Every Monday through Friday, we deliver a different song as part our Song of the Day podcast subscription. This podcast features exclusive KEXP in-studio performances, unreleased songs, and recordings from independent artists that our DJs think you should hear. This week’s selections are chosen by Afternoon Show host Kevin Cole. Today’s song is “Your Control” [...]
During our broadcast from the Gibson Showroom during the CMJ Music Marathon, we hosted twenty bands in five days, and while it seems like any one band might get lost in the vast amount of great music, each band managed to stand out in its own way. One of those bands, The Physics of Meaning, [...]
Let’s talk for a moment about “force field albums.” Force field albums are records that make you feel good no matter what. Records that block out negative energy. Over the years I’ve found many of them: Lily Allen’s Alright, Still, the Ocean’s Eleven soundtrack, Bob Marley’s Natty Dread, The Beatles’ Let It [...]
By KEXP | Published:
October 29, 2008
review and photos by Liza Zinina
Yelle’s second visit to the Seattle has proven to be even more electrifying and inspiring then the first. The spring show at the War Room was simply a warm-up for what was yet to come and the finished product captivated the ready-to-jump crowd with the beats and the energy emanating [...]
By KEXP | Published:
October 29, 2008
photos by Doron Gild
review by Sheryl Witlen
One of the loudest band performances of the week is sure to come from Brooklyn’s own Freshkills. Vocalist Zach Lipez, drummer Jimmy Paradise, guitarists Johnny Rauberts and Tim Murray, and bassist Mitchell Jordan know how to claim your attention and stain your memory. With dark music thick with heavy [...]
Every Monday through Friday, we deliver a different song as part our Song of the Day podcast subscription. This podcast features exclusive KEXP in-studio performances, unreleased songs, and recordings from independent artists that our DJs think you should hear. This week’s selections are chosen Afternoon Show host Kevin Cole. Today’s Song of the Day podcast [...]
There are plenty of treats this week, and just in time for Halloween. And it’s the perfect time of year for The Cure’s album to come out — not because they’re dark or scary or any of the other cliches that we attach to so-called goth music, but at their best they have a fitting [...]
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October 28, 2008
Every Monday through Friday, we deliver a different song as part our Song of the Day podcast subscription. This podcast features exclusive KEXP in-studio performances, unreleased songs, and recordings from independent artists that our DJs think you should hear. Today’s featured selection, chosen by Afternoon Show host Kevin Cole, is “Radio Retaliation” by Thievery Corporation [...]
By KEXP | Published:
October 27, 2008
photos by Doron Gild
review by Sheryl Witlen
A Place to Bury Strangers. The band name itself sounds forlorn and lethal. Who would want to coin themselves something like that except for mega-death metal bands? With a force of sound that could put you into epileptic shock, the band doesn’t take time for introduction as their music [...]
Bow down to Thurston Moore, who is now venturing into the world of art. As part of the Museum of Modern Art’s Looking at Music exhibit, Moore will play host to a December 1st showing of David Bowie videos gifted from Ziggy’s archive.
Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, better known to earthlings as Daft Punk, [...]
