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Friday, Feb 8 2019, 6AM
This young Spanish artist is re-imagining flamenco: www.rollingstone.com
This single, released in November, was Andrew Bird's first in over a year. Andrew Bird wrote to say, "We find ourselves in a cold civil war. Everyone is playing their part too well. Certain actors are reaping power and wealth from divisiveness. Echoes of the Spanish civil war when fascists and clergy win because they put up a united front against the individualistic and principled (yet scattered) left. We can turn this ship around, but need to step back and be honest with ourselves about what's happening while it's still relatively bloodless." Read more and watch the video: www.npr.org
Watch Arcade Fire perform "No Cars Go" live in Barcelona during 2017: www.youtube.com
Adia Victoria will be here in Seattle, playing Barboza on Tuesday, March 12th, 2019.
Steve Gunn will be here in Seattle next Wednesday, February 13th, playing The Tractor Tavern.
This song puts a big emphasis on groove. Kevin Parker explained: "The backbone of Tame Impala has always been a groove. I never wanted to do a song that you couldn't dance to – or groove to at least, whatever the differences between those things. I heard a few people say it was going to be more dance or club – orientated, and 'Let it Happen' is a song where I was flexing that fantasy." Watch the video for "Let It Happen": www.youtube.com
Lusine, which translates from Armenian to English as “moon,” is the stage moniker of Seattle transplant and IDM producer, Jeff McIlwain. This bouncy ambient track features Jeff’s wife Sarah McIlwain. Here's a video that works well with this song: www.youtube.com
James Blake will play The Moore Theatre on Sunday, March 10th, 2019. Does he sound like someone who's in love? “Can’t Believe the Way We Flow,” is built on a sample from the R&B vocal group the Manhattans and produced with Oneohtrix Point Never.
"The bounce on this song suggests that it’s something to be danced to, but a close listen reveals that “Jesus Children of America” is really four minutes of Sunday school admonishment. From holy rollers to drug junkies, Stevie demands that they pray for forgiveness because Jesus Christ and Mother Mary are above, saddened by their wrongs. “You'd better tell your story fast,” he urges. “And if you lie, it will come to pass.” Read a track-by-track discussion of each of the songs on "Innervision": www.billboard.com
Sean McBride and Liz Wendelbo are Xeno & Oaklander, New York’s proclaimed “electro-minimalists." This single,“Angélique,” is an ode to nature and flowers that grow wild around us.: www.flaunt.com
We bet that you would like to know more about this Toronto band: www.facebook.com
According to Q magazine April 2008, this is about a crisis point in Thom Yorke's life. The singer's troubles were partly caused by the baggage of past relationships and coincided with an incident when Yorke was strolling on a beach, looked back, and spotted an apparition in his house.: www.youtube.com
This is Deerhunter's eighth studio album and is already being saved for 2019 "top ten" lists.: www.theskinny.co.uk Deerhunter is touring in support of the album, but hasn't scheduled Seattle yet.
Read a thoughtful review of this delightful party song that carries a warning (“Anybody with a worried mind could never forgive the sight / Of wicked snakes inside a place you thought was dignified..."): www.theatlantic.com
Read an oral history of Elliott Smith, featuring interviews with nearly 20 people: pitchfork.com
Don't you love this song? You're all over it. It was selected as a KEXP Song of the Day and is available for free download here: www.kexp.org
Mormor will be here in Seattle for a 21+ show at Barboza on Wednesday, May 1st, 2019.: www.mormormusic.com
Prolific Australian artists King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard are coming back to Seattle to play The Paramount Theatre on Sunday, August 18th, 2019.
"Nobody puts Tobacco in the corner." Unless you're talking about real tobacco, and then you should.: www.stereogum.com
The songs for Los Angeles band Flat Worm's "Into the Iris" were recorded by Ty Segall in his home. Order the six-song album on Flat Worms' Bandcamp page: flatwormsmusic.bandcamp.com
"I'm in the chaos dimension..." Watch Parquet Courts in a great live KEXP session last year: www.youtube.com
In 2013, this "geographic love song" was proposed as the Massachusetts official rock song:www.rollingstone.com
Read a Guardian interview with Scottish band Young Fathers about their recent album, "Cocoa Sugar":www.theguardian.com
"Come on, Brittany. You got to come on up!" They performed this song live on KEXP in 2012: www.youtube.com
Lady Wray is Missy Elliott protégé Nicole Wray. Read a review of "Queen Alone": www.thevinyldistrict.com
The very talented Amy Winehouse died in 2011 at the age of 27. What a tragedy. Here's her NY times obituary: www.nytimes.com
Brave the snow and go to Neumos to hear King Tuff live tonight, Friday, February 8th, 2019.
Ahhh....the Friday song. We're just back from London and now we're headed to Mexico City! KEXP hosts Kevin Cole, Cheryl Waters and DJ Chilly will travel to Mexico City for a live broadcast, February 26th through March 1st. Learn more about it here: www.kexp.org
"Your simple voodoo is so maniacal, we're liable to pull a juju..." Read the lyrics to this important political song:genius.com
See the ANIMATIC video for "Charger": www.youtube.com
Grace Jones has a lifetime ban from Walt Disney World in Florida due to indecently exposing her breasts on a live set whilst she was performing. Read a biography of this Jamaican-American supermodel, singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress.: www.biography.com
Cherry Glazerr will be LIVE on KEXP on Thursday, March 7th at 1:30 PM. The public is invited to sign up and see that performance. Cherry Glazerr will be performing at Neumos that night.
"Keep up with Miss World" through this article about this London musician: i-d.vice.com
Here's a KEXP live review of Lush with the fabulous Young Evils at The Showbox at the Market in 2016: www.kexp.org
Toro Y Moi is part of the stellar lineup for this year's Treefort Music Festival in Boise, Idaho, March 20th-24th, 2019.: www.treefortmusicfest.com
The delightful video for "Juice" begins with an Eighties informercial for hand cream starring Lizzo with a Jheri curl and a male co-star. The scene then moves to an exercise video and later a late-night talk show, all featuring the artist. When it pans out from the fuzzy television set, Lizzo is seen sitting on a couch, flipping through channels with her partner. When she steals his phone, he’s watching her star in an ASMR video. Later, she fronts a Sixties girl group.: www.youtube.com
Neneh Cherry's fifth album in 30 years, "Broken Politics," was released last fall.: pitchfork.com
See Swedish singer-songwriter Lykke Li in a live KEXP in-studio session in 2014: www.kexp.org
"The single, which is a squelchy, energetic rave track in the Chemical Brothers’ familiar wheelhouse, comes complete with a video capturing the duo’s live show, which features lights and surreal visuals by Adam Smith & Marcus. Directed by Marcus Lyall, the video was filmed during a set at London’s Alexandra Palace.": www.youtube.com
This features a sample of speaker and self-styled Hip-Hop preacher Eric Thomas rhythmically reciting the lyrics. However, Thomas wasn't Disclosure's first choice. "I got really annoyed because we wanted to get a rapper on the album and we couldn't," Disclosure's Howard Lawrence. "We wanted someone like Kendrick [Lamar] or A$AP [Rocky] and we got really close but schedules just didn't quite work out. So I Googled 'motivational speaker from Harlem.'
"He was just chatting about business strategy for like, an hour," Howard continued. "I bought it on iTunes and sampled it – just rhythmically cut it up to make it sound like he was rapping. I basically made him rap on the album. We just put a beat to it and Guy mixed it up a little bit and that's the track."
Follow this Melbourne, Australia band on their Facebook page: www.facebook.com
Watch Charly Bliss in a live performance at KEXP in 2017: www.youtube.com
The Guardian call this duo from Norwich, England "one to watch": www.theguardian.com
OMG! Snapped Ankles was live on KEXP at 1:30 p.m. PST on Tuesday, February 5th, 2019. You can still hear that extraordinary performance at KEXP's streaming archive:www.kexp.org
