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Double Mixte is Parisian duo Clara Apolit and Thomas Maan. The duo met in Paris & there was an immediate pull to create music together. They pooled their combined interest in powerful narrative & dark 70’s French film music to write lyrically vivid songs. In 2017, Thomas reached out to Johnny Jewel who joined them in this collaboration.

"Boratto was born in São Paulo, Brazil in 1974. He began contributing to recordings as a producer and multi-instrumentalist during the early '90s. He joined the successful dance-pop band Sect during the middle of the decade, and worked with the disparate likes of Steel Pulse, Gal Costa, Garth Brooks, and others. Boratto began releasing 12" EPs and singles in 2005, quickly filling up a DJ crate with records on Circle Music, Plastic City, and various Kompakt sublabels. He also remixed a staggering quantity of tracks, including singles by the Pet Shop Boys, Goldfrapp, Moby, Massive Attack, and others." Learn more about this producer, engineeer, and multi-instrumentalist: www.allmusic.com

Suki Waterhouse will be here in Seattle for the Day In Day Out Festival, Friday-Sunday, July 12th-14th. -- See a pregnant Suki Waterhouse in the video for "OMG": www.youtube.com

Watch The New Pornographers perform "Angelcover" live in the KEXP studio last November: www.youtube.com

OMD is playing in Seattle at The Moore Theatre on Monday, September 9th, and then again on Thursday, September 12th. They'll be in Oakland at the Fox Theater on Sunday, September 15th. -- "Electricity" is the 1979 debut single of the English group Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. Andy McCluskey of OMD revealed that this song was influenced by the German synth pioneers Kraftwerk and particularly their single, "Radioactivity."

This song by California psychedelic artist Morgan Delt was selected as a KEXP Song of the Day. You can download it for free here: www.kexp.org

clipping. released this cover of J-Kwon's 2004 hit just last month! Enjoy the video from clipping.'s 2017 KEXP in-studio session: bit.ly. clppng.bandcamp.com

Shad is a Juno Award-winning rapper from London, Ontario and the host of Netflix's Hip-Hop Evolution. Here, he samples The Breeders' 1993 breakout hit "Cannonball." He also sampled "La Di Da Di" from Doug E. Fresh and Slick Rick.

The Jesus and Mary Chain's eighth album, "Glasgow Eyes," will be released this Friday, March 22nd.: themarychain.com

Gary Clark Jr. is on tour and will perform at the Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery in Woodinville, WA on Wednesday, August 14th. -- His new album, JPEG RAW," will be out this Friday, March 22nd. The new record, his first in five years, includes collaborations with Stevie Wonder, George Clinton, Valerie June and others. Watch Gary Clark Jr. perform this one live on Jimmy Fallon: www.youtube.com

The San Jose, California-based quintet were still teenagers when their Yardbirds-evoking hit “Psychotic Reaction” reached the US Top 5 in 1966, the very first psychedelic rock song to achieve that feat. The song features the twin guitar attack of John "Mouse" Michalski and Sean Byrne, distortion-laden production, and the memorable line: “And it feels like this!” Although Count Five never recorded another album, they managed to leave their mark on pop culture indelibly. “Psychotic Reaction” was selected for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's list of the "500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll” and was also immortalized in a surreal 1971 essay by rock critic Lester Bangs entitled “Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung.” With his typical zany brilliance, Bangs invented an entire history of the band, including four fictional follow-up albums. (Wishful thinking!) : craftrecordings.com

We loved it when The Sonics played this one for KEXP listeners from Easy Street Records in 2015: www.youtube.com

Chicano Batman will be at The Moore Theatre (with Lido Pimienta) on Thursday. June 20th. -- "Fly" is the first single from their eagerly-anticipated fifth album, out at the end of this month. It's their first release since 2020. -- Hosted by Troy Nelson back in 2017, Chicano Batman gave KEXP a phenomenal performance in studio. Click the link below to check it out!! www.youtube.com

TORRES will be LIVE on KEXP at noon on Tuesday, March 26th. She'll be performing at Neumos that evening. -- TORRES will be at the Cafe Du Nord in San Francisco on Friday, March 29th.

This is TORRES' wonderful cover of the Portishead song from their classic 1994 debut, "Dummy." In her version, Torres recreates Portishead's “Wandering Star” groove with what appears to be live instruments. Her voice approaches [Beth]Gibbons’ heart-wrecked delivery, and she supplants the DJ scratches of the original with trebly guitar notes.

This is Polachek's gorgeous cover of the 1986 single by Roger Doyle & Elena Lopez, also known as Operating Theatre. This cover includes background vocals by True Blue, the solo project of Maya Laner.

-- "The lyrics are pretty trippy and the tune is quite... whimsical, the overall track is really charming with its easy and adorable, at the same time quite sinister vibe. It’s like Scott McKenzie ["San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair)"] does shrooms with The Kinks in 2013. So, if you are going to San Francisco, be sure to play this record in your car...and don't do drugs...": www.stereofox.com

Catch Yard Act at The Independent in San Francisco on June 4th, 2024. -- They'll be here in Seattle at The Crocodile on Saturday, June 8th. -- Where's My Utopia? is their second studio album.

Wonder 45 are a London-based soul ensemble, formed as an instrumental recording project by producer/writer Holley Gray. Collaborating with guitarist Ross Ewart, drummer Chris Nickolls and keys player Steve Pringle, Wonder 45 are committed to writing and recording authentic soul music from their suburban London base. -- Go right here to purchase "Make It Happen": wonder45.bandcamp.com

Like this? It's yours for free, as a KEXP Song of the Day: www.kexp.org -- Check out Curtis Harding's Live on KEXP at Home performance from 2021: bit.ly

His Bandcamp page says, "DJ Shadow (born Josh Davis) is widely credited as a key figure in developing the experimental instrumental hip-hop style associated with the London-based Mo’ Wax label. Inspired by hip-hop’s early years, he then grew to absorb the heyday of crews like Eric B. & Rakim, Ultramagnetic MCs, and Public Enemy; groups which prominently featured DJs in their ranks.": djshadow.bandcamp.com -- Subscribe to KEXP's YouTube channel to be notified when Troy's recent interview with DJ Shadow is released: www.youtube.com

Here's a great introduction (with many pictures) to The Knife, which consisted of siblings Karin Dreijer (formerly of Honey is Cool, now Fever Ray) and Olof Dreijer (Oni Ayhun).: theknife.net

DIIV will be at The Regency Ballroom in San Francisco on Friday, June 7th. They will be in Seattle at The Neptune Theatre on Monday, June 10th. -- In the video for "Brown Paper Bag," Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst introduces Diiv on a TV studio stage, Saturday Night Live–style, and they launch into a disaffected performance of the song that causes the ceiling to collapse. The video ends with a parody commercial for an anti-capitalism brand called Soul Net.: www.youtube.com

The tuning for this song (we think) is E-A-B-G-G-E: ragajunglism.org

Smooth segue, Troy! -- In this interview, Courtney Taylor-Taylor talks about the story behind "We Used to Be Friends": www.bestnewbands.com -- Troy hosted The Dandy Warhols live in the KEXP studio in 2016: bit.ly

Sean Bowie, aka Yves Tumor, is an American musician and producer of experimental music, born in Miami, Florida and currently based in Turin, Italy who identifies as non-binary. yves-tumor.com -- Directed by Jordan Hemingway, the video finds Tumor taking on a number of cinematic roles: a geisha smoking cigarettes by candlelight, a businessperson assassinated outdoors in a spotlight, and a punk veteran trapped in a room with a spiked club-wielding cellmate.: www.youtube.com

Danielle Balbuena, better known by her stage name 070 Shake, is a musician from North Bergen, New Jersey. 070 is a tribute to her former Jersey area code and a nod to the New Jersey collective 070, which includes 11 members, including The Kompetition producers, Razsy Beats, Ether Phoenix, and J-Sebastian. She also says that her name came from her street basketball playing, adopting her nickname from a play called “shake weave.”

Recognize that laugh? This is Little Simz' terrific cover of the Gorillaz' song. Both Little Simz and Damon Albarn get writing credits. -- Watch Little Simz play bass and sing in this live performance of "Feel Good": www.youtube.com

Did you know that SAULT is an acronym for ‘Start A Universal Love Trend’? Here's some more things to know about SAULT: consequence.net

Formed in 2018 in San Francisco by Justin Oronos, Jeremie Ruest, and Gray Tolhurst, Topographies mixes early coldwave with classic shoegaze. While the work of Tolhurst’s father – Laurence Tolhurst from The Cure – provides a clear influence, Topographies clearly also were influenced by acts like Asylum Party or The Chameleons.

Salt Cathedral will be LIVE on KEXP at noon on Tuesday, May 7th. -- Juli Ronderos and Nico Losada of the adventurous, genre-bending musical duo Salt Cathedral both grew up in Bogota, Colombia and were drawn together over their raw love for the craft. Here's an interview with the duo: officemagazine.net -- "Terminal Woes" was recently selected as a KEXP Song of the Day. Check it here: www.kexp.org

Enjoy this KEXP Sound & Vision interview with Stephen Bruner (Thundercat): www.kexp.org -- On this issue of Song Exploder, Thundercat takes "Them Changes' apart.: www.wired.com

Did you know that this song sampled elements of "The Jonestown Death" tape?: www.whosampled.com -- Learn more about how the video explored the Jonestown tragedy: isaiahseret.com

This wonderful cover of Shuggie Otis' 1971 song was produced by Seattle's own Quincy Jones. -- Apparently, brother George Johnson was dating one of Shuggie Otis's cousins when he came across the 1971 Otis album 'Freedom Flight' and then they went on to record their cover. -- Want to hear the original?: www.youtube.com

Cadence Weapon will perform at Barboza on Tuesday, April 16th. -- “When I wrote ‘Exceptional’ with [fellow Canadian musician] Jacques Greene, I wanted it to feel like the endorphin rush you get from pressing the button that says ‘Buy It Now’ when you’re shopping online,” Cadence Weapon explained in a statement.

bad tuner will be playing The Monarch in San Francisco on Friday, May 3rd. -- "bad tuner — the Brooklyn-based dance/electronic producer who “like Daft Punk before him, takes a simple phrase and builds a world around its incantatory properties” (NPR) — is announcing the new EP look at me but through me,": badtuner.bandcamp.com

"Destroy Rock & Roll" is the first and only album by Scottish record producer and DJ Mylo (real name Myles MacInnes), released in 2004. Here's a great review of this "charming, cheeky dance record": pitchfork.com He sampled "Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes and "Waiting for a Star to Fall" by Boy Meets Girl in this tune.

Camera Obscura will be at The Crocodile on Friday, June 7th, and then in San Francisco at The Fillmore on June 10th. -- Their new album "Look To The East, Look To The West” will be released worldwide on Merge Records on 3rd May, 2024.

New Music Reviews (3/18/2024) including new releases from Four Tet! Each week, KEXP's Music Director, Chris Sanley, and Associate Music Director, Alex Ruder, share brief insights on new and upcoming releases for KEXP's rotation. Here's the review on Four Tet: "The 12th studio album from renowned London-based electronic producer Four Tet (aka Kieran Hebden) is a brilliant showcase of his immaculate and expansive palette as he weaves together blissful downtempo tracks, hypnotic skittering house grooves, and meditative ambient moments with a masterful, melodic, painterly touch. Early singles 'Three Drums,' 'Loved,' and 'Daydream Repeat' shine bright in this expanded context, with the new songs adding an atmospheric, intricate, and enveloping depth." — AR www.kexp.org