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Tuesday, Mar 1 2016, 10AM
Kurt Vile and The Violators will be performing at the Sasquatch! Music Festival on Monday, May 30th, 2016: lineup.sasquatchfestival.com
"Talisman" from All Them Witches' highly-regarded "Dying Surfer Meets His Maker" is a KEXP Song of the Day and can be yours for free here:blog.kexp.org
Visit Baltimore band Future Islands' Facebook page: www.facebook.com
Wild Nothing will be playing The Crocodile on Monday, April 25th, 2016. Watch a live performance from CMJ in 2012: blog.kexp.org
Read a Guardian article on "Talk Talk: the band who disappeared from view": www.theguardian.com
Read about and listen to these "10 best Verve songs": www.stereogum.com
Here's terrific live video of Built to Spill when they played the KEXP studio last year: blog.kexp.org
Seattle band Draemhouse will have a tape release and tour kick off show at Salmon Town on Wednesday, March 16th, 2016: www.facebook.com
The Besnard Lakes new album is out and they are touring in Europe and in the eastern United States in support. No Seattle dates have yet been announced. Listen to an KEXP in-studio session from 2013: www.kexp.org
Quilt will be performing at Seattle's Sunset Tavern on Saturday, March 26th, 2016. Get "Eliot St., " a KEXP Song of the Day from Quilt: blog.kexp.org
Read a KEXP album review of Sleater-Kinney's critically acclaimed :No Cities To Love": blog.kexp.org
Look at the great picture (times 3) of Mike Hadreas, aka Perfume Genius, on his Facebook page: www.facebook.com
Seattle band Crater's song, "Habits Die Slow," from the just-released "Talk to Me So I Can Fall Asleep" is a KEXP Song of the Day. Download it for yourself: blog.kexp.org
Here's an article on where to start with Spoon, a guide for newcomers to one of America's best bands: www.slate.com
One place to start with Spoon is with this wonderful 9-song set in the KEXP studio. Watch video of that performance and the interview by ardent fan Cheryl Waters: blog.kexp.org
Animal Collective will be in Seattle, playing the Neptune Theatre this Friday, March 4th, 2016.
Frightened Rabbit will be LIVE on KEXP on Tuesday, April 19th, 2016, at noon. They will be performing at the Sasquatch! Music Festival on Sunday, May 29th: lineup.sasquatchfestival.com
Legendary shoegaze band Ride closed out KEXP's "old home" with a wonderful final six-song in-studio performance: blog.kexp.org
The Dandy Warhols, Young Fathers, Battleme, and special guests highlight the KEXP New Home Benefit, "John in the Morning at Night," at Neumos on Friday, March 18th, 2016. Find out more and buy tickets here: blog.kexp.org
Don't miss this bizarre in-studio performance from KEXP's New Home studio: blog.kexp.org
Don't miss this bizarre in-studio performance from KEXP's New Home studio: blog.kexp.org Ty Segall & The Muggers will play Sasquatch! on Saturday, May 28th, 2016.
Are you tired of T-shirts and hoodies? British band Milk Teeth have released their own yo-yos. Find out more here: www.rocksound.tv
Simian Mobile Disco are the British electronic duo of James Ford and Jas Shaw of the band Simian. Go here to their official website; simianmobiledisco.co.uk
M83 is French (now living in LA) musician Anthony Gonzalez. He will be performing at Sasquatch! on Saturday, May 28th, 2016: lineup.sasquatchfestival.com
This song, "Babel" by local group Midday Veil is a KEXP Song of the Day: blog.kexp.org
Here's more about M83 and the new album, "Junk, " due out on April 8th, 2016. "Do It, Try It" is the first single from the album: consequenceofsound.net
Here's an NPR " First Listen" to M. Ward's new release, "More Rain": www.npr.org
You may download this song for free, as it is a KEXP Song of the Day: blog.kexp.org
Mavis Staples' new album was produced by "shy, bashful" M. Ward: www.rollingstone.com
M. Ward was the subject of a biography.com feature: www.biography.com
M. Ward's new album, "More Rain," comes out on Merge Records this Friday, March 4. He will be at Sasquatch on Memorial Day weekend, playing on Saturday, May 28th, 2016: lineup.sasquatchfestival.com
Shearwater will be LIVE on KEXP on Friday, March 25th,, 2016 at noon. They will be playing The Crocodile that night.
Here's a set from KEXP's Bumbershoot Music Lounge in 2011 that includes a live version of "Fuzzy": www.kexp.org
A.C. Newman also records as Carl Newman of the New Pornographers. Here's a positive review of "Shut Down The Streets": pitchfork.com The New Pornographers will be performing at Century Link Field on Saturday, June 18th, 2016 to celebrate the Rock and Roll Marathon.
Stereogum counted down XTC's albums "from worst to best": www.stereogum.com
Watch the official video for The Baptist Generals' "Dog That Bit You": www.youtube.com
U2's new album, "Songs of Experience," is expected out in 2016 and is rumored to sound like "Zooropa.": www.ew.com
Read a biography of these "Chicago indie-blues bruisers": www.allmusic.com
This song was being performed at the Altamont Free Concert in 1969 when the Hells Angels, acting as security for the Stones, stabbed a man to death.
Cheryl Waters picked the song, "Bring My Baby Back, " from Dr. Dog's new album, "The Psychedelic Swamp," as a recent KEXP Song of the Day: blog.kexp.org
The Helio Sequence will be performing at the Tractor Tavern this Thursday night, March 3rd, 2016.
Arcade Fire will be honored with a humanitarian award at the Canadian Juno Awards this year. The band has raised almost 10 million dollars to help the people of Haiti through various avenues such as Partners in Health and Plus One. Regine Chassagne, married to Win Butler, was born in Montreal to Haitian parents who fled Haiti in the '60's.: www.billboard.com
Read the sad back story to School of Seven Bells' final album, "SVIIB": www.nytimes.com
He'll be coming to Seattle on Saturday, June 4th, 2016, and performing at the Neptune Theatre.
Here's a live session by British band The Horrors from the Doug Fir Lounge in Portland in 2011: www.kexp.org
Bob Mould will perform at The Showbox on Tuesday, May 10th, 2016. "Voice In My Head" is a featured KEXP Song of the Day: blog.kexp.org
A quite hairy Michael Stipe was in Dublin on Monday, hanging out with his friend The Edge: www.rte.ie
Michael Lerner, aka Telekinesis, will play Sasquatch! on Friday, May 27th, 2016.
Read about White Whale on the merge Records website: www.mergerecords.com
