Happy Election Day, everybody! Though we may not be electing the big guns (so to speak) today, it’s important to remember that often the most work gets done at a local level, so get out there, cast your vote and effect change!
In the spirit of free choice, we collect samples from each week’s [...]
Also posted in KEXP, New York | Tagged Bang! Bang! Eche!, Cold Cave, Holopaw, Julian Casablancas, Kings of Convenience, Lymbyc Systym, Nirvana, The Mary Onettes, Weezer, Yeasayer |
Musical duo The Swell Season, comprised of Frames frontman Glen Hansard and Czech pianist and singer Markéta Irglová, return with a followup to their multi-award winning soundtrack to Once. The pair just performed an exclusive live set for KEXP listeners last Thursday (you can still catch in on our Streaming Archive) but will be back [...]
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This being the week of CMJ Music Festival, it’s not surprising that many of these artists whose albums are being released this week are also playing in NYC. In fact, two of them will be featured live on KEXP this week: Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson on Wednesday at 9AM and Alec Ounsworth (of Clap Your [...]
Fans who were excited to hear the new songs during The Flaming Lips‘ spectacle of a live show this summer can now hear the official versions as their latest, Embryonic, hits stores in a deluxe edition this week, including a fur box set! (Why didn’t Blitzen Trapper think of that?):
Springing forth also this week are [...]
One of the many reasons you love KEXP and would go out of your way to support us during our 2009 Fall Membership Drive (going on now!)? The fact that we go out of our way to bring you great music not just on the airwaves (and internet waves) but also for you to [...]
Are you as excited to see Spike Jonze’s adaptation of Where The Wild Things Are as I am? The movie stills look absolutely gorgeous and the songs composed by Karen O seem as wild and fun as I hope the entire project will be. For the soundtrack, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman enlisted “The Kids,” [...]
Also posted in KEXP | Tagged Bebel Gilberto, Cory Chisel and the Wandering Sons, Drummer, Fool's Gold, Forro In The Dark, Ghostface Killah, Hope Sandoval, Karen O, Langhorne Slim, The Avett Brothers, The Ettes, The Shaky Hands, Zero 7 |
Among our guests during KEXP’s broadcast from Musicfest NW this year was the Scottish group The Twilight Sad, who performed several songs from their brand album, Forget the Night Ahead, in their live set at the Doug Fir (watch video here). New York band The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, who also performed live [...]
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Seattle represent! This week’s roundup is filled with some hot new releases from the Northwest. Visqueen’s latest, Message from Garcia, which was available digitally last week, is now ready for purchase for those of you out there still buying physical CD’s. Grand Archives and Black Whales, who are both in studio live on KEXP today, [...]
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By KEXP | Published:
September 9, 2009
Among the albums out this week is a the long-anticipated, massive digitally re-mastered collection of The Beatles music, gathering all 13 studio remasters (plus Past Masters and a DVD of mini-documentaries, bringing the disk count up to 17). The big news, of course, is that the albums are newly cleaned up and presented in both [...]
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If you thought you were going to give your bank account a break on this short, post-Labor Day week, you are mistaken… but happily mistaken because it’s a time of happy returns as some newer and much older favorites reunite or continue to put out new albums. Brooklyn’s Vivian Girls, who just performed live on [...]
