The idea of the band This Mortal Coil is quite ingenious, really. Ivo Watts-Russell, who founded the label 4AD Records (probably past, present or future home of some of your favorite bands) started a band in the early 80s whose original purpose seems to have been to promote his label. The band featured [...]
Hey, guess who I saw in concert on Tuesday? They Might Be Giants! Guess which album they played all the songs from? Flood!! Guess how much it ruled? SOOOO MUCH!!!
A couple things I learned at the concert:
Flood was recently certified platinum 19 years after its release, making it, according [...]
Usually it’s not hard for me to find music somewhere online by the bands covered here in Review Revue, no matter how obscure. If I’ve never heard them before, it helps give me some context, and if I have, it’s a good refresher. A.C. Temple, however, is proving tricky. Aside from the [...]
Man, nothin’ gets you going for Halloween like a heaping dose of psychobilly, am I right? Yet another band that is still a band, The A-Bones just released Not Now! this summer. Of course by now they’re elder statesmen of crazy American music, but even by the time they released their first album, [...]
Ahhh, New York. What could be more controversial, more inspiring of both gushing love and bitter derision, than the city of New York (currently hosting CMJ and many of our KEXP DJs, of course)? Well, maybe New York, the 1989 album by Lou Reed. It took me a while to figure out [...]
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Hey, did you know Teenage Fanclub was still a band? I didn’t, but it does indeed seem we have yet another entry in the “hey, they’re still making records” sub-category of Review Revue. A Catholic Education, the Scottish band’s debut LP, was released in 1990 (a few years after I’d left my own [...]
As you are no doubt aware, it’s pledge drive time here at KEXP. For those of you who have given what you can to support the station, thank you so much! We couldn’t do this without you.
And now I’m going to talk to the rest of you, those who are sitting [...]
All right, you know what? I liked Tin Machine. Granted, I was just shy of 13 when the first album from David Bowie’s much-derided late-80s rock band was released, and I was perhaps the perfect audience for this project: I loved Bowie’s music, but I hadn’t built up much of a layer of [...]
Yet another band I had never heard of before pulling their record out of the KEXP stacks, The Hellcats packed quite a bit of narrative into their six years as a band. (See that myspace link for information on seemingly every thing any of the band members ever did in or out of the [...]
Happy Thursday! It’s time for another installment of Review Revue. One thing that often surprises me when researching and writing this blog is how many of the bands covered here — usually bands whose heyday (if they had one at all) was in the 80s or early 90s — are still active, still [...]
