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Tuesday, Dec 11 2012, 9PM
Bole2Harlem is a musical collaboration that fuses elements of Ethiopian music with American hip hop.
Expensive Looks is the pseudonym for New York-based psych-pop bedroom producer Alec Feld.
Natasha Khan known by her stage name as Bat for Lashes, is an English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. She has released three studio albums, Fur and Gold (2006), Two Suns (2009) and The Haunted Man (2012), and received Mercury Prize nominations for Fur and Gold and Two Suns. Track taken from her third studio full-length.
M83 is the electronic music project of the French artist Anthony Gonzalez. He and former member Nicolas Fromageau founded the group in 2001 in Antibes, France.
This first single from Thomas Dolby's 1982 solo debut, The Golden Age of Wireless, is a hyperactive synth pop classic.
Holy Ghost! is an American synthpop duo from Brooklyn, New York City, consisting of Nick Millhiser and Alex Frankel.
"David Watts" is a song written by Ray Davies that originally appeared on the Kinks's 1967 album Something Else by the Kinks.
Canada’s Stars have been crafting dreamy, romantic rock for over a decade now.
RIP Ravi Shankar. The best known contemporary Indian musician and father of singer-songwriter Norah Jones, died Tuesday evening in San Diego, Calif. The sitar star's website announced his death. "Shankar had suffered from upper-respiratory and heart issues over the past year and underwent heart-valve replacement surgery last Thursday. Though the surgery was successful, recovery proved too difficult for the 92-year-old musician."
Pink Moon is the third and final studio album by the English folk musician Nick Drake, released on 25 February 1972 on Island.
Speck Mountain is a psychedelic rock band based out of Chicago, Illinois.
If you’re a fan of Big Boi’s work with OutKast, you’ll want to check this out, especially as it features on several tracks contributions by Phantogram, as well as other KEXP faves like Little Dragon, Killer Mike and Wavves, among more expected guests like T.I. and Ludacris.
Representing Seattle’s South End, The Physics are one of the region’s most critically-celebrated hip hop crews.
New solo album from this Australian singer who often performs with the Bamboos. kylieauldist.com
Seattle based project. Live Performance: Say Hi on 8/19/2010 www.kexp.org
5th album from this Pittsburgh-based band led by frontman Tobacco.
The latest single to be taken from Django Django's eponymous debut album, which was nominated for the Mercury Prize in the midst of a breakthrough year for the band.
Brooklyn band. Check out the video for this song here: www.youtube.com
Song of the Day: Rose Windows - Heavenly Days blog.kexp.org
One of the most anticipated upcoming albums is Modest Mouse's follow-up to 2007's We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank, featuring production from OutKast's Big Boi and his partner Chris Carmouche, the man behind the Atlanta duo's masterwork Speakerboxxx/The Love Below.
Album Review: Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city blog.kexp.org
Boards of Canada are an electronic music duo from Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, comprised of brothers Mike Sandison (b. 1 June 1970) and Marcus Eoin (b. 21 July 1971).
Jaar was born in NY, but relocated to Santiago, Chile for much of his childhood.
Happy 12.12.12 12:12:12! This will be the last such triple date for almost a century -- until January 1, 2101.
Continuing the theme of twelve...During some US radio interviews, Lennon was asked if there were any unissued Beatles recordings, he replied that all he could recall was "some lousy 12 bar".
Continuing the theme of twelve...During some US radio interviews, Lennon was asked if there were any unissued Beatles recordings, he replied that all he could recall was "some lousy 12 bar".
Brooklyn-based soul band The Revelations have released a new recording of William Bell’s 1968 classic“I Forgot to be Your Lover” for RZA‘s soundtrack to The Man with the Iron Fists.
Voodoo, the now-classic 2000 sophomore album from D'Angelo, was just reissued on vinyl for the first time. The new version includes more artwork and beefed-up liner notes featuring interviews with ?uestlove, Alan Leeds, and more. The limited-edition first pressing of the reissue will be on 180g wax.
From his recently released 30-track debut album, a compilation of three mix tapes—”House of Balloons,” “Thursday” and “Echoes of Silence”—all released individually last year.
This LA-based duo debuts with a gorgeous album of elegant, R&B-tinged electro-pop.
The Coup's first album in six years is called Sorry to Bother You and this hip-hop group is from Oakland, California.
