Host: John Richards
| Time | Artist | Song | Album | Label |
| 6:00 | The Middle East | Lonely | The Recordings of the Middle East | Self-released |
| DJ Comments: Debut EP from the Australian-based group. http://www.myspace.com/visitthemiddleeast | ||||
| 6:06 | Coldplay | Don’t Panic | Parachutes | Capitol |
| DJ Comments: Coldplay’s Chris Martin is set to appear as a guest in an episode of The Simpsons that will air in 2010. | ||||
| 6:09 | Akron Family | River | Set ‘Em Wild, Set ‘Em Free | Dead Oceans |
| DJ Comments: Akron Family head out on an European tour starting November 3rd! http://akronfamily.com/ | ||||
| 6:14 | Talking Heads | And She Was | Sand in the Vaseline | EMI |
| DJ Comments: Former Talking Heads frontman, David Byrne, just released a new book, Bicycle Diaries, on which he shares his experiences and musings about bicycling in NYC and other metropolitan cities. | ||||
| 6:18 | Built to Spill | Life’s a Dream | There Is No Enemy | Warner Bros |
| DJ Comments: Built to Spill perform two nights in Portland at Wonder Ballroom on November 13th and 14th and in Seattle at the Showbox on November 19th and 20th. | ||||
| 6:24 | Bob Dylan | Lay Lady Lay | Nashville Skyline | Columbia |
| DJ Comments: Dylan’s Christmas benefit CD, Christmas in the Heart, came out last Tuesday. It features “Here Comes Santa Claus,” “Winter Wonderland,” “Little Drummer Boy” & “Must Be Santa” | ||||
| 6:27 | David Berkeley | Love’s the Only Thing That Shuts Me Up | (V/A) Ciao My Shining Star: The Songs of Mark Mulcahy | Shout! Factory |
| DJ Comments: Compilation album of former Miracle Legion & Polaris frontman’s Mark Mulcahy’s song covered by the likes of Thom Yorke, Michael Stipe, Dinosaur Jr., Mercury Rev, The National, Frank Black and more. | ||||
| 6:29 | Damien Jurado | Go First | Caught In the Trees | Secretly Canadian |
| DJ Comments: Damien Jurado is currently touring Europe right now. He recently collaborated with fellow labelmate Richard Swift on a forthcoming album. | ||||
| 6:35 | Le Loup | Grow | Family | Hardly Art |
| DJ Comments: Le Loup perform at Chop Suey in Seattle this Friday and LIVE on KEXP at 3pm (Seattle Time) earlier that day. | ||||
| 6:38 | Atlas Sound | Solo or the Square | Virtual 7″ | Kranky |
| DJ Comments: Bradford Cox (Deerhunter frontman; AKA Atlas Sound) is in NYC for a shows during CMJ. He’s at Le Poisson Rouge TONIGHT and Music Hall of Williamsburg tomorrow night | ||||
| 6:43 | Phoenix | Love Like a Sunset (Animal Collective Remix) | Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Remix Collection) | Glassnote |
| DJ Comments: Phoenix recently released a remix collection of songs from their newest album, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, and features remixes done by Animal Collective, Passion Pit, Chairlift among many others. | ||||
| 6:47 | Big Spider’s Back | Perfect Machine | Warped EP | Disco Earth/Circle Into Square |
| DJ Comments: The local band were recently featured in a KEXP Music That Matters podcast. Go grab the mp3 (and many other podcasts) here: http://kexp.org/podcasting | ||||
| 6:52 | LCD Soundsystem | Too Much Love | LCD Soundsystem | DFA |
| DJ Comments: LCD Soundsystem’s next album, as of yet untitled, will come out next March on DFA Records. | ||||
| 6:58 | Julien Plenti | Fun that We Had | Julien Plenti is Skyscraper | Matador |
| DJ Comments: Paul Banks (Interpol frontman; AKA Julien Plenti) will perform at Chop Suey in Seattle on November 16th and Bowery Ballroom in New York City on November 24th. | ||||
| 7:03 | Chief | In the Valley | LIVE from the Cutting Room Studios in NYC | KEXP |
| DJ Comments: Santa Monica, California-based Chief are the newest band signed to Domino Records (Home to Animal Collective, Dirty Projectors) http://www.myspace.com/chieftheband | ||||
| 7:06 | Chief | Breaking Walls | LIVE from the Cutting Room Studios in NYC | KEXP |
| DJ Comments: Chief are performing two shows this week in New York City: Chess Club Showcase this Friday evening at Santos Party House and later that night at Highline Ballroom. | ||||
| 7:11 | Chief | Mighty Proud | LIVE from the Cutting Room Studios in NYC | KEXP |
| DJ Comments: Mighty Proud is out as a 7″ this year on Domino Records/Chess Club Records. A full-length will be out later next year. | ||||
| 7:15 | Chief | You Tell | LIVE from the Cutting Room Studios in NYC | KEXP |
| 7:19 | Maps | Turning the Mind | Turning the Mind | Mute |
| DJ Comments: Brand new music from James Chapman. Turning the Mind comes out TODAY! | ||||
| 7:30 | Cold War Kids | Hang Me Out To Dry | Robbers and Cowards | Downtown |
| DJ Comments: Drummer Matt Aveiro recently wrote and directed the short film Jen In the Painting, about a painter whose tense relationship with his ex-girlfriend begins to affect his work | ||||
| 7:32 | The Big Pink | Velvet | A Brief History of Love | 4AD |
| DJ Comments: They’ll be in NYC on December 3rd at Bowery Ballroom and December 4th at Music Hall of Williamsburg. | ||||
| 7:36 | Mew | The Zookeeper’s Boy | And The Glass Handed Kites | Sony |
| DJ Comments: Mew perform at Neumos in Seattle on December 10th. | ||||
| 7:42 | Metric | Help, I’m Alive | Fantasies | Self-released |
| DJ Comments: Emily and James from Metric were one of the many acts to perform as part of KEXP’s live broadcast from Bumbershoot Music Lounge. Find a recap at http://blog.kexp.org/blog/2009/09/08/bumbershoot-music- | ||||
| 7:46 | Matt & Kim | Daylight | Grand | Fader |
| DJ Comments: Matt and Kim perform a sold out show with Weezer at Hammerstein Ballroom on Halloween. | ||||
| 7:51 | Pinback | Walters | Autumn of the Seraphs | Touch and Go |
| DJ Comments: Armistead of Pinback recently released a brand new solo album, Underslept, under the Systems Officer moniker on Temporary Residence. | ||||
| 7:55 | Pixies | Levitate Me | Come On Pilgrim | 4AD |
| DJ Comments: No Age, Mew, Jay Reatard among others are set to open for Pixies’ Doolittle tour which will makes its way to the U.S. next month. Dates and more info at http://www.myspace.com/pixies | ||||
| 7:58 | The Black Angels | Black Grease | Passover | Light in the Attic |
| DJ Comments: The Black Angels are currently on tour with the Raveonettes right now. They’ll be at the Metro in Chicago on October 25th. | ||||
| 8:05 | A Place to Bury Strangers | Everything Always Goes Wrong | Exploding Head | Mute |
| DJ Comments: From their brand new CD out on Mute Records. APTBS will perform with Dead Confederate and All the Saints at the Bowery Ballroom in NYC on October 29th. | ||||
| 8:10 | The Horrors | Who Can Say | Primary Colours | XL |
| DJ Comments: See the official music video for the single, Who Can Say Here, here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNjcSgU0Nrg | ||||
| 8:14 | The Jesus and Mary Chain | Sidewalking | Barbed Wire Kisses | Blanco Y Negro |
| DJ Comments: Singer-guitarist William Reid of The Jesus and Mary Chain turns 51 on October 28th. | ||||
| 8:17 | REM | Turn You Inside-Out | Green | Warner |
| DJ Comments: REM has recently released a documentary film (shot by Vincent Moon), called This Is Not A Show, capturing the band’s live show from Dublin, Ireland in 2007. http://www.remdublin.com/ | ||||
| 8:21 | The Replacements | Here Comes a Regular | Tim | Sire |
| DJ Comments: The first major label release from the Minneapolis band back in 1985. | ||||
| 8:26 | Lake | Breathing | Let’s Build a Roof | K |
| DJ Comments: From the Olympia, WA-based band’s new album produced by Karl Blau out on K Records http://krecs.com/ | ||||
| 8:32 | Wild Nothing | Cloudbusting (Kate Bush cover) | ||
| DJ Comments: Download this cover for free at http://tinyurl.com/yj3uapx Wild Nothing is 21-year-old Blacksburg, Virginia songwriter Jack Tatum. http://www.myspace.com/wildnothing | ||||
| 8:36 | Miike Snow | Burial | Miike Snow | Downtown |
| DJ Comments: Debut album from the Stockholm, Sweden-based band. | ||||
| 8:40 | Thom Yorke | Feeling Pulled Apart By Horses | Feeling Pulled Apart By Horses/The Hollow Earth | W.A.S.T.E. |
| DJ Comments: While the song dates back to 2001, it just came out last month on a 12″ of the same name and available at the band’s WASTE store: http://www.waste.uk.com/ | ||||
| 8:48 | Massive Attack | Pray For Rain | Splitting the Atom EP | Virgin |
| DJ Comments: Features Tunde of TV on the Radio on guest vocals. The EP came out earlier this month and is meant to be a teaser before the group releases their new full-length, as of yet untitled, in February 2010. | ||||
| 8:54 | The National | Mistaken For Strangers | Boxer | Beggar’s Banquet |
| DJ Comments: The Dressner brothers have composed a piece for Kronos Quartet and they are presenting it a multimedia show called The Long Count at BAM at the end of the month. http://www.bam.org/view.aspx?pid=1263 | ||||
One Comment
Thurday - 10/22 - what were the two hip hop tracks that came on after Hot Chip? I missed the namecheck!