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"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.
Sylvan Esso shared a live set that included "Ferris Wheel" during a recent KEXP Live at Home performance: www.youtube.com
According to the album's press release, Free Your Mind was inspired by the two different Summers of Love (San Francisco's in 1967 and Britain's in 1988 and 1989).
Gabriels is a Los Angeles-based trio made up of singer Jacob Lusk and producers Ryan Hope and Ari Balouzian. "Love and Hate in a Different Time" is their debut EP; support their work here: gabriels.bandcamp.com
The London rapper recorded her 2020 EP, 'Drop 6,' over the month of April while in isolation from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Barack Obama included this song on his 2020 Summer Playlist: pitchfork.com
Sault are an anonymous British music collective that despite critical acclaim, they eschew interaction with the media.
Stockholm-based artist Sibille Attar's new album "A History of Silence" comes out this Friday!
sibilleattar.bandcamp.com
Phoenix was conceived in the 1990s when vocalist Thomas Mars, bassist Deck d'Arcy, and guitarist Chris Mazzalai, who were all friends in school, started playing together as a "garage band" based out of Mars's house in the suburbs of Paris. In 1995, Laurent Brancowitz, Mazzalai's older brother, permanently joined the band on guitar after the end of Darlin', a short-lived band that Brancowitz had formed with Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, who would later form electronic duo, Daft Punk.
José González released his first new song in over five years last Wednesday with the track "El Invento." The song is the first in the Swedish singer-songwriter's career to feature lyrics in Spanish. González credits releasing his first work in Spanish to speaking the language with his young daughter in a statement: "Every now and then I try to write lyrics in Spanish - this time I succeeded! I guess talking to Laura in Spanish every day helped. I started writing "El Invento" around 2017 when she was born. The song is about the questions - who we are, where we’re going and why? Whom can we thank for our existence? Historically, most traditions have invented answers to these questions. Thereof the name of the song: The Invention (god)." www.pastemagazine.com
A Psychic TV cover - Tim Rutilli rediscovered this song "while digging through boxes of trinkets and records as he settled into California. He discovered a mix CD with "The Orchids", the opening cut from Psychic TV's 1983 album Dreams Less Sweet. "
First single from the upcoming third album, 'A Billion Little Lights' from this NYC band, out this Friday, February 19, 2021. In a press release, Wild Pink frontman John Ross talked about this track, which also features vocals from the Ratboys' Julia Steiner:
"It was inspired by Carl Sagan’s Cosmos as well as “If I Needed You” by Townes Van Zandt, this song is named for a grim retirement home in Florida. It’s about somebody who was born sheltered realizing how large the world is and how unimportant they are. Julia Steiner’s vocal contributions brought the song to fruition, and it was a lot of fun to make. We spent a lot of time focusing on the drums and percussion, using a phone recording of some cicadas in a quieter part towards the end of the song, and I really like all the stuff Dan came up with like the Agogo bells and Rototoms."
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Vagabon, is a Cameroonian-American autodidact multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and music producer based in New York City. She played live at KEXP this past December. Watch the full performance here: www.youtube.com
Watch the trailer for "Judas and the Black Messiah":
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"Arular" is the political code name used by M.I.A.'s father, Arul Pragasam, during his involvement with Sri Lankan Tamil militant groups. Themes of conflict and revolution feature heavily in the lyrics and artwork.
Great Pitchfork interview with Richards about all the moves she made in the past year, from recording her new album (due in April), upgrading her New Orleans vegan food truck, and a partnership with Adult Swim "aimed at bringing in more queer and Black animators into its ranks."
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Howard Jones was born on this day in 1955 in Southampton, England.
Io Echo is an American indie rock band formed in Los Angeles by Ioanna Gika and Leopold Ross.
Balthazar have shared new track “On A Roll” ahead of their forthcoming album Sand, now slated for release on February 26th via Play It Again Sam. Balthazar writing and frontman partnership Jinte Deprez explains: “The song and video is about the repetitive lack of control you have on situations, your life, your own ways. Even for a moment when you think you can escape your own loop, you find yourself right back at the start again, finding out the changes didn’t change the outcome, or you.”
Pinback are an indie rock band from San Diego, California, currently signed to Temporary Residence Ltd.
Swedish pop band consisting of Andrew Wyatt and collab producting team Bloodshy & Avant perform as Miike Snow -- a name influenced by Japanese horror master Takashi Miike. The trio produced hits including Britney Spears' "Toxic".
Check out this video of Miike Snow performing their song "Burial" live on KEXP back in 2009: bit.ly
Django Django collectively had this to say about the song in a press release: “It’s really about the planet being in such a mess that we eventually have to leave."
There's a video for it that features a young alien. James Canty directed the video.: www.youtube.com
The Word is Bond wrote of the new album: "This multimedia project sees the LA-based multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer share an unapologetic critique detailing the systemic and malevolent psychology that afflicts people of color."
The full article here: www.thewordisbond.com
Dead Can Dance were founded in Melbourne, Australia by Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard, a domestic couple who had been part of the Melbourne “Little Band” experimental post-punk scene: tinyurl.com
Watch a performance by Brendan Perry of a Tim Buckley cover in the KEXP studio in 2011: youtu.be
This London-based artist’s debut album is a promising set of retro-leaning, jazz-tinged R&B that’s reminiscent at times of Adele along with Amy Winehouse, featuring a warm, soulful sound with acoustic and electric guitars, keyboards, horns, strings and more accompanying her dynamic, smoky vocals and lyrics of love, loss and autonomy.
“Some songs take on a lot of forms until they finally end up the way they do and this was one definitely one of those,” explains Cherry Glazerr’s Clementine Creevy. “It lived a few different lives for sure, I just kept changing up the rhythms until I was like, ‘oh yeah that’s it right there!’ I wanted to give it a sort of early ‘aughts pop production feel, with the interplay between the acoustic guitar figure and the bass synth and the 808 hits during the choruses.” bit.ly
cherryglazerr.bandcamp.com
David West's power-pop project Rat Columns are based out of Perth, Australia -- their fourth album drops on Feb 12, with engineering by Griffin Harrison and DW, and mixing from Mikey Young. In a statement, the band describes the album as "plunging headfirst into an azure sea of power pop, rock’n’roll and indie. The tones are bright and optimistic, though fans of confusion and gloom will still find solace in the album’s darker moments, of which there are a few. "
Check out the video for "I Can't Live On Love: youtu.be
Pre-order "Pacific Kiss" here: smarturl.it
ratcolumnsband.bandcamp.com
Check out a great NPR feature on the Madlib / Four Tet collaboration on Madlib's new 'Sound Ancestors' album: ". . . pulling himself in a multitude of directions 'jazz for four hours, then hip-hop or do electronic music for a few... I don't organize, I do everything at once'" www.npr.org
Holy F**k performed live on KEXP back in 2016, check out their full performance here: www.youtube.com
Here is Mogwai's full performance live on KEXP back in 2018: www.youtube.com
U.S. Girls is a Toronto-based experimental pop project formed in 2007, consisting solely of American musician and record producer Meghan Remy.
This cut features Seattle artist
Joel Ricci (Lucky Brown) who has also played with The Westsound Union, Port Angels, Crawdad Farmers and L.B.'s. This re-release supports #blacklivesmatter, police reform and justice and equality for all people.: musicfestnews.com
Polyrhythmics played a full live performance for KEXP in 2017. Enjoy their set here: kexp.org
This cut features Seattle artist
Joel Ricci (Lucky Brown) who has also played with The Westsound Union, Port Angels, Crawdad Farmers and L.B.'s. This re-release supports #blacklivesmatter, police reform and justice and equality for all people.: musicfestnews.com
Polyrhythmics played a full live performance for KEXP in 2017. Enjoy their set here: kexp.org
The latest release from this Seattle artist features artists from 17 different countries rapping about different aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic.
This song is featured on KEXP's "The Weekly Mix, Vol. 754 - Things Are Looking Up" from earlier this month. Download the podcast for FREE and subscribe to future KEXP podcasts: bit.ly.
Irish band SOAK performing live in the KEXP studio in 2019. Watch the full session, including this track, here: youtu.be
"I wrote ‘Bad News’ last November, originally as a song about climate change – a threat that feels so big, so existential, that sometimes it’s easier for us to just look away,” says Frazer. “But today, I think it’s taken on a new meaning. It’s become a song that gives voice to the things everybody is experiencing right now: isolation, and figuring out how to get through our daily life in the face of relentless bad news.”
www.soultracks.com
Check out the video: youtu.be
aaronfrazermusic.bandcamp.com
Stay tuned for the upcoming KEXP Live at Home Session with Aaron Frazer! You can stay up to date with all of our upcoming events and releases here: www.kexp.org
Vancouver-based Yu Su is a DJ, composer and sounds artist whose music is "best described as organically groovy jazz-bient expeditions between coasts. A proficient instrumentalist who conjures up moments of natural and synthetic beauty, her delicate, dub-inflected signature balances a variety of luminous and wistful downtempo textures." yusu.bandcamp.com
Myles MacInnes, better known by his stage name Mylo, is a Scottish electronic musician and record producer. Mylo released his debut album, Destroy Rock & Roll in 2004, on the Breastfed Recordings label, which he co-owns. He produced the album on a computer in his own bedroom.
The latest album from veteran Boston-raised, NYC-based DJ/producer Statik Selektah is a sharp set of assured hip-hop that finds him supplying his trusty boom-bap beats for a stacked roster of guest MCs that includes Nas, Black Thought, Method Man, Killer Mike, Joey Bada$$, Jadakiss, Styles P, 2 Chainz, Conway The Machine, Dave East, Benny The Butcher, Jack Harlow, and more.
KEXP's Early show host Gabriel Teodros talked with Blu & Exile back in December - check out their conversation and an exclusive set for KEXP Live at Home:
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This Seattle-based trio’s third album is a well-crafted set of brooding electro-pop with an often-spacious sound featuring spacy synths, atmospheric guitars, moody trip hop beats and haunting melodies.
Sevda Alizadeh, known as the artist Sevdaliza, was born in Iran and immigrated to the Netherlands at the age of 5. She explores themes of immigration and duel cultures in her music, including on her second studio album 'Shabrang.'
sevdaliza.bandcamp.com
The eerie percussion and guitar were sampled from Lalo Schifrin's "Danube Incident," music composed by the Argentine composer for an episode of Mission Impossible.
Check out our exclusive interview with Portishead's Geoff Barrow and Adrian Utley about the 25th anniversary of this iconic album here: www.kexp.org
This fourth full-length from Washington, DC’s Eva Moolchan (Sneaks) provides a party-perfect groove with electronic dance beats and a Liquid Liquid-influenced bass line. "Faith" was the KEXP Song of the Day for September 30th. Download the song and subscribe to the podcast here: www.kexp.org