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The third full-length album from South London producer, musician, and songwriter George FitzGerald is another sharp set of immersive, elegant, exceptionally-produced electronic-pop that balances hypnotic club-ready rhythms with strong vocal-pop flourishes. Panda Bear, SOAK, and LondonGrammar make guest appearances.

This week we are celebrating 1988 as part of KEXP's 50 Years of Music! The Feelies formed in 1976, disbanded in 1992, and reunited in 2008. This track is from their third album 'Only Life' released in 1988. AllMusic said of this album "These musicians revel in the joys of their own rhythmic grooves, nerdy but fierce, while the guitars soar above it all." www.allmusic.com

New music off their 5th album! Frankie Cosmos was Live on KEXP in 2019. Check it out here: bit.ly

Released in 1988, this song is based on a real-life encounter Steve Kilbey had with a reptile. Did you know that Australia is home to 20 of the 25 most venomous snakes in the world, including all of the Top 11? Don't miss Live Video from The Church's 2017 KEXP In-Studio: bit.ly. www.thechurchband.net

Say She She will be Live on KEXP on Thursday, November 17th, at 3:00 p.m. The Brooklyn-based group will be at Chop Suey that evening. -- Follow this link to the trio's official website: www.saysheshe.com

Frank Black co-wrote "Gigantic" with Pixies bass player Kim Deal, who was using the stage name Mrs. John Murphy at the time. The song made a big impression on Kurt Cobain. He said in 1992, "I wish Kim was allowed to write more songs for the Pixies, because 'Gigantic' is the best Pixies song and Kim wrote it." Kim Deal reacted modestly, "Well, it's better than somebody saying, 'Oh God, you suck.'"

This song was inspired by a fire in Karen O's East Village apartment when she was 19. She said, "If the world is on fire, I hope the most beloved stay protected and that we do all we can to protect what we cherish most in this life. “Burning” is a song about that feeling, smoke signals for the soul." -- Watch the official video for this song: www.youtube.com

This song was first released by The Primitives on their 1988 album "Lovely." In 1994, the song was featured on the Dumb & Dumber movie soundtrack as "Crash (The '95 Mix)". This remix included additional guitars, percussion, organ and backing vocals - none of which were performed by any of The Primitives. -- Here's the original, performed by the originals: www.youtube.com

Glüme is an American actress and singer-songwriter making fresh electronic dance pop signed to Italians Do It Better. She released her debut album The Internet in 2021. -italiansdoitbetter.com

"Birthday" is the song that brought Björk into the popular American consciousness. Released in August 1987 on the Sugarcubes' debut album Life's Too Good, it was the band's first international single. The song is most notable for Bjork's unique vocal gymnastics and for its odd lyrics about a girl who "threads worms on a string," "keeps spiders in her pocket," and "collects fly wings in a jar." bit.ly

“I wanted to make a banger”, South African artist Nakhane said of their latest single they collaborated with on with Seattle native, Perfume Genius. "I always thought singing with him would be a beautiful thing," they said. "I liked that it’s a song that was not necessarily what people would expect from us: a sad, trauma-mining ballad. I wanted to explore the intersection of violence and sensuality, the dance of courting someone before you actually have sex with them. It was inspired by a lot of gay-themed films, where we normally see characters wrestling with their inner dialogue before they give in to their desires. So I said why not make that wrestling literal? Of course the inspiration for that was how homoerotic wrestling is." bit.ly Nakhane released their debut album in 2018 entitled You Will Not Die. nakhaneofficial.com

One of five simultaneously released albums from this mysterious British collective led by producer Inflo. “We will release 5 albums on November 1st as an offering to God,” SAULT wrote on social media. “Available for free download for 5 days. The password to unlock all 5 albums is in the message. Love Sault x.” Guess the password for yourself, or a quick search will yield the answer! www.sault.global

The seven-second drum break from The Winstons was used by N.W.A. here. -- Ice Cube: "Now you care. You heard what’s going on in the hood, and you’re interested. Now Compton means something to you. Now you pay attention. We were able to shed light on some of the bullshit that was going down. We presented it in a way that you could digest, comprehend and sympathize with what we were going through." Dr. Dre: "If we had done it softer, it wouldn’t have gotten the attention. It wouldn’t have worked." Read more from Kendrick Lamar's interview with N.W.A. in 2015 here: bit.ly

From TSHA's debut album, "Capricorn Sun," This song features vocals from UK writer and singer Clementine Douglas. -- Teisha Mathews: tshamusic.bandcamp.com -- Clementine Douglas: www.instagram.com

Lush sixth album from this band who formed in Brisbane, Queensland, in 1978. It's hard to believe we lost Grant McLennan (at age 48) nearly 15 years ago. What could have been? Some ideas: n.pr.

MorMor has announced his full-length debut, Semblance, will be out November 4th! mormormusic.com This track was the 'Song of the Day' pick from Cheryl last month: www.kexp.org He will be playing an all-ages show at Neumos on Feburary 1st! bit.ly

This British band’s seventh album is a strong set of cinematic orchestral pop inflected at times with soul, funk and other styles. The Arctic Monkeys played live on KEXP waaaay back in 2011 - check out their full performance here: www.youtube.com They'll be performing live September 22nd, 2023 at Climate Pledge Arena!

Information Society formed in 1982 Minneapolis, Minnesota. This is off their debut studio album released in 1988.

Vancouver rockers, Dumb, are back with their latest single “Civic Duty”. “Don’t let the melody fool you — what sounds like a summer pop ditty is a mediation on state-sanctioned violence,” says the band of “Civic Duty.” “[In the lyrics], ‘These boys from out of town keep missing all the best things ‘bout this place’ is a reference to how RCMP graduates are relocated to a remote community that is not their own.” Their upcoming record, Pray 4 Tomorrow, is out November 11th via Mint. dumbband.bandcamp.com

"In early 1988 Seattle’s ace recording engineer/producer, Jack Endino, passed off a new cassette of fresh tunes he'd cut with a little band from Aberdeen named Nirvana to a few industry folks including KCMU DJ Shirley Carlson... Months later, the band's leader Kurt Cobain (1967-1994) walked a copy of their debut Sub Pop single "Love Buzz" into KCMU hoping that they might air it. Then, as he and a girlfriend made the return trek home in her car, dashboard radio locked onto 90.3-FM, he was disappointed that the disc wasn't being aired. So mid-route, she exited I-5 and, using a gas-station payphone, Cobain called in an anonymous request for the song. Soon after, the record was blasting forth and the couple reveled in that magic moment. KCMU would also debut tracks from Nirvana's follow-up album, Bleach. Three years later, in September 1991, a grateful Cobain (and Nirvana) returned to the station to do an on-air release-day interview promoting the band's second album, the immortal 'Nevermind'." www.historylink.org

The Beths will perform at Neumos in an all-ages show on Friday, February 17th, 2023. -- “Knees Deep” is a peppy, fired-up jam about trying to summon personal courage. In the song’s fun video, from directors Callum Devlin and Annabel Kean, we see the various Beths blowing off band practice to go bungee jumping. Beths leader Liz Stokes shares, "I’m the kind of person who wants to go swimming but takes like 10 minutes to get all the way into the cold water, slowly and painfully. I hate this about myself and am kind of envious of people who can just jump straight in the deep end. In a shocking twist, this is also a metaphor?! For how I wish I was the kind of person who was brave and decisive instead of cautious and scared.": www.youtube.com

The seventh studio album from Phoenix will be out Friday! "Winter Solstice" is the only song not composed in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, where the band recorded the rest of the new album; instead, the rest of the band sent a loop to Thomas Mars and asked him to provide the lyrics.

The title of the track came from an experience the Johns had when they found a substantial number of Ng's listed in a phone book. Linnell: "I think I was collecting possible song ideas and, for some reason, I ended up looking in the phone book, and there were about four pages of this name that contains no vowels, Ng. I was fascinated because it's a name I didn't know about before, and it was filling up a large chunk of the Manhattan white pages. I called up some of the numbers kind of experimentally to find out how it was pronounced, and I got the phone machine of a Dr. Ng and I was kind of relieved. The message said, 'Dr. Ng is not in,' and I had my material."

Never released as a single in the US, this track still made it to #1 on both the Mainstream and Modern Rock charts This anti-war song refers to the chemical defoliant Agent Orange used in the Vietnam War; the chemical contained pollutants including dioxin, making millions of people sick and damaging the environment throughout Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia

They'll be at The Crocodile on Friday, November 18th, 2022. British duo Let’s Eat Grandma (Rosa Walton and Jenny Hollingworth) have shared a lyric video for their new single, “Give Me a Reason,” featured on the deluxe re-release of their latest album, "Two Ribbons." released earlier this year. www.youtube.com

"Lost In Yesterday" is an examination of the addictive nature of nostalgia. During the song, Kevin Parker attempts to snap the listener out of their throwback trance by outlining time's distorting effect on memories. -- Directed by the Terri Timely duo (Ian Kibbey and Corey Creasey), the single-shot-style video clip shows Tame Impala providing the entertainment for '70s wedding celebrations. We see Kevin Parker and co. suited up as the house band that plays at the same wedding reception re-imagined over and over again.: www.youtube.com

From the third studio album by British Duo Erasure.

This Toronto band’s third album (and first in five years) is an excellent set of punchy, hook-filled indie-pop with fuzzy/jangly guitars, bright synths, energetic rhythms, soaring harmonies, sparkling melodies and lyrics of desire, loss and regret. www.kexp.org alvvays.bandcamp.com

Check out this recent interview with Midnight Oil to American Songwriter here: americansongwriter.com

Martha shared, "'Hope Gets Harder' is a song about England: a uniquely fucking terrible idea. A place governed by the most absurdly mediocre people in history. Selfish, rich, thick, malevolent ghouls propped up by a bootlicking, self-congratulating, stenographic, client-journalist news media that puts North Korea to shame. "England is a grey, damp artifice, vibrating to a quasi-fascist background hum, where the majority live miserable hopeless lives, so that a tiny minority can live in extravagant luxury. As we lurch violently from one crisis to the next, it feels like the light of any hope for the future is slowly dying. But we have to try and find hope in one another, and together we have to fight like hell for a more socially and ecologically just world. No fate but what we make for ourselves. Abolish england. Fuck the king." bit.ly

Their debut album was recorded in less than a week, but took many months to mix due to "copious amounts of LSD."

Public Enemy's "Don't Believe the Hype" samples "Synthetic Substitution" is a 1973 song by Melvin Bliss, a a rhythm and blues singer who was born on this day in 1945. "Synthetic Substitution" originally starting life as a throwaway B-side, with "Reward" as the A-Side, the song failed to chart anywhere on its initial release because of the collapse of Opal Productions, the parent company of Sunburst Records. However, after the song was sampled by Ultramagnetic MCs, many other artists followed suit, and eventually the song became one of the most sampled songs of all time.

This Brooklyn-based artist’s second album is a groove-driven blend of hip hop, house and other styles, combining propulsive rhythms with his breathless flow and lyrics rejecting casual sex in favor of love and deeper relationships.

Sudan Archives’ latest is called “Selfish Soul,” a song she describes as being “about women and the celebration of hair. It’s about representation of different hair textures and embracing all colors and textures of it.” - bit.ly --- sudanarchives.com Head over to Bandcamp to support artists directly this Bandcamp Friday sudanarchives.bandcamp.com

New collaboration between Waxahatchee's Katie Crutchfield and Jess Williamson! plainsband.bandcamp.com

This young Liverpool band’s debut album is an adventurous blend of driving, hook-filled post-punk, chaotic hyperpop and other styles, combining fuzzy, noise-addled guitars, bright synths, driving rhythms and often-bizarre and cryptic lyrics.

English band that was active between 1985–1992, and originally called themselves the Sherbert Monsters. ""Inside Out" is a minefield of sparkling pop hooks -- finger-snapping percussion, toe-tapping guitars, and a chorus so catchy that one listen to the song can turn into an addiction." bit.ly

The second EP from this Seattle artist (aka Olivia Thomas) is an impressive seven-song set of soulful R&B and hip hop, with an often laid-back sound combining atmospheric keyboards and mostly gently propulsive rhythms with her agile vocals and lyrics of love, desire, change and self-confidence Check out Livt's KEXP performance from April here: www.youtube.com livt.bandcamp.com