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Sunday, Dec 30 2018, 12PM
About LONER: The record was penned over four years ago while Rose was living in a van traveling the country, and received critical acclaim from national press outlets like NPR and Rolling Stone.
Adia Victoria will be performing at Barboza on Tues March 12th:
www.thebarboza.com
Named after his Southern California hometown, the third album from Anderson .Paak is a vibrant, cinematic blend of hip-hop, funk, and R&B.
Check out the dark lo-fi party of a video for "Violent": www.youtube.com
Wild Nothing performed an in-studio back in April 2016. Check out the full performance: www.youtube.com
About their 2018 release: “...we wanted to hear beautiful guitar and drums and an otherworldliness, something almost indefinable along with a classic song writing vibe. We’re always trying to get the sound we hear inside of ourselves, so we moved fast to avoid our brains getting in the way too much. The name Slow Air evokes the feel of the album to me, steady, eerie and beautiful.” Check out the wonderfully shot video for "Black Lagoon": www.youtube.com
Fronted by London-born Nigerian singer Eno Williams, Ibibio Sound Machine is a clash of African and electronic elements inspired in equal measure by the golden era of West African funk, disco, and modern post-punk and electro. Evocative Nigerian poetic imagery set against an edgy Afro-Electro soundscape gives the band a unique space within the wave of modern Afrocentric sounds sweeping the globe.
Fela Kuti is regarded as the creator of Afrobeat music -- which is a complex fusion of jazz, funk, Ghanaian/Nigerian highlife, psychedelic rock and traditional West African chants and rhythms. Kuti is a world music icon, a trailblazer and political activist.
About the video for "On & On": Badu is depicted as a maid in an African-American household, showing her doing her chores. Scenes of her chasing a dog that bit the laundry that she put to dry, tying a little girl's hair into a ponytail and falling into mud can be seen throughout the video. The video is loosely based upon the movie adaptation of Alice Walker's The Color Purple. The video was also nominated at the 1997 MTV Video Music Awards, including Best Female Video and Best R&B Video. Check it out: www.youtube.com
Deerhunter is set to release their latest record "Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?"in January 2019 . The album leads off with “Death In Midsummer,” which is apparently inspired by the Russian Revolution of 1917. Check out the video here: www.youtube.com
This song is about Hernán Cortes, the Spanish conqueror of the Aztec Empire in what is now considered Mexico. It has one of the longest intros in rock: Young's vocals done come in until 3:22.
'Lung Bread For Daddy' will be out in February. The video for ‘Buddy’ is self-directed by Du Blonde, check it out: www.youtube.com
'Be The Cowboy' made a number of KEXP DJ's Top Ten lists, and came in #7 on KEXP Listeners Top 90.3 Albums: www.kexp.org
Boy Harsher, currently residing in Northampton, Massachusetts, is a dark electronic duo that produces gritty dance beats infused with ethereal vocals, creating a sound that is eerie, intense and incredibly danceable.
Old school (circa 2014) in-studio performance from Charlotte Gainsbourgh at the (old school) Denny/Dexter location: www.youtube.com
'Care For Me', Saba's second studio album, is dedicated to the artists' late cousin and close friend Walter Long, Jr. aka John Walt; who was stabbed to death in February 2017 in Chicago.
In an interview preceding the premiere of "Mariners Apartment Complex", Lana Del Rey stated:
"The song is about this time I took a walk late at night with a guy I was seeing, and we stopped in front his friend's apartment complex, and he put his hand around my shoulder, and he said "I think we are together because we're both similar, like we're both really messed up" and I thought it was the saddest thing I'd ever heard. And I said, "I'm not sad, I didn't know that's why you thought you were relating to me on that level, I'm actually doing pretty good". And he was upset, and that's when I wrote the song. I thought, I had to do so many times, where you know like I had to sort of step on that role where I was showing the way and I was sort of being the brighter light. But that's why it's so cool that you’re playing it. 'Cause I thought that I'd just put it out and it would be one of those things that I'd put out just to have there for myself, but it's cool being able to share it with people too."
Artists pay homage to Scott Hutchinson of Frightened Rabbit, who sadly passed away this year: www.kexp.org
Hot off the press! Check out The Twilight Sad's in-studio from this past month: www.youtube.com
"Nightcall" was produced with Daft Punk's Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and mixed by electronic artist Sebastian. The track was used in the title sequence for the film "Drive", and was also used in the soundtrack for the film "The Lincoln Lawyer".
Shannon Shaw will be performing in Seattle at Beacon Hill's newest venue Clock-Out Lounge on Sat May 11, 2019: www.eventbrite.com
"Back to Black" was inspired by Amy Winehouse's relationship with Blake Fielder-Civil, who had left her for an ex-girlfriend.
Check out the video for "Kingston": The visuals are a treat, flitting between pink flamingos and silver ice-skating outfits -- www.youtube.com
On "Doubt", Charlotte Day Wilson stated to FADER Magazine: “I wrote this song after a period of time where I had been traveling quite a bit for work. I was reflecting on my relationship and realizing I’d been taking it for granted. This song was me trying to confront the things that I felt were holding me back and making it hard to feel deserving of love.”
Julia was written by John Lennon for his mother, who died in a road accident in 1958. It is the only solo Lennon recording in The Beatles' canon.
Speaking on his 2015 release "I Love You, Honeybear", Josh Tillman, aka Father John Misty, told Q magazine that he was inspired by the fearless honesty of the novelist Henry Miller: "There's a line in Tropic of Cancer, 'We're like two insane people trying to f--k through an iron gate.'" he said. "And I thought, 'That's my album.'" Check out FJM doing a fantastic in-studio from 2017: www.youtube.com
Sloucher on their album "Be True", including an embedded video of their in-studio from Feb 2017: www.kexp.org
Soft Hair is a duo comprising psych-pop sculptor Connan Mockasin and Sam Eastgate, the former frontman of the UK band Late Of The Pier who currently records as LA Priest.
Rolling Stone writes about how D'Angelo came to have his music featured on Red Dead Redemption 2 (hint: he's a big fan of the game) -- www.rollingstone.com
Re: "Giovanni", Jamila Woods says in an interview with Poetry Foundation:
"I wrote it after I had recently taught, or had been teaching, Nikki Giovanni’s poem “Ego Tripping.” I thought, what would it be like to write a cover poem that’s a song? The lyric “there must be a reason why”—it was cool to think about that. I interpreted that like, there must be a reason why I am the way I am. I thought about the women in my life who make it possible for me to believe in myself, and have faith in myself, that I’m doing right by the people who’ve poured so much love and time and energy into me. I watched this interview where [Giovanni] interviewed Muhammad Ali, and at the end she reads from her book Gemini (1971). There’s this part where she’s like, I guess I do want to be famous because my mother deserves for the world to know her name. That’s the whole spirit of my song, because I wanted to include my mom and my grandmother, and other women in my life who inspire me. I believe that they deserve everyone to know their names."
