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Tuesday, Apr 16 2019, 2PM
Effortlessly blurring the lines between techno, electro-pop and experimental composition, the Texas-raised/Seattle-based producer’s arrangements are meticulously constructed, but also filled with emotion and soul. With an introspective turn that’s hinted at in the record title, Lusine’s fourth album for Ghostly sees McIlwain diffusing the pop-leanings of 2013’s The Waiting Room with opaque, brush-stroked melodies washing over these new buoyant productions.
Read our Rewind feature on the 30th anniversary of MBV's debut album 'Isn't Anything': bit.ly
Ex Hex will be LIVE on KEXP this Friday at noon! Free and open to the public.
"Keeping Up With Miss World" is a raw, 13 track power-pop, garage-party movie scene that plays out like a thumb numbing Instagram scroll fest. A teen-dream magazine collage, a multi-colored sonic mood board featuring torn up images of Ariel Pink, Kim Gordon, Clueless OOTDs, Madonna and Kim Kardashian smeared with gluestick goo. bit.ly
Read our review of Sleigh Bells' latest album 'Jessica Rabbit' www.kexp.org
Sink Ya Teeth performed this song during our broadcast from Trans Musicales 2018. Watch it here: www.youtube.com
Watch our in-studio session with Moses Sumney from back in 2017: www.youtube.com
Young Fathers performed a jaw-dropping set from Avast! studios last fall. www.youtube.com
Birthed from the sand, the surf, and twilight campfires down in Ocean Beach, Sonny & the Sunsets’ busted beach-pop songs spark recollections of doo wop's otherworldly despair, a dose of goofball humor from the Michael Hurley school, and positive possibilities exuded by Jonathan Richman. bit.ly
Did you know you can download our Music That Matters podcasts for free? Check out our (mostly) Goth Pod featuring Boy Harsher: bit.ly
Lyrically 'Metal' is science fiction, inspired by the works of Philip K. Dick and William S. Burroughs, and is about an android who wishes to be human, but never can be.
The Black Tones will play the Capitol Hill Block Party on July 19th. Stream/download their new album 'Cobain and Cornbread' here: bit.ly
Harding fuels his psychedelic sound with the essence of Soul but isn’t bound by it. Instead, the 12 songs on the new album convey an eclectic blend of genres leaping from the many musical lives he has lived from following his evangelical Gospel-singing mother on tour as a child in Michigan to rapping in Atlanta, forming a garage band with The Black Lips’ Cole Alexander to singing back-up for Cee Lo Green. Through these experiences he fully embraces life’s darkest intricacies conjuring dynamic, addictive melodies. bit.ly
Unstoppable marks the 78-year-old singer’s first release since the death of Rick Hall, the legendary Muscle Shoals producer who produced Staton’s indelible run of country-soul singles at FAME studios in the late Sixties and early Seventies. Recorded with longtime producer Mark Nevers, the album features mix of upbeat dance-based tracks and socially aware statements of uplift, plus Staton’s takes on Patti Smith’s “People Have the Power” and Nick Lowe’s “(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding.” n.pr
From the upcoming album 'Keepsake' out June 19th! hatchie.bandcamp.com
Check out the music video for this track here: www.youtube.com
At a time when hip-hop was determined to snap your neck, a young, hip trio from Brooklyn (by way of Seattle, Philly, and Brazil) conspired on an uncommonly smooth new sound and freaky way of speak, a titanically chill expression of Black bohemia loaded with jazz idiom and a subversive Marxist bent—and pushed it worldwide via an undeniable crossover hit. lightintheattic.net
Vancouver psych-metal warriors Black Mountain are returning this spring with Destroyer, their first album in three years. Pre-order it here: blackmountain.merchtable.com
“We wanted to make something that had the sense of being timeless,” says Austin Garrick, the band’s instrumentalist alongside vocalist Bronwyn Griffin. “Our ultimate goal is to make a record that will be the favourite album of people that aren’t born yet.”
Watch the music video for 'Little Dark Age' here: www.youtube.com
Kurt Vile played a set in our Gathering Space in December. Watch the full performance here: bit.ly
The Cave Singers performed this song LIVE on KEXP back in 2016: www.youtube.com
Alan Vega cover! Watch Moon Duo's in-studio session from 2017 here: bit.ly
Watch Black Joe Lewis perform in our Live Room back in 2016: www.youtube.com
Reverend Horton Heat with Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears and Piñata Protest
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Much of Life has been heavily sampled for hip hop and electronica recordings, particularly Gregg Errico's drum solo on "Love City". The opening riff on "Into My Own Thing" was sampled for Fatboy Slim's 2001 hit "Weapon of Choice".
The album was critically acclaimed around the world, and was put at #12 on Mojo magazine list of "50 Most Out-There Albums of All Time". It appears at number 9 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of 100 greatest Brazilian albums of all time. It is also listed at 39 on the Rollingstones Top 40 Stoner albums.
The first of two new albums from TR/ST comes out this Friday! // Catch them at Neumos on May 15th!
Read our coverage of Outkast's set at Sasquatch! BACK IN 2014: www.kexp.org
IDLES are playing a sold out show at Neumos on May 28th! Watch this video and you'll understand the hype: www.youtube.com
Check out Mikal Cronin's in-studio session from 2015 here: www.youtube.com
The album cover for 'The Slider' was shot by none other than Ringo Starr.
Read our track-by-track breakdown of Death Valley Girls' latest album: bit.ly
U.S. Girls performed this song on KEXP last spring: www.youtube.com
Text 'Bird' to 206-903-5397 for your chance to win tickets to Andrew Bird!
Berlin will play the Woodland Park Zoo on August 7th with OMD and The B-52s!
On May 10th, British trip-hop outfit HÆLOS are slated to drop their sophomore album, Any Random Kindness. Due out through Infectious, the follow-up to 2016’s Full Circle finds Lotti Benardout, Arthur Delaney, and Dom Goldsmith “experimenting” with new songwriting approaches. More here: bit.ly
Check out this in-studio performance from way back in 2011: www.youtube.com