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There are many videos available on The Twilight Sad's Facebook page: www.facebook.com
Here's a positive review of Icelandic band Fufanu's eagerly-anticipated sophomore album, "Sports": pitchfork.com
Singer/songwriter Brenda Xu will be performing at Conor Byrne on Friday, March 10th, 2017. This is a benefit show for Women's Refugee Alliance.: brendaxu.com
The video for "1234" was nominated for a Grammy for Best Music Video: www.youtube.com
Kings of Convenience is a Norwegian duo, consisting of Erlend Øye and Eirik Glambek Bøe They are touring in Poland this spring. Learn more about what they are doing as a band on their Facebook page: www.facebook.com
Damon Albarn said recently that the new Gorillaz album is finished and that tour rehearsals are underway.: consequenceofsound.net
All Them Witches will bring this wonderful energy to Seattle when they play The Tractor Tavern on Friday, May 5th, 2017.
"The un-published novel “My Own Secret Service” details the origins of the underground band Earwig and their fantastic adventures as they battle to save the Multiverse from a secret society of invading demons who occupy a parallel dimension. The self-proclaimed “true” rock-and-roll memoir forms the basis of Earwig’s new album “Pause For The Jets." That's what they say on their Bandcamp page: earwig.bandcamp.com
Neko Case will be in town with The New Pornographers at the Moore Theatre on Saturday, April 15th, 2017.
KEXP's own Jay Kardong plays pedal steel on this fine new album by Son Volt. Here's an NPR review: www.npr.org
Watch live video of this collaboration from The National frontman Matt Berninger and Brent Knopf of Ramona Falls (and formerly with Menomena): blog.kexp.org
Rivers Cuomo named the band Weezer because that was a nickname given to him by kids in school who teased him for having asthma. Perhaps there are more things you would like to know about this fabled band: www.buzzfeed.com
Read a Pop Matters review of The Promise Ring's "Very Emergency": www.popmatters.com
Bleached will be playing The Showbox with The Damned on Sunday, April 16th, 2017.
Sign up to receive news and updates from Brooklyn musician Kevin Devine: www.kevindevine.net
Visit Temples' official website here: www.kevindevine.net And then watch live video of a recent KEXP in-studio session: blog.kexp.org
Deerhunter’s Bradford Cox wrote this song to tell the tale of the tumultuous life of Dmitry Makarov (Dima) who was a victim of human trafficking in Russia. Watch the official video for this moving song: www.youtube.com
Here's another artist that's coming to town! Black Joe Lewis will be at Neumos on Thursday, April 6th, 2017, in support of the new album, "Backlash."
Reverend Horton Heat with Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears and Piñata Protest
Saturday, Mar 1, 2025
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Watch an installment of KEXP's Immigrant Songs, featuring a live performance by Chicano Batman: blog.kexp.org
The Flaming Lips will play The Paramount Theatre on Tuesday, May 16th, 2017. "As Coyne has described it, "Oczy Mlody" is actually a Polish term that translates to "eyes of the young." But to flesh out the album's ambitious thematic arc, he fixated on how the words sounded similar to "Oxy" (as in, Oxycodone), and re-envisioned its meaning to form an extended allegory: A drug-induced, dark night of the soul — one of self-rediscovery." Read more about the band's fourteenth studio album: www.npr.org
Get "See These Bones," a KEXP Song of the Day from veteran band Nada Surf: www.npr.org
Portugal. The Man will be performing here in Seattle at The Paramount Theatre on Thursday, July 20th., 2017.
Wow! So many fine musicians are coming to Seattle.! Grizzly Bear will perform at The Paramount Theatre on Thursday, October 5th, 2017.
Minus the Bear will play The Showbox here in Seattle on Saturday, April 15th, 2017.
The new album, "VOIDS," is the band's first in five years. "VOIDS is testament to a band who have never rested in their creativity, and have managed to rebuild and recreate while holding at their core the things that made them brilliant 15 years ago." Read a glowing review here: drownedinsound.com
Jake Snider talks about the new album and premieres this track in this interview: www.billboard.com
Follow Seattle band Minus the Bear on their Facebook page: www.facebook.com
The Helio Sequence will be at The Tractor Tavern on Friday, April 28th, 2017. Here's a video for "Harmonica Song": www.youtube.com
Listen to a live Ty Segall session at noon this Thursday, March 9th, 2017. "While 'Ty Segall' may not be his opus, ... it’s certainly a testament to his fruitful brain and the unparalleled output that spills forth from it—a mind on a marathon, yet to stumble.": www.spin.com
Craig Finn is on tour with Japandroids and will be at The Neptune Theatre on Saturday, March 18th, 2017.
Come to KEXP's Gathering Space to hear Allison Crutchfield LIVE at noon on Monday, March 27th, 2017. She will be playing The Vera Project that evening.
Stay tuned because we'll be giving away tickets all day to Depeche Mode's show at Key Arena on October 21st, 2017.
Find out more about that dog. when you read this "weezerpedia" article: www.weezerpedia.com.
"The lazy way they turned your head... into a rest stop for the dead.." Here are the lyrics for "Halfway Home": songmeanings.com
Enjoy a KEXP album review, complete with videos, of Savages' "Adore Life": blog.kexp.org
Formerly the guitarist for Seattle trio Sage, Marc Olsen recently earned notoriety for his work with Mark Lanegan on the Screaming Trees singer's 1998 solo tour. Here's a review of 1998's "Didn't Ever...Hasn't Since": nodepression.com
Follow The Psychedelic Furs on myriad social media, beginning here:
A reviewer described the song as "seven minutes of splendid shuffling psychedelic monster acid rock funk.": www.telegraph.co.uk
Watch the video for "Mistaken for Strangers" from The National's acclaimed album, "Boxer": www.youtube.com
Watch a hypnotic live in-studio performance by Pinback in 2013: blog.kexp.org
Read a biography of underrated Memphis band The Grifters: www.allmusic.com
soul singer extraordinaire Sharon Jones died last year at age 60 after a heroic battle against pancreatic cancer: www.rollingstone.com
"I can tell by the way you walk you want to be alone with him...": www.youtube.com
Daivd Bazan's new album, "Care" is out today. You can stream it in its entirety here: www.stereogum.com
Here's an Allmusic review of San Francisco band Swell's fifth album, "For All the Beautiful People": www.allmusic.com
You may have this song, "Star Roving," for your very own. It was a recent KEXP song of the Day: blog.kexp.org