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Solange Knowles produced the album alongside a variety of collaborators, including John Key, John Carrol Kirby, Standing on the Corner, Chassol, Jamire Williams and Pharrell. This track features vocals by The-Dream and drums by Panda Bear of Animal Collective. Watch the Official Video for "Binz" here: youtu.be

Lyrical superpowers Black Thought, Pusha T and Killer Mike unite on the new song “Good Morning,” the latest single from the Roots rapper’s upcoming Streams of Thought Vol. 3: Cane & Able. With Swizz Beatz serving as hypeman, the three emcees showcase their freestyling abilities over a beat by producer Sean C. To read more, go here... www.rollingstone.com

Paul Desmond, who was Brubeck's alto saxophonist, wrote this song. It's called "Take Five" because it was written in an unusual 5/4 meter. It was one of the first Jazz songs with a time signature other than the standard 4/4 beat or 3/4 waltz time.

Brown Album is the fifth studio album by Primus. It was released in 1997 and was the band's first album with new drummer Bryan "Brain" Mantia, who replaced former drummer Tim Alexander.

Mere months after releasing the critically-acclaimed "Untitled (Black Is)," UK collective SAULT returned with their second album of 2020, entitled ,"Untitled (Rise)." This new record imparts a more exuberant sound through upbeat disco, funk and even house elements, but the topics remain just as poignant—exploring race, resilience, and rebellion. You can purchase this second great album of 2020 by SAULT here: bit.ly

Inspired by the sight of Bowie's producer-engineer Tony Visconti embracing his lover by the Berlin Wall, the song tells the story of two lovers, one from East and one from West Berlin. “‘Heroes’” was written and recorded in the summer of 1977 in West Berlin’s Hansa Studios, which overlooked the Berlin Wall and its watchtowers. Bowie had decamped to the city from LA after cocaine addiction and a failing marriage had nearly destroyed him.

Yard Act are a cantankerous new Leeds rock band featuring Ryan Needham of Menace Beach on bass. Yard Act is such a new entity that they only managed three gigs before the COVID shutters came down – ‘Fixer Upper’ hasn’t even had its live debut yet. They have been putting the time to good use, however, with some 40 demos coming into existence during lockdown. Smith’s vocal and lyrical style was honed by his experiences giving spoken word performances around Leeds and also eschews melody in favor of mood. “I’m interested in pushing it as far as you can in terms of how much you can cram into a song,” he says.

Bernard Sumner revealed in a 2012 interview with GQ that he wrote the song differently than his normal process, in that he created it from scratch rather than listening to a piece of music first to suggest the words. "I did that with "Love Vigilantes...It was quite tongue-in-cheek. It was about Vietnam. It was about a soldier that came back and his wife was sent a telegram to say that he was dead." "You can take the ending one way or another." Sumner added. "He's either dead and he's come back as a ghost and he sees her or he's not dead and the telegram was a mistake."

Listener request from Justin "My wife Donna and I are celebrating 14 years married today:)" The lyrics to "Just Like Heaven" were written by frontman Robert Smith, who drew inspiration from a past trip to the sea shore with his future wife. Smith's memories of the trip formed the basis for the song's accompanying music video. "Mary dances with me in the video because she was the girl in the song, so it had to be her." Pope later commented, "Poole can honestly lay claim to being the only featured female in any Cure video, ever."

Go check out Chong the Nomad here: bit.ly Refill (www.refill.live) is a community-driven, live-streamed benefit concert to help raise $25,000 for the Seattle Artist Relief Fund (SARF), a Black-led community response to help provide direct financial support to artists who have been affected by COVID-19.

As time in the summer of love was blossoming in London and San Francisco, Nigeria was imploding into civil war. Also known as the Biafran war of 1967, it was a grisly conflict taking over three million lives yet at the same time as the country was being pulled apart there was a new world beginning. This project highlights some of the important music from the era bit.ly

Band of Gypsys is a live album by Jimi Hendrix and the first without his original group, the Jimi Hendrix Experience. It was recorded on January 1, 1970, at the Fillmore East in New York City with Billy Cox on bass and Buddy Miles on drums, frequently referred to as the Band of Gypsys. The album mixes funk and rhythm and blues elements with hard rock and jamming, an approach which later became the basis of funk rock. It contains previously unreleased songs and was the last full-length Hendrix album released before his death.

"Do you hear that thunder?...That's the sound of strength in numbers..." --- Frontman Joe Talbot has described it as “a song that embodied self-belief, and gave us self-belief – a counter-punch to all the doubt we build up from all the noise we so easily let in” “We wanted to make the sound of our own hearts’ marching band, armed with a jackhammer and a smile,” he explained. “We wanted to make the sound of our engine starting. So we did. Thank you.” To see IDLES performing "Grounds", recorded exclusively for KEXP, go here www.youtube.com

This single is only available on Bandcamp denzelcurrymusic.bandcamp.com and net proceeds of the song went to Dream Defenders, a youth body organising against police brutality, prisons, deportation and war. dreamdefenders.org The track is a furious diatribe on the social and political climate of 2020, sampling a news broadcast on the June Minneapolis protests in the wake of George Floyd’s murder and clocking in at just under two minutes long.

The Budos Band are celebrating 20 years together and 15 years from the release of their debut album with the release of their sixth studio album, 'Long in the Tooth.' This single was selected as KEXP Song of the Day on October 1: www.kexp.org The album is available here: thebudosband.bandcamp.com Troy Nelson chatted with the full band in April 2019 live in the KEXP studio. Fun guys! youtu.be

The New Vaudeville Band was a group created by songwriter Geoff Stephens in 1966 to record his novelty composition "Winchester Cathedral", a song inspired by the dance bands of the 1920s and a Rudy Vallee megaphone-style vocal. To his surprise, the song became a transatlantic hit that autumn, reaching the Top 10 in the United Kingdom and rising to #1 in the United States. The New Vaudeville Band sung through their hands to imitate a megaphone sound on this 1966 track.

New Orleans nine-piece band Tank and The Bangas were nominated for Best New Artist for the 2020 Grammy Awards. Here are five things you ought to know about them: www.billboard.com Enjoy the video for "Spaceships" here: youtu.be

Brittany Howard released this Roger and Hammerstein classic on Election Day. Check out a performance with Brittany Howard on KEXP from last year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3aOCIwtYbo

Suburban Lawns were an American post-punk band formed in Long Beach, California in 1978 by CalArts students. Between 1978 and 1983, Suburban Lawns gigged frequently on the West Coast new wave circuit. bit.ly

Suburban Lawns were an American post-punk band formed in Long Beach, California in 1978 by CalArts students. Between 1978 and 1983, Suburban Lawns gigged frequently on the West Coast new wave circuit. bit.ly

Seattle artist Nat Puff performs as Left at London (stylized as /@/). Here's an exclusive KEXP interview with this talented artist: www.kexp.org Also, check out Left at London live on KEXP in 2019: youtu.be

This dynamic rap duo is comprised of Seattle MC Gifted Gab and San Francisco-bred Blimes Brixton. www.blimesandgab.com You can also check out Blimes and Gab's full performance streamed live on KEXP: www.youtube.com

Maurice White started writing “Shining Star” one night while recording in Colorado, he’d blissed out on how bright the stars were in the sky that night. While many hits of the disco era were fun and somewhat meaningless, Earth, Wind & Fire considered all their songs meaningful, and this one projects a positive message in a turbulent time. Check out a classic live performance of "Shining Star" on a 1975 episode of Midnight Special: youtu.be

Tucked away on the fourth side of "Gratitude" is the shimmering "Sing a Song." Guitarist Al McKay came up with the track's signature riff while in his dressing room prior to a show, before presenting the tune to Maurice White for lyrical input. White kept the words simple and optimistic, penning an infectious disco-flecked jingle praising the healing power of music.

Released on Knight's 1971 debut album of the same title, the song became a huge crossover hit and spent five weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Soul Singles chart. Knight performed the song on Soul Train on December 11, 1971 during its first season.

Fishbone is an American rock band formed in 1979 in Los Angeles, California, which plays a fusion of ska, punk, funk, metal, reggae, and soul. They've been called ska-punk, punk-funk and ska-punk-funk-metal. “The Rough Guide to Rock” deemed Fishbone’s music “jazz/hard rock/ska/funk”; a Rolling Stone writer threw up his hands and went with “orgasmic urban gumbo.” None of these labels aptly sum up the sound of a band that seems to have ingested a century’s worth of American and Caribbean popular music, nor do they capture the manic spirit of the group’s concerts, which earned Fishbone a reputation as one of the world’s greatest live acts. This long-running L.A. group was at KEXP in 2016, watch their full performance here: www.youtube.com

Listener request. New music from former KEXP DJ Stas THEE Boss! Check it out here: stastheeboss.bandcamp.com

Nilufer Yanya just announced a new EP, 'Feeling Lucky?'. It will be released on December 11th. In the video for this new song which she co-wrote with Nick Hakim, she is a flight attendant at 38,000 feet. “If you ask me one more question, I’m about to crash,” she sings, braving turbulence and strumming the electric guitar. “The video for ‘Crash’ takes place on a flight,” Yanya said in a statement. “Last year, doing a lot of touring I found myself becoming more and more anxious each time I boarded a plane, something that was new for me as I’ve never had a fear of flying. With each flight we took it felt like the turbulence was getting worse and I was convinced my luck was due to run out. I didn’t write ‘Crash’ about being on an airplane, but I really like it visually as an embodiment of the song.” www.rollingstone.com Music video for "Crash": youtu.be

In a statement announcing the album, clipping. summed up their intentions by quoting the movie 'Scream 2': “There are certain rules that one must abide by in order to create a successful sequel. Number one: the body count is always bigger. Number two: the death scenes are always much more elaborate—more blood, more gore. Carnage candy. And number three: never, ever, under any circumstances, assume the killer is dead.” consequenceofsound.net 'Visions of Bodies Being Burned' is out now. clppng.bandcamp.com www.subpop.com

Another "Walker's Worm Hole Wednesday" selection. The first of two blistering albums of Afro rock and funk from Nigerian multi-instrumentalist Joni Haastrup and his band MonoMono. Growing up in a royal household in Nigeria, Joni Haastrup began his musical journey performing for his brother's band Sneakers and was quickly snapped up as a vocalist for O.J. Ekemode and his Modern Aces' 'Super Afro Soul' LP, one of Afro-beat's formative LPs. Soon after, Ginger Baker of Cream fame replaced Steve Winwood with Joni on keys for Airforce's UK concerts in '71 and the success of the collaboration led to further shows with Baker as part of the Salt project before he returned to Nigeria to set up MonoMono. soundwayrecords.com

This Nigerian band released just one album and three singles in '72-'73. Check them out here: bit.ly

In honor of Neil Young's birthday tomorrow. Neil Young’s “Southern Man” came out in 1970 (via After the Gold Rush), but the singer-songwriter thinks it’s just as relevant today — with one caveat. He’s not just singing about the South anymore — but the whole country. Young posted a 2019 Live performance of the song on his Archives, writing: “Here’s me as an old guy singin’ his 50-year-old song that was written after countless years of racism in the USA. And look at us today! This has been going on for way too long. It’s not just ‘Southern Man’ now. It’s everywhere across the USA. It’s time for real change, new laws, new rules for policing.” To read more about it, go here... www.rollingstone.com

Seattle band Deep Sea Diver’s newest album, Impossible Weight is out! The band has been a core KEXP group since their first ever release back in 2012. 'Impossible Weight' was written after frontwoman Jessica Dobson's experience with depression. She spoke with Emily Fox for KEXPs Sound & Vision about her journey on the album. Read/listen here: www.kexp.org

"Mad World" was the band's third single release and first chart hit. Curt Smith has said that the intention was to gain attention from it and hopefully build up a little following. They had no idea that it would become such a big hit. "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 Smith sing it and "suddenly it sounded fabulous"

King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard have shared raw audio stems and video footage for their new single ‘Automation’, inviting fans to create their own remix and music video. Click here for more info: www.nme.com King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard have shared raw audio stems and video footage for their new single ‘Automation’, inviting fans to create their own remix and music video. Click here for more info: www.nme.com

This is a cover of a song by Atomic Rooster, an offshoot of The Crazy World of Arthur Brown. Death Valley Girls said that the song actually found them via a cover by ’70s Nigerian rockers The Funkees.: getinherears.com

Happy Wednesday and welcome to The Afternoon show with Larry Mizell, Jr. Hortense Ellis was a Native-Jamaican singer, born on Apr. 18, 1941 in Trench Town. She died on Oct. 18, 2000 in Kingston. She has collaboration songs with his older brother Alton Ellis, a famous reggae artist in Jamaica.