Monthly Archives: April 2007

Today in Music: We Have Rufus!

Rufus Wainwright at The Triple Door

photo by Jessica Warren
Song of the Day:
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 artists that KEXP DJs think you should hear. Today’s featured selection, chosen by [...]

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Today in Music: What Was Old Is New Again

Jeremy Greenspan of Junior Boys
from KEXP’s 4th Annual Yule Benefit

photo by Gregory A. Perez
Song of the Day:
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 artists that KEXP DJs think you should hear. [...]

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Today in Music: Good Deeds + an exclusive clip of The National

Bid on Isaac Brock’s painted guitar!
photo by Karen O’Donnell Stein

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 artists that KEXP DJs think you should hear. Today’s featured selection, chosen by Morning Show host John Richards, [...]

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Seattle Weekend Picks from Three Imaginary Girls

Friday, 4/20: Rocky Votolato/Slender Means {ep release}, Drag The River, Street To Nowhere at Neumo’s
After two long years, Seattle band Slender Means has finally graced us with some new tunes! Of course, it’s only a four-song EP (and one of those is actually a live recording from their KEXP in-studio of the song “The Comet” [...]

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Audioasis: The Cave Singers, PDXplore & more!

The Cave Singers photo by Fel Pajimula
Audioasis:
KEXP has a treat for you this weekend! Hannah Levin will be hosting The Cave Singers. This local band includes Peter Quirk of the late band Hint Hint and Derek Fudesco of Pretty Girls Make Graves. The Cave Singers are not going to spaz you out with [...]

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Today in Music: On and On and On

Ted Leo & The Pharmacists

photo by Allie Bishop

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 artists that KEXP DJs think you should hear. Today’s featured selection, chosen by Morning Show host John Richards, is by [...]

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Today in Music: Can’t Hardly Wait

The Shins perform a “Take-Away Concert” for La Blogotheque
image from Chryde on Flikr

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 artists that KEXP DJs think you should hear. Today’s featured selection, chosen by Morning Show [...]

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The Roadhouse: Steak-Bone Blues

Tonight in The Roadhouse, you’ll hear Mississippi Fred McDowell, the bottleneck Delta player who grew up using a steak-bone to get his sound. Later, he switched to various bottle tops always searching for just the right one.
Born in 1904, McDowell never got the opportunity to recorded like many of his peers during the pre-Depression “Golden-Age” [...]

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Today in Music: Jandek Action Figures?

Image of Wilco toys from Cautious Rebellion

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. Today’s featured selection is from the 2007 album Transparent Things by Fujiya & [...]

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Today in Music: No One Does It Like You

The Earaches
photo from band’s website

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. Today’s featured selection is from the 2006 album [...]

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