Kevin Cole

Hot Chip's eight album, "Freakout/Release," due out in August, is their first album in three years. The album features contributions from Cadence Weapon, Soulwax, and Lou Hayter. “We were living through a period where it was very easy to feel like people were losing control of their lives in different ways,” Joe Goddard said. “There’s a darkness that runs through a lot of those tracks.” Hot Chip was officially started by vocalists Alexis Taylor and Joe Goddard in 2000, but the duo had actually been making music together since 1991.

From the 1986 album In the Jungle Groove, one of several songs by Brown with an upfront social message.

From the rereleased "The Gold Experience", which is part of the Record Store Day 2022 releases dropping tomorrow! Take a look at the full list here: recordstoreday.com

The lyrics for this song were inspired by a crush Spandau Ballet's Gary Kemp had on Altered Images singer and Gregory's Girl star Clare Grogan: "I was infatuated with Clare Grogan," he told The Guardian. "I met her on Top of the Pops and, at one point, travelled up to Scotland to have tea with her and her mum and dad." According to Gary Kemp, the feelings were unrequited and their relationship was platonic, however, it was enough to inspiration to write this song.

Writing credit is given to Attrell Cordes (Prince Be of P.M. Dawn) and Gary Kemp of Spandau Ballet, as the song is built around samples of their 1983 hit "True," as well as samples from The Soul Searchers' "Ashley's Roachclip." The main drumbeat also samples from Eric B. & Rakim's "Paid in Full". Spandau Ballet lead singer Tony Hadley made a cameo in the video to this song, appearing near the end of the video. youtu.be

“Hard Drive Gold” is a teenager’s juvenile fantasy of becoming an overnight millionaire by trading cryptocurrency. alt-describe the song as “tongue-in-cheek”. Lead singer Joe Newman directed the video with his partner, who previously choreographed the band’s video for “Deadcrush”. The short tells the story of an athelete who, with the help of her late mother’s ashes, uses her last four minutes alive to nail a pole vault jump.: www.youtube.com

After performing it during her “Tiny Desk (Home) Concert,” FKA twigs has officially released her new single “Killer.” Watch the full performance here: youtu.be

This track was produced by MeLo-X and is part of Syd's debut album... "Fin". “Body” follows Syd’s previously released single, “All About Me,” which was produced by the Internet’s Steve Lacy.

Kevin Morby is playing at The Showbox on Friday, November 11! bit.ly 'This Is a Photograph', was mostly written in Memphis, when Morby settled into the town for a period to aid his ailing father. He spent his days reflecting on the Mississippi riverside and thinking about some of the often troubled geniuses whose lives were marked by the city in some way. “Rock Bottom” is a song written from the perspective of those misunderstood souls, who created a lasting body of work even though they were chided for being different.

""10:36" was written after Fake It Flowers and just before Our Extended Play, and I had envisioned it to be on that EP, but I was just sitting on that riff for ages and then I properly made a demo during lockdown," Beabadoobee shared. "It was called "10:36" because that was the time I finished writing it. It’s basically about how I have this weird dependency on human contact to sleep." bit.ly

2017! Alec O'Hanley's explanation on the band's fixation on water: "“I guess it’s the duality of beauty and danger at the same time. That was the juxtaposition when we were growing up [in Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia]. We were beach bums. Molly would jump off the pier for swimming lessons, but we were always taught to fear the rip-tide and the undertow, and that sort of thing. When you’re a teenager, that’s where you go, to goof off with your friends and sneak off late at night. It’s inherently very romantic." bit.ly Alvvays joined Kevin Cole Live in the KEXP Studio back in 2017: youtu.be

"The song is an inner monologue about keeping up appearances," Faroe Island artist Brimheim explains. "Attempts at adjusting very mundane things in life to feel in control. The collection of specific actions in the song – like buying frozen beans, sorting laundry, and skipping lunch – are all somewhat failed approximations of normalcy and balance. "In reality, they just thinly veil existential loneliness and insecurity. It’s someone trying to convince themselves and everyone around them that they’re fine, when they are actually barely keeping it together. It’s like they’re live action role playing as a responsible adult. The lyrics list all these things to point out their banal absurdity as well as their relatability." bit.ly

Part of Record Store Day 2022 releases dropping tomorrow! Take a look at the full list here: recordstoreday.com Cover of the Victoria Williams song that appeared on a benefit album for her after her diagnosis of multiple sclerosis. She told NPR in 2017 that after it was released: "I was in Louisiana and I was down on this long road and lots of trees. I was just listening to it and just crying, crying out of joy."

Part of Record Store Day 2022 releases dropping tomorrow! Take a look at the full list here: recordstoreday.com This performance is from Pearl Jam's first major live album Live on Two Legs. Track four, "Daughter"/"Rockin' in the Free World"/"W.M.A.", was performed in 1998, at Constitution Hall, Washington, D.C.

Brand new! Claud shared the song's meaning in a press release, saying, "'Go Home!' is about falling into that hole of feeling awkward and uncomfortable in your own skin that all you crave is going home and sliding into whatever is familiar.” www.altpress.com Visualizer: www.youtube.com

BRAND NEW music from London's Dry Cleaning! “The words in the chorus came about because I was trying to write a song to sing to my own brain, ‘You are always fighting me / You are always stressing me out,’” Shaw said in a statement. The video features hand-drawn animation by Peter Millard: youtu.be

Released on this day in 1987! Pleased to Meet Me is the fifth studio album by the American rock band The Replacements, released in 1987.

Pearl Jam's Stone Gossard shared, "I heard James and The Cold Gun’s ‘Long Way Home’ on KEXP last year and thought this band fricken rocks! Who are these upstarts?!" He has since signed the band to Loosegroove Records, a label he owns with Regan Hagar Cardiff, Wales-based James and the Cold Gun's James Biss revealed, "We wrote these songs for False Start in our flat in 2020 during the pandemic and our first time playing them live as a band was to record them. It was pretty mad recording live around our drummer, hearing the songs played loud with real drums for the first time after months of being stuck inside writing them on the computer. Recording with Adrian Bushby was a dream though, he was bopping around the control room and egging us on to play louder and harder, he’s technically the first person we ever played in front of."

Happy birthday to DJ Eva Walker!! Here's KEXP's own Eva Walker and her brother Cedric live in the KEXP studio in 2019: www.youtube.com

HBD to Kendrick Lamar! From his 2015 classic 'To Pimp a Butterfly', Kendrick Lamar's "Alright" features uncredited vocals from the song's co-producer Pharrell Williams during the chorus. "Four hundred years ago, as slaves, we prayed and sung joyful songs to keep our heads level-headed with what was going on," Lamar said. "Four hundred years later, we still need that music to heal. And I think that 'Alright' is definitely one of those records that makes you feel good no matter what the times are." www.npr.org Video: youtu.be

#1 on KEXP DJs Top Summer Jams Countdown last week! Read about the making of this song, which has been widely sampled, from Dr. Dre to Pharrell Williams to Mary J. Blige: www.theguardian.com

The song was rereleased this Monday to remove a derogatory term for people with disabilities, which Lizzo said she did not use with an intent to offend. twitter.com

NEW M.I.A! "The One" was released last month and is expected to feature on the artists upcoming album MATA. Check the killer new vid here: www.youtube.com

This song is a condemnation of racism and a call to action for protestors against police brutality, while also acting as an uplifting celebration of black culture. Go here for a discussion of the cultural and historical references in this anthem: bit.ly

Dropping tomorrow as part of RSD 2022: recordstoreday.com "We March" was released in 1995 on Prince's 17th album, The Gold Experience, back when Prince was still being referred to as his inscrutable stage name, the "Love Symbol."

New from Working Men's Club! Syd Minsky-Sargeant discussed its creation and themes in a statement, saying, "The first album was mostly a personal documentation lyrically, this is a blur between personal and a third-person perspective of what was going on. "I like the contrast of it being happy, uplifting music and really dark lyrics," he added. "It’s not a minimal record, certainly compared to the first one. That’s because there’s been a lot more going on that needed to be said." bit.ly

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In "More Pressure," Kae Tempest is joined by BROCKHAMPTON's Kevin Abstract, and the album is co-produced by Dan Carey and Rick Rubin. "'The Line Is A Curve' is about letting go. Of shame, anxiety, isolation, and falling instead into surrender," Kae says. bit.ly Here's Kae Tempest performing live in the KEXP studio in 2019: bit.ly

We can make it if you don't quit on me I won't quit on you Don't quit on me We can make it, baby Aracde Fire will be at Climate Pledge Arena (with Beck) on Tuesday, November 22nd, 2022.