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This track from Blood Orange's third album Freetown Sound features vocals from Blondie's Debbie Harry!
"Mazy Fly, the second full-length by the Bay Area artist SPELLLING, explores the tension between the thrill of exploring the unknown and the terror of imminent destruction. Chrystia Cabral spent the summer of 2018 in her Berkeley studio reflecting on the thresholds of human progress and longing for a new and better tomorrow. She was struck by the way the same technologies that have given humans the ability to achieve utopian dreams of discovery have also brought the world to the precipice of dystopic global devastation. Despite the darkness of this reality, Mazy Fly is defiantly optimistic. It is a celestial voyage into the unknown, piloted by Cabral."
spellling.bandcamp.com
spellling.bandcamp.com
"Blinding Lights" is a song by The Weeknd that serves as the second single of his upcoming fourth studio album. It was released on November 29, 2019, two days after the release of "Heartless". The Weeknd co-wrote the song with its producers Max Martin and Oscar Holter, with Belly and Jason Quenneville receiving additional writing credits
Norah Jones and Mavis Staples have performed on stage a handful of times together since 2010, but this dark gospel track marks the pair's first studio collab!
Raphael Saadiq will be performing at the Neptune Theatre on February 25th!
Saadiq's fifth album, Jimmy Lee, is named after Saadiq's brother, who died of a heroin overdose after contracting HIV.
"Footsteps in the Dark" is a 1977 slow jam recorded by The Isley Brothers as an album track featured on the group's double-platinum album Go For Your Guns. It was the B-side to "Groove with You", which reached #16 on the R&B singles chart. The track also marked Ron Isley's growing transition into singing more ballads, compared to the band's earlier funk approach.
Lucy Dacus has been releasing a string of covers throughout 2019 to coincide with different Holidays. Starting with La Vie En Rose in February for Valentine's Day. Dancing in the Dark is in honor of Sprinigsteen's Birthday as well as Dacus' own father!
Pretty in Black is the second studio album by The Raveonettes. The album includes guest appearances by Maureen Tucker (Velvet Underground), Ronnie Spector (The Ronettes), and Martin Rev (Suicide).
After their first two albums The Stooges (1969) and Fun House (1970) were released to little commercial success, the Stooges were in disarray: the band had officially broken up, bassist Dave Alexander was fighting alcoholism, and singer Iggy Pop's heroin addiction was escalating prior to the intervention of David Bowie. Pop later recalled, "very few people recognized the quality of the Stooges' songwriting, it was really meticulous. And to his credit, the only person I'd ever known of in print to notice it, among my peers of professional musicians, was Bowie. He noticed it right off." Having signed on as a solo artist to Columbia Records, Pop relocated to London, where he was to write and record an album with James Williamson, who served as the Stooges' second guitarist from late 1970 until the band's initial dissolution in July 1971. When they failed to find a suitable English rhythm section, Pop suggested that former Stooges Ron Asheton and Scott Asheton fly over and participate in the recording sessions, leading to the band's reformation under the new name of "Iggy and the Stooges". Although he was the band's founding guitarist, the elder Asheton reluctantly agreed to switch to electric bass.
"Imagine an album made by a truly loving cult with a sweetly groovy leader, created back in the day of golden LPs you could play forever (despite having to flip over every twenty minutes). There’s mystery, killer hooks, an alien allure to the fuzzy, good-time danceable vibes, and a lot of fun insights and midnight confessions found in the layers of lyrics beneath the astral energy of each song. This is Zzyzx, the latest full-length from Seattle’s cabal of inspired music-nauts, delivering another platter of liberation to the rock-hungry droves of timeless rock lovers"
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lowhums.bandcamp.com
Philippe Aubin-Dionne (born 1989), better known by the stage name Jacques Greene, is a Canadian electronic musician, based in Toronto.
Untrue is the second studio album by British electronic music producer Burial. Released on 5 November 2007 by Hyperdub, the album was produced by Burial from 2006 to 2007 using the digital audio editing software Sound Forge. Untrue builds on the general atmosphere of his debut album Burial (2006), marking a development in Burial's sound through its more prominent usage of pitch-shifted and time-stretched vocal samples. The album, like Burial's previous work, also draws on influences from UK garage, ambient, and hardcore music
Atoms for Peace are an English-American supergroup comprising Radiohead singer Thom Yorke, Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea, longtime Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich, drummer Joey Waronker of Beck and R.E.M., and percussionist Mauro Refosco of Forro in the Dark.
In contrast to the industrial sound and immediacy of The Destroyer, follow up release The Destroyer (Part 2) is primarily a dream pop and ambient album with arrangements that differ from earlier TR/ST releases.
Check out this set (which includes Shine a Light) from Shabazz Palaces when they stopped by KEXP back in 2017:
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Have We Met will be Destroyer's 12th album! It's set to drop on January 31st, 2020!
Electronic musicians Jon Hopkins and Kelly Lee Owens have teamed up for a new track called “Luminous Spaces.” The song apparently started out as an Owens remix of Hopkins’ “Luminous Beings” but evolved into its own thing with time.
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www.stereogum.com
Jonathan’s runaway hit ‘You’re So Cool,’ featuring his mysterious masked band, was voted best music video of 2017 by Time Out New York. A plucked cello, minimal bassline and drum pattern ground Jonathan’s trademark ‘bendy strings’ which make a number of appearances across the album. This song is offered as encouragement for those artistic types who feel disillusioned due to not achieving as much as they had hoped when they were younger and more idealistic.
IV is Black Mountain's 4th full album released in 2016. Website! www.blackmountainarmy.com
'65th and Ingleside' was written about Chance the Rapper's relationship to his child's mother and fiancee, referencing where they used to live on 65th & Ingleside
"Fu-Gee-La" is a song by the Fugees. It was released on December 13, 1995, as the lead single from their second album, The Score. The song, which was produced by Salaam Remi, contains a sample of "If Loving You Is Wrong, I Don't Want To Be Right" by Ramsey Lewis, and its chorus is based on "Ooo La La La" by Teena Marie. Immediately following this is an interpolation of "Shakiyla (JRH)" by Poor Righteous Teachers. Several remixes of the song, including the "Refugee Camp Remix" and the "Sly & Robbie Remix", which features a young Akon, also appear on The Score. It is the highest-selling single from the Fugees, and has been certified gold by the RIAA.
The song's lyrics talk about the group's affection for their homeplace, New York City. It also alludes to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The song samples "Sonic Reducer" by The Dead Boys, and also features a brief sample of "New York's My Home" by Robert Goulet.
Posthumous Forgiveness is the fourth single from Tame Impala's long awaited new album "The Slow
Rush" due out on Valentine's Day 2020!
"Formed from the ashes of psychedelic pop experimentalists, Simian, James Ford and Jas Shaw have been recording and performing as Simian Mobile Disco / SMD for over ten years and five studio albums. Over the course of their career, their sound has continuously evolved from record to record.
simianmobiledisco.bandcamp.com
simianmobiledisco.bandcamp.com
Sub Pop's Omni will be playing at The Tractor Tavern on December 9th!
Pink Flag is the first studio album by the English band Wire. It was released in November 1977 by Harvest Records
Great Granpa will be playing at next year's Treefort Festival in Boise, Idaho!
"One Big Holiday" is a song by American rock band My Morning Jacket and is featured on their 2003 album It Still Moves. It is also featured on the band's 2006 live concert CD and DVD Okonokos. It is perhaps their most well-known song, behind "I'm Amazed".
Despite a lack of radio airplay the track has achieved some notoriety, which could be the result of several live performances, most notably on Late Night with Conan O'Brien as well as several performances at the Bonnaroo Music Festival. Its signature guitar riff and the lyrics, telling the story of the band being "discovered", continue to make it a fan favorite and staple of live performances.
"High quality, timeless pop songs weren’t always created in offices by handfuls of writers and marketing teams and then farmed out to the highest bidding singers. Once upon a time they were written and recorded by artists – George Michael, Prince or Kate Bush for example – who wanted to use the universal, happy medium of pop music to put across joyous, accessible messages of love, friendship and life to the world."
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girlray.bandcamp.com
Saint Etienne are an English band from London, formed in 1990. The band consists of Sarah Cracknell, Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs. They became associated with the UK's indie dance scene in the 1990s, beginning with the release of their debut album Foxbase Alpha in 1991
Happy Mondays are an English rock band formed in Salford in 1980. The band's original line-up was Shaun Ryder, his brother Paul Ryder, Mark Day, Paul Davis, and Gary Whelan. Mark "Bez" Berry later joined the band onstage as a dancer/percussionist. Rowetta joined the band as a vocalist in 1990.
Our Pathetic Age is the sixth studio album by American music producer DJ Shadow, released through Mass Appeal Records on November 15, 2019. It features the singles "Rocket Fuel" featuring De La Soul and "Rosie". It also features collaborations with Run the Jewels, Ghostface Killah, Nas, and Raekwon, among others
"“We started playing ‘No Fun’ after BBC6 Radio asked us to record an Iggy song for his 70th birthday. We added it to our set to work it out for the session and kept playing it every night because everyone loves that song. We worked up a version of ‘Jukebox Babe’ because our sound engineer Larry got it stuck in his head and was singing it all the time. We figured, we may as well play it if we’re going to hear it all the time. "
moonduo.bandcamp.com
moonduo.bandcamp.com
Past tourmates Cherry Glazerr and Portugal. The Man have teamed up for a collaborative single, “Call Me,” which pretty much occupies the exact middle ground between both bands’ latest albums, and works really well. It was produced by Cherry Glazerr’s Clementine Creevy, Ariel Rechtshaid, and Tabor Allen
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www.brooklynvegan.com
French Vanilla will be playing at Substation tomorrow December 6th!
The B-52's is the debut album by the Athens, Georgia-based new wave band the B-52's. The kitschy lyrics and mood, and the hook-laden harmonies helped establish a fanbase for the band, who went on to release several chart-topping singles. The album cover was designed by Tony Wright (credited as Sue Ab Surd).
Freedom of Choice was recorded between October 1979 and early 1980, at the Record Plant in Hollywood, California. The album saw the band moving in more of an overt synthpop direction, even though guitars still played a prominent role.
The album was co-produced by Robert Margouleff, notable for his synthesizer work in Tonto's Expanding Head Band and with Stevie Wonder.
Curtis Harding is primarily a soul artist, his "slop 'n' soul" style carries the influence of genres including blues, gospel, psychedelia, R&B, and rock. His first album, Soul Power (2014), was followed by Face Your Fear in 2017, with production from Danger Mouse and Sam Cohen
King Khan and the Shrines (along with BBQ) will be bringing The King Khan & BBQ Show to Seattle at the Clock Out Lounge on January 18th!
Holy Fuck's new album Deleter is set to drop on January 17th and then you can catch them at Neumos on March 31st!
Phosphorescent is the stage name of American singer-songwriter Matthew Houck. Originally from Huntsville, Alabama, Houck began recording and performing under this nickname in 2001 in Athens, Georgia. He is currently based in Nashville, Tennessee.