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Tuesday, Jan 16 2024, 4PM
Automatic is the trio of Izzy Glaudini (synths, lead vocals), Lola Dompé (drums, vocals) and Halle Saxon (bass, vocals).
Troy was their host for this live performance in the KEXP studio in November, 2022: www.youtube.com.
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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.
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"Moody," from their debut self-titled EP, was recorded on the first take and is considered one of the first post-disco tracks that helped inspire house music.
“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 yeahyeahyeahs.com
The single "Shake Step" is their newest release.
www.chongthenomad.com
February16th serpentwithfeet will release his new album "Grip,"and this is the first single. Alongside big-deal R&B star Ty Dolla $ign and ascendant South African artist Yanga YaYa, serpentwithfeet sings about a dancefloor encounter that seems like it’s about to lead to something more.: www.youtube.com
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From the Brooklyn based artists 2nd album.
Check it out here badcolours.bandcamp.com
This Bedford, England producer/vocalist’s debut album guest list includes Sampha, serpentwithfeet, Little Dragon, BADBADNOTGOOD, Charlotte Day Wilson, Skiifall, Ghetts and Elmiene.
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www.lilsilva.com
Shoegaze band, Dharmacide, from Madrid, Spain released Horses/Divorces last fall. It was produced by Rides Mark Gardener.
dharmacide.bandcamp.com
It is also today's Podcast Song of the Day as chosen by Kevin Cole! Download it here for free!
www.kexp.org
DJ Kevin Cole chose "Skin Game" as a KEXP Song of the Day around the time of its release in 2019. Get yourself a free download of the track, and learn more about DIIV, here: www.kexp.org
This is the lead single from The Hope Six Demolition Project, an album recorded by PJ Harvey in a purpose-built public studio during a month-long residency at London's Somerset House. Harvey worked behind one-way glass with her band, producers Flood and John Parish, and engineers, observed throughout by public audiences.
The record was inspired by Harvey's trips to Kosovo, Afghanistan and Washington, D.C. with photographer Seamus Murphy over a four-year period.
pjharvey.net
Ty Segall's new album, "Three Bells," will be out on January 26th.
ty-segall.com
From Birmingham, UK. SIPHO.'s debut album 'PRAYERS & PARANOIA' is a product of an eclectic musical palette and will see the Birmingham native channel influence from his childhood, while tackling the complexities of retaining hope in the face of growing up and becoming an adult. sipho.bandcamp.com
www.sipho.me
Ed Schrader's Music Beat are a Baltimore-based duo consisting of vocalist/drummer Schrader and bassist Devlin Rice, who play a stripped-down form of garage punk, alternating between frantic thrashing and spacious, steadily paced crooning. They are one of many acts who have emerged from the Wham City collective, and have extensively toured or collaborated with other Wham City associates such as Dan Deacon and Future Islands. Here's a biography: www.allmusic.com
"5" was the debut album from British collective Sault. In 2022, this feature told the story behind the then- mysterious band: www.dazeddigital.com
Chaka Khan's version of "I Feel for You" featured a supporting cast including rapping from Melle Mel (of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five); guitar, drum programming, bass guitar, keyboards and arrangement by Reggie Griffin; bass synthesizer and programming by The System's David Frank using an Oberheim DSX sequencer, which was connected to his Minimoog via CV and gate; and chromatic harmonica playing by Stevie Wonder. The song also uses vocal samples from Wonder's song "Fingertips" (1963). The repetition of Khan's name by Melle Mel at the beginning of the song was a mistake made by producer Arif Mardin, who then decided to keep it.
Playing this to hopefully ward off any potential ice storms out there!
www.theeohsees.com
Scream, Dracula, Scream! is an album by the San Diego band "Rocket from the Crypt," released in 1995 and was the band's first major-label release.
www.rftc.com
From the Swedish bands album released last year.
www.thehives.com
Sheer Mag will be right next door to KEXP at The Vera Project (ALL AGES) on Thursday, April 18th, and their first new album since signing with Third Man Records, Playing Favorites, is out March 1.
sheermag.bandcamp.com
"SHYGUY, aka Jackson Goodwin and Joe Digioia, are a duo from Nottingham.
shyguyuk.bandcamp.com
Miguel is an American recording artist, songwriter and producer.
Miguel re-recorded the song in 2019 with Mexican Mariachi girl band Flor de Toloache as the title track of Te Lo Dije, the singer's first ever Spanish-language project. The EP is a compilation of five Spanish /Spanglish-language versions of his songs from War & Leisure album.
www.migueltour.com
The original version of this song appears on the bands 2007 debut album Oracular Spectacular.
whoismgmt.com
Justice are renowned for the enormous amount of sampling on their records. Xavier de Rosnay of the French electronic duo has estimated that on † they sampled around 400 different discs. On this track for instance, they borrowed the hand clap from 50 Cent's "In Da Club," plus samples of Slipknot and Queen. However, none of them are credited. De Rosnay explained that this was because, "they are such short samples no one can recognize them. The ones from Slipknot, for example, are just tiny bits of the voice."
Hard to believe Air's "Moon Safari" turned twenty-five last year, dropping on January 16th, 1996.
www.airfrenchband.com
Pixel Grip will be in Seattle on March 28th with HEALTH at the Showbox!!!
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"Chicago darkwave trio Pixel Grip return with their sophomore full-length ARENA, a soundtrack for the misfits out there. 'Being in an audience of freaks, queers, fetish people, all in the same room sweating together,' is how vocalist Rita Lukea puts it, 'and we all knew our purpose, and we were manic and arrogant.'"
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pixelgrip.bandcamp.com
pixelgripmusic.com
TR/ST (once known as Trust) is the Canadian electronic music project of Robert Alfons. Alfons has announced a swooning new single, “Robrash,” which was co-produced by Nightfeelings and mixed by the legendary Nick Launay.
trstmusic.bandcamp.com
tr-st.xyz
Debut album from the Brooklyn band.
modelactriz.bandcamp.com
New music!
Wonder 45 are a London based 6-piece Soul and Rhythm & Blues band.
www.willwork4funk.com
wonder45.bandcamp.com
Spin magazine released this collection of Nirvana covers in 2011.
Brittany Howard's sophomore solo album "What Now" is due out February 2, 2024.
“‘What Now’ is maybe the truest and bluest of all the songs,” Howard said in a statement. “It’s never my design to hurt anyone’s feelings, but I needed to say what was on my mind without editing myself. I like how it’s a song that makes you want to dance, but at the same time the lyrics are brutal.”
pitchfork.com
www.brittanyhoward.com
Recently released single from the New York City artist.
Get it here sinkane.bandcamp.com
07/26 - Seattle, WA @ Showbox Sodo “‘Together Forever’ is an old song that we’ve tried to do for several albums but it just didn’t feel right until now. Things fell together in the right way with the arrangement and lyrics and it finally made sense. And Chris Coady’s mixing pushed it over the edge for us, so we’re ready to release it to the world This one’s for the shorties.”
"Follow the Leader" comes from the NYC band's 2017 album.
foxygen.bandcamp.com
Now on a permanent hiatus.
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion performed Live on KEXP back in 2011 - enjoy the video here: www.youtube.com.
jonspencerbluesexplosion.com
New album from the Irish band! Playing at Madame Lou's on Wednesday, March 6!
www.sprintsmusic.com
"Melbourne based Don’t Thank Me, Spank Me! is the ultra-femme apparition of frontwomen Nitida Atkinson and Esther Henderson. They channel the bass heavy pop sound of childhood idols like Destiny’s Child and Britney Spears alongside the hearts-on-sleeves, hopelessly romantic yachtiness of Hall and Oates."
dontthankmespankme.bandcamp.com
Latest release from the Los Angeles artist.
dawnrichard.bandcamp.com
“Don’t Touch That Dial” ft. Yuuko, the lead cut from Off Planet Part 2 features the Japanese rapper Yuuko. Django Django co-founder and producer Dave Maclean stumbled across Yuuko online, and after some communication she delivered a blistering vocal take with impeccable flow.
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Check out Honey Dijon's Black Girl Magic album - 15 tracks of Honey! @honeydijon.bandcamp.com
Jamie xx released "Let's Do It Again" in 2022. It was his first new solo single since 2020’s “Idontknow”—which was his first solo piece since 2015.
www.jamiexx.com