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Chicago producer & multi-instrumentalist Peter CottonTale features a slew of talented musicians on his year-end track "Together"
“I guess it’s those parallel lines – rave music and gospel music are both a collective reaching for something higher, an attempt to transcend.” – The Avalanches in a track-by-track interview with The Music: themusic.com.au
Count Basie and His Orchestra first released "Good Morning Blues" as a 10" in 1937
Wo'Pop DJ Darek Mazzone recently interviewed K&D. You can watch it at www.youtube.com
Alter ego of UK singer-songwriter-producer Dev Hynes. bloodorange.net
Local musician Clinton Fearon was LIVE from John in the Morning's Lawn on Friday, November 20
Longtime Stones Throw affiliate Madlib joined up with electronic musician Four Tet this year to drop "Road of the Lonely Ones," a single heralding the January 2021 arrival of their album of the same name.
Eric Burton and Adrian Quesada of Black Pumas cover Lou Rawls
Dutch electronic musicians Harm Coolen and Merijn Scholte Albers are the people behind Weval. They started collaborating in 2010 when they met in the film industry and discovered their shared musical interests. weval.net
The lyrics of Gary Numan's 1979 B-side follows an android who wishes to be human
Darkside is an electronic collaboration between producer Nicolas Jaar and artist Dave Harrington. Enjoy their live 2013 KEXP performance here: kexp.org
Watch Durand Jones & The Indications performing this one live for KEXP in April 2019 here:
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Support the artists: durandjonesandtheindications.com
This was the first time .Paak and Lamar officially collaborated on a track. Produced by .Paak, BADBADNOTGOOD's Matt Tavares and Om'Mas Keith. andersonpaak.com
Prince's only Christmas song in his whole career, "Another Lonely Christmas" was released in November of 1984
The 100th 45 released by Daptone Records. This track, originally on The Frightnrs album 'Nothing More to Say', features Charles Bradley, Sharon Jones, Lee Fields, James Hunter. daptonerecords.bandcamp.com
Stevie Wonder told NPR: "I've always been a lover of music. And the thing with 'Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing,' when I did the demo, I was just saying some things. You know, I didn't speak Spanish. But that's, I think, part of the whole excitement of me being raised in the Midwest. You had radio stations that you have maybe a couple hours of Spanish music. You have some Italian music. You have some gospel music. You have some jazz. You have all these various varieties of music. Now, you hear some Arabic stations. You hear all of the various accents. And so like, I never imagined that I would be going to these places, but I'll praise to God I was able to - being able to travel to so many places. And so that was me mocking sort of the sound of it."
“I was so excited to get to work on this project as I’ve always been a big fan of Brittany’s music,” Kiwanuka said in a statement. “Knowing this particular track and being such a fan of her voice, I wanted to not meddle with her voice, and then to make it front and center. She sounds so victorious when she sings and speaks, so the music I made was governed by that.” - pitchfork.com
Free Love is the third studio album by duo Sylvan Esso, made up of singer Amelia Meath and producer Nick Sanborn, released on September 25, 2020.
Amelia said that this is her favorite thing she’s ever made, partly because there is so much less pressure making a third album.
“Ferris Wheel” is the jam of the Summer, but this whole album is full of goodness.
Live at Home 2020: www.youtube.com
This track samples the legendary song ‘Lowdown’ by Boz Scaggs,” Disclosure said in a statement. “We really wanted to try to focus in on those wonderful backing vocals that permeate through the original and give it such soul. They ended up becoming the focal point of the entire track. Bring chopped and skewed to their limit. The whole thing was one big audio science experiment for us.”
The infectious electronic duo from Brisbane Australia shared this ostensibly holiday track in 2018. www.confidenceman.com.au
Kali sings about folks who appropriate her art and vision, especially in the music industry, in her 2018 track "Your Teeth in my Neck"
Travis Stewart, better known as Machinedrum, is an American electronic music producer and performer from North Carolina.
machinedrum.net
Blue Hawaii are a Montreal duo composed of Braids member Raphaelle "Ra" Standell-Preston and Alex "Agor" Kerby (also known as Alexander Cowan). www.facebook.com
Pennies from Heaven was first written in 1936, introduced in a film of the same name staring Bing Crosby
New music:
www.polyrhythmics.com
And another KEXP live!
www.youtube.com
Taste of Pluto is a hip-hop collective based out of the isle of Dominica and Barbados
This Pantha-produced track is a dedication to Kingston, Jamaica.
Gabriel Piotrowski (Biga Ranx) is a French ragga hip hop musician from Tours, France, about 100 miles southwest of Paris. www.facebook.com
Watch Lila Ike perform LIVE on KEXP at Home here: www.youtube.com
Watch Courtney Marie Andrews LIVE on KEXP at Home: www.youtube.com
The third and final album of Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros was completed shortly after the death of the frontman
Preston's music encompassed many different genres including R&B, rock, soul, funk, and gospel. In the 1960's, he backed artists such as Little Richard, Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, Everly Brothers, Reverend James Cleveland, and the Beatles.
Jamaican Reggae artist Johnny Clarke covers this Christmas hit
NEW MUSIC from the Memphis-born, Mississippi-raised singer/songwriter celebrating Blackness!
Check out a Colors video of the song:
youtu.be
An outspoken voice in the normally non-confrontational world of electronic dance music, Moodymann (Kenny Dixon Jr.) is committed to keeping a distinctly black imprint on techno and house. Moodymann worked at several Detroit record stores in the mid-nineties including a store owned by producer Blake Baxter. During the mid-nineties Kenny was also the resident DJ at the Detroit based Outcast Motorcycle Club. At that time he was known as "House". www.residentadvisor.net
moodymann.bandcamp.com
24-year old Alex Crossan, aka Mura Masa, has demonstrated his production chops in a grunge-turned-techno remix of London up-and-comers PVA’s “Talks”. Stripping all but the vocals, Crossan’s take on the new age-y track is injected with a rising synth loop and distorted percussive elements. All that combined with Ella Harris’ grounded vocals reminiscent of SOPHIE makes for an infectious groove that belongs in a UK underground rave circa 1989.
In a statement, Crossan divulged: "I’m a really big fan of PVA since hearing ‘Divine Intervention’, so when they very kindly let me hear their new music I jumped at the chance to put my own twist on Talks. I think they’ve got a very refreshing take on a very classic sound so I tried to do a similar thing with my remix." bit.ly
Oliver Siebert, better known by his stage name Oliver Dollar is a German record producer who collaborated with Seven Davis, Jr., a producer and vocalist who flits between rugged house and left-of-center R&B.
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