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The Ukrainians were brought together in 1990 by the Wedding Present guitarist, Peter Solowka, to play traditional Ukrainian music influenced by post-punk.
"Love Is the Drug" came out in 1975 and is off Roxy Music's fifth studio album Siren, released in October 1975. The single was a number two hit in the United Kingdom and it also gave the group its first substantial exposure in the United States, reaching number 30 in early 1976 on the US Billboard Hot 100.
Hurray for the Riff Raff (with Anjimile) will play The Tractor Tavern on Friday, April 1st, 2022. (That's April Fools' Day, but it's no joke!): bit.ly
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'Rhododendron', Alynda Segarra said, is about "finding rebellion in plant life. Being called by the natural world and seeing the life that surrounds you in a way you never have. A mind expansion. A psychedelic trip. A spiritual breakthrough."
See the video for "Rhododendron" n.pr
Last Friday marked the official release of Beach House’s latest album, Once Twice Melody, out via Sub Pop Records. Fans had already heard more than half of the album, though, since the band released it digitally in four “chapters” each month starting last November. Sound & Vision’s assistant producer Roddy Nikpour brings us this review of Once Twice Melody. bit.ly
Beach House will perform a sold out show at The Paramount Theatre on Sunday, April 3rd.
Victoria Legrand spoke about her and bandmate Alex Scally’s songwriting process: "It’s like this stain and it’s coming out because I hear these tones and these chords and these notes, and they make me feel like crying or they make me completely euphoric. That’s the thing that hasn’t changed, but I think it’s become amplified. And that is why I don’t think we’re done making records." bit.ly
Nicks discovered the Rhiannon character in the early 1970s through a novel called Triad by Mary Bartlet Leader. The novel is about a woman named Branwen who is possessed by a witch named Rhiannon. She often introduced the song live by saying "This is a song about an old Welsh witch."
Blue Lab Beats are London-do producer NK-OK and multi-instrumentalist Mr DM.
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Originally the single was released with the title reversed, as "Tear the Roof off the Sucker (Give Up the Funk)." It was written by Parliament members Jerome Brailey, George Clinton, and Bootsy Collins.
This Chicago rapper's third album is an impressive set of expansive hip hop combining a variety of inventive beats with his deft flow and incisive rhymes revolving around poverty, fear, insecurity and other weighty subjects.
Saba will be at The Showbox at the Market on May 12. sabapivot.com
'To Repel Ghosts' is the debut album from Mexico City’s emerging noise pop unit, Howless. This is an album that grapples with big themes, an album that suggests nervous foreboding and strikes different levels of consciousness. 35 minutes of beautifully crafted noise pop, consisting of eight dynamic songs that perfectly represent the sonic depth and magnitude of Latin America’s newest indie darlings.
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Bartees Strange is back with this fresh single! The DC-based artist will be playing Seattle’s Paramount Theatre on April 22nd!
Last December, Bartees Strange played live on KEXP and had a great interview with Afternoon Show host, Larry Mizell Jr. - you can watch the full performance and interview here: www.youtube.com
Brooklyn-based artist, Grace Ives, has released this collaboration as her first since 2019’s “2nd”. For this track, she’s teamed up with Yves Tumor/Charli XCX/Sky Ferreira collaborator Justin Raisen.
In 2019, Grace Ives took over the KEXP airwaves as guest DJ for ‘Midnight in a Perfect World’ - you can listen to her full set here: kexp.org
The latest single from Charlie XCX's forthcoming new record due out March 18th!
John Lennon helped write this song - he came up with the title and also sang the background "Fame" parts in the high voice. They started working on the song when Bowie invited Lennon to the studio, and Lennon played rhythm guitar on a jam session that resulted in this track. - bit.ly
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Mr. Bowie performed "Fame" live in Tokyo in 1990: www.youtube.com
Alt-J will be playing with Portugal. The Man and Cherry Glazerr at WaMu Theater on Tuesday, March 29. www.altjband.com
This song was written while the band members were living in a small A-frame cottage in Point Roberts, Washington, situated on the Canada–United States border.
Brand new music from Wet Leg!
Despite the song's upbeat sound, Rhian Teasdale says Angelica is "laced with disenchantment."
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Wet Leg will be among many awesome artists performing at THING! Festival at Fort Worden in Port Townsend, WA August 26-28th.
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Brian Eno has done everything from producing huge pop stars to creating tiny art installations to touring with rock bands to inventing ambient music. Another Green World remains his definitive album.
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Watch the rest of the ABC 20/20 segment in which James Baldwin refers to this song. The previously unaired, 1979 interview was only just uncovered.
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'Wake Up Everybody', released by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes in November 1975, was the last album to include Teddy Pendergrass before he left the group for a solo career.
Second EP from LA based group Gabriels, consisting of lead singer Jacob Lusk and producers Ari Balouzian and Ryan Hope.
From the new EP Bloodline, ‘Stranger’ combines electronic whirrs and vibrating sub-bass with traditional instrumentation such as horns, gliding violins and bright pianos, in a manner that recalls the experimental works of Nick Cave and Warren Ellis – before a dynamic shift is roused off the back of Lusk’s harmonised vocal projections.
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KEXP's Midnight In A Perfect World with Sampa the Great. Her mix includes 2Pac, Burna Boy, Fela Kuti, Erykah Badu & The Roots and Mos Def. Check out the full set here:
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“I was experiencing some kind of crisis at the time of writing ‘Better Each Day’ and if I remember correctly, it was a ‘writing music’ one,” vocalist and bassist Kathryn McCaughey elaborated on the track. “There are times when songs come streaming out of you as though they wrote themselves into existence, and other times it can be as challenging as getting two purebred Persian cats to mate. I was sitting in our producer’s studio when he suggested I might like a little jingle he wrote for a commercial that never got used. I thought it was dope and voila, this song was born. One day you’re punk as fuck and then next you’re playing old unused car commercial jingles.”
Support the artist here: nobro.bandcamp.com
It's just a jump to the left...and a step to the right...
It's quite easy to do: www.youtube.com
CHAI is opening for Mitski at the Moore on Wednesday & Thursday, March 9-10.
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"WHOLE" is confirmed as the theme song for NHK TV series 'Koi-senu Futari,' featuring an aromantic/asexual couple, with a theme of universal and unconditional love.
Yuuki, who penned the lyrics, says of this song: “Sometimes, no one empathizes with you. But is that really a bad thing? I don’t want to make my thing, or someone else’s thing, something to be ashamed of. Because our ‘differences’ may not be our enemies. I wish we could love each other’s little differences and little similarities entirely –that’s the hope behind this song.”
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Playing Wednesday/Thursday, March 9th & 10th at the Moore.
Live Video from Mitski's 2018 KEXP In-Studio: bit.ly.
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New EP from this Montreal duo!
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The 4th album (and 1st in 8 years) from this Austin-based group spearheaded by guitarist and vocalist Mike Lee.
In 2020, psychedelic trio Khruangbin and soul and R&B musician released a collaborative EP called "Texas Sun." They have now released the follow up, their second homage to the state both musical acts call home...
Khruangbin said of the new EP: "Without joy, there can be no real perspective on sorrow. Without sunlight, all this rain keeps things from growing. How can you have the sun without the moon?" The band's Laura Lee added: "It's like a short story. And it leaves room to continue having these stories together. It's not Khruangbin, it's not Leon, it's this world we created together."
Earth, Wind & Fire released "Shining Star" in 1975, on their sixth studio album 'That's the Way of the World'. "Shining Star" also won a Grammy for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals. www.grammy.com
Classic Earth, Wind and Fire video from 1975 show Midnight Special: youtu.be
The Ukrainians were brought together in 1990 by the Wedding Present guitarist, Peter Solowka, to play traditional Ukrainian music influenced by post-punk.
Playing The Crocodile Saturday, May 21st!
Check out Nilüfer Yanya's March 2021 Live on KEXP at Home, hosted by Cheryl Waters: bit.ly.
KEXP will be celebrating International Women’s Month for all of March, kicking it off tomorrow, March 1st. We’ve got a line-up of women DJs starting at 5am with DJ Miss Ashley on Early, Morgan on the Morning Show, the Midday Show with Cheryl Waters, DJ Kennady on The Afternoon Show, and Drive Time with Evie Stokes. Listen at 90.3FM, kexp.org, and mobile apps.
The debut full-length from the LA-based former vocalist with Toronto duo Crystal Castles.
The idea for the song came from Eric Stewart saying to his wife that if he kept saying "I Love You" over and over, it wouldn't mean anything even though he did love her. He recalled to The Guardian:
"I met this gorgeous girl called Gloria at Halifax town hall. I was 18. She was 16. Three years later, we got married. A few years after that, Gloria told me: 'You don't say 'I love you' much anymore.' I told her that, if I said it all the time, it would sound glib. But I started wondering how I could say it without using those actual words. So 'I'm not in love' became a rhetorical conversation with myself – and then a song."
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UK duo Let’s Eat Grandma announced in November the forthcoming release of their third album and “Happy New Year” is our latest preview. Rosa Walton of the band said of the track Walton said in a statement: “I wrote ‘Happy New Year’ after a breakdown between [Jenny Hollingworth and me] that lasted for a long period of time, to communicate to her how important she is to me and how our bond and care for each other goes much deeper than this difficult time. I used the setting of New Year as both an opportunity for reflection, looking back nostalgically through childhood memories that we shared, and to represent the beginning of a fresh chapter for us. I’d been struggling to come to terms with the fact that our relationship had changed, but as the song and time progresses I come to accept that it couldn’t stay the way it was when we were kids forever, and start to view it as a positive thing – because now we have been able to grow into our own individual selves.”
Two Ribbons is out on April 8th via Transgressive Records.
Playing in LA since the early 60s, the band – then called Nightshift – was spotted by ex-Animals singer Eric Burdon at the decade’s end and they became his backing band. Named War as a protest against Vietnam, the seven-piece group backed Burdon for two albums and kept a fiercely political agenda. Read a BBC review of their fifth --and greatest--album, "Why Can't We Be Friends?": www.bbc.co.uk
The third volume in this Houston jazz pianist’s Black Radio series blends R&B, hip hop and jazz, with a stellar lineup of guest vocalists including Q-Tip, Esperanza Spalding, Common, H.E.R., Killer Mike and many other notables.
