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Friday, Nov 3 2023, 4PM
DAIISTAR is Live on KEXP!! The Austin quartet is playing songs from their debut LP Good Time. "The band takes their inspiration from the neo-psychedelic era of the 80s and 90s and pulls it into the future with modulating synthesisers, heavy guitars, bouncing bass lines, and spiralling hooks."
It's Bandcamp Friday today; support the band by buying their debut there and more of the proceeds will go to them. daiistar.bandcamp.com
Live on KEXP!
DAIISTAR is playing the Freakout Festival in Seattle! Friday at 10:30pm at Tractor Tavern and Saturday at 12:30am at Smoke Shop.
Live on KEXP!
DAIISTAR’s Alex Capistran (guitar/vocals) writes: “‘Repeater’ is a voyage through the darker side of the human consciousness. It’s common for people to mask what’s on the inside and in this track we travel beyond the exterior. The lyrics are minimal with the intent of focusing on the music itself and how it intensifies as the song progresses."
DAIISTAR is playing the Freakout Festival in Seattle! Friday at 10:30pm at Tractor Tavern and Saturday at 12:30am at Smoke Shop
"The debut album from this Austin, TX-based band is a consistently solid set of psych, shoegaze, noise-pop, dream-pop, and garage rock that’s accented by lead singer Alex Capistran and her sweet vocal melodies that weave within the band’s densely swirling concoctions." www.kexp.org
The album's title, Honey's Dead, refers to one of the band's early hits, "Just Like Honey", and is intended to demonstrate a complete departure from their earlier musical style.
The debut album from English rock band The Stone Roses. The album was regarded by many as one of the greatest British albums ever recorded, but the band broke up after the supporting tour of their second album after many line-up changes.
Today, 7pm! Seattle's Telehealth is kicking off a tour with Spirit Award and will perform at The Vera Project today, on Friday, November 3. www.seetickets.us
Get their debut album, Constant Oscillator, on this Bandcamp Friday! telehealth.bandcamp.com
A KEXP Song of the Day from back in 2014! Hints of frontman Anton Newcombe's newfound sobriety appear, as Newcombe sings in Swedish (!), "just let the light crash through your brain and wash everything away."
"In the past, my heavy drug and alcohol use were parts of the recording process. I’d make music that sounded good on drugs or booze, or whatever. Since I don’t use drugs anymore, making Revelation was an interesting process — because I just made music for music’s sake." www.kexp.org
Blonde Redhead was Live on KEXP just last month! Keep an eye out for the video to drop on our YouTube channel.
Sit Down for Dinner is Blonde Redhead's first album in nine years. blonderedhead.bandcamp.com
New! Album out today! ill peach's debut full length album is now out on Sub Pop offshoot Hardly Art!
"THIS IS NOT AN EXIT’s title is a reflection of something [Jess] Corazza realized during a period of personal and familial crises. 'I kept walking into buildings and I’d try to exit somewhere and the sign would be like, "This is not an exit,"' she says. 'It just felt like a metaphor for a hopeful thing—don't give up yet.'” illpeach.bandcamp.com
For Tess, who is going to show tonight! Durand Jones is playing a sold-out show at the Nectar Lounge today at 7 p.m.
Wait Til I Get Over, the singer's debut solo album, is a reflection on Jones’ relationship to his hometown of Hillaryville, Louisiana, a town first established as a form of reparations to previously enslaved Black Americans. The album grapples with his desire to leave the complicated town and his urge to honor his roots.
"I dedicate this one to a cajun dude out near Lafayette, Louisiana. Back in the day, our bond and love for another was so close and intense, that it overwhelmed me. I began to be scared of it and ashamed. I found myself in a flurry trying to find the feelings when I said I would be so many things for him.”
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7th spin
This song was Joni Mitchell's effort to get a hit. She had made the charts as a songwriter, with Judy Collins' version of "Both Sides Now" making #8 in 1968 and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's cover of "Woodstock" reaching #11 in 1970.
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"I decided there were some ways to make a hit, increase the chances," Mitchell said in Sounds. "DJs have to like it, so you put a long part at the beginning and the end so the DJs can talk over it. Take a tender situation and translate it into commonly appealing songs for the DJs. It'd have to be a bit corny, so I wrote this little song called 'Oh Honey, You Turn Me On, I'm A Radio.'"
New from the London band!
The dreamy track, according to the press release, was written in California’s Yucca Valley and is about
"a couple’s futile attempt to save a doomed relationship." www.stereogum.com
King Krule is Londoner Archy Marshall. "The Ooz" was his third studio album. "Dark, moody, and often erratic, the album perfectly captured the essence of the world in 2017.": blog.uvm.edu
From the Brooklyn trio's third studio album, Strange Disciple.
With heavy new wave and post-punk influences, “Too Much, Enough,” is a meditation on the toxic 24-hour news cycle. It’s paired with a video featuring actor Jimmi Simpson plus a number of musicians including Reggie Watts, Kevin Morby, Tomberlin, Moldy Peaches’ Adam Green, LVL UP’s Greg Rutkin, and more.
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"Electricity" is the 1979 debut single of the English group Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. It focused on society's wasteful usage of energy sources: bit.ly
*yells in Friday* dang
"Dang" is a track from the bonus edition of Caroline Polachek’s second studio album, Desire, I Want To Turn Into You. Caroline Polachek, in collaboration with her long-term collaborator Danny L Harle, expands her avant-pop vision—featuring more radical vocal experiments, unusual narratives, and metallic drum machine modules. tinyurl.com
Germany-based Roosevelt mixes indie pop with techno and club/dance. www.iamroosevelt.com
For Ever was Jungle's final release for XL Recordings before the formation of their own label, Caiola Records, in 2021.
Jungle played Live in the KEXP Studio in November 2021, and was one of the first shows onsite since the pandemic began. Watch the performance here: youtu.be
Enjoy a special Live on KEXP performance by Ben Gibbard when he took ALL listener requests. www.youtube.com
Going out Elsa from Heather!
The song title is a play on "No Sleep 'til Hammersmith," the title of a 1981 Motörhead live album. Oh, that's Kerry King pushing a gorilla off the stage in the video: www.youtube.com
Playing at Freakout Fest! 7pm at the Belltown Yacht Club on Monday, November 6!
"In the quarantined summer of 2020, 95 Bulls was formed by five friends from different bands (Ashjesus, The Mystery Lights, Smock, Bipolar, and Jelly Kelly) pretty much by accident. They all wanted to make music for fun while their bandmates were scattered but after one meetup everyone decided it was best to write a record and get married." www.95bullsnyc.com
In town as part of Freakout Fest! 10:30 p.m. at the Ballard Smoke Shop on Saturday, November 4!
Caroline Rose is part of a recently-announced covers compilation, FADER & Friends Vol. 1, benefitting charities fighting for transgender rights.
You can get it on Bandcamp during the month of November only! (It's Bandcamp Friday today and you should do it.) faderlabel.bandcamp.com
The day after their special show in the KEXP gathering space, The Hives will play a 21+ show at Neumos- Wednesday, November 8th.
The Swedish band released their first album in 11 years in August! www.thehives.com
R.I.P. Singer and guitarist Rick Froberg, who passed away earlier this year. He was 55 years old.
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Singer and bassist Kim Gordon told New York magazine that the song is about "using passiveness as a form of rebellion—like, I'm not going to participate in your male-dominated culture, so I'm just going to be passive."
The song's title is a reference to the race horse 'Bull in the Heather', who won the Florida Derby in 1993 - tinyurl.com
New! Day Soul Exquisite is a 6-piece group from Seattle, WA. Fronted by singer Francesca Eluhu, the QTBIPOC-led band is a mix of neo-soul, psychedelic r&b, and jazz.
Today - Playing the Caffe Umbria Stage on Friday at 7:50pm for Freakout Festival. daysoulexquisite.com
Watch Portugal. The Man play live on KEXP from the Triple Door in Seattle in 2013: www.youtube.com
Dan Boeckner was just announced as a headliner for SMooCH 2023, benefitting Seattle Children's! Catch them on Saturday 12/02: www.axs.com
Happy 68th birthday to the one and only Adam Ant!
You must not miss the video of the "dandy highwayman" Adam Ant putting on his makeup and then going out to threaten victims on the highway.: www.youtube.com
