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Tuesday, Sep 4 2018, 9PM
Da Cruz is a Brazilian World music group composed of Mariana Da Cruz, Swiss producer Ane Hebeisen, guitar player Oliver Husmann and percussionist Pit Lee.
Tirzah is actually Tirzah Mastin and Mica Levi. Levi recalls being amazed hearing her friend sing for the first time, when she casually asked her to add some vocals to a UK garage track she was working on at school: “I couldn’t believe it. Your friend, who you’ve been having conversations with, has got this amazingly beautiful voice. I was like, What—and then I tried to make more music with her.”
Superorganism played at Bumbershoot on Saturday. See a KEXP session with the London-based group from earlier this year: www.youtube.com
Mitski plays Showbox SoDo on Wednesday, October 31. Tix: www.showboxpresents.com
Bright Eyes is the project of Omaha, Nebraska-born musician Conor Oberst. LIFTED or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Groundwas Bright Eyes' breakthrough release, gaining the band national exposure in outlets like Rolling Stone, Time.
Happy Birthday, Mark Ronson! The producer and musician turns 43 today.
U.S. Girls, the project of Canadian-American musician Meg Remy, play the Neptune Theatre on Tuesday, October 23. Tune-yards headlines. Tix: www.stgpresents.org
Marie Davidson is a Montreal-based producer who also perfoms as one half of coldwave duo Essaie Pas, who are signed to DFA.
Read more about this new Radio Dept. Song at KEXP: www.kexp.org
Happy Birthday, Beyoncé! Queen Bey turns 37 today.
Santigold will be with Lauryn Hill at Kent's ShoWare Center on Saturday, September 15th, 2018.
The Very Best is a collaboration between London-based duo Radioclit and Esau Mwamwaya. This track features vocals from Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend. The track includes a sample of the famous 1966 song by Victor Uwaifo, "Guitar Boy."
Tierra Whack plays Iceland Airwaves later this year. Every song on this album is accompanied by a music video. See this one's video here: www.youtube.com
Fazerdaze is the solo project of New Zealand-based artist Amelia Murray. Influential Kiwi pop label Flying Nun released her debut, Morningside in 2017.
Snail Mail is the solo project of guitarist and singer-songwriter Lindsey Jordan.
Thundercat plays the WaMu Theatre on Sunday, December 9.
Betty Davis recorded this album in San Francisco when she was 28. Her band included Neal Schon (of Santana), Larry Graham and several other members of Graham Central Station, as well as Sylvester and The Pointer Sisters (who performed backing vocals).
Learn about the new film about Betty Davis: www.nastygalmovie.com
Learn about the new film about Betty Davis: www.nastygalmovie.com
Tobe Nwigwe is a Houston-based musician. Nwigwe was a star linebacker at the University of North Texas. He might be playing professionally now if a foot injury hadn't derailed his athletic career and led him to pursue music instead.
Hear a recent session with Let's Eat Grandma through KEXP's Streaming Archive. Go to the link posted below. Then click August 29. Then select the Midday Show and select 12:00pm as the time. www.kexp.org
Time travel back to 1983 with the video for this classic Echo & the Bunnymen cut (pun intended). www.youtube.com
This is British musician Anna Calvi's first album in 5 years. She released One Breath in 2013. She has been nominated for the Mercury Prize twice.
Happy (almost) Birthday, Freddy Mercury! Tomorrow would have been the 72nd birthday of the Queen singer.
Playing The Showbox Friday, March 8, 2019. While you wait patiently, enjoy Live Video from Jungle's 2014 KEXP In-Studio: www.kexp.org.
Chicano Batman played this song and more on their fantastic KEXP In-Studio a few years back. Check it out here... seriously! www.youtube.com
Two former members of the Detroit Lions sang back-up vocals on this album's title track. Marvin Gaye had become friends with the team and even tried out to play for the Lions before recording this album!
Trevor Powers plays Barboza on Thursday, September 27. Tix: www.thebarboza.com
The Internet play Showbox SoDo on Friday, October 26.
Watch Chanti Darling perform at Little London Plane as part of KEXP's coverage of Upstream! www.youtube.com
Saintseneca play the Sunset on Friday, October 19. www.thecrocodile.com
Knife Knights is a collaboration between two towering musical talents who have spent a lot of time in Seattle: producer Erik Blood and Ishmael Butler (Shabazz Palaces, Digable Planets).
Bahamadia is a hip hop artist from Philadelphia.
In November 2016 she appeared as a guest client on Project Runway where her son, Mah-Jing Wong, was a contestant.
In November 2016 she appeared as a guest client on Project Runway where her son, Mah-Jing Wong, was a contestant.
Makaya McCraven is a Chicago-based drummer. McCraven made Where We Come From in just four days at The Total Refreshment Centre in London. McCraven spent the first two days playing live sets with both his Chicago-based band and members of the London jazz scene. He devoted the next two days to selecting and remixing material from those sets, emerging with a genre-bending mixtape of material. intlanthem.bandcamp.com
Yaeji plays the Showbox on Tuesday, October 23. www.showboxpresents.com
