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Tuesday, Jan 17 2023, 10PM
The Dø is a Finnish-French indie pop band founded in Paris in 2005.
Playing The Showbox SoDo on Thursday, May 4th in an all-ages show for The Spiraling Tour, with special guests Sudan Archives! Tickets info here: bit.ly
From Albumism's 30th anniversary retrospective -- 'The beauty of the album is that 30 years after its release it still feels modern and as a whole entity offers the listener a cauldron of emotions that strike at the core of all of our existence. There is a subtle power at work here. A rawness and honesty that draws you in... Depeche Mode stepped up their level of artistry—thanks in no short measure to the increasing influence of Alan Wilder—and reached for something more.' tinyurl.com
Released in anticipation of Brooklyn-based Shalom’s debut record due out on March 10th!
Check out the video for the single here: www.youtube.com
okayshalom.bandcamp.com
Out last Friday off the multi-instrumentalist's latest EP.
Check out HIBOU live on KEXP in 2019 here: www.youtube.com
Django Django's self-titled debut release from 2012.
Django Django started off their live session in the KEXP studio with "Hail Bop." Watch the full performance here:
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This quartet met at Edinburgh College of Art, and formed Django Django in London in 2009.
www.djangodjango.co.uk
djangodjango.bandcamp.com
New music from Vagabon! This new track was co-produced by Rostam Batmanglij. In a statement she wrote about the single: “Carpenter” is about that humbling feeling when you desperately want to be knowledgeable, you want to be advanced, you want to be mature, forward thinking, and evolved. It’s about being confronted with your limitations. It’s about that A-HA moment, when a lesson from the past finally clicks and you want to run and tell someone who bore witness to the old you, “I finally get it now.”
Don’t miss Vagabon play the Showbox in Seattle with Weyes Blood on Wednesday, March 22nd.
And in case you missed it, here is Vagabon live on KEXP back in 2019: www.youtube.com
According to its creator Ian McCulloch, this song "about everything, from birth to death to eternity and God – whatever that is – and the eternal battle between fate and the human will." --- The chords of the song were based on David Bowie's "Space Oddity", played backwards. youtu.be
Belle and Sebastian follow up last year's "Bit of Previous" with a new album out this week!!! www.belleandsebastian.com
Producer, DJ, and singer Yaeji has been churning out singles, EPs, and even a full-length mixtape before announcing her debut record out April 7th. “With A Hammer” was composed over two years in New York, Seoul, and London. According to Yaeji’s Bandcamp, “ It is a diaristic ode to self-exploration; the feeling of confronting one’s own emotions, and the transformation that is possible when we’re brave enough to do so.”
kraejiyaeji.bandcamp.com
M83 will be in Seattle at Showbox SoDo on Wed May 10th and Thur May 11th!
The new album, "Fantasy," comes out on March 17th -- “I wanted to create this sense of friendship,” Anthony Gonzalez said of the single. “Listening to that song, I imagine people running, driving fast, or riding spaceships together. It’s this sense of going forward, like a magic potion that you take to discover new worlds.” bit.ly
The Knife were a Swedish electronic music duo from Gothenburg, formed in 1999. The group consisted of siblings Karin and Olof Dreijer, who together also run their own record company, Rabid Records
Tor Maries, who performs as Billy Nomates, is a solo British songwriter & musician.
The Hurting is the debut studio album by British new wave band Tears for Fears. It is a loose concept album focusing on themes of child abuse, psychological trauma and depression. Despite its morbid subject matter, the album was a huge commercial success and contains Tears for Fears' first three hit singles – "Mad World", "Change", and "Pale Shelter" – all of which reached the top five in the UK and the Top 40 internationally.
We're celebrating 50 years of Hip-Hop and this week its 1994!
Digable Planets, founded by Ishmael “Butterfly” Butler, Craig “Cee-Knowledge the Doodlebug” Irvin and Mary Ann “Ladybug Mecca” Veiria, entered the music scene in the early 1990s. Their debut album release “Reachin’” in 1993 was a chart-topper, leading to their radio and commercial success. The group won a Grammy for best new artist. 1994's "Blowout Comb" was their sophomore release.
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"9th Wonder (Blackitolism)" samples "Supperrappin' Theme" by Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five, "Blow Your Head" by Fred Wesley & The J.B.'s, and "Soul Pride" by James Brown. Additionally, this bassline is a heavily slowed down version of Ohio Players' "Love Rollercoaster."
SZA's new album, 'SOS' her second full length, released in December.
New! "Kill Bill" video!
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- and check out the behind-the-scenes video about the making of 'SOS':
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SZA performs in Seattle March 16 at Climate Pledge Arena. More tour dates, music and info:
www.szasos.com
This track features a sample of Alan Parsons Project’s “Eye in the Sky” and is inspired — like the album itself — by the story of astronomer Carl Sagan and his wife Ann Druyan capturing their romance on tape and sending it into space as part of the Voyager’s Golden Record. - bit.ly
After the Disco is the second studio album by American alternative rock band Broken Bells. It was recorded with the seventeen-piece Angel City String Orchestra and a four-piece choir. www.brokenbells.com
The latest release from the Brooklyn-based, co-lead vocalist/drummer for Durand Jones & The Indications is a gorgeous five-song set of sweet, ‘70s-steeped soul recorded live at Dan Auerbach’s Easy Eye Sound studio, featuring three covers along with live versions of two songs from his 2021 solo debut album Introducing...
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.
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www.celesteofficial.com
The English trio's first album since 2016’s Not To Disappear is out on April 7th! Head over to their website to pre-order! ohdaughter.com
Produced by Igor and Elena, Stereo Mind Game was written and recorded in various locations including Devon, Bristol and London, England, San Diego, California, Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, Washington.
Tonra shares of the new album, "It has been in the making for a long time, pieced together delicately (obsessively maybe) over years, trying to make it as complete as it could ever feel. I think it’s more optimistic than our past records (but it still has my lyrics.. so.. it’s never going to be full sunshine) but I’ve tried to document experiences, thoughts, feelings, conversations and memories from my life, and hope that we’ve turned them into something listenable, something positive."
In 2020, Future Islands performed "For Sure'" during a Live at Home on KEXP session: www.youtube.com
The latest solo album from this member of the British band This Is The Kit is a well-crafted set of jazz-tinged folk-pop with an intricate, atmospheric sound featuring circular guitar lines, keyboards, horns, strings and more. Special guests include This Is the Kit’s Kate Stables, saxophonist Alabaster DePlume and The Comet Is Coming’s Dan Leavers.
The third full-length album from Swedish DJ/producer Kornél Kovács is a top-notch set of enveloping electronic grooves that fuses house, broken beat, psychedelia, drum'n'bass, and more styles through an addictive pop prism. British vocalist Aluna, Costa Rican pop star MishCatt, and Swedish rapper Kamohelo of Off The Meds make guest vocal appearances.
kornelkovacs.bandcamp.com
More music out of Melbourne, Australia.
Architecture in Helsinki recorded their 2007 album "Places Like This" at Dave Sitek's (TV On The Radio) studio in Brooklyn, NY. It was engineered and mixed by Chris Coady (TV on The Radio, Grizzly Bear, Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
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New music from Frankie Rose's solo project (member of Crystal Stilts, Dum Dum Girls, Vivian Girls and Beverly) www.frankierose.info
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"Love As Projection," the upcoming new album from Frankie Rose, is set for release on 10th March.
The lead single from the soundtrack to Marvel's 2018 Black Panther.
It is the first song from a Marvel Studios film to receive an Academy Award nomination for best song.
Sza will be at Climate Pledge with Omar Apollo on March 16!
This American-Peruvian indigenous artist’s latest release is a potent three-song EP of brooding hip hop combining moody beats and haunting melodies with her incisive rhymes revolving around racism, environmental damage and celebrating trans identity.
Deee-Lite were a house / dance group active from 1986-1996. Mademoiselle magazine said that a big part of the group's appeal was their inclusiveness, ""as a group, they're a festival of individuality; as a band, they're a party anyone can attend".
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"What is Love?" is a track from their 1990 debut album, "World Clique." It featured a little tune called "Groove Is in the Heart.": www.albumism.com
Grace Ives' latest album was produced in collaboration with Justin Raisen, was described by Ives in a statement: “Everyone has a shitty star tattoo/stick n poke, that’s never perfect, or is rough around the edges. A beautiful thing to think about is that stars on earth look like blobs but in space really defined structures.”
From Bowie's tenth studio album. Station to Station is one of David Bowie's most famous works, marking his infamous "Thin White Duke" era. David Bowie passed away on this day in 2016.
England’s The Go! Team are releasing a new album, "Get Up Sequences Part Two, "on February 3, 2023. This new single features Brooklyn rapper Nitty Scott.
The video for "Whammy-O" puts together a number of vintage TV clips: www.youtube.com
www.thegoteam.co.uk
"For me, homemaking is a service to mental health and coping with fear and isolation. This song is about the effort put into making a relationship work and giving love a place to live." ---Brittney Parks (Sudan Archives)
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Here's the official video for "Home Maker": www.youtube.com
"So Hard to Tell" is the first single from 'Good Luck," Nigerian-born, Canada-based artist Debby Friday's debut album.
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Watch the video here www.youtube.com
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Catch Debby Friday in Seattle at Barboza on April 13, 2023. Tour dates and more at debbyfriday.com
"Kiss Them For Me" is a tribute to the '50s and '60s blonde bombshell actress Jayne Mansfield, and includes Manfield's famous catch phrase "divoon."
This song is the opening track of Superstition, the 10th studio album by Siouxsie and the Banshees, released in 1991.
The second album from this Seattle artist is a well-crafted set of psych-tinged electro-pop with shimmering synths, violin, often-propulsive rhythms, ethereal, layered vocals, introspective lyrics and haunting melodies.
From South African-raised, Belgian-born, Congolese musician singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer Petite Noir (aka Yannick Ilunga)- featuring jazz musician Theo Croker on trumpet.
Los Angeles group Chicano Batman are no strangers to KEXP - they've performed Live on the station 3 separate times, including a recent Live on KEXP at Home session. Themselves immigrants and children of immigrants from Latin America, they effortlessly blend styles of soul and psychedelia with the sounds of their communities and childhoods.
Choose from any one of their live sessions for your enjoyment:
www.youtube.com
chicanobatman.bandcamp.com
It you want more Dehd, check out their latest performance live in the KEXP studio, hosted by Larry Mizell, Jr.: www.youtube.com
www.dehd.horse
"The Beat formed in 1978, and made their live debut in March 1979 in Birmingham, England, as several other like-minded ska-influenced bands (including the Specials, the Selecter, Madness, and Bad Manners) were beginning to make a noise on the U.K. club scene. Featuring Dave Wakeling on vocals and guitar, Andy Cox on guitar, David Steele on bass, and Everett Morton on drums, the band soon added vocalist and toaster Ranking Roger (aka Roger Charlery), and grew to a sextet with the addition of Saxa (aka Lionel Augustus Martin)..." Read more about the group here: bit.ly
"Ice Melt" is Brooklyn band Crumb's second full length album, self-released on their own Crumb Records.: www.loudandquiet.com
Crumb's Lila Ramani reveals, "'Balloon' tells the story of a girl that dances so fast in the club that her head falls off.” bit.ly
Crumb opened up their in studio session with "Balloon"! Check out their full performance and interview with Evie: www.youtube.com
www.crumbtheband.com