Thursday, September 01, 2011 (LISTEN TO THIS SHOW)
| Time | Artist | Song | Album | Label |
| 1:00 | Yellow Ostrich | WHALE | The Mistress | Self-Released |
| DJ Comments: Barsuk just reissued this album, plus they're touring with the Antlers at the moment: http://www.yellowostrich.com/ | ||||
| 1:04 | Modest Mouse | Whenever You Breathe Out, I Breathe In (Positive Negative) | Building Nothing out of Something | Up Records |
| DJ Comments: Modest Mouse and Big Boi (!) are working together on a mysterious project - "It's just like a big-ass brainstorm, a brain-stormin', tsunami, typhoon, tectonic-plates-movin' kind of thing...It's a hodgepodge of funkiness." | ||||
| 1:10 | Balam Acab | Motion | Wander/Wonder | Tri Angle |
| DJ Comments: Debut album from 20 year old (le sigh) Alec Koone. It's quite good! | ||||
| 1:13 | HTRK | Slo Glo | Work (work, work) | Ghostly International |
| DJ Comments: @ Bumbershoot Sun Sep 4 @ 6pm! | ||||
| 1:17 | Matthew Dear | Elementary Lover (DJ Koze remix) | Reincarnations: The Remix Chapter 2001-2009 | Get Physical Music |
| DJ Comments: The B&W video for "Slowdance" (from the Black City album) kind of looks like an intro credit sequence in a James Bond movie - http://www.matthewdear.com/ | ||||
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| 1:22 | Washed Out | Amor Fati | Within and Without | Sub Pop Records |
| DJ Comments: Thursday October 6 @ Neptune! | ||||
| 1:27 | Oneohtrix Point Never | Where Does Time Go | Returnal | Editions Mego |
| DJ Comments: A busy dude - check out this list of influential artists he put together for Dusted: http://www.dustedmagazine.com/ | ||||
| 1:33 | The Cure | The Hanging Garden | Pornography | Fiction Records |
| DJ Comments: Let's hear it Cure fans: one of their all time bests or merely good? | ||||
| 1:37 | Keep Shelly in Athens | Our Own Dream EP | Our Own Dream | Forest Family Records |
| DJ Comments: Playing Chop Suey November 11th! They're really from Greece, too. http://keepshellyinathens. | ||||
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| 1:44 | Atlas Sound | Terra Incognita | Parallax | 4AD |
| DJ Comments: Out November 8th. Download a hidden track on the 4AD site by scrolling over way to the right and clicking on one of the apartment windows (it'll make sense) - http://www.4ad.com/parallax/ | ||||
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| 1:50 | Zomby | A Devil Lay Here | Dedication | 4AD |
| DJ Comments: Decibel Opening Night Party @ Re-bar Wed Sep 28! | ||||
| 1:53 | Active Child | See Thru Eyes | You Are All I See | Vagrant |
| DJ Comments: Fri Sep 23 @ Croc with Chad Valley! | ||||
| 1:57 | Regina | Harjun takaa | Soita mulle | Friendly Fire Recordings |
| DJ Comments: This Finnish dream pop band is releasing their 4th album September 6th. This Finnish phrase - Ilmatyynyalukseni on täynnä ankeriaita - translates to "My hovercraft is full of eels" apparently. | ||||
| 2:00 | Ride | Dreams Burn Down | Nowhere | Creation Records |
| DJ Comments: Their first full-length, from 1990. | ||||
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| 2:07 | Toro Y Moi | Saturday Love | Freaking Out | Carpark |
| DJ Comments: Out September 13th. Chaz is also playing Bumbershoot on Sunday and he's sure to be looking dapper for the occasion. | ||||
| 2:12 | Four Tet | Sing | There Is Love in You | Domino |
| DJ Comments: Four Tet performing at Bumbershoot After Dark Sun. Sept. 4 at Exhibition hall with DåM-FunK and DJ Z-Trip | ||||
| 2:18 | Richy Pitch feat. Yasmeen | Dey Suffer (Kaytronik Dem Beat Suffer Remix) | ||
| DJ Comments: Recorded in Ghana, it describes the problem of brain drain from African countries. | ||||
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| 2:23 | Male Bonding | Seems to Notice Now | Endless Now | Sub Pop Records |
| DJ Comments: They'll be playing Chop Suey October 22nd as part of the City Arts Fest - http://www.cityartsfest.com/ | ||||
| 2:26 | The Lightning Seeds | Pure | Cloudcuckooland | MCA Records |
| DJ Comments: Request! | ||||
| 2:30 | John Maus | Keep Pushing On | We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves | Upset the Rhythm |
| DJ Comments: If you ask him a question on Tumblr, he'll more than likely write back! | ||||
| 2:33 | Hype Williams | The Throning | Find Out What Happens When People Stop Being Polite, and Start Gettin' Reel | De Stijl Records |
| DJ Comments: No, NOT the director of the Big Pimpin' video, but rather a weirdo duo based in London. Here's their curated FACT MAG mix - http://www.factmag.com/2011/ | ||||
| 2:37 | James Blake | Limit To Your Love | LIVE at KEXP Volume Seven | KEXP |
| DJ Comments: Check out LIVE at KEXP Vol 7 here! http://kexp.org/cd/ [new EP drops October 10th as well, which will include a Joni Mitchell cover and his Bon Iver collaboration] | ||||
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| 2:42 | Helios | Bless This Morning Year | Eingya | Type Records |
| DJ Comments: Portland via Boston project of Keith Kenniff. He's not, in fact, the personification of the Sun. http://www.myspace.com/ | ||||
| 2:48 | Braille | Breakup | A Meaning EP | Hotflush Recordings |
| DJ Comments: This 12" is out September 12th on London label Hotflush. http://soundcloud.com/ | ||||
| 2:53 | Caveman | Old Friend | CoCo Beware | Self-Released |
| DJ Comments: "He used to be a caveman, but now he's a lawyer. Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer!" - http://www.myspace.com/ | ||||
| 2:57 | The Stone Roses | She Bangs the Drums | The Stone Roses | Silvertone Records |
| DJ Comments: The third single from their S/T. They went on to play the legendary Spike Island (which they put on themselves) in 1990. | ||||
| 3:01 | M83 | Wait | Hurry Up, We're Dreaming | Mute |
| DJ Comments: At Neumos November 13th! | ||||
| 3:06 | The Horrors | Still Life | Skying | XL Recordings |
| DJ Comments: Thursday Sep 8 @ Neumos! | ||||
| 3:12 | Maria Minerva | Hagasuxzzavol | Noble Savage 12" | 100% Silk |
| DJ Comments: Released on Not Not Fun's dance imprint 100% Silk. Maria Minerva makes some purdy lo-fi disco ditties and she has a new release out: http://notnotfun.com/now.html | ||||
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| 3:19 | The Weeknd | Lonely Star | Thursday | self-released |
| DJ Comments: Sleaze it up with the new EP, available as a free download, from Toronto's The Weeknd. It is 3 in the morning after all...http://the-weeknd.com/ | ||||
| 3:25 | Bjork | Crystalline | Biophilia | n/a |
| DJ Comments: Her 8th album is due September 27th. It was partially made on an iPad and will be released, along with conventional formats, as a series of apps each having separate components. Oh, and new music obvs. | ||||
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| 3:31 | Miike Snow | Animal (Punks Jump Up Remix) | ||
| DJ Comments: Request! | ||||
| 3:36 | Austra | Spellwork | Feel It Break | Domino |
| DJ Comments: Appearing at The Crocodile November 15th. You can impress the band by casually mentioning how Austra is also an island on the border between Nord-Trøndelag and Nordland counties in Norway. http://youtu.be/wIMSGAtNhag (KEXP live performance) | ||||
| 3:41 | Flexions | R & D | Golden Fjord | Cairo Records |
| DJ Comments: New release from this first-rate Seattle band. http://www.flexions.org/audio/ | ||||
| 3:43 | Canon Blue | Autark (Nashville) | Rumspringa | Temporary Residence Limited |
| DJ Comments: Playing October 21st at The Crocodile with Boxer Rebellion - http://www.canonblue.com | ||||
| 3:48 | The Sea and Cake | Lyric | The Moonlight Butterfly | Thrill Jockey |
| DJ Comments: They're swinging through Seattle December 2nd at The Crocodile. They were featured on DJ Kevin Cole's Music that Matters Podcast a couple months ago as well - http://blog.kexp.org/blog/ | ||||
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| 3:53 | Iron & Wine and Calexico | A History of Lovers | In the Reins | Touch and Go Records |
| DJ Comments: Une request from un mec dans Paris! | ||||
| 3:57 | Leonard Cohen | Sisters of Mercy | Songs of Leonard Cohen | Columbia Records |
| DJ Comments: Studied for five years at the Mt. Baldy Zen Center near L.A. | ||||
| 4:00 | Broken Social Scene | World Sick | Forgiveness Rock Record | Arts & Crafts |
| DJ Comments: @ Bumbershoot Main Stage Sunday Sep 4th 3-4.15 pm! | ||||
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| 4:08 | Says | Disbelieving | Disbelieving EP | |
| DJ Comments: They do a cover of Portishead's "Wandering Star" as well - http://youtu.be/jjSzzTmXtY0 | ||||
| 4:12 | Big Country | In a Big Country | The Crossing | Mercury |
| DJ Comments: You might recognize the riff because GIRL TALK sampled it! | ||||
| 4:16 | Ganglians | Drop The Act | Still Living | Lefse |
| DJ Comments: I've just been informed that Girl Talk sampled this song as well approximately 12 seconds ago...This is their 3rd release, just put out, and they have a 7" coming out soon on Captured Tracks. http://www.myspace.com/ | ||||
| 4:22 | Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks | Tune Grief | Mirror Traffic | Matador Records |
| DJ Comments: Oct 11 @ Neptune with Ty Segall! | ||||
| 4:24 | Jay Reatard | My Shadow | Blood Visions | In the Red Records |
| DJ Comments: RIP Jay. Here's a sublime cover he did of Deerhunter's "Fluorescent Grey" (they covered Jay's "Oh, It's Such a Shame" on a split 7") - http://youtu.be/Nlq1CwOhSyY | ||||
| 4:27 | Nodzzz | I'm Not a Wanderer | Innings | Woodsist |
| DJ Comments: http://nodzzz.blogspot.com/ | ||||
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| 4:31 | Macklemore x Ryan Lewis | Can't Hold Us (feat. Ray Dalton) | Can't Hold Us Single | Self-Released |
| DJ Comments: Some town shit right here! | ||||
| 4:35 | How To Dress Well | Suicide Dream 2 (Holy Other Remix) | ||
| DJ Comments: HTDW and Holy Other have been busy busy recently (the latter's With U 12" is stellar) - http://howtodresswell. | ||||
| 4:40 | Jamie Woon | Night Air | Night Air EP | Polydor |
| DJ Comments: Collaborated with Subeena on a fine 12" release: http://www.jamiewoon.com/# | ||||
| 4:45 | Portishead | It Could Be Sweet | Dummy | Go! Beat Records |
| DJ Comments: Playing in a charity soccer match this Sunday in Bristol with Massive Attack and others! It's for a good cause so please attend if you're able - http://www.portishead.co.uk/ | ||||
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| 4:50 | Cass McCombs | The Same Thing | Humor Risk | Domino |
| DJ Comments: This will be his SECOND release of 2011, due November 8th. He developed his own font (which you can read about here http://cassmccombs.com/the- | ||||
| 4:56 | Aveo | To the End of This Dull Continent | Bridge to the Northern Lights | Brown Records |
| DJ Comments: Formed in Seattle in 2000 - Phil Ek produced this, their debut, in 2001. | ||||
| 5:00 | Blitzen Trapper | Your Crying Eyes | American Goldwing | Sub Pop Records |
| DJ Comments: Out September 13th! Playing a free show at the Queen Anne Easy Street that very same day at 7. | ||||
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| 5:04 | The Kills | DNA | Blood Pressures | Domino |
| DJ Comments: At Bumbershoot this Sunday, 9:15 PM. | ||||
| 5:08 | The Ettes | You Never Say | Wicked Will | Krian |
| DJ Comments: Featured on KEXP's Song of the Day earlier this month: http://blog.kexp.org/blog/ | ||||
| 5:11 | Fugazi | Repeater | Repeater + 3 Songs | Dischord Records |
| DJ Comments: Any idea what the weird screeching sound is? IT'S MUSIC HISTORY. | ||||
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| 5:14 | NewVillager | Black Rain | NewVillager | IAMSOUND |
| DJ Comments: Duo of Ben Bromley and Ross Simonini play Neumos, October 11th with Metronomy and Noddy. | ||||
| 5:18 | Chad Valley | Acker Bilk | Equatorial Ultravox | Loose Lips |
| DJ Comments: September 23rd at The Crocodile. Take a gander at his walking tour of Oxford, England: http://drownedinsound.com/in_ | ||||
| 5:22 | Interpol | PDA | Turn On the Bright Lights | Matador Records |
| DJ Comments: Upcoming dates in Colombia and Chile. Not a lot of bands can say that. | ||||
| 5:27 | Bauhaus | Dark Entries | In the Flat Field | 4AD |
| DJ Comments: Daniel Ash's side project Tones on Tail was given the big reissue treatment recently and it's pretty killer - http://beggarsgroupusa.com/ | ||||
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| 5:31 | Dom | Damn | Family Of Love | |
| DJ Comments: Bumbershoot - MONDAY, 3:45. Here's what they look like indoors (live on KEXP): http://youtu.be/IaKKDdPTvQ0 | ||||
| 5:34 | Small Black | Despicable Dogs | Small Black EP | Jagjaguwar |
| DJ Comments: Despicable Dogs, live on KEXP - http://youtu.be/JU5TKQ6U0JM | ||||
| 5:38 | Beach House | Used to Be | Teen Dream | Sub Pop |
| DJ Comments: If I had a beach house, I'd definitely invite Alex and Victoria over for an evening of smores and fireworks. | ||||
| 5:42 | Case Studies | Lies | The World Is Just A Shape To Fill The Night | Sacred Bones |
| DJ Comments: Jesse (half of The Dutchess and the Duke) recorded these songs in a secluded cabin in Sequim, WA. I think it paid off. http://www.sacredbonesrecords. | ||||
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| 5:46 | Tycho | Coastal Brake | Coastal Brake | Ghostly International |
| DJ Comments: Bumbershoot - 7 PM on Sunday! New album out November 15th. | ||||
| 5:51 | Laurel Halo | Constant Index | Hour Logic EP | Hippos in Tanks |
| DJ Comments: Featured on FRKWYS Vol. 7 with fellow synth weirdos like Oneohtrix Point Never, James Ferraro and David Borden. | ||||
| 5:55 | Neon Indian | Polish Girl | Era Extrana | Mom + Pop |
| DJ Comments: Out Sept 13th! If you order the deluxe package, you can get a Neon Indian personalized synth. For reals | ||||
