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Sunday, Feb 28 2021, 2AM
From the second album of the British post punk group Shame! Drunk Tank Pink oscillates and effectively blurs the line between restlessness and listlessness, giving rise to a brooding atmosphere that burrows itself under your skin.
Buy the album on their bandcamp! shamebanduk.bandcamp.com
Video of this performance plus the article "Who Stole the Soul from Rock 'n Roll?" by Martin Douglas here: www.kexp.org
The Pretty In Pink soundtrack was released on this day in 1986, 35 years ago.
Member of the alternative hip hop collective, Odd Future, who went on to start her own band, The Internet. This new single was released a couple weeks ago. www.instagram.com
Watch our just-released KEXP Live at Home session with these fine musicians.: www.youtube.com
Released on this day in 2011. 10th Year Anniversary.
This is the first single from Wolf Alice's third album, "Blue Weekend," due out on June 11th. Ellie Rowsell says that the song is about "the arrogance of humans."
See the video for "The Last Man on Earth.": www.youtube.com
Seattle band Acapulco Lips performed live in the KEXP studio in July 2016. Watch "My Time" and the full set here: www.youtube.com
Discover more of their music here: acapulcolips.bandcamp.com
More than fifty years after the release of Rodriguez's debut album Cold Fact, the retro-soul band the Black Pumas have released a cover of the album’s opening cut “Sugar Man.”
Of the Rodriguez cover, Adrian Quesada says, “‘Sugar Man’ is one of those songs we’ve both been attracted to for years, from Rodriguez’s songwriting and performance to the production of Dennis Coffey, it’s inspired us in more ways than one and is one of those true timeless pieces of music. It was a total blast to dissect it and reinterpret in our voice.”
For the love of god, will somebody get J.K. Simmons pictures of Spider-Man?
Both the Gories & Sister Rosetta Tharpe are featured in Douglas Martin's wonderful article "Who Stole the Soul from Rock 'n' Roll" which you can read here: www.kexp.org
Here is an exclusive interview with FKA twigs on our website: www.kexp.org
From his 1976 album, 'Songs in the Key of Life,' this song celebrates the birth of Wonder's daughter, Aisha Morris (who you can hear in the background).
www.steviewonder.net
Jacksonville-bred artist Yuno says of this single:
"Spending so much time at home during the pandemic brought back a lot of feelings from my adolescence. I grew up as somewhat of a loner—spending most of my time isolated in my bedroom, and I wanted to capture the parallels between my life now and the life of my younger self. I drew a lot from the pop-punk, post-hardcore, reggae, and southern hip hop that I’ve loved throughout my life. I feel like my 14-year-old self would be very proud."
Watch the video for this new song: www.pastemagazine.com
Long-running trip hop group, Morcheeba recently announced their new album ‘Blackest Blue,’ due to arrive on May 14, 2021! Check out pre-order options here: morcheeba.bandcamp.com
Released on this day back in 1983. 38 years ago.
“Bloody Sunday” was a term given to an incident to an incident, which took place on 30th January 1972 in Derry, Northern Ireland where British Soldiers shot 28 unarmed civilians who were peacefully protesting against Operation Demetrius. Read the story behind this overtly political song: bit.ly
The most important part of this song, as described on genius.com for this song's lyrics:
(Fuck!)
[Guitar Solo]
Ignore this info, because according to Sub Pop's website it was released on this day. Either way, this song rules.
“A couple of weeks ago I had this idea about the idea of the vaccination anthem,” McRae said in a statement. “This pandemic has colored pop culture permanently, whether we like it or not. On the way to us, almost inevitably, are pandemic rom-coms and pandemic novels and, in my case, pandemic songs. This song came about partly as a joke, a parody of one of my favorite songwriters of all time, Phoebe Bridgers, who specializes in dark, spare, precise lyrics about Our Unprecedented Times.”
www.rollingstone.com
Goat Girl's 'On All Fours' is out today!!! Pitchfork review says: "Equipped with whirlpooling guitars and a newfound supply of silvery electronics, the South London band chronicles anxiety and ennui in songs full of spine-tingling dissonance."
pitchfork.com
Get the album here: goatgirl.bandcamp.com
Knife Knights is a collaboration between Ishmael Butler and Erik Blood. They were featured in a KEXP "Throwaway Style" essay in 2018: www.kexp.org
