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Saturday, Feb 17 2024, 12PM
The Spirit of Apollo was released on this day in 2009!
N.A.S.A. is a hip hop music DJ, consisting of L.A.-based producer Sam Spiegel and Ze Gonzales. N.A.S.A. stands for North America/South America. Sam and Ze's idea was to bring people from different worlds together through their shared inspiration and love of music, so the musical group N.A.S.A. includes approximately three dozen other artists from both coasts of the U.S. and abroad.
Watch the band's KEXP performance from 2019 (with Cheryl Waters hosting) here: www.youtube.com.
Co-written by the band’s Eric Burton and Adrian Quesada along with keyboardist JaRon Marshall, the song marks the first time Black Pumas have co-written with another musician.
www.blackpumas.com
Celebrating Sarah Barthel from Phantogram born on this day in 1983. Tomorrow is the anniversary of the 2014 release of Voices.
Samples in this track are from the 1971 "007 and Counting" Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.
www.whosampled.com
Brooklyn-based artist Empress Of (the electro-pop recording project of Lorely Rodriguez) released this single last year. It is off her forthcoming studio album and is the first Spanish-language track dropping from the project.
The stunning video for this song was directed by dancer and choreographer Ryan Heffington (You may know him from his dancing in the video for TR/ST's "Destroyer.") : www.youtube.com
Empress Of's new album For Your Consideration is out March 22nd
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www.empressof.com
Suzanne Vega is on tour this spring, catch her in limited cities!
www.suzannevega.com
Celebrating tomorrow's release of Radiohead's 2011 album The King Of Limbs.
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Originally titled "Mouse, Bird, Dog," this song was on "The King of Limbs," nominated for Best Alternative Music Album for the 54th GRAMMY Awards (it lost to "Bon Iver, Bon Iver").
Here's a deep, deep dive into the song, minute by minute: drakeandersen.com
Performing in Seattle at Barboza March 5th.
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Laetitia Sadier's (founding member of Stereolab) forthcoming album "Rooting for Love" is out February 23rd! She calls it "a call to the traumatized civilizations of Earth: we’re urged to finally evolve past our countless millennia of suffering and alienation."
laetitiasadier.bandcamp.com
Madonna will be Performing tonight and tomorrow night at Climate Pledge Arena!
NEW from local artist Brittany Davis! Davis will perform LIVE on KEXP Tues. Feb. 27 at 12PM! www.kexp.org
Davis will also be performing March 2nd with Painted Shield and Loosegroove Records at The Paramount
With Image Issues, Davis turns their vibrant creativity and seemingly-limitless talent to share all they’ve endured - from discrimination as a Black, non-binary, blind musician, to traumatic family experiences touching on abuse, gun violence, and the prison system - as a means to honor how much they’ve already overcome and risen above. "As a blind person I've never had an actual visual experience, sound is the way I've always seen the world." It's from this perspective that Seattle's rising star Brittany Davis invites us to see life from their unique, underrepresented lens on Image Issues; a deeply candid and profoundly curated 'audio movie' serving as Davis' debut full-length project out March 1 via Pearl Jam founder Stone Gossard’s Loosegroove Records.
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Jungle performed Live on KEXP in September of 2023. Watch the Full Performance Here:
www.youtube.com
French trio Yelle covered this track as the second single from their 2007 debut, "Pop Up". The original from French duo Laurence Heller and Hélène Bérard, came out in 1987.
Yelle's version appeared in multiple video game soundtracks, and was later covered by Swedish artist Robyn.
Dan Boeckner will play April 29th at Neumos on his tours supporting his debut solo album, Boeckner!
"Euphoria" is the second single shared so far from the album, out March 15th. boeckner.bandcamp.com
Paying tribute to Taylor Hawkins from Foo Fighters who was born on this day in 1972.
Kendra Morris will be Performing March 13th at The Sunset.
www.songkick.com
Check out the official video here:
www.youtube.com
Performing tonight at the Paramount!
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New Orleans music royalty from the Batiste family, this tune is a celebration of "Black joy, independence and New Orleans culture and energy": youtu.be ; the album won the 2022 Grammy for Album of the Year ; linktr.ee ; www.jonbatiste.com
Annie Taylor peformed Live on KEXP from the Trans Musicales Festival in Rennes, France December 2023. Watch the full performance here:
www.youtube.com
Annie Taylor peformed Live on KEXP from the Trans Musicales Festival in Rennes, France December 2023. Watch the full performance here:
www.youtube.com
Annie Taylor peformed Live on KEXP from the Trans Musicales Festival in Rennes, France December 2023. Watch the full performance here:
www.youtube.com
Lol Tolhurst and Budgie will be here in Seattle at Madame Lou's (with Miki Berenyi Trio) on Tuesday, June 4th.
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Lol Tolhurst is a founding member and former drummer and keyboardist of The Cure. Peter Edward Clarke (Budgie) is the ex-Siouxsie and the Banshees drummer. Jacknife Lee is a producer (The Cars, U2, R.E.M., the Killers, etc.). Their collaborative debut album is "Los Angeles."
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Recognize that voice? That's LCD Soundystem's James Murphy on the vocals.
Chicago band Dehd will play The Crocodile on March 2nd for the Freakout Weekender -- Get ready by watching this in-studio performance at KEXP in 2022: www.youtube.com
Paul Weller has said this is his favorite song, Pete Townshend has called it "divine", and Tim Finn once said it was the song he wished he had written. Did you know that the song came to Ray Davies in a dream? www.loudersound.com
Cat Power will be playing Seattle's Moore Theatre on March 13th!
Bob Dylan cover from Cat Power‘s November 2022 show recreating Bob Dylan‘s legendary 1966 Royal Albert Hall performance at the same venue.
www.catpowermusic.com
www.catpowermusic.com
New single from Elbow's 10th album, Audio Vertigo, which will be out March 22
- elbow.co.uk
Debut solo EP from Greg Kramer, trombonist with Seattle band The True Loves.
gregkramer.bandcamp.com
Check out the video for 'Tell Me' here: www.youtube.com
Watch Greg Kramer perform with The True Loves for their Live KEXP at Home session this past June: www.youtube.com
Nouvelle Vague is a French cover band comprised of musicians Olivier Libaux and Marc Collin.
nouvellevague.bandcamp.com
Tricky drew on his experiences in British drug culture, as well as the influence of his late mother Maxine Quaye, on this album.
This track features a sample from Issac Hayes "Ike's Rap II" -- also used by Portishead on "Glory Box" from 1994's Dummy
Beth Gibbons (from Portishead) has co-produced her upcoming album with James Ford (Arctic Monkeys, Depeche Mode, Blur), with additional production from Talk Talk drummer Lee Harris.
It's a long time coming — Beth signed to Domino in 2013 — and she made if after a period of reflection and "lots of goodbyes."
"I realized what life was like with no hope," says Beth. "And that was a sadness I’d never felt. Before, I had the ability to change my future, but when you’re up against your body, you can’t make it do something it doesn’t want to do."
"People started dying. When you’re young, you never know the endings, you don’t know how it’s going to pan out. You think: we’re going to get beyond this. It’s going to get better. Some endings are hard to digest," Beth says, adding, "Now I’ve come out of the other end, I just think, you’ve got to be brave." tinyurl.com
bethgibbons.net
IDLES' fifth album is out! The Guardian calls it "a return to joy as an act of resistance," while Variety says that it's "one of the most innovative rock records in years": variety.com
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IDLES will be at The Paramount Theatre on Tuesday and Wednesday, May 7th and 8th.
#7 KEXP Top Albums of 2023!
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‘Struggler’ is the second studio album by Australian musician Genesis Owusu, released in 2023.
The album won Album of the Year, Best Independent Release, and Best Hip Hop/Rap Release at the 2023 ARIA Music Awards, and was nominated for Best Produced Release, Best Engineered Release, and Best Solo Artist. The album was also nominated for the Australian Album of the Year at the 2023 J Awards and the 2023 Australian Music Prize.
Here is Genesis Owusu live in the KEXP studio in May 2023:
youtu.be
Ana Tijoux will be performing March 19th at the Crocodile.
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Title track from Ana Tijoux' new album Vida.
ana-tijoux.bandcamp.com
Steven Umoh, the man behind the name Obongjayar, a London-based Nigerian artist. His first new single in a year was recently selected by Cheryl as a free KEXP Song of the Day: www.kexp.org.
obongjayar.bandcamp.com
This track has been called a song suitable for a post-apocalyptic party, while making references to a melting, dying world.
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For all its dark undertones, "PARAD(w/m)E" conjures up a fizzy little slice of celebration, suitable for a post-apocalyptic party. As Amelia Meath highlights images of a wrecked planet — "Steamy, steamy, bright sunshine / Flowers, grass and trees all died" — Nick Sanborn sets her words to an arrangement so playfully springy, it can't help but sound like summer fun. "There's nothing left to ruin, we finally got free," Meath sings in the chorus. "How's that for manifesting our destiny?": n.pr
Röyksopp and Robyn collaborated on this track, alongside other works such as "Sayit", "Do It Again", and "Everything Little Thing"!
royksopp.com
Check out this week's episode of KEXP's Podcast Cobain 50. This week they will breakdown Bad Brains Rock for Light.
www.kexp.org
Pearl Jam will be playing Climate Pledge Arena on May 28 and 30, 2024!!! tinyurl.com
Pearl Jam have announced Dark Matter, their 12th album and the followup to 2020’s Gigaton. Guitarist Mike McCready has promised an album that’s "a lot heavier than you’d expect" in an interview with Classic Rock last fall. The band’s world tour stops in nine countries and 25 cities.
Dark Matter‘s lead single and title track does indeed feel like a return to Pearl Jam’s classic ’90s grungy hard rock vibes.
Singer-songwriter and guitar hero Mary Timony new album, Untame the Tiger, marks her fifth solo album, her first in 15 years (and first for Merge).
marytimony.bandcamp.com
Mary Timony will perform at the Clock-Out Lounge in Seattle on Saturday, March 23, 2024 - get your tickets now!
Gazy/Post/Experimental Danish-Korean band from Copenhagen.
Debut album Queen of Spring is written over the 8 trigrams in Korean Taoism
Heaven ☰
Thunder ☳
Mountain ☶
Earth ☷
Wind ☴
Fire ☲
Water ☵
Lake ☱
Nordic Melancholia, love bound allyship & Korean Ancestry
Released on Tutl Records, Poclanos and Soon Records
Meejah is Daniel Nayberg, Andreas Isbrandt Løvenskjold and Mai Young Øvlisen
meejah.bandcamp.com
Check out a live performance of this song here:
www.youtube.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 video from Wye Oak's 2018 Live on KEXP session, hosted by Cheryl Waters: bit.ly.
wyeoak.bandcamp.com
Broken Bells are James Mercer (of the Shins) and Brian Burton (aka Danger Mouse). They released their long-awaited third album, Into the Blue, in October 2022. This track was the album's first single.
Watch the band perform on KEXP in 2014: www.youtube.com