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Sunday, Jan 9 2022, 3PM
Evie's here every Sunday from 3PM-6PM Pacific, and we're so glad you're here too. Thanks to DJ Miss Ashley for a great afternoon mix!
Pitchfork discussed "All I Want" as tribute to David Bowie's "Heroes" -- Bowie would have turned 75 yesterday; tomorrow will be the sixth anniversary of his passing
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Frontman Faris Badwan told NME, “This is the album I’ve been most excited about releasing. I think it would be misleading to say it’s got more guitars or more synths, because half the time the guitars sound like synths anyway. Is it fair to say there’s more of everything?” -- bit.ly
Cheryl Waters hosted The Horrors -- Live in the KEXP Studio back in 2018: youtu.be
Beach House will perform at The Paramount Theatre on Sunday, April 3rd -- get tickets for the all-ages show: tinyurl.com
Victoria Legrand spoke about her and bandmate Alex Scally’s songwriting process: "It’s like this stain and it’s coming out because I hear these tones and these chords and these notes, and they make me feel like crying or they make me completely euphoric. That’s the thing that hasn’t changed, but I think it’s become amplified. And that is why I don’t think we’re done making records." bit.ly
It’s KEXP’s 50th anniversary, and to celebrate we’re taking an in-depth look at each year of our history – from 1972 to 2022! Speaking of 1972, that's when Greek psychedelic rock band Aphrodite's Child released this concept album -- telling the story of the Book of Revelation. This track was written by Vangelis Papathanassiou, who later went on to fame with his electronic music and film scores!
"You just became my favorite Dj for playing this!" -- Spider from Hillman City
QUANTIC plays Seattle's Nectar Lounge, with KEXP's own DJ Kid Hops! 21+ over show, for tickets: tinyurl.com
Producer/musician Will Holland teams up with New York-based singer and producer Denitia Odigie on this moody track. atlanticoscillations.com
Amber Mark will play a SOLD OUT show at Madame Lou's on Saturday, April 9
Amber Mark's debut album, 'Three Dimensions Deep' will feature 17 tracks separated into three acts: WITHOUT, WITHHELD, and WITHIN.
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This track from ATCQ's debut LP samples "Inner City Blues," by Reuben Wilson (from his 1974 album "The Sweet Life")
'The lyrics are 25 years old. But were they released today they'd seem right on time, while being out of place—because all these many years later People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm is more than a nostalgia artifact. It's a worthy listen, not because of what it was, but because of what it is.' -- read more of kris ex's Perfect 10 retrospective: tinyurl.com
New music from Seattle's own DLO3. They will play The Crocodile on Friday, February 4th, 2022, before departing on a tour of Europe; it'll be a 21+ show: tinyurl.com
Delvon Lamarr explained: “On every DLO3 tour, at some point, we have to tell Jimmy James to pull his pants up,” Lamarr said. “After being blinded by his backside over and over and over again, we decided to write a song about it!” Pre-order this album on Bandcamp: delvonlamarrorgantrio.bandcamp.com
This track appears in the first season of The Sopranos and in the Daria episode "The Teachings of Don Jake."
In December, Boston's kings of "low-rock" dropped a remastered version of this album with new-to-vinyl B-sides, alternates, and demos: www.roughtrade.com
"Dina ögon is like the lovechild of Fleetwood Mac, Eric B & Rakim, Khruangbin and some obscure Motown b-side singles."
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Sweden’s Dina Ögon is, at its root, a collaboration between vocalist Anna Ahnlund and multi-instrumentalist Daniel Ögren.: aquariumdrunkard.com
Happy birthday to Orbital's Phil Hartnoll -- born on this day in 1964!
This is the second album from British electroncia fraternal-duo Phil & Paul Hartnoll. "Orbital 2" is also commonly known as "The Brown Album". They dedicated this track to their mother, who was addicted to the tranquilizer Halcion (Trazolam) for many years This song has been featured on a wide range of movie soundtracks, including Mortal Kombat, Hackers, CKY2K, and Mean Girls.
Brand new music from Animal Collective! 'Time Skiffs’ nine songs are love letters, distress signals, en plein air observations, and relaxation hymns, the collected transmissions of four people who have grown into relationships and parenthood and adult worry. But they are rendered with Animal Collective’s singular sense of exploratory wonder' -- anmlcollectve.bandcamp.com
Abigail Portner and Dave Portner co-directed the video: youtu.be
"I spend a lot of time thinking about how I can change things. I feel change is the first thing we as humans either love or hate. There isn’t a middle. I took a side and I love change. It challenges me mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. I also figured something out. I can't change the world, but I can change my world, which allows others to see inside of it and hopefully I can influence them to feel/do the same, and hopefully that trend goes on to the next person.
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Twins Lisa-Kaindé Diaz and Naomi Diaz are Ibeyi, or "Twins" in Nigerian language Yoruba -- they sing in English, French, Spanish and Yoruba. This track features UK rapper Pa Salieu!
DJ Cheryl Waters hosted Ibeyi Live in the KEXP Studio in 2017: youtu.be
'“Who Is He (and What Is He to You)?” is one of the coolest expressions of jealousy you’ll ever hear, which doesn’t make the song any less painful. Withers hasn’t made a new album in twenty years, but Still Bill is still a stone-soul masterpiece.' --- David Wild in Rolling Stone in 2003
Damani Baker and Alex Vlack released a documentary on Bill Withers' career called, fittingly enough, "Still Bill" in 2009 -- www.imdb.com
The lyrics take a tongue-in-cheek look at the sensation of overnight adolescent millionaires created by the cryptocurrency boom. One enterprising young individual proclaims their riches to neighbors, teachers, and the entire world while chanting “don’t be afraid to make to make money boy.”
“It’s the story of the ultimate childhood fantasy, the schoolboy who becomes a millionaire overnight, and the different interactions he has with people in his life from teachers to neighbors,” Newman said in a press release. “How ironically you interpret its message is entirely up to you…” bit.ly
'Toward the Within' is the first live album from Dead Can Dance. It was recorded in Santa Monica, CA at the Mayfair Theatre in 1993. The concert film is stunning and well-worth tracking down!!!
The theatre would be heavily damaged in an earthquake only two months later, and was later demolished in 2010
Dave Gahan and Soulsavers have released a new album ‘Imposter’, which reimagines songs from acts including Neil Young,Cat Power, Bob Dylan and more -- including this PJ Harvey classic from 2004's "Uh Huh Her". Gahan and Rich Machin describe the album as 'reinterpretations from across genres and time periods” rather than a covers album.
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"Masculinity may be a fragile thing, but Australian psych-pop band POND aren’t afraid to show the softer side to being a man. POND is a group that nods back to glam rock days and infuses dizzy psychedelic rock to give the world something they’ve never quite heard before." -- atwoodmagazine.com
Enjoy the music video for "Sweep Me Off My Feet": youtu.be
Canadian record producer KAYTRANADA has released the new 'Intimidated' EP. The three-song release includes “Intimidated” (featuring H.E.R.), “Be Careful” (featuring Thundercat), and “$PayforHaiti” (featuring bilingual rap newcomer Mach-Hommy).
"Pang" was Caroline Polacheck's breakaway solo experimental pop album -- produced after 12 years in the band Chairlift and an epiphany from magic mushrooms! -- tinyurl.com
Lots of people have been riffing off Caroline Polachek on TikTok! www.tiktok.com
Kevin Cole hosted Caroline Polachek Live in the KEXP Studio in Dec 2019: youtu.be
Alan Polomo from chillwave pioneers Neon Indian showed Anthony Bourdain around Austin, TX in 2012 -- it's brilliant: tinyurl.com
Watch Neon Indian perform this song Live in the KEXP Studio, hosted by DJ El Toro: youtu.be
St Paul And The Broken Bones will perform for The Alien Coast Tour in an all-ages show at The Neptune -- May 3! tinyurl.com
. Additionally, the history of Birmingham forms a pivotal backbone for the album according to frontman Paul Janeway. "The title actually came from reading about the history of the Gulf of Mexico, which is home for us," Janeway wrote. "When the settlers—or invaders, really—first came to the Gulf Coast they couldn’t figure out what it was, and started referring to it as the Alien Coast. That term really stuck with me, partly because it feels almost apocalyptic." bit.ly
'Hi Evieeeee ! One of my best friends from seattle is visiting me in LA right now and we are listening to ya and chatting about how you're simply the best ! All our love to you. If you have a moment will you play some Khruangbin for us?! Xoxo !!' -- Cat in LA
In the video, Khruangbin's soulful, breezy "Two Fish And An Elephant" becomes a wordless short film inspired by the likes of Quentin Tarantino and Hayao Miyazaki -- youtu.be
This is the first release in the KPM Crate Diggers series, a partnership between London-based label, Def Pressé and KPM/EMI Music -- leveraging the newly opened KPM music and sound-design library.
“Damu the Fudgemunk came to our studio in London to carefully dig his way through the whole KPM 1000 series,” says Peter Clarke of EMI Production Music. “If anyone is in doubt about sampling being an artform, they just need to watch him work! It’s great to breathe new life into all these old recordings, too. And then place it straight back into library music for use in media. Exactly how it was originally intended.”
Learn more: damuthefudgemunk.bandcamp.com
KEXP is celebrating our 50th anniversary -- this week we've featured songs from 1972, our first year on the air! Including this one... written in memory of Nina Simone's late friend Lorraine Hansberry, author of the play A Raisin in the Sun.
"When [Aretha] sang “Young, Gifted and Black,” it brought about a pride in me. I’d never heard anyone say I was gifted. It was the first time I’d heard gifted and black in the same phrase. I felt proud. I felt valuable." - Leslie Mathews to the Detroit Free Press about the importance of this song to Black women following the death of Franklin in 2018: tinyurl.com
This cover of 50 Cent's "P.I.M.P" comes from long-time multi instrumentalist and band leader Bjorn Wagner -- Wagner spent a few months in Trinidad & Tobago, and set out to blend the Tropical Steel into his already sharply honed Funk, Soul, and Hip Hop sensibilities. Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band is the resulting project!
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Makaya McCraven's new remix album dropped in November -- the latest single remakes a deep cut from trumpeter and composer Kenny Dorham's 1961 album 'Whistle Stop', featuring Hank Mobley on tenor saxophone, Kenny Drew on piano, Paul Chambers on bass, and Philly Joe Jones on drums. McCraven’s new version layers on his own drums and also features Jeff Parker on guitar, Joel Ross on vibraphone, and Junius Paul on ceramic bird(!)
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The famous orchestral riff incorporates a sample from an obscure instrumental version of the 1965 Rolling Stones song "The Last Time" by Stones producer Andrew Loog Oldham, who included it on a 1966 album called The Rolling Stones Songbook (credited to The Andrew Oldham Orchestra). The Verve got permission to use the six-second sample from Decca Records, which owned the Oldham recording, but they also needed permission from the publisher of "The Last Time," something they didn't realize until after the album was completed. Oops!
Read the story of the legal dispute with the Stones that was finally resolved in 2019: tinyurl.com
The album draws on a psychedelic radio aesthetic strongly inspired by Magic 106.7, the mondegreen namesake of Lopatin's project, and was recorded in lockdown between March and July 2020. The video features a courtship between two demonic creatures -- youtu.be
Marco Collins hosted Nada Surf live for KEXP donors at The Triple Door in January 2020, youtu.be
Songwriter Matthew Caws on "Always Love": "I still have strong feelings for this song. The words still resonate with me. I feel like most people can identify with wanting to feel part of a loving relationship, of a warm and mutually supportive partnership. I’ve never gotten tired of singing it."
Mitski plays the Moore March 9th & 10th. www.mitski.com
This one goes out to Nelle and Haley in Portland! “I needed love songs about real relationships that are not power struggles to be won or lost... I needed songs that could help me forgive both others and myself. I make mistakes all the time. I don’t want to put on a front where I’m a role model, but I’m also not a bad person. I needed to create this space mostly for myself where I sat in that gray area.” bit.ly
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'Godford’s music shapeshifts from quietly enthralling dancefloor hymns that captivate in their ephemeral rhythm before unfolding to more forlorn spaces, the mark of a true observer who sees everything at once: at both reactionary and empathetic, the record’s far-reaching lens loops together a scope of contrasting emotion that reflects the deeply personal circumstance of experiencing music at it’s most personal.'
Godford is playing in Pasadena, CA in August! godford.bandcamp.com
A week before M.I.A.'s 11th birthday, the singer, her mother and her siblings fled civil war in Sri Lanka. They arrived in London where they were housed as refugees. The singer therefore knows more than most of us about migrants and on this heartfelt song, she reminds us that for refugees worldwide, borders are not a sign of comfort. "Borders" was released two weeks after the November 2015 Paris terrorist attacks, a tragedy that prompted France to call for the suspension of open borders within Europe.
The self-directed video finds M.I.A. joining a group of refugees as they migrate by land and sea, scaling barbed wire fences in their attempt to reach new borders. The singer dedicated the clip to her Uncle Bala, one of the first Tamil immigrants, who helped her family escape from Sri Lanka to England.
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Watch the video for "Borders":
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Going out to Brad in Port Townsend!
"I deserve to be With somebody as fly as me..." Last year, Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak came together as Silk Sonic, their project to celebrate the R&B of the 1970s. Bootsy Collins acts as special host throughout their newest LP, and Thundercat also appears as a guest.
Check out the duo's live perfromance of "Fly as Me" - Live from the BET Soul Train Awards 2021:
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‘Mirage (Don’t Stop)’ was written by Ware, Benji B and former BADBADNOTGOOD member Matthew Tavares. James Ford of Simian Mobile Disco and Clarence ‘Coffee’ Jr are also credited for production and songwriting -- tinyurl.com
Keep on dancing!
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"Themes of love and empathy are backed by chugging drums and hypnotic grooves, to enjoy on dance floors and in headphones worldwide. The EP’s first single "L.O.V.E." is a disco-house, free-formed sizzler. Ra's vocals are silky and powerful on top of a cheeky pulsing disco beat peppered with guitar and sax." bit.ly
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Reykjavik-based band GusGus launched in 1995 as a film and acting collective, and derived their name from the Rainer Werner Fassbinder film "Angst essen seele auf", where a female character cooks couscous for her lover -- NOT from the mouse in Cinderella!
Here's GusGus performing live at Kex Hostel in Reykjavik during Iceland Airwaves 2017: bit.ly
"While her debut record Baduizm turned Erykah Badu into a household name, Mama’s Gun cemented her status as the new face of R&B. After taking several years off to raise her first child, Badu returned to the studio to record her second album, much of which was inspired by love and her relationship with her then partner, Andre Benjamin. Leaning into a more organic sound with less-elusive lyrics, Badu opted to speak to the state of Black womanhood and the world around her". www.udiscovermusic.com