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Tuesday, Nov 5 2019, 10AM
Watch a wonderful performance for KEXP VIP Club members at Seattle's Triple Door last year: www.youtube.com
The Japanese House is an English independent pop act from Buckinghamshire consisting of solo artist Amber Bain. This song was written while she was still in a relationship with ex-girlfriend Marika Hackman. Read about the existential crisis behind this song: www.nme.com
Former Chairlift frontwoman Caroline Polachek has just released her debut solo album, "Pang." She has tour dates in Europe, Brooklyn, and California, but not yet in the Pacific Northwest: www.brooklynvegan.com
Speaking of Chairlift...."Ch-Ching" is described by Caroline Polachek as being about "that moment of disbelief when you're confronted with a huge opportunity or stroke of luck, and you take it and run with it - pumped full of adrenaline, but you pretend it is business as usual."
She added: "It's the kind of miracle people move to New York City for. The audition you didn't think you'd get, the lie that accidentally works brilliantly, finding a $100 bill on the sidewalk.": www.youtube.com
Dan Deacon will play the Wonder Ballroom in Portland on Thursday, March 19th, 2020. His new album, "Mystic Familiar," due out on January 31st, is the result of his interest in spiritualism and newfound practice of daily meditations as a writing exercise.: www.stereogum.com
Django Django's great live performance in the KEXCP studio last year included "Tic Tac Toe": www.youtube.com
Thanks, Ren, for this fine request! You may want to read the story behind this song: www.loudersound.com
Strugill Simpson will be at The Gorge Amphitheatre on May 2nd, 2020. Enjoy a review of his fourth album, "Sound & Fury": pitchfork.com
They roared into the KEXP studio for a live performance in February of last year.: www.youtube.com
Woo hoo! Did you know that "Song 2" is 2 minutes and 2 seconds long?: www.radiox.co.uk
Courtney Barnett is part of the fabulous lineup for Wilco's Blue Sky Festival in Mexico, January 18-22nd, 2020. KEXP wants to send you and a guest to that experience. Learn more here: www.kexp.org
Have a "Sit Down Meal" of your very own when you order Dry Cleaning's "Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks EP" at their Bandcamp page: drycleaning.bandcamp.com
Listen to girl in red performing live from Iceland Airwaves on Friday, November 8th, at 6:00 a.m. PST. : www.kexp.org
You can hear her at the Doug Fir Lounge in Portland tonight, Tuesday, November 5th, 2019. Here's the video for "Haunted House": www.youtube.com
Gasp! "Please, let me catch my breath...." Here's a review of "Confident Music for Confident People," the debut album from this Brisbane, Australia band: www.nme.com
Maya Bouldry-Morrison (she/her), better known by her stage name Octo Octa, is an American house producer and DJ based in Brooklyn, New York. She came out as transgender in 2016: www.theguardian.com
B.T. Express (originally named Brooklyn Transit Express) was an American funk/disco group. here's a brief biography: www.allmusic.com
This is a cover of Arthur Brown's 1968 hit by the late French singer Lizzy Mercier Descloux. Learn more about this visionary artist: pitchfork.com
The very talented Angel Olsen will be LIVE on KEXP on Wednesday, December 11th at 11:00 AM. She'll be at
The Moore Theatre on Wednesday, December 11th, 2019. Watch the compelling video for "Lark": www.youtube.com
Kavi Kwai is Julia Ringdahl, a Swedish musician and producer who wrote, produced and mixed "False Impressions.": www.facebook.com
Catch the New York duo live at Freakout 7! in Ballard Nov. 15th & 16th. Check out the line-up here: www.strangertickets.com
“‘Bike’ is the gateway drug to [L.A. trio] Kevin,” says band member Kimi Recor. “Every time ‘Bike’ is played, it triggers a Mandela effect somewhere in the world. We are hoping that by 2020, ‘Bike’ will have changed the paranormal landscape of the universe." Learn more and see the video to "Bike": larecord.com
"Let FKA Twigs’s ‘Holy Terrain’ Music Video Hypnotize You": www.vulture.com
Residente (René Pérez Joglar) is a rapper, singer, writer, producer, film director, and, with his stepbrother Visitante (Eduardo José Cabra Martínez) co-founder of the award-winning rap group Calle 13. They have won 24 Latin Grammys, the most awarded to a single group in Latin music history. See the official video for "Pecador"(the Spanish word for "sinner"): www.youtube.com
The lyrics were written about an annoying engineer named Mario Caldato Jr., who got frustrated with the slow pace of Beasties' recording sessions. The trio felt he was sabotaging their music by trying to push through instrumental tracks they were unhappy with in order to get something completed. The video, which was directed by Spike Jonze, was a parody of '70s cop shows such as CHiPs and Hawaii Five-0. It featured the three Beasties with shaggy hair and huge sunglasses, running around the city chasing a man with a briefcase and doing other cop stuff.: www.youtube.com
Like the name? Get to know Rotterdam's finest noise band: www.gigwise.com
Their great live in-studio session last year included "Boys in the Better Land": www.youtube.com
Oh, Shelby, what a good request! This year's "Don't You Think You've Had Enough"" is the first album that Jennifer and Jessie Clavin have written since both deciding to go sober, as alcohol was threatening to derail their lives.: www.billboard.com
HAIM have shared a new song titled “Now I’m in It.” The sisters have teamed up with Paul Thomas Anderson once again for the new visual. The video involves Danielle Haim working various jobs, being carried around on a stretcher, going through a car wash, and more.: www.youtube.com
This song certainly belongs in a list of the 10 best Arcade Fire songs: www.theguardian.com
"Giants of All Size's" is Elbow's eighth studio album. It's an exploration of mourning in terms both personal and political, as lead singer and lyricist Guy Garvey grapples with the loss of his father alongside such tragedies as the bombing in the band's hometown of Manchester in 2017 and what Garvey calls the "absolute cultural disaster" of Brexit.: www.npr.org
With "A Kiss in the Dreamhouse," released on this date in 1982, "The Banshees pushed themselves out of their comfort zone and into art pop punk bliss.": spectrumculture.com
Band leader Tanya Donnely was quoted as saying this song was about commitment and respect. The metaphor is the tree that would be planted on large farms as a point of reference to getting around (the only tree sometimes). Because nothing would grow under the large tree, the family would be buried under it. Hence: "Take your hat off, boy when you're talking to me and be there when I feed the tree."
"I was like the laziest river...
A vulture predisposed to eating off floors..." What did he say?: genius.com Dan Bejar will be here in Seattle at Neumos on March 19th, 2020. : www.thefader.com
See The House of Love performing this classic live from London in 2013: www.youtube.com
Don't miss the chance to hear Little Dragon at The Showbox on Monday, May 2nd, 2020.
With her first release in seven years, LA Vampires (Silk co-founder Amanda Kramer) teams up with “bicoastal-tronica duo” Cologne (Danny Scott Lane and Vasilios Manoudakis) for the LA Vampires Does Cologne album "10 Outta 10".: bit.ly
Go hear local favorites NAVVI at The Clock-Out Lounge this Saturday, November 9th, 2019.
KITO is a producer and songwriter who developed her distinct sound while growing up in Australia and later living in London. Empress Of, aka Honduran-American vocalist/songwriter Lorely Rodriguez.:northerntransmissions.com
Solange and her husband Alan Ferguson have announced their separation after five years of marriage: www.eonline.com
"From its scratched-out “g-g-gigolo” intro through its rapping verses and sung choruses, ‘Buffalo Stance’ was a tour de force of pop sample collage, matched with Cherry’s tongue-in-cheek ad-libs (“What is he loike?”), that moved through various sections in a highly inventive arrangement." Read a review of this classic track: www.soundonsound.com
Vagabon will open for Angel Olsen at The Moore Theatre on Wednesday, December 11th, 2019.
Woolworm performed live for KEXP at Breakglass Studios during POP Montreal 2017: www.youtube.com
This song was featured on Abbie's recent Music That Matters podcast, inspired by her visit to SPOT Festival in Aarhus, Denmark this past spring. Get that podcast right here: www.kexp.org
Ride graced the KEXP studio with a live performance in 2017: www.youtube.com
"Silver Tongue" is Torres' first LP for Merge Records. “Regarding ‘Good Scare’, I guess I could say that falling in love is a lot like the Superman crawl”, she says of the track. For those who don’t spend their weekends exploring underground cave systems, she explains, “If you’re not familiar with Superman’s crawl, it’s a terrifying manoeuvre used in spelunking that’s only performed when certain passages are too narrow, so a person has to hold one arm against the body and the other above the head, all while trying to crawl forward”.: completemusicupdate.com
This interview focuses on Wye Oak's third album, "Civilian": glidemagazine.com
Isn't Adrianne Lenker's snarling guitar solo on this song great?: www.npr.org
