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Saturday, Jun 6 2020, 12PM
Ambar Lucid told Rolling Stone, “I was often told that my dreams were unrealistic and impossible. I am on a lifetime journey to prove them wrong.”
Listen to a conversation between Thao Nguyen and KEXP's Emily Fox about how the latest Thao & The Get Down Stay Down album is about coming out to her Vietnamese family and processing her family’s story of war: www.kexp.org
Black Visions Collective is a black, trans, and queer-led social justice organization and legal fund based in Minneapolis-St. Paul, a wonderful place to donate: www.blackvisionsmn.org
This Friday, Bandcamp waives its fees so that 100% of support goes to the artists to help during COVID-19.
littlesimz.bandcamp.com
Debut album from Brooklyn-based Korean-American producer Kathy Lee. yaeji.com
BRONSON is the new collaboration between local duo ODESZA and Golden Features. The full-length release is due on July 17th: preorder.wearebronson.com
Lawrence "Kris" Parker, better known by his stage names KRS-One, , rose to prominence as part of the hip hop music group Boogie Down Productions, which he formed with DJ Scott La Rock in the mid-1980s.
This is the eleventh full-length record for the long-running New York band: woodsfamilyband.bandcamp.com
The sophomore release from Phoebe Bridgers is set to arrive on June 19th here: phoebebridgers.bandcamp.com
Fire in the Radio is a band from Philadelphia. Monuments is their third album.
Watch DoNormaal's live in-studio performance at KEXP: www.youtube.com
Find this new one from from the enigmatic Yves Tumor here: yves-tumor.bandcamp.com
Debut record from this London drummer mosesboyd.bandcamp.com
South London drummer Moses Boyd has released a debut solo album after several high profile collaborations. This track is a "reminder to love yourself and never forget your self worth."
Empress Of will be LIVE on KEXP at Home Tuesday, June 9 at 12pm PT
“I’ve definitely grown as an artist. I think that this is my best album to date. I just think it does a lot of things that take everything I’ve done to another level, and because I produced most of it, the production really sounds like an Empress Of record.”
“It’s always been important for me to elevate my culture as a Latin American and I think I’m really doing that. Having my mom say “it wasn’t easy to learn English”, on the opening track and then just hearing her accent and hearing her experiences. I think I’m really encompassing everything right now.”
This fifth album from Perfume Genius, the alias of Seattle-raised, LA-based Mike Hadreas, is out now here: perfumegenius.org
R.I.P. Lynn Shelton. Shelton once said about Tomo: "It was like the most transcendent experience I’ve had in a live music situation. Literally, at the time, I thought to myself, 'That voice in this space has to go into one of my movies.'" Which is how Tomo ended up writing music for Touchy Feely.
Kenny Dixon, Jr., better known as deep-house hero Moodymann, whose career spans 25-plus years and an influence that can’t be overstated. Dixon was sitting in a van outside his own building in Detroit when someone reported “suspicious behavior” and the cops rolled up with their chaos. He made it out alive. Echoes of the conflict are all over his new album.
Moodymann first sold his last album, 2019’s Sinner, at a barbecue he held during Detroit’s Movement festival. And although Movement is cancelled (and going virtual) thanks to the pandemic, Moodymann is out here selling a new album anyway.
