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2016! The "Barbara, Barbara We Face a Shining Future" album title was something that Rick Smith's late father said to his mother not long before he died. Karl Hyde said: "His father was a great man, very inspiring and as soon Rick said that, before we got halfway through writing this material, it was just instant, 'Yeah, that's the title.'" Watch the video: youtu.be

Frontman Yannis Philippakis says, "Musically '2am' is one of the poppiest songs we’ve ever written. It’s about repetitive cycles of destructive behaviour, which I think lots of people can relate to, and certainly it’s an expression of something that I struggle with. There’s something cathartic about expressing that feeling to this upbeat music that’s got a sense of release and the hope of resolution." -- The video for "2am" was filmed in Kyiv with a Ukrainian crew. The band wished “love & courage” to their friends in the country.: www.youtube.com -- Foals' new album, "Life Is Yours," will be out on June 17th.

Fontaines D.C. will be stopping by KEXP for a live in studio performance on March 14th at 12:30 PM! They head to the Showbox SoDo with Just Mustard later that night! bit.ly "It’s like the most normal title ever," singer Grian Chatten said. "I wanted to write a song called 'I Love You' because I thought that it was a challenge that interested me to write a song about so kind of an ostensibly cliché topic and attempt to make it interesting and my own, unique. It just turned out to be another song about Ireland, of course. "Spiritually, there are two parts to it. I’m in a position there where I’ve made something of a career from trying to connect with and render the culture and country that I come from and try and express it and in turn and in doing so, understand it myself and help other people understand it. That’s what I think I’m doing." bit.ly Fontaines D.C. performed live, exclusively for KEXP at NEKO Trust in Wandsworth, London for their Live on KEXP at Home session back in November of 2020: www.youtube.com www.fontainesdc.com

Ride came to the KEXP studio in 2017 for a great live performance that included "Vapour Trail": www.youtube.com --- Did you know that Ride was the final band to play live in the old KEXP Dexter & Denny studio? Check out that historic event: www.kexp.org

Jamie xx first teased the new track on Instagram last week, stating that he’s been performing “Let’s Do It Again” in his live sets since 2021. He added in a press statement, “I started making this tune last year, just as it felt like we might all be able to start doing the things we love again.” pitchfork.com

Read how Nina Simone made this song her own: www.udiscovermusic.com -- Nina Simone’s iconic song "Feeling Good" now has an official music video, more than half a century after its release. The legendary musician and activist first released the song on her classic 1965 album "I Put a Spell on You." Directed by BET Award winner Sarah Lacombe, the music video for "Feeling Good" follows four generations of Black women “living their truths, loving each other, celebrating their hair, and feeling good,” according to a media release.: www.youtube.com

ODESZA will be playing 3 sold out shows in Seattle at Climate Pledge Arena on July 29, 30, and 31st. ODESZA has announced the details for their next album The Last Goodbye. The next single to emerge from it is "Love Letter" with The Knocks, a collaboration that has been over five years in the making. "It was originally started about 5 years ago and went through many versions before ODESZA took it to its final form," explains The Knocks. "We always knew there was something really special about it. It was one of those ideas we kept coming back to and being frustrated by because we knew it was amazing but we couldn't get it totally right. This new version blew our minds and we felt like it had finally found its rightful home. The rest is history." Also featured on the album are Låpsley, Ólafur Arnolds, Julianna Barwick, Izzy Bizu, Charlie Houston, Bettye LaVette & MARO. bit.ly odesza.com

Little Simz will play the Crocodile May 2nd. Watch the song’s official music video here: youtu.be

"Kinda I Want To" by Nine Inch Nails sampled Funkadelic's "Good Old Music".

"Toni" is taken from Interpol's upcoming album 'The Other Side of Make-Believe,' out July 15th on Matador Records. Watch the music video, in which “Paul Banks ties everything together and elevated the concept, because he’s naturally a great actor, artist, and collaborator, ” says the director Van Alpert. youtu.be Interpol and Spoon will be co-headlining at The Paramount Theatre on Friday, September 16th, 2022! www.stgpresents.org