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The classic English Beat song was also featured on the Grosse Point Blank soundtrack.
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"Mirror in the Bathroom" is a single by British ska band the Beat released as a single in 1980 from their debut studio album I Just Can't Stop It. - englishbeat.net
"There is a mythical island that exists only in Claude Fontaine’s imagination. It’s somewhere off the coast of France but the trade winds blow a soothing tropical breeze. The inhabitants converse in an alluring mélange of French and Portuguese. The air is fragrant and sweet. The water is the color of Lapis Lazuli. The stone citadels of this invisible city are scarred by time, but its people exist in a velvet eternity."
claudefontaine.bandcamp.com
The London jazz saxophonist and bandleader Nubya Garcia made a big splash with her 2020 debut album "Source," Now, Garcia announces her new album "Odyssey," set to arrive on September 20th (Mike's birthday).
In a press release, Nubya Garcia says that "Odyssey" “represents the notion of truly being on your own path, and trying to discard all the outside noise saying you should go this way or that way.”
These Atlanta musicians say, "Foreseen by oracles and foretold by angels, the coming together of rapper Brandon “BEZ” (B Easy) Evans and beatmaker/producer Jonah Swilley was, by their own admission, a divine appointment." Go here to purchase their new single, "Dim Sum": revivalseason.bandcamp.com
Guilty Simpson & MED featured MCs. Quakers is a 35-person hip-hop collective, centered around three producers - Fuzzface (Geoff Barrow), Katalyst (Ashley Anderson), and 7Stu7 (Stuart Matthews). This is from their 41-track album.
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Quakers feat. Guilty Simpson & MED - Fitta Happier samples this track!
The track originally featured on Sampha’s 2023 album "Lahai," but the singer explained that he had “always imagined a guest verse to expand on it”.
“Simz’s music has been close to my heart and ears for sometime now which makes her being on this song that more special,” he said.
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Check out the trippy visual: tinyurl.com
Blondshell will be playing the Gorge September 7th with Glass Animals and the Fox Theater in Oakland October 11th with Bright Eyes! --- blondshell.bandcamp.com www.blondshellmusic.com
Fox Theater in Oakland October 11th with Blondshell
"Thеre’s a wall around the city
Higher than the sky
Every life was lost within it
While the world stood by
Where is Palestine?"
Un-American Activities is the 11th Studio album by Molly Nilsson. Written and recorded entirely on location in California at the former home of writer, poet and early opponent of the National Socialist regime in 1930s Germany, Lion Feuchtwanger and his wife Marta. An album of experimentation, genre-mashing and, above it all, Nilsson’s instantly recognisable melodic skill and empathy, it continues the songwriter’s explorations of power, freedom, oppression and its opposing force, a love unbound.
mollynilsson.bandcamp.com
Fever Ray is the debut solo studio album by Fever Ray, an alias of Karin Dreijer of Swedish electronic music duo the Knife.
Jon Hopkins' RITUAL is a 41-minute electronic symphony built from cavernous subs, hypnotic drumming and transcendent melodic interplay. Check out more music from this London based artist here: jonhopkins.bandcamp.com
Sascha Ring, better known by the stage name Apparat, is a German electronic musician. He was previously co-owner of Shitkatapult records. Starting out with dancefloor-oriented techno, he shifted focus towards ambient music, becoming "more interested in designing sounds than beats".
The South Africa-based, 3x GRAMMY-winning Soweto Gospel Choir, and Australian electronic artist Groove Terminator (Simon Lewicki) unite to spread the 'History of House' around the globe.
The Swedish experimental psychedelic rock outfit, Goat, describe themselves as: "Formidable psychic warriors, channelers of the mystic and proponents of a spiritual quest that transcends this realm"
This single's name - and the album's inspiration - come from the mystic icon of the snake or dragon, eating its own tail - learn more at Goat's site on Bandcamp: goat.bandcamp.com
Watch Kikagaku Moyo performing live in 2019 at The Triple Door as part of KEXP's VIP Club Concert series: youtu.be
The Tokyo band were also guest DJs for KEXP's Midnight in a Perfect World in 2018: www.kexp.org
Released on this day in 1992! It was A Good Idea.
Watch Bob Mould perform this one live for KEXP listeners at Bumbershoot in 2013: www.youtube.com
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Sugar was formed in 1992, led by singer and guitarist Bob Mould, alongside bassist David Barbe and drummer Malcolm Travis.
(Unfortunately the Vancouver duo are calling it quits after Fate & Alcohol, out October 18th) - japandroids.bandcamp.com
Psychedelic Gaze from San Francisco's Pink Breath of Heaven: pinkbreathofheaven.bandcamp.com
Asobi Seksu was an American shoegaze/dream pop band based in New York City. The band primarily consisted of Yuki Chikudate (vocals, keyboards) and James Hanna (guitar, vocals).
Asobi Seksu performed live in the KEXP studio in 2010: www.youtube.com.
Hello to Pam from Ian tuning in from Manchester!
Playing The Gorge, WA September 7; Vancouver, BC September 8; Mountain View, CA September 11!
They're back! Creatures in Heaven by Glass Animals is their first single to their upcoming album, 'I Love You So F***ing Much,' their first full-length since 2020. It's set to release on July 19. Lead singer Dave Bayley recalls writing the album in two weeks, while while stranded in an Airbnb with COVID back in April 2023. View his interview with Rolling Stone UK here: www.rollingstone.com
www.glassanimals.com
The single ‘Girls’ feat. Rose Gray is taken from her forthcoming album "Sad Girl," due out September 27th on Ninja Tune. :
tshamusic.bandcamp.com
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Watch the video for ‘Girls’ (feat. Rose Gray): www.youtube.com
Shiny Toy Guns is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 2002. The band is composed of guitarist/vocalist Chad Petree, vocalist Carah Faye Charnow, keyboardist Jeremy Dawson, and drummer Mikey Martin.
From "No. 1 in Heaven", the eighth album from Sparks, released in 1979, and produced by Italian synth/disco master Giorgio Moroder. The album became influential in the synth pop genre. allsparks.com
Last year, GUM, the project of Tame Impala/Pond member Jay Watson, teamed up with Ambrose Kenny-Smith of King Gizzard and the Murlocs for a 7″ single. They've just released their collaborative album, "Ill Times": gumambrosekenny-smith.bandcamp.com
Reflections is the twelfth studio album recorded for Motown by Diana Ross & the Supremes.
Seattle band The Dip are playing with Jordan Mackampa October 18th at The Fillmore in San Francisco and November 16th and 17th at the Showbox in Seattle.
thedipmusic.com
"Love Direction" is the title track from their forthcoming album, out July 12th. thedip.bandcamp.com
Check out their 2022 Live on KEXP performance:
www.youtube.com
“We’re channeling our inner playful selves, challenging ourselves to fun, and bringing you that nostalgic-feel with this song!” CHAI explain in a statement. “There’s just something about old video games that’s super cute, a little tacky, yet at the same time fancy. Something that you think is “old-school” but at the same time super refreshing. YMCK collaborated with us on this and created the ultimate 8bit World of CHAI!”
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CHAI performed on KEXP Live at Home, chatting with DJ Morgan. Check out the interview and full performance:
youtu.be
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chaiofficial.bandcamp.com
LEATHERS is the electro-pop project of Canadian musician and visual artist, Shannon Hemmett (also the keyboardist of acclaimed Vancouver post punk band ACTORS). leathers.bandcamp.com
The Softies LIVE on KEXP Fri. Sept. 6 at 12PM!
Then, catch them at Fremont Abbey in Seattle afterwards!
Alec O'Hanley's explanation on the band's fixation on water: "I guess it’s the duality of beauty and danger at the same time. That was the juxtaposition when we were growing up [in Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia]. We were beach bums. Molly would jump off the pier for swimming lessons, but we were always taught to fear the rip-tide and the undertow, and that sort of thing. When you’re a teenager, that’s where you go, to goof off with your friends and sneak off late at night. It’s inherently very romantic." bit.ly
Alvvays joined Kevin Cole Live in the KEXP Studio back in 2017: youtu.be
"That Madeline Follin and Brian Oblivion's back catalog found new life on social media is just another example of how easily they meld pop's past and future -- their songs sound as good in viral posts as they would playing on a soda shop jukebox or in a flying car." Read more about the July release here: tinyurl.com
Request for Thorsten!
London Calling was a double album, but it wasn't supposed to be. The band were angry that CBS had priced their previous EP, The Cost of Living at £1.49, and so in the interests of their fans they insisted that London Calling be a double LP. CBS refused, so the band tried a different tactic: how about a free single on a one-disc LP? CBS agreed, but didn't notice that this free single disc would play at 33rpm and contain eight songs - therefore making it up to a double album!
At the end of the song, a series of beeps spells out "SOS" in morse code. Mick Jones created these sounds on one of his guitar pickups.
- www.songfacts.com
Hiatus Kaiyote's fourth studio album-- "Love Heart Cheat Code" came out June 28th. Hiatus Kaiyote—the quartet of guitarist and vocalist Naomi “Nai Palm” Saalfield, bassist Paul Bender, keyboardist Simon Mavin, and drummer Perrin Moss—enlisted a handful of Melbourne-based musicians for the new album: Taylor “Chip” Crawford, guitarist Tom Martin, and flutist Nikodemos. They also collaborated with Brazilian producer Mario Caldato Jr., known for his work with Beastie Boys, Seu Jorge, and others
hiatuskaiyote.bandcamp.com
hiatuskaiyote.com
Seun Kuti is the youngest son of legendary Afrobeat godfather Fela Kuti. At the age of nine, Seun expressed a wish to sing to his father. A short while later Seun started performing with his father and the band, until his father’s untimely death in 1997. Seun, then only 14 years old, assumed the role as leader of the Egypt 80. He has run his father's legendary band ever since.: www.seunkuti.net
Senegal's Orchestra Baobab brings a timeless set of classic, swaying tunes fusing Afro-Cuban rhythms and African tradition in the group's trademark style.
''Dance, No One's Watching' is an ode to the sacred, yet joyous act of dancing, an album that musically guides you through a night out in the city, from the opening of possibilities as a new evening spans out ahead, to dawn’s final hours as the night comes to a close."
The group took home the 2023 Mercury Prize - learn more and pre-order: ezracollective.bandcamp.com
SNAKEGANG Has Spawned: In Conversation with Snakehips and EARTHGANG hypebeast.com
Check out this full performance from Jarv Dee, Live on KEXP in 2022:
www.youtube.com
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jarvdee.bandcamp.com
