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BRAND NEW BEACH HOUSE ALERT!
New album Once Twice Melody is out Feb 18th via Sub Pop and the first chapter is out now!
Read all about it here: www.subpop.com
Saturdays = Youth is the fifth studio album by French electronic music band M83. This album explores 1980s 'new-wave' tropes and teenage memories, reflecting the soft-focused mythology of eternal summers and young love.
“‘This Enchanted’ encapsulates everything I wanted to do moving forward from my first album,” Hatchie (Australian musician Harriette Pilbeam) says. “It’s one of the more lighthearted, lyrically vague songs of my new recordings about falling in love."
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Hatchie performed live in the KEXP Studio in 2019:
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There is a message in the album booklet which warns people of "possible damage to musical equipment". It reads: "Warning This album contains extreme sounds which could damage musical equipment when played at high volume"
Check out the video: youtu.be
YOU AWAKE?
Here's what Yannis Philippakis says about Foals' "party-ready" new (seventh) album: "This new music comes out, it’s just solid good times – an explosion of energy and emotion. Come with your friends, lose your mind, f**king get down." The title and release date for this new album haven't been revealed.: bit.ly
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"Wake Me Up" is the new single.: www.youtube.com
Singer Ellie Rowsell said “This is one of the songs we wrote thinking that we would play it live."
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And Wolf Alice will bring this energy to The Showbox on Monday, October 25th, an all- ages show.
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“The ‘Against The Blade’ EP is a further descent into chaos,” said frontman Faris Badwan. “It’s about the freedom that comes with abandoning all hope, giving up control, and accepting that you will always be at odds with the world around you”.
RIP Keith Flint of The Prodigy, who we lost back in 2019.
Weird facts about "Breathe":
(1)The song features a drum break from the song "Johnny the Fox Meets Jimmy the Weed" by Thin Lizzy. (2)The whiplashing sword sound effect is a sample of the song "Da Mystery of Chessboxin", by Wu-Tang Clan. (3)The freakish music video, which came complete with bugs, cockroaches and a crocodile, was directed by Walter Stern: www.youtube.com
But wait, there's more: www.radiox.co.uk
“When I was feeling a bit stuck and stagnant with music, Hyuk helped me find the joys of creating again, and this was my first time collaborating with someone so closely on music”—Yaeji kraejiyaeji.bandcamp.com
Shinichi Osawa is a Japanese musician, DJ, record producer and composer who has been conquering acid jazz, electro house, and the underground club scene since 1991. Check out the best of album trailer www.youtube.com
Need a boost?
HAAi is returning soon with a new EP, 'The Sun Made For A Soft Landing' Dig in further-> mute.ffm.to/haai-tsm
New York house & disco evangelist Eli Escobar is back with this split 12" eliescobar.bandcamp.com
Brand new banging EP from this masterful producer : kareemali19.bandcamp.com
Seattle's Parisalexa is playing Neumos on Thursday, November 18th. Speaking about "Vroom," Parisalexa shared, "The song is quite frankly about my not needing a passenger. I can get from Point A to Point B without anybody else; if somebody wants to come through and see what I got going on they can." www.parisalexamusic.com
Jamila Woods told DJ Morgan that this track takes inspiration from "The badass spirit and wisdom of Eartha Kitt"; check out her Live in the KEXP Studio performance from 2017: youtu.be
KEXP premiered the first single "The Hardest Cut," off Spoon's new album described by frontman Britt Daniel as "kind-of a highway rock, boogie kind of song, which we've never done before."
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The dark video perfectly matches the vibe of the track: youtu.be
NEW MUSIC! and video! From London-based artist Obongjayar's forthcoming debut album. youtu.be
Enjoy Live Video from Chastity Belt's February 2020 KEXP In-Studio, hosted by Cheryl Waters: bit.ly.
"Chastity Belt is a real band formed in Walla Walla, WA by Julia Shapiro (guitar, vocals), Lydia Lund (guitar), Annie Truscott (bass), and Gretchen Grimm (drums), now residing in Seattle, WA and Los Angeles, CA." chastity-belt.bandcamp.com
In director Eleanor Petry‘s “Fear” video, the members of Chastity Belt play fantastical character-types, knights and elves and whatnot. They frolic with horses in sun-dappled fields: www.youtube.com.
Dilly Dally performed live in the KEXP studio in 2018 and chatted with Troy Nelson. They opened with "I Feel Free", followed it up with "Marijuana", "Sober Motel" and closing with "Heaven". The set list almost forms a sentence. Watch it all here:
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“I Feel Free,” the band exemplified this revivement of the band in an almost literal sense. The clip, directed by frontwoman Katie Monks, sees Monks exhume her dead and buried bandmates and attempts to bring them back to life. “This song is me asking my bandmates to let go of what’s been weighing us down,” says Monks. “We’re not going to let the past hold us back from our dreams. Let’s do this thing.”
"I Feel Free" was a KEXP Song of the Day in 2018. Subscribe and download for free here:
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Montreal's Bleu Nuit is back and sounding darker than ever: bleunuitmtl.bandcamp.com
Released in 1988, this song is based on a real-life encounter Steve Kilbey had with a reptile.
New music from Curtis Harding! Order If Words Were Flowers here: curtisharding.ffm.to
The Guardian found that producer "Maurice White began his career as a drummer, and his band can sound like one enormous kit, where every crash and beat has its funky place." He added "I'll Write a Song for You is superior schmaltz; and the whole shebang is punctuated beautifully by Milton Nascimento's Brazilian Rhyme". I'm here for all the drummings!
Daptone celebrates 20 years of soulful music with the release of The Daptone Super Soul Revue "LIVE at the Apollo"
When Columbian duo Simón Mejía and Liliana Saumet had nearly finished recording their latest LP, the group took part in an age-old ritual: a pagamento, or payment. It’s a ceremony “to pay back what you have taken from the Earth". Bomba Estéreo spent a night making offerings and sharing profound conversation with a mamo, a shaman of the Arhuaco people. Read more in this recent New York Times feature: tinyurl.com
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Back with another new single, Mitski today announced her new album "Laurel Hell," which will be out February 4 via Dead Oceans. The latest song is titled "The Only Heartbreaker" and was co-written with Semisonic's Dan Wilson, who has a long history of working with musicians like Adele, Taylor Swift, and the Chicks (back when they were going by Dixie).
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Mitski said that the song depicts “the person always messing up in the relationship, the designated Bad Guy who gets the blame. It could simply be about that, but I also wanted to depict something sadder beneath the surface, that maybe the reason you’re always the one making mistakes is because you’re the only one trying.”
“Girlkind” is the latest release by Sinead O'Brien and reportedly lays groundwork for a forthcoming debut album. O’Brien shared a poem of sorts by way of describing the track:
"I am out in the elements.
At the mercy of others.
Pulled in all directions.
I wait endless.
The phenomenon of the moving statues in Ireland during the 1980s becomes a motif.
“When the virgin rocks the statues come to stop”.
These verses are glimpses into experience. Girlkind and Humanhood
Persevering eternity.
Balancing, evaluating.
Going back and forth.
Keep forging a way through." - www.stereogum.com
“Girlkind” is accompanied by a video directed by Saskia Dixie:
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This is The Slits' dub-punk version of the Marvin Gaye classic. "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong, for Motown Records in 1966.
“I’m not looking for trouble, I’m looking for love. Will you let me in your hard heart, let me in your pub.” - www.amylandthesniffers.com
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Troy recently interviewed Amyl and The Sniffers for a Live on KEXP at Home session. Stay tuned to KEXPs YouTube channel! www.youtube.com
Check out the KEXP Premiere article about this tune:
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Shaina Shepherd will be performing Live on KEXP on November 22nd at 9:30am.
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Acid Tongue will also be performing at Freakout Festival, happening in Ballard from November 11th-14th.
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Bartees Strange will be LIVE on KEXP on Thursday, December 16 at 3:00 PM! He will open for Courtney Barnett at the Paramount Theater on Tuesday, December 14
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[This cover] "is a great song and one of my favorites from Richard Swift, god rest him," says Bartees Strange. "I was really not sure how to approach the song because normally I don’t do direct covers, but I just love the arrangement and how the song was recorded so much that I just tried to do something that was true to the original but slightly different. I did some hard pan drums but still wanted it to feel very personal."
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Want to hear Richard Swift's original?: www.youtube.com
Take a peek at Unknown Mortal Orchestra's mesmerizing 2018 in studio performance here: www.youtube.com
Off the third album from the duo made up of Jonathan Rado and Sam France. Watch the video for "San Francisco" here: www.youtube.com
Barnett had this to say about the song in a press release: “I think my stance in the past was like, ‘There’s so many love songs and they don’t mean anything,’ but there’s something really special about zooming in on a moment and capturing it. ‘If I Don’t Hear From You Tonight’ comes from the state of where my head was at—trying to communicate honestly instead of keeping [my feelings] guarded.” Read more at Under the Radar: tinyurl.com
Courtney Barnett will be Live in the KEXP Studio at noon on Tuesday, December 14th! She'll then play The Paramount Theatre in an all-ages show at 8PM that night, with special guest Bartees Strange: You can get tickets: tinyurl.com
Brandi Carlile's new album, "In These Silent Times," is great! Here's an NPR interview with the artist about how band and family are the same: www.npr.org
Formed in Stockholm by childhood friends Adam Olenius (vocals), Ted Malmros (bass), and Carl von Arbin (guitars), Shout Out Louds found an international audience during the early 2000s with their peppy Swedish pop.
Nilüfer Yanya has announced her sophomore album today; it's titled "Painless" and will be released on March 4.
Lead single "Stabilise" is out now, and expresses how location and surroundings can affect individual emotions. The video for "Stabilise" premiered today, too.: www.youtube.com
Just a reminder that this music video exists staring Peewee Hermin and Amy Pond from Dr. Who: www.youtube.com
Frontrunner for my Top ten! Meet the powerhouse duo of Amy Douglas and Joe Goddard (Hot Chip). The debut is out now!
Ciara and Lizzo celebrated Missy Elliott who now has a star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood. people.com
It's been raining A LOT lately.
This video was nominated for Best Rap Video at the 1997 MTV Video Music Awards. www.youtube.com
New song from Diana Ross...yes, that Diana Ross! New album scheduled for November release.
“There’s no wrong way to dance, just do it,” Ross says in a statement. - bit.ly
"L.E.S. Artistes" (which stands for Lower East Side Artists) was written after Santi White (AKA Santigold) moved to New York City. In an interview with PopJustice, Santi details the track from her debut, saying the song "is playing on the fact that everyone tries to make things fancy and it's really pretentious". Read more about this song here: www.popjustice.com
Happy album-versary! The sophomore release from Zambian-born, Botswana-raised, Sydney-based, rapper, poet and singer-songwriter Sampa the Great. She cites Nina Simone, Lauryn Hill, and Yasiin Bey as key influences.
sampathegreat.bandcamp.com