Yesterday while listening to KEXP at work, I think I heard Cheryl Waters, the mid-morning to afternoon DJ, announce that EPID contributed a song to a compilation CD called Sweetheart 2010 on the Hear Music label ( Read more... )

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"Elvis Perkins’s cover of “She Watches Over Me” from 2007’s Love’s the Only Thing That Shuts Me Up, is more in the hungover, acoustic style of ( Read more... )

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EPID played two sets on Saturday, Sept. 5 at Bumbershoot Festival here in Seattle. The sky threatened to rain all day, but thankfully the bad weather held off until later in the night. I wasn't able to attend the KEXP broadcast, but I hope some of you got to listen online. I arrived at Seattle Center around 6 p.m. and wandered a bit to get a feel ( Read more... )

Happy Doomsday. "We're so concerned with declaring ourselves while we're on this orb; I've decided that I don't want to live that way."

You may know that El has a working relationship with Yellow Bird Project. You may not know that he inspired a page in The Indie Rock Coloring Book.

Bumbershoot Music Lounge

Platinum Pass holders (those who have $420 lying around) have access to the Bumbershoot Music Lounge, which is a small, exclusive venue. This private space will showcase an average of five intimate performances per day with Bumbershoot artists in front of a small audience, also broadcasting live for radio at 90.3 KEXP and ( Read more... )

Musical visionary types take care of their own. Mark Mulcahy was the frontman for the 1980s Connecticut-based alt-rock band Miracle Legion, who released a few hard-to-find albums of R.E.M.-esque college rock jangle before breaking up in the mid-90s. He also led Polaris, the band who did the music for the beloved Nickelodeon kids' show "The ( Read more... )

Elvis Perkins in Dearland are confirmed to join Modest Mouse, Franz Ferdinand, World Party and many others at this years Bumbershoot Festival in Seattle, WA.

Go to www.bumbershoot.org for more info.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR MOD!!!