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Wednesday, Jun 5 2024, 1AM
Playing Strange Times in full tomorrow at El Corazon in Seattle! Taping a session with them as well so subscribe to KEXP's YouTube channel so you don't miss out on their Live on KEXP session.
KEXP's music director Chris Sanley says of this new Jesus and Mary Chain album: "The legendary Scottish outfit are finally BACK with their eighth studio album in celebration of their 40th (!!!) anniversary as a band. Over the course of these twelve tracks, Jim and William Reid pay homage to rock’n’roll history with their signature melodic noise rock sound, full of intriguing distortions, electronic elements and dark undertones."
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Taleen Kali covers Smashing Pumpkins' "Ava Adore" -> taleenkali.bandcamp.com
June 22nd at The Echo in LA!
Amen Dunes has announced his first new album in six years. The new album, 'Death Jokes', arrives on May 10, marking his debut full-length on Sub Pop Records.
"Purple Land" is the first single from the album and is accompanied by a music video.
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This song, produced and co-written by Chris Greatti, was selected as a KEXP Song of the Day.: www.kexp.org
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The video blends live-action footage, 3D digital characters, and deepfake technology to portray, as the clip’s directors say, “this hot-tempered and violent relationship between Yves Tumor and Jackie.” : www.youtube.com
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“‘All A Mystery’ was a line that we used to sing when we first started writing songs for Phantogram,” the band said. They continued:
"We would sing it and harmonize it together while working in the barn turned recording studio. Back then, it was “all a mystery” to us how we came together to become a band, and 14 years later, we are bewildered that we have been doing this for so long. This song touches on love, life, death and loss. It digs into memories, and the wonder of existence. And it examines the push and pull of time on this planet, and being able to share the experience of everything all at once as a mere grain of sand on an endless beach."
"Oh, What a Night" is a song first recorded by the doo-wop group the Dells[1] and released in 1956, originally under the title "Oh What a Nite". It is said to have been inspired by a party, which had been held in the Dells' honor by some female friends of the group.
Bonus track from the 10 Year Anniversary Edition of Sylvan Esso's self-titled debut album.
sylvanesso.bandcamp.com
This alt version will be available on Aug 24th on 7" vinyl! sharonvanetten.bandcamp.com
Sharon Van Etten graced our studio in 2014 with a great live performance that included "Every Time the Sun Comes Up": www.youtube.com
In 1970 the Southern soul music maverick Jerry Williams, Jr. made the most radical move of his career. Frustrated with music business politics Williams reinvented himself as Swamp Dogg, an irreverent anti-hero smashing the conventions of commercial R&B music.
swampdogg.bandcamp.com
Brand new collaboration from 2 legends! Stevie Wonder plays clavinet and sings, with Clark on guitar and vox.
Gary Clark Jr. is touring!
Playing Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery in Woodinville, WA on Wednesday, August 14th.
Playing THE MASONIC in SAN FRANCISCO, CA on Saturday August 17th.
- www.garyclarkjr.com
“When I wrote ‘Exceptional’ with [fellow Canadian musician] Jacques Greene, I wanted it to feel like the endorphin rush you get from pressing the button that says ‘Buy It Now’ when you’re shopping online,” Cadence Weapon explained in a statement.
KEXP interview with Leon Bridges after the release of his album "Good Thing" featuring this track. www.kexp.org
"I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man" was the final single of Prince's ninth studio album "Sign O' The Times"
Everyone's Getting Involved: A Tribute to Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense is a tribute album to Talking Heads, their 1984 Jonathan Demme-directed concert film Stop Making Sense, and the live album of the same name. www.rollingstone.com
This is the second single taken from new album, ‘Wild God’, due August 30th. It's called 'Frogs' and opens with the very first words Cave wrote for the album, invoking the first murder in the Bible, Cain’s slaying of Abel. “Ushering in the week he knelt down and crushed his brother’s head in with a bone / It’s my great privilege to walk you home.” www.nickcave.com
This song was originally a gospel spiritual, "This May Be the Last Time." The Staple Singers recorded it in in 1954, the Stones turned it into "The Last Time," and Richard Ashcroft heard it, too.: www.theringer.com
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This was the only American hit for The Verve, but they were far more popular in their native UK, where their next single, "The Drugs Don't Work," went to #1. The band broke up in 1999 and reformed in 2007,
By turns devotional, empowering and nurturing, Jon Hopkins’ forthcoming RITUAL is a 41-minute electronic symphony built from cavernous subs, hypnotic drumming and transcendent melodic interplay. Tense, immersive and ultimately triumphant, it is a culmination of themes explored throughout his 22-year career, and acts as the kinetic counterpart to 2021’s Music For Psychedelic Therapy.
A single piece unfolding over eight chapters, RITUAL is personified by depth and contrast. Taking ceremony, spiritual liberation and the hero's journey as inspiration, it taps into an ancient and primal energy. jonhopkins.bandcamp.com
Suki Waterhouse visits the KEXP Studio on Friday, July 12 at 5pm - and will perform at Day In Day Out Festival at Seattle Center on July 13th and at The Warfield in San Francisco on October 25th! www.dayindayoutfest.com
"My Fun" came out as a single along with "Faded" in April:
sukiwaterhouse.bandcamp.com
Brand new music from Cults!
Cults is playing The Crocodile in Seattle on Monday, August 12th and Bimbo's 365 Club in San Francisco Thursday, August 15th.
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cults.bandcamp.com
It's 3 AM Eternal! Dance it up with some high NRG, rave, new dance tunes, and old.
After unveiling a string of new singles recently, Jamie xx has finally announced his imminent studio offering, set to surface nine years after his In Colour debut. Entitled In Waves, the producer’s second solo project is officially scheduled to arrive this fall, complete with previously released Honey Dijon feature “Baddy on the Floor” and now-out DJ-set staple “Treat Each Other Right” as well as features from Robyn, Panda Bear, Kelsey Lu, the Avalanches, and The xx bandmates Romy and Oliver Sim.
Jamie kicked off the album’s rollout today by releasing the full version of “Treat Each Other Right” – a track he’s teased at a slew of his DJ sets over the years. The high-energy cut comes equipped with a chaotic Rosie Marks-directed visual, complete with a cameo from Gordon Ramsay. www.youtube.com
Dan Snaith wrote, produced, and recorded, “Broke My Heart,” and he and his friend Keiran Hebden, better known as Four Tet, arranged the track together.
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Think he listened to Suzanne Vega before he wrote this one?
That Suzanne Vega train, let's ride it.
DRAMA is playing three shows with ODESZA at the Gorge Amphitheatre in Washington, on July 4-6. thedramaduo.com
Inner City is an American electronic music group that formed in Detroit, Michigan, in 1987. The group was originally composed of the record producer and composer Kevin Saunderson and the Chicago, Illinois, vocalist Paris Grey. They are known as one of the pioneers the Detroit techno sound.
Check out DEBBY FRIDAY's full Live at KEXP performance from April 2023:
www.youtube.com
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Toronto's DEBBY FRIDAY has released her first single of the year. The track, recorded in Toronto and Detroit, is co-produced by FRIDAY, Graham Walsh, and Detroit rap crew HiTech. debbyfriday.bandcamp.com debbyfriday.com
Frank Ocean's beautiful cover of Henry Mancini's song for the 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' original score. As originally performed by Audrey Hepburn, “Moon River” is a wispy ode to wanderlust and the immense opportunities “two drifters” find in the glorious unknown. But it becomes something far different in Ocean’s hands. Ocean’s version of “Moon River” trades Hepburn’s gentle sigh for bold and confident yearnings. As he warbles about the wild surrounding world, Ocean envisions his own self-realization through double-tracked new lines like “What I see, What I become.” bit.ly
"News of the Universe is a record born of calamity, a work of dark, beautiful psychedelia reflecting Cleveland’s experience of having her world blown apart by a breast cancer diagnosis just two years after the birth of her son. It’s also a portrait of a band in flux, marking the first appearance for drummer Audrey Johnson and the final ones from longtime members bassist Lena Simon and keyboardist Alice Sandahl, whose contributions add a bittersweet edge to a record that is both elegy for an old world and cosmic road map to a strange new one." laluz.bandcamp.com
Angélica Garcia will perform at Seattle's Bumbershoot Festival on Labor Day Weekend, followed by a show in San Francisco at August Hall on Tuesday, October 22nd!
Join KEXP for this year’s Bumbershoot Music and Arts Festival 8/31 and 9/1 at the Seattle Center. Check out the lineup here: bumbershoot.com. Tickets for Bumbershoot are on sale now at bumbershoot.com.
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angelicagarcia.bandcamp.com
Marwan Abdelhamid, AKA Saint Levant, was born in Jerusalem to a French-Algerian mother and Serbian-Palestinian father during the second Intifada. He spent 10 years growing up in Gaza, to which he would dedicate his first EP From Gaza with Love. saintlevant.com
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Emel Mathlouthi, also known professionally as Emel, is a Tunisian-American singer-songwriter, musician, arranger and producer. She rose to fame with her protest song "Kelmti Horra", which became an anthem for the Tunisian Revolution and the Arab Spring.
emel.bandcamp.com
Sampa Tembo's great live performance in the KEXP studio in 2022 included "Final Form": www.youtube.com.
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“Yes – the rhythm, the rebel / Without a pause – I’m lowering my level / The hard rhymer – where you never been I’m in / You want styling – you know it’s time again”
The first single and one of the big tracks from It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back. Released in 1987, it was sort of a bridge from the still somewhat unpolished sounds of Yo! Bum Rush The Show to the Bomb Squad produced perfection on It Takes a Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back.
"Ready to Go" is a song by English alternative rock band Republica, released as a single on 15 April 1996. The original recording was not included on the band's debut album, Republica (1996) – two other versions of the song, the US mix and the original mix, were included.
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Here's a biography of Republica: musicianguide.com
SPRINTS will perform at Neumos on Thursday, October 17th, and at San Francisco's The Chapel on Monday, October 21st.
Watch their 2024 Live on KEXP session here:
www.youtube.com
sprintsmusic.bandcamp.com
A new TR/ST album is coming this year. In December, the electronic project of Robert Alfons signed to Dais. The single “Soon” is mixed by Chris Coady, Damian Taylor, co-produced by Alfons and Nightfeelings, and mastered by Mike Bozzi. Alfons previously described the new record as “bigger, better, beautiful, and buried in mud.”
- trst.bandcamp.com
Austra played "Future Politics" live in the KEXP studio in 2017. Watch the full session here:
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austramusic.bandcamp.com
Written by lead singer Roland Orzabal, this song is about being disappointed in a relationship. It was originally released as a single in March 1982 under the title "Pale Shelter (You Don't Give Me Love)," and failed to chart. It was re-released in April 1983 as the third single (After "Mad World" and "Change") taken from the debut album The Hurting. www.songfacts.com tearsforfears.com
Chinese American Bear is a C-pop duo, currently based in Seattle, who create eclectic bilingual
(English/Chinese) ear candy. Composed of married couple Bryce Barsten and Anne Tong, the couple
originally set out to only make a few songs for fun, but things changed for them after a surprising
reaction to their first two singles "Hao Ma" & “Dumpling.” Those tracks accumulated 200,000+ listens
across platforms and led to the duo signing on with China's largest indie label Modern Sky. With a
charmingly ramshackle DIY spirit, the pair make music that blends Chinese mando-pop and the
Western indie pop canon, writing songs that flit between English and Mandarin, capturing a spirit of
cross-cultural joy and longing, that is often poignant while never losing its sense of fun.
Today, CAB are announcing their signing to beloved UK independent label Moshi Moshi (Girl Ray,
Anna Meredith, Hot Chip), and sharing a first single for their new label, a track called "Feelin' Fuzzy
(毛绒绒的感觉)."