With SXSW just winding down and the hometown folk all but headed home, we're ready for more concerts and a new festival in Boise Idaho. It's the inaugural year of the Treefort Music Fest which runs from Thursday March 21 - Sunday March 24; featuring music from National, Local, and Regional acts. Some great bands like Pickwick, Animal Collective, Built To Spill, The Walkmen, Rose Windows , and countless others. Here in Seattle, we start with the week off with a great show on Monday night with Django Django and Night Moves at [...]
Blue Scholars play two nights at Showbox / photo by Dave Lichterman We hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving weekend with friends and family. What else do you need during the holidays? Some good live music! We take a peek inside the concert calendar with more great shows this week. Starting things off on Monday night, Rose Windows, Master Musicians of Bukkake, and Brain Fruit play at the Crocodile. On Tuesday, the supergroup of RNDM (featuring Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam, Joseph Arthur and Richard Stuverud) play two shows, a smaller [...]
It may have turned for the worse outside, but there's still plenty to see inside. City Arts Fest dominates most of the schedule with an amazing week of music ahead in almost every venue in town. It's a busy week with a ton of great choices for everyone. On Monday night Beth Orton sets the bar high for the week with a highly anticipated performance at Showbox at the Market. On Tuesday, Grimes, Elite Gymnastic , and Myths are at Neumos, Crocodiles and The Soft Pack are at Crocodile, and [...]
Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band ::: Photo by Josh Lovseth All too often we place new things into a category or bucket of like things in our mind and expect it work according to the rules of the category we've come to know. Some artists try to fit the label to a tee and in [...]
Today Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band released a new EP called Prehistory. Listen to it at bandcamp. Then see these songs performed tonight at the Columbia City Theater for the return of Sound on the Sound Presents. Openers Wintersleep have a record of their own arriving this month titled Hello Hum. MSHVB is no easy booking [...]
Here's a fresh mix for Memorial Day Weekend. This another mix of songs we liked but couldn't fit on the monthly mix. We're taking a couple of days off to chill with our families and kick up our feet. Enjoy! Biscuits & Gravy Volume II A mix of surplus music goodness from The Dadada ripped @320 kbps VBR download all files in one zip Tracklist 1.Desert Stars - Boys I Like 2. Dive - [...]
photo by Brittney Bollay Last Friday, KEXP celebrated Ballard as the winners of the Hood to Hood Challenge during our 2011 Summer Membership Drive. As promised, we brought the party to them, with five Northwest bands playing free shows outside in downtown Ballard at Bergen Place Park. Ramona Falls , Deep Sea Diver , My Goodness , The Maldives , and Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band all threw down amazing sets with new music, and KEXP DJs Cheryl Waters and Kevin Cole did their shows under our tents. The sun [...]
photos by Brittney Bollay and Dave Lichterman It's 5:35pm at KEXP's Ballard Day broadcast for Hood to Hood 2012 and everybody has but one question on our minds: Where is the drummer? Just when it looks like the final act may not happen, the indie quartet Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band triumphantly takes the stage to close out the day. A month ago, Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band released a great trailer for their new Prehistory EP , which will be released at the beginning [...]
With a week of awesome weather (not just for Seattle, I mean period .) comes a very back-heavy bevy of both shows to go peruse and enjoy. Hump Day sees Buffalo Death Beam , Yarn , Red Heart Alarm occupying the Tractor; Thursday, Sunset Tavern hosts a set by Ramona Falls , Land of Pines , and Natural Selection while Deadkill , Grenades , Battle Stations , and Strap Straps plays Neumo's. Friday, though, is Hood to Hood 2012 , the festivities of [...]
May 18 will mark victory for Ballard in last year's Hood to Hood Challenge ! That means that all day on May 18, KEXP will be hosting live music and live DJ sets all over Ballard. They will also be accepting food and hygiene donations for Ballard Food Bank all day at the KEXP tent at Bergen Place Park. For a full description of all events happening on Ballard Day, check out the Hood To Hood page on our website . There are plenty of awesome live performances and events happening on Ballard Day 2012. Starting [...]
We've taken a few months off from booking and hosting Sound on the Sound Presents showcases, but we're back! And we couldn't be more excited for our first show of 2012: Mt. St. Helen's Vietnam Band's Official EP Release, June 1st at Columbia City Theater. Joining the newly stripped down and better than ever [...]
This Thursday through Saturday, April 19-21, the University of Washington and the U-District communities are celebrating HuskyFest , three days of music, visual arts, literature and theater on the university campus and centered around a large tented pavilion on Red Square. KEXP is proud to sponsor this multicultural event, especially because they're offering lots of free music! Here are the highlights of local artists performing at the pavilion: Thursday: 11:30 AM - Craft Spells 12:30 PM - The Pharmacy 9:00 PM - The Brick Dance w/ The Rapture DJs, DJ [...]
Posted at 3:10pm, 4/9/2012 Every week we bring you the best cutting edge music from around the web. Our newest batch of uploads are ready for your listening pleasure. You can download the following mp3s individually OR play them all in a row. Click on the artists at the right under Related Downloads to learn more about each band and see similar music suggestions. Play All [RICH MEDIA, CLICK TO VIEW ON SITE] [RICH MEDIA, CLICK TO [...]
While I quite liked their past (at least the part few others liked), I'm all for Mt St Helen's Vietnam Band saying I should forget it and their uniforms and discover their new sound. Especially if the first tastes, "Warm Body" (our song of the week this week) and the just posted "We Won't Change" [...]
Dntel – Bright Night [mp3] (from Aimlessness , out June 5 th ) Electronic artist and producer Jimmy Tamborello continues to deconstruct and reassemble music and beats to the delight of weirdoes and iconoclasts (myself included). His music as Dntel is very different from The Postal Service collective (with Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie ), but could still win over some converts of conventional electro-pop. Volcanoes [...]
Pond at Buffalo Billiards during SXSW / photo by Jim Bennett Another busy schedule of shows this week. On Monday, Hot Snakes are at Neumos with The Bangs and Spider Fever , and Kelly Hogan is at the Triple Door with Puddles Pity Party . On Tuesday, there's a free performance by The Lumineers at Sonic Boom Records in Ballard, Rodrigo y Gabriela are at Paramount, Kathleen Edwards is at Neumos, and Bowerbirds are at Crocodile with Dry The River [...]
Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band is back with their first new material since their 2010 sophomore LP, Where The Messengers Meet . "Warm Body" is off the new MSHVB EP, due out on Dead Oceans in the near future. The track is on the softer side of what we've heard from this Seattle band, but it remains as tight and composed as their existing library or work. I still long for tracks like the pleasantly erratic "Albatross" and the indubitably catchy "Cheer [...]
It is happening again. After two dormant weeks of doing virtually nothing (OK, very little is more like it), evenings this week were spent spinning vinyl by The Smiths and painting Andi's sewing room in preparation for putting in the bamboo flooring this weekend. Next up will be my record room, which will be a big pain; moving thousands of CDs, LPs and 73 Singles is not a task I will find enjoyable (hence the top photo). But the finished product will be the ultimate reward. I digress. [...]
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