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Tuesday, Apr 17 2012, 10AM
Check out Damien Jurado's recent in-studio here at KEXP, featuring members of The Shins, The Head & the Heart and Campfire OK! - blog.kexp.org
Pond hail from Australia and share 2 of the 3 members from Tame Impala. Download a free song from them right here - blog.kexp.org
In addition to his duties with Wolf Parade, Spencer Krug also records under the Moonface moniker and just released his second LP, entitled Heartbreaking Bravery
Stephin Merritt dropped by KEXP to play the KEXP's men washroom (!) and be interviewed by DJ El Toro (!!) so, you know, file that under "must listen!" - kexp.org
Overheard just now in the KEXP offices (with great enthusiasm): "this is my favourite!"
Wonder if Sam Beam (Iron & Wine) is a hockey fan, because he's definitely sporting a seasonally appropriate playoff beard - 24.media.tumblr.com
Bobby Womack, the OG of OGs, is all set to put out a brand new album called the Bravest Man in the Universe on June 12th.
Here's Nite Jewel (née Ramona Gonzalez) funkin' around with fellow LA musician Dam-Funk over their shared affection for analogue synthesizers - youtu.be
Download a cut from their new album, produced by the in-demand Ben Allen (who's worked with Deerhunter, Animal Collective) - blog.kexp.org
Robert Mapplethorpe took Patti's photo for the cover of Horses
Opening for the Black Keys in Seattle at Key Arena on May 8th
The fierce rhythm section on Lust for Life courtesy of the Sales brothers, Tony and Hunt
Their new album - the one playing right now - is out today! They'll be in town playing the Crocodile June 13th too.
Joe Pernice has a new puppet-based (!) web series that chronicles "two years’ worth of petulant banter" between him and friends - vimeo.com
Teenage Fanclub are stil going strong, as evidenced by this Song of the Day from their 2010 release Shadows - blog.kexp.org
"I will now sell five copies of 'The Three EPs' by The Beta Band" - youtu.be
Sub Pop are releasing a super limited, super dope Shabazz Palaces LIVE ON KEXP 12" for Record Store Day (April 21st), on purple vinyl no less. Be sure to cop that steez!
The Brooklyn six-piece were recently featured on KEXP's Song of the Day podcast! - blog.kexp.org
Playing with Dirty Projectors July 23rd at the Showbox, Market!
Check out John Vanderslice's blog for his nerdy, yet droll, obsession with the Eventide 949 Harmonizer (used extensively on David Bowie's 1977 LP Low) and other such recording equipment of yore - johnvanderslice.com
Appropos of Vampire Weekend, anybody watch that HBO show Girls last night?!?!
Recorded and released as the band was going through a real rough patch
Playing with School of Seven Bells at the Crocodile, April 23rd!
Check out video from their absolutely blistering LIVE session here at KEXP - youtu.be
Fun fact: David Byrne released a solo album in 1981 entitled The Catherine Wheel, commissioned by dancer Twyla Tharp to soundtrack her show of the same name
Appeared on their classic 1979 LP Entertainment! and, before that, on a 7" in 1978 b/w "Love Like Anthrax" and "Armalite Rifle"
This song first appeared in the US on a bootleg release, Best in Good Food, in 1978 on Edible Records
In news from Mali - Sidi Touré's pay de natale - Cheick Modibo Diarra, Microsoft's chairman for all of African, has been appointed as interim PM after the recent coup
KEXP 90.3 FM Seattle presents Deer Tick live from ME Studios in Austin, Tx. during SXSW 2009 a special acoustic performance of "Cake And Eggs" from John of Deer Tick. www.kexp.org
If you dig tropicalia, Caribbean beats and Spanish pop, folk music, be sure to listen to El Guincho's stellar FACT Mag mix - www.factmag.com
LIVE on KEXP - Monday April 23, 4:30pm and then playing the same night at the Crocodile with Exitmusic!
New Spiritualized! This is Jason Pierce and company's 7th LP and was written and recorded during a tumultuous time in the life of the ex-Spacemen 3 member (he was just recovering from pneumonia and then was immediately struck by a degenerative liver disease)
The new LP from these Vancouver purveyors of sweaty, garage-y good times is due out June 5th! They also have a new 7" single out May 15th
May 26th at Sasquatch! Check out their awesome, dare I say rollicking, live set here at KEXP before they embarked on their big European tour - blog.kexp.org
Off the debut album from British chanteuse Elly Jackson & producer Ben Langmaid
On this, the new album from husband-and-wife duo Amadou & Mariam, they had help from Santigold, Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner, TV On The Radio’s Kyp Malone and Tunde Adebimpe and Scissor Sisters frontman Jake Shears
The Band's singer / drummer Levon Helm is rather sadly in the "final stages of his battle with cancer." Our thoughts are with you Levon...
Sonic Youth's has tinkered around as a solo artist for a while, but this is the first album he's put out under his own name. He also enlisted Nels Cline and Alan Licht, keyboardist John Medeski and Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley for Between the Times...
Denton, TX band Mind Spiders will be playing Austin's Psych Fest happening April 27th - 29th. The awesome lineup also includes Peaking Lights, Lotus Plaza, Sun Araw, The Black Angels, Olivia Tremor Control and way more
Playing Sasquatch! on May 27th! Look out for their full-length release, Palace Garden, sometime this summer
Quantic - Will Holland - relocated to Cali, Colombia from his native England in order to be closer to the country's Cumbia sound that he found so desirous
Out May 15th! Beach House will also be part of Record Store Day (April 21st) with a 7" single release, “Lazuli” b/w “Equal Mind” (on blue vinyl)
Playing tonight at the Electric Owl in Vancouver
