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Destroyer will play The Neptune Theatre on Saturday, April 23. bit.ly Dan Bejar has announced a new Destroyer album, 'LABYRINTHITIS,' releasing March 25. Bejar re-teamed with his frequent collaborator John Collins, and they began working on the album during the peak of early lockdown in 2020, trading ideas back and forth remotely when they couldn’t meet in person. A press release cites influences from disco, Art Of Noise, and New Order, but if we know anything about how these two work together chances are those touchstones were abstracted and fractured and twisted around. bit.ly destroyer.bandcamp.com

Fontaines D.C. will play the Showbox SoDo with openers Just Mustard on Saturday, May 14th, 2022! bit.ly Skinty Fia is named after an Irish phrase that translates to "the damnation of the deer." Press materials note, "The Irish giant deer is an extinct species and the band’s thoughts on Irish identity are central to Skinty Fia." They also say, "On Skinty Fia, Fontaines DC are addressing their Irishness from afar as they recreate new lives for themselves elsewhere. For a band whose hometown courses through their veins — 'DC' stands for 'Dublin City' — the album finds them trying to resolve the need to broaden their horizons with the affection they still feel for the land and people they’ve left behind." bit.ly

Brand new track from The Weeknd! www.theweeknd.com

Spoon has announced a new album called "Lucifer on the Sofa." The group's tenth studio effort will arrive February 11, 2022. As frontman Britt Daniel explains, "Lucifer"will be a more straight-rock record compared to the last Spoon album, 2017's dance and electronic-oriented "Hot Thoughts." Britt Daniel says of this second single from the album, 'Wild' is "a song I started with my buddy, Jack, years ago. We came up with some music, mostly he came up with some music. And, I tried to do my part and sing as we went, but the vocals didn't come together that day, I was just, I just had this great bit of music and there it sat for years, until I got inspired one day in 2020 and pulled it together on my couch. Finally came up with a good melody and some good words. And it's a song about living a regimented life, but still hearing the call of a more beautiful world, a wilder world."

alt-J and Portugal, The Man with special guest Cherry Glazerr will be at the WaMu Theater in Seattle on Tuesday, March 29th, 2022. bit.ly "It’s about being at a festival with your best friends, having a good time, togetherness, and the feeling in life that nothing could be any better than it is right now," explains keyboardist/vocalist Gus Unger-Hamilton. bit.ly

Dijon will be at The Crocodile on May 22nd, 2022. Here's a glowing review of his debut album, "Absolutely": pitchfork.com -- Watch the music video for 'Many Times' here: www.youtube.com

Wet Leg are playing at the Sunset Tavern on Saturday, March 26, 2022! -- Wet Leg swept KEXP by storm with their singles, “Wet Dream” and “Chaise Longue” in 2021. They dropped two new singles and announced their self-titled debut album will be released in April 2022. DJ Larry Mizell Jr. sat down with British band Wet Leg for a recent KEXP Sound & Vision podcast and found out just how silly they really are. Check out the whole segment here: www.kexp.org

MUSIC from the the British-Irish-Bangladeshi artist, nominated for the Rising Star Award at the 2020 Brit Awards! "Skin" is her debut LP. The video is lovely: youtu.be Artist site: bit.ly

One of four albums released during a single week from this Venezuelan artist (aka Alejandra Ghersi Rodriguez) Arca has dropped a music video for that comprises “Prada” and “Rakata,” two songs from her new album, "Kick ii." : www.youtube.com

Lee Fields and The Expressions Cover! Watch Shaina's KEXP in-studio: www.youtube.com

Brand new music from Animal Collective! 'Time Skiffs’ nine songs are love letters, distress signals, en plein air observations, and relaxation hymns, the collected transmissions of four people who have grown into relationships and parenthood and adult worry. But they are rendered with Animal Collective’s singular sense of exploratory wonder' -- anmlcollectve.bandcamp.com Abigail Portner and Dave Portner co-directed the video: youtu.be

This project of Otis Jackson, Jr. (Madlib), with lots of assistance from Kieran Hebden (Four Tet), foes "back to the future.": www.npr.org

#63 on KEXP's Top 90.3 countdown this year! - Adele, 30 "Once again, Adele transforms her heartbreak into a searching, graceful, and incredibly moving album. But the complexity of her emotions and the nuanced production make this her most ambitious work to date." bit.ly shop.adele.com

"Benny Sings is a prolific songwriter, producer and artist from Amsterdam. He has released several albums, of which the critically acclaimed ‘City Pop’, released in 2019 was the first on Stones Throw Records. His new album 'Music', which includes the singles Music, Sunny Afternoon, Rolled Up ft Mac DeMarco, and Nobody's Fault ft Tom Misch, is released in April 2021." bennysings.bandcamp.com

Confidence Man's new album TILT will be out April 1. "We’ve been trying for the most epic, hands up, euphoric anthem for a while and this is the first time we’ve come close…" the band’s Sugar Bones says of 'Holiday.' "Turns out it’s pretty difficult, but nothing’s too hard for con man," says Sugar Bones. Bandmate Janet Planet added: "No one tells Confidence Man what to do. Who said a Holiday can’t last forever? Spend big and live free, that’s our motto. And it can be yours too. A vacation is just sunburn at premium prices but a holiday is a state of mind." bit.ly

The new EP from Haitian-Canadian producer Louis Kevin Celestin (KAYTRANADA) includes collabs with Thundercat, rising Haitian artist Mach-Hommy, and on this track, Grammy-winner H.E.R. - bit.ly www.kaytranada.com

NEW ALBUM!!