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After submitting a demo via email to Thievery Corporation's Eighteenth Street Lounge Music, he was signed quickly to the label, and released his debut album Gran Hotel Buenos Aires, produced by Thievery Corporation, in 2004
In a press release, González says: I wrote “Head On” as a combat song or a list of instructions…a manual. I mean both “straight ahead” and head ON — as in switching on your mind." - bit.ly
Christine and the Queens, who said Sophie was “a stellar producer, a visionary, a reference. She rebelled against the narrow, normative society by being an absolute triumph, both as an artist and as a woman. I can’t believe she is gone. We need to honour and respect her memory and legacy. Cherish the pioneers.www.theguardian.com
This debut album from recent Seattle transplant Dean Stafford (aka Early Internet) is a sharp set of nostalgic, melancholic, dreamy indie-pop that taps into a melodic and slightly emo-tinged early 2000s sound reminiscent at times of Death Cab For Cutie, The Go Find, and Jimmy Eat World. Featuring lyrics that reflect on feelings of missed windows of opportunity and lush guitar-driven backdrops, You're Just In Time To Miss Everything carries a distinctively moody, introspective, catchy presence that feels second nature to the Pacific Northwest.
Barnett had this to say about the song in a press release: “I think my stance in the past was like, ‘There’s so many love songs and they don’t mean anything,’ but there’s something really special about zooming in on a moment and capturing it. ‘If I Don’t Hear From You Tonight’ comes from the state of where my head was at—trying to communicate honestly instead of keeping [my feelings] guarded.” Read more at Under the Radar: tinyurl.com
Courtney Barnett will be Live in the KEXP Studio at noon on Tuesday, December 14th! She'll then play The Paramount Theatre in an all-ages show at 8PM that night, with special guest Bartees Strange: You can get tickets: tinyurl.com
Playing The Showbox Friday, April 22, 2022!
Here's Live Video from Parquet Courts' 2018 KEXP In-Studio, hosted by Cheryl Waters: bit.ly.
www.parquet-courts.com
From Lil Ugly Mane's latest album "VOLCANIC BIRD ENEMY AND THE VOICED CONCERN".. in all caps.
liluglymane.bandcamp.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).
New track from duo Amy Douglas and Hot Chip's Joe Goddard. Their self titled debut record is out this November: www.dominomusic.com
Nilüfer Yanya has announced her sophomore album today; it's titled "Painless" and will be released on March 4.
Lead single "Stabilise" is out now, and expresses how location and surroundings can affect individual emotions. The video for "Stabilise" premiered today, too.: www.youtube.com
"And what a slice of pop perfection Destroy Everything You Touch is. After the briefest of pulsating introductions, the pop harmonies set against the motorik style rhythm is at once familiar but thrillingly new. The song launches straight into what is in effect the first of three separate choruses which then proceed to pummel the listener into submission for the full 3.53 runtime. It is quite frankly astonishing and must be played LOUD."
"The lyrics are deliberately vague and cyclical but suggest a destructive relationship, acknowledged by a singer who seems either unable – or unwilling – to extract herself completely from."
Enjoy this treatise on this great song: intothepopvoid.com
The latest from Seattle-based project, Floored Faces.
flooredfaces.bandcamp.com
The first proper full-length album from this Brooklyn-based member of Palberta and My Idea is a diverse, hook-filled set with lyrics of heartache and new beginnings. The album’s varied sound ranges from propulsive dance-pop, atmospheric psych-pop and quirky synth-pop to driving, ‘90s-steeped rock, crunchy power-pop and more.
Of this track, Ian Devaney reveals, "After I dropped out of college I spent a number of years delivering pizzas and waiting tables while I lived at home and tried to get a music career going. One ends up spending a lot of time contending with unrealized dreams and feeling jealousy towards those who have moved on. There’s an inferiority complex that can set in, which if unchecked, can lead down a pretty bitter and self-destructive road. This is a song for driving down that road, as indecision and longing and regret cycle together into mania, until finally, at the end, quiet acceptance and peace wash over.
"As for the recording itself… For those later movements, we messed around with tape machines, running things at different speeds and sometimes backwards, talking about William Basinksi’s ‘Disintegration Loops’ and trying to see how we could achieve a similarly somber, ethereal ambiance, but in a comparatively very small space. This one in particular serves as a good example of how, on the album as a whole, we wanted to find a balance between steady motorik endlessness and more spacious ambient moments." bit.ly
New music from Baltimore's Snail Mail! Lindsey Jordan's sophomore album 'Valentine', just out this past Friday. snailmail.bandcamp.com
Snail Mail will be performing at the Moore Theatre Wednesday, April 20th 2022 (with The Goon Sax).
Watch Snail Mail play Live on KEXP, hosted by DJ Morgan back in 2018: bit.ly.
Playing Showbox SoDo Monday, March 21, 2022! - www.showboxpresents.com
Kendrick Lamar produced and curated the soundtrack for The Black Panther film. This track, "All the Stars," is a collaboration between Lamar and his labelmate SZA, and the soundtrack itself won the Grammy for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media in 2018.
Check out the article in The Atlantic: "How a Black Panther Music Video Taps Into an Old Trend" and how Lamar goes on a visually stunning voyage to Africa that’s loaded with symbolism and references to the continent’s many cultures. bit.ly
First single from the new project by Tricky, Lonely Guest. Featuring Joe Talbot from IDLES!
Seattle electronic duo ODESZA has teamed up with Australian EDM artist Golden Features on a project called BRONSON. Enjoy KEXP's Sound & Vision interview about their new album, making music collaboratively from opposite sides of the globe, and the effects of COVID-19 on musicians' work: www.kexp.org
Charli XCX is back with big “Sweet Dreams” energy and even bigger hair. Charli’s been teasing her new single “Good Ones” for weeks now, and now it’s finally here in all its blocky-synth glory.
A statement from Charli:
"I, the inimitable Charli XCX, am releasing a brand new single ‘Good Ones’, accompanied by a twisted, dramatic and quite frankly electrifying music video.
The first single of my new chapter embraces all that my life has to offer in today’s world – fame, glamour, inner demons and global hits. ‘Good Ones’ was produced by Oscar Holter of Max Martin’s Wolf Cousins entity, and laments my inability to keep hold of healthy relationships, instead being endlessly drawn back to the dysfunctional and toxic.
Filmed in Mexico and co-directed by my new favorite director: Hannah Lux Davis, the ‘Good Ones’ video sees me dramatically mourning the untimely loss of my partner as I battle with the realisation that once again I’ve abandoned the goodness in my life, in favour of the sinister, with a visual aesthetic that marks a new era of me: Charli XCX."
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Back with another new single, Mitski today announced her new album "Laurel Hell," which will be out February 4 via Dead Oceans. The latest song is titled "The Only Heartbreaker" and was co-written with Semisonic's Dan Wilson, who has a long history of working with musicians like Adele, Taylor Swift, and the Chicks (back when they were going by Dixie).
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Mitski said that the song depicts “the person always messing up in the relationship, the designated Bad Guy who gets the blame. It could simply be about that, but I also wanted to depict something sadder beneath the surface, that maybe the reason you’re always the one making mistakes is because you’re the only one trying.”
Earlier this year, serpentwithfeet released a great new album, "DEACON," and he’s releasing a companion EP called DEACON’S GROVE this month, which features two new songs and some reimaginings of album tracks.
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“When working on ‘Down Nuh River’ I was thinking of all the songs that me, my friends and cousins made up as kids,” Josiah Wise wrote in a statement. “We had so much fun creating and reinventing songs on the playground and the porch. I wanted to channel that energy in this track.”
KEXP will be celebrating the Native Tongues collective on Thursday, November 18th! The Native Tongues was a collective of late 1980s and early 1990s hip-hop artists known for their positive-minded, good-natured Afrocentric lyrics, and for pioneering the use of eclectic sampling and later jazz-influenced beats. Its principal members were the Jungle Brothers, De La Soul, and A Tribe Called Quest, but also included Black Sheep, Queen Latifah, Monie Love, and Chi-Ali.
The debut album from the duo, released in 1991, and went gold by 1992.
Watch the official video for "Point and Kill" with Nigerian/London artist Obongjayar:
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- and then check out Little Simz full performance live on KEXP and interview with Gabriel here:
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www.littlesimz.com
This New Orleans duo’s latest release is a fine four-song EP of hook-filled indie-pop with shimmering synths, atmospheric guitars, propulsive rhythms, soaring harmonies and buoyant melodies.
The debut album from this Swedish outfit is a fantastic set of nostalgic soul-pop that taps into the colorful, carefree, psychedelic spirit of the late 1970s but is further enhanced by sleek modern production techniques and a love for tasty drum breaks. Although sung entirely in Swedish, Dina ögon's groovy sound is universally engaging and has been fittingly described as "the lovechild of Fleetwood Mac, Eric B. & Rakim, Khruangbin and some obscure Motown b-side singles."
Bob Dylan: “… a voice like Billie Holiday’s and played the guitar like Jimmy Reed and went all the way with it.”
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Karen Dalton was one of the most original folk singers in the early 60s Greenwich Village scene but languished in obscurity – mostly of her own doing. She didn’t release an album until 1969. And she hated public performances. Carlos Santana met her at Woodstock and invited her to tour with him in Europe. She accepted and appeared in a few cities but refused to come out of her dressing room (paralyzed with fear) for the rest of the tour. She died in 1993 at the tender age of 55 from an AIDS related illness, destitute and homeless.: bit.ly
Part of the soundtrack to the Jeymes Samuel western featured on Netflix. The song was written by Jeymes Samuel and Shawn Carter.
"L.E.S. Artistes" (which stands for Lower East Side Artists) was written after Santi White (AKA Santigold) moved to New York City. In an interview with PopJustice, Santi details the track from her debut, saying the song "is playing on the fact that everyone tries to make things fancy and it's really pretentious". Read more about this song here: www.popjustice.com
The LA-based trio comprises gospel singer and choir director Jacob Lusk (from American Idol in 2011) alongside producers Ryan Hope and Ari Balouzian. gabriels.bandcamp.com
“When examining our life’s problems, we hastily assign blame – ‘This happened because of this…’ Our song ‘Blame’ seeks to examine the construct of not only fault and shame, but take a deep dive into the world of addiction, and indulgence," said Jacob Lusk when describing the track.
www.thelineofbestfit.com
gabriels.bandcamp.com
This London-based DJ/producer’s debut album is an adventurous set of experimental electronic music with playful synths, disjointed rhythms, mysterious samples, spoken, pitch-shifted vocals and lyrics of identity and change.
The song "Someone Great" takes its instrumental from one part of the band's six-part, 46-minute long 2006 composition "45:33". bit.ly 'Sound of Silver' was dedicated to "the memory of Dr. George Kamen (1942–2006), one of the great minds of his or any generation." The Bulgarian-born doctor was a pioneer of group therapy and had opened a practice in New York City. bit.ly -- LCD Soundsystem play "Someone Great" Live on Austin City Limits: youtu.be
This Nyack, NY-based artist’s seventh studio album is a diverse set ranging from reflective folk pop to atmospheric dream-pop and even some propulsive dance-pop, with the songs revolving around themes of family, love and identity.
The debut album from this Montreal-based artist (aka Josie Boivin) is a well-crafted set of atmospheric electro-pop with shimmering synths and guitars, gently propulsive rhythms, occasional moody strings, sun-baked melodies and lyrics of determination and resilience.
Kaytranada's album "Bubba" was nominated for three Grammys: Best Dance Recording for the track "10%," which features singer Kali Uchis, Best Dance/Electronic Album, and Best New Artist.
www.kaytranada.com
This Mississippi-bred, LA-based artist follows up her 2020 debut EP with this 10-song set of diverse R&B ranging from a buoyant, funk-infused celebration of black womanhood to pillowy, atmospheric ballads of love and desire, highlighted by her high, raspy vocals and intimate lyrics.
The first full-length from LA's psych-pop band Dummy -- they've previously dropped two EPs to great acclaim
The band said about the new track in a statement, “It’s sort of a conversation, more of a comparison of opposite viewpoints. It’s about how easily vanity can take precedence over the greater good. It’s about putting on your bucket hat and stepping out into the wilderness, carelessly taking natural beauty for granted and then hopefully falling off a cliff.”
Treble called the track: 'an upbeat, drone-and-hook kraut-pop track in the vein of Yo La Tengo and Stereolab' --tinyurl.com
notdummy.bandcamp.com
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