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Seattle band mega cat!
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Rat Fight was chosen as a KEXP Song of the Day. You can download it for free here: www.kexp.org
Lux Prima, released earlier this summer, is a collaborative studio album between Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Danger Mouse. A reissue of the album is set to release September 19th, which will include this new track and a cover of Lou Reed's "Perfect Day." The reissue will include a 16-page booklet drawn from the pair’s An Encounter with Lux Prima, the immersive exhibition that appeared at LA’s Marciano Arts Foundation in 2019.
Blondshell will be playing the Gorge Amphitheatre in WA September 7th with Glass Animals
and the Fox Theater in Oakland October 11th with Bright Eyes
"What's Fair" came out as a single earlier this month!
blondshell.bandcamp.com
Jeff Tweedy of Wilco has three Bay Area shows lined up at Menlo Park's Guild Theatre from October 28th-30th.
Wilco followed up 2023's Cousin album with the new EP, Hot Sun Cool Shroud.
wilcohq.bandcamp.com
Wilco played Live on KEXP in 2023! Watch the session here: www.youtube.com
Cory Hanson is a Los Angeles artist you may know as the frontman of Wand.
coryhanson.bandcamp.com
Oct. 8 at Crocodile Seattle. In SF at the Chapel Oct. 15. Portland Mississippi studios Oct. 17.
Superstar is the fourth single release from Hinds. VIVA HINDS will be out Sept 6, 2024 hinds.bandcamp.com
Originally appears on Preston's 1974 album "The Kids & Me", his ninth studio album.
Preston was a top session keyboardist in the 1960s, during which he backed artists such as Little Richard, Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, the Everly Brothers, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. He gained attention as a solo artist with hit singles such as the Grammy-winning "Outa-Space", and "Nothing from Nothing."
Preston is one of only two non-Beatle musicians (along with Tony Sheridan) to be given a credit on a Beatles recording at the band's request; the group's 1969 single "Get Back" was credited as "The Beatles with Billy Preston".
Happy birthday to Billy Preston, born on this day in 1946! Billy Preston, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor, died June 6, 2006 59 years old. A virtuoso keyboardist, particularly on Hammond organ, Preston was recognized as a top session musician in the 1960s, during which he backed artists such as Little Richard, Sam Cooke, Ray Charles and the Beatles., sometimes referred to as the "Fifth Beatle," played organ and piano on some tracks, including "Get Back," which was credited to "The Beatles with Billy Preston."
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DIIV were at KEXP in June. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to be alerted when the performance is released: www.youtube.com
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Playing at KEXP at 12 today!
Mimi is Corridor's first album in five years.
“'For a long time, we identified as a guitar-oriented band, and the goal of making this whole record was trying to get away from that,' [Dominic] Berthiaume states while admitting that the band encountered their own challenges as a result: 'We had to figure out how to make new songs without having the chance to play together. It was complicated sometimes.'” Read more here: corridormtl.bandcamp.com
Here is Nation of Language performing "September Again" at KEXP in 2022: www.youtube.com
www.nationoflanguage.com
You down with OMD? Ya you know me.
Chelsea Joy Wolfe is an American singer-songwriter and musician. Her work blends elements of gothic rock, doom metal, and folk. Growing up in Northern California with a country musician father, Wolfe began writing and recording songs during her childhood.
See her full performance in the KEXP studio from March of this year here:
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For Julia!
On this song, Charli doesn't just own her success, she throws a virtual parade for the muses and collaborators who helped her get there. Model Gabbriette, actress Julia Fox, and producer A.G. Cook all get name-dropped during the track, a subtle nod to the community that's fostered her artistic journey – a digital "mother" of sorts..
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Enjoy this American Songwriter review of the song: americansongwriter.com
Inspired by a text from Taylor!
Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie was Live on KEXP in 2022. Watch the video here: www.youtube.com
deathcabforcutie.bandcamp.com
"Kacey Musgraves’ third album goes down so smoothly that it might not even scan as a total reinvention. Throughout the songs on Golden Hour, the East Texas singer-songwriter is radiant, awestruck, taking the scenic route to the bar just for the hell of it."
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This song is one of many that documents the break-up of a relationship, with a requirement for the narrator in each song to confront the associated emotional turbulence before moving beyond it and starting a new chapter for himself. Sea change indeed, then. Evidently, Beck was apprehensive about revealing the depths of his feelings around these kinds of themes, given that he’d personally broken up with his partner of nine years around the time this album was released. He wanted to avoid self-indulgence, and capturing his own misery in amber. Eventually though, it occurred to him that songs about break-ups are legion because the pain associated with the end of a relationship is universal to the human experience. Why not write about it? bit.ly
The first song David Bowie wrote for his 1971 album 'Hunky Dory.'
He gave it to singer Peter Noone (who was the lead singer of Herman's Hermits) and Noone decided to record and release it as his debut solo single.
MJ Lenderman enlisted the aid of his Wednesday bandmate Karly Hartzmann for this new single from his forthcoming album, 'Manning Fireworks,' out on September 6th.
You can pre-order that album here: mjlenderman.bandcamp.com
Robert Alfons (TR/ST) recorded his fourth album, "Performance," in L.A. with composer and co-producer Nightfeelings. The album, his first in six years, will be out on September 13th. You can pre-order it here: trst.bandcamp.com
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Catch TR/ST on tour this fall:
- November 15th in Seattle at The Crocodile
- November 16th in Vancouver, BC at Rickshaw Theatre
- November 17th in Portland at Wonder Ballroom
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TR/ST Live on KEXP: www.youtube.com
Featuring Honey Dijon, this Jamie xx track came out as a single in April. It will also be on the new album, In Waves, out September 20th!
jamiexx.bandcamp.com
New single from the Australian DJ/producer Samantha Poulter (now based in Berlin).
logic1000.bandcamp.com
www.logic1000.com
This is a reworking of a previously-unreleased Björk track, originally written in the late ’90s during the recording sessions for two of her most beloved albums, Homogenic and Vespertine. Bjork has just released it to join Iceland’s fight against Norwegian-owned commercial farming operations that threaten to disrupt native ecosystems. Proceeds from "Oral" will be used to support a legal case against the fisheries.
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Watch the artists kick and twirl, spin, and wield samurai swords in the video: www.youtube.com
Los Angeles singer-songwriter Hana Vu performed Live on KEXP early last month. Make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel to get notified when that video drops!
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Bachelor is the project from Melina Duterte (Jay Som) and Ellen Kempner (Palehound). John Richards selected this song,"Stay in the Car," as a free KEXP Song of the Day last year: www.kexp.org
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Bachelor shared a live performance recorded exclusively for KEXP in August 2021. They closed out their set with "Stay in the Car": youtu.be
Playing the Showbox SoDo in Seattle on Friday, September 20th and The Warfield in SF on September 24th.
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"Favourite" is a song which frontman Grian Chatten describes as having "this never-ending sound to it, a continuous cycle from euphoria to sadness, two worlds spinning forever." The band also shared an accompanying music video, featuring home footage of all five members stitched together. Check out the video here: www.youtube.com
The Stone Roses based the demo of "Fools Gold" around a four-bar loop lifted from a James Brown track ( "Funky Drummer."). It was guitarist John Squire who actually discovered the track in a Manchester record shop.
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Squire said: "The construction of that single was completely different to anything we'd written before. It wasn't something that was knocked out and arranged on an acoustic guitar, then taken into rehearsals and kicked around with a drummer and a bassist. I just put it on a portastudio and started playing guitar over it. The main riff was partly inspired by Johnny Cash's rockabilly plucking sound, that muted guitar sound you get when you just play on the bass strings."
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A track featured from the band's concert film, "Stop Making Sense".
Brand new release from NY-based GIFT's album 'Illuminator' which was recently released.
giftbandnyc.bandcamp.com
Zsela Thompson, known mononymously as Zsela, is an American singer-songwriter from Brooklyn.
zselaofficial.bandcamp.com
This stunningly beautiful, haunting song has a slightly petty origin story. Warning - you cannot unread this! bit.ly www.simonandgarfunkel.com
DJ Morgan hosted Sharon Van Etten Live on KEXP in 2014: youtu.be
Van Etten's most recent album, We've Been Going About This All Wrong, came out in May 2022. sharonvanetten.bandcamp.com
Brand new music from Seattle's (by way of Ellensberg) own Star Anna! This is off her new record, Love and Sex and Fear of Death, which came out July 2024.
Listen to the whole record below:
staranna.bandcamp.com
New from Seattle's Beautiful Freaks! They're on a nationwide tour right now, but they're playing Blue Moon on October 5th when they get back!
www.songkick.com
"Possum Kingdom" is the name of this 1994 hit from the Toadies, and also a state park in Texas.
Underworld are a British electronic music group formed in 1980 in Cardiff, Wales and the principal name of Karl Hyde and Rick Smith recording together. www.underworldlive.com
Check out this Live on KEXP performance from ODESZA in 2017! www.youtube.com