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Starting in 1993, Murphy used the name Death from Above when DJing. Later James Murphy, Tim Goldsworthy, and Jonathan Galkin started DFA (Death From Above) Records.
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Just before this album, Faris Badwan teamed with Canadian opera singer Rachel Zeffira for the hazy pop project Cat's Eyes.
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Hailing from Brisbane, the artist born Harriette Pilbeam started singing as a child, later learning guitar and bass in her teen years. The multi-instrumentalist would also add piano and clarinet to her résumé. In college, she studied entertainment, music, and management before pursuing live music as a creative outlet.
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Wild Nothing and Beach Fossils are doing a short tour together performing their debut albums in full!
No seattle though :^(
Check out the the tour dates here!
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The song was written and composed by producer Keith Forsey and Steve Schiff while scoring The Breakfast Club.
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Odelay was produced by the Dust Brothers in their first gig since the Beastie Boys' 1989 album Paul's Boutique. // www.beck.com
Born Kaoru Ishibashi in Seattle, in 1975. he spent his formative years in Norfolk, Virginia.
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For a few years when the band was new and finding it's footing they were working under the name Angel Range, then changed the name to Union before they issued their first demo in 2003. Shortly after that release they switched the name for the final time to Bloc Party.
Julian Casablancas (the son of Elite Model Agency Group kingpin John Casablancas), Moretti (who began playing drums at age five), and Valensi started playing together in 1998 while they attended the Dwight School, a private prep school in Manhattan. // thestrokes.com
The Duke Spirit formed in 2002 when singer/harmonica player Liela Moss met guitarist/keyboardist/singer Luke Ford at art school in London. //
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The bluesy punk duo the Kills consist of vocalist/guitarist VV, aka Alison Mosshart, formerly of the Florida punk band Discount, and drummer/guitarist/vocalist Hotel, aka Jamie Hince. After Discount ended in 2000, VV began exchanging tapes with the London-based Hotel through the mail, but both of them felt hindered by this method, so VV crossed the Atlantic so the duo could write faster. // thekills.tv
Post features Debut producer Nellee Hooper, 808 State's Graham Massey, Howie B, and Tricky.
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In addition to its stealthy rise to prominence, part of the album's legend was that budding auteur Trent Reznor took advantage of his low-level job at a Cleveland studio to begin recording it. // www.nin.com
The band has gone through several lineup changes during its career, but through it all, their leader has remained singer/songwriter Jason Kay (aka J.K.). Born on December 30, 1969, in Stretford, Manchester, Kay's mother, Karen, was a jazz singer who regularly performed at nightclubs, and in the '70s had her own TV show.
Daft Punk and Scott Grooves were on the same label together at the time, Soma Records.
Free Nationals recorded and performed extensively with Grammy-winning artist Anderson .Paak before they branched out with a self-titled album in 2019. // www.thefreenationals.com
Haiti-born, Montreal-based producer. Has worked with other notable acts such as Mick Jenkins, Estelle, Kali Uchis and many more. // www.kaytranada.com
Blending a wide range styles from NY hip-hop, UK bass and Turkish psychedelic, to Nigerian afrobeat and Amazonian funk, Esperanto Slang demonstrates that Captain Planet’s trademark sound has matured into a truly unique form of electronic music, connecting scenes and languages worldwide through his mellifluous sonic thesaurus.
Check out this KEXP in-studio of Jungle performing! // www.kexp.org
Check out their KEXP in-studio performance from 2014 including songs off this album! // www.kexp.org
Here's a live-review of their 2016 show at The Paramount // www.kexp.org
Dunckel and Godin went in a very different direction for their album in 2012, which was based on an original score they created for the 1902 classic silent film Le Voyage Dans la Lune. The pair created the score in less than a month, working with collaborators such as Au Revoir Simone and Beach House's Victoria LeGrand.
Kevin Parker (vocals/guitar) and Dominic Simper (bass) formed the band as 13-year-olds in Perth in 1999, sticking to bedroom recordings until 2007, when Jay Watson joined them on drums and backing vocals
A Tribe Called Quest was formed in 1988, though both Q-Tip (b. Jonathan Davis) and Phife (b. Malik Taylor) had grown up together in Queens. Q-Tip met DJ Ali Shaheed Muhammad while at high school and, after being named by the Jungle Brothers (who attended the same school), the trio began performing.
