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Wednesday, Dec 29 2021, 4PM
Welcome to Slide Time with the wonderful Evie! Go ahead and Put Your Sad Down and get ready to dance!
Email dj@kexp.org or text 206-903-5397 with requests or messages hello!
Curtis Harding is playing a 21+ show at Neumos on Saturday, January 29th - curtisharding.com
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Curtis Harding shared a live performance recorded exclusively for KEXP and chatted with DJ Troy Nelson. Recorded November 18, 2021. - www.youtube.com
London-based Kero Kero Bonito are made up of vocalist Sarah Midori Perry (performing as Sarah Bonito), and producers Gus Lobban and Jamie Bulled. Drowned in Sound, in a profile, points out that the bands influences include J-pop, dancehall, video game music, and My Bloody Valentine -- tinyurl.com
Peyote Ugly are an ectodelic synth-psyche threesome from Seattle.
peyoteuglyseattle.bandcamp.com
"White Feather," off the Peyote Ugly EP is an example of DIY production gone right. It's a well-written track full of 70s crunch guitar chords using oscillating filters, synthesizers parading megalithic melodies, and moving bass synchronizing with a consistent drum groove.
The song fades in to an expansive, repetitious soundscape with unison bass and synth lines. There's a spacey background with ethereal noise over percussive drums. Then guitar breaks the daze with a crunchy hook, joined in by synth. Lyrics sift through the dream state, like "I got cold feet," and "I have a retroactive mind." We hear that lyric later on in the song, which only enhances its meaning.
www.look-up-records.com
According to NPR: this "song [was] born from sessions intended to crack both artists' struggles with writer's block, "29" is an instrumental release of pent-up tension."
Watch the music video here:
www.youtube.com
This song, off of their 2002 release, sampled Bernard Estardy's "Tic Tac Nocturne".
www.thechemicalbrothers.com
This Baltimore band’s third album is an excellent set of expansive hardcore inflected with metal, dance-friendly indie-pop, astral R&B, New Wave and more, combining thick guitar riffs, punchy rhythms, urgent vocals, introspective lyrics, soaring choruses and anthemic song hooks. Special guests include Blood Orange and Julien Baker.
Wolf Alice performed "Don’t Delete the Kisses" live in the KEXP studio in 2017. Watch the full session here:
youtu.be
wolfalice.co.uk
2013 was a phenomenal year for Travis Stewart aka Machinedrum. He toured extensively, playing DJ sets as Machinedrum, Sepalcure, and JETS, and went on an international circuit to perform a live show of his highly praised LP, Vapor City.
Stewart started the Machinedrum project during his final two years of high school! bit.ly
The album "Songs from the Big Chair" takes its name from the 1976 American TV drama series Sybil, in which the title character, suffering from psychiatric problems stemming from child abuse, seeks refuge in her therapist's "big chair."
Khruangbin and Leon Bridges have announced their second collaborative EP -"Texas Moon", the follow-up to their previous collaboration, "Texas Sun." "Texas Moon" will be out February 18th, 2022.
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The video for "B-Side" was filmed in a recreation of an 1800’s western town: www.youtube.com
For Dave in Melbourne, Florida!
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Don't miss Live Video from Ben Gibbard's 2018 KEXP In-Studio, hosted by Cheryl Waters: bit.ly.
The new album "Things Are Great" is out Jan 21, 2022, with production by the band's lead singer, Ben Bridwell.
"I think like a lot of my songs, “Crutch” starts with something from my real life. Obviously “Crutch” means some of the things that I was dependent on. My relationship for one. I think I wanted to say, “I’ve got a crush on you,” and I thought it was funny how relationships also feel like crutches. I feel like everybody has had a time when nothing goes right and you still have to carry on. I think that feeling hits you in this song even if you don’t know what the specifics are."
bit.ly
Joakim describes the thought process behind the production of 'Forever Young' as trying "to make the soundtrack of a late Indian summer sunset, on a beach." Such a setting is a time for everyone, where age is meaningless; most of all it's a time when you're enjoying something that is fading away, it's like enjoying a great Souvenir. It is both delightful if not a little melancholic at the same time, but juxtaposed with the lyrics, this creates a dark undertone which is a repeated throughout song with the chorus resolving itself on an unresovable question…'where do you belong?' "Like some other tracks from my new album, this sounds kinda happy, but it's actually not" soundcloud.com
Deep Sea Diver performed "See These Eyes" live during KEXP's New Home Grand Opening celebration on April 16, 2016. Watch the full live set from the courtyard stage:
youtu.be
‘It’s You’ is the third track off Yagana, the debut EP of UK-based band Pigeon. The emotionally-charged track is accompanied by a video to tell the story.
More about the project here:
binalogue.com
pigeon-uk.bandcamp.com
shame is playing at The Crocodile on Tuesday, February 8, 2022.
In October 2018, shame played a great live session in the KEXP Gathering Space. You can enjoy live video from the performance here: youtu.be
shamebanduk.bandcamp.com
The War on Drugs are playing The Paramount Theatre on Monday & Tuesday, February 21-22, 2022. www.stgpresents.org
Ryan Dombal for Pitchfork: 'Here is a song that will make you long to be back in a concrete arena filled with 20,000 new friends, singing together in a way that makes you think, if only for a moment, that humanity might not be swirling toward total catastrophe.' bit.ly
This song is considered by many to be a staple of early 90's Hip Hop. It is also lyrically inspired by the death of their close friend Troy Dixon (better known as "Trouble" T. Roy of Heavy D & the Boyz) in 1990. Dixon, who was touring around the U.S. with Heavy D & the Boyz, died when he fell off of a raised exit ramp outside of a concert venue in Indianapolis, Indiana while he was joking around with other musicians after a show. Learn the story behind this song: bit.ly
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Check out the music video from the album 'Mecca & The Soul Brother' : youtu.be
For Zola in Seattle!
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During production, Odesza's Mills and Knight were more open to experimentation, favoring more of a singer-songwriter approach with a greater focus on lyrical content. The result is a more vocally driven album, contrasting with their previous sample-based releases.
odesza.com
For Jon!
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Jenn Champion chatted with KEXP after the release of 'Single Rider': kexp.org
'I guess it was this cross between those kind of late 80's songs and then what pop music is doing now. I think with pop music – especially today's music – I think, for me, there's still something appealing about it… you know, you have really smart musicians working on that stuff. I think it was pretty organic. Sometimes when I'm really interested in something that's just generally how I'll start writing. I'll be like, “How do I figure this out? How do I do this?” So I'll just tinker around with the drum machine for a long time. I spent so many hours looking at YouTube videos of people playing synthesizers… trying to just learn about it, I guess. I guess anything that I'm just really interested in, that's just what my really nerdy quality is. It's like, “Oh, I've got to do this thing. I've got to know about it, and then I'm going to make something with it” [laughs].'
This is a new release from Wajatta, the musical duo of comedian/musician Reggie Watts and electronic music artist/DJ/producer John Tejada. (It's pronounced wa-HA-ta — it’s a mash-up of the artists’ last names.)
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This is a cover of the acid house anthem made famous by singer Seals and producer/keyboardist Adamski.: www.theguardian.com
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“Most people in the US know the version which ended up on Seal’s debut album, but the original was a fierce instrumental Adamski would perform live during the peak of the Acid House explosion in the UK,” explains John. “It wasn’t for a while that he added vocals sung by his friend Seal. Adamski's original version is a UK classic and it still holds up to this day."
This song samples Foolish by Ashanti. soundcloud.com
Bonobo's playing an all-ages show with Jordan Rakei on March 22nd at Showbox SoDo. - bit.ly
The new album, out January 14th, features Jamila Woods, Joji, Kadhja Bonet, O’Flynn, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson and Jordan Rakei on this track.
bonobomusic.bandcamp.com
This track off the third album from the Swedish band is based off a real person. Andrew Wyatt of Miike Snow told Notion in 2016 that this album, "kicked off with the first time anyone’s really ever broken my heart and it was a long process of recovery, much longer than I thought it would be."
Though now London-based, Bicep's Matt McBriar and Andy Ferguson are childhood friends from Belfast. The album is a love letter to their life growing up in that Northern Irish city, which was filled with struggles due to religious differences: "We have strong mixed emotions, connected to growing up on an island. Wanting to leave, wanting to return."
"It’s always been an unquantifiable topic for us. We’re not religious, but we’re both from different religious backgrounds," McBriar continues. "There was always a lot of interest in us talking about those issues, but we always felt that one of the things we loved about dance music was that freedom it gave you to be released from talking about those things."
Echoing those sentiments, Ferguson looked back to the experiences they shared at Belfast club Shine. "You’d enter the club and it would be people from both sides of the tracks and they’d be hugging," he said. "And the following week, they’d be with their mates rioting. It felt like the safest place but, on paper, it should have been the most dangerous." bit.ly
bicep.bandcamp.com