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KEXP Playlist
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Happy Lunar New Year! We're celebrating the day with dance cuts and good energy to ring in the new year!
Hanggai is an Inner Mongolian folk rock group based in Beijing who specialize in a blend of Mongolian folk music and more modern styles such as punk rock. Their songs incorporate traditional folk lyrics as well as original compositions, and are sung in Mongolian and Mandarin.
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hanggai.bandcamp.com
ITS THE YEAR OF THE FIRE HORSE RIDE OR BE RIDDEN BABY!!
"Guitar and bass duo Gong Gong Gong (工工工) charge out from Beijing’s underground scene with a distinct vision and uncompromising sense of purpose. The duo taps into a wavelength uniting musical cultures, drawing on inspirations ranging from Bo Diddley to Cantonese opera, West African desert blues, drone, and the structures of electronic music.
Check out their music video, which channels your inner cowboy here: www.youtube.com
New music from local faves Chinese American Bear! Chinese American Bear is an experimental indie chinese pop/rock duo.
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chineseamericanbear.bandcamp.com
Frances Yip Lai-yee is a Hong Kong singer. She is best known for performing many of the theme songs for television series produced by TVB in the 1980s and early 1990s.
The inspiration behind “Desire Lines” stemmed from Bradford Cox’s own personal journey of self-discovery and the internal conflicts he encountered along the way. He sought to encapsulate the universal experience of individuals grappling with their desires and the obstacles they face in pursuing them.
deerhunter.bandcamp.com
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New from Charlotte Day Wilson!
Charlotte Day Wilson is a 28-year-old vocalist, producer and multi-instrumentalist hailing from Toronto, Canada.
charlottedaywilson.bandcamp.com
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Temporary Blessings are led by Melbourne/Naarm trumpeter Liam McGorry,. They are an instrumental crew informed by 60s soundtracks, in particular from French and Italian cinema.
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Their debut album, "Sumbisori," was released December 5th. temporaryblessings.bandcamp.com
Aptly named, this is a collaboration with Chaz Bundick of Toro y Moi, and twin-brother jazz dynamos The Mattson 2.
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They were featured on a Music That Matters podcast titled "Smile Yourself Happy!" that Kevin Cole hosted for KEXP back in 2017, check it out after the show: www.kexp.org
chazbundickmeetsthemattson2.bandcamp.com
New single from Liverpool artist MT Jones! His upcoming debut album 'Joy' will be out in March 2026!
mt-jones.com
Evie Stokes hosted Jonathan Wilson Live at the Triple Door as part of KEXP's VIP Club Concert series in September 2018: youtu.be
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Back in 2011, Jonathan Wilson joined Roger Waters as his touring guitarist, along with the singers from Lucius -- what a fine line-up: bit.ly
jonathanwilson.bandcamp.com
For Cristian in Chile!
Electric Ladyland is the only Hendrix album to feature outside musicians, as Steve Winwood played the organ on the 15-minute slow blues jam "Voodoo Chile" (not to be confused with the album's closer "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)). A session man from New York named Mike Finnigan played organ on this track.
www.songfacts.com
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Owelu Dreamhouse is the collaboration from vocalist Nkechi Anele and arranger and multi-instrumentalist Nic Ryan-Glenie, rekindling the musical relationship they forged in iconic Melbourne soul band Saskwatch.
oweludreamhouse.bandcamp.com
The bluesy sax riff is from Joe Thomas' "Venus" (1976).
wbssmedia.com
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Released as the third single from Beck's fifth album, Odelay in 1996, "The New Pollution" samples the drumbeat from Gus Poole's "Hallelujah, Alright, Amen," a funky disco soul track from 1970, and the bluesy sax riff is from Joe Thomas' "Venus" (1976).
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Beck was once asked what the new pollution was. His reply, "Human radios, sex with machines, mad eunuchs."
www.beck.com
"23" is the latest single of forthcoming album Maybe Not Tonight due out April 10th!
Best friends Chloe Howard and Annabel Wittle are the vocalist/guitarist and drummer of Lime Garden. The self-described “wonk pop” band is completed by Leila Deeley on guitar and Tippi Morgan on bass.
limegarden.bandcamp.com
Yukimi Eleanora Nagano is a Swedish singer and songwriter. She's the vocalist for the Swedish electronic group Little Dragon.
yukimi.bandcamp.com
yukimi-music.com
Voted the 18th Best Album of 2025 by KEXP listeners!
www.kexp.org
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This track from Little Simz album "Lotus" features Yukimi from Little Dragon. The record has collaborations with a star-studded list of fellow artists, including Moses Sumney, Moonchild Sanelly, Miraa May, Wretch 32, Cashh, Michael Kiwanuka, Yussef Dayes, Sampha, Lydia Kitto, Yukimi
Nagano, and Obongjayar. tinyurl.com
littlesimz.bandcamp.com
www.littlesimz.com
Surprise new record from SAULT! This is the title track.
saultglobal.bandcamp.com
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For Tim!
Deltron 3030 consists of Deltron Zero (Del Tha Funkee Homosapien), Cantankerous Captain Aptos (Dan “The Automator” Nakamura), and Skiznod the Boy Wonder (Kid Koala).
delthefunkyhomosapien.bandcamp.com
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Deltron 3030 performed "Mastermind" among other songs when they performed at The Triple Door for KEXP's VIP Club concert series in 2013: youtu.be
#634 on KEXP Listener's Favorite Albums of All-time Countdown!
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In this song, which has the longest title of any Police track, Sting and his bandmates observe the declining state of the world.
tinyurl.com
Voted the 8th Best Album of 2025 by KEXP listeners!
www.kexp.org
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Features Dev Hynes & Hayley Williams!
turnstilehardcore.com
SPELLLING, the moniker of the Bay Area experimental pop mastermind Chrystia Cabral.
This new remix of SPELLLING's "Portrait of My Heart" features Brendan Yates of Turnstile.
spellling.bandcamp.com
5th studio album just released!
Yumi Zouma is NZ bandmates Christie Simpson, Josh Burgess, Charlie Ryder, and Olivia Campion.
yumizouma.bandcamp.com
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Touring!
-May 12th @ Vancouver, BC's The Pearl
-May 13th @ Seattle's Neumos
-May 14th @ Portland's Aladdin Theater
-May 16th @ SF's The Independent
More dates & locales here: yumizouma.com
Touring!
-May 19th @ Vancouver, BC's Orpheum
-May 27th @ Oakland's Fox Theater
More dates & locales here: automatictour2026.com
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Want to see the official video for "Calling It"?: www.youtube.com