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Tuesday, Apr 12 2016, 10AM
Read a very positived review of Underworld's recent "Barbara, Barbara....": www.popmatters.com
Read "the best gig I ever saw: Stewart Lee on The Fall, Cornwall, 1984": www.theguardian.com
Samaris will be performing at KEXP's New Home Grand Opening on Saturday, April 16th, 2016. Read all about it and plan to come: blog.kexp.org
Polica were just in town in late March. Watch them and hear Channy Leaneagh's wonderful vocals in a Bumbershoot performance from 2014: blog.kexp.org
The Sun Days are a five piece band from Gotthenburg, Sweden. You can purchase the album, "Album," at their Bandcamp page: thesun-days.bandcamp.com
Writer C.S. Lewis was one of the inspirations for this song. Here are the lyrics: www.azlyrics.com
Can you identify the multiple influences in this terrific song? Learn more about it and download it for yourself, since "Fuego" was a KEXP Song of the Day: blog.kexp.org
Watch a Youtube video of Tim Armstrong's "Inner City Violence": www.youtube.com
"There is a rose that I want to live for" suggests that love transcends the call to war. Here's the video for "The Call Up", featuring drummer Topper Headon dressed as a WWII fighter pilot: www.youtube.com
Watch Thao & The Get Down Stay Down perform songs from the very personal new album, " Man Alive," last month in the KEXP studio: blog.kexp.org
See the official video for tUnE-yArDs' "Water Fountain": www.youtube.com
Here's a Firewater "infomercial" about the making of "The Golden Hour": www.youtube.com
Sam Beam of Iron & Wine has a new album with Jesca Hoop. Sam Beam and Jesca Hoop will be in Seattle, playing the Neptune Theatre on Saturday, June 4th, 2016: www.stgpresents.org
You can hear Kevin Morby at The Tractor Tavern on Wednesday, June 8th, 2016.
Sera Cahoone will lend her marvelous talent to KEXP's Grand Opening Celebration on Saturday, April 16th, 2016. She will also be performing for Holocaust Remembrance Day on Sunday, May 1st, and at a Tribute to Woody Guthrie at Benaroya Hall on May 26th, 2016: www.facebook.com
Read more about Seattle songwriter Grant Olsen and his project Gold Leaves: www.hardlyart.com
Grant-Lee Phillips will be LIVE at KEXP on Tuesday, May 17th, 2016, at 12:00 noon. He will be playing The Triple Door that evening.
This is a wonderful cover of the Grateful Dead's lone Top 40 single, "Touch of Grey." Read more about the song and The War on Drugs' cover here: pitchfork.com
Tune in to KEXP on Friday, April 15th, 2016, from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. for 12 hours of mayhem as we celebrate "6 degrees of Robyn Hitchcock.": blog.kexp.org
In a rare interview last month, Peter Buck discussed R.E.M.'s breakup: pitchfork.com
Get "Beautiful Question," a KEXP Song of the Day by Richard Buckner: blog.kexp.org
Hear Marissa Nadler at Seattle's Tractor Tavern on Friday, April 22nd, 2016.
Night Moves is playing the Sunset Tavern on Friday, May 6th, 2016: www.bandsintown.com
Enjoy a KEXP album review of Broken Bells' 2014 release, "After the Disco": blog.kexp.org
Nada Surf will be performing at the Neptune Theatre on Tuesday, May 18th, 2016.
Here's a NPR review of Nada Surf's just-released, :You Know Who You Are": www.npr.org
Watch the video as Matthew Caws performs "Friend Hospital" live: www.youtube.com
Read about the "epic" making of Nada Surf's new album: www.villagevoice.com
Read about drummer Ira Elliot's side project, Sideboob, the house band for "Orange is the New Black": www.mtv.com
Priot to the release of the new album, Matthew Caw rank ordered Nada Surf's records: noisey.vice.com
STYGGO stands for "Some Things You Gotta Get Over." "Distortland" is "undoubtedly their best album in an eon": musicfeeds.com.au
LCD Soundsystem have announced 18 shows (none in Seattle) as part of their reunion tour and have promised a new album: consequenceofsound.net
Watch live video of a great in-studio performance by UK band Jungle in 2014: blog.kexp.org
Here's a video homage to Night Beats, based on road trip footage from 1962: www.youtube.com
Watch drummer Eric Owen in his skivvies as Black Pistol Fire rocks the KEXP studio: blog.kexp.org
The Black Box Revelation is a Belgian garage rock band: www.blackboxrevelation.com
Fauna Shade will be playing Victory Studios in Seattle on Friday, April 22nd, 2016 and will perform at Sasquatch! on Sunday, May 29th, 2016.
Learn how Sam Hopkins lived the blues in this article, "Let There Be Lightnin'": www.campstreetcafe.com
Bob Mould will grace KEXP's Grand Opening Celebration this Saturday, April 16th, 2016, and then will be back in town to play The Showbox on Tuesday, May 10th, 2016.
Here's a review of "Human Performance" that calls it a "bracing snapshot of a band on a roll.": pitchfork.com
"Sour Silk" by former Smith Westerns frontman Cullen Omori was a KEXP Song of the Day: blog.kexp.org
Read a discussion of "Miltown," the drug of choice in "Mother's Little Helper": io9.gizmodo.com
Read a brief remembrance of Sparklehorse singer Mark Linkous, who took his own life in 2010 at age 47: www.nytimes.com
Courtney Barnett will be here in Seattle, performing at The Moore Theatre on Thursday, April 21st, 2016.
Thee Oh Sees will play the Pickathon Festival in Happy Valley, Oregon on August 5th, 2016.
Blacck Mountain will be LIVE on KEXP on Friday, April 22nd, 2016 at noon. They will play The Tractor Tavern that night.
Desert Mountain Tribe will perform at the Lo-Fi Performance Gallery on Saturday, April 23rd, 2016. This glowing review says that Desert Mountain Tibe has "crafted one of 2016's finest debuts...": drownedinsound.com
