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This is the starting track off of Michael Kiwanuka's 2016 release "Love & Hate". He wrote this epic 10-minute track with American musician and hip-hop producer Inflo. Kiwanuka told Mojo: "'Cold Little Heart' probably most describes where I got to after getting stuck in my own writing."
This is the 3rd track off of Moby's 1999 release, Play: The B Sides. This album is a compilation of "B-Sides" meaning they weren't quite right for Play but still good songs nonetheless.
This was released as the second single off of their third studio album. This piano and vocal only piece was performed by the band's singer-songwriter Patrick Watson.
This is a cover of the Australian group INXS's single "Never Tear Us Apart" Released in 1988 and then included on their 6th studio album "Kick"
One of the 3 singles recently released by super group "boygenuis". Read more about them here at KEXP: www.kexp.org
The title track off her upcoming album "Comfort World". Before this her release Retreat was her first release since 2013!
This is the second song off of their second album "Bewitched". Produced by Luna and Victor Van Vugt.
This is the band's eighth studio album. Upon release, "I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One" reached number 19 on the Billboard's Heatseekers Albums chart, becoming the first Yo La Tengo album to enter the charts.
Brand new DeVotchKa!! This just came out last Friday on their newest album This Night Falls Forever. This is their first album of originals since 2011!
Nearer My God is the third studio album by Foxing. The album was released on August 10, 2018 through Triple Crown Records. Read the review on our website here: www.kexp.org
V is the fifth studio album by the English rock band the Horrors, released on 22 September 2017 by Wolf Tone and Caroline International. Funny enough this is the fifth song on their album "V".
Off of their 2017 release the CCFX EP. Go watch them live on KEXP here: www.youtube.com
This was the leading single off of their debut album "Rocket". This song was popularized after it was featured in the movie "The Cable Guy". Also its chorus consists of a sample from the 1964 B.B. King song "How Blue Can You Get": "I've been downhearted, baby, ever since the day we met.
A new version of the John Lennon classic "Imagine," has been released as part of Imagine: the Ultimate Collection, an upcoming box-set anthology of his classic Imagine album, due out October 5th.
And the story behind this discovery is pretty cool...
An audio engineer found the “Imagine” demo by sheer luck in a box in the Lennon family archives in early 2016. “There’s a one-inch, eight-track [reel] that says nothing more on the Ascot Sound label than John Lennon, the date, and the engineer, Phil McDonald, with ‘demo’ on the spine,” engineer Rob Stevens said in a statement. “No indication of what material was on the tape. One delicate transfer to digital later, the ‘Imagine’ demo, subsequently enhanced superbly by Paul Hicks, appears within this comprehensive set. It was true serendipity.”
Off of their most recent project Thank You For Today. This song is about the gentrification and huge change that has happened in seattle.
The 10th track off of her 2016 release Let Them Eat Chaos. Watch her perform this live on KEXP Here: www.youtube.com
Genre-hopping alt-pop artist Santigold has returned with a “mixtape-style album” titled I Don’t Want: The Gold Fire Sessions, the result of two weeks of sessions with Dre Skull (Popcaan) where they dug up unfinished songs and crafted new ones.
Rebecca writes in to us, "Can you please play Let's Go Crazy for my son Theo? He turns 5 today and LOVES that song! It always makes him dance. Thank you!"
A single released in 2000. Containing a Vocal Mix, Instrumental Mix and a B-Side called "Soul City"
Maribou State release their first new music since 2015’s breakthrough album “Portraits”. The British duo - Liam Ivory and Chris Davids - are fresh from an extended studio hibernation and will take their new live show to a string of summer festivals including a headline set at Sonar 2018, as well as many other concerts throughout the year!
"Dazzle" is a song by English post-punk band Siouxsie and the Banshees. It was released on 25 May 1984 by Polydor Records as the second single from their sixth studio album, Hyæna. Read about it here on our blog: blog.kexp.org
"Hunger" is a song by English indie rock band Florence and the Machine from their fourth studio album, High as Hope (2018). It was written by Florence Welch, Emile Haynie, Thomas Bartlett and Tobias Jesso Jr., and produced by Welch and Haynie. Coming to Seattle in KeyArena on September 10th. With Lizzo & St. Vincent
“For the Wild” is the latest single from the duo’s sophomore record, Love Hates What You Become.The duo recorded the new LP in Los Angeles with John Congleton; it also features contributions from Thor Harris. Love Hates What You Become includes the previously shared “The Breath of Light” and “Bunny’s Blues.”
"No Cars Go" is a song by Canadian indie rock band Arcade Fire. It is the fourth single released from the band's second full-length album, Neon Bible. The release date was due to be July 23, 2007 but the release was delayed to August 6, 2007.
A single off of their 1985 album Little Creatures. This tune was written by David Byrne.
"I wanted to write a song that presented a resigned, even joyful look at doom," recalls David Byrne in the liner notes of Once in a Lifetime: The Best of Talking Heads.
Off of their upcoming album, this was one of the first two singles released. We've cover Jason a lot, read his interview with Owen Murphy here and then about the song after that:
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Also known as "5 Years' Time (Sun Sun Sun)". It was originally released in 2007, but it was later re-released on 4th of August 2008 and became their first top-ten hit.
Listen to "Loading Zones," Kurt Vile's First New Song Since 2015.
The accompanying video stars Kevin Corrigan of Pineapple Express and Matt Korvette of Pissed Jeans
Off of their upcoming album "Common Blah" set to release on October 19, 2018.
Originally a single that was then included lated on American Thighs. The song appeared in the film Young Adult and the TV shows Hindsight and Halt and Catch Fire.
One of the many huge collaborations this year. Watch their video here. www.youtube.com
This song has a crazy story, apparently it came from a dream. “It was this dream song that just turned up as I was waking up one morning,” Mould recalls. “It came to me fully formed..."
Their new project will be released this friday! August 31st, 2018. This song premiered on KEXP. Read about it here: www.kexp.org
This is the fifth song off of their debut album Diary.
We Were Promised Jetpacks are releasing their new album ‘The More I Sleep the Less I Dream’ on 14th September via Big Scary Monsters. Last month they shared the album’s first track ‘Hanging In’ along with the record’s announcement, and have now revealed another.
‘Repeating Patterns’
This is the most recent of the singles released off of their upcoming album that will be released this Friday. The others were GREAT, Colossus & Samaritans.
This Is the Modern World is the second studio album by British band The Jam, released in November 1977. The album was released less than seven months after their debut album, In the City.[7
The second song on their recent album 1, 2 Kung Foo. Which came out this June
Go check out this brand new Interpol. It came out this last friday, August 24th.
Read their review at the link below: www.kexp.org
"Y Control" is a single by Yeah Yeah Yeahs, from their debut album Fever to Tell. The song was met with universal acclaim upon its release, with many critics noting it as one of the album's highlights. Pitchfork Media listed "Y Control" as the 213th best song of the decade.
More brand new music, It just came out this last friday! This tune was produced by John Agnello.
"Wolf Like Me" is the first single from American art rock band TV on the Radio's album Return to Cookie Mountain. The song is the band's most successful single in the United States, where it peaked at #37 on the Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart in 2006.
This is a well placed song in the set, due to David Bowie bringing some big buzz to TV On The Radio when he sang background vocals in their 2006 song Province
It’s been three years since they put out their sophomore album, Too, which means they’re about on schedule for their next one, and today they’ve released a new track, “Are You High?”
Surfer Rosa is the debut studio album by the American alternative rock band Pixies, released in March 1988 on the British label 4AD. It was produced by Steve Albini.
2016 Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. www.bobdylan.com