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This Mazzy Star cover was released on a Starbucks exclusive album called Sweetheart 2014. Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals are currently on tour in California. They will soon be heading to South Africa and Europe.
"River" was featured on Leon Bridge's 2015 debut album, Coming Home.
Kiwanuka said about this album, "I wanted to be more transparent and more vulnerable as a well... I felt writing deeply was a way to get things off my chest." Love & Hate, Michael Kiwanuka's second album, was co-produced by Danger Mouse.
Watch the American and Australian duo live at KEXP here: www.youtube.com
This single is featured on Bruce Springsteen's new album, Western Stars, out June 14, 2019.
We are longtime fans of this Sub Pop band. Check out The Helio Sequence live on KEXP October 2018: www.youtube.com
This brand new single from Maps is just a taste of what we'll hear on their upcoming album, Colours.Reflect.Time.Loss, out on May 10.
You can order the album here: smarturl.it
Calexico will be playing THING festival in Port Townsend, WA on August 25, 2019.
Frontman, Scott Hutchison, passed away last May due to suicide. Tiny Changes is a mental health charity launched by his family after his death.
Another Universe is the new single off Any Random Kindness, which will be released May 10.
FKA twigs said in a statement, “throughout my life I’ve practiced my way to being the best I could be, it didn’t work this time. I had to tear down every process I’d ever relied on. go deeper. rebuild. start again.” bit.ly
Kate Tempest has confirmed details of a new album. The Book of Traps and Lessons will be the musician and poet’s fourth album. It’ll be released on June 14th through American Recordings/Fiction. Kate Tempest performing live in the KEXP studio. Recorded March 28, 2017. www.youtube.com?
"Choose Yourself" was song fo the day here on April 25, 2019. Read all about it here: bit.ly
“I wrote these songs during a time where I couldn’t shake my demons,” MorMor said of Some Place Else in a statement. “I was forced to confront what I had been masking in smiles and metaphors. It was a long winter.” bit.ly
Happy birthday Sarina!
On Thursday, April 18, KEXP presented Six Degrees of Prince, a twelve-hour block of programming weaving between Prince's many musical contributions and the wide circle of influence he has built throughout his storied career. Prince performed "Starfish and Coffee" on the Muppets!
You're the Man is a posthumous studio album by American singer Marvin Gaye, originally intended to be released in 1972 as the follow-up to What's Going On. It was released on March 29, 2019, through Motown, Universal Music Enterprises, and Universal Music Group to celebrate what would have been Gaye's 80th birthday on April 2, 2019.
This song a rock version of Public Enemy's "Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos" (1988). Watch the official video here: www.youtube.com
IDLES embark on their nearly sold-out US tour that finds them in Seattle at Neumos on May 28th and here at KEXP in the Gathering Space Wednesday, May 29th at 1:30 p.m.
The steely Dublin post punk band Fontaines D.C. performing live in the KEXP studio. Recorded May 14, 2018. www.youtube.com They will also be playing with IDLES at Neumos May 28.
Modest Mouse will be playing at the Tacoma Dome on November 23 with the Black Keys.
The Black Keys will be playing the Tacoma Dome on November 23, 2019, with Modest Mouse and Shannon and the Clams. "Let's Rock", the band's first studio album since Turn Blue (2014) is the upcoming ninth studio album by The Black Keys, scheduled to be released on June 28, 2019, through Easy Eye Sound/Nonesuch Records.
Karen O and Danger Mouse stopped by “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” and performed “Woman” from the new collaborative album Lux Prima. Their performance which was directed by Spike Jonze was shot in black and white and featured elaborate choreography and a team of dancers. www.youtube.com
Mandinka is off O'Connor's debut full-length, The Lion and the Cobra, from 1987.
Happy birthday Marty Willson-Piper, guitarist and songwriter for The Church!
Request for Rob from San Diego! Kevin Morby will be LIVE on KEXP on Tuesday, May 14th, at 1:00 PM. The public is invited to see that performance. The artist will play The Showbox that night.
Brand new from the Chemical Brothers! During recording, The Chemical Brothers built a “studio within a studio”, containing all their old vintage/analogue gear, which had been gathering dust since the 1990s. The idea was that by making music how they used to, they’d rekindle some of the old inspiration and then tweak it for 2019 with the larger studio’s modern tech, which is pretty much how No Geography sounds.
It’s been five years since Robert Alfons last released a TR/ST album, but the Canadian-born electronic artist is making up for that interim this year with not one but two albums, both called The Destroyer. They will be live here at KEXP May 15.
The full album will be released May 17th, and Operators will be playing at Neumos on 6/9.
"Mad World" was originally written on acoustic guitar when Roland Orzabal was 19 after being inspired to write a new wave song in the vein of Duran Duran's "Girls on Film". After a few false starts with Orzabal on vocals, he suggested Curt Smith sing it and "suddenly it sounded fabulous"
Check out World Party's live session at KEXP here: www.youtube.com
The song uses a recurring Australian problem (drought) to pose the question "What for?", meaning "why did Europeans bother to colonize this harsh place". The song mentions two prominent indigenous Australians (Truganini and Albert Namatjira) whose lives were altered by European settlement and discusses current day sentiment towards the old country, namely the monarchy.
Request for Anna!View her live at KEXP here: www.youtube.com? "The song’s beauty comes in the tenuous balance of how she sees being 17 years old, romanticizing that age only a bit but also grounding herself in the realities of feeling lonely and afraid of the future." v=DyJEh8qTvD8bit.ly
Left at London will be performing at the Volunteer Park Pride Festival on June 8th! She is a trans woman known for her intimate and accessible pop writing sensibility as well as her introspective lyricism.
Thunderpussy will be headlining the Volunteer Park Pride Festival.
New single from the soon to be released (June 21) album that was produced by Bob Mould. titusandronicus.bandcamp.com
Bodega stopped by the KEXP studio last year. Check out the full performance: www.youtube.com
This is the band's first single since 2015's "The Less I Know the Better". Watch them perform it live on SNL in late March: www.youtube.com
The 1991 song's instrumental samples "Summer Madness" by Kool & the Gang.
This track was featured on the 1974 Kool & The Gang LP Light of Worlds. The album contains nine tracks, which each represent a different planet in the solar system.
The trio is composed of rappers Ishmael "Butterfly" Butler (from Seattle), Mariana "Ladybug Mecca" Vieira (from Silver Spring, Maryland), and Craig "Doodlebug" Irving (from Philadelphia).They will be at the Neptune Theatre on August 9.
"Everyone was trapped in what would have been hellish conditions, but everybody pulled together and helped each other. The hippies, the freaks, the artists and musicians all walked the walk, putting into practice what the peace movement was all about: Loving each other and leaving no one behind. Sly And The Family Stone understood this idealism. The band went on at 3am Sunday morning and amazed the crowd with electrifying versions of 'Dance to the Music' and 'I Want To Take You Higher.' Sly And The Family Stone were a mix, in gender and interracial, and they personified a dream the hippies had for the future of the country. Their music crossed boundaries too. At the time, soul and rock were pretty well divided, but Sly and crew mixed the genres together with such love and enthusiasm, they made it seem natural, in their sound and their lyrics." More from our documentary on the seminal psychedelic band: bit.ly
Check out this awesome set from The True Loves when they played at KEXP back in 2017: www.youtube.com
Learn more about Chicago-based visual artist and musician Damon Locks: goldfinchgallery.org