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Thursday News Threads
Jeremy Farmer In somewhat interesting though, in retrospect, largely unimportant news, Radiohead was encouraged by their management to split up prior to releasing In Rainbows. According to Brian...
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Thursday News Threads
Photo by Jo Marie Riedl 24-year-old drummer Ben Hills, of Seattle band The Shy Ones, passed away early yesterday morning from a fire on Capitol Hill. RIP, Benny. You will be missed. On a more uplifting...
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Thursday News Threads
New Faces, as immortalized by KEXP contributing photographer Chona Kassinger Seattle band New Faces has decided to split up “due to irreconcilable conflicts.” All of their upcoming shows have been...
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Out This Week 1/26
Music fanatics everywhere can breathe once again as this week’s new releases promise only the most excellent albums to come in 2010. Prolific folk artist Stephin Merritt has created yet another...
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Thursday News Roundup
Rilo Kiley Jenny Lewis-fronted indie rockers Rilo Kiley have apparently broken up. Guitarist Blake Sennett, a recent guest here at KEXP with his band The Elected, told Spinner that the split was a...
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Live Around Town This Week
With everyone finally back from SXSW in Austin, the local concert calendar also picks up significantly this week. Starting on Monday, The Magnetic Fields begin the first of two night at the Neptune...
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KEXP Suggests: Future Bible Heroes @ Tractor Tavern 7/12
photo by Kimberly Butler The acerbic, poetic Stephin Merritt is simply too prolific for just one band: when not writing for Magnetic Fields, he also dabbles in side projects like The 6ths, Gothic...
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Wednesday Music News
photo by James Bailey Album, schmalbum. Modest Mouse fans have been waiting for news on a follow-up to the band’s 2007 breakout, We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank, and instead the humble rodents...
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Video Roundup: National Puppy Day
Our tails are waggin’, ’cause it’s National Puppy Day, a day designated to celebrate puppies and encourage adoption — really, why isn’t every day National Puppy Day? KEXP encourages everyone...
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