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This is Yves Tumor's first solo single since the acclaimed 2020 album, "Heaven to a Tortured Mind."
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To accompany the new track, Yves Tumor has unveiled a 28-date tour that includes Seattle! They'll be at Neumos on November 3rd! Tickets go on sale tomorrow (June 18th.): crackmagazine.net
Darkside is Chilean-American electro musician Nicolás Jaar and American multi-instrumentalist Dave Harrington.
“The Limit” is the second single (The first was "Liberty Bell.") to date off their upcoming "Spiral" album. The pair have been on a musical hiatus since the release of their debut LP "Psychic" in 2013 and "Spiral" will be out on July 23 on Matador Records.
La Luz is a band from Seattle, WA, started in the summer of 2012 by Shana Cleveland (guitar), Alice Sandahl (keyboard) and Lena Simon (bass). Everyone sings.: laluz.bandcamp.com
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“In the Country,” is La Luz's first new material since the release of "Floating Features," their acclaimed album of 2018. Shana Cleveland, the band’s frontperson, offers this, “I moved to the country a few years ago after living in cities for most of my life. Being out in the middle of nowhere makes it easy to imagine how it would be possible to leave society all together. I love how in this track some of the most unnatural elements of the arrangement (synthesizers, fuzz, effects) create an atmosphere around the instruments that ends up feeling very natural--I can hear bugs buzzing around and bird sounds in different directions.”
In a press release, Crumb says, “‘BNR’ is an ode to my favorite colors. I had a weird obsession with those colors in winter 2018-2019 and felt like they would follow me around everywhere I went.
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Dry Cleaning are touring this fall and will play at The Crocodile in Seattle on Sunday, November 14th.
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In March 2020 Cheryl welcomed Dry Cleaning to the KEXP studio for a Live performance that included "Scratchcard Lanyard".
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You can also check out Dry Cleaning's Live on KEXP at Home session where they shared a live performance recorded exclusively for KEXP and spoke with Cheryl Waters in March 2021:
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New release of their ninth studio album 9, available October 1 via Spinning Top Records / Secretly Distribution. Alongside the news, Fremantle, Australia's five-piece reveal the elastic-hipped robo-funk new single "America's Cup" and the track's accompanying video.
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To be released this July, Last Year Was Weird, Vol. 3 will be the final piece of Tkay Maidza’s EP trilogy and natural follow-up to 2020’s Last Year Was Weird, Vol. 2.
Previously unreleased Prince song. Pitchfork wrote that the track was recorded as a rebuke to political activist Dr. Cornel West, who said Prince was "no Curtis Mayfield," according to Prince's musical director Morris Hayes.
Read more about the lost track here: pitchfork.com
This is the third album by Dev Hynes recording as Blood Orange. Freetown Sound takes its name from Freetown, Sierra Leone, where Hynes' father was born. The album features Carly Rae Jepsen, Zuri Marley, Debbie Harry, Nelly Furtado, writer Ta-Nehisi Coates, slam poet Ashlee Haze, and others.
Hannah Jadagu, an 18 year-old singer/songwriter Mesquite, TX-bred, New York-based artist’s debut EP
“‘Think Too Much’ is the only song that I’d written with the intent of putting it on an EP,” Jadagu says. “Sonically, I was challenging myself to make a song that was high energy, fun, and a ‘bop,’ as I like to call it. At the time, I remember listening to a lot of Dayglow, Jean Dawson, and Winnetka Bowling League, and thinking to myself, ‘These people are making such catchy and fun songs without even trying.’ Then I thought to myself, ‘You’re really thinking too much.’ I asked all my friends what they thought about ‘too much,’ compiled their responses, chose some fun chords and rhythms inspired by Snail Mail and Phoenix, and went to work.”
Bread & Butter are a Seattle band obsessed with cramming their songs full of good fun, bad fun, rad sounds, and killer moves.
'Psycho World' is available today!
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Guitarist Jimmy James recently told American Songwriter about the process of recording--“It’s a collaborative effort with all of us,” James says. “What’s great about people having input is that then the band sounds more natural, more cohesive. The band sounds more together in that way and that’s the way it should be. Because if the band sounds comfortable and it sits on the groove, then it comes to life.” -- tinyurl.com
Troy Nelson interviewed The True Loves for Live on KEXP at Home on May 27, 2021: youtu.be
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Dawn Richard shared a live performance recorded exclusively for KEXP and spoke with Gabriel Teodros in April. Check out this session:
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"A little-known fact about Richard is that she has a deep passion for anime (the name Danity Kane came from an anime character she drew), with its empowered female characters who are as lethal as they are tender-hearted. But rarely are they Black, as her album cover depicts, yet that has not deterred Richard’s love for the art form; it’s instead compelled her to lend her efforts to animation via her work with Adult Swim. All this to say that the absence of Black faces and Black women in spaces that interest her has not stopped Richard from going in headfirst. Like other Black women who didn’t plan on being pioneers, she’s become part of the genesis out of a sheer need to not be boxed in." - pitchfork.com
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Proceeds will be divided between
The Southern Poverty Law Center
The ACLU
The Movement for Black Lives
Fourth studio album by American hip hop duo Run the Jewels!
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Check out Live video from Run The Jewels' 2017 KEXP In-studio: bit.ly.
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"Feelin' like the Lord left the room
Dead bodies risin' from the tomb
Damn, Daniel, is we finna meet our MF DOOM?
Mask on, mask off, face the future like high noon
The news keep on sayin' we'll die soon."
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CONCERTS ARE BACK BAY-BEE!!! Chong the Nomad will be playing Barboza grand opening on July 1st.
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Cold Cave's new project is titled Fate In Seven Lessons, and is "seven melancholy and emotional songs of love and longing" -
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This is the lead single from Brisbane, Australia band's third studio album, "Mirror II," due out on July 9th.: thegoonsax.bandcamp.com
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The band just released the live video they made for "In the Stone." Watch the lightning flash as the band plays: www.youtube.com
Buscabulla's performed LIVE on KEXP at Home on August 20, 2020: check out the performance, hosted by El Sonido's DJ Chilly: youtu.be
The husband-and-wife duo from Puerto Rico noted about this track: “‘Vámono’ is an amalgam of several Neo-Cultural expressions of ancestral traditions celebrated in regions close to our own personal history in Puerto Rico."
"This song works as a sort of mantra to not fold under the force of life’s duress as she sings with the most potent melody of the hook, 'Sometimes when yuh feel it yuh cry doh. Hurt yuh heart, enuh. But do, no mek it stress yuh.'" Read a review of this great track by Jamaican artist Koffee, also known as Mikayla Simpson.: www.euphoriazine.com
"Posing In Bondage" shows Japanese Breakfast taking a new approach to her sound, with lo-fi pop elements that create an unsettling sonic and visual combination for the new single.
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Michelle Zauner’s just-released memoir, Crying in H Mart, is a touching account of her complicated relationship with her mother and her Korean heritage. www.kexp.org
Anika is the stage name of British-born, frequently Berlin-based singer, songwriter, and political journalist Annika Henderson. The new album, "Change," out in July, will be her first new album in over a decade: www.stereogum.com
Queen Latifah told the Huffington Post in 2015, “I was never the kind of person that was gonna take something lying down. … I was raised to protect myself and stand up for myself and speak my mind and be true, even if I had to stand alone.” She won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance and later performed this song at the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize concert.
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Watch the official music video, directed by Modu Sesay:
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The lead single for North Carolina hip hop artist Rapsody’s 2019 album 'Eve'. The song pays homage to “Liquid Swords” by GZA, as it samples the same song ("Groovin'" by Willie Mitchell), interpolates the hook, and features the man himself.
The album aims to celebrate and pay homage to influential black women. This song is named after Ibtihaj Muhammad, an Olympic fencing bronze medalist and the first Muslim woman to wear a hijab while representing the United States at the Olympics.
Another Juneteenth 2020 release -- from the LA-based experimental hip-hop trio with rapper Daveed Diggs and producers William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes. This one includes a sample of "Freestyle" by DJ Screw and Big Floyd.
Two lines from the album went viral on TikTok, serving as the soundtrack for more than 75,000 videos as of November 2020:
“Donald Trump is a white supremacist — full stop/If you vote for him again, you’re a white supremacist — full stop.”
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New music! Soulfood from Manchester duo Konny Kon & Tyler Daley -
"the definitive sound of UK street soul in 2021. 'Balance' is 50 minutes of future-classic British soul music encompassing hip hop, neo-soul, gospel and r&b."
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Big Boi turned The Dungeon into an airbnb news.airbnb.com
Shaina Shepherd will be playing live at The Crocodile on Saturday, September 4th for The Freakout Records 5 Year Anniversary Party. The lineup includes Death Valley Girls, Acid Tongue, Smokey Brights, Shaina Shepherd, Beverly Crusher, Black Ends, DJ Set by The Grizzled Mighty.
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Known for her pervasive style as front woman to the soul- grunge band BEARAXE, Seattle based Shaina Shepherd’s “Harambee,” was featured on the Sustainable Shred holiday compilation. The compilation grew from a yearly fundraising effort put on by the Beverly Crusher frontman Cozell Wilson, to benefit the Byrd Barr House.
Check out the bandcamp for the Sustainable Shred compilation here: sustainableshred.bandcamp.com