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Thursday, Jun 1 2023, 7AM
This is Tame Impala's remix of Miguel's 2015 song, "Waves." The video shows Miguel and Kevin Parker of Tame Impala along a furniture-littered beach, gazing upon the sky against a raging tempest.: www.youtube.com
"Maxinquaye" is the debut solo album by English rapper and producer Tricky.
Tricky asked Mark Saunders to co-produce Maxinquaye after being impressed by his previous work with the rock band The Cure on their albums Mixed Up (1990) and Wish (1992). They recorded Maxinquaye in the first half of 1994 at Tricky's home studio in Kilburn; additional recording later took place at the Loveshack and Eastcote studios in Notting Hill.
DJ David Guillon's remix of M83.
The song coming of age story about two people named Kim and Jessie. You can find the music video here:
youtu.be
ilovem83.com
Brooklyn-based Nation of Language will be in Seattle performing at the Day In Day Out Fest on Sunday, August 13th.
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Watch a live performance by Ian Richard Devaney, Aidan Noell, and Alex MacKay (Nation of Language) in our studio in 2021: www.youtube.com
"Angry World" was Neil's 1st Grammy win - in 2011 for Best Rock Song. When he accepted he said:
"This is my first Grammy for music, and it's appreciated greatly. I'm not Mavis [Staples], but I'm close."
Although the album version is heavily produced by Nigel Godrich and Radiohead, with a more electronic texture, I Might Be Wrong is one of the more guitar-oriented songs on Amnesiac. The title “I might be wrong” may be taken from infamous quote by Bertrand Russell:
"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong." bit.ly
In case you missed it, we recommend also checking out the KEXP in-studio from Radiohead side project The Smile:
www.youtube.com
Blondshell will play an all-ages show at Madame Lou's on Saturday, July 8! She will be LIVE on KEXP at 1pm that day as well.
On the release of her debut, Sabrina Teitelbaum said: “It’s hard to summarize what this album means to me. I was able to work through so much by writing and singing these songs... I wasn’t intending to write an album as much as I was just trying to get relief from an intense and difficult time in my life. My biggest hope is that people can see the album for what it is: there’s no happy ending or ‘message,’ it’s just a window into what it’s like when you’re trying to figure out who you are and what you want.”
www.blondshellmusic.com
Durand Jones will be at Bumbershoot on Saturday, September 2nd, 2023.
On his deeply personal debut solo album, 'Wait Til I Get Over', Durand Jones reflects on his relationship to his hometown of Hillaryville, LA, a town first established as a form of reparations to previously enslaved Black Americans. bit.ly
“The interlude ends with my grandmother telling us how she felt about Hillaryville back in the day. Hillaryville is no longer a sanctuary town or ‘place you’d most want to live’. Most people in my generation and younger dream of escaping a place like Hillaryville. And for many, the dream never becomes something more. Life can find a way to keep you there if you will let it. I wanted to express this thought through sound in a raw, wild and raucous way. A build of a groove that feels like it is driving through a muddy swamp. Trapped.”
Official Video:
youtu.be
durandjones.bandcamp.com
'Freetown Sound' is the third album from Devonté Hynes aka Blood Orange. Written and produced by Hynes, 'Freetown Sound' is a tour de force, a pastiche of Hynes’ past, present, and future that melds his influences with his own established musical voice.
Drawing from a deep well of techniques and references, the album unspools like a piece of theater, evoking unexpected communions of moods, voices, and eras. 'Freetown Sound' derives its name from the birthplace of Hynes’ father, the capital of Sierra Leone. Thematically, it is profoundly personal and unapologetically political, touching on issues of race, religion, sex, and sexism over 17 shimmering songs.
bloodorangenyc.bandcamp.com
Watch Stevie play this track with Sheila E back in 2020 www.youtube.com
“Zango means ‘meeting place.," stated the band. "Every village [in Zambia] will have this central place, where villagers meet to prepare for work, where youngsters go to learn, where the young ones learn from the elder folks, and where the visitors come and converge." bit.ly
W.I.T.C.H. will be playing at the Tractor Tavern on Friday, August 4th, and will be performing Live on KEXP earlier that day at noon.
witch-zambia.bandcamp.com
By many requests! And happy birthday to Simon Gallup, bassist for the Cure, born on this day in 1960!
Playing TONIGHT at Climate Pledge!
This was written for the movie "The Crow." James O'Barr, who created The Crow and draws the comic, is a big fan of The Cure and listened to them a lot formulating the movie. He was thrilled when Robert Smith of The Cure agreed to write an original song for the film.
William: I wish there was a way I could make "Dead Souls" my ringtone for Spam Calls #TheykeepCALLINMe
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Another track from the soundtrack to the superhero film The Crow! This is NIN's powerful cover of Joy Division.
Chicago indie trio Horsegirl are Penelope Lowenstein, Nora Cheng and Gigi Reece. - horsegirlmusic.com
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Horsegirl performed this song and others live in the KEXP studio earlier this year.
Check it out here: www.youtube.com
Killer Mike and The Midnight Revival will play The Showbox on Thursday, July 27th.
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This single is from Killer Mike's first solo album in more than a decade, "Michael." He said, “It was the last song made for the album because I hadn’t uttered these words out loud since her transitioning. When I tell the story of my mother the tales told include one when I walked in on her attempting to take her own life- it gets to the heart of how deeply sensitive an artist and human she was. She survived, was diagnosed bi-polar and depressed; she fought that until the day she died. She lived a beautifully rich outlaw of a life and I am honored to show her as the total beautiful badass she was…
The song is built around vocals sampled from "Trouble So Hard" by singer Vera Hall (1937).
Sudan Archives is the alias of Cincinnati-bred, LA-based singer, songwriter, violinist, and producer Brittney Denise Parks. - sudanarchives.bandcamp.com
ODESZA laced their haunting sound design through Archives' signature violin patterns in this remix, the duo's first in eight years. Their visceral production is the perfect fit for the contemplative lyricism of "Selfish Soul," which uses women's hair as a motif to express their search for identity in a world that distorts conceptions of beauty. - bit.ly
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Sudan Archives was our guest DJ for Midnight in a Perfect World! Take a look at her playlist here: www.kexp.org
Watch a video of the making of this album cover art from Santigold's second release here: youtu.be
Hey Troy and Owen - Throw some Duran Duran and The Cure on this morning? It's a heckuva run at CPA this week. They closed with a rousing Rio last night. Psyched to see what The Cure have in store tonight
Peter in Seattle
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“‘Anniversary’ is a special song for us,” John Taylor said in a statement. “Obviously we were conscious of our own impending 40th anniversary of making music together, but we wanted the song’s meaning to be inclusive in the broadest possible way. After playing and working together for so long, we very much appreciate what ‘being together’ and ’staying together’ can really mean, it’s not something we would have thought song-worthy 40 years ago but we do today! It was also fun to build a track with hints of previous Duran hits, they’re like Easter eggs, for the fans to find.”
This album is named after a collection of short stories by Kurt Vonnegut.
Troy hosted The Dandy Warhols live in the KEXP studio in 2016: bit.ly
Ratatat, from Brooklyn, New York, is an electronic music duo: guitarist Mike Stroud and synthesizer driver and producer Evan Mast.
www.ratatatmusic.com
Frankie Rose (former member of Vivian Girls, Crystal Stilts, and Dum Dum Girls) covered the entire 'Seventeen Seconds' album from The Cure! Frankie explained her approach to reimagining the LP, which she recorded with Jorge Elbrecht: “Since I already think it’s a perfect record, I tried not to reinterpret too much and stick to similar sounds as the original, but with a twist.” -
frankierose.bandcamp.com
Karen O described this song as "a love song to despair." She added: "It's a feeling that you have that visits you time and time again. It's an incredibly uplifting song , though, about wanting to run away from certain darkness in your life." - bit.ly
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs will be playing a sold out show at Marymoor Park in Redmond, WA on Wednesday, June 7th! yeahyeahyeahs.com
“Fleez” is a thumping tune that namedrops ESG and incorporates elements of NYC art-funk influencers’ 1981 song “Moody (Spaced Out)” (Renee Scroggins is given a writing credit). - bit.ly
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs play a sold out show at Marymoor Park in Redmond, WA on Wednesday June 7th - yeahyeahyeahs.com
ESG is the Scroggins sisters: Renee (vocals), Valerie (drums), Deborah (bass) and Marie (congas, vocals). The band's name stands for emerald, sapphire, and gold. Emerald and sapphire are Valerie and Renee Scroggins' birthstones, and gold refers to the record certification. - www.facebook.com
"The song itself nowhere directly describes the tumultuous events of the Cairo fire of 1952 known to Egyptians as Black Saturday, but the reference to it in the chorus adds a certain degree of 'hyperbolic somberness to the verses.'":www.songfacts.com
5th release from the Oakland, CA hip hop group fronted by Boots Riley. The album, which mixes nostalgic beats and rhythms from the 1970s with contemporary political messages.
Here's The Coup performing live on KEXP back in 2012 - www.youtube.com
"Charger" is a song by British virtual band Gorillaz, released on their fifth studio album Humanz. It features guest vocals by Grace Jones.
According to Albarn, he and Jones had met several times before recording "Charger" together: "I'd met her once in her nightclub, where I made the mistake of saying she looked like Little Red Riding Hood because she was wearing a red cape. She turned around and said 'Little Black Riding Hood,' and turned back. I didn't speak to her again."
www.gorillaz.com
"Mistadobalina" comes from Del the Funky Homosapien's 1991 debut album.
The track was part of a list of the 50 greatest rap songs from Bay Area artists: bit.ly
New music from Blur!
It's the band's first new album in eight years. The new album is out July 21st!
- www.blur.co.uk
Imperial Teen performed live on KEXP from Mellow Johnny's Bike Shop during SXSW. Hop in the way back machine to 2012: www.youtube.com
The humorous song was long rumored to be a fanciful tale of a woman whose boyfriend was eaten by a shark. In her interview with Songfacts, B-52s vocalist Cindy Wilson offered another possibility: "Or he was flushed down the toilet by the Ty-D-Bol Man."
bit.ly
theb52s.com
Ladytron by request!
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Troy got to sit down with Ladytron in 2019. Check out their great session right here! youtu.be
www.ladytron.com
The second album from this London-based artist of Congolese heritage (aka Yannick Ilunga) is an adventurous blend of electro-pop, R&B, post-punk, various African styles and more, combining a moody, atmospheric sound with lyrics revolving around heritage, injustice and rebirth.