Video: yeasayer - unknown song - 10/19/07

Santa wants to know who's been naughty! photo by Gregory A. Perez This Saturday, KEXP presents the 5th Annual Yule Benefit . We've had a lot of success with these shows in the past, and we've often used them as a showcase to expose bands that KEXP DJs think deserve a wider audience. We've had some great lineups in the past: Cold War Kids , Ghostland Observatory , and Ted Leo and the Pharmacists in 2006. Okkervil River and The Wrens in 2005. [...]

okay. i bought all hour cymbals approximately 15 minutes ago, so i clearly haven't heard the whole thing yet. but no matter - it's fantastic. the same native american influences i heard at r bar are present, and even more pronounced on the record, though other comparisons may also ring true. in any event, it's already one of the most compelling debuts of the year, and may very well turn out to be one of the best albums of the year. yeasayer is about to embark on an [...]

• Yeasayer - Final Path

This year's CMJ came and went so fast it was somewhat of a blur. Now that we are back in our time zone, and going over the loads of photos we took, we decided to do a quick video wrap-up of some of this year's bands that played the marathon. Peep them below. 1900s Alberta Cross [...]