Trish Keenan of Broadcast has died

[rrmorton]

This is shocking and so sad. Trish Keenan, the lead singer of Broadcast, died of pneumonia this morning. I knew she'd been ill for a few weeks, then I turned on KEXP and they're playing all Broadcast songs and I knew right away she was gone. Terrribly sad news. I haven't missed a single release of theirs since THE NOISE MADE BY PEOPLE came out in 2000.



A wonderful talent. She'll be missed.

Come On, Let's Go

Winter Now

[The Bird Flu]

This sucks and makes me sad. Oddly enough I've been listening to Tender Buttons and Haha Sound over the last couple days. I'm really going to miss her, I'm a big fan.

I never got to see her live. :(

[Kirian]

I hate you for informing me of this. I'll have to go buy all their albums again now, having lost them all bar Tender Buttons at some point. I could have sworn there was another album in the works. Perhaps not, I am somewhat easily confused.

[charmtrap]

What on earth? Pneumonia? How did that happen?

Their collaboration with Focus Group was definitely one of my favorite records of 2009. Very sad.

[André Costa]

Think i read that she got hit by swine flu when she was in Australia last month and had been on the hospital for two weeks already.

[alexlitel]

Absolutely shocked and shaken up by this.

Haha Sound and Tender Buttons were probably two of my favorite records from the past decade.

[charmtrap]

I've been listening to various bits of various albums that I haven't listened to in a while. Damn if "Come On Let's Go" isn't a wonderful, languid pop song. In a perfect world, this woulda been a hit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zw5zt...ayer_embedded#!

[Andrew Mayer]

I'm not even sure where I found Tender Buttons, but I was listening to it just a few days ago thinking how great that album is, and that I should go get more of their stuff.

Very sad news.