KEXP Playlist

Sudan Archives is playing next month at these local stops: - Seattle: Saturday, February 14th at Neptune Theatre - San Francisco: Wednesday, February 18th at The Regency Ballroom More than two years since her breakthrough second album 'Natural Brown Prom Queen', Sudan Archives is back again with "DEAD", a new song that marks a more dancefloor-forward direction. sudanarchives.com -- Sudan Archives recorded a live session with KEXP at the THING! Festival in 2019: www.youtube.com. sudanarchives.com

Los Angeles producer and DJ Captain Planet returns with "Tony's House," a high-energy dancefloor tribute to Afrobeat legend Tony Allen. Inspired by Allen’s groundbreaking rhythms for Fela Kuti & Africa 70, the track blends elements of his classic "Afro Disco Beat" with bass-heavy house. Captain Planet calls Allen a dream collaborator and credits Afrobeat with opening his mind to music. djcaptainplanet.bandcamp.com IG: @captain.planet.music

Longtime friend of KEXP, Ty Segall has performed numerous times for us as part of Live on KEXP. His most recent visit included his Freedom Band and you can relive it right here: www.kexp.org -- Catch Ty Segall playing with his band Fuzz next Saturday, January 24th at The Great American Music Hall in San Francisco. ty-segall.com

90.TEEN is programmed by the participants in the KEXP Youth DJs program. The goal of this program is to teach young people confidence skills and develop career goals, positive thinking, practice, curation, technical and programmatic knowledge, and training through the art of broadcast journalism and DJing. Read more about the program and how to apply by clicking here: www.kexp.org

This song, written by Rod Argent, has a lot of distinct elements that made it a rock classic and landed The Zombies in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2019. For starters, the lead instrument is Rod Argent's electric piano, which was very unusual at the time - in the UK it was the first hit song with that lead instrument. And then there's the breathy vocals of lead singer Colin Blunstone. Check out The Zombies playing Live on KEXP in front of a packed SXSW audience in 2013: bit.ly

About the song, frontman Zac Little explains, "On my honeymoon, years ago, I found this little riff. It seemed to lead somewhere, but the edges rolled off into nothingness...I'd find fragments and try to line them up to no avail...I laid it in the drawer to sleep....Then Patti Smith's dream cowboy paid me a visit - straight off the M train, and blessed me with a chorus." This track is part of the sprawling 21 track album 'Highwallow & Supermoon Songs' that was released last October. saintseneca.bandcamp.com saintseneca.com

Hailing from LA and formerly of the band Hail Social, Davye Hawke makes wistful electronic pop as Memory Tapes. memorytapes.bandcamp.com

We're playing some songs from this past Saturday’s 90.TEEN DJ was DJ Darya. DJ Darya is a senior in high school from the small town of Duvall. She is an illustrator who has been drawing since she could hold a pencil, and she has always carried a deep passion for music alongside her art. Whether it’s blasting music while working on a drawing or doodling in the corner of a vinyl shop, the two have always been intertwined in her life. Through 90.TEEN, Darya is excited to continue expanding her knowledge of music, discover new sounds she may not have encountered otherwise, and share her favorite finds with a wider community. -- Wombo is a three-piece out of Louisville, Kentucky. womborocks.bandcamp.com

This 2022 release is the 20th studio album (they're currently at 27 for those keeping score) from King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. "Omnium Gatherum" is a double album boasting an eclectic mix of sounds and includes songs that didn't quite fit on any of their other albums. pitchfork.com -- Here they are in 2022 Live on KEXP performing songs from their 'Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava' album. www.youtube.com

Gros Coeur is a Belgian quartet. They released this track as a single in September. You can find it, and their other new single "Contre-Corps," here: groscoeur.bandcamp.com

"Hanging on the Telephone" is a song written by Jack Lee. The song was released in 1976 by his short-lived US West Coast power pop band The Nerves; in 1978, it was recorded and released as a single by band Blondie. Blondie had discovered the song on a cassette tape compilation given to the band by Jeffrey Lee Pierce. Beginning with a phone sound-effect courtesy of producer Mike Chapman, Blondie's version of the song was released on the band's breakthrough third album, 'Parallel Lines'. The single was a top 5 hit on the UK singles chart and has since seen critical acclaim as one of the band's best songs. Check out the music video for it right here: www.youtube.com

In the City is the debut studio album by The English band the Jam. Released in May 1977 by Polydor Records, the album reached No. 20 on the UK Albums Chart.

“There was a big hit by the Bay City Rollers at the time called Saturday Night, which was a chant-type song,” says ex-drummer Tommy Ramone. “So I thought it would be fun to do for the Ramones too. And somehow I came up with ‘Hey! Ho! Let’s go!’ I just liked the term because it made fun of Mick Jagger singing the Stones’ version of Walking The Dog, where he goes ‘High low, tippy toe’. We all used to goof on that and sing ‘hey ho!’ instead. www.loudersound.com

Hatchie's third album, 'Liquorice,' produced by Jay Som, came out in November. It landed at #82 on KEXP listener's favorite albums on 2025. Check out that full list here: www.kexp.org -- Harriette Pilbeam of Hatchie said of this release: “My last album ended up being really dark and introspective and that is one part of me, but there was this whole other side that I felt like I wasn't expressing. I’m a hopeless romantic and a very silly person, sometimes to a fault.” Read more here: hatchie.bandcamp.com

TWEN will play The KIlowatt Bar in San Francisco on Sunday, April 19th, and The Tractor Tavern in Seattle on Saturday, April 25th. www.twenband.com -- " Consisting of vocalist Jane Fitzsimmons and guitarist Ian Jones, plus session musicians Asher Horton and Forrest Raup, Twen must be the hardest-working band in showbiz, crisscrossing the country since 2021, playing hundreds of self-booked shows out of a converted live-in van.": www.popmatters.com

Here's Dum Dum Girls Live on KEXP in 2014 which includes them playing this this beautiful song: bit.ly. -- Dee Dee's mother died during the course of a year during the writing and recording of 'Only in Dreams'. This song was written about her mom's final few days and the way Dee Dee disengaged emotionally. She explained: "I think it's a common reaction that people, myself included, want to disengage when something's that overwhelming. It's why people go out and get wasted when they have bad news. I was on a serious attempt to not deal with what was going on and trying to stay as out of it as possible, because it was just an overwhelming situation, coming in and out of being forced to realize what was going on. That's basically what 'coming down' is in reference to." dumdumgirls.bandcamp.com