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Atoms For Peace is an Electro-Rock supergroup comprising Radiohead vocalist Thom Yorke, Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea, longtime Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich, drummer Joey Waronker and percussionist Mauro Refosco. Yorke originally formed the group to play live the songs from his laptop-driven 2006 solo album, 'The Eraser,' but they were so good in rehearsal that Yorke arranged for three days of studio recording in Los Angeles. After taking a break in the first part of 2011 whilst Radiohead released and toured their 'The King of Limbs' album, the quintet got together to record their debut album, Amok. This is Atom For Peace's debut single, which was released as a digital download on September 10, 2012.
The song originated with a mistake on a sampler in Yorke's studio. He told Rolling Stone: "I hadn't patched it in right. It was giving me a tone that, when I put it with a melody, I was like 'That's nice!' I had that when Nigel and I were doing 'The Eraser'."
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Atoms for Peace - "Default" - Live:
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New music from Nigerian singer and songwriter Rema - the first release since his debut album dropped last year. Rema rounded out a week of new music with a set at the NBA All Stars game on Sunday along with Burna Boy and Tems. Check out the full halftime show here: www.youtube.com
See Austra perform live in the KEXP in-studio performance from 2017: www.youtube.com
Caroline Polachek will be in Seattle playing Showbox SoDo Thursday & Friday, May 4 & 5 with Sudan Archives.
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Caroline Polachek released her new album 'Desire, I Want to Turn Into You' on February 14.
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New single from Bully features Sophia Allison of Soccer Mommy!
Bognanno says, "When ‘Lose You’ came about it was the first time I've considered having someone else sing on a Bully song. I love Sophie's voice and have always admired everything she does so to me it was a no brainer. Watching her soar out of the Nashville scene and dominate indie music world wide has been a joy. Writing ‘Lose You’ was a way for me to work through the pain and reality of impermanence. It doesn't make it any easier but reflection is often followed by growth and to me that's what life is all about."
Keep your ears open for a new record expected to release later this year. In the meantime, check out Bully live on KEXP back in 2015: www.youtube.com
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New music from Denver-based duo comprised of Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley. Check out this performance of the band live on KEXP in 2011 here: www.youtube.com
Tennis will play Seattle's Paramount Theatre on April 21st.
Check out this performance of the band live on KEXP in 2011 here:
Peter Murphy, of course, was the vocalist for Bauhaus. In an interview, he was asked what it is that "cuts you up and spits you out." He replied: "The path of discovery, self-knowledge, wisdom... once you feel you have it. Then the path will spit you out or off the way and ruin your assumptions of this path. In fact, it is a great mighty necessity for those spiritual seekers or so-called 'holy state' desirers who become arrogant."
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The song is driven by a violin riff played on a synthesizer. According to Simon Rogers, who produced the track, they brought in a musician to replicate it on viola, but it didn't sound right.
New music from Liv.e. Check out her full performance live on KEXP (at home) and interview with Dj Larry Mizell Jr. - www.vulture.com.
Liv.e talks influences, writing, and shaping the new album in this interview with Vulture: www.vulture.com
The song, produced by J-Swift, utilizes samples from "Summer in the City" by Quincy Jones, "125th Street Congress" by Weather Report, "Are You Experienced?" by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, and Eddie Russ' "Hill Where the Lord Hides."
Watch the official music video!
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This London-based band’s latest release is the first part of their upcoming fifth album Off Planet (due out June 16th), which is divided into four sections. The first section ranges from club-friendly dance-pop to psych-tinged grime, hypnotic acid pop and more.
New album from Glüme featuring new music as well as old favorites spanning her career. "Self-proclaimed as the Wal-Mart Marilyn Monroe, Glüme has an allure that, even on a label as richly adorned with the spectacular as Italians Do It Better, stands out as an artist with nonpareil sonic presence." Enjoy this interview with the artist: bit.ly
"In the land of the free, you got freedom of choice" You can donate to NARAL Pro-Choice America here: bit.ly
“Freedom of Choice” was a timely critique of the brand consumerism and false dichotomies of the emerging Reagan years in the United States. “We loved that song very much when we were creating it,” said Jerry Casale in 2003. bit.ly www.clubdevo.com
This is a new single from the band's forthcoming "Continue as a Guest," due for release on March 31st. It's the first album since 2019’s "In the Morse Code of Brake Lights."
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New Pornographers frontperson A.C. Newman said about this song:
"I pictured this one as a weird little George Saunders–esque sketch, a snapshot. I found myself a lot more concerned with performance and/or delivery, changing melody and phrasing to get a better performance, less concerned, less precious about the original melody or lyric that I wrote. With that in mind, I had the idea of angels visiting me in the night with the message that 'melody ain’t got nothing on.'"
If you have not watched this yet, do it! Jungle played live in the KEXP studio in October 2021. They always bring a party, and this one was no exception. This one is like a giant hug that will make you feel good and keep you grinning all day long!
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Gabriels is LA based group consisting of lead singer Jacob Lusk and producers Ari Balouzian and Ryan Hope. gabriels.bandcamp.com
“Contact” has a little bit of something for every part of the night. It’s a soundtrack for “pre-gaming” (a song to play as you’re getting ready or on your way to the club). It’s also the interior club experience: the heat that envelops you when you walk into a packed rave. All this culminates in a very naughty, psychedelic moment in the back of the club with a lover."
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Recently released from London-based DJ and producer TSHA -- her newest album includes two tracks that team up with writer and singer Clementine Douglas, including this one.
"I like to identify with some of the positive characteristics of a Capricorn: the hardiness and the work ethic… but also the sensitivity,” she explains. “Naming the album ‘Capricorn Sun’ was a good way of saying ‘this is me.''
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Andy Shauf's latest work is a concept album which began as an "attempt to write from God's perspective" and finds some inspiration in David Lynch's Mulholland Drive.
Andy Shauf will play the Crocodile in Seattle on March 8th.
Check out Andy's full performance live on KEXP from 2020 here: www.youtube.com
Witten by Gary White, landing Linda Ronstadt a hit, included as a single on her second album Silk Purse.
Recently featured in the new HBO hit show The Last of Us, episode 3.
From the 1983 debut album by Aztec Camera, or more specifically, Roddy Frame. Something of a prodigy, Frame began playing guitar when he was just four years old. "Yeah, I started learning guitar when I was about four years old. I was playing the thing when I was around nine or ten ... I was just completely crazy about it [guitar] by the time I was four or five years old." bit.ly
NEW MUSIC! The new album from England’s The Go! Team drops next week! This new single features Brooklyn rapper Nitty Scott. Check out the video for "Whammy-O" - a patchwork of vintage TV clips from the 90s! youtu.be
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If you look closely, you can see Larry Mizell, Jr. in the video for "45": www.youtube.com
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Did you know that The Saturday Knights' Tilson XOXO was our guest DJ for Midnight in a Perfect World in 2016? Go here to check out his eclectic playlist: www.kexp.org
Shalom is "an alt-pop upstart born in Maryland, raised in South Africa, and currently living in Brooklyn (though she also has roots in the New Brunswick DIY scene, having attended Rutgers)." - bit.ly
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Released in anticipation of Brooklyn-based Shalom’s debut record due out on March 10th - okayshalom.bandcamp.com
New record from British songwriter, producer and filmmaker based in London
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Death Valley Girls were live in the KEXP studio back in 2019: bit.ly On their upcoming album, "Death Valley Girls’ songwriting mastermind Bonnie Bloomgarden uses the band’s anthemic revelries as a guidebook to spiritual healing and a roadmap for future incarnations of the self. And while these may be the loftiest aims of Death Valley Girls to date, the resulting music is also by far their most infectious and celebratory." deathvalleygirls.bandcamp.com
Seattle indie supergroup featuring members of Tacocat, Chastity Belt, and Lisa Prank,.
This is our take on the Le Tigre song “My My Metro Card.” We love Le Tigre and public transit and wanted to make this song about Seattle, so we added some of our favorite Seattle bus lines and sprinkled in a local billionaire villain. It was also tied into a local sports scandal so it’s now technically a jock jam. www.stereogum.com
Check out Childbirth's performance of this song from 2016: www.youtube.com
The band's first new album in five years! Check out Yo La Tengo live on KEXP back in 2013 here: www.youtube.com
New music from Seattle-reared Kassa Overall!
"This is the third installment of the critically acclaimed “Shades of Flu” series that I started during the first lockdown. I love making these tapes. I don’t normally sample on my own projects, so the remix medium allows me to keep my sampler sequencer brain fully activated." - Kassa Overall
See Kassa Overall's Live on KEXP performance from 2020:
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2013 debut album from Disclosure, an English electronic music duo consisting of brothers Howard and Guy Lawrence.
This French-Algerian collective’s third album is a potent blend of rai, dabke and other North African and Middle Eastern styles with house, techno and other electronic dance grooves, combining pulsing synths and some traditional instrumentation with propulsive rhythms, hypnotic melodies and a variety of guest vocalists from North Africa, Syria and Turkey.
According to the group's Bandcamp, this album was recorded by King Gizz in the year 3021.
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The 2nd album from singer/songwriter Nick Drake, 'Bryter Layter' saw him accompanied on each song with members from Fairport Convention, The Velvet Underground and the Beach Boys.
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Temples will release a new fourth album, Exotico, on April 14. The single ‘Cicada’ is produced by Sean Ono Lennon.
Discussing ‘Cicada’, the band’s Thomas Walmsley said: “‘Cicada’ came from being inspired by the sound of cicadas, and the idea of emerging from the underground after a long time of being suppressed.
“We were attempting to turn that sound into a sort of dance rhythm, and once we started working with Sean we really built up the production by digging into his cupboard of keyboards and synths.”
Singer/guitarist James Bagshaw added: “You never really see cicadas, but you can imagine them having a frantic life, and to me that song feels like a huge army of them whipped into a frenzy.”
What Good Luck! Debby Friday will play Barboza on Thursday, April 13th, 2023.
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"So Hard to Tell" is the first single from 'Good Luck," Nigerian-born, Canada-based artist Debby Friday's debut album. Here's the video - www.youtube.com
This single from The Cardigans' album Gran Turismo was released on this day in 1999.
According to bass player Magnus Sveningsson, despite featuring guitars being smashed to pieces, no real instruments were harmed during the making of this video. He comforted a concerned fan on the band's official website: "No we would never smash real instruments, that's against our philosophy. I for sure wouldn't smash my basses!"
Catch them at Marymoor Park on June 7th!
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."
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Chloe from Kitten is in this video! www.youtube.com
Deep Forest is French duo Eric Mouquet and Michel Sanchez. They helped popularize the so-called "Global Pop", ambient music combined with ethnic sounds. In 1993, they had a smash hit, "Sweet Lullaby," which brought together the group's original electronic sounds with a haunting traditional lullaby from the Solomon Islands.: www.allmusic.com
Yaeji will be playing in Seattle at The Showbox on Saturay, April 8.
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“With A Hammer” was composed across a two-year period in New York, Seoul, and London, begun shortly after the release of “What We Drew” and during the lockdowns of the Coronavirus pandemic. 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. In this case, Yaeji examines her relationship to anger. It is a departure from her previous work, blending elements of trip-hop and rock with her familiar house-influenced style, and dealing with darker, more self-reflective lyrical themes, both in English and Korean. Yaeji also utilizes live instrumentation for the first time on this album—weaving in a patchwork ensemble of live musicians, and incorporating her own guitar playing. “With A Hammer” features electronic producers and close collaborators K Wata and Enayet, and guest vocals from London’s Loraine James and Baltimore’s Nourished by Time.
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Brand new debut from London dream pop duo Deary!
The band say Fairground is "about the sensory overload of life in London, starting out as a letter to a loved one from singer and guitarist Dottie."
"Dottie came together with bandmate Ben during lockdown in early 2021, and they bonded over a mutual love of Elizabeth Fraser" (Cocteau Twins)" - deary.bandcamp.com