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Brand NEW record just dropped yesterday!: maimounayoussef.bandcamp.com "Maimouna Youssef also known as Mumu Fresh is GRAMMY-Nominated, Indigenous Music award-winning, 3 X Washington Area Music award (WAMMIE) winning, Urban World Music Video award-winning, Musical and Cultural Ambassador for the US State Department, former elected governor of the DC chapter of The Recording Academy, and co-creator of the Recording Academy’s “Best Song for Social Change” award." Mumu Fresh performed live on KEXP last November: www.youtube.com

New sounds from Seattle featuring Noel Brass Jr., co-host of KEXP's Jazz Theatre. afrocop.bandcamp.com

Dayes is joined by his longtime collaborators Rocco Palladino, Venna, Elijah Fox, and Alexander Bourt on the new release, which was originally shared as a live-performance video filmed in the Malibu mountains last year and is available on YouTube. www.youtube.com yussefdayes.bandcamp.com yussefdayes.com

Check out KEXP's latest podcast, Palestine Amplified is a four-part series exploring the Palestinian struggle through music. www.kexp.org

On this day in 2020 Moses Sumney released the second half of Græ.

For the South-London raised composer Swindle, 2020's global COVID-19 response provided the impetus for "THE NEW WORLD". Initially numbed by the early pandemic and its halting of the physical music business, Swindle fought back, employing an "avengers equivalent" roster of Black British musical talent to craft the new project. "We were going through isolation, difficult conversations around race and racism and it was made with a real pure intention. A soundtrack to our healing. It's a very unique album to me, an album that happened to us. I hope you enjoy it." bit.ly swindleuk.bandcamp.com swindle.world

New single dropped in January. www.youtube.com www.protoje.com

New Music from Kamasi Washington! The album "Fearless Movement" will feature Thundercat, Taj Austin, Ras Austin, Patrice Quinn, DJ Battlecat, Brandon Coleman, D-Smoke, George Clinton, Bj the Chicago Kid, and Andre 3000, and is set to be released May 3rd, 2024 kamasiwashington.bandcamp.com

"'Stand Tall' is the first song I recorded when I started working on this album in 2020," Rapsody says. "I would say it represents my desire to speak to my humanness in the most free way. It started me on the journey, and it required me to be fearless, which is why I titled it 'Stand Tall' – be firm in who you are, legs straight, shoulder back, chest out." The two-minute song comes with a five-minute video/short film featuring Rapsody in conversation with friend and actress Sanaa Lathan. youtu.be

Debut album, "Black on Both Sides" features live instrumentation and was recorded in one take. "Umi" means "Mother" in Arabic. Written by Mos Def and David Kennedy, the track features will.i.am on the Fender Rhodes and Wedon Irvine on the Hammond.

Squeeze cover! The original recording was released ON THIS DAY in 1981 on their album "East Side Story".

Raised in Cumbria and now based in London, Bryony Jarman-Pinto is an expressive and adventurous singer-songwriter, combining harmonious vocals and mesmerizing jazz-fused melodies with personal and complex lyrics. bryonyjarman-pinto.bandcamp.com www.bryonyjarmanpinto.com

Here's a recent in-depth New York Times article on Beyoncé's great new album, "COWBOY CARTER": www.nytimes.com -- Check out the official music video for "BODYGUARD" by Beyoncé here, enjoy: www.youtube.com

New York peeps! Catch Angélica Garcia at Elsewhere in Brooklyn Tuesday, July 9th. 'Gemelo' is the new album from songwriter and pop auteur Angélica Garcia. Its title is a reference to the twin self – the idea of a second, more intuitive self within. It’s a vibrant, prismatic hybrid-pop record that soundtracks a journey through the different stages and forms of grief. Angélica explores its inherent loneliness, beauty, and tension, eventually finding liberation. 'Gemelo' also expertly deconstructs facets of universal themes like religion, spirit, heritage, womanhood, and ancestral veneration. angelicagarcia.bandcamp.com

adioasis.bandcamp.com www.adioasis.com

Another Taste is a Rotterdam-born concept band formed by a group of longtime friends, consisting of Bobby van Putten (keys), Bob Roche (bass), Barend Lippens (keys) and Teun van Zoggel (drums). another-taste.bandcamp.com

Sixth studio release from the Brazilian artist. Featuring Ladybug Mecca from Digable Planets.

New music from bad tuner, the Brooklyn-based dance/electronic producer. badtuner.bandcamp.com IG: @bad_tuner

Daft Punk sampled George Duke's "I Love You More" for "Digital Love." -- The lyrics for this song were were written by DJ Sneak and sung by Daft Punk themselves. -- Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo noted the duo's use of in-studio equipment to evoke the sound of a previous artist: "On 'Digital Love,' you get this Supertramp vibe on the bridge. We didn't sample Supertramp, but we had the original Wurlitzer piano they used, so we thought it would be more fun to have the original instrument and mess around with it. We use mainly vintage synthesizers, like older electric pianos like the Rhodes, Wurlitzer, Clavinet. We didn't use the Clavinet on Discovery, but I usually use it in my studio."

Happy Birthday to Bradford Cox (1982), Lead Singer in Deerhunter and solo artist (as Atlas Sound)

Bob Dylan's Jewish paternal grandparents emigrated from Odessa in the Russian Empire (now Ukraine). -- In the liner notes to The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, Dylan says of "Masters Of War": "I've never really written anything like that before. I don't sing songs which hope people will die, but I couldn't help it with this one. The song is a soft of striking out, a reaction to the last straw, a feeling of what can you do?"

On this day in 2007 Wilco released their album "Sky Blue Sky".