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You Said Strange hail from Giverny, France, and are performing songs off their newest release, Thousand Shadows Vol. 2.
They will be playing Treefort Music Festival on Friday, March 24 & Saturday, Mar 25, 2023 in Boise, ID.
When they’re not busy organizing the annual Rock In The Barn festival, which hosts a broad range of acts from the international alternative scene, the four members of the band work on their sound that was born on the school benches. What followed was the inevitable: rehearsals, gigs, festivals, tours, Bandcamp sales and, eventually, record pressings. bit.ly
Performing songs off their newest release, Thousand Shadows Vol. 2, You Said Strange will be playing Treefort Music Festival on Friday, March 24 & Saturday, Mar 25, 2023 in Boise, ID.
You Said Strange come from the north-western region of Normandy in France, although if it was up to them they’d come from the States, somewhere between Texas and Cali. They’ve been growing their own Norman-spiced definition of psychedelia for a few years now, making their way on a historically busy road. All the people from the scene that they met on their way, from Poland to the Lisbon Psych Fest, through North London clubs and mythic Paris venues, seems to have had a major impact on the building of the band.
That’s how, after a first EP recorded with Black Market Karma in London, they ended up supporting The Dandy Warhols on their French 2015 tour. A strong friendship was born out of this tour which led them to fly over to Portland, USA, to record the band’s first album with the Dandys’ guitar player Peter G Holmström – something he had never done for anybody else but the Dandys. bit.ly
Performing songs off their newest release, Thousand Shadows Vol. 2, You Said Strange will be playing Treefort Music Festival on Friday, March 24 & Saturday, Mar 25, 2023 in Boise, ID.
At the end of 2022, French psychedelic noise-pop quartet You Said Strange shared a new LP entitled Thousand Shadows Vol.1, a release consisting of psychedelic pop, proto grunge, and shoegaze sonics, inspired by the band’s experiences on tour across Europe and North America that year. Now, You Said Strange have announced the impending release of a follow-up to Vol. 1 entitled Thousand Shadows Vol. 2 (due April 28 via EXAG / Le Cépe Records). Together, both Volumes compose the band’s sophomore LP. bit.ly
Performing songs off their follow-up release, Thousand Shadows Vol. 2, You Said Strange will be playing Treefort Music Festival on Friday, March 24 & Saturday, Mar 25, 2023 in Boise, ID.
The band is composed of brothers Eliot (lead vocals and guitar) and Martin Carrière (bass and vocals) and their childhood buddies Hector Riggi (keyboard and guitar) and Matthieu Vaugelade (drums), and is responsible for organizing the annual Rock In The Barn festival, which hosts a broad range of acts from the international alternative scene.
As for the new volume, "a second chapter was needed to highlight the many shadows that still linger everywhere," said the band. "The shadows that linger on the borders, hiding the violence of the fights for them. The shadows that time has on relationships and their persistence, because the shadows move."
Amidst themes of shoegaze, noise pop, and psychedelic rock throughout the upcoming release, You Said Strange incants their music in which melancholy, love, and the search for plenitude meet. As the band continued: "Plato’s cave, in a modern version, would be one of toxic relationships, antidepressants, and the acceptance of the regression of freedom and/or the vision of a dying world…" bit.ly
Playing the LoFi Gallery on March 31st!
Pacific Northwest garage rockers Acid Tongue have released their first single since their 2021 album Arboretum.
Produced by Josh Landau, "Consumerism" is a psychedelic-punk bop with a video directed by James Kimberling. The dopamine-hit message is pretty clear: "Every day I consume more/ Can you tell me what it’s all been for?/ Cheap drugs and digital love/ I never know when enough’s enough," lead singer Guy Keltner wails over squalling guitars. bit.ly
Catch the video here: bit.ly
This track is well known for its three-chord riff and a continuously repeated single piano note, played by Velvet Underground founding member John Cale, who also produced the track. These elements, along with the heavily distorted sound, has lead critics to consider the track an early example of heavy metal and punk music.
And yes, those are sleigh bells that play throughout the song. Iggy Pop was always looking for unusual instrumentation - on "Search And Destroy" you'll hear swords in the background. bit.ly
Avalanche Party performed live at Studio 9294 in Hackney Wick, London, during KEXP's International Clash Day broadcast on February 4, 2019. Check out the set here: bit.ly
Brothers Joe and Jordan formed Avalanche party in 2016 in Castleton, North Yorkshire, England.
Formed in 2011 by school friends Brodie J Brümmer and Gemma O'Connor, Flyying Colours released their debut single ‘Wavygravy’ in 2013 with a self-titled EP following later that year.
Honing their explosive sound on the Melbourne live scene and picking up numerous accolades along the way, the ‘ROYGBIV’ EP followed which received heavy rotation across worldwide radio including BBC Radio 6 Music and KEXP.
This fresh release was recorded by Woody Annison at Red Door Studio. bit.ly
This week, Drive Time host Kevin Cole is spotlighting artists playing Tremor Festival from March 28 to April 1 on São Miguel Island, Azores, Portugal.
Lalalar are currently Turkey’s buzziest band and for good reason. The trio’s fusion of 70’s Anatolian rock and 80’s dark wave with a punk attitude make for an intoxicatingly fierce and innovative sound. While the band has only been around since 2018, Ali Güçlü Şimşek, Barlas Tan Özemek and Kaan Düzarat are established members of the Istanbul music scene so it was an almost-inevitable meeting of minds and an exciting one for those familiar with their prior work.
Last year they released their debut album Bi Cinnete Bakar, a 70-minute epic journey of head-bopping soundscapes. Our Song of the Day “Yalniz Olu Baliklar Akintiyi Takip Eder” was originally released in 2019 on the split 7” Isyanlar. One of the most psych-infused tracks on the record, the band amps the fuzz up to 11 with an explosive meandering guitar line that cools to let Şimşek recite his spoken word lyrics only to burst again when he steps off the mic. It’s a dynamic thrill ride that’s only a small portion of what Lalalar excels at. bit.ly
The Chemical Brothers will perform at WAMU Theater on April 18! The English duo formed in 1989 and released this new single just last week. bit.ly
The song is the first taste of new music from the duo since their two-track 2021 EP, The Darkness That You Fear. Since then, the only music released by The Chemical Brothers was in 2022 when they released a four-track EP of remastered versions of tracks from 1996.
The single was mastered in Dolby Atmos at Abbey Road Studios in London by Giles Martin, a producer best known for his work with The Beatles. The use of Dolby Atmos technology offers an immersive three-dimensional listening experience that enhances the song’s overall impact. bit.ly
The band have often asserted, "Where we are from it is always Halloween."
While the song inverts sensuous imagery into a vision of future collapse of cultural memory, the visual infuses these themes into a beautifully chilling setting. It’s a choreographed musical thriller inspired by cult favorites Roeg and Argento, shot in the brutalist mansion of architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha.
The band haunts the set that surrounds lead actress Bianca Comparato, the star of the Netflix science fiction drama 3%, who brings her supernatural acting skills to the forefront as she plays a photographer entranced and drawn in by a mysterious force.
Bianca comments, "I’m such a fan of Ladytron – I was lucky enough to be in the music video…the whole experience was a dream come true." bit.ly
Catch the haunting video here: bit.ly
The final single from New Order's 1985 studio album, Low-Life, which marked the band's transformation from post-punk hold-overs to dance-rockers.
The single release, remixed by John Robie, is a drastic departure from the album version of the track. Robie's 12" and 7" single mixes feature more club-oriented, electronic instrumentation and prominent soulful female backing vocals.
"Sub-culture" has only a regular black sleeve, as graphic designer Peter Saville reportedly deemed the mix of the song unworthy of his talents. Saville's input was present only in a P/S/A (Peter Saville Associates) credit for typography. However this rumour was debunked in 2017 when Saville stated, "I never had the authority to say that there shouldn't be a sleeve. No, all I can presume is that one was not asked for." bit.ly
Alison Goldfrapp has announced new solo album, The Love Invention, which will be out May 12 via Skint. On it she worked with producers Richard X (Sugababes, Pet Shop Boys, Saint Etienne), James Greenwood (Daniel Avery, Kelly Lee Owens), Toby Scott (The Gossip, Annie) and others. Check out the album art and tracklist below.
The album includes Claptone collab "Digging Deeper" and the Paul Woolford collab "Fever," and she's just shared "So Hard So Hot," a pop/house track which was made with Greenwood.
"I wanted to do something that had that very clubby, acid-y feeling to it," says Alison. "But I wanted lightness to come out of the chorus – there’s tension there, as well as euphoric freedom." bit.ly
Good Luck comes out on Sup Pop March 24th from the Nigerian-born, Canada-based artist Debby Friday's debut album.
Catch the video for "So Hard To Tell" here: youtu.be
Debby Friday will play Barboza on Thursday, April 13th. More tour dates, music, and info: debbyfriday.com
Playing Bumbershoot 2023 this upcoming Labour Day!
The second track on Cease to Begin. “LRC” stands for “Little Red Caboose,” a place Bridwell stayed.
He reveals, "I found these journal books that had documented people staying in there for maybe 20, 25 years or something like that of people coming to this caboose and going through personal hardships and why they came to the caboose. It’s almost like a pilgrimage that some people took with this place.
"[Some] would come multiple times to just get out in nature or some of them had been going through hard times in their life, whether it was people with diseases who were dying or families breaking up and shit like that. I got a personal glimpse into what these people were going through while they stayed at this Little Red Caboose." bit.ly
Playing Bumbershoot 2023 this upcoming Labour Day!
Long Dark Moon is a project spearheaded by singer/guitarist/songwriter Aaron Starkey of Seattle rock band Gibraltar.
He shares, "My upbringing was in Central Illinois, about an hour and half north of where the Uncle Tupelo guys grew up (I saw them numerous times in college when they’d play through on their way to/from Chicago to Belleville). Growing up in that area meant that there was an omnipresent musical atmosphere of classic rock and country…you just couldn’t escape it. Long story short, they became one of my favorite bands.
"Fast forward many years to 2012 and I decided to put on a benefit for MusiCares, as I was a PNW chapter Grammy board governor at the time, and for a theme, i wanted to play the songs of Uncle Tupelo.. and I put a band together of friends to play a few UT songs (and invited a bunch of other bands to play as well). Well, I ended up doing this 5 years in a row and the band solidified over that time into what became Long Dark Moon."
Playing Bumbershoot 2023 this upcoming Labour Day!
Temples will release a new fourth album, Exotico, on April 14. The single "Cicada" is produced by Sean Ono Lennon.
Discussing this track, the band’s Thomas Walmsley said, "'Cicada' came from being inspired by the sound of cicadas, and the idea of emerging from the underground after a long time of being suppressed.
“We were attempting to turn that sound into a sort of dance rhythm, and once we started working with Sean we really built up the production by digging into his cupboard of keyboards and synths."
Singer/guitarist James Bagshaw added: "You never really see cicadas, but you can imagine them having a frantic life, and to me that song feels like a huge army of them whipped into a frenzy."
During promotion for the record, Robert Smith stated that it was inspired by the albums Kaleidoscope by Siouxsie and the Banshees and Dare by the Human League. Smith wanted the album to be eclectic with different styles and moods: "It reminds me of the Kaleidoscope album, the idea of having lots of different sounding things, different colours."
This album marks the return of Simon Gallup in the group; he had performed and composed with Robert Smith and Lol Tolhurst on the dark trilogy Seventeen Seconds, Faith and Pornography. Guitarist Porl Thompson, who had played guitar during the very early days of the band, and also played keyboards and saxophone during The Top tour, became an official member. Drummer Boris Williams, who had previously worked with Thompson Twins, finally joined the ensemble after playing with the band during the US leg of the 1984 tour. bit.ly
Co-written with Berninger’s wife Carin Besser, writer, film producer, and former fiction editor at The New Yorker, "Tropic Morning News" takes its title from a phrase Besser invented to describe the regrettably routine practice of doom-scrolling.
"The idea of referring to the darkness of the news in such a light way unlocked something in me," says Berninger. "It became a song about having a hard time expressing yourself, and trying to connect with someone when the noise of the world is drowning out any potential for conversation." bit.ly
See them at Marymoor Park on Sunday, June 4th! bit.ly
Harriette Pilbeam, aka Hatchie, shares, "I wrote, recorded and mixed Giving The World Away with Joe [Agius] and Jorge [Elbrecht] in 2020, with Joe and I recording in Brisbane and Jorge mixing in Denver. We wrapped everything up in December, with plans to release in April 2022. In the meantime, the three of us were finally all able to get back in a room together in 2021, with no specific plans for the outcome.
"After five intense writing days in the bitter Denver winter, we ended up with about 12 new ideas, some of which we felt fit perfectly into the world of the long-finished album. It was too late to make any additions at that stage, but we felt it would be a shame for them to not be included in the release. To me, these songs round out the world this album established, with my original intention being to make a more uplifting, energetic record than my first." bit.ly
The second single from the upcoming Arlo Parks album! Parks shares how this is "a song about community… being around people who make you feel like your inner ugliness and failures and mistakes don’t matter, who lift you up and make you laugh, who make you feel good and clean."
Check out the video here: bit.ly
Larry Mizell, Jr hosted Arlo Parks Live in the KEXP Studio in March last year: bit.ly
"'Borrow Trouble' caused some trouble in trying to finish the recording," Feist reveals.
"It began as a contemplative acoustic morality tale and shape shifted itself into the sound of trouble itself. It's a mess that holds its own logic. It's the convincing cacophony that thoughts can be."
She explains Multitudes was written after the birth of her daughter and the death of her father, the songs taking shape while on tour between 2021 and 2022. ab.co
This album, which was released in vinyl this day last year, is dedicated to the memory of Daníel Hjálmtýsson's friend, the late great Mark Lanegan. bit.ly
Iceland's Hjálmtýsson has been making sounds from early childhood, garnering acclaim for his mature approach to melody and harmony. Fronting garage bands and singing in children´s choirs along with studying music, Daníel grew into liking all kinds of different musical genres as a kid, making demos in his room and studying all different aspects of music. He quickly grew out of wanting to classically study instruments and began getting to know them on his own, often escaping cruel and harsh circumstances in his day to day and finding security and warmth in music. bit.ly
Released on this day in 1991, making this album... gulp... 31 years old.
Guitarist Stone Gossard wrote the music for the song, which he titled "Dollar Short," in 1990 when he was still a member of Mother Love Bone.
After MLB's Andrew Wood died of a heroin overdose, Gossard and his bandmate Jeff Ament started playing with guitarist Mike McCready with the hope of starting a new band. "Dollar Short" was one of five tracks compiled onto a tape called Stone Gossard Demos '91 that the remaining members circulated in hopes of finding a singer and drummer for the group.
The tape made its way into the hands of vocalist Eddie Vedder, who was working as a security guard for a petroleum company in San Diego, California, at the time. He listened to the tape shortly before going surfing, where lyrics came to him. "Alive" was the first song for which Vedder recorded vocals.
Vedder mailed the tape back to Seattle. Upon hearing the tape, the band invited Vedder to come to Seattle and he was asked to join the band. bit.ly
Squid's new album, Monolith, will be released June 9.
The lyrics for this song are based on a dream Ollie Judge had about classic Rococo painting "The Swing" by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. "In my dream, I was in the painting but it was flooded and everything was floating away," he says.
The video includes a basketball court, a deer, and a Zamboni: bit.ly
From Yaeji's highly-anticipated debut full-length album, With a Hammer, which will be released April 7. The self-directed video for her new song “Done (Let’s Get It)” was shot in Seoul, South Korea, earlier this year, and features the artist and her grandfather dressed as bunny dogs. bit.ly
"With A Hammer” was composed across a two-year period in New York, Seoul, and London, begun shortly after the release of “What We Drew” and during the lockdowns of the Coronavirus pandemic. It is a diaristic ode to self-exploration; the feeling of confronting one’s own emotions, and the transformation that is possible when we’re brave enough to do so. In this case, Yaeji examines her relationship to anger.
Yaeji also utilizes live instrumentation for the first time on this album—weaving in a patchwork ensemble of live musicians, and incorporating her own guitar playing. Yaeji will perform in Seattle on April 8: hhttps://bit.ly/3mp1qIs
Reeling is Say She She’s latest emboldened declaration to fight dystopia.
Written as an incantation from Mother Earth to the masses to join the rising against the calamitous forces of unfettered capitalism that has left our seas and skies grappling. bit.ly
Larry hosted Larry the Brooklyn trio's smashing in-studio performance in the KEXP Live Room last November: bit.ly
Celebrating 50 Years of Hip Hop this year, with a spotlight this week on the year 2000.
Andre said how his relationship with singer Erykah Badu influenced his verse.
"'Ms. Jackson' came from just wondering - after a relationship kinda goes to the left - about a parent of a girl who has a child, like, how does she feel about the situation? And that's what birthed that song... But it's like my whole situation - me and Erykah, what we went through." Read more about the song and Badu on NME: bit.ly
Celebrating 50 Years of Hip Hop this year, with a spotlight this week on the year 2000.
Zion I was an American hip hop project founded by MC and producer Baba Zumbi (real name Stephen Gaines) in Oakland, California. K-Genius and Amp Live were also project members.
On August 13, 2021, Zumbi died at the age of 49 of unknown causes after being hospitalized with COVID-19. On August 20, 2021, the Gaines family announced that they hired attorneys to investigate what they believed was a suspicious death at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center. bit.ly
Jon Azpiri of AllMusic writes, "This Bay Area trio's debut album is a loaded 22-track effort that dares you to try and classify it. Influenced equally by hip-hop and various forms of electronica, Zion I offers listeners a collage of new sounds mixed with ancient spiritualism." bit.ly
Before joining the band, led by Blur‘s Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett, Stevie Nicks said that she had "one demand" before recording with them, which was to get turned into one of their animated caricatures.
"I want to be a Gorilla, and I want to have big, false eyelashes, and I want to have blonde hair," joked Nicks in an interview. "And so they’re doing it as we speak."
The song is featured on the Gorillaz’ eighth album, Cracker Island, and Nicks is one of a number of special guests on the release, along with Tame Impala and Bootie Brown on "New Gold," Beck on "Possession Island," Bad Bunny on "Tormenta," and Thundercat on the title track. bit.ly
The Gorillaz x Smith track music video sees the Jamie Hewlett animated band take an interstellar trip through space and time, guided by the familiar voice of Robert Smith, who appears as the man in the moon and a God-like android against a technicolour backdrop.
"We did this tune with Robert completely by email," Damon Albarn explained in an interview on BBC Radio 6 Music.
Smith added: "I loved it! I thought it was excellent. I felt ripples in the force and I thought, 'I better get this done'." bit.ly
Catch the video here: bit.ly
The Cure are currently working on the follow-up to their 2008 album 4:13 Dream.
The band's keyboard player Roger O'Donnell revealed he and frontman Robert Smith didn't want to release another album unless it lived up to their high expectations.
He told Classic Pop magazine recently, "Four years ago, I said to Robert, 'We have to make one more record. It has to be the most intense, saddest, most dramatic and most emotional record we've ever made, and then we can just walk away from it.' He agreed. Listening to the demos, it is that record. I think everybody will be happy with it.
"The problem is, it's 12 years since the last album so it becomes precious. When you've got a back catalogue like The Cure, it's a lot to live up to. Robert has said, 'If The Cure say any more, it had better be important and it had better be f***ing good'. It is, it's going to be an amazing record. I just suggest a little patience." bit.ly
The Record is the upcoming debut studio album by American indie rock supergroup Boygenius, composed of Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus.
After releasing their debut self-titled EP Boygenius in 2018, the trio had since been working on their solo projects and had all released their respective albums — Little Oblivions by Julien Baker, Punisher by Phoebe Bridgers, and Home Video by Lucy Dacus — before performing as a group for the first time in 3 years on November 19, 2021.
On March 1, 2023, Boygenius released the album's fourth single "Not Strong Enough", along with an accompanying music video edited by Bridgers' brother Jackson Bridgers. bit.ly