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You can watch their live in-studio performance at KEXP here. www.youtube.com

Released in the final hours of Juneteenth — the holiday observing the June 19, 1865 date which marked the end of slavery in the United States — NPR's Kiana Fitzgerald notes that "the song sounds like an outright celebration. www.npr.org

A cover of the St Germain track recorded by British singer/songwriter Jorja Smith for "Blue Note Re:imagined." Jorja Smith has collaborated with artists including Drake, Kendrick Lamar, Kali Uchis, and Stormzy.

An Open Letter to My White Allies by KEXP writer Martin Douglas: www.kexp.org This has been The Morning Show, we'll see you again at 6:00 AM tomorrow. Take care of yourselves out there.

Seattle's DLO3 recently released this cover of the Marvin Gaye classic, and you can get it here: delvonlamarrorgantrio.bandcamp.com

Found on the Australian band's long-awaited follow up album to 2015's 'Currents'

Learn more about (and support!) artist and KEXP DJ Gabriel Teodros here: gabrielteodros.bandcamp.com

This song was written by Patti Smith and her late husband, Fred "Sonic" Smith. Patti told NME how they tried to infuse the spirit of the '60s into a modern protest song: "It's sad for me but quite beautiful. It was really Fred's song - even though I wrote the words, he wrote the music; the concept was his, and he wanted it to be a song that people sang all over the world to inspire them for different causes. And he didn't live to see that happen, but I have. I've seen people. I've walked in marches all over the world where people spontaneously started singing it, you know, whether it's been in Paris or with the Palestinians or, you know, in Spain or New York City, Washington D.C. - and it's so moving for me to see his dream realized."

Over the past decade, local band Polyrhythmics have kept Seattle dancing with their funky blend of jazz, R&B, psych, and Afrobeat. Their most recent full-length, 2017's Caldera, found the eight-piece band recording live in the studios. "It's obviously more difficult technically and logistically to record an eight-piece band like this live all at once," saxophonist/flutist Art Brown said via a press release, "but we agreed that it was the only way to get the feel the way we wanted it. To really capture this music and that cohesive groove that's essential to what we do, we had to all be listening to each other and playing together at the same time." bit.ly

“We just spoke to the people -- black, white, gay, poor -- and to different religions. We tried to cover it all in three-and-a-half minutes.” - www.billboard.com

For our pal Scott.

Cover of a 1967 Joe Bataan song...but you knew that.

Seattle's Perfume Genius (Mike Hadreas) said about this single: “I started writing about when you are in such a dark place that you don’t even remember what goodness is or what anything feels like. The idea was having someone describe that to you, because you forgot or can’t get to it.” perfumegenius.org

Tei Shei told Stereogum, “Die 4 Ur Love” is a song about the end of the world as you know it. About losing someone or something you never knew you could lose, and then all of a sudden, your reality shifts. All the things you would have done, or said, the love you could have given, and being willing to die over it. I wrote it right after the new year when I was feeling a sense of impending doom and darkness, which now feels surreal to see taking form in a real way around the world and in how the rest of 2020 has unfolded.”

New one from this local husband and wife duo! Their third album is due out sometime this summer. You can support them by purchasing this track here: smokeybrights.bandcamp.com