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Tuesday, Jul 16 2019, 2PM
It began with an album title. “Halfway through the first trip we bought rail tickets and rode across the country and went to Hiroshima”. Derwin explains. “One afternoon we had taken a taxi, and as we got out, the Japanese taxi driver’s parting words to us as we left, in English, was ‘good luck and do your best’.
Pacific Breeze documents Japan’s blast into the stratosphere. By the 1960s, the nation had achieved a postwar miracle, soaring to become the world’s second largest economy. Thriving tech exports sent The Rising Sun over the moon. Its pocket cassette players, bleeping video games, and gleaming cars boomed worldwide, wooing pleasure points and pumping Japanese pockets full of yen.
Tame Impala is an Australian psychedelic music project led by multi-instrumentalist Kevin Parker, who writes, records, performs, and produces the music. As a touring act, Parker plays alongside Dominic Simper and some members of Australian psychedelic rock band Pond – Jay Watson, Cam Avery, and Julien Barbagallo.
Miya Folick's debut album Premonitions is a vision of a more compassionate human future.www.youtube.com
Animal Collective is an experimental pop band formed in Baltimore, Maryland in 2003. Its members and founders are Avey Tare (David Portner), Panda Bear (Noah Lennox), Deakin (Josh Dibb), and Geologist (Brian Weitz).
There’s up to no information about the band, except that they are part of independent label Forever Living Originals.Now the mysterious band dropped an amazing 14-track debut album!
Always on fire when they come through the station: www.youtube.com
“Who doesn’t feel paranoid or want to get off the grid right now?” they write. “There’s more good times and heartbreak to come… we promise. But we wanted to start you off with a couple of peak timers that were written on dark and stormy nights. Really excited to be hitting the road with these new songs, we’ve already been playing them and they are killing. So…listen to these jams loud and expect a lot more from us very, very soon.”
And the heat goes on...And the heat goes on...And the heat goes on...
Big Audio Dynamite are an English band formed in London in 1984 by Mick Jones, the former lead guitarist of the Clash.
- Lacy started out making beats on his iPhone, and that's how he produced almost all of his 2017 debut EP Steve Lacy's Demo.
Entertainment! is the debut album by English post-punk band Gang of Four, released in September 1979.
Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me is the seventh studio album by British alternative rock band The Cure, released in May 1987. The cover reminds me of artist, Man Ray's depiction of Lee Miller's lips.
Eagulls are an English rock band, formed in Leeds in 2010. The band consists of Mark Goldsworthy (guitar), Henry Ruddel (drums), Liam Matthews (guitar), Tom Kelly (bass), and George Mitchell (vocals).
"Falling" was featured on our Song of the Day podcast. Check it out here: www.kexp.org
“So much of the break was reminding ourselves to stay present, and giving ourselves permission to stop without saying when were gonna meet up again,” guitarist Lydia Lund said in a press release. “It was so important to have that—not saying, ‘we’re gonna get back together at this point,’ but really just open it up so we could get back to our present connection.”www.stereogum.com
Stopped by our studio yesterday! Hear the session in the archive at KEXP.ORG!
We are airing an exclusive session from The National on Thursday, July 18th at Noon! Do not miss it!
Mark Perro and Nick Chiericozzi—who front Brooklyn rockers the Men--are Dream Police.
Playing The Crocodile on Sept 12 with L.A. Witch. Get a glimpse of the action in our studios: www.youtube.com
The New Orleans duo will be playing The Crocodile on Wed. Aug 28th!
Speaking to The FADER via email, Michael Kiwanuka said: “The premise of 'Money' is that, at first listen, it's a song about money and how much I want it and love it. I want to use money to meet people and be around people that have a lot of it. But as you listen closer, it's actually about how too much love for money can be dangerous.”
“Loss & Relax” was first written following the recording Mother of My Children in 2017. As KP tells it, “I was full of emotion and also pride while recording in Anacortes (where MOMC was recorded) that I felt like there was something still there. I wrote the initial guitar line on this pull-out bed I was sleeping on in my parents living room while recording up there. I could have recorded it for MOMC but I felt like it would have been rushed and there was so much more to explore within the song.”
Robin Pecknold and Skyler Skjelset both attended Lake Washington High School in Kirkland, a suburb of Seattle, and soon became close friends. Pecknold and Skjelset bonded over a mutual appreciation of Bob Dylan and Neil Young and began making music together.
Electric Youth is a Canadian synth-pop duo from Toronto, Ontario. The duo consists of Bronwyn Griffin and Austin Garrick.
Playing live on Friday at Capitol Hill Block Party in Seattle! Join us live: www.kexp.org
Brooklyn synthpop duo Holy Ghost! have teamed up with iconic ’70s disco label West End Records — coaxing the long-dormant label out of retirement — to release the disco-influenced group’s first new music since their 2016 EP Crime Cutz for DFA. It marks West End Record’s first original release in over 30 years.
Parisian poet, painter, actor, and prolific self-taught musician, Lizzy Mercier Descloux was a influential character in the late 70s New York underground.
The fourth album from the British based cross-cultural project showcasing South African music.
