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July 13 Polyrhythmics at Timber! Outdoor Music Festival www.timbermusicfest.com
"Call the Police" is a song by American rock band LCD Soundsystem. It was released together with "American Dream" as a digital double A-side single on May 5, 2017, through DFA Records and Columbia Records, as the lead single from their fourth studio album, American Dream.
Karly-Marina Loaiza, known professionally as Kali Uchis, is a Colombian-American singer and songwriter. She debuted in the music industry with her 2012 mixtape, Drunken Babble, which was described as "genre-defying".
Gang Gang Dance is an American experimental music band based in Manhattan, New York City. The band is known for its distinctive sound which features synthesized electronics and percussion, plus the varied vocal styles of singer Lizzi Bougatsos.
In the 3rd song off of Radiohead’s experimental album “Kid A” lead singer Thom Yorke sings of fear and loneliness while using voice distortion and a feedback echo to create a sense of isolation and fear.
Maribou State are an English electronic music duo consisting of Chris Davids and Liam Ivory. They have released a handful of EPs and an album, Portraits. Besides their own material, the two producers have also done remixes for the likes of Alpines and Lana Del Rey. The duo perform internationally and are signed to Counter Records, an imprint of UK independent label Ninja Tune.
Oh Sees are an American rock band from San Francisco, California, formed in 1997. In The Shadow Of Giants Release Date May 15, 2009 via SuB Pop Records. Catalog No SP849.
Meat Is Murder is the second studio album by English rock band the Smiths. It was released by Rough Trade Records and became the band's sole number one album in the UK charts during the band's lifetime, staying on the chart for thirteen weeks.
Melody’s Echo Chamber is the psychedelic pop project of Melody Prochet, a singer and songwriter hailing from Puyricard, France. The project debuted after Prochet collaborated with Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker in 2011, and their critically acclaimed debut album came out in 2012.
Young Fathers are a band based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Kayus Bankole from Young Fathers was born in Edinburgh to Nigerian parents. He spent several years living in Maryland and Nigeria before moving back to the city of his birth, in his teens. Alloysious Massaquoi was born in Liberia and moved to Edinburgh at the age of four, where he attended Boroughmuir High School.
Manu Chao is a French-born musician of Spanish origin. He sings in French, Spanish, English, Italian, Arabic, Catalan, Galician, Portuguese and occasionally in other languages.
June 27th Robert Plant & The Sensational Space Shifters with special guests Lucinda Williams, Seth Lakeman at King County's Marymoor Park.
Spiritualized are an English space rock band formed in 1990 in Rugby, Warwickshire by Jason Pierce, formerly of Spacemen 3.
Brian Wilson (born June 20, 1942 – age 76) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer.
Wilson grew up in Inglewood, California, and his father said that he had “unusual musical abilities prior to his first birthday”. At about age two, Brian heard George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, which had an enormous emotional impact on him.
Calle 13 is noted for its eclectic musical style, often using unconventional instrumentation in its music, which distances the group from the reggaeton genre. The band is also known for its satirical lyrics as well as social commentary about Latin American issues and culture. The stepbrothers are strong supporters of the Puerto Rican independence movement, a stance that has generated controversy.
René Juan Pérez Joglar, known professionally as Residente, is a Puerto Rican rapper, writer, filmmaker, producer and founder of the alternative rap group Calle 13.
Somali-Canadian artist K’naan released The Hamilton Mixtape: Immigrants (We Get the Job Done). The song features other artists like Mexican-American rapper Snow Tha Product, British-Pakistani rapper Riz MC and Puerto Rican rapper Residente. The song reflects on a topic that has been much discussed by Latinx communities in Latin America and “illegal” Latinx immigrants and diasporas in the US, among others: capitalist exploitation and violence perpetuated by (white) Western countries against racialized and “illegal” bodies.
Both Chassagne’s parents fled Haiti during Francois Duvalier’s deadly reign in the ’60s, and she waited until her mother who would have nightmares as a result of the trauma died to go to the Caribbean nation. Soon after going, she and Dominique Anglade co-founded KANPE, an organization focused on giving families in rural Haiti neighborhoods the resources and tools they need to thrive and become financially autonomous. Benefit, held at New York’s Soho Grand Hotel, marked KANPE’s first U.S. event and was attended by stars like Moonlight director Barry Jenkins, illusionist David Blaine, and Strokes drummer Fabrizio Moretti.
Violinist and vocalist, Sudan Archives writes, plays, and produces her own music. Drawing inspiration from Sudanese fiddlers, she is self-taught on the violin, and her unique songs also fold in elements of R&B, and experimental electronic music.
Solange is a singer/ songwriter hailing from Houston, Texas. Since her debut, she has released two studio albums along with one EP and has worked with everyone from Lil' Wayne and Chromeo to The Lonely Island and Boards Of Canada.
"Running (Refugee Song)" was released in honor of World Refugee Day 2016. It's the first composition from a venture called Compositions for a Cause, a collaboration of musicians Keyon Harrold and Andrea Pizziconi. Harrold, an acclaimed trumpeter, composed the song with Pizziconi. Common contributed to the lyrics
JENN CHAMPION is performing LIVE Thursday, August 9, at Chop Suey www.chopsuey.com
Watch the official music video of Christine and The Queens new single, "Girlfriend feat. Dâm-Funk", out now ! www.youtube.com
The Future" is a song from Prince's 1989 Batman soundtrack, and the final single released from the album. The single was not the album version, but a remixed version by S'Express' Mark Moore and William Orbit. "The Future" was released as a single only in Europe.
Raising Sand is a Grammy-award winning collaboration album by rock singer Robert Plant and bluegrass-country singer Alison Krauss. It was released on October 23, 2007 by Rounder Records. Raising Sand won Album of the Year at the 2008 Americana Music Honors & Awards and at the 2009 Grammy Awards.
On June 20, 2000, The White Stripes released their second studio album, De Stijl. The album reached number thirty-eight on Billboard's Independent Albums chart in 2002, when The White Stripes' popularity began to grow. It has since become a cult favorite among White Stripes fans, due to the simplicity of the band's blues/punk fusion.
IDLES have announced their new album titled ‘Joy as an Act of Resistance,’ set for release later this year.The Bristol five-piece have also shared a video for new single DANNY NEDELKO
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Kultur Shock is a Seattle-based gypsy punk band which specializes in mixing music like rock, metal and punk with traditional Balkan music. They were all working musicians who wanted to create art that spoke to their new home and revitalize fans in their home countries. They found their way to Seattle in the 90’s and found a landscape ripe for experimentation and expression. They’ve been making music ever since and touring the world while calling Seattle and the US home.
Watch Gogol Bordello performing live in the KEXP studio www.youtube.com
Deportees by Billy Bragg was written by Woody Guthrie, Martin Hoffman and was first released by Cisco Houston in 1961.
Watch Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings performing live at KEXP's New Home Grand Opening www.youtube.com
"Clampdown" is a single and a song by The Clash from their album London Calling. The song began as an instrumental track called "Working and Waiting". It is sometimes called "Working for the Clampdown" which is the main lyric of the song, and also the title provided on the album's lyric sheet. Its lyrics concern those who have forsaken the idealism of youth and urges young people to fight the status quo.
Like many songs by the Clash, the lyrics of "Straight to Hell" decry injustice. The first verse refers to the shutting down of steel mills in Northern England and unemployment spanning generations, it also considers the alienation of non-English speaking immigrants in British society. The second verse concerns the abandonment of children in Vietnam who were fathered by American soldiers during the Vietnam War. The third verse contrasts the American Dream as seen through the eyes of an Amerasian child with a dystopian vision of American reality. The final verse broadly considers the life of immigrants throughout the world.
Paper Planes" is a song by British rapper M.I.A. from her second studio album, Kala (2007). The song was written by M.I.A. and Diplo. The song's backing track is a replayed sample of the 1982 song "Straight to Hell" by The Clash, and the members of The Clash are credited as co-writers of the song.
Keinan Abdi Warsame better known by his stage name K'naan, is a Somali Canadian poet, rapper, singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist.
Happy Birthday was a band formed in Vermont in 2008 to play a show at the punk space “Tinderbox.” It featured Kyle Thomas before he was King Tuff, along with Chris Weisman on bass and Ruth Garbus (sister of tUnE-yArDs' Merrill Garbus) on drums.
The band released one self-titled album on March 16, 2010 via Sub Pop. (SP850)
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Daytona is only seven songs long and around 21 minutes, which seems to run counter to the eternal idea Pusha-T wants to sell us on. But it is an album a few years in the making.
Obaro Ejimiwe is a British vocalist and musician better known by his stage name Ghostpoet. He does not identify his music as belonging to a particular genre. On March 7th 2018, when challenged by one Fan via Twitter with the question "WHAT are you?", Ghostpoet came with the response: "So Interesting. Why is it so important for me to be part of a predetermined genre with its parameters and rules? I'm just an artist who experiments with sounds and loves guitars. It's ok to be confused, not everything in life needs explanation, sometimes we just have to go with it".
Bogota Colombia. Since 1990, Andrea Echeverri and Héctor Buitrago began to be heard with a unique musical proposal, a melting pot of modernity, rebellion and addition. The conceptual content of his songs and the recovery of the ritual dimension of music, mark the line of his artistic, fertile and culebrero future.
Born in 1974 in São Paulo Brazil, Gui Boratto, architect, musician, composer and producer initiated his career in the advertising sector in 1993. From 1994 until 2004 he performed various works for countless record labels both national and international, such as EMI, Virgin, Irma, BMG, Edel, Vidisco, ZYX, among others.
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Those who sing of political unrest are not only heard, but felt. Music has a potent way of reaching further and resonating deeper. Using the influence of music, words and imagery, Balkan band Dubioza Kolektiv is creating powerful music with a message. Integrating their perspectives on the current issues facing Europe as well as the rest of the world, their creations are not just entertainment, but also a form of political activism.
This song is by Rage Against the Machine and appears on the album Evil Empire (1996) and on the compilation album Live & Rare (1998)
Robert Anthony Plant CBE is an English singer, songwriter, and musician, best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the rock band Led Zeppelin. A powerful and wide vocal range has given him a successful singing career spanning over 50 years.
