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Thursday, Nov 8 2018, 2PM
Check out this awesome set from when Tokyo based Psych band Kikagaku Moyo dropped by KEXP last month: www.youtube.com
Shuggie Otis's son Lucky Otis, a bassist, started a band with Louis Ledbetter who is the great grandson of legendary blues musician Lead Belly.
German based Roosevelt will be playing Neumos Crystal Ball Reading Room on December 21st!
French electronic band M83's 6th album "Hurry Up, We're Dreaming" was nominated for Best Alternative Music Album at the 2013 Grammy Awards and was recognized in The 100 Best Albums of the Decade So Far by Pitchfork in August 2014. This album was the last to feature keyboardist Morgan Kibby
DJ Troy Nelson got to chat with Jon Spencer to talk about his 30 years in Rock n' Roll and his Debut solo album. Read the full interview right here: www.kexp.org
Alt-J's latest album "Reduxer" is an 11-song reinterpretation of tracks from the band's third album, "Relaxer". The reworked album features remixes with Pusha T, Danny Brown, GoldLink, Twin Shadow, Rejjie Snow, and Little Simz
"Endtroducing" samples music including hip hop, jazz, funk, psychedelia, and heavy metal, as well as films and interviews. DJ Shadow layered, programmed, and cut samples into fragments to create tracks. He opted to sample more obscure selections, making it a personal rule to avoid popular material.
Young Fathers will be performing at The Showbox on Friday, November 16th!
The Seshen is a San Francisco Bay Area-based seven-piece led by singer/lyricist Lalin St. Juste and bassist/producer Akiyoshi Ehara. Their forward-thinking sound combines synthesizers, drum machines, live percussion, and entrancing harmonies to create an unmistakable fusion of R&B, synth-pop, and electronic music. theseshen.bandcamp.com
Preoccupations will be co-headlining with Protomartyr at The Crocodile on Sunday, December 16th!
The Psychedelic Furs scored several hits in their early career. In 1986, film director John Hughes used their song "Pretty in Pink" for his movie of the same name. The band went on hiatus after they finished touring in 1992, but later regrouped in 2000 and continue to perform around the world; despite this, they have not released a full-length studio album since 1991's "World Outside".
Florida based Merchandise's latest album "A Corpse Wired for Sound" dropped in 2016
The Cardigans covered Black Sabbath's 1973 song Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, on their 1996 album "Life"
i"Belle and Sebastian Write about Love" is the eighth studio album by indie-pop group Belle and Sebastian released on 11 October 2010. The album is the second collaboration between Belle and Sebastian and Tony Hoffer, who produced their previous album, The Life Pursuit
Mr. Twin Sister will be playing at Barboza on November, 10th!
Vince Staples new album "FM! dropped last week on November 2nd and features guest vocals from Kamaiyah, E-40, Jay Rock, Kehlani, Earl Sweatshirt, Buddy and Tyga. The album is framed as a radio station takeover, featuring recurring skits hosted by Los Angeles radio host Big Boy.
French duo Air are frequent collaborators with Film Maker Sophia Coppola. Their 2nd album "The Virgin Suicides" was also used as Coppola's debut film with the same names's Soundtrack
Primal Scream was started by Jim Beattie and former The Jesus and Mary Chain drummer Bobby Gillespie in Glasgow. The band finally earned mainstream success with their 1991 album "Screamadelica"
Papercuts will be at the Sunset Tavern in Ballard on Wednesday, November 28th!
Seattle based indie folk duo Arthur & Yu are actually Grant Olsen and Sonya Wescott. Their title refers to childhood nicknames. According to a Portland Mercury interview, Olsen explains that the songs were never meant to travel beyond the two, but Sub Pop founder Jonathan Poneman wished to release the songs on his new record label Hardly Art.
Aside from his successful solo career, Aloe Blacc is also a member of musical duo Emanon, alongside American record producer Exile. His 2015 album "Lift Your Spirit" was nominated for Best R&B Album at The Grammys
Check out The Late & Great Charles Bradley the last time he visited KEXP: www.youtube.com
Matthew Dear will be DJing at The Nectar Lounge as part of the Pre-Freakout Party in preperation for Freakout Fest later in November. Other artists include: Tiny Deaths and DJ Sharlese. This Sunday November 11th!
Ed Schrader's Music Beat gave us a killer set here at KEXP back in 2015. Watch it here!: www.youtube.com
"Pretty Hate Machine" is compiled of reworked tracks from the band's Purest Feeling demo, as well as songs composed after its original recording. Although it was critically and commercially successful (especially for an independent label), Trent Reznor, Nine Inch Nails' only constant band member, feuded with TVT Records during the album's promotion.
Broken Politics was recorded at Creative Music Studio in Woodstock, New York, which was once used by Cherry's stepfather, jazz musician Don Cherry, and makes use of samples from the recordings of Ornette Coleman, a longtime collaborator of the elder Cherry. The studio was founded by another collaborator of the elder Cherry, Karl Berger, who contributed to the album; Neneh Cherry's longtime partner Cameron McVey also made many contributions.
After a 5 year hiatus Swearin' is back with "Fall Into the Sun" and are currently on tour with Superchunk
Sub Pop's own King Tuff will be playing at Neumos on Friday February 8th, 2019
On the recommendation of Elton John, The Slider was recorded outside of Paris at Château d'Hérouville to avoid British taxing laws. Production started on March 1972 and the basic recordings were completed in Strawberry Studios in five days. Bolan described Metal Guru as a "festival of life song", and that he related it to "all gods around... someone special, a godhead. I thought how god would be, he'd be all alone without a telephone".
"Key Lime Pie" featured a noticeably darker lyrical outlook as compared to the band's previous records. Musically, it featured less of the world-music influences of the previous albums, replaced with more elements of Americana, along with a lusher, a more orchestrated version of psychedelia than their previous records had featured.
Raised in Knoxville, Tennessee, Tumor started making music at age 17 as an outlet to "get away from his dull, conservative surroundings." He taught himself to play drums, bass, guitar, and keyboards. Describing his experience growing up in Tennessee as unpleasant, he moved at age 20 to San Diego, and after college to Los Angeles, where he met Mykki Blanco in 2012, whom he later toured with for two and a half years throughout Europe and Asia.
In 2014, Aphex Twin, with the album Syro, won a Grammy Award for Best Dance/Electronic Album.
The subject material for the album "Game Theory" follows the more serious tone of the album, with topics ranging from the war in Iraq to violence in music. Questlove was quoted as saying "There was too much going on that we couldn’t just sit back and not speak on it." In accordance with its more-serious tone, the album heavily references Public Enemy's highly-political It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back on its lead track "False Media".
"The Bends" was the first Radiohead album with artwork by Stanley Donwood, in collaboration with Yorke, who went under the name "The White Chocolate Farm" (later shortened to Tchock). In an interview with NME, Donwood recalled taking on the album cover design in a time of poverty in his life. He created the cover by filming a CPR mannequin with a cassette camera.
? and the Mysterians weresigned to Pa-Go-Go Records in 1966 and released their first and most acclaimed single, "96 Tears", in the early part of the year. "96 Tears" became a number one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and propelled the group to a 15-month period of national prominence. Their debut album, 96 Tears, followed.
"Paranoid" was Black Sabbath's only LP to top the UK Albums Chart until the release of "13" in 2013. It is also often cited as an influential album in the development of heavy metal music.
Although still credited to Christine and the Queens, Héloïse Letissier explained before the album's release that she had adopted the simplified moniker Chris, saying "it had to be Chris at some point because I was bolder and stronger and had more muscle [...] it was natural for me to shed the rest of the stage name and to cut my hair."
M.I.A. is the only artist in history to receive nominations for all five of Academy Award, Grammy Award, Brit Award, Mercury Prize and Alternative Turner Prize, and the first artist of Sri Lankan-British descent to be nominated for an Academy and Grammy Award in the same year. She has also been nominated for an MOBO Award, MTV Video Music Award, and MTV Europe Music Award.
The Guardian named Fever Ray the second best album of 2009, calling it "glacial, creepy and impish" and commenting, "Between the cavernous synths, the echoes and loops, the polyrhythms and snarling vocal processing, Andersson managed to capture the feeling of being totally alone while also projecting a childlike wonder."
All Them Witches will be headlining on the first night of the Freakout Festival happening in Ballard November 16th-17th!
