Just this morning, John Richards featured a live in-studio performance of Stellastarr*, whose long awaited third album hits stores today. Be sure to go back and listen on our 14-day Streaming Archive if you missed it. Don’t miss picking up Civilized, though, and while you’re at it, why not also grab the side project from [...]
Also posted in KEXP, New York | Tagged Bowerbirds, Ceu, Discovery, Hatcham Social, Peggy Sue, Son Volt, Stellastarr, The Minus 5, Those Darlins, Tiny Vipers, We Were Promised Jetpacks, Young Fresh Fellows |
A pretty slow week, but then again, how do you compete with a new Wilco album? That alone should send you to your local music store, but while you’re there, be sure to pick up Moby’s latest, the Bjork DVD, which we reviewed here, and Levon Helm’s second release in two years — it’s [...]
New album by Dinosaur Jr.! Not much more needs to be said about that. It should be on top of everyone’s CD stack this week. Never mind the bad band names on the rest — Lord Cut-Glass, The Phenomenal Handclap Band, Amazing Baby, Spinnerette, Deer Tick, Sunset Rubdown, Pete Yorn (sorry, Pete!) — there’s actually [...]
Also posted in KEXP, New York | Tagged Deer Tick, Dinosaur Jr., Foreign Born, God Help The Girl, Patterson Hood, Pete Yorn, Regina Spektor, Sunset Rubdown, The Antlers, The Phenomenal Handclap Band, Tom Brosseau, Tortoise |
Barely a week before AthFest, Athen’s Georgia Theatre was destroyed by fire last Friday. The iconic venue was one of the music spots in town and hosted everyone from John Mayer to Drive-By Truckers, R.E.M. to Ghostface Killah. A saddened Wilmot Greene, the owner of the theater who was in the midst of renovations, was [...]
No blockbusters out this week, but there is a little bit of something for everybody to rock out with: there’s Nickodemus and Major Lazer for a bit of groove; for The Builders and the Butchers, Ha Ha Tonka and Rock Plaza Central for some countrified rock; Cassettes Won’t Listen for electro pop; The Legends and [...]
The most anticipated album this week for KEXP listeners has to be The Eternal by Sonic Youth, who are headlining the mainstage at the Capitol Hill Block Party. KEXP is proud to sponsor this event especially when the lineup just gets better every year, so get your tickets now! Other notable releases this week come [...]
Also posted in KEXP, New York | Tagged Busdriver, Deerhunter, Dirty Projectors, Juana Molina, Kasabian, Miike Snow, Mos Def, Placebo, Rhett Miller, Sonic Youthg, The Features |
Hombre Lobo, the seventh studio album from Eels, hits stores this week. While each album seems, to fans at least, a momentous event, the album subtitled “12 Songs of Desire,” is part of a prolific body of work from Mark Oliver Everett, including soundtracks, live albums, discs of rarities, live DVDs, an autobiography, and even [...]
Also posted in KEXP, New York | Tagged Brasstronaut, Deastro, Eels, iggy pop, Jeff Buckley, Lee Fields, Neil Young, New York Dolls, Rancid, So Many Dynamos |
James Blackshaw, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Wand (aka James Toth of Wooden Wand), Sir Richard Bishop, Bachelorette, Sharon Van Etten… what’s everybody smoking these days? This week’s list of new releases contains a kind stash of of avant folk and psychedelia. Even perhaps the most anticipated album this week, Grizzly Bear’s Veckatimest, fits in nicely [...]
This week, John Vanderslice finally releases his latest, Romanian Names, which he previewed live on KEXP in Berkeley a few months ago. He’ll be back live on KEXP this Friday, May 22, at 2PM to perform more songs from the album.
Among the most anticipated releases, around this station at least, are Apostle of Hustle, [...]
Also posted in KEXP, New York | Tagged Apostle of Hustle, Au Revoir Simone, Federico Aubele, Jarvis Cocker, Jason Lytle, Jeffrey Lewis, Passion Pit, The Field, Tori Amos, White Rabbits, Zee Avi |
Jeremy Enigk, formerly/currently(?) of Sunny Day Real Estate and The Fire Theft, and a long time supporter of KEXP, is releasing his third, and quite excellent, full-length solo album today. You can check out Jeremy’s performance exclusively for KEXP on the Morning Show, Thursday at 8AM, and then later that night at Neumos. For both [...]
