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"Cultural appropriation and racism. Social media vanity. Post-colonialism and political correctness. These are not talking points that you’d ordinarily hear on the dancefloor but Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul are ripping up the rulebook with their music."
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The Belgian duo were Live on KEXP in May. Watch the full performance, hosted by Larry Mizell, Jr., here: bit.ly
Bowie made an appearance on Soul Train singing (actually, lip synching) "Golden Years" and "Fame" on November 4, 1975. Few white performers had appeared on the show, but host Don Cornelius gave him a warm welcome, introducing him as "one of the world’s most popular and important music personalities."
For Bowie, Soul Train was a big deal because he grew up listening to many of the American R&B artists who appeared on the show. He was nervous, and reportedly got a little drunk beforehand to take the edge off; footage does appear to show him stumbling over his lyrics.
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“‘Bad Love’ is about recovering from love addiction and making a decision to stop choosing and aligning with people who aren’t your energetic match,” said vocalist Emily Kempf in a statement. “I wrote it for myself and for everyone who needed to hear a song about choosing new forms of love. It’s about chasing a relationship with oneself rather than an unhealthy one, one that just doesn’t quite fit, or a codependent one.” bit.ly
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The Moon & Antarctica was released on this day in 2000!
This album's title came from a scene in the film, 'Blade Runner,' where the main character can be seen reading a newspaper headlined "Farming the Oceans, the Moon and Antarctica".
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modestmouse.bandcamp.com
This Kansas City-bred, LA-based artist’s fourth album is an expansive blend of R&B with hip hop, reggae, Afrobeats, Ampiano and more, with an often-breezy sound combining buoyant rhythms and sunny melodies with lyrics revolving around sex, partying and desire. Special guests include Seun Kuti & Egypt 80, Grace Jones, Amaarae and Sister Nancy.
'Back in Black' was Amy Winehouse's second and final studio album. Originally recorded as a solo track, it was remixed with guest vocals from the Wu-Tang Clan member Ghostface Killah. The original appeared on Winehouse's album, while the version with Ghostface Killah appears on his album 'More Fish'.
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Canadian multi-instrumentalist/composer Caribou, appeared on the KEXP blog for the release of 2020's 'Suddenly' as a Song of the Day. www.kexp.org
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Laetitia Tamko, better known by her stage name Vagabon, is a Cameroonian-American self-taught multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and music producer based in New York City.
Watch a Live on KEXP performance here: www.youtube.com
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The fourth King Krule album from London artist Archy Marshall is a potent set of moody indie-rock inflected with jazz, dub, ambient and other styles, with an often-murky sound combining hazy guitars, atmospheric keyboards, horns, strings and more with gloomy vocals and lyrics of loss and isolation.
"Split" was released on June 14, 1994. It was Lush's third studio album.
Lush were an English rock band formed in London in 1987. The original line-up consisted of Miki Berenyi, Emma Anderson, Steve Rippon and Chris Acland. Phil King replaced Rippon in 1991. They were one of the first bands to have been described with the "shoegazing" label.
"Split," released in 1994, was Lush's third studio album 4ad.com
Jenny Lewis will be stopping in Seattle on her Joy'All tour August 1 at Climate Pledge Arena along with Beck, Phoenix & Sir Chloe.
Jenny Lewis is a singer-songwriter, musician, and actress. She was the lead singer, rhythm guitarist, and keyboardist for the indie rock band Rilo Kiley.
"Giddy Up" is the new single from the upcoming album, Joy' All, out on June 9.
www.jennylewis.com
Júníus Meyvant performed this track live at Kex Hostel in Reykjavik during 2015 Iceland Airwaves. Watch the full session here: youtu.be
juniusmeyvant.bandcamp.com
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Romy has announced a new album, ‘Mid Air’, and shared the romantic single ‘Loveher’.
‘Mid Air’ marks the first solo album to be released by the singer-songwriter — who is most well known for her work in The xx. It also features production from Stuart Price and Fred Again.., as well as a guest appearance from fellow bandmate, Jamie xx.
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The second solo album from the San Juan Island-bred, London-based Scissor Sisters frontman is a potent set of ebullient dance-pop inflected at times with glam-rock and other styles, combining propulsive house rhythms, bright keyboards, soaring strings and buoyant melodies. Special guests include Kylie Minogue, Big Freedia, Amber Martin and Jane Fonda.
This Grand Forks, BC-bred, London-based DJ/producer celebrates her late father’s life on her second full-length with a buoyant set of hook-filled electro-pop featuring moody synths, propulsive house and disco rhythms and lyrics of love, loss and heritage.
jaydag.bandcamp.com
Ratatat is a Brooklyn-based electronic rock duo consisting of Mike Stroud (guitar, melodica, synthesizers, percussion) and producer Evan Mast (bass, synthesizers, percussion).
Evan Mast and Mike Stroud first met as students at Skidmore College. They started working together in 2001, recording several songs under the name "Cherry." Stroud had previously toured with Dashboard Confessional in 2000. bit.ly
The theme to the 1969 movie "Midnight Cowboy" was in fact a cover of Fred Neil's 1968 single.
Nilsson released this track on his 1968 album "Aerial Ballet" but became more well known as the movie gained noteriety.
This Brooklyn-bred duo’s third album (and first in eight years) is a solid set of anthemic synth-pop combining moody synths, yearning vocals, soaring song hooks and lyrics revolving around relationships.
“Fleez” is a thumping tune that namedrops ESG and incorporates elements of NYC art-funk influencers’ 1981 song “Moody (Spaced Out)” (Renee Scroggins is given a writing credit). - bit.ly
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bar italia, the London trio of Nina Cristante, Jezmi Tarik Fehmi and Sam Fenton, released their new album, "Tracey Denim," on May 19. The album will become available on vinyl September 8.
baritalia.bandcamp.com
The first Youth Lagoon album in seven years (and fourth overall) from Idaho artist Trevor Powers is a well-crafted set of atmospheric dream-pop with an intimate sound combining spare piano lines, electronic textures, various ambient sounds, cello and more with haunting vocals and lyrics of struggle, trauma and recovery.
Parks shares how this is "a song about community… being around people who make you feel like your inner ugliness and failures and mistakes don’t matter, who lift you up and make you laugh, who make you feel good and clean."
Check out the video here: bit.ly
Larry Mizell, Jr hosted Arlo Parks Live in the KEXP Studio in March last year: bit.ly
"Giddy up..."
Beck dropped this funky cut as the follow-up to his 2015 single "Dreams." When he first came up with the song, Beck didn't see it as a potential release as it came together so quickly. He recalled: "I was working on another song – maybe 'Dreams' – when I had an idea for a flute beat. I picked up the mic and 'Wow' came out totally spontaneously. I put it away and forgot about it. Then 'Wow' was on in the studio one day and someone said 'You should put this on the record.' I went 'I don't think anybody would like this.'
Her fifth album, following the success of "What's Your Pleasure?," is "horny and accomplished": www.popmatters.com
This is the Kit is on tour this summer and will be in Seattle October 28th Performing at Woodlawn Hall.
New album from Kate Stables' band This is the Kit.
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Mitski is a Japanese American artist living in NYC. For her fifth album, 'Be The Cowboy', Mitski introduced a persona who has been teased but never so fully present until now—a woman in control. “It’s not like it just pours out,” she says about her songwriting, “it’s not like I’m a vessel. For this new record, I experimented in narrative and fiction.” Though she hesitates to go so far as to say she created full-on characters, she reveals she had in mind “a very controlled icy repressed woman who is starting to unravel. Because women have so little power and showing emotion is seen as weakness, this ‘character’ clings to any amount of control she can get. Still, there is something very primordial in her that is trying to find a way to get out.”
mitski.bandcamp.com
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Mitski performed "Why Didn’t You Stop Me?" live in the KEXP studio in 2018. Watch the full session here:
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Michael Stipe said in the October 1992 issue of Q magazine: "It's a complete piss-take. I guess it's the prototype of, and hopefully the end of, a pop song. It would be the last pop song ever."
Stipe has described it as one of his "fruit loop songs" along with "Shiny Happy People" and "Stand."
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The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) page highlights the unique mental health needs of the LGBTQ+ community and includes hotlines and resources to help address those needs.
www.nami.org
Claud will perform at Madame Lou's on Friday, October 6th, 2023.
Claud Mintz, known professionally as Claud, is a bedroom pop singer-songwriter from the suburbs of Chicago. Claud is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns. They are known for the songs "Soft Spot" and "Wish You Were Gay".
Their sophomore album, "Supermodels," will be out on July 14th. You can pre-order it here: toastmp3.bandcamp.com
Check out Claud's Live on KEXP at Home performance from 2021: www.youtube.com
Anderson .Paak & Knxwledge are back! The video marks Knxwledge's directorial debut, solely created by him using Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto 5. The video features Anderson .Paak’s official character from GTA’s The Contract courting his love interest until it takes an unexpected twist. The song ends with an epic guitar solo by Jairus “J. Mo” Mozee.
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The official debut album from this Arizona-bred, upstate New York-based DJ/producer is a beautifully crafted blend of Balearic electro-pop and shimmering dream-pop, with a warm, breezy sound combining glistening synths, jangly guitars, strings, sax and more with buoyant rhythms, wistful melodies and reflective lyrics of relationships, climate change, and the passage of time.
avalonemerson.bandcamp.com
Björk released Post, the Icelandic singer's second studio album on this day in 1995.
Sampling John Bonham's drum introduction from Led Zeppelin's "When The Levee Breaks." - www.whosampled.com
The Toronto artist's 'Infinity Club' EP is out August 4th!
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Nation Of Language have officially announced their third album, 'Strange Disciple', out September 15. You can find Nation of Language at this year's Day In Day Out fest on Sunday, August 13th at Fisher Pavilion at Seattle Center. www.dayindayoutfest.com
Enjoy Live Video from Nation of Language's KEXP performance from 2022's THING Festival: bit.ly.
And check out NoL's Aidan interviewing random people on the streets of Brooklyn for KEXP: bit.ly.
www.nationoflanguage.com
The fifth album from this LA-based DJ/producer (aka Charlie Wilder) is a dance-friendly blend of Latin funk, Brazilian disco, Middle Eastern psych-rock, dub, soul and other styles, combining synths, horns, strings, guitars and more with propulsive rhythms, buoyant song hooks and a variety of guest vocalists and musicians.
Beach Fossils first new album in six years! frontman Dustin Payseur called the song “a song about conflict, friendship, and the intoxication of new love… willing to let yourself be stupid, vulnerable, pissed off, and forgiving.”
Check out Beach Fossils from their last stop live on KEXP in 2017 here: www.youtube.com
“The Become EP is a collection of five songs from the Once Twice Melody sessions,” the band explained in a press release. “We didn’t think they fit in the world of OTM, but later realized they all fit in a little world of their own. To us, they are all kind of scuzzy and spacious, and live in the spirit realm. It’s not really where we are currently going, but it’s definitely somewhere we have been. We hope you enjoy these tunes.” - bit.ly
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Kara Jackson is a poet, singer, and songwriter from Oak Park, Illinois. Jackson was named the United States National Youth Poet Laureate from 2019 to 2020.
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She will open for Angel Olsen at the Neptune Theatre on Friday, October, 27th.
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Enjoy an NPR interview with Jackson about her debut studio album, "Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?": www.npr.org
Lahey commented on this track: “Two of my exes got engaged within an improbably short space of time of one another. What are the odds? Couldn’t not write a song inspired by it.”
"Hammerbox was one of the few Seattle grunge bands fronted by a woman in the early '90s. Led by fiery vocalist Carrie Akre, Hammerbox equaled the untrammeled rage of their Emerald City peers but also inserted new wave energy in their typical Seattle blend of heavy metal and punk." Read a biography of this band: www.allmusic.com
This Little Rock, AR-bred artist’s latest release is a potent album of Southern hip hop inflected with R&B, funk, psych-rock and other styles, combining a variety of funky beats with a smooth blend of confident rapping and hazy singing along with personal rhymes of remembrance and self-affirmation. Special guests include Big K.R.I.T., Phoelix, theMIND, Devin the Dude and other notables.
Greetings, earthlings, want to see the video for "Two Dope Boyz"?: www.youtube.com
London dream pop duo Deary! They 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
"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. bit.ly
Listen to our "Live On KEXP"2020 podcast with Matthew Dear! www.kexp.org