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!!! will be LIVE on KEXP on Friday, May 13 at 12:00 PM and they play The Crocodile that night!
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And they've announced their ninth studio album, Let It Be Blue, and shared a new track called “Storm Around The World” featuring Sink Ya Teeth’s Maria Uzor. In a statement, the band explains:
“Storm Around the World” is a song we’ve had since the last album that didn’t really come into focus until Maria Uzor from Sink Ya Teeth added her part and we turned it into a duet. Originally an acid workout about parents who leave on tour it became much more than that with her vocal, which is equal parts sing-song and spoken word and who’s lyrics helped add both a familiarity and a mystery to the song. On this record we were looking for basic minimal arrangements– sub-bass, drums and vocals mostly– and that approach is what finally let us support the vocal parts in a way that worked. The final piece was the beat that our producer Patrick Ford made that felt somewhere between programmed, sampled and played, a blurriness that is another feature of this album, Let it be Blue, which was mostly built on computers but doesn’t always sound or feel that way."
New Sharon Van Etten and her new album dropped yesterday!
She plays Marymoor Park on August 3rd w/ Angel Olsen www.sharonvanetten.com
Nena was born Gabriele Susanne Kerner. She was in a band called The Stripes before forming her own group.
Nena's guitarist, Carlo Karges, got the idea for the song at a Rolling Stones concert in West Berlin. At one point during the show, the band released a bunch of balloons. Carlo watched as one of those balloons drifted over the wall into East Berlin. He imagined a radar picking up that one balloon and mistaking it for an enemy plane. Carlo wrote the lyric and Nena's keyboard player, Uwe Fahrenkrog-Petersen, wrote the music.
Here's the official music video: www.youtube.com
Singing along to the music of 1983 & celebrating 50 years of KEXP - www.kexp.org
Seattle electronic duo ODESZA has teamed up with Australian EDM artist Golden Features on a project called BRONSON. Enjoy KEXP's Sound & Vision interview about their new album, making music collaboratively from opposite sides of the globe, and the effects of COVID-19 on musicians' work: www.kexp.org
Requested by Erica - have fun in the garden!
I'm having trouble breathing in
Great new album by Toro y Moi and it's out now!
You can catch them at the Capitol Hill Block Party July 22-24th www.capitolhillblockparty.com
toroymoi.com
Happy 47th birthday to Martina Topley-Bird who first gained fame as the featured female vocalist on Tricky's debut album, Maxinquaye
Soul out of San Diego, influenced by acts like The Meters, Isaac Hayes, El Michels Affair, Mulatu Astatke, Budos Band, The Nite Liters, Menahan Street Band, Fela Kuti, and The Poets of Rhythm; their previous LP, "Build Bridges", debuted at #1 on Billboard's Contemporary Jazz Chart.
Check them out: thesurefiresoulensemble.bandcamp.com
Lee Fields and The Expressions cover! Watch Shaina's KEXP in-studio: www.youtube.com
And catch her live at Fisherman's Village Music Festival May 19-21 www.thefishermansvillage.com
Celebrating 1983! -- the third studio album from Eurythmics, listed among the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time by Rolling Stone
Dave Stewart explains that he and Annie Lennox wrote this song when they were staying at the Mayflower Hotel in New York City.: "I'd been out on 46th Street and bought an early Casio keyboard,...I kept on playing this riff, and Annie was looking out the window at the slate grey sky above the New York skyline and just sang spontaneously, 'Here Comes The Rain Again.' And that was all we needed." youtu.be
Celebrating 1983!
B-Movie are a new wave band from Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England. Check out the dance mix - www.youtube.com
New sounds from Austin, TX band Blushing joined by Miki of Lush! weareblushing.bandcamp.com
Holy Crap - New Belle and Sebastian! Take my money!
Go see them at The Paramount Theatre on May 31st! belleandsebastian.com
Power, Corruption & Lies is the second studio album by New Order, released in 1983.
Celebrating the music of 1983 & 50 years of music on KEXP! - www.kexp.org
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New Order will be playing Climate Pledge Arena with Pet Shop Boys on October 14, 2022. - www.neworder.com
Released in 2012, Plateau Vision includes guest appearances from Styles P, Heems, Shad, and Cities Aviv. Stereogum placed it at number 25 on the "Top 40 Rap Albums of 2012" list.
lushlifemedia.bandcamp.com
Birthday request by 7 year old Juniper - you've got great taste!
Todd Terje was tapped to create a remix of Dolly Parton's "Jolene" as part of brand agency Chandelier Creative's holiday tribute to Dolly Parton. Read more at Pitchfork: tinyurl.com
Great request LLoyd!
Wet Leg is in the lineup for THING August 26-28 at historic Fort Worden in Port Townsend, WA, it's not Too Late Now - go grab your tickets!
thingnw.org
This British duo’s debut album is a fun, sharply crafted set of playful post-punk with bursts of angular guitars, driving rhythms, occasional keyboards, deadpan vocals and often-sardonic lyrics depicting the absurdities and annoyances of love and life as a young adult during these tumultuous times.
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wetleg.bandcamp.com
The Smile, made up of Radiohead members Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood along with Sons of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner, have released their latest single, the darkly moody ‘Pana-vision’. It debuted during the series finale of Peaky Blinders. "And I don’t want to hate you
I don’t want to bear
The kind of fascination
That gets in my way"
A brilliant cover of the 1980's pop classic by Cyndi Lauper
Celebrating the music of 1983 - and dancing to it too! I see you! www.kexp.org
The iconic "Girls Just Want To Have Fun" was Cyndi Lauper's breakthrough hit. It remains one of the most recognizable songs for a whole generation. The song has been covered countless times by over the past decades!
The Linda Lindas performed on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon a couple nights ago! Check it out: pitchfork.com
“We get closer to each other when we write songs about what we’re feeling,” vocalist and guitarist Lucia de la Garza, 15, who also wrote “Growing Up,” told Rolling Stone in a recent interview. “We’re putting a little piece of ourselves out there to show who we are. That’s kind of scary, but it’s a lot less scary when you’ve got three other people to do it with you.”
They recently performed "Growing Up" on the Late Late Show: youtu.be
thelindalindas.bandcamp.com
Digable Planets will be playing at the Fisherman's Village Music Fest in Everett May 19-21 www.thefishermansvillage.com
L.A.-via Seattle singer, songwriter, and spoken word artist Hollis Wong-Wear, known simply as Hollis, is redefining herself and going solo. Until now, Hollis has been best known for her contribution to Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’ 2013 debut GRAMMY-nominated album, The Heist, with the song “White Walls,” and for her role as front-woman of popular Seattle group, The Flavr Blue.
Her debut album dropped yesterday!
New music from local artist Greg Kramer! You may know him as a member of local band The True Loves.
Pick up this new track here: gregkramer.bandcamp.com
Celebrating KEXP's 50th Anniversary and the music of 1983! www.kexp.org
Bowie said this song's call-and-response vocal arrangement "all comes from Little Richard." A defining moment in Bowie's childhood was when his dad came home with a copy of "Tutti Frutti."
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Stevie Ray Vaughan played guitar on this track. Bowie asked him to play on the Let's Dance album after seeing him perform at a music festival.
You can show KEXP some modern love by donating to our Spring Drive at:
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On their debut album ‘Unsoothing Interior’, Stockholm’s Vero reflect the nature of life itself. Their songs prioritize feeling over perfectionism – what feels, or sounds, best – creating a record that tumbles through its contents with a sense of unpredictability, excitement and curiosity. “We don’t want to be super musicians; we want to write the best fucking songs and just have the best energy and show people that we’re having fun,” explains singer and bassist Julia Boman. “We don’t want to be a perfect band, in that sense.”
More here and you can also order a copy of their new album - it's pretty effin' good!
veroband.bandcamp.com
This 1995 debut album from Elastica received rave reviews for its searing songs: pitchfork.com
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Check out this live version from 1995 www.youtube.com
Join KEXP for Pushing Boundaries this May! Throughout the month and far beyond, we’re celebrating Asian and Pasifika voices in music and the arts. This year’s Pushing Boundaries programming will continue exploring the impact of historical Asian and Pasifika pioneers and contemporary innovators, from around the world and within our local community. Stories of diaspora, resilience, music, and more will be highlighted through interviews and articles, podcasts and shows, and in-studio sessions. www.kexp.org
Deep Sea Diver and many other AMAZING artists will be part of this summer's Timber Music Fest in Carnation. Get your tickets now before they are gone!
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summer.timbermusicfest.com
Fontaines D.C. will be LIVE on KEXP on Saturday, May 14 at 12:30 PM.
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They play that night at Showbox SoDo with Just Mustard. bit.ly
The title of Fontaines D.C.'s forthcoming album, Skinty Fia, draws its name from an old Irish swear-word that translates to "the damnation of the deer." The album is set for release on April 22. fontainesdc.bandcamp.com
We're celebrating 1983 and so is Jay who requested this song - thanks Jay!
Another great tune from 1983!
Sara Dallin of Bananarama said: "The best summer songs remind you of your youth: what you did in your holidays, how it felt when you first kissed a boy, going away without your parents."
She added that this song "played on the darker side: it looked at the oppressive heat, the misery of wanting to be with someone as the summer ticked by. We've all been there!"
Watch the band throw banana peels (They're Bananarama!) at the sheriff, then end up dancing with the law: www.youtube.com
Pick up a copy of their new release right here sunflowerbean.bandcamp.com
Here's one of so many awesome songs on Episode 1 of KEXP's new podcast Fresh Off the Spaceship.
You Are Now Entering the Black Constellation - www.kexp.org
Check out OCnotes' full in studio performance from back in 2012: www.youtube.com
ocnotes.bandcamp.com
The Bay Area's Monophonics contemporize the heavier and more psychedelic sounds of late-'60s and early-'70s soul while also drawing from other facets of that era's R&B and jazz. Active since the mid-2000s, they've issued albums ranging from Playin & Simple (2007) to It's Only Us (2020) and have supplemented those recordings with a larger crop of singles.
Their new album, Sage Motel, drops on May 13th.
monophonics.bandcamp.com
www.monophonics.com
The new album is out now!
melodysechochamber.bandcamp.com