “Guerra” , which touches on the humanity issues with the war in the Middle East. The clip, Residente’s third self-directed video, was filmed in Spain and on-site at the Zahle refugee camp -- an informal camp on the Syrian/Lebanese border -- home to over 250 refugees fleeing the war in Syria.: www.billboard.com
Bat Fangs, Hot Snakes, oh my! Follow Hot Snakes on their Facebook page: www.facebook.com
The Gods Themselves will play The Tractor Tavern on Friday, March 2nd, 2018.
The KEXP blog featured Santigold as a Saturday Afternoon Artist: blog.kexp.org
This Melbourne band will play The Crocodile on Wednesday, April 25th, 2018.
The Guardian calls this London-based trio --one Icelander, two Brits --"one to watch": www.theguardian.com
The song and it's style was parodied by Flight of the Conchords, with their song "I Told You I Was Freaky".
You will absolutely love this performance, recorded live in the KEXP studio late last year: www.youtube.com Let it sustain you until you hear The National at the Sasquatch! Music Festival, May 25th through 27th, 2018.
"The tracks on this LP have a larger-than-life quality, partly due to the crisp production. Kiss' drums are hard-hitting and clear, the guitars are enveloping and lush, and Blanton's bass lines flesh out the walls of sound created by the rest of the band." bit.ly