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West African musician Falle Nioke and British producer Ghost Culture combine on this new release.
Falle Nioke came to the UK three years ago, a musician with a deep sense of heritage but also an incredible sense of daring, with a grasp of the depth of possibilities creativity can bring.
Ghost Culture came into his orbit, and the pair seem able to interact on a profound level, with the results arriving this summer.
Boozoo Bajou is a musical duo, Florian Seyberth and Peter Heider, from Germany. They are noted for their distinct blend of Cajun sounds with island rhythms.
Psychedelic funk trio Khruangbin have just dropped their new album, Mordechai.
The new record was inspired by an encounter bassist Laura Lee had with a near-stranger. According to a statement, a man named Mordechai invited her to go hiking with his family to a distant waterfall. As she jumped into the water at Mordechai’s encouragement, she screamed her full name — Laura Lee Ochoa — in a moment she compared to a baptism. Her heritage reclaimed, the newly-rechristened Ochoa left the waterfall overflowing with words that went on to fill hundreds of notebook pages. The question was what to do with them.
Illuminati Hotties are tenderpunk pioneers illuminatihotties.bandcamp.com
The National’s Matt Berninger has shared his new song “Distant Axis” from the singer’s upcoming solo album Serpentine Prison.
Berninger’s debut solo LP, due out October 2nd via Book Records, was produced by Memphis legend Booker T. Jones and features contributions from David Bowie bassist Gail Ann Dorsey, Andrew Bird, fellow National members and the Walkmen’s Walter Martin, who co-wrote “Distant Axis.”
BRONSON is a new project made up of members of ODESZA and Golden Features
Seattle-based artist Left at London (aka Nat Puff) follows up the release of last year's EP Transgender Street Legend, Vol. 1 with her new digital 7" single, Jenny Durkan, Resign in Disgrace, out today.://www.kexp.org/read/2020/7/20/left-london-releases-new-digital-single-jenny-durkan-resign-disgrace/
“We found ourselves reminiscing about some mid-’00s electro releases and feeling a nostalgia for those early trips,” Dom Goldsmith said of the track. Read more here: www.stereogum.com
Mike Hadreas of Perfume Genius recently performed tracks from his latest release, Set My Heart on Fire Immediately, LIVE on KEXP at Home: www.youtube.com
New single from this South London band. They will release their debut full-length on November 6.
Cranes are a British music group formed in 1985 whose style has been described as "gothic minimalism"
Dehd have announced their next album. It’s called Flower of Devotion and it arrives July 17 via Fire Talk. It’s the second album from the Chicago-based indie rock trio of Emily Kempf, Jason Balla, and Eric McGrady, following the 2019 debut Water.
Michael J. Moore from NPR wrote about this one, "SAULT's latest and best album, is a capital-B Black record that funnels rage and sorrow into contemplative streams of thought, over equally brooding music meant to slow your heart rate."
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Chico Mann is the alter ego of guitarist Marcos Garcia, of the Daktaris and Antibalas. He was a founding member of both bands. As Mann, he is a solo artist and producer
Groove Armada are an English electronic music duo, composed of Andy Cato and Tom Findlay.
Find this new collection of previously unreleased archives from KEXP's own Gabriel Teodros here: gabrielteodros.bandcamp.com
Gabriel will now host the Early show Monday-Friday on KEXP: www.kexp.org
Not only are artists struggling during the times of COVID-19, but independent record labels as well. You can support Caribou's label, Merge Records, by purchasing his music from their website: www.mergerecords.com
Crack Cloud: multimedia collective channelling turmoil into exhilarating art-punk www.nme.com
Second album from this British trio. Watch Dream Wife at KEXP: www.youtube.com
"Kyoto" was a recent KEXP Song of The Day Podcast, which you can download for free here: www.kexp.org Bridgers says "this song is about impostor syndrome. About being in Japan for the first time, somewhere I’ve always wanted to go, and playing my music to people who want to hear it, feeling like I’m living someone else's life. I dissociate when bad things happen to me, but also when good things happen. It can feel like I’m performing what I think I’m supposed to be like.
Brooklyn-based musician post-trash.com
New single from the band that hails from Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Watch them performing live at KEXP in 2018 here: www.youtube.com
New single from the band that hails from Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Watch them performing live at KEXP in 2018 here: www.youtube.com
Day of the Dead is an epic tribute to the music and artistry of the Grateful Dead, curated by Aaron and Bryce Dessner of The National. They have brought together some of their favourite musicians to reinterpret the songs and sounds of the Dead for a new generation. www.dayofthedeadmusic.com
The second album from Sam Eastgate (aka LA Priest), formerly of Late Of The Pier. www.dominomusic.com
The Coup is an American hip hop band from Oakland, California. Frontman Boots Riley's revolutionarily-charged lyrics rank The Coup as a renowned political hip hop band aligned to radical music groups such as Crass, Dead Prez and Rage Against the Machine.
Check out this video from their 2013 in studio performance: www.youtube.com
Happy birthday to Damian Marley, who turned 42 today.
Album Review: Protomartyr Challenge Power Structures and Face Mortality on Ultimate Success Today
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Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star is the follow-up to Sonic Youth's 1992 album Dirty, which was released by DGC in the wake of Nirvana's breakthrough into the mainstream. After Dirty, Sonic Youth decided to step away from major-label alternative rock acts, which singer and guitarist Thurston Moore thought the media associated the band with. Touring with indie rock bands like Pavement, Sebadoh, and Royal Trux inspired Sonic Youth to write a quieter and more subtle album.
New Cloud Nothings record! cloudnothings.bandcamp.com
Second full-length from this Finnish ensemble is out now, find 'Kuru Kuru' here: queennanny.bandcamp.com
The eight-person collective performed live at KEXP in 2018. Watch here: www.youtube.com
The album From Here To Eternity was released on this day in 1977.
This self-titled debut album from Alvvays was released on this day in 2014. Watch Alvvays perform this song LIVE on KEXP from December 2014: www.youtube.com
New collaborative single from local artists Chong the Nomad and Hollis Wong-Wear. Get it here: chongthenomad.bandcamp.com
Debut album from Brooklyn-based Korean-American producer Kathy Lee. yaeji.com
Dave Sitek (TV On The Radio) and Daniel Ledinsky have a new band, The Neverly Boys, and their debut album 'Dark Side Of Everything' is out now: theneverlyboys.com
Skinshape is a project of UK artist Will Dorey. skinshape.bandcamp.com
New song from Anderson .Paak that references both police brutality and COVID-19. The artwork for this single features a long list of names of black people who have been recent victims of police brutality: Ahmaud Abrery, Breonna Taylor, Philando Castile, Alton Sterling, Trayvon Martin, and George Floyd, to name a few. Read more about it here: www.complex.com
Ghetto Kumbé is composed of three of the most skilful musicians from the popping modern Colombian scene: El Guajiro (singer of La 33 , La Otra Banda and former singer of Sidestepper,), Chongo (percussionist of Sidestepper, Toto La Momposina, Ondatrópica, among many others) and Doctor Keyta (African music specialist and percussionist in the dancing company “Zarabanda” & L’arpeggiata).
"Chillwave OG" Ernest Greene's new self-produced album, "Purple Noon" is out 8/7 via Sub Pop. He recently worked on Sudan Archives' album "Athena" bit.ly