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All Them Witches dropped their latest album "ATW" back in September and are currently on a U.S. Tour in support of the album. Check out this awesome set when they visited KEXP back in 2017: www.youtube.com
Total Control was formed in 2008 by Eddy Current Suppression Ring band member Mikey Young and UV Race's Dan Stewart. The pair, who came together over a shared interest of early 1980s acts such as Devo, Gary Numan, The Screamers, and The Adolescents, recorded some songs using a sampler and synthesizers at Young's home studio. They gained a following over the next few years after releasing a series of 7-inch singles and playing only a handful of live shows.
Portland based Blackwater Holylight dropped their self titled album back in April of this year and have been touring in support since.
blackwater holylight with Sandrider, Museum of Light, and Heldscalla
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Buffalo Indie band Mercury Rev reimagined Bobbie Gentry's "The Delta Sweete" on this covers album featuring artists such as Norah Jones, Hope Sandoval, and Rachel Goswell. The album drops February 8th!
Seattle based Telekenesis dropped by KEXP back in 2015 and you should watch this amazing set right here: www.youtube.com
Local favs Chastity Belt have played at KEXP quite a few times, here's the most recent. Feast your ears on this sonic treat: www.youtube.com
Seattle based Hibou is the moniker for Peter Michel, who previously toured as the drummer for Craft Spells. He released his first record as Hibout back in 2015 and his sophomore release "Something Familliar" back in March of this year. Catch Hibou at Chop Suey on January 16th!
Catch Seattle's own Parisalexa this Valentine's day at The Nectar Lounge!
On February 4, 2009, Lux Interior died at the Glendale Memorial Hospital after suffering an aortic dissection which, contrary to initial reports about a pre-existing condition, was "sudden, shocking and unexpected".
The inspiration for the album title "Different Class" came to frontman Jarvis Cocker in 'Smashing', a club night that ran during the early 1990s in Eve's Club on Regent Street in London. Cocker had a friend who used the phrase "different class" to describe something that was "in a class of its own". Cocker liked the double meaning, with its allusions to the British social class system which was a theme of some of the songs on the album. A message on the back of the record also references this idea:
"We don't want no trouble, we just want the right to be different. That's all."
Catch Dilly Dally on April 9th, along with Chastity at The Crocodile!
Ontario based Brandon Williams, under the moniker Chastity will be playing along with Dilly Dally at the Crocodile on April 9th!
"Black Velvet" was released posthumously a year after Charles Bradley's death back in 2017. it is described as "A love letter to his fans" Check out this amazing live session Charles did fro KEXP back in 2016: www.youtube.com
English musician/composer Bill Ryder-Jones released his fifth studio album "Yawn" in November and is currently amidst a UK tour.
David Byrne on writing this song: "That's a love song made up almost completely of non sequiturs, phrases that may have a strong emotional resonance but don't have any narrative qualities. It's a real honest kind of love song. I don't think I've ever done a real love song before. Mine always had a sort of reservation, or a twist. I tried to write one that wasn't corny, that didn't sound stupid or lame the way many do. I think I succeeded; I was pretty happy with that."
William Onyeabor was a Nigerian funk musician and businessman. His music was widely heard in Nigeria in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but he remained an enigmatic figure, private and reclusive.
"Brainfeeder X" is a compilation album in celebration of Brainfeeder's 10th Anniversary
Perfume Genius covering "Not for Me" a song composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin. It was written for the musical Girl Crazy (1930) and introduced in the original production by Ginger Rogers.
Hailing from Austin, Texas, The Black Angels got their name from the Velvet Underground's song "The Black Angel's Death Song"
Honey's Dead is the fourth studio album by The Jesus and Mary Chain, released in 1992. The title 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.
On January 30, 2018, Wye Oak announced that their fifth full-length album, The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs, would be released on April 6. For their "The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs" tour during the spring of 2018, Wye Oak added bassist William Joseph Hackney to the live line-up.
Check out Wand's full performance right here at KEXP back in August: www.youtube.com
Catch Durand Jones and the Indications at Neumos on Tuesday, April 2nd!
As well as their father Anga Díaz, the duo claims Frank Ocean, James Blake, and King Krule among their influences In live shows, they have covered rapper Jay Electronica’s Better in Tune with the Infinite and others.
Their recordings also show a strong and spiritual connection to their Yoruba roots, as do the name and themes. They also pay tribute to Santería, a syncretism practiced by many Afro-Cubans.
Jeff Tweedy of Wilco released this solo album "WARM" on November 30th.
The band's fourth album, "Creep On Creepin' On", was released in April 2011. It was named as one of ten shortlisted nominees for the 2011 Polaris Music Prize, losing to Arcade Fire's The Suburbs. In 2012, the band supported British folk singer Laura Marling on her UK tour and Canadian singer Feist on her tour of America.
Scottish rockers The Twilight Sad will be releasing their fifth album "It Won/t Ne Like This All the Time" will be released January 18th!
Donny McCaslin has recorded over a dozen albums as a bandleader in addition to many sideman appearances, and came to wider prominence when David Bowie hired McCaslin's ensemble as his backing band for "Blackstar" in 2016
★ was released on January 8th 2016, coinciding with Bowie's 69th birthday. The album was largely recorded in secret between The Magic Shop and Human Worldwide Studios in New York City with Bowie's longtime co-producer Tony Visconti and a group of local jazz musicians.
Two days after its release, Bowie died of liver cancer; his illness had not been revealed to the public until then. Co-producer Visconti described the album as Bowie's intended swan song and a "parting gift" for his fans before his death.
The title of the album is taken from the opening scene of Blade Runner, where the main character is reading a newspaper, headlined: "Farming the Oceans, the Moon and Antarctica."
Check out Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever when they came to KEXP earlier this Summer! www.youtube.com
The Detroit Cobras are an American garage rock band from Detroit, Michigan, formed in 1994.
Check out more from Sheer Mag here: sheermag.bandcamp.com
Check out Acapulco Lips right here at KEXP back in 2016: www.youtube.com
Deerhunter is preparing to release their Eighth album, co-produced by Cate Le Bon, Ben H. Allen, and Ben Etter as well as the band itself. The album titled "Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared?" is due out January 18th!
Natalie Prass dropped by KEXP back in September and delivered this awesome set!: www.youtube.com
Jenn Cahmpion will be playing at the Timbrrr Winter Music Festival in Leavenworth WA, Friday & Saturday, January 25th-26th!
Grimes' first single in over 3 years. 'We Appreciate Power' was released in preparation for Grimes' 5th album due out sometime in 2019
During working nights as a handyman and janitor at the Right Track Studio in Cleveland, Ohio, Reznor used studio "down-time" to record and develop his own music.[2] Playing most of the keyboards, drum machines, guitars, and samplers himself, he recorded a demo. The sequencing was done on a Macintosh Plus.[3]
With the help of manager John Malm, Jr., he sent the demo to various record labels. Reznor received contract offers from many of the labels, but eventually signed with TVT Records, who were known mainly for releasing novelty and television jingle records. Pretty Hate Machine was recorded in various studios with Reznor collaborating with some of his most idolized producers: Flood, Keith LeBlanc, Adrian Sherwood, and John Fryer. Much like his recorded demo, Reznor refused to record the album with a conventional band, recording Pretty Hate Machine mostly by himself.
The album name, “Amorfo” translates to “Amorphous”, which the band believes represents the nature of expression and the endless possibilities that come from the vulnerability they share in their writing process. The album art is made by band member Ulises Mariscal who used collage to represent the album’s sound stemming partially from the trio’s ability to be open with each other about their history, challenges and strengths.
Bodega released their debut album "Endless Scroll" this Summer!
'Constant Image" is an album of anxiety and escape, but also one of euphoria and freedom. There’s weight and lightness here. It’s not often a debut album arrives in so complete a form but when it does you know you’ve got something special on your hands. flasherdc.bandcamp.com
Jo Passed came to KEXP earlier this year and delivered this great set!: www.youtube.com
The song was meant as a forthright apology (for signing a lucrative record deal) to the Manchester fans who had been there from the start.
Lebanon Hanover will be returning to the U.S. for the first time in 5 years! They'll be playing on April 19th along with Soft Kill in Portland at the Bossanova Ballroom!
