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Hatchie will be at Neumos on Saturday, May 21.
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"Giving The World Away" is the title track from her forthcoming sophomore album, out on April 22.
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On “Noid,” Tumor’s lyrics grapple with police brutality, especially the effect it has on people who may not have been targeted directly, but watch their communities suffer from it daily. The Andreas Browning-directed clip captures Tumor as he walks through the streets of Los Angeles, cutting to shots of surveillance cameras, cop cars and, most harrowing, a sequence in which Tumor struggles against two heavily-armed and -armored cops.
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yves-tumor.bandcamp.com
Soccer Mommy will be in Seattle for Day In, Day Out Festival on August 12th! www.dayindayoutfest.com
In her latest song “Shotgun,” Sophie Allison (AKA Soccer Mommy) welcomes the overwhelming—and often terrifying—surrender of letting yourself fall in love.
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This LA based post-punk trio took their name from the track Automatic from the GoGo’s 1981 debut LP Beauty and the Beat.: automatic-band.bandcamp.com
Swim is the fifth studio album by Canadian musician Dan Snaith, released under the moniker Caribou, released in 2010.
"Vanity Spawned By Fear" comes from the new 12'' released by Ceremony on April, 12th 2022. ceremonyrohnertpark.bandcamp.com
London-based eight-piece collective, Kokoroko channel the greats of West Africa through a jazz-rooted approach, building on the foundations laid by Fela Kuti, Tony Allen and Ebo Taylor; they lace interrelated influences together into a soul shaking, horn fueled sound. They draw from the music they grew up with, the echoes of Afrobeat and highlife heard in melodies, drum patterns and harmonised vocals.
kokoroko.bandcamp.com
This was the debut single from De La Soul; a remixed single appeared on "3 Feet High and Rising." It sampled The Invitations' 1965 song, "Written on the Wall" and Public Enemy's "Bring the Noise."
On July 21, 2003, Dylan Kwabena Mills, better known by his stage name Dizzee Rasca, released "Boy in da Corner" in the UK. It would be released the following year in the United States.
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The beat for this song heavily samples "The Big Beat" by Billy Squier. In a 2016 interview, Dizzee Rascal noted about making this one, "I started writing so that the “Woos!” would come at the end of the sentence. I built around that. It wasn’t crazy to me because I was into heavy metal and rock and grunge before I was into hip-hop." bit.ly
"One Minute to Midnight" comes from "Cross" released by Justice via Ed Banger records in 2007.
New Hot Chip! Freakout/Release is out August 19 via Domino www.hot-chip.co.uk
The debut album from Anderson .Paak’s LA-based live band is a beautifully crafted set of jazz-tinged soul and funk combining a warm, often-sultry ‘70s-steeped sound with an impressive lineup of guest vocalists including Syd, Anderson .Paak, Kali Uchis, Daniel Caesar, Kadhja Bonet and many more.
This album has been nominated for Best Progressive R&B Album at the 63rd Grammy Awards, coming up on January 31! Read the whole list: tinyurl.com
Khruangbin will be at Marymoor Park on Sunday, July 10 with Men I Trust.
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#21 on the Top 90.3 Countdown of 2018!
Khruangbin performed "Maria También" live in the KEXP studio in 2018. They opened their set with this track:
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Also a KEXP Song of the Day:
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khruangbin.bandcamp.com
www.khruangbin.com
"Omnium Gatherum" is the 20th studio album by King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, released on 4/22/22. kinggizzard.bandcamp.com
La Luz performed live in the KEXP studio in May 2018. Check it out, including this track, here: www.youtube.com
Performances like these are funded through your support! If you're able, we're asking for your help today during our One Day Drive: kexp.org
Fontaines D.C. will be LIVE on KEXP on Saturday, May 14 at 12:30 PM.
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They play that night at Showbox SoDo with Just Mustard. bit.ly
The title of Fontaines D.C.'s forthcoming album, Skinty Fia, draws its name from an old Irish swear-word that translates to "the damnation of the deer." The album is set for release on April 22. fontainesdc.bandcamp.com
A masterpiece of art-pop called one of the best albums of the 90s by multiple journalists -- including the coveted perfect 10 rating from Pitchfork. pitchfork.com
Seattle-based hip hop duo Shabazz Palaces performed at KEXP in 2017: www.youtube.com
"Fried Soul" is the B side to "Cold As Weiss" 7'' released in February, 2022!
NEW MUSIC!!! Lil Silva describes "Backwards":
“Backwards” is the feeling of alienation and constantly venting in a matrix you find yourself inside, whatever that may be.… Restricted and feeling guilty to move forward, constantly going backwards mentally.… I guess the song is about being in a never ending cycle and the heaviness that can bring on you.… It’s a metaphor for that."
Video!
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More music:
lilsilva.bandcamp.com
IG:@lil_silva
Lil Silva and Rosie Lowe are both artists from London! Read more about the track "No Doubt" here - pitchfork.com
"Busy Child" is a classic breakbeat track released by legends, The Crystal Method. www.insomniac.com
"I had an idea of writing a couple lines on the idea of ‘mystery’ and ‘goin nowhere,’ as they are two of my favourite themes,” bandleader Dan Bejar explained in a statement. “That and the Grim Reaper and being pursued by some silent, unnamable thing that constantly lurks one foot to the left of you. Especially as the world’s decay becomes increasingly less abstract.'
destroyer.bandcamp.com
Sasami will be performing at Barboza on Sunday, April 10.
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And she'll be LIVE on KEXP (Live Room) Monday April 11 at 12:00 PM
Watch Sasami perform live in the KEXP studio in 2019:
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sasami.bandcamp.com
www.sasamiashworth.com
"Let's Stay Friends" is the fourth album released by Les Savy Fav in September 2007.
Σtella ("Stella-with-a-sigma") is a painter, visual artist, and musician out of Athens, Greece, with dreampop flavored by Greek folk music
@stellawithasigma on Instagram
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The band originally planned to call the album "Soft Porn," and wanted to feature an image of Buckingham Palace on the sleeve. bit.ly
Enumclaw shared a live performance recorded exclusively for KEXP and chatted with Larry Mizell, Jr. in 2021: youtu.be
New single from Tacoma band Enumclaw.
“When we were about to shoot the ‘Fast N All’ video someone called me a narcissist and it made me have a panic attack,” band leader Aramis Johnson said in a statement. “Once I calmed down I wrote ‘2002’ kinda trying to be sarcastic about how I wake up everyday and try to be the worst possible human. Then when I talked to John the director, I wanted to communicate in the video a chaotic feel and how I wanted to take that narcissist perspective and put it into the spirit of the visual and song.”
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This band’s anonymous members claim to hail from the remote and cursed village of Korpilombo in northern Sweden, where inhabitants had for centuries been devoted to a form of voodoo introduced by a travelling witch doctor. Last year's 13-song "Headsoup" was comprised of singles, alternate versions of album cuts, and two previously unreleased tracks
The video for this track was inspired by a long-simmering conflict in the small city of Gävle, northern Sweden, over a 40-foot-tall effigy of a goat that gets erected from straw every Advent -- and normally gets mysteriously destroyed each year. Watch the video and get links to the outrageous story: youtu.be
'Music is like medicine, and we most definitely were trying to create something that had some uplifting human energy to it.'
Read more from Martin Douglas' interview with Wooden Shjips' Ripley Johnson from 2018: www.kexp.org
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
Melody Prochet, French musician also known as Melody’s Echo Chamber, has just released her third single, which she describes as “more of a poem to life”, ahead of the release of her forthcoming new album Emotional Eternal. The song is her tribute to motherhood which she wrote after having to leave her newborn for a night a year after giving birth.
This song features cerebral lyrics from Miho Hatori, a member of the Trip Hop group Cibo Matto and the original vocalist for Noodle from the Gorillaz, peppered throughout the song. In between these lyrical passages, we get some contributions from Beastie Boy’s Mike D.
This instrumental off "Hello Nasty" samples Lee Michaels' "(Don't Want No) Woman",
From the band's website -
"The Sure Fire Soul Ensemble are definitely on a roll coming off of their third LP, Build Bridges, which debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Contemporary Jazz Chart. Their new and fourth LP, Step Down, is a direct reflection of the heavy times they were written and recorded in. Covid-19, two Presidential impeachment trials, the George Floyd murder and resulting social unrest, a seditious attempt to subvert the democratic process at The Capitol… "
"We think this album will capture your heart immediately, but also provide the depth for discovery upon repeated listens. SFSE have made a true statement here, and we are very proud to present Step Down to the world. Now, turn this shiiit up loud!"
Purchase the new album here: ffm.to
Dan Snaith, who records as Daphni and as Caribou, remixes the only known release by Togolese band Cos-Ber-Zam! He included this remix along with two other tracks remixed from the album "Jiaolong" on this EP
caribouband.bandcamp.com
New music from their forthcoming releasing - due out May 6! Afro-Cuban, French twins Lisa-Kaindé and Naomi Díaz, known to the world as Ibeyi, set out to remobilize the power of their birth--given destiny as Ibeyi, which has led them on a path to restoration in pursuit of true harmony, healing and magic.
Enjoy Live Video from Ibeyi's 2017 KEXP In-Studio:
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Ibeyi will be live at The Neptune on Wednesday, September 21!
More tour dates, info and music:
ibeyimusic.com
"Too Darn Hot" is a song written by Cole Porter for his musical Kiss Me, Kate (1948)
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Jazz queen Ella Fitzgerald gets it: it's too darn hot. Here's a guide to dealing with the excessive heat in Seattle, plus a list of cooling centers: durkan.seattle.gov