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Tuesday, Jul 4 2017, 10AM
You can purchase this self-titled album by Gothenburg, Sweden band Agent Bla at their Bandcamp page: agentbla.bandcamp.com
Request. Watch an entire live in-studio performance by Brooklyn band Caveman in 2016: blog.kexp.org
Will Blur record another album after 2015's "The Magic Whip"? Here's an interview with Damon Albarn: www.nme.com
The Drums will perform here in Seattle at Neumos on Monday, July 17th, 2017.
The Thrills formed in Dublin, Ireland in 2001. Watch them perform "This Year" live: www.youtube.com
Follow Rouen, France band Tahiti 80 on their Facebook page: www.facebook.com
My #1 album of the year // pronounced bly-neven . You may have (for free) Blaenavon's "My Bark Is Your Bite," a KEXP Song of the Day: blog.kexp.org
Happy 10th Birthday, Cole! The White Stripes are a great request. In November, a children's picture book based on the song, "We're Going To Be Friends" will be published. Read more about it and pre-order it here: thirdmanrecords.com
Request. "I learned to say the pledge of allegiance ...Before they beat me bloody down at the station..." Here are the lyrics to "The American Ruse": genius.com
Read an Allmusic biography of this garage rock band that formed in Spokane in 1991: www.allmusic.com
Don't you love this infectious song? It's free as a KEXP Song of the Day: blog.kexp.org
If you're headed to British Columbia, Tokyo Police Club is playing the Wapiti Fernie Music Festival in Fernie on Saturday, August 12th, 2017.
Request. Watch the stars moving past at Rogue Waves' official website: roguewavemusic.com
Local band Say Hi came to an end in early spring of this year. Read more about it here: www.thestranger.com
Here's the video for this little toe-tapper: www.youtube.com
"Life's Too Good" was the debut album by The Sugarcubes. The Quietus featured a retrospective several years ago: thequietus.com
Tel Aviv-based artist's debut album. Read a Paste Magazine review of the "galvanizing" album, "Off the Radar": www.pastemagazine.com
"Atmospheric, cinematic, quixotic, entrancing, dreamy, melancholic are a few ways to describe the London-by-way-of Berlin duo’s first LP..." Read more about it on the KEXP blog and download a free copy of the song, "A Year From Here": blog.kexp.org
Rob Dickinson left music to pursue his passion for automotive design. Here's a 2011 interview with him about his love for Porsche 911's: www.forbes.com
When accused by one interviewer of being a misery guts writing yet another miserable song, Mark Hollis retorted:
“‘Dum Dum Girl’ isn’t miserable, I just think of it as an anti-prostitution song, that’s what it is. ": dervswerve.wordpress.com
Enjoy an interview with the members of Radio 4: freewilliamsburg.com
Watch Christopher Walken in the video for Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice": www.youtube.com
Read a glowing review of "Silent Alarm," the debut album by Bloc Party: pitchfork.com
"Can you take me back to that place where stars glow ...comets swarm like fireflies outside your window..." Read the lyrics to "Lola Stars and Stripes": songmeanings.com
Dream Version hypothesizes that Kurt Cobain spent thirty minutes a week folding laundry, and their mission is to remind you of that idea. Their album, "Fight Fair," will be out on July 7th, but, if you can't wait, you can pre-order it here: dreamversion.bandcamp.com
They Might Be Giants is an American alternative rock band formed in 1982 by John Flansburgh and John Linnell.www.theymightbegiants.com
Watch Art Brut performing this song live in Kingston: www.youtube.com
Here's a live performance by Surfer Blood in the kEXP studio in 2015: blog.kexp.org
Debut of new single off EP from this Glaswegian band. "The third single to be released from their impending EP ‘Extended Play’, Young Team cites growing up in Glaswegian gang culture where ‘young teams’ or more aptly, teenagers, “fight to escape boredom and disassociation with their surroundings.” : soyoungmagazine.com
A great Vancouver BC band who played on my show... Watch that full performance from the KEXP vault: www.youtube.com
Beach Fossils will be LIVE on KEXP nest Tuesday, July 11th, 2017, at 3:00 p.m. That performance is open to the public to sign up and attend. The band will be playing The Timbre Room that night.
Read a tribute to Camera Obscura's Carey Lander, who died in 2015 of bone cancer: www.bbc.co.uk
A blogger talks about There Will Be Fireworks' fine 2013 release, "The Dark, Dark Bright": www.goldflakepaint.co.uk
Request. You can hear them play "Entrance Song" at The Showbox on Monday, October 23rd, 2017.
That camera ascends pretty high in this video for Tame Impala's "Lucidity": www.youtube.com
Request. Musically, this is yet another variant of the main riff from The Who's song "I Can't Explain," which the band obviously liked as it had already inspired the main riffs to both "Capital Radio One" and "Clash City Rockers." Lyrically, The Clash were calling out those who oppress their own people with often brutal results.: www.songfacts.com
Wolf Alice will be playing a sold-out show on Friday, July 21st, 2017, at The Sunset Tavern.
If you're going to sing this as a karaoke song, be sure to get the lyrics right: www.azlyrics.com . Here's the video: www.youtube.com
The video for ""I'm Afraid of Americans" was nominated for several awards: www.youtube.com
Request. Film School just announced that their 2003 EP, "alwaysnever,' is now available digitally for the first time:www.facebook.com
Request. In a 2009 interview with Clash Magazine, Ian Brown explained that he "didn't actually want people to adore me. I was trying to say then, if you want to be adored, it's like a sin, like lust or gluttony or something like that."
"We only have to do this until we reach the dry sand, then we can stop." Here are the wonderful lyrics: www.lyricsfreak.com
Coming Monday, October 2nd, 2017, to The Neptune Theatre.: www.facebook.com
Marika Hackman will perform on Friday, August 4th, 2017, at The Sunset Tavern. Read more about her at the Sub Pop Records website: www.subpop.com
Seattle band Zebra Hunt's song "Half Right" was a KEXP Song of the Day. Download it for yourself here: blog.kexp.org
Request. Watch Ween performing "Freedom of "76" live: www.youtube.com
Request. George Michael doesn't even appear in the terrific video for "Freedom.": www.vanityfair.com
"Cody Chesnutt is a singer/songwriter and guitarist who mixes rock, R&B, hip-hop, blues, pop, and soul into a unique, lo-fi hybrid." Read a biography of this gifted artist: www.allmusic.com
This L.A. quartet will perform at the Bumbershoot Music and Arts Festival on Friday, September 1st, 2017.
In May, The Guardian issued its picks for the top ten The The songs: www.theguardian.com
Watch the interesting video for "Supermassive Black Hole": www.youtube.com
Apocalypse set :) . This review of "More Fast Songs..." calls it a "decent and fiery auditory experience": undertheradarmag.com
Thomas Timothy Vernon-Kell is a self-taught multi-instrumentalist musician who works under the name of Tom Vek. Visit his Facebook page here: www.facebook.com
Big Thief will be at The Paramount Theatre on Tuesday, August 8th, 2017, opening for Belle & Sebastian.
The New Yorker says that this is the Talking Heads song that explains Talking Heads: www.newyorker.com