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Tuesday, Aug 28 2018, 2PM
A sizzling instrumental band off of the Daptone label, The Budos Band call their blend of music "70s Psychedelic Instrumental Music"
The third studio album from French-Algerian singer and activist Rachid Taha!
You can hear Still Corners when they play The Sunset Tavern on Monday, November 5th, 2018.
The song includes these lyrics: “My friend he took his final breath. Now I know the perfect kiss is the kiss of death.” "It’s in this unsuspecting single that you find every facet of New Order rolled into a sprawling mini-suite that doubles as one of the best dance tracks of all time: what starts out like a lighthearted love song (the chorus goes: “I know, you know, we believe in a land of love”) turns into a brooding meditation on death." Read more about this and nine other great New Order songs: www.stereogum.com
“Beast In The Garden” is strewn with references to the post-exilic Garden Of Eden, with Zac Little imagining a paradise where liquor is a bit less bitter and the guard dogs lick instead of bite. “Beast in the Garden/ Be still guarding the gate,” he sings. “Ah lonely angel/ Waver of burning blade.” Go hear Saintseneca sing this song at The Sunset Tavern on Friday, October 19th, 2018.
"I have no idea how this happens...
All of my maps have been overthrown..." Read the cryptic and confessional lyrics to "You Are My Face": genius.com
"A Philosopher Asks: What Does The Weeknd Mean When He Says He Can't Feel His Face?" Read this essay by a tormented philosophy graduate student: noisey.vice.com
You can hear this Portland artist at Seattle's St. Mark's Cathedral on Saturday, November 3rd, 2018.
Watch John Vanderslice perform this song live on KEXP during a Bay Area broadcast nine years ago: www.youtube.com
Ghettoblaster reported Lance Alton Troxel, who directed the video, said of the concept, “Part variety show number, part conspiracy video, ‘Percy Faith’ riffs on Jurado’s incisive take on nostalgia, media, modernity, and our own meaning and place in all of it.”:www.youtube.com
You can follow Blue Scholars at their official website: bluescholars.com
Moses Sumney is performing at this year's Bumbershoot Music and Arts Festival on Friday, August 31st, 2018.
Breathe Panel is a Brighton-based four-piece band. Read more about their self-titled debut album on their Facebook page: www.facebook.com
Here's the video for "Do What You Wanna Do": www.youtube.com
Read a glowing review of this "immaculate album": neumu.net
This is a cover of “Houses”, originally by Elyse Weinberg, folk songwriter of the ’60s Laurel Canyon scene.“Houses” in particular dates back to the late ’60s and features Neil Young on guitar and production from Crazy Horse associate David Briggs. It appears on Weinberg’s sophomore album, Greasepaint Smile, which was only unearthed and finally properly released by Numero Group in 2015.
The British production duo Disclosure announced last year that they were taking a little break from music to rejuvenate and regroup, getting out of the studio and off the road.But it looks like they’re back at it in full swing. This new single, "Moonlight,"samples Swedish acapella group The Real Group’s cover of the classic ‘When I Fall In Love."
Now, Now, formerly known as Now, Now Every Children, is an American indie rock duo formed in Blaine, Minnesota, United States, and based in Minneapolis. The band is composed of Cacie Dalager and Bradley Hale.: www.youtube.com
Enjoy a review of Pixx' "The Age of Anxiety": diymag.com
Oh, my, this live performance in KEXP's Gathering space was terrific!: www.youtube.com
Watch Florence Welch in an extraordinary performance live on The Afternoon show in 2010: www.youtube.com She'll be at KeyArena, along with St. Vincent and Lizzo, on Monday, September 10th, 2018.
Bjork's "Vespertine" was released on this date in 2001. Watch the highly controversial video for Bjork's "Pagan Poetry": www.youtube.com
They describe themselves as: "Four arms, four legs, two heads, wood, metal and plastic. A band of two Johns from Crystal Palace, London, UK." You can purchase this album at JOHN's Bandcamp page: johntimestwo.bandcamp.com
Today is the birthday of Hugh Cornwell, singer-songwriter and guitarist of The Stranglers. He was born in 1949. That makes him...hmmm..69 years old.
Watch this live performance of "Headache" from the KEXP studio in 2012 ( and don't let it give you a headache):www.youtube.com
Stereogum says of “Every Night You’ve Got To Save Me”: “A jaunty pop track with shades of Dexy’s Midnight Runners, the New Pornographers, and the Shins. The song is incredibly winsome on its own, and the effect is only amplified by director Addison Post’s video, which features Heroux and Zambri chilling in NYC locales ranging from bar to sidewalk to bathtub.:www.youtube.com
Ms. Sza is part of the stellar lineup for this year's Bumbershoot Music and Arts Festival, Friday, August 31st through Sunday, September 2nd, 2018. She'll perform on Sunday: www.bumbershoot.com
Learn more about "Seattle’s premiere triple hyphenate—singer-songwriter-producer—": www.parisalexamusic.com
The title '3WW' stands for "3 worn words," those three words being "I love you." The abstract story features three singers singing about three different characters. Gus Unger-Hamilton croons from a "wayward lad's" point of view, Joe Newman takes a third party's perspective and Wolf Alice's Ellie Roswell represents two girls with whom Unger-Hamilton has an amorous encounter. Joe Newman says, "With '3WW', that's the story of a young man who travels the country and spends a night with these girls by the campfire. And they send him a note saying, 'We may have said last night that we loved you, but that's not necessarily true."
This is a reinterpretation of "3WW," featuring Little Simz. The whole album, "Reduxer," is a reinterpretation of songs from "Relaxer," featuring hip-hop artists and producers.
Kikagaku Moyo are a Japanese psychedelic band from Tokyo. The band's name translates to "geometric patterns."The band was formed by Go Kurosawa (drums/vocals) and Tomo Katsurada (guitar/vocals) in the summer of 2012. A more permanent lineup was reached when Daoud (guitar) joined and they met Kotsu Guy (bass) while he was recording vending machines for his noise project. Go's brother Ryu (Sitar) joined upon returning to Tokyo after studying Sitar in Kolkata, India under the prestigious Manilal Nag.
J Masis will play The Tractor Tavern on Friday, November 9th, 2018. His new album, "Elastic Days," will be released that day.: www.clashmusic.com
"On their first album in half a decade, Steve Hartlett and his reunited band of fuzz-rockers turn up both the overdrive and the emotion, fortifying tender songs with muscular squall." Read a very positive review of "Tru": pitchfork.com
Here's "Strawberries" live from the Bowery Ballroom in 2009: www.youtube.com
Watch a full live performance by Cloud Nothings in the KEXP studio last year: www.youtube.com
Grant Hart, Husker Du drummer and singer, died last year at age 56: www.nytimes.com
Ever So Android had release party for "Castles' at The Crocodile last Saturday, August 25th, 2018.: www.eversoandroid.com
Christine and the Queens is Héloïse Letissier, a French singer, songwriter and producer. Her group plays The Showbox SoDo on Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018.
Skylar Spence is a project of Ryan DeRobertis. DeRobertis is an American electronic musician and singer who grew up in Farmingville, New York and attended Boston College for two years studying music. His electronic music project Saint Pepsi began in December 2012.
Devo's debut album was released on this date in 1978.: www.cleveland.com
It's an uncontrollable urge!! Car Seat Headrest (and Naked Giants) covered Devo in a fabulous live performance at KEXP in April. Watch the full performance here: www.youtube.com
The Cardigans were formed when two heavy metal fanatics got together in Jonkoping, Sweden in October, 1992. Learn more about this group: www.allmusic.com
"Our Girl, hailing from Brighton, UK, recently released a new song with a new sound. Singer Soph Nathan has said that she was a little nervous to release this song into the open because it has a distinctly different feeling from their previous songs. They’d never had a song that looks at love in quite this light. It’s hard to admit that “I really like you,” over and over again, in a calm but deeply sincere and simple chorus. The honesty in the lyrics, though, is what makes this song so capable of crawling inside of you.": www.thewildhoneypie.com
Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On' was released on this date in 1973. In 1983, at the NBA All Star Game, he sang "The Star Spangled Banner." Commentators said that it was the first time they wanted to take their clothes off during The National Anthem.: www.youtube.com
Blood Orange (founded in 2009) is the indie-rock, R&B and new wave soul project of eccentric musician Devonte “Dev” Hynes, hailing from London, England. You can hear him at The Moore Theatre on Saturday, September 15th, 2018.
"Seven billion souls that move around the sun..
Growin' fast and fast and not a chance to slow down..
Slow down..." Here are the lyrics to this summery single: www.lyricsmode.com
Hailing from the small farming village of Shaharut in Southern Israel, A-Wa (pronounced ay-wah) consists of a trio of sisters whose melding of ancient Yemenite songs with hip-hop, reggae, and electronic dance music has resulted in a sophisticated and utterly unique sound.
Here's Bob Marley & The Wailers, performing this song live in 1980: www.youtube.com
French/Spanish musician who got his start busking on the streets of Paris. He sings in French, Spanish, English, Italian, Arabic, Catalan, Galician, Portuguese -- and sometimes even other languages!