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Friday, Jun 29 2018, 6PM
Suggested by KEXP friend and former DJ Jon Kertzer when I asked about top women musicians of Africa. An ethnomusicologist, Alsarah has studied Sudanese Zar music extensively. www.alsarah.com
Brazilian singer Wilson Simonal pioneered the pop music sound in his home country. www.allmusic.com
Britpop band Supergrass have 6 studio albums to date. www.supergrass.com
The Rogers Sisters were real-life sisters Laura and Jennifer Rogers along with Miyuki Furtado from Brooklyn, NY.
This song has been sampled on no fewer than 28 other tracks. www.whosampled.com
Sampling the Etta James song you just heard! By request. Have a suggestion? Email dj@kexp.org or interact on Instagram @djmichelemyers, Twitter @djmichelemyers or Facebook DJ Michele.
The Internet released a new single in April followed shortly by an announcement of their fourth studio album, "Hive Mind" to be released later this year. www.abc.net.au
This is the original soul version of this song, later made famous by Soft Cell.
Cover and most famous version of this song by Marc Almond/Soft Cell.
Rhianna, from Barbados, masterfully samples "Tainted Love" in this track. She has sold over 250 million records since her career started in 2003 which makes her one of the top selling artists of all time. rihanna.com
Angelique Kidjo is a singer and activist from Benin who now resides in New York City. She has collaborated with numerous other artists including Alicia Keys, Dave Matthews, Ziggy Marley, Bono, and Carlos Santana among others. www.kidjo.com
Summertime classic, Boys of Summer (originally by Don Henley) has been covered over 16 times - including this version by local Portland synthesist, Gardner. gardenermusic.bandcamp.com
Jane's Addiction cover. Puracane is a New York trip-hop band of 5 members currently including Ali Rogers, Juan Masotta, Chris Lee, Susan Elinger, and David Leatherwood. They have toured with Jane’s Addiction, Depeche Mode, and Sting.
This version of "Jane Says" was recorded at the very first Lollapalooza tour in 1991 which was started by Perry Farrell. Jane was an actual person who lived with Farrell and several others in an early 80's Hollywood group house.
Now Now are indie rock duo Cacie Dalager and Bradley Hale from Blaine, Minnesota. They will be playing the Crocodile on Mon July 30. nownowmusic.com
Electronic artist Steven Zhu remained anonymous until mid-2014 wanting his music to be judged on its merits alone. www.zhumusic.com
With Julieta Venegas, a Mexican-American songstress and instrumentalist who is fluent in three languages - English, Spanish, and Portuguese. www.julietavenegas.net
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Radio Citizen is a German music collective headed by Berliner Niko Schabel. www.radio-citizen.com
Teyana Taylor is from Harlem, NYC and has worked with Pharrell Williams, Kanye West, Usher, and Chris Brown among others.
This song with Rufus made Chaka Khan a funk legend. It was written for her by Stevie Wonder.
Her song, “I Feel For You” was the first single featuring a rapper (Grandmaster Melle Mel) to hit Number 1 on the U.S. charts. The song was originally written by Prince.
New single from Chaka! Check out newly released video. chakakhan.com
Girls Aloud was an English-Irish girl group that formed during the British Independent Television (ITV) show Popstars: The Rivals. They went on to great success and had 10 top-ten singles, 4 that went to number 1 in the UK.
Originally from Lebanon, Yasmine Hamdan now resides in Paris and is considered a bright star in the modern Arabic music scene. www.nytimes.com
This song was the first release from Jack White's first solo album, Blunderbuss and features Ruby Amanfu, vocalist from Nashville.
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Each week we visit another country for dance music. This set all artists from China!
Every week we visit a different country, this week it's China.
Every week we visit a different country, this week it's China.
Rhiannon Giddens recently opened for Aimee Mann at the Woodland Park Zoo. Read the review and see still shots of the show here. www.kexp.org
Black Keys’ most recent album, “Turn Blue”, reviewed here. www.kexp.org
Jamie Lidell recently recorded in-studio here at KEXP. Watch how he layers tracks and vocals with mastery here. www.kexp.org
This song won a Grammy for Stevie Wonder in 1974. It won for Best R&B vocal.
In preparation for Sub Pop's 30th Anniversary, KEXP has been "counting-up" the entire Sub Pop catalog. Helio Sequence have been frequent visitors to our recording studio. Watch the latest one here. www.youtube.com
Chloe x Halle are sisters from Atlanta, Georgia who recently released their debut album “The Kids are Alright” earlier this year in March. www.chloexhalle.com
A collaboration between Prince Paul of De La Soul and Dan the Automator (Gorillaz), Handsome Boy Moldeling School reunited in February of this year and are working on a new album hiphopdx.com
Jurassic 5 were featured in the hip-hop biopic "Scratch". www.imdb.com
