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Will Gregory met Allison Goldfrapp in 1999 after after he had heard an early version of the song, "Human." The connection was immediate and Gregory invited Goldfrapp to record a demo for a film soundtrack he was composing.
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Goldfrapp curated a playlist for KEXP's Midnight In A Perfect World show. Check it out here.
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Grandaddy's first new album since breaking up in 2006.
Here's what Jason Lytle had to say about this track to NPR in 2017:
"From an early age, way before I ever dreamt of writing a song, I became fascinated by the idea of making a tune that revolves around a constant sound. My first memory of this was being a kid and trying to watch cartoons or Sesame Street or whatever while my mom was vacuuming in the room. Ever the restless multi-tasker, I would hum songs and come up with melodies that revolved around the sound of the vacuum while impatiently waiting for her to finish her noisy chore. I continued doing this with other appliances, motors, or things that made noise throughout the years. Eventually it found its way into my own compositions. The repeating synth sequence here was a good excuse to try and build a song around repetition."
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Hatchie will be at Neumos on Saturday, May 21.
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"Giving The World Away" is the title track from her forthcoming sophomore album, out on April 22.
Giving the World Away tells a story of confidence found, as Hatchie unifies themes of trust, ambition, love and self-realization by embracing vulnerability as a strength. “It’s the concept of giving your heart away,” says Hatchie’s Harriette Pilbeam, “putting everything on the line...the entire album is really me realising that I actually need to do that in order to grow and accept myself.” Its story comes to life in the way it’s told: new songs are intentionally glossy and hi-fi, joyful and arena-sized in sound, articulating Pilbeam’s newfound strength and certainty. In fact, Giving the World Away is a record intentionally built for everyone’s empowerment, telling Pilbeam’s personal story while also inviting it in others to move from the personal to the public, taking the intimate and making it visible . “My last record I wanted people to sing along to,” she says. “This one was more about something you can move to. After kind of floating through young adulthood, I realised a lot of the things I'd been missing out on by under-appreciating myself. It's led me to making different decisions not only in regards to my music but also my personal life, the way I dress, the way I socialise, the way I treat my body etc.” Giving the World Away is about finally finding one’s footing, embracing visibility, and moving past fear of the future to welcome its bigger decisions and higher stakes.
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New single! Sudan Archives will be playing at Capitol Hill Block Party, July 22-24.
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The LA-based violinist, vocalist and producer is back with her first new single in three years. “Home Maker” transforms domestic life into something sultry and seductive. It’s also a KEXP Song of the Day.
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Bad Colours is the moniker of London-born, Maryland-raised, Brooklyn-based DJ, songwriter, producer, and instrumentalist Ibe Soliman. This 2021 EP features collaborations with Seattle/NYC's Stas Thee Boss, and this track with Jarv Dee and the legendary Shabazz Palaces.
Larry Mizell, Jr. chatted with Jarv Dee and Bad Colours for KEXP's Sound & Vision last November.
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Check out KEXP's new podcast "Fresh Off the Spaceship" telling the story of the Black Constellation, an artist collective with Seattle roots and cosmic reach.
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"(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "PUSH IT ALONG")
A TRIBE CALLED QUEST: (Singing) Q-Tip is my title. I don't think that is vital for me to be a idol, but dig this recital. If you can't envision a brother who ain't dissin', slingin' this and that 'cause this and and that was missin'. Instead, it's been injected, the Tribe has been perfected. Oh, yes, it's been selected; the art makes it protected. Afrocentric livin', Africans be givin' a lot to the cause 'cause the cause has been risen."
In 2015, Ali Shaheed Muhammad and the late Phife Dawg talked about this remarkable album, then 25 years old.
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Roosevelt is the alias of Cologne-based singer, songwriter, and producer Marius Lauber. This is his delightful cover of Fleetwood Mac's "Everywhere."
Roosevelt had an amazing performance live in the KEXP studio in December 2021. Check it out!
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Soccer Mommy is playing Day In, Day Out Festival at Seattle Center, August 12-14.
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On her latest song “Shotgun,” Sophie Allison (AKA Soccer Mommy) welcomes the overwhelming—and often terrifying—surrender of letting yourself fall in love, knowing it’s probably going to hurt.
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Alvvays is headlining both nights for Belltown Bloom, Friday & Saturday, May 6-7 at The Crocodile.
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Alvvays played "Archie, Marry Me" live in the KEXP studio in 2014. Check out the full session here:
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Thao is playing The Neptune Theatre on Friday, April 29 with Black Belt Eagle Scout & Quinn Christopherson.
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In this episode of Isolated Tracks we talk to Thao and the Get Down Stay Down. KEXP Audio Producer Julian Martlew explores all the demos that lead to the song "Temple" from the album "Temple" with Thao and Adam from the band.
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DLO3 will be back in Seattle playing at Jazz Alley on Thursday-Sunday, May 12-15.
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“‘Fried Soul’ takes you back to a time of the juke joints, when those steamy grooves made you want to shake your shimmy,” Delvon Lamarr said in a statement.
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Request for William!
These guys put on a killer performance live in the KEXP studio on Saturday, April 20, 2019. What a party! Check out their session here:
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'CAPRISONGS' is FKA twigs's first mixtape and major label debut under Atlantic Records. Gone is the mournful crooner with haunting, operatic vocals; in her place stands a club rat on a mission of hedonism. A highlight of the mixtape's various hyperpop-adjacent bangers is "papi bones," featuring hip-hop grime master Shygirl.
"We gon' run the dancefloor," a boisterous DJ shouts over a heartbeat pulse before alarms sound and the steel drums begin.
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Off the 10th studio album from the Washington D.C. band, recorded in Port Antonio, Jamaica. The band noted about the recording: "The innovation, spirit and power of Jamaican music is a constant source of creative manna for us. On the musical map, Jamaica is an entire continent. Frankly, we could have spent a year there... "
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"‘Murphy’s Law’ is our crack at a straight up, straightforward, no-frills, disco standard,” Róisín Murphy said in a statement. “Oh and it’s the story of my life..."
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Róisín performing Murphy's Law (Acoustic) Live @ Home for Festival Marvin:
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In INXS's official autobiography, 'INXS: Story to Story', Andrew Farriss said that the famous riff to the song appeared suddenly in his head while waiting for a cab to go to the airport to fly to Hong Kong. He asked the cab driver to wait a couple of minutes while he grabbed something from his motel room. In fact, he went up to record the riff and came back down an hour later with a tape to a very annoyed driver.
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Check out the official music video here: youtu.be
"Mediate" is best known as the song that comes on after "Need You Tonight" in the video and on the 'Kick' album. The song is a poem INXS keyboard player/guitarist Andrew Farriss came up with and set to music. The entire lyric is words and phrases that end in "-ate" ("fabricate," "liberate," "atomic fate"...). We counted 50 different "ate" words.
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ODESZA are playing three shows at Climate Pledge Arena, July 29-31.
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They are touring, so check out if they will be near you. Their live shows are phenomenal!
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The first music in four years from Bellingham's own ODESZA includes the original vocal from Betty LaVette's 1965 track "Let Me Down Easy."
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Watch the official music video here: youtu.be
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The Avalanches will be at The Neptune Theatre on Saturday, September 17!
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This song (featuring a sample of The Alan Parsons Project's "Eye in the Sky") was inspired by the love affair between writer Ann Druyan and her late husband, the cosmologist Carl Sagan. Sagan was chosen to chair a committee that selected a collection of songs, sounds and images representing planet Earth that were put on a pair of golden discs sent into interstellar space on board the two Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977. Ann Druyan was on the committee as creative director, and she and Sagan fell in love when they were compiling the records.
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Leon Bridges is playing two nights at Marymoor Park, Tuesday & Wednesday, August 30-31, with Little Dragon.
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This is Leon Bridges' cover of the 1971 Pastor T. L. Barrett And The Youth For Christ Choir tune. Bridges recorded this track as part of the Truth To Power Project, a Texas-based initiative and creative endeavor to encourage people to get involved in their community.
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The 78-year-old cult soul legend Swamp Dogg has been making records since 1954. In recent years, Swamp Dogg has collaborated with admirers like Justin Vernon and the late John Prine, and he’s released a new album earlier this year. It’s got the great title 'I Need A Job… So I Can Buy More Autotune.'
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Yard Act will be live on KEXP on Monday, April 18 at 12:00 PM. This session is NOT open to the public, so be sure to tune in or re-listen from the two-week streaming archive.
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They play that night at Madame Lou's with The Fabulous Downey Brothers.
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The Leeds band's new album 'The Overload' has been touted (already) for this year's "ten best":
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"...how’s the family? How’s your health been? How’s the church? How’s the job?”
Watch the live KEXP studio session, including "Beautiful Blue Sky" from 2015: youtu.be
Lyrically, "Beautiful Blue Sky" is centered around a series of observations — light clinging to someone’s shoulders, a high-rise condo, a big, beautiful, blue sky — but it’s also a multi-layered critique of development and unending consumerism.
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Singer and bassist Kim Gordon explained that the song is about "using passiveness as a form of rebellion—like, I'm not going to participate in your male-dominated culture, so I'm just going to be passive".
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The video features Bikini Kill singer Kathleen Hanna dancing and occasionally interacting with the band members, particularly guitarist Thurston Moore; she accidentally gave Moore a bloody lip during filming.
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Nation Of Language will be playing THING August 26-28, 2022 at historic Fort Worden in Port Townsend, WA.
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Nation of Language performed live in the KEXP studio, including "This Fractured Mind." Watch the full session here:
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Baltimore-born, DC-raised Maimouna Youssef aka "Mumu Fresh" is a critically acclaimed Afro-Indigenous singer, Emcee, songwriter, activist, workshop facilitator and audio engineer - a “quadruple threat” according to The Roots’ Black Thought.
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Lauryn Hill is an American singer, songwriter and rapper known for being a member of Fugees, and for her solo album, 'The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill,' which was award winning and broke several sales records.
This album:
- brought hip-hop to the mainstream
- woke up the GRAMMYs when it came to hip-hop
- expanded the parameters of “hip-hop music”
- proved the future was female
Read more about the impact of 'The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill' and how it changed everything:
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The one & only album ever released from Lovage, a project spearheaded by Dan the Automator. Mike Patton, Jennifer Charles, and Kid Koala all collaborated together with Dan for this 2001 release. --- "I feel that you shouldn't get involved in an intimate relationship... Until you are emotionally mature enough to handle it totally... Able to cope with your feelings and your sexuality... Without guilt, inhibition or phoniness..." bit.ly
This song contains a sample from a 1964 special release from Columbia Records called 'On Wine: How to Select and Serve.' Read more about "The Blue Nun" here: bit.ly
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Our evening began
in Peter Sichel's comfortable study
in his New York townhouse
Where the candlelight was just right
The hi-fi was in the background
And the wine, was delicious
[partying and laughter]
[Woman] What's the secret Peter?
[Peter] Naturally, I'll say it's the wine
[Woman] Mmmm, it does go well with the chicken!
Delicious again Peter
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Adam "King Ad-rock" Horovitz talks about this song in the liner notes of the Beastie Boys anthology: "I like this cut a lot. Just straight up hip hop. Like a lot of our songs, it's arranged like a hardcore [punk] song. Mathematical. Intro - verse - chorus - verse - chorus - break - chorus - verse - chorus - end. Nice. The flute line is from the elusive Jeremy Steig. Off the SP1200 it sounds nice."
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Jamie xx has just dropped his first new solo music in two years with the jubilant, bouncing track "Let’s Do It Again".
"Let’s Do It Again" lands on Youth with an ecstatic call to the dancefloor built on ‘tension, drama and catharsis’. The track steadily ramps up to a joyous finale in typical Jamie xx fashion.
“I had a lot of fun trying this one out at festivals last year. You might recognise it… LET’S DO IT AGAIN is out on Tuesday,” the producer revealed on Instagram ahead of the track’s release.
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Dehd will be live on KEXP on Thursday, May 5 at 2:00 PM. This session is NOT open to the public, so be sure to tune in or re-listen from the two-week streaming archive.
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Dehd plays that night at Neumos.
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Their new album, 'Blue Skies,' will be out on May 27.
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Denzel Curry stopped by the station recently for a live in-studio performance with DJ Larry Mizell Jr. Check it out in the streaming archive - search April 6th 2022 at 2pm. kexp.org
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"Walkin" is accompanied by a music video in a desert setting. The video is a Sci-Fi Western visual directed by Adrian Villagomez, showcasing Curry’s dynamic rap which foreshadows what is to come from the album, still currently dubbed as “coming soon”.
On the album, Curry explains: “I like traditional hip hop, I like drum and bass, I like trap, I like poetry, so a lot of that is going to be interwoven in this album including jazz and a lot of genres that I came up on as a kid and just being in my parents’ house.”
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12:44 PM
21st spin
The third volume in this Houston jazz pianist’s Black Radio series is another warm, beautifully crafted blend of R&B, hip hop and jazz, with a stellar lineup of guest vocalists including Q-Tip, Esperanza Spalding, Common, H.E.R., Killer Mike and many other notables on songs celebrating black joy, love, struggle and resilience.
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In the years leading up to the album, Tricky had grown frustrated with his role in Massive Attack and wanted to pursue an independent project. On the way to the studio one day, he and producer Mark Saunders saw Martina Topley-Bird waiting at a bus stop, and asked her if she could sing... beginning a partnership that included this cover of Public Enemy.
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Tricky shared a live session recorded exclusively for KEXP and chatted with Larry Mizell, Jr. in 2020.
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Let’s Eat Grandma is playing at The Crocodile on Friday, November 18.
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Rosa Walton said in a statement, they "wanted ‘Hall of Mirrors’ to be a euphoric song that conveys clarity, confidence, and ultimately joy.”
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Let's Eat Grandma performed live in the KEXP studio in 2018.
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