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Eleanor Friedberger performed live from Judson Memorial Church during CMJ in October 2013. Watch the full performance, including this track, here: www.youtube.com
This musical collective of singer-songwriters and musicians from multiple projects from Vancouver, British Columbia has released seven studio albums. Check out their live performance at KEXP from April 2017:
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Bleached will be playing at the Crocodile on Monday, October 7th. Show info: bit.ly
The Fader stated that she is "known for making whisper-y, slow and sensual bedroom pop." Tei Shi jokingly describes her work as its own genre, "mermaid music". In an interview with NY Mag, she stated "personally it’s always hard for me to label it as a genre because it shifts and I try to make music that isn’t one thing or the other."
Tei Shi performed live in the KEXP studio in June 2017. Watch it here: www.youtube.com
Tei Shi performed live in the KEXP studio in June 2017. Watch it here: www.youtube.com
From the duo’s fifth album to date – and second on powerhouse label DFA Records – is loosely based on Philip K. Dick’s "A Scanner Darkly", a classic of dystopian science fiction. The album explore themes of addiction, loss, and identity in cinematically tinged coldwave. Read more about the album here: essaiepas.bandcamp.com
Just days ago, Chance the Rapper sat down with Jimmy Fallon on “The Tonight Show,” and during the chat, he decided to reveal more information about his official debut album. It’s been available for pre-order, but the title and release date were unknown. It’s called The Big Day, and it’s out July 26th. bit.ly
Django Django performed live in the KEXP studio in April 2018. Watch the full performance here, including this track: www.youtube.com
From Sydney, Australia, Middle Kids consists of Hannah Joy (lead singer/guitarist), her husband Tim Fitz and Harry Day (drummer). Their most recent EP New Songs For Old Problems was released in May 2019. middlekids.bandcamp.com
Smith had a distinctive vocal style, characterized by his "whispery, spiderweb-thin delivery". Smith died on October 21, 2003 at the age of 34 from two stab wounds to the chest.
Y La Bamba will be playing at Bumbershoot Labor Day weekend (Friday, August 30) here in Seattle. Show info: bit.ly
Jamila Woods performed live in the KEXP studio in June 2017. Watch it here: www.youtube.com
The new album The Competition will be released later this month!
Lower Dens performed live in the KEXP studio July 2015. Watch it here: www.youtube.com
Lower Dens performed live in the KEXP studio July 2015. Watch it here: www.youtube.com
Quite a few Seattleites squeezed into Key Arena in September 2017 to watch Gorillaz. Relive and read the show review by KEXPs Alaia D'Alessandro: www.kexp.org
Noga Erez is a Tel Aviv-based singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist. She was the host of Midnight In A Perfect World back in 2017. Listen to her set here: www.kexp.org
Belle and Sebastian have detailed their original soundtrack for the upcoming film Days of the Bagnold Summer . It’s out September 13 via Matador. The soundtrack features 11 new songs, as well as re-recorded versions of “Get Me Away From Here I’m Dying” and “I Know Where the Summer Goes.” bit.ly
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart covering James' "Laid". bit.ly
The ever-evolving spectacle that is Diane Coffee -- the gender and genre-bending alter ego of Shaun Fleming -- returns with Internet Arms, a swan dive into a lush, digital glam wonderland. Diane Coffee just performed at KEXP recently. Until that is posted on KEXPs YouTube channel, here is a performance from 2016: www.youtube.com
Chong the Nomad will be playing the CID Block Party on Saturday, August 3rd. Show info here: bit.ly
"That's just the way you make me feel". Watch the video here: www.youtube.com
Little Dragon performed live at The Little London Plane during Upstream Music Fest in June 2018. Watch it here: www.youtube.com
"The Good News was made over four days at Montrose Recording, in Minor Poet’s hometown of Richmond, VA. In the past, Andrew Carter played all the instruments and handled all the production, but he knew he that he had to reach outside himself to do justice to these songs." Read more about this Sub Pop artist here: bit.ly
Red Ribbon will be playing KEXPs Concerts at the Mural on Friday, August 9th with Cherry Glazerr and Antonioni. Come on out for this free, family friendly event! Read more about it here: www.kexp.org
Nice As Fuck is an all-female indie rock trio made up of Jenny Lewis (from Rilo Kiley), Erika Forster (from Au Revoir Simone), and Tennessee Thomas (from The Like). The band first performed at a rally for US presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in April 2016 and went on to make their television debut in July 2016 on a live episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert during the 2016 Republican National Convention.
Gang of Four performed live in the KEXP studio back in 2011. Watch these tracks here: www.youtube.com
The Au Pairs were a British post-punk band that formed in Birmingham in 1978 and continued until 1983. The Guardian wrote "They were clearly angry about sexism and patriarchy, and possibly angrier still about the right-on discourse of socialist feminism." Read the full article here: bit.ly
For the first time in half a decade, Toronto electronic duo Electric Youth have released a proper new album in May of this year. Read what Stereogum wrote about the new album here: bit.ly
"Anymore" is taken from Goldfrapp's seventh studio album Silver Eye. Watch the video here: www.youtube.com
Vogue called Kim Gordon the "godmother of grunge" in an article reviewing a performance she did with experimental guitarist Bill Nace as Body/Head. She is a legend! Read the full article here: bit.ly
If you are a Kim Gordon fan and have not read her book "Girl in a Band", put this on your reading list!
If you are a Kim Gordon fan and have not read her book "Girl in a Band", put this on your reading list!
Moses Sumney performed live in the KEXP studio in September 2017. Watch it here: www.youtube.com
"The solo project of British musician Kieran Hebden, Four Tet has been one of the most unique, influential, and exciting electronic artists of the past 15 years. Boasting a stacked catalogue of critically-acclaimed albums, stunning collaborations, inventive remixes, and world-class DJ sets, Four Tet puts together a thrillingly kinetic genre-hopping mix for Midnight In A Perfect World that spotlights his incredibly deep crates filled with amazing rare gems both new and old from all over the globe." www.kexp.org
Tyler, The Creator will be playing Bumbershoot on Friday, August 30th. Festival info: bit.ly
Yacht is an American dance-pop band from Portland, Oregon, currently based in Los Angeles, California. Four years since their last album, YACHT are back with a new song called “(Downtown) Dancing.” Read the Spin article here: bit.ly
From Beth Ditto's debut solo album. "According to Ditto, the new album took two years and writing “65 to 80 songs” to accomplish..." Read the Pitchfork review of Fake Sugar here: bit.ly
The Mattson 2 is a twin-brother jazz duo of Jared and Jonathan Mattson from California. Pitchfork writes "this is “a record to throw a frisbee to,” the Mattsons write, and it’s practically suffused with the San Diego sunshine seeping into their recording studio." Read the full article here: bit.ly
Sonny & The Sunsets will be playing at the Sunset Tavern on Saturday, September 7th. Show info: bit.ly
Five Guys Walk into a Bar... is a four-disc retrospective of the British rock group Faces released in 2004, collecting sixty-seven tracks from among the group's four studio albums, assorted single A- and B-sides, BBC sessions, rehearsal tapes and one track from a promotional flexi-disc, "Dishevelment Blues," which was never actually intended for release.
Moon Duo will be at Neumos on Tuesday November 26th. Show info: bit.ly
Sampa Tembo was born in 1993 in Zambia and raised in Botswana. She was based in Sydney from 2014 to 2018, and also lived in San Francisco and Los Angeles for a short bit before going to Australia. Her debut album The Return will be released on September 13, 2019. sampathegreat.bandcamp.com
"Bryndon Cook is a hired gun for Solange, Chairlift, and Blood Orange; his debut album is a slick, colorful foray into retro-futurist funk that’s fueled by his keen sense of style." Read the full Pitchfork article here: bit.ly
From his 16th studio album, released in 1973. The nine tracks of Innervisions encompass a wide range of themes and issues: from drug abuse, through inequality and systemic racism, to love in the ballads. This album has been considered by many fans, critics, and colleagues to be one of Stevie Wonder's finest works and one of the greatest albums ever made.
Put this one in your calendar! Wolf Parade will be playing with DUMB, and Jock Tears at this summers first Concerts at the Mural on Friday, August 2nd. These events are free and family friendly, with a beer garden for those 21+. More info on CATM here: www.kexp.org
Local band Hibou will be performing at Chop Suey on this Wednesday, July 24th. This is an album release party for Halve. They will be playing with Sleeping Lessons and Beverly Crusher. Show info here: bit.ly
Drab Majesty will be playing at Neumos on Monday, August 26th. Show info here: bit.ly
U.S. Girls performed this song live in the KEXP studio in March 2018. Watch the full performance here: www.youtube.com
HÆLOS performed "End of World Party" live in the KEXP studio this past March. Watch the full session here: www.youtube.com
"I remember performing the track in late 1992," vocalist Rob Birch told Q. "We were supporting the Happy Mondays for their tour in the United Kingdom, and at that venue it was just amazing. The Connected album had only been out for a while, and we thought people were just starting to get into it. When we came on to the intro of the track, the whole audience was singing along to the tune and there was just an amazing vibe and energy. Everyone connected, basically."
"SpottieOttieDopaliscious" relates a story of ill-fated romance, with André 3000 describing the infatuation during an encounter with a woman at a club and Big Boi noting the hopelessness of the relationship as the song progresses. The songs samples "Dancing With the Moonlit Knight" by Genesis.
Ty Segall has shared another track off his upcoming record First Taste (out this August). bit.ly
Kamasi Washington is playing with Herbie Hancock at Marymoor Park on Friday, August 16th. Show info here: bit.ly
Tune in on the Afternoon Show tomorrow for your chance to win tickets for this show!
Tune in on the Afternoon Show tomorrow for your chance to win tickets for this show!