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Wednesday, Aug 24 2016, 10AM
Julia Holter will be playing at Iceland Airwaves (November 2nd - November 6th) in Reykjavík, Iceland. KEXP will be sending some DJ's and a production crew so you can experience the amazing bands playing this year without having to fly all the way there! For more info on the event visit icelandairwaves.is
Watch Kurt Vile and the Violators charming in-studio performance from this album "B'lieve I'm Goin Down" at www.youtube.com
I'll take The Black Angels over the Blue Angels ANYday.
Like what you're hearing? There is this song...PLUS 14 others (including Angel Olson, Deerhoof, and Jagwar Ma...) on Cheryl's Music that Matters Podcast! Download this podcast to listen to on a nice evening stroll or long car ride at www.kexp.org
Alice Bag will be playing Friday, November 4th at El Corazon! Hopefully they'll help calm your nerves before the impending election.
Canadian band Plants and Animals played live on KEXP a few years back. If you missed the session you can always give it a watch now by visiting blog.kexp.org
Milwaukee quartet The Promise Ring released this pleasantly mellow album in 2002, titled Wood / Water
Long-running San Francisco band Swell released this album '41' in 1993
Merchandise will be playing Thursday, December 1st at Barboza! For those of you who like to mark their calendars well in advance.
London duo Erol Alkan & Richard Norris released a new album Beyond the Wizard's Sleeve last month on Play it Again Sam
Originally formed in Phoenix Dogbreth now resides in Seattle. Listen to their full album at dogbreth.bandcamp.com
LA based band The Henry Clay People was originally formed by brothers Joey & Andy Siara and drummer Eric Scott.
Download “Vad Hände Med Dem” for free by Brian Jonestown Massacre from the 2014 album Revelations at blog.kexp.org
Watch The Dandy Warhols live in-studio performance from 2013 at www.youtube.com
Cracker's "Kerosene Hat" was released today in 1993. This song, "Sick of Goodbyes" was co-written by David Lowery of Cracker and Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse. Sparklehorse has a version of the song on the record "Good Morning Spider."
Download “Goldman’s Detective Agency” by Martha from the 2016 album, Blisters in the Pit of My Heart for free! at blog.kexp.org. UK group Martha emerged from Pity Me.... which is actually the name of a village in Durham in the North East of England.
Dinosaur Jr. will be playing Saturday, October 1st at the Showbox!
Watch Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks play a live KEXP in-studio session at blog.kexp.org
Karl Blau is from Anacortes, Washington. On this album he is joined by Eli Moore, Nick Myers, and Andrew Dorsett
Sturgill Simplson is from Jackson, KY and will be stopping through Seattle and playing at the Paramount Theatre on Friday, November 11th!
Seattle producer Jack Endino, Sub Pop founder Bruce Pavitt, music writer Charles Cross, and Nirvana member Krist Novaselic give their current opinions on the shocking rise and fall of one of the greatest rock bands in history blog.kexp.org
Smith Westerns frontman Cullen Omori’s solo debut, New Misery. You can find the song "Sour Silk" featured from the new album on Cheryl's KEXP "Music That Matters - Down Under" podcast- check it out! blog.kexp.org
Twin Peaks is playing Friday, September 30th at Chop Suey with White Reaper!
Enjoy London Grammer's live in-studio performance from 2013 www.youtube.com
Enjoy Kevin Morby's very recent in-studio performance at www.youtube.com
This Friday, August 26th, KEXP will dedicate 12 hours to celebrating De La Soul‘s classic 1989 debut album 3 Feet High and Rising. Starting at 6:00 AM, KEXP DJs will play every song sampled on the album, as well as all album tracks, rarities, b-sides, and interviews. PLUS De La Soul will be releasing their new 9th studio album, …And The Anonymous Nobody! Which you are listening to right now!!!! blog.kexp.org
Download this weeks Music that Matters podcast Vol. 526 - "It's Tomorrow Now' featuring this song "Blue Rickenbacker" by local band The Minus 5. The podcast is curated by KEXP DJ Cheryl Waters and also has other great bands on it like Staten Island band Cymbals Eats Guitars and Swedish Icelandic band My bubba www.kexp.org
Originally formed as The Impediments in 1979, this Minnesota band changed their name to The Replacements after getting banned from a club for disorderly conduct
Robyn Hitchcock & Emma Swift will be live on KEXP Fri. Nov. 18 at 12pm. This session KEXP is open to the public.
Watch Spoon unleash a 9-song set filled with songs from their whole catalog at their most recent visit to KEXP studios blog.kexp.org
The Coathangers will be LIVE on KEXP Tomorrow Thursday, August 25th at 12:00 PM! This session is live and open to the public! They will also be playing tomorrow evening at Neumos for the Suicide Squeeze 20th Year Anniversary! For more information on the even visit neumos.com
Kendal, UK quartet recently stopped by the Cutting Room Studios in NY for a live KEXP session. Today is the last day it's in the streaming archive so give it a listen(from Wednesday, August 10th at 9AM) at www.kexp.org
This fabulous new song "O B 1" is featured on Cheryl's KEXP Music that Matters Podcast that you can download to listen to at your own leisure! at www.kexp.org Jagwar Ma will also be performing at Bumbershoot on Saturday, September 3rd, 2016, at 7:00 p.m.
Tame Impala will be playing this Sunday, August 28th in Portland at MusicFestNW AND the following weekend at Bumbershoot Sunday, September 4th!
Massy Ferguson will be playing in Roslyn, WA at Suncadia Summer Concerts Saturday, September 3rd
Sloucher had their album release at Rancho Bravo on Capitol Hill! They will be playing Friday, September 23rd at the Redwood Tavern on Capitol Hill.
The Weakerthans’ frontman John K. Samson has new material! The new album 'Winter Wheat,' will be available October 21st!
American Football is releasing their first full length album in 17 years! The self-titled LP is due out on October 21st through Polyvinyl Records.
R.E.M. released their debut EP Chronic Town today in 1982. It was recorded at Mitch Easter's Drive-In Studios. Easter was a fan of Kraftwerk, which inspired him to try various sonic experiments while recording. Easter incorporated tape loops and recorded singer Michael Stipe singing outdoors. Chronic Town ranked second in the EP category of the Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics' poll in 1982 and sold 20,000 copies in its first year of release.
Margaret Glaspy is playing Saturday, October 22nd at the Neptune Theatre!
Cass McCombs is playing Monday, September 26th at Tractor Tavern!
Lush played at the Showbox in May! Check out the KEXP live review at blog.kexp.org
Enjoy a live performance from Arctic Monkeys’ Alex Turner at blog.kexp.org
