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Wednesday, Dec 4 2019, 1AM
Heya!!! Night shenanigans can be found here and @ACertainAbbie A complete DIY artist, Ama writes and produces her music (often with collaborators), and creates all her own visuals and films with her sister Mahalia; citing influence from a wide range spanning a complete love of classic film all the way to social activism, bringing classic and contemporary together in the process.
Ravyn Lenae Washington is an American R&B singer-songwriter from Chicago who is currently signed to Atlantic Records and the Three Twenty Three Music Group.
My #10 album of 2019! Check out my KEXP session with Weyes Blood here: www.youtube.com
Sarah Assbring AKA: El Perro del Mar is releasing her first new music since 2018’s EP We Are History, with her version of “Please stay,” Burt Bacharach’s original that’s been covered by the likes of The Drifters, Elvis Costello, and The Cryin’ Shames. “Please stay” will also be a part of a new dance performance piece by El Perro del Mar debuting at Stockholm’s famed Royal Dramatic Theatre in November and December.
Girls was an American indie rock band, formed in San Francisco in 2007. The band comprised two key members: Christopher Owens, songwriter and lead singer, and Chet "JR" White, who played bass and produced.
Israeli guitarist Charlie Megira brewed a heady amalgam of ’50s trash rock, surf-y tremolo, and reverb-drenched goth during his all-too-brief 44 trips around the sun. He recorded seven albums worth of material in 15 years
“Feeling lonely is one of the most common human feelings, right?” the band said in a release. “Well, being a musician doesn’t really help. Your whole life is constantly moving and the only thing that remains is yourself. And dealing with yourself. Oh gosh, we all know how boring and angering that can be. ‘Riding Solo’ is about this. About us. Perpetually on the move, being everywhere and nowhere at the same time. Surrounded by strangers most time of the day, being nines hours’ time difference from our people and what we call home, living and dying por y para la música.”
The pro-immigrant anthem speaks to American dreams (“venimos estudiar, queremos trabajar,” or “we come to study, we want to work”) and Palomo’s own path to citizenship in the United States. The video follows that path, from Monterrey, Mexico to the Nuevo Laredo border, on to San Antonio and Austin.youtu.be
Live on KEXP on Thursday, Jan 30th at Noon! Catch them at The Neptune in Seattle that night:)
Mesa Luna is the Vancouver dream-pop, shoegaze project of Harlequin Gold/Blue J frontman, Justice McLellan. He comments, "If a photograph was taken with a slow shutter speed and you moved your body, there would be this Russian doll, ghostly effect created with your movement. I imagine trauma does something similar to someone's personality. The more uncomfortable, the farther the ghost you would occupy creating distance between yourself and the present. My personal goal making this record was to ground myself, see myself in focus and work past that oscillating mode by confronting certain aspects of my childhood."
New single from the debut album from the frontwoman of Hop Along. Check out Hop Along live on KEXP: www.youtube.com
Playing Tues. Feb 11th with Wolf Parade at The Showbox! Live on KEXP:www.youtube.com
The lyrics are an adaptation of Dadaist Hugo Ball's poem "Gadji beri bimba".
Discovered this gem on another wonderful Soul Jazz comp: soundsoftheuniverse.com
Working with engineers and technologists, they fed their own back catalogue of 82 songs into various machine learning tools, which then contributed to the songwriting process. It was inspired by various generations of generative composition practices, the label writes, "from William S. Burroughs' cut-up writing method to David Bowie's custom 'Verbasizer' lyrics software from the '90s." Dec 17th at Barboza in Seattle!
Juice B Crypts is the fourth studio album by American experimental rock band Battles this past October. Catch them at Neumos in Seattle on Dec. 1!
My #8 album of 2019! Check out my top ten list here: www.kexp.org
“‘You Were In Love’ is a song about what heartbreak can do to a city—how it can leave bruises on the map, almost, turning the streets that once played host to the first flushes of infatuation into no-go zones,” says Kharas. “It’s a song about romance disappearing from a life and being absorbed into the night air and brickwork.”
It is their first album in seven years, and follows the continuing delay of Dear Tommy, originally teased in 2014.
Gemini Rising Is the band project of Fiora Cutler, Lester Mendez and Marco Niemerski. The trio met in LA and felt instant chemistry, bonding over their love for 80s synth pop. Over a 12 month period split between Berlin and Los Angeles they created music that can be best described as retro-futuristic pop music.
"I'm tickled with a gobble, what you gonna do?" Panda Bear said in a press release, “The song is about a brief series of thoughts I had one morning about who I am, what I’m doing, and where I’m going. Hope you enjoy it and hope all’s well.”
My #7 album of 2019! My heart is in a puddle on the floor. It's so good and gushy. I love it.
In a press release, the film's director Melina Matsoukas says that the soundtrack, which also features contributions from Burna Boy, Vince Staples, Megan Thee Stallion, Roy Ayers and more, aims to convey the history of black music "from its roots in blues and soul, to modern bounce, hip hop and R&B – much like we used to see in film soundtracks in the '90s."
My #7 album of 2019! Jarina’s childhood and family inform her genre-defying sound and politics. She was born in the Dominican Republic and spent her early years traveling in remote parts of the Amazonian rainforest and Dominican countryside, cataloguing indigenous sounds and rhythms with her parents, both renowned musicologists and musicians. As part of the resistance against the brutal dictatorship of Joaquín Balaguer, her parents performed a protest song in front of a large public gathering and had to immediately flee the country and were forced into exile where they relocated to Montreal until it was safe to return home.
Title track featuring the frontman of Future Islands!
Such strange ways to show who we are, what you know
Put the life back in your heart
Let's try forgiveness no self-deception
Little less reaction, little more reflection
Formed by saxophonist Pete Wareham, they number in their ranks some of the finest musicians of their generation, with members having played with Acoustic Ladyland, Polar Bear, Sons Of Kemet, The Comet Is Coming, Hello Skinny, Zun Zun Egui and Mulatu Astatke.
Just posted on our YouTube channel! Hot Chip LIVE on KEXP: www.youtube.com
It’s been 22 years since Cornershop, the great Britpop-era genre-melters, scored an out-of-nowhere UK #1 with Fatboy Slim’s remix of “Brimful Of Asha.” Next year, they return in March with a new album!
In 2004, the song was ranked number 438 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
Avalanche Party performing live at Studio 9294 in Hackney Wick, London, during KEXP's International Clash Day broadcast. Recorded February 4, 2019. www.youtube.com
Earth, man. Montreal duo Essaie pas return to DFA with a 12-inch that picks up where their 2018 album New Path left off.
My #5 album of 2019! Check out my session with TR/ST at KEXP here: youtu.be
Playing The Neptune on Dec 12th! Don't miss their broadcast session on Monday, Dec 16th at 3 PM on The Afternoon Show on KEXP 90.3/KEXP.ORG
FKA twigs on Vulnerability and the Magical Powers of Women www.kexp.org
Formed in 2011 by producer / guitarist / vocalist Jess Labrador and bassist Shannon Madden, Chasms pushes their melancholic pop sound to the edge of the dance floor with a new single titled "Until It Happens to You." chasms.bandcamp.com
Berlin two-piece Julien Bracht and Markus Nicolaus (aka Lea Porcelain) just dropped this new single yesterday!
My #3 album of 2019! Vancouver's minimalviolence is a collaboration between A. Luk and Lida P. This is from their perfect debut record.
I want hockey teams to utilize more hard techno. Blanck Mass is Benjamin John Power, one of the founding members of drone band Fuck Buttons
Per a statement from frontman Arrow de Wilde, Devour You “encapsulates all the blood, sweat, bruised knees, and broken fingers of a Starcrawler show.”
How do you cyboogie? Live on KEXP in 2018: www.youtube.com
The Comateens were originally a new wave duo formed in 1978 in New York City by bassist/vocalist Nic North and guitarist Ramona Jan. Soon after, Lyn Byrd joined on vocals and synthesizer, and the duo became a trio. When Jan departed in 1980, North's brother Oliver joined on guitar, completing the final lineup.
Live on KEXP on Wed. Dec 11th at 11 AM! Then, catch her with Vagabon that night at The Moore Theatre in Seattle!
Judith A. Henske (born December 20, 1936 in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin) is an American singer and songwriter, once known as "the Queen of the Beatniks"
Laura Gibson performing live at Avast! Recording Co.. Recorded December 13, 2018. www.youtube.com
KEXP talks with Dean Hurley about Lissie and Twin Peaks: www.kexp.org
My #2 album of 2019! Maya recorded the songs at her cabin in New Hampshire in order to channel the resonance of the forest, the beauty of the river, and the energy from the rituals she conducts within it.
My #1 album of 2019! I chatted with Maria about this amazing album on the Music That Matters podcast, check it out: kexp.org
“The song is very much about taking brave steps,” Little Dragon write in a statement. “Facing your own demons and tongue kissing with life, not holding back but going all in with all that it entails, every moment in your face.”
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.”
