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"Fashion" was originally written as a funk/reggae song called "Jamaica."
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Title track from the London trio's new album, out Oct. 6:
vanishingtwinmusic.bandcamp.com
Joy Division released "Closer" on this day in 1980. It was released two months after the death of the band's lead singer and lyricist, Ian Curtis. The album reached No. 6 on the UK Albums Chart and was named NME Album of the Year.
Vagabon will play an all-ages show at Madame Lou's on Friday, Dec. 8.
vagabonvagabon.com
Laetitia Tamko's (Vagabon) new album was co-produced with Rostam Batmanglij. “This whole record is how I talk to my friends and how to talk to my lovers,” Tamko says. “I think honesty and conversational songwriting can become poetry. There’s beauty in plainly speaking without metaphors and without flowery imagery.”
Yaeji will play Aug. 12 at Day In Day Out Festival.
www.dayindayoutfest.com
Martin Gore told Bravo magazine in 1987 that "…the song has nothing to do with relationships. It's about the concept of fleeing from reality and the evil awakening afterwards. Any kind of fleeing. Drugs, alcohol, or whatever."
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Here's a long essay about how this song was made: www.musicradar.com
Golden Features says "Yield" is "about release; your inner voice pleading with you to just shut off and let go. It saw multiple versions all of which I was chasing the feeling of being completely out of control, spiraling into a black hole only to surrender to the chaos and find yourself floating."
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This song from Mexico-based artist Pahua was KEXP's Song of the Day yesterday.
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KEXP presents Pahua on Friday, July 21, as part of our El Sonido Live concert at Seattle Center, presented in partnership with the Consulate of Mexico in Seattle, BIME, LAMC, and Chilemusica. kexp.org
Avalon Emerson was a software developer in San Francisco before becoming a DJ. She left San Francisco for Berlin after being disillusioned with the start-up culture, and now does cool high-tech DJ stuff: xlr8r.com
"& the Charm" is her debut album.
The Postal Service will play with Death Cab for Cutie at Climate Pledge Arena on Oct. 6 and Oct. 7.
postalservicemusic.net
James Blake's new album, "Playing Robots Into Heaven," is due out Sept. 8! Watch the music video: www.youtube.com
You can watch a Live on KEXP performance from April 2013 hosted by DJ Cheryl Waters: youtu.be
Enter to win airfare, hotel stay and passes for two to the Iceland Airwaves festival in Reykjavík, November 2-4, featuring artists like Andy Shauf, Yard Act, Bombay Bicycle Club, Axel Flovent, Blondshell, and more:
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Sun Coming Down was voted as one of the top KEXP listeners' albums in 2015, coming in at #44. Catch a live performance of their in-studio session, including "Beautiful Blue Sky" - www.kexp.org
Playing Thing! Festival in Port Townsend on August 26.
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“‘First Place’ used to be very different and I hated it," said Chris Farren. "But Melina (Jay Som) said it was too good to not put on the record, so I figured out everything I hated about it (the old lyrics, mostly) and we changed it to the beautiful single you hear today. My friend Jeff Rosenstock plays saxophone on it.”
www.polyvinylrecords.com
Paul Weller (of the Jam and the Style Council) performed live at KEXP in 2015: blog.kexp.org
Blur have reached their first Billboard Top 10 since 1997 with "The Narcissist," reaching No. 8 on Adult Alternative Airplay.
The band worked with producer James Ford (Depeche Mode, as well as Albarn’s Gorillaz) on the album in London and Devon, U.K.
"Ting Mong" is Dengue Fever's sixth full-length studio album. In Khmer folklore, a Ting Mong is a decoy or mannequin, similar to a scarecrow, used to fight away evil spirits and plagues.
denguefever.bandcamp.com
Emily Fox spoke to Donald "DJ" Johnson and Laura Lee about how Khruangbin brings together influences from around the world. Check it out after the show: www.kexp.org
“Somehow, we wrote six songs in two days,” says drummer Brian Profilio on the band's new EP. “Tom (the guitarist) was able to take what we were doing and put it together in a cohesive manner.”
glidemagazine.com
The Budos Band play the THING Festival at Fort Worden in Port Townsend, WA on Friday, August 25.
thebudos.com
Troy Nelson hosted the Budos Band live at KEXP in 2019: youtu.be
Text "Pickathon" to 206-903-5397 for a chance to win tickets to Pickathon in Happy Valley, OR, Aug. 3-6.
Wednesday will play Aug. 5-6 at Pickathon.
pickathon.com
Palehound plays Madam Lou's on Monday, November 6! www.ticketweb.com
"The ending of a relationship that spanned the majority of my twenties illuminated a forked road that daunted me," El Kempner shares of "Independence Day."
"In the aftermath of our breakup, I found myself dwelling on what that other life would have been like and who I would have become had we chosen differently, or even if circumstance or tragedy had chosen for us." www.stereogum.com
Slovakian artist Nina Kohout lands her second KEXP Song of the Day pick with this powerful synth-pop single. Having now graduated from the BRIT School in London, she has been playing live around Europe, with more dates planned for the fall.
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Shout out to listener Alan and his best friend, Gary, who is celebrating his 46th birthday today.
"Crux" is Cameron Mesirow's first new studio album since 2013's "Interiors". It will be released October 6, 2023. pitchfork.com
Mesirow performed live at KEXP in 2013: www.youtube.com
PinkPantheress will perform at Capitol Hill Block Party on Sunday, July 23.
www.capitolhillblockparty.com
DJ Koze's new EP is the result of a stay at a Benedictine monastery on the island of Sulawesi.
djkoze.bandcamp.com
"Closer" was released on this day in 1980.
“I shouldn’t say it because I was in the band, but I love this album," said Peter Hook about "Closer." "Even though much of the music is very melancholic, fragile and intense, every song is confident.”
On this day in 1991, the first Lollapalooza tour launched at the Compton Terrace in Phoenix.
Siouxsie and the Banshees were also part of the inaugural Lollapalooza lineup.
At the first Lollapalooza concert, NIN thrashed their equipment after enduring continual technical difficulties.
"We couldn't play because one of the power boxes had melted, and every time the low end of the PA would rumble, it would jiggle the cord and all power onstage would just shut off and turn back on. If you have a sampler, that means you're down for a minute. And if you have a tape deck, ahem, that means it stops. ... So this started happening, and: 'Hello, does anybody know what's going on?' A voice from backstage: 'No, but I think it's working now.' Turn to the crowd: 'OK, hey, we suck, so here's the next song.' And 10 seconds into it, every time he hit the kick drum, there it went. Turn back around: 'This is the biggest show we've ever played, does anyone know what the f--- is wrong?' Voice from backstage: 'We think we have it!' Turn to the crowd: 'OK, one more time,' and ... "
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Living Colour received some criticism for their musicianship at Lollapalooza in 1991. "Vernon Reid (guitar) was accused of playing too many riffs and of not keeping a steady chord progression for any length of time, and Will Calhoun (drums) was more interested in showing off by playing fills instead of keeping a beat."
newspaperarchives.vassar.edu
Malkit Singh, MBE is an England-based Punjabi bhangra singer. Born in Hussainpur and raised in Nakodar, he moved to Birmingham in 1984. Singh was the first Punjabi singer to be honoured with an MBE by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace.