Monthly Archives: January 2007

Today in Music: Peter Bjorn & John, José González, Franz Ferdinand and The Good, the Bad, and the Queen

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Here’s the footage of Peter Bjorn & John performing live on Conan, originally posted by Gorilla vs. Bear.
A lot of tour announcements to report…
From Pitchfork: The Good, the Bad, and the Queen announce a handful of dates, José González schedules U.S. shows, and the Killers will “visit pretty much any town where people have [...]

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PDXripped, discover Portland music

Now that KEXP’s PDXplore live concert series has had its inaugural Portland concert I decided to turn my attention to what’s new on the block in town. As you may know the idea for PDXplore is to introduce Portland bands to Seattle and vise versa by hosting concerts in each city with support from KEXP. [...]

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Song of the Day - Benoît Pioulard

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Every Monday-Friday, we deliver a different song as part our Song of the Day podcast subscription. The podcast features exclusive in-studio performances, unreleased songs, and recordings from independent musicians that KEXP DJs think you should hear, along with songs from more well-known artists.
Today’s featured selection is from Précis by Benoît Pioulard…
Benoît Pioulard - Triggering [...]

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Today in Music: the Arcade Fire, Apples in Stereo, Nick Drake, and more.

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Arcade Fire: Intervention (At Canterbury High) [Enhanced]
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For everyone who’d starving for the Arcade Fire, here’s an awesome video of the Arcade Fire performing ‘Intervention’ from their new record Neon Bible, which is due out March 6.
The Apples in Stereo have a new record coming out next Tuesday (Feb 6) called New Magnetic Warning, and [...]

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Robbers on High Street, Damien Jurado and more… Live at KEXP!

Robbers on High Street, live at KEXP - 1/22/07
Photo courtesy of Melissa O’Hearn
We recently broadcasted a number of really awesome live performances, spanning multiple genres and styles, including: Robbers on High Street, Damien Jurado, Red Heart the Ticker, Juhu Beach, and the Quiet Ones. Check out some photos and listen to all of these performances [...]

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Song of the Day - Kristin Hersh

Kristin Hersh at the Knitting Factory, NYC - 10/16/05
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Every Monday-Friday, we deliver a different song as part our Song of the Day podcast subscription. The podcast features exclusive in-studio performances, unreleased songs, and recordings from independent musicians that KEXP DJs think you should hear, along with songs from more well-known artists.
Today’s [...]

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Today in Music: Pretty Girls Make Graves to call it quits after one last tour.

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Waved Rumor posted some really cool footage of the Replacements performing on Saturday Night Live from 1986. Check out this video of the Replacements playing ‘Bastards of Young.’
A couple things of note from the weekend, courtesy of Angry Ape… Brian Eno is working with Coldplay on their new album. Lily Allen and Hot Chip [...]

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Music That Matters Vol 35 is available now… Mew, Delays, Clearlake, Art Brut, Jim Noir and many more

This latest edition of Music That Matters brings you music from Denmark, Manchester, London, Oxford, Southampton, Brighton, (as in England not Massachusetts), Alabama (yeah that Alabama), Missouri and all the way back to KEXP’s hometown, Seattle.
Listen to exclusive tracks, a few remixes and brand-spanking new singles you’ve been craving. I also have a couple [...]

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Song of the Day - Deerhoof

Satomi Matsuzaki of Deerhoof in Philadelphia - 2006

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Every Monday-Friday, we deliver a different song as part our Song of the Day podcast subscription. The podcast features exclusive in-studio performances, unreleased songs, and recordings from independent musicians that KEXP DJs think you should hear, along with songs from more well-known artists.
Today’s featured selection [...]

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Today in Music: new songs from Spoon

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Spoon- Rhythm and Soul (? new song)
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A lot of news and announcements about the “music industry” today, including yet ANOTHER major label crackdown and ANOTHER consolidation impacting a couple bands you might just be familiar with like The Decemberists and Radiohead. There is some good news however! Read on…
Here’s something for everyone that’s [...]

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