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Last December Minneapolis’ Fuck Knights released its first album FuKn Live! Vol. 1, a compilation of songs recorded live from a variety of the band’s performances. Now following it up with a second release, Vol. 2 contains 12 tracks recorded throughout the Midwest from January to May of this year. The album will officially drop at the band’s release party at Palmer’s Bar, set right in the middle of the 5th Annual Zombie Pub Crawl on Minneapolis’ West Bank this coming October 10. The CD will be l

In this weeks installment of From the Closet I would like to shine a light on one of the greatest bands that you probably haven’t thought of in ten years: Lifter Puller .  Lifter Puller , also know as LFTR PLLR, reigns from the great state of Minnesota, which has also given us such luminaries as The Replacements , Husker Du , Soul Asylum , and the purple one himself, Prince . Between the years of 1994 and 2000, Lifter Puller created some of the most inventive rock music put to tape.  WRating: 3.5 out of 5 stars Owen ’s sole member, Mike Kinsella , has been tooling around the scene since before we even knew what a ‘scene’.  With his brother, Tim , Mike helped start the groundbreaking band Cap n’ Jazz in 1989 which, with a solitary LP and a handful of singles and compilation tracks, changed the way we saw indie rock.  Since the bands split in 1995, Kinsella has put in time with such indie luminaries as Joan of Arc , American Football , Owls , and eventually settling

Kevin Drum recently laid out a long-standing unsolved problem, one that has preoccupied such luminaries as Paul Krugman, James Fallows, and Glenn Beck . The problem is that there's no good substitute for the over-used and untrue story about how a frog, if placed in a pot of gradually heated water, will eventually allow itself to be boiled without jumping out.  And since this is a rhetorical problem, Drum describes the failure as a linguistic one:

Instrumental Saxophone musician Dave Koz , who I have been a fan of for many years , was on hand here in Hollywood today to receive the 2,389th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in a ceremony that took place in front of the Capitol Records building. Now, I’m sure 99% of you do not know who Dave Koz is but I can assure you, he is an extremely talented musician and I couldn’t be more happy that he received this honor today. Here are a few U-Melt 09/19/2009 DAUD This past  Saturday night, aggro-untzers U-Melt treated the attendees at the Wormtown Festival to a special set in which they covered The Police’s legendary album Synchronicity in its entirety. Taper Rob Clarke captured the nearly flawless performance of the disc which was book-ended  by the U-Melt classic Through The Prism. The show starts with a romp through the bold rocker Momentary Luminaries before the baTicket UpdateNICK LOWE-only 30 tickets remainAVERAGE WHITE BAND – Only 8 tickets remainMARSHALL TUCKER BAND - Only 22 tickets remainVERTICAL HORIZON – 50% sold in one week!SHAWN COLVIN – Both shows 85% sold.This Week Wednesday, Sept 23 MARCY PLAYGROUND With special guest MISSION HILL A highly original and melodic modern rock band, Marcy Playground exploded onto the scene back in 1997 with the insanely irresistible hit single Sex and Candy, a song that notched fifteen consecutive

Fucked Up win the 2009 Polaris Music Prize "Did they say Joel Plaskett?" Fucked Up frontman Damian Abraham giggled, half-delirious with genuine shock and excitement minutes after he and the rest of the band accepted the 2009 Polaris Music Prize for their acclaimed, soaring hardcore epic, The Chemistry of Common Life . The press conference immediately following last

"The Death of Dr. Thompson" - To Keith: The Wicked Accuse, The Godly Defend There’s a certain surreal part of this job. I’m typing this post from Keith Stroup’s place in Virginia, watching the San Diego Chargers play the Baltimore Ravens. Ten feet away he’s catching up on email and I’m snapping pics of his framed pictures on the wall. One is a signed personal pic photo of Hunter S. Thompson firing a shotgun at a photo of Ronald Reagan in cowboy gear. Another is a shot of Keith and Willie 'Coffee' by Motel Motel from the album The New Denver A lot has been made of the 40th Anniversary of Woodstock. Happy Birthday Woodstock . Thanks for 40 years of really annoying people. Noel Gallagher has left Oasis . Is anyone really surprised? A band with some buzz behind them is Brooklyn's Motel Motel . The band is touring in support of their new record The New Denver . Tour of the UK and Egypt are forthcoming. The Revolting Cocks are back again are tou

Brown’s Journey from Reformism to Neoliberalism   Issue: 115 Posted: 2 July 07 John Newsinger “The distribution of income in Britain has now become so unequal that it is beginning to resemble a Third World country”, wrote Gordon Brown in his 1989 indictment of Thatcherism, Where There Is Greed . He complained that since 1979 “an extraordinary transfer of resources, from poor to rich, has taken place”. Indeed, so great had the level of inequality become that it was “difficult to arguAh, the power and the glitz. All the pieces were in place Wednesday night for a perfect Washington party — luminaries from the three branches of government gathering at the Washington Convention Center, a red carpet for them to walk on and J-Lo to join them. The Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute’s black-tie gala comes around yearly at this time, but rarely with this kind of political and celebrity wattage. President Obama, who escorted first lady Michelle Obama, delivered the keynote remby Amy Crocker In the city of eliminating plastic grocery bags and library cards made of recycled corn, Ian Brennan ’s music career has been, not surprisingly, organically grown. Brennan, born in Oakland and raised in Pleasant Hill, began by playing small live shows of his own music. This transitioned smoothly into putting together gigs for other bands, which turned into producing larger shows for charities and then to producing records. As a producer, Brennan was nominated for a Grammy

The trouble with Fame & Fortune is that once you reach that destination, it’s very hard to keep the journey going.   You may, in fact, be all through traveling.   You may instead be consigned to rest on your laurels, at best returning to places you’ve already been on the road to success to see things you’ve already seen.   Not that I would know this from personal experience, you understand.   I’ve never reached that rarefied strata where the world seems to love you and money flows in likphoto by Casey Black Every Monday through Friday, we deliver a different song as part our Song of the Day podcast subscription . This podcast features exclusive KEXP in-studio performances, unreleased songs, and recordings from independent artists that our DJs think you should hear. Today’s featured selection, chosen by Afternoon Show host Kevin Cole, is “One Night Stand” by The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir from the 2009 album …And The Horse You Rode In On on Bloodshot Records . The The Whispertown 2000 Done With Love EP ••½ Acony Buoyed by the critical praise for their second album Swim , their debut UK release, The Whispertown 2000 follow it up with a six-song vinyl-only EP that ultimately works better viewed as a bonus for existing fans rather than as an introduction to the band. Perhaps best known as a support act for such indie luminaries as Bright Eyes and Jenny Lewis, the quartet comprising Morgan Nagler , Va