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Wednesday, Jul 12 2017, 1AM
Urban Dance Squad is a Dutch rap rock band formed after what was originally intended as a one-time jam-session at a festival in Utrecht
N.Y State of Mind sampled two jazz songs: "Mind Rain" by Joe Chambers and "Flight Time" by Donald Byrd. The entire first verse was recorded in one take-
Deer wrote the song with Troy Nōka, a Frank Ocean collaborator. "Modafinil Blues" is about Dear's struggle with politics, comedowns and expectations.
features the vocals of Karin Dreijer Andersson from The Knife-
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A real surprise ending to this happy-go-lucky song/video combination www.youtube.com
Here's a remix released by the band in 2009 by Alex Metric soundcloud.com
Out on August 25th--The album title was confirmed via a spoof lie detector test, in which Josh Homme refuses to confirm or deny the title, whether they worked with Mark Ronson, and whether he could name new song ‘Feet Don’t Fail Me’.
You can catch Perfume Genius at the Capitol Hill Block Party in two weeks or in our very own KEXP studio July 24th at noon !
"Because the Night" was originally recorded by Bruce Springsteen during sessions for his Darkness on the Edge of Town album. Although he toured with the song he never recorded and Smith made it a hit.
Find the new The Echo of Pleasure release-out in just two days!
Arcade Fire will be playing Key Arena on October 15th~until then keep an eye out for the new album July 28th and watch the video TODAY: www.youtube.com
Check out a KEXP Song Of The Day write up about "Full of Men" : blog.kexp.org
Here's the song bearing the name of Abbie and I's home-state Live on KEXP: www.youtube.com
"In LA, there's a real darkness that you don't see unless you know where to look. That's a theme we very consciously decided to explore and play with when making this record. We related to the idea that things may look or sound fun and upbeat, but they may not actually always be that way." Check out a past Live on KEXP with the band ~www.youtube.com
Did you catch Sky Ferreria in the latest episode of Twin Peaks?
"Machine" is the band's first release in three years-Watch a live on KEXP with the Horrors here: www.youtube.com
The Psychedelic Furs are playing the Showbox July 21st!
The National are at the Paramount for two days on November 28th and 29th. Catch the new album September 8th
The album title being perhaps a reference to a line of dialogue spoken by the character of Mabel Longhetti (Gena Rowlands) in the 1974 John Cassavetes post-modern drama A Woman Under the Influence. Explosions in the sky will be in Seattle September 22nd
MOGWAI are playing the Showbox in November~~new vocals are a diffrent direction for the band, look for the new album in September
for all you Twin Peaks fans: www.youtube.com here's a version from the show.
Fleet Foxes are making another few Seattle stops on September 14th and 15th. Crack-Up was the first Fleet Foxes album since 2011
Watch this exceptional past Live on KEXP with Zen Mother: www.youtube.com
written after a dark period surrounded by death, "Soak" was written from the perspective of a serial killer's victim and explores some dark themes associated
The second solo album by former The Czars frontman John Grant, www.youtube.com
Request for Jan listening in the Czech Republic! Check out a past Live on KEXP with Wye Oak: www.youtube.com
The first track announced off the upcoming release due out September 29
Immigrant Song is covered by many bands from Minimal Compact to Nirvana, but you can see a cool live version of the song here: www.youtube.com
Sheer Mag is coming the Chop Suey in September! Until then watch for the new album due out in two days (the 14th)
Depeche Mode will be in Seattle with their Global Spirit Tour on October 21st, www.youtube.com. Also don't look now, but there appears to be a Crazy Frog cover of "I Just Can't Get Enough" out there
ODESZA is ALSO playing Bumbershoot later this summer/fall- September 1st, 2nd, and 3rd
Here's the original to compare: www.youtube.com , quite a different sound but Owens' remix holds onto the theme nicely
Check out Abbie's interview with Noga for her "music that matters" podcast: blog.kexp.org An artist from Tel Aviv, "Dance While You Shoot tackles an elusive government that thrives on manipulative media, ignorance, and bureaucracy.”
The music video for "Heater" directed by Jordan Minkoff, is a public access teen-centric show called Teen T.V. www.youtube.com
Ok but this video is the best I've seen ever, so many good dance moves-particularly at 1:40 www.youtube.com
Inspired by politics, Laura Burhenn wrote the new release, saying "I was trying to make a record at a very specific time and place, and I was trying to make a record of how people were feeling,”
Check out HMLTD on Abbie's "Music that Matters" blog.kexp.org AND the very important music video: www.youtube.com
For Eric commuting via the ferry on the East Coast!
Check out the video which was the result of a fan-made video contest, the winning video directed by The winning video, directed by Walter Robot www.youtube.com
Chastity Belt is playing Obsidian on the 29th, 'till then check out a past live on KEXP: www.youtube.com
FKA East India Youth. William Doyle plans to release a new solo album in 2018 and recently released a set of ambient works this past week called "Lightnesses"
"We usually imagine our music to have a visual element while we're writing it, so we were picturing this character losing his mind at the campfire and compressing weeks of events into a few hours", the album took the band three years to make
Spirit Award has THREE Seattle shows coming up, you can find em here- www.facebook.com
Playing October 9th and 10th at the Moore theater-watch a past Live on KEXP with War On Drugs--www.youtube.com
St.Vincent is slowly adding tour dates, here's hoping we get one in the Northwest! Listen to the new track here: www.youtube.com
An Open Letter to NYC is from the Beastie Boys 2004 album To The 5 Boroughs.
What better way to listen than a live version from Madison Square Garden www.youtube.com
