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"Our third LP feels like our most energetic and free. Soul plays a huge part in all music really, especially if those songs have come from the heart." Tom McFarland of Jungle talks the new album, lockdown, and shooting 14 videos in 5 days this year: bit.ly 'Loving in Stereo', Jungle's new full length, drops in August.

The Score is the second and final studio album by the hip hop trio Fugees, released in 1996. Lauryn Hill described The Score as “an audio film. It’s like how radio was back in the 1940s. It tells a story, and there are cuts and breaks in the music. It’s almost like a hip-hop version of Tommy, like what The Who did for rock music.”

Debut single from Seattle band THEM! www.instagram.com

New Music! The new Durand Jones record is out in late July! Catch them in Seattle at the Paramount with My Morning Jacket on October 1st! More dates on their website: durandjonesandtheindications.com durandjonesandtheindications.bandcamp.com

"I Am One" was the Smashing Pumpkins' first ever release and remains the only single issued by the band with co-writing credits to both Billy Corgan and James Iha.

Join KEXP as we celebrate Pushing Boundaries! This month, we’ll be centering Asian and Pasifika voices. From historical pioneers to contemporary innovators, international game-changers to artists molding Seattle’s creative landscape, Pushing Boundaries is moving past borders and conceptions to honor the musical contributions of our Asian and Pasifika neighbors. bit.ly Japanese Breakfast will play The Neptune Theatre in Seattle on Saturday & Sunday, September 25 & 26 with Luna Li! bit.ly

Oklahoma-based R&B artist with a new track that has definite "song of the summer" vibes! Watch the official music video, directed by Anthony Sylvester: youtu.be pawpawrod.bandcamp.com

New single!!! youtu.be

New music from the Melbourne-based funk-soul group. 'Mood Valiant' drops June 25. hiatuskaiyote.bandcamp.com Check out the video: youtu.be hiatuskaiyote.com

Darkside is Chilean-American electro musician Nicolás Jaar and American multi-instrumentalist Dave Harrington. The pair have been on a musical hiatus since the release of their debut LP "Psychic" in 2013 and "Spiral" will be out on July 23 on Matador Records.

"Lucky Man" was the third single from The Verve's 1997 album Urban Hymns. In a 2006 interview with Q Magazine, U2's Bono listed "Lucky Man" as one of six songs released between 1986 and 2006 that he wished he had written himself. - bit.ly

Lead singer Ellie Rowsell shared a brief statement about “Last Man on Earth”: "It’s about the arrogance of humans. I’d just read Kurt Vonnegut’s "Cat’s Cradle" and I had written the line “Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from god” in my notes. But then I thought: “Uh, your peculiar travel suggestion isn’t a dancing lesson from god, it’s just a travel suggestion! Why does everything need to mean something more?”

Famous New Orleans funk band. Art Neville was a founding member of this band and a co founder of The Neville Brothers.

"'Black to the Future' is a sonic poem for the invocation of power, remembrance and healing. It depicts a movement to redefine and reaffirm what it means to strive for black power." - saxophonist and bandleader Shabaka Hutchings

Read about the inspiration for the new anime series "Yasuke" and the soundtrack by Flying Lotus at bit.ly flyinglotus.bandcamp.com