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Sunday, May 14 2023, 2AM
Sports set!
This one is for the Kraken, forcing a game 7 against the Dallas Stars. (Get it? Cthulhuian nightmare from the sea? Like a- yeah, you get it.)
Troy hosted the Viagara Boys' Live on KEXP back in March! Watch the full performance on our YouTube channel now:
www.youtube.com
W.I.T.C.H. will play the Tractor Tavern on Friday, August 4! They'll be live on KEXP at noon that day!
witch-zambia.bandcamp.com
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“Zango means ‘meeting place. Every village [in Zambia] will have this central place, where villagers meet to prepare for work, where youngsters go to learn, where the young ones learn from the elder folks, and where the visitors come and converge." - bit.ly
Happy birthday to Mike Inez, bassist of Alice in Chains, who made his debut as their bassist on this EP.
Seattle's own Spirit Award will be Live on KEXP on Thursday, May 18th at noon. You can also catch them at the Fisherman's Village Music Fest Saturday May 20th in Everett, WA at 8pm.
Check out their Live on KEXP Session from 2018.
www.youtube.com
They'll play a record release show at Neumos on Saturday, June 10th. The band will also be performing at Bumbershoot Arts & Music Festival (Seattle Center), Saturday/Sunday, September 2nd/3rd. bumbershoot.com
Arlo Parks' sophomore album, 'My Soft Machine', will be out May 26 and features the lead single “Weightless." She recently broke down the lyrics and the meaning of the song during this video interview: www.youtube.com
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Larry hosted Arlo Parks Live on KEXP in March 2022: youtu.be
Social Distortion are playing two shows back to back at The Showbox on Saturday, July 1st and Sunday, July 2nd.
www.socialdistortion.com
Cheryl Waters hosted Hannah Jadagu -Live in the KEXP Studio - in March 2022 here: youtu.be
Hannah Jadagu's debut EP was a collection of tracks recoreded entirely on an iPhone 7; “It really took off when I became a percussionist in my middle school’s band,” she says. “Writing songs started as a hobby and quickly became a passion to the point that I spent all my free time recording.”
Now she's got a new LP coming out on Sub Pop in May! - hannahjadagu.bandcamp.com
Happy Birthday to Ian Astbury who belts the living hell out of this song.
Killer Mike is going on tour with his choir, the Midnight Revival. Catch them at the Showbox in Seattle on July 27.
www.showboxpresents.com
Also playing the 2023 THING festival! Check out the full lineup and pick up tickets here: thingnw.org
Digable Planets won a Grammy for this track in 1994.
Watch the trio perform live for KEXP in 2016 from the Kex Hostel in Iceland: youtu.be
Georgia Anne Muldrow and Josef Leimberg collaborate on a track co-written by Muldrow and Leimberg with Sun Ra. From the forthcoming compilation "Red Hot & Ra: Nuclear War", music inspired by the Sun Ra track "Nuclear War", releasing on May 26.
Red Hot is a U.S. based 501(c)(3) non-profit production company whose mission is in promoting public health and diversity through equal access to care. It started in 1989 by Leigh Blake and John Carlin as a response to the devastation wrought by AIDS on a generation of New York artists and intellectuals.
redhot.bandcamp.com
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Chicago indie trio Horsegirl are Penelope Lowenstein, Nora Cheng and Gigi Reece. - horsegirlmusic.com
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Horsegirl performed this song and others live in the KEXP studio earlier this year.
Check it out here: www.youtube.com
"Cost of Living" was Downtown Boys' Sub Pop debut. Downtown Boys were keenly aware of the increased visibility and credibility that comes with signing to a corporate-media conglomerate such as Sub Pop and used this platform as a megaphone for their protest music, amplifying and centering Chicana, queer, and Latino voices in the far-too-whitewashed world of rock. Downtown Boys - Full Performance (Live on KEXP): bit.ly
Released at the end of April, this is the 37-year-old’s first solo release since his 2021 EP ‘Art Deal Chic Vol. 4’.
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In other news, Miguel has been part of a virtual storytelling summit, Better Together: a space encouraging creators to speak openly about mental health. He told NME, that “It’s been a real pleasure” to share his story.: www.youtube.com
Little Dragon has performed Live in the KEXP Studio multiple times, including this set during Upstream Music Fest in 2018: youtu.be
Caroline Polachek will be at the Showbox SoDo (with Sudan Archives) on Thursday, May 4th, and Friday, May 5th.
She recently performed "Welcome to My Island" on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. She played the song amid flashing strobe lights in front of an all-black background before playing a guitar solo on a one-of-one 1980s Gibson Corvus prototype.: bit.ly
Cheekface will be LIVE on KEXP on Tuesday, May 16th, at 3:00 p.m. They will be performing at Barboza that evening.
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Cheekface is: Amanda Tannen on bass guitar and backing vocals, Greg Katz on vocals and guitar, and Mark Echo Edwards on drums and percussion.
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Want to see Cheekface performing this song live?: www.youtube.com
Playing LIVE on KEXP TOMORROW at noon on the Midday Show. This in-studio is open to the public.
Nation of Language have announced their third album, Strange Disciple, is coming out September 15th! The Brooklyn-based band is performing two sold-out shows in Seattle at The Crocodile on Thursday, May 18 and Friday, May 19. They'll be back in town on August 12-13 for Day In Day Out Fest! - www.nationoflanguage.com
Nabihah Iqbal is coming to Barboza June 4th!!
First LP in five years from London-born artist Nabihah Iqbal - “For the first time ever, I’ve made music where I’ve been more patient with it,” she says. “Normally, when you’re an electronic music producer, you go into the studio, switch your computer on and start working on Ableton or Logic and then build up from that. Whereas, I decided not to go near all that for ages, and I was also forced into this approach in a way, because of the studio burglary and then being in Pakistan, away from all my equipment. Instead, I had to let the ideas develop in my head" - nabihahiqbal.bandcamp.com
