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pitchfork: Read Stephen M. Deusner’s review of the 10th...

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:11:37 -0400

pitchfork:

Read Stephen M. Deusner’s review of the 10th Anniversary reissue of the Postal Service’s Give Up.

For me, listening to this album is like reconnecting with an old love. I hope all who listen find that same connection.

WGRE is mtvU's College Radio Station of the Week!

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 12:27:59 -0400

WGRE is mtvU's College Radio Station of the Week!:

Just look at that stellar station. I’m especially impressed with the music department’s countdown list.

Big thanks to Young Buffalo for stopping by WGRE for an in...

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:22:25 -0500

Young Buffalo and Taylor interviewing in the DJ Booth.

Big thanks to Young Buffalo for stopping by WGRE for an in studio interview and performance!
The audio and videos will be up soon!

distillerpromo: Catch Kate Nash and Robyn Hitchcock both...

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 15:51:26 -0500

distillerpromo:

Catch Kate Nash and Robyn Hitchcock both featured on KEXP’s blog this week. Also, see Kate’s latest video for “3AM” above!

Kate Nash is one of our adds for this week! Check her out!

The 2013 Bonnaroo Lineup is here!

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 18:04:14 -0500

The 2013 Bonnaroo Lineup is here!:

Check out this year’s lineup which includes such WGRE artists as: The xx, David Bryne & St. Vincent, Animal Collective, Tame Impala, The Local Natives, The Tallest Man on Earth, Father John Misty, The Dirty Projectors, and Alt - J (just to name a few).

Tame Impala is on WGRE

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 16:29:44 -0500

Tame Impala is on WGRE :

If you haven’t listened to Lonerism by Tame Impala, you should. Check out this loving review by Pitchfork.

Pitchfork: Yes, Arcade Fire Are Working With James Murphy

Sat, 08 Dec 2012 14:59:06 -0500

The Arcade Fire fan community Arcade Fire Tube points out confirmation of a rumor that’s been swirling around for a while now. James Murphy is, indeed, in the studio with Arcade Fire working on their forthcoming album.

According to a feature in Music Week about the Arcade Fire management team, manager Scott Rodger said, “They’re in with James Murphy on three or so songs, plus Markus Dravs who is a long-time collaborator. They write too many songs - that’s a good problem to have. There’s around 35 songs with Arcade Fire, two albums’-worth for sure.”

There’s no word yet on exactly when the new record will be ready, but it’ll likely be late next year.

Thank you Fitz & the Tantrums!

Sat, 06 Oct 2012 22:05:44 -0400

Thank you Fitz & the Tantrums!:

WGRE Music would like to thank Fitz & the Tantrums for an amazing concert here at DePauw University! Our audio interview with Fitz will be posted soon!

Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros in Indianapolis 9/23!

Sat, 22 Sep 2012 05:27:35 -0400

Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros in Indianapolis 9/23!:

A conversation with Jencey Hirunrusme of Dallas’ Smile Smile

Sat, 22 Sep 2012 05:16:00 -0400

A conversation with Jencey Hirunrusme of Dallas’ Smile Smile:

Smile Smile has just been added to rotation at WGRE! This band has an intriguing history (Broken up couple- remind anyone of The White Stripes?) and fantastic music.

nevver: Positively 47th Street

Wed, 16 May 2012 18:55:15 -0400

nevver:

Positively 47th Street

youaintpunk: <333

Wed, 16 May 2012 18:55:04 -0400

youaintpunk:

<333

nevver: Who’s next?

Wed, 16 May 2012 18:54:35 -0400

nevver:

Who’s next?

pitchfork: Animal Collective’s new album, Centipede Hz, is out...

Wed, 16 May 2012 18:54:06 -0400

pitchfork:

Animal Collective’s new album, Centipede Hz, is out in September via Domino. Photo by Atiba Jefferson.

everygreatsongever: The Hollies: “Crusader” (For Certain...

Wed, 16 May 2012 18:51:43 -0400

everygreatsongever:

The Hollies: “Crusader” (For Certain Because, 1966)

I’ve been thinking about this song recently and I’m not sure why. It’s been my favorite Hollies song since I heard it a couple years ago at a time when I hadn’t really given the group a second thought beyond enjoying a few of their old hits.

I grew up listening to those old hits—“Bus Stop,” “Just One Look,” Stop Stop Stop,” “On a Carousel,” etc.—because my parents tended to tune in oldies radio a lot. I hadn’t even really thought of them as a British Invasion group, though I knew that’s where they were from.

This was an album track, buried in the middle of side two of For Certain Because, the first of the band’s albums they wrote entirely themselves. Graham Nash and Allan Clarke usually wrote separately, but they co-wrote this, which is probably the most haunting thing the band recorded. That minor-key verse melody and the beautiful guitar part have a dream-like quality that makes the imagery of the lyrics easy conjure.

Interesting lyrics, too—the crusader of the title is a literal Christian crusader from the eleventh or twelfth century, returned from the Middle East to Britain, where he finds that nothing is quite as he left it. There’s even a hole in the roof.

History records so little about the individual stories of the people who left their homes to fight a religious war in a far-off Holy Land that they likely had no real conception of before they left, outside of what priests had told them. Surely many of them felt some sort of conflict about what they were doing, or at least about leaving their lives behind to do it.

Europe was such a different place then. Nearly everyone lived in crushing poverty, and almost no one had much education—it was a world where you lived to survive. So the idea that so many from successive generations went off, willingly or unwillingly, to fight for an abstract cause like the glory of Christendom is kind of amazing to me. I find, looking at history, that societies that place a high premium on honor tend to waste a lot of lives.

So here’s this song, and it has an unusually intimate and astute angle on what it must have been like to come back home after traveling thousands of miles to a place whose terrain and native culture might as well have been alien to fight, essentially, for the honor of having fought. Let’s say you were part of one of the crusades that actually accomplished some of its territorial objectives. Back home, what would that actually have meant to you?

Abstractly, you might know that this or that city was back in Christian hands. You might find the thought immensely satisfying. But then, there’s a hole in the roof, and you need firewood, and people who once were under your thumb seem to have forgotten about you in your absence, not to mention the fact that the old political disputes with your neighbor remain unresolved.

I’m sure that the intense piety of the crusaders (those that went willingly, anyway) mitigated some of the emptiness they must have inevitably felt on their return, but I just can’t imagine that any thinking person wouldn’t have felt at least a little of that emptiness. It makes me think of the the way Winston Churchill described England’s crusader king, Richard I The Lion-Hearted: “His life was one magnificent parade which, when ended, left only an empty pain.”

nprmusic: Laura Marling’s songs unfold in quiet ways, with...

Fri, 11 May 2012 15:05:05 -0400

nprmusic:

Laura Marling’s songs unfold in quiet ways, with lyrical depth that rewards repeated listening and a clear alto voice that gives her songs gravity. Watch her perform “Sophia,” from A Creature I Don’t Know, in a studio session from opbmusic.

newspeedwayboogie: Father John Misty - Nancy From Now On New...

Wed, 09 May 2012 10:42:25 -0400

newspeedwayboogie:

Father John Misty - Nancy From Now On

New from Sub Pop, new from J Tillman, channeling serious 70s soft rock, in the best of ways. Sounds like Badfinger or something. In a good way.

capitalnewyork: “Yes, very few people could hang and get...

Tue, 08 May 2012 20:20:56 -0400

capitalnewyork:

“Yes, very few people could hang and get all-access today,” Diltz said. “You have to gain their trust, they have to really get to know you and accept you being there. You have to really know how to back off, sorta learn how to be a fly on the wall. And respect them. I don’t think you can be one of them, and like join in … because you’re not one of them. So that’s the wrong approach. I can’t be an aggressive type of photographer, just hustling to get the photo. You got to be cool, that comes first.”

Photographers talk about shooting the Stones, in all their dark, magic coolness

hamtunes: Animal Collective“Honeycomb” I think “Gotham” is my...

Mon, 07 May 2012 16:50:51 -0400

hamtunes:

Animal Collective
“Honeycomb”

I think “Gotham” is my favorite of the two tracks, but this one was smaller~

http://www.myanimalhome.net/
The ‘Honeycomb / Gotham’ digital bundle is available Monday May 7th, and the physical 7” is available to pre-order now on the Domino Store with instant MP3 downloads

nprmusic: Beach House’s fourth album, Bloom, is unquestionably...

Mon, 07 May 2012 16:50:08 -0400

nprmusic:

Beach House’s fourth album, Bloom, is unquestionably a Beach House record, and one that on the surface feels more like a continuation than the product of evolution. That is, until you go back and hear how far this band has truly come.

Stream Bloom now.