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Thursday, Dec 26 2019, 2PM
The Secretly Canadian website has mucho information about their artists, Suuns: secretlycanadian.com
Here’s what Stelmanis had to say about it in a statement:
I wish Change the Paradigm had made it onto the record because it directly embodies what I wanted to express on Future Politics – that the most powerful tool we possess for creating a better world is our own imagination.
Doldrums is the alias of Montreal-based humanoid Airick Asher Woodhead, spanning 3 LPs, a VHS, various mixtapes and 2 boiler room performances. doldrums.bandcamp.com
Kedr Livanskiy’s second album, Your Need, is a celebration of life and rebirth. It’s about a fighter’s spirit, and if you will, a little audacity and courage. DJ’ing and early forms of dance music inspired a furious burst of creative energy after months of melancholy, sadness and reflection to record the album in only a matter of weeks.
Though often compared to Siouxsie Sioux, Debbie Harry and other famous frontwomen, Karen O said her singing was actually influenced by Neil Young and Neutral Milk Hotel’s Jeff Mangum - bit.ly
Algiers will sing "Dispossession" at The Crocodile on Sunday, March 29th, 2020.
Watch the official lyric video for this lovely song: www.youtube.com
This track comes from the Toronto synth-pop band's album, "Perpetual Surrender" released in 2013.
Mothers Talk peaked at No. 27 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1986.
Watch The Weeknd perform "Blinding Lights" on Colbert, the first time the singer born Abel Tesfaye had played the song live.: www.rollingstone.com
Canadian duo comprised of vocalist Chris Vargas and producer Tobias Rochman. New release from earlier this month: pelada.bandcamp.com
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Dúo canadiense compuesto por el vocalista Chris Vargas y el productor Tobias Rochman. Nuevo lanzamiento de principios de este mes.
The all-female trio hails from North London. girlray.bandcamp.com
Dream Wife played live for KEXP at Iceland Airwaves in 2016, check it out: bit.ly.
Check 'em out live during KEXP's New Home Ground Breaking at Seattle Center. Recorded January 28, 2015--www.youtube.com
"We (recorded) it in TW (Studios), and it was like recording in a garage, it was such a s---hole. But it was great as we felt completely at home, we just plugged in and played great and it sounded great. ... 'Youth Youth Youth' was done in one take, we just set Derwood up with a wall of speakers in the studio, no headphones and just left the tape running. We were pissed, and did it at midnight, that's the only way we could have possibly recorded that track. He just went mad, we just all sat there in awe as he went crazy (playing that solo)." − Tony James
Check out the song covered by Joan Jett www.youtube.com
The Slow Rush, Tame Impala's upcoming album due out on Valentine's Day 2020, will feature 12 tracks recorded in Los Angeles and in Parker’s hometown of Fremantle, Australia. Parker elaborated on the album’s stylistic themes: “The way I’ve dabbled in influences in the past? I’ve been unafraid to go there all the way this time. To challenge what Tame Impala is in terms of how wide it can go…I’ve been embracing my love of weird Seventies stadium rock – like, epic Meat Loaf stuff.” bit.ly
Watch Foxygen performing live in the KEXP studio back in July, 2014. www.youtube.com
Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett (6 January 1946 – 7 July 2006) was an English singer, songwriter, and musician who co-founded the rock band Pink Floyd in 1965. The Madcap Laughs It was recorded after Barrett had left Pink Floyd in April 1968.
Check out this song being performed live from a few months ago: www.youtube.com
Check out this incredible live performance at the Garfield Park Conservatory: www.youtube.com
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah sets the tone for his new project - Ancestral Recall - with this powerful statement. In his mission to unify cultural voices and tear down the sonic and social constructs that separate based on race, class, and culture, Adjuah asserts music has historically been disseminated to people with harmony and melody prioritized over rhythm. christianscott.bandcamp.com
KEXP's own Gabriel Teodros just dropped this gorgeous EP: gabrielteodros.bandcamp.com
Seattle rapper and producer Ishmael “Butterfly” Butler on this album: "At the time, I wasn’t thinking about musical categories. I was just using the samples that I could get my hands on; they were from records that belonged to my moms, my pops, and my uncles. My father was a stated jazz aficionado and he was into all the avant-garde stuff; he was a big Eric Dolphy fan. Mom liked Motown and CTI jazz; Donald Byrd kind of stuff. That shit was fly too. My sound also came from what I was listening to: DJ Premier, Prince Paul, Cocteau Twins, P-Funk, Prince. A gumbo of all of that stuff became our sound."
Anderson .Paak's backing band, The Free Nationals, released their self-titled debut album this year. The lead single, 'Shibuya' features The Internet's Syd.
FIBS, named after what Meredith describes in a statement as “lies — but nice friendly lies, little stories and constructions and daydreams and narratives that you make for yourself or you tell yourself," is preceded by new song "Paramour." Check that out below: www.thefader.com
Strawberry Jam is Animal Collective's seventh studio album and the band's first on Domino Records.
Listener request! Check out their Live on KEXP session: www.youtube.com
“Blue” is the story of a run-in with the cops Hexum had in the ’90s with a stash of weed in his glove compartment. “‘Out of the Blue’ is a whimsical and nostalgic look back at my teenage years driving around a rusty Corolla,” he recalls. “George has influenced me to conjure nostalgia sonically, so the lyrics that his tracks inspire tend to look back to innocent times.”
Here's a live in-studio with Chelsea Wolfe last year: www.youtube.com
Icelandic singer Bjork was banned from China after she chanted, "Tibet! Tibet!," following a rendition of her song, "Declare Independence," at a Beijing concert in 2008.
Ashley O (aka Miley Cyrus) covered this track for an episode of Black Mirror in two different genres:
Pop version: www.youtube.com
Rock version: www.youtube.com
IDLES recently played an epic set at Austin City Limits festival. Check out the review: bit.ly
One of the songs the band performed live on their 1986 appearance on SNL that resulted in a lifetime ban from appearing on the show again. www.youtube.com
When announcing the record back in September, DJ Shadow spoke of a wide-ranging concept reflecting a world plagued by “rampant homelessness” and “generational poverty.” Citing institutional failure, widespread feelings of anger and confusion, and an entertainment culture grounded in distraction, he offered his double album—the first half all instrumental, the second dedicated to rap collaborations—as an attempt to find “light in darkness” and bring it to a generation seemingly glued to their devices.
'Feel It (You Got It)' featuring Tish Hyman is the first new music in two years from The Roots. A new album titled: 'Endgame' is in the works.
Pete Rock was born in the birthplace of hip hop—the Boogie Down Bronx, and raised in Money Earnin’ Mount Vernon. Music was a constant for the young man who would get his start supporting Marley Marl in the mix on WBLS at the age of 16. Inspired by the Godfather of Soul. Driven to put his own soul on record. Destined to nourish the souls of any and all within earshot. When a Pete Rock production comes on, it doesn’t matter if you’re Kanye West or an everyday fan in Amsterdam: you will be changed. www.peterock.com
Out of Brazil, Luísa is heavily influenced by the cool jazz of Billie Holiday and Chet Baker. After the release in US, NPR’s All Things Considered said that Luísa is “The New Voice of Brazil.”
Neon Indian is an electronic project by Mexican-born Alan Palomo, who is also known for his work with the band Ghosthustler, and as the solo artist VEGA. The project has been characterized as defining the 2000s music genre, chillwave. "Toyota Man" is Palomo’s first song in his native language.
House Of Feelings are back with a new track, the third single from the dance collective’s upcoming new album, No Big Deal, the follow-up to 2018’s New Lows. “Convo” is built around a sample of jazz drummer Max Roach’s “Conversation” solo and features contributions from Dave Harrington. bit.ly
From Portland, formed by Ida No of Vancouver and Johnny Jewel of Austin. www.facebook.com
A tireless Minneapolis trio, the three members (C. Farstak, C. Hontona and M. Weather) collaborate to materialize synthesized monoliths; ranging from percolating, ambient rivers to various weirdo strains of dancehall jams. “Mango Sunrise” is an eclectic and spanning look into their overall aesthetic headspace.
Seattle band, Polyrhythmics, are playing with The Motet on New Year's Eve at The Neptune Theatre. bit.ly
Y'all voted on your top 90.3 albums of 2019 and "Kiwanuka" was #8! Check out the full list here: www.kexp.org
Although he was born in the UK, the Furs' frontman Richard Butler considers himself a bona-fide New Yorker and often finds inspiration from the Big Apple. With the Midnight to Midnight album, he hoped to capture the "very urban, very nighttime" feeling of the city after dark. He told Winner magazine in 1986: "It's my interpretation of being in a place. New York has definitely affected the feel of the songs. I very much pick up on what's around me, steal things, phrases, the feeling of being out at night in New York."
The Runner’ is lyrically set in the aftermath of what’s described in the last songs on ‘Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost – Part 1’. In a press release, frontman Yannis Philippakis said of the new track: “It’s a call to find a sense of purpose and perseverance despite the odds and despite the troubles we may find inside or outside ourselves.” - bit.ly
Check out Conor Oberst's in-studio session at KEXP here: bit.ly