DJ Shannon

Shannon's 11th Anniversary on KEXP! Playing 2005 bands/albums...

Watch Nada Surf live at the KEXP studio: blog.kexp.org

Shannon bought this CD for the station back in.... 2005.

First LP from Kaiser Chiefs

First LP from Bloc Party

2005 was full of the best indie dance rock there ever was.

Brought back demos from London in 2005

Bay area band's second release on Sub Pop

Shannon saw them at Scala in London in 2005 and stood next to a KEXP listener at the show.

Leave it to the Canadians to always be great.

Debut from this English group of brothers and sisters.

Seattle band still has a MySpace like 2005 myspace.com

Bay area artist

Portland band were on hometown label Kill Rock Stars

request from their biggest fan :)

unreleased album from Seattlite Nelson Tift

Shannon got the original album from the lead singer on one of her many trips across the pond.

Almost forgot [how good this band is] myself

Shannon also saw this band in London

Timeless.

The artist who debuted in 1993 and went on to release the most records.

French group just played WaMu Theatre in Seattle

Some of the group's songs performed by Aroyo contain lyrics written in her native Bulgarian.

The Sonics.

Iceland Airwaves

Iceland Airwaves Nov. 2 @1:30PM PST/ 04:30PM EST / Playing Portland tonight at Dante's, tomorrow at Neptune and at

Live from Iceland Airwaves Nov 5 @ 11am

Live from Iceland Airwaves Nov. 5th @ 6:00AM PST/ 9:00AM EST

Live on KEXP Fri Nov 4th @ 1:30PM PST/ 4:30PM EST

one of my main obsessions in 2005 and made copy of cd for KEXP. Saw them 5x at SXSW the following year

b-side import

Iceland Airwaves

Shannon discovered in 2005

Founded in 1990 by Glen Hansard, who later formed of The Swell Season and starred in Once

We forever dig your monotone melancholia, Matt.

Spoon's best.

Ava's favorite MMJ record

yet another because it's on serious repeat in my car and life

London’s Matt Hales

Still waiting for a record dedicated to New Jersey, Mr. Stevens.

A dynamic group formed in Brighton and forever in our dance.

Pacific Northwest emeralds.

Austin psych band before psych was cool again.

Live on KEXP from Iceland Airwaves Wed Nov 2nd @ 11am

Live on KEXP & Facebook Live from Iceland Airwaves Fri Nov 4th @ 11am

new music from this Manchester, UK band

Live on KEXP Nov 2nd at 8:30am // a collaboration between three notable members of three of the most exciting Icelandic bands of the last three years - Samaris, Sing Fang and Oyama, respectively

Live on KEXP Nov 3 at 6am from Iceland Airwaves

Playing Iceland Airwaves at Harpa on Nov 5 // icelandreview.com

NOT playing Iceland Airwaves.