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Monday, Mar 29 2021, 5AM
Sage Elsesser's Navy Blue project was intended to be anonymous; impressionistic, poetic scribes over lo-fi, quasi-boom-bap beats.
Check out a KEXP review of Navy Blue's 2020 first full-length, 'Àdá Irin':
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Smino is the founder of the musical collective Zero Fatigue with Bari, Monte Booker, Jay2, and Ravyn Lenae. He is a member of the hip-hop supergroup Zoink Gang, with JID, Buddy and Guapdad 4000. He is also one third of the supergroup Ghetto Sage, with Saba and Noname.
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The follow-up to his 2020 project, V Tape, Mensa keeps it focused on police brutality, systemic oppression, and fighting for Black lives. This 2021 project includes collaborators like Chance the Rapper, Wyclef Jean, Jeremih, Eryn Allen Kane and Wyatt Waddell.
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Watch the classic video circa 1988:
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Check out the 2018 Tune-Yards live in-studio performance at KEXP:
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Find their new music: tune-yards.com
Zimbabwean-born Australian singer-songwriter and rapper Tkay Maidza released this Pixies cover for "Bills & Aches & Blues," an upcoming compilation celebrating record label 4AD's 40th anniversary. The release will be dropped on April 2nd and will feature bands like Big Thief, Tune-Yards, Future Islands, Dry Cleaning, Jenny Hval, and many more.
Lady Wray's song "Do It Again" was KEXP's Song of the Day in 2017:
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Empress Of's performance for Live on KEXP at Home:
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From the 2006 tribute album "Radiodread" by the Easy Star All-Stars that covers Radiohead's album "OK Computer" in reggae, ska and dub styles.
Janelle Monae wants to represent the underdog in music and on-screen:
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Senzu beans are mystical beans with immense rejuvenation properties in the Dragon Ball franchise; they restore energy and heal injuries. www.cbr.com
Watch the official music video, directed by Smith and Savannah Leaf:
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Check Oddisee's recent Live on KEXP at Home Performance and Interview with Gabriel Teodros here: www.youtube.com
Erick The Architect is a founding member and primary producer behind NYC-based hip-hop group Flatbush Zombies, an outfit that's also part of the supergroup Beast Coast alongside Joey Bada$$'s Pro Era collective and Brooklyn duo The Underachievers.
Find his latest album here: www.erickthearchitect.com
This song was created to be a distraction for her baby daughter, Maya Rudolph. She sings "Maya" towards the end, but that's only included in the unedited or album version. Radio deejays worried it would be misunderstood as a religious chant, so many would fade out before that part of the song.
Brittany just won a 2021 Grammy for Best Rock Song ("Stay High"). Watch her powerful live in-studio performance at KEXP:
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Bandcamp's Album of The Day:
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Check out LoudSwell started by The True Loves' Gordon Brown, which helps musicians showcase virtual concerts: www.loudswell.com
Watch the True Loves' live in-studio performance at KEXP:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD2hNsY6G7E
This posthumous album with Afrobeat pioneer, Tony Allen, will be released on April 30th, the first anniversary of his death.
The delicious Jeni's ice cream collaborated with Tyler the Creator again to create Pluto Bleu. "Think of a blue raspberry slushie—except fruitier, less sweet, more tart, actually refreshing. Then imagine an orange push-pop that’s been working out—the orange flavor is stronger with a deeper citrusy pop. Now, picture the two swirled together, and you drinking them out of a pineapple, in the shade, under a palm tree."
A rare TV appearance by Solange on The Daily Show, discussing the album "When I Get Home" and where it came from:
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Support Solange here: www.solangemusic.com
Colombian band Bomba Estéreo last appeared live on KEXP back in 2013:
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Lenny Kravitz on guitar for this song that Erykah Badu described as "all that music we used to love growing up before they played the same six songs on the radio all day."
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The 'Sparkle' soundtrack album was written and produced by Curtis Mayfield. Check out this tribute celebrating 40 years of Aretha's 'Sparkle':
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Sign Here’ "is a cheeky and sarcastic celebration of consumerism,” Doohickey Cubicle told Atwood Magazine. “Realizing that you are deeply attached to our wonky consumerist society when you thought you weren’t. Needing more to feel enough and to keep up with the people around you. Every so often I sit back and wonder, how much of what I buy, for pleasure and necessity, is just emulating others? The song exaggerates and leans into the indulgence of it all, baby.” bit.ly