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Wednesday, Apr 13 2022, 1AM
Operators performed live at The Triple Door as part of KEXP's VIP Club concert series back in 2016. Watch the full set, including "Cold Light" here: youtu.be
Operators are Dan Boeckner, Sam Brown, and Devojka.
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IV is the fourth studio album by Canadian rock band, Black Mountain, released on April 1, 2016.
Battleme performing "All Night, All Night" live in the KEXP studio. Recorded February 12, 2016. www.youtube.com
Bloomington, Indiana based Diane Coffee is playing at Barboza on Friday, May 13! dianecoffee.bandcamp.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
www.foxygentheband.com Have a request? Email dj@kexp.org or text 206-903-5397
New Music! From Seattle collective High Pulp!
“We’re a bunch of outsiders who refused to be kept out,” says High Pulp drummer Bobby Granfelt. “We’ve never had an academic approach to jazz—most of us grew up playing in DIY bands—so it was the rawness and the energy and the absolute freedom of the music that called to us in the first place.”
Beautiful video!
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This album rules!!! Fourth single released from Anderson.Paak's critically-acclaimed sophomore album 'Malibu.'
Everything Everywhere All At Once is the best movie you will ever see in your life.
Soundtrack composed by Son Lux!
Directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, collectively known as Daniels, the film is a hilarious and big-hearted sci-fi action adventure about an exhausted Chinese American woman (Michelle Yeoh) who can't seem to finish her taxes.
This track is cinematic excellence and it's no wonder the Ryan Lott fronted project could make the perfect score for Everything Everywhere All At Once www.slashfilm.com
“Bad things happen, the fire goes out; even with the best flammables it stays dark until nothing matters becomes the fire itself,” singer Channy Leaneagh explained of the soaring, layered song in a statement. She added that the lyrics on the album represent the idea that, “I am here for you all and I am never truly myself here. I am her for you all and I am never truly her.”
From their ninth studio album. Underworld's Rick Smith came up with the title of the album from his father. Rick's mother's name is Barbara; she told Rick's father that she was fearful of the future without him, and Rick's father replied "Barbara, Barbara, we face a shining future" - bit.ly
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Jamie xx first teased the new track on Instagram last week, stating that he’s been performing “Let’s Do It Again” in his live sets since 2021. He added in a press statement, “I started making this tune last year, just as it felt like we might all be able to start doing the things we love again.” pitchfork.com
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Request for the wonderful Clare tuning in!
Lorely Rodriguez, aka Empress Of, just released her first new song of 2022 which the pop artist describes as “one of my favorite songs I have ever made.”
She continued, “I’ve never put live strings on a recording before, it was very emotional. There’s a sexual urgency. There’s a power play. I think it’s one of the sexiest songs I’ve made.”
Empress Of played live on KEXP (at home) in 2020. Check out her full performance here: www.youtube.com
The brand new single from English duo, Let’s Eat Grandma, is “about feeling all over the place, escaping to your imagination and being in a disorientating and surreal mental state, which can be both scary and elevating somehow”. Rosa Walton, who makes one-half the duo along with Jenny Hollingworth, continued in a press release: “"You’re with someone you’re close to, trying to reach out and connect to them, and even though you’re both struggling, you’re able to find comfort in one another, and have an absurdly funny yet meaningful time together. You begin to see some hope in your future again after a time when you’d started to lose sight of that.”
Don’t miss their new album out April 29th via Transgressive Records.
And check out their full performance live on KEXP back in 2018 here: www.youtube.com
Schoolteacher by day, searing pop-punk wunderkind by night, Vietnamese-American artist Monét Ngo is a man of many talents. His debut single "Lonestar" showcases more than a few of those talents, on an inspiring coming-of-age alternative ballad about dealing with loneliness and anxiety.
"'Lonestar' was written at one of the lowest points in my life. It was a time where I was feeling a lot of social anxiety amongst my peers and I was dwelling on past mistakes and conversations," Ngo relates, "I was at a turning point in my life where I wasn’t sure who I wanted to be or what I wanted to do next with my future. Should I follow the safe route and pursue teaching, or should I work even harder to pursue my dream with music. The aggressive tone of the song sets the tone for me trying to come to terms with all these sources of anxiety within my life."
“There was 50 versions of 'White Ferrari,'” Frank Ocean told The New York Times in 2016. “I have a 15-year-old little brother, and he heard one of the versions, and he's like, 'You gotta put that one out, that's the one. ' And I was like, 'Naw, that's not the version,' because it didn't give me peace yet.”
Local producer Erik Blood has been heavily involved with local bands like Shabazz Palaces, THEESatisfaction, and The Moondoggies. Watch his performance live on KEXP: www.youtube.com
Orlando Higginbottom, the British dance producer who records under the name Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, has been busy lately. He was recently up for a Grammy; the Bonobo/TEED collab “Heartbreak” is up for Best Dance/Electronic Recording. But there hasn’t been a Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs album since his 2012 debut Trouble. This summer, though, we’ll get our first new TEED album in a decade. www.stereogum.com
Featured on my top albums of 2016: www.kexp.org
New single! Sudan Archives will be playing at Capitol Hill Block Party, July 22-24: www.capitolhillblockparty.com
The LA-based violinist, vocalist and producer is back with her first new single in three years. “Home Maker” transforms domestic life into something sultry and seductive. It’s also a KEXP Song of the Day.
Download the tune for FREE, and subscribe to future KEXP podcasts: kexp.org
New Orleans-based artist, Solange wrote, arranged, and co-produced EVERY song on 'A Seat at the Table'. In a breakdown of this track, Solange told Song Exploder: “I’ve had an extremely difficult relationship with meditating and trying to silence my brain, which is what so much of this song is about.” www.solangemusic.com
Join KEXP for 6 Degrees of Dolly Parton on Friday, April 22nd. All day long, DJs will be linking each song to the one they played before, beginning with, weaving in and out of, and ending with the music of the Queen of Country herself, Dolly Parton. We'll make connections through guest vocals, shared musicians, samples, and more, but songs are selected totally on the fly and without pre-planning. Let's celebrate the impact Dolly has made on music with live human-powered radio. It's 6 Degrees of Dolly Parton, live on Friday April 22nd and on-demand after the broadcast.
The Julie Ruin is the project of local, PNW rocker Kathleen Hanna from Bikini Kill and Le Tigre.
www.thejulieruin.com
Summer Cannibals stopped by and chatted with me and rocked our faces off at KEXP in 2019. You can watch here: www.youtube.com
Brand new Art d'Ecco! www.youtube.com
Art stopped by for an epic session and we both rocked red boots www.youtube.com
The Other Side of Make-Believe is out July 15 via Matador. It’s the band’s seventh studio album and the follow-up to 2018’s Marauder. The band will soon begin an extensive run of concerts, which includes their co-headlining tour with Spoon.
"I'm so sick of (fill in the blank)." Memorize these lyrics: genius.com
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And then sing along as Will Toledo (Car Seat Headrest) performs it live in the KEXP studio: www.youtube.com
Across three discs of rough-hewed yet honeyed music, this three-disc set captures the cosmopolitan scene of Africa’s post-colonial Upper Volta in the 1960s and ’70s.
As musician Pete Wareham puts it: “We don’t fit the archetype. For too long this has felt like a problem, now we have the opportunity to say: We don’t fit in, we’re in the cracks, we’re ourselves.”
Gaya adds: “In everything I create there is a tension between wanting to fit in, to feel included and the fear of losing my culture or forgetting where I am from. The refusal to fit in whatever narrative an African man of Asian appearance should play in western society. I started not really caring so much, not second-guessing myself or my vocals so much, which was a huge hurdle to overcome.”
The Halluci Nation (formerly known as A Tribe Called Red) will play Neumos on May 6!
Moderat is a German electronic music supergroup originating in Berlin between Sascha Ring, also known as Apparat, and Modeselektor members Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary. The band has released three studio albums to date, their most recent being III, released on April 1, 2016.
Live on KEXP in 2016: www.youtube.com
Seattle based electronic pop duo Crater played live on KEXP back in 2016. Watch here: www.youtube.com
"Once Twice Melody" is the first album by Beach House produced by entirely by band duo Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally; parts of the album were recorded at Pachyderm Studio in Cannon Falls, Minnesota, where Nirvana recorded much of In Utero.
www.beachhousebaltimore.com
Lead singer Billy Corgan wrote this about making the transition out of youth and into adulthood. He remembered being in high school and having adult responsibilities like a car and job, but still being very much a youth and dependent on his parents.
On the song Taleen says:
'Flower Of Life' is about coming back to life after the trials and tribulations of the Trump administration, Me Too movement, BLM, and the pandemic. I wrote this song for us to rage to, dance to, scream to. Now that it’s safe to be together again, we can let it all out. This song has about 10 guitars packed into 2 minutes, which is twice the amount of guitars we’ve ever put on a recording. It’s our battle-cry of making it through to the other side. Flower Of Life is also what I’m naming the album.
Grab the record here: t.e2ma.net
JK she was at Barboza on Sunday, April 10th! BUT stay tuned for SASAMI's KEXP session soon!
The video for this track was directed by Euphoria costume designer Heidi Bivens, styled by Euphoria assistant costume designer Angelina Vitto, with make-up by Euphoria and Pen15 make-up artist Alexandra French.
Of the song and video, Los Angeles-based SASAMI says "'Make It Right' is an ode to Fleetwood Mac’s more tantrum-y vibes with a hair of Crass-y marching snare. She’s a desperation bop about not being communicated with. I love a fuzzy riff." bit.ly
Catch that video here: bit.ly.
sasami.bandcamp.com
We have been blessed with new music from Wet Leg!
Ur Mum is "a mixture of a pissed-off-at-an-ex track and a goodbye to a dead-end hometown." bit.ly
The new song is accompanied by a rather dynamic music video:
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Wet Leg will be among many great artists performing at Thing! Festival at Fort Worden in Port Townsend, August 26 - 28th.
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www.wetlegband.com
