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"At the dawn of the 1970's, South Korea's Rock music scene was at its zenith. Much of the reason for this was the god-like musical touch of guitar wizard, songwriter, producer, and arranger Shin Joong Hyun. He took a young girl named Kim Jung Mi, and transformed her from a wallflower student into a Folk-Psych chanteuse in record time." She's singing "The Sun" here.: lightintheattic.net

Durand Jones will be Performing at Bumbershoot Music and Arts Festival September 2&3rd at the Seattle Center. Get Tickets here: bumbershoot.com --- "Wait Til I Get Over," the singer's debut solo album, is a reflection on Jones’ relationship to his hometown of Hillaryville, La., a town first established as a form of reparations to previously enslaved Black Americans. The album grapples with his desire to leave the complicated town and his urge to honor his roots. -- This deeply personal song reflects on Jones’ first queer relationship and the mixed feelings he felt about “taboo” love. Jones explained: "I dedicate this one to a cajun dude out near Lafayette, Louisiana. Back in the day, our bond and love for another was so close and intense, that it overwhelmed me. I began to be scared of it and ashamed. I found myself in a flurry trying to find the feelings when I said I would be so many things for him.”

Cover of the Nada Surf 90's classic! And a shot for shot remake of the original music video, with all of the parts played by Mia Berrin of Pom Pom Squad. It was even shot at the same high school: youtu.be

ODESZA laced their haunting sound design through Archives' signature violin patterns in the new remix, the duo's first in eight years. Their visceral production is the perfect fit for the contemplative lyricism of "Selfish Soul," which uses women's hair as a motif to express their search for identity in a world that distorts conceptions of beauty. bit.ly

Happy Birthday to Lætitia Sadier from Stereolab! --- This record takes its name from the 1971 Shuji Terayama-directed Japanese film Tomato Kecchappu Kôtei (Emperor Tomato Ketchup) stereolab.co.uk

Altın Gün will be performing an all ages show at Neptune Theatre Nov 14, 2023! The lyrics for this song came from Sabahattin Ali (1907 – 1948), Turkish novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. The music was composed by Zülfü Livaneli. -- Go here to purchase this new song from Turkish psych-folk band Altın Gün: altingun.bandcamp.com

"More than my songs have to do with sex, they have to do with one human’s love for another, which goes deeper than anything political that anybody could possibly write about. The need for love, the need for sexuality, basic freedom, equality…” bit.ly www.prince.com

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

London afro-punk band Ibibio Sound Machine were Live on KEXP in 2022. Check out the session here: bit.ly "Electricity" was one of the singles from the 2022 album of the same name, which was produced by Hot Chip. ibibiosoundmachine.bandcamp.com

New Little Dragon! "The members of Little Dragon get wild and dance like nobody's watching... even though someone is" - vimeo.com The Swedish band's latest single, "Slugs of Love", follows on from Little Dragon's 2022 Opening The Door EP, and a string of collaborations and remixes featuring artists such as Moses Sumney, JID, Kelsey Lu, Yo Yo Ma and many more. littledragon.bandcamp.com

Shortly into their 1980 tour, disc jockey Kal Rudman programmed "Whip It" to be played on several radio stations in the Southeastern U.S., which led urban music programmer Frankie Crocker to push the song at powerhouse WBLS in New York City. Within a week, "Whip It" had become so popular that Devo was forced to temporarily stop its tour to book larger venues because the concerts were selling out too quickly!

Latest from Parannoul (parh-ah-nole), a South Korean anonymous, bedroom shoegaze musician who told Pitchfork that they are too embarrassed to identify themselves on the internet or even tell their parents they make music. They have also released music as Mydreamfever, as well as several now-deleted albums as laststar. - parannoul.bandcamp.com

Slowdive are a British rock band that formed in Reading, Berkshire, in 1989. The band consists of Rachel Goswell on vocals and guitar, Neil Halstead on vocals and guitar, Christian Savill on guitar, Nick Chaplin on bass and Simon Scott on drums. The name "Slowdive" was inspired by a dream Chaplin experienced, and was chosen against the wishes of Goswell, who was outvoted after protesting the fact that it shared the same name as the single "Slowdive", from one of her favourite bands, Siouxsie and the Banshees. - www.slowdiveofficial.com --- Here's Slowdive performing "Star Roving" live in the KEXP studio in 2017 -www.youtube.com

The guitar contribution for this song is from The Afghan Whigs' Greg Dulli. See a live version from Mark Lanegan in 2017: www.youtube.com Mark Lanegan died February 22 at the age of 57. Listen to this KEXP Sound and Vision Podcast for reflections on Lanegan's music, career, personality, and life. www.kexp.org

Seattle's own Blue Scholars! Check out KEXP's Sound & Vision miniseries "Filipino Hip Hop 206" exploring the Filipino impact on Seattle’s hip hop scene. From the first DJ to have a rap radio show on the west coast to a world championship breakdancing crew to countless MCs, there’s no denying how much Filipinos contributed to the scene. KEXP DJs Gabriel Teodros, Mike Ramos, and Larry Mizell, Jr. share interviews and the stories of some of these folks and their legacy. www.kexp.org bluescholars.bandcamp.com

Indigo De Souza is a singer-songwriter from Asheville, North Carolina. The Water is a single off her new album is called All of this Will End. indigodesouza.bandcamp.com

Advisory Committee is Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn's second full-length album. Thao & Mirah performed 'Hallelujah' live in the KEXP studios back in 2011. Watch the beautiful performance here: www.youtube.com mirah.bandcamp.com

This was the third single from the band's 1984 album "Ocean Rain." -- See the band dressed as penguins in the video for "Seven Seas": www.youtube.com

M83 will be in Seattle at Showbox SoDo playing two all-ages shows, Wednesday, May 10th and Thursday, May 11th! -- "Oceans Niagara" is the first single to be released from M83's upcoming album, "Fantasy," which comes out March 17th! Anthony Gonzalez said of the track, “I wanted to create this sense of friendship. Listening to that song, I imagine people running, driving fast, or riding spaceships together. It’s this sense of going forward. Like a magic potion that you take to discover new worlds.”

Grain Chatten is the frontman for Fontaines D.C. and his solo album entitled Chaos for the Fly is coming out June 30th. www.grianchatten.com

New solo release from Brooklyn-based Habibi band member Rahill Jamalifard. Rahill teams up with Beck on this single from her solo debut Flowers at Your Feet, coming out May 12th. Check out the video here: www.youtube.com More from Rahill: www.kexp.org

Mavis Staples playing tonight at the Paramount Theater! "The Staple Singers were the creation of Roebuck “Pops” Staples. Pops, born in 1914, was the youngest of 14 children, and he grew up on a cotton plantation in Mississippi. Pops dropped out of school in eighth grade, and as a young man, he played with blues musicians like Charlie Patton and Robert Johnson. At 21, he moved his family to Chicago, where he worked in stockyards and steel mills. In 1948, the Staple Singers — Pops, his wife Oceola, and three of their four kids — began singing at Chicago’s Mount Zion Church, where Pops’ brother Chester was pastor. Mavis, the youngest of them, was about 11." Here's an in-depth tribute to these musicians and this #1 hit: bit.ly

New Music! Hip-hop supergroup Dinner Party is a collaboration between musicians Kamasi Washington, Robert Glasper, Terrace Martin & 9th Wonder. Their latest album, Enigmatic Society, just came out this past April. dinnerparty.lnk.to bit.ly

Costa was a muse of Brazil’s booming popular music scene in the late 1960s, and sang with some of the biggest names in Brazilian music, including Tom Jobim, Chico Buarque, Milton Nascimento and her close friend Caetano Veloso. In 1969, Gal released her eponymous solo debut album, which included "Baby" and "Divino Maravilhoso". The album is considered a Tropicalismo classic, balanced between Brazilian stylizations and North American psychedelic influences. In 2011 she won the Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. “I was born wanting to sing, wanting to be a singer,” she said in a 2020 interview. “I always thought I would be one – I had this intuition and I wanted it. [I knew it from] when I was born.”

Celebrating the anniversary of the release of Pepper from the Butthole Surfers iconic album Electrictlarryland. --- ""Pepper" is an intense psychedelic song, harkening back to the Beatles at the height of their White Album noise, the Velvet Underground at their most incomprehensibly noisy, and to the '60s flower-child scene in general. Tricky ear-candy here includes an electric bass being played with a bow and a portion of the chorus being played backwards. There's also a stark contrast between the rapped verses in a distorted voice and the chorus opening up louder and flashier with each refrain." www.songfacts.com

Nilsson recorded Jump Into the Fire in London in 1971. The musicians on the basic track were Nilsson (piano), Chris Spedding (guitar), Herbie Flowers (bass) and Jim Gordon (drums). According to Flowers, he began loosening the bottom string "for a laugh", believing that by that point in the song, the performance would be faded out on the released recording.

Na'el Shehade and Via Rosa are the Duo Drama. Performing at Capitol Hill Block Party Sunday July 23rd! --- Catch them on tour! www.thedramaduo.com

That! Feels Good! is Jessie Ware's fifth release. Jessie Ware says that this song "doesn’t take itself too seriously but demands you to have a dance. It’s inspired by divas like Donna Summer, Evelyn Champagne King, Teena Marie and Chaka Khan and I guess attempts to show -- in lightness -- all the hats I try to wear (usually at the same time)." www.jessieware.com

“This video is a fantasy of waking up on a day that there is no monetary system, no dividing line, no false construct to tell our fellow man that they are less or more than anyone else. Not that people are without but that the whole meaning of money has vanished. That we have somehow solved our self created caste system and can now start fresh with love, hope and celebration. It’s a dream of humanity’s V-DAY… and the party we know would pop off.” youtu.be Kevin Cole hosted RTJ Live in the KEXP Studio back in 2017: youtu.be

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

Wye Oak is the Baltimore-originated duo of Andy Stack and Jenn Wasner. From his drum stool, Stack works not only the skins, but keyboards, bass lines, and backing vocals, while Wasner handles all guitar and lead vocal duties. (Wow!) Enjoy Live Video from Wye Oak's 2018 KEXP In-Studio, hosted by Cheryl Waters: bit.ly. wyeoak.bandcamp.com

Released in July 2002. Columbus, Ohio musician Ramble Jon Krohn, better known by his stage name RJD2, is owner of RJ's Electrical Connections and has been member of groups such as Soul Position, MHz Legacy, and Icebird. officialrjd2.bandcamp.com

Guru's 'Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1' is the debut solo studio album by American hip hop recording artist Guru, released in 1993. It was one of the first albums to combine a live jazz band with hip hop production and rapping. "Loungin" is the second track on the album. It features Donald Byrd on trumpet and piano. bit.ly Check out the video for "Loungin', featuring Donald Byrd on trumpet: youtu.be

Local electropop duo NAVVI's new album was released yesterday. navvi.bandcamp.com Navvi Performed Live at the KEXP studios in 2019. Check out the full performance here: www.youtube.com

Headlining at the Belltown Bloom May 5 & 6: www.belltownbloom.com Written by L7 frontwoman Donita Sparks, this song is a call to action, making the point that doing nothing is exactly what the powers-that-be want from their opposition. bit.ly

Black Belt Eagle Scout (Katherine Paul) will be LIVE on The Midday Show at noon on Monday, May 8th, 2023. -- She'll be playing the Alma Mater in Tacoma that evening and will perform at the Timber! Music Fest in Carnation,Washington, July 27-29, 2023. Check out her Full Performance from our Live KEXP Session in 2019. www.youtube.com

Happy Nurses Appreciation Day!! "Nurse!" is one of two singles to be released from London band Bar Italia's forthcoming album, Tracey Denim, out May 19th! baritalia.bandcamp.com

From Local Seattle Band's second album When I Pretend to Fall.