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Tuesday, Oct 30 2018, 2PM
November 5th, 2018 would have been Charles Bradley’s 70th birthday. In celebration of his extraordinary life, Daptone imprint Dunham Records is proud to release his fourth and final album, Black Velvet. Pre-order here: bit.ly
"I was sent to a school for bad boys called Oakley Training School in 1949. There I developed my voice by singing with a group that the superintendent's wife had got together ... Then I heard a singer whose name was Sam Cooke. His voice did something to me." - Ted Hawkins
Come see Mitski LIVE on KEXP tomorrow at 1:30pm! Free and open to the public.
Punk pioneer, singer, songwriter, recording artist, activist, musical and political inspiration for a generation Joe Strummer was the most charismatic and passionate front man to emerge from the punk explosion of the late seventies. After Joe’s untimely death in December 2002 it was discovered that he had been quite an archivist of his own work, having barns full of writings and tapes stored in his back garden. There are now over 20,000 items in the Joe Strummer Archive. The archiving of this material and compiling of ‘Joe Strummer 001’ was overseen by Joe’s widow Lucinda Tait and compilation producer Robert Gordon McHarg III.
Check out Juliana Hatfield's KEXP session from 2015: bit.ly
Featuring KO Nikkita. Purchase the album here: bit.ly
Empress Of will tour North America next spring. Catch her March 5th at the Crocodile!
Speaking to GQ, Chris said, “[Men] can be sexual, flawed, and incredibly charismatic. Complexity and intricacy is reserved to men. Women must make it unthreatening, simplified. I wish I could be Nick Cave or Mick Jagger.”
Watch Jenn and her gang in a queer dance-off: www.youtube.com
Chrome Sparks (aka Jeremy Malvin) knows how to make his tracks shine. His eponymous debut album, released on Counter Records (a Ninja Tune imprint), boasts a sparkling sound: a euphony of hip-hop, house and bright-beaming synthwork.
Norma, on her upcoming debut album, “It’s a journey through feminine desire and the struggle for self-acceptance. It’s about vulnerability, power, fantasy – about breaking down and rising up as a Woman”.
In November 2011, Stranger Than Fiction was ranked number one on Guitar World magazine's top ten list of guitar albums of 1994.
"Alongside the rhythmic synchronization of guitar and drums, introspective lyrics suggest that literature and spoken word are just as important influences as the Punk, Noise and Rock genres they might comfortably fit into."
"Keeping Up With Miss World" is a raw, 13 track power-pop, garage-party movie scene that plays out like a thumb numbing Instagram scroll fest.
The Queen biopic 'Bohemian Rhapsody' hits US theaters this Friday.
Shad is a Canadian rapper with four solo albums under his belt, one R&B side-project, a Master’s degree and numerous accolades. On October 26, 2018, he released his highly-anticipated concept album entitled 'A Short Story About A War.'
Paying tribute to Jam Master Jay. In 1982, Jay hooked up with Joseph "Run" Simmons and Darryl "D.M.C." McDaniels, just after they graduated from high school, and agreed to DJ for them because he wanted to be part of the band.
Playing the Highline Performing Arts Center in Burien tomorrow night! // “Having this identity—radical indigenous queer feminist—keeps me going. My music and my identity come from the same foundation of being a Native woman.”
Richard Swift believed in and sought real beauty. And so, even at its most caustic and sardonic, his masterpiece swan song The Hex is beautiful. Conceived in pieces over the last several years and completed just the month before his passing, The Hex is the grand statement Swift acolytes have been a-wishin-and-a-hopin' for all these years.
You could call Tús Nua’s raw-yet-ethereal music noisy shoegaze, but dirty post-rock might be even better. “Fight!,” from the Zagreb, Croatia trio’s 2017 self-released debut album Horizons, ticks all the boxes for a thundering, Mogwai-style post-rock epic, but there’s a hint of sludgy metal in the dialogue between Jordi Ilić and Jelena Božić’s guitars.
On October 30, 1971, Pink Floyd released their sixth studio album, Meddle.
The band worked on the album in between tour dates between January and August 1971, and it was recorded at a series of locations around London, including Abbey Road and Morgan studios.
The album is considered to be a transitional period between the Syd Barrett-influenced group of the late 1960s to the new, emerging Pink Floyd that was developing.
Texas’ genre-bending rock ‘n’ roller Israel Nash presents his latest long play, Lifted. It is a modern day hippie-spiritual, a tonic for those needing to put aside the mess of the daily grind.
With luscious beds of strings, horns and well adorned towering walls of sound, Lifted finds Nash continuing his tradition of creating a sonic experience of feeling that is at once both vast and intimate - soaring and untamed at times, placid and sincerely personal at others.
2012–2017 is the third studio album by American electronic music artist Nicolas Jaar, under the moniker A.A.L. (Against All Logic). The album, a collection of tracks produced by Jaar in the period between 2012 and 2017, was released with little warning, and does not feature Jaar's name on the cover.
Jimmy Urine spent 20 years recording with industrial techno-punks Mindless Self Indulgence. This is his first solo album under the name Euringer.
“Almost four years ago, I made plans for an extended break,” Mould explains. “I started spending time in Berlin in 2015, found an apartment in 2016, and became a resident in 2017. My time in Berlin has been a life-changing experience. The winter days are long and dark, but when the sun comes back, all spirits lift.”
Foolish was completed shortly after Ballance and the band's guitarist and lead singer, Mac McCaughan, had broken up. While Ballance rates the album as her third favorite in the band's catalog, she stated that, "....touring for Foolish was so hard. Listening to those words every night and feeling so mute. I didn't get to say anything, and here he was saying everything. I would be up there jumping up and down with tears streaming down my face."
Parquet Courts performed this song LIVE on KEXP earlier this year: www.youtube.com
Check out the video for this track, featuring Danny Nedelko himself: bit.ly
Playing the Showbox on November 6th with Iceage and Surfbort!
'You Say I'm Too Much, I Say You're Not Enough' is the debut album from Welsh trio Estrons. The LP is raucous, explosive, anthemic, and unrelenting in its sonic fury. There is barely a single moment of reprieve nor even a slight pause to catch one’s breath. Every track features propulsive rhythms, searing guitar riffs, and the piercing vocals and even more biting lyricism of front woman Taliesyn Källström.
Make sure to F*CKING VOTE in the midterm elections! Washington makes voting easy. All you have to do is read the pamphlet, fill out the ballot, and stick it in the mailbox. Our democracy is at stake and we have the power to VOTE 'EM OUT!
The perfect track to listen to while filling out your ballot... Please, F*CKING VOTE!
Nigeria. The unofficial Wo' Pop anthem from Sir Victor: Musician, sculptor, community leader and the inventor of the double-necked guitar.