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Friday, Aug 19 2022, 10AM
Ethel Cain will be LIVE on KEXP today at noon! They will also be playing an all-ages show at Neumos tomorrow, August 20.
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"This is the Day" is the third song on New York band Ivy's second studio album.
This collaborative album by Sonic Boom of Spacemen 3 and Panda Bear was released just a week ago! pandabearmusic.bandcamp.com
New music from French singer-songwriter, Héloïse Adélaïde Letissier! Christine and the Queens recorded a Live on KEXP at Home session in May of 2020: bit.ly
Originally written by George Harrison, this song appears on the 2017 cover album by Flo Morrissey and Matthew E. White. The album also includes covers of songs by Frank Ocean, James Blake, and The Velvet Underground.
Seattle's own New Age Healers will be playing The Sunset on Friday, September 23, in support of Jupe Jupe.
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We had New Age Healers perform live on KEXP in 2019, check out the performance here: youtu.be
Troy Nelson hosted Wild Nothing Live in the KEXP Studio back in 2018, watch the performance here: youtu.be
Jack Tatum of the Wild Nothings recorded this album with producer Jack Elbrecht. One reviewer commented that this track combines "Tatum’s melodic warmth and Elbrecht’s chilly precision." bit.ly
Japanese Breakfast released this Korean version of the song Be Sweet featuring So!YoON! You can watch the new music video here:
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Out this fall, Alvvays' long-awaited third album, Blue Rev, is arriving five years after their 2017 sophomore release. Alvvays will be at The Moore on Saturday, October 22, 2022, an all ages event! bit.ly
‘Mahal’ is Toro y Moi’s seventh studio album.
"The Medium" features Unknown Mortal Orchestra's Ruban Nielson on lead guitar.
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Accompanying the album, Toro y Moi released a short film featuring Eric Andre. bit.ly
Guru's 'Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1' is the debut solo studio album by American hip hop recording artist Guru, released in 1993.
It was one of the first albums to combine a live jazz band with hip hop production and rapping.
"Loungin" is the second track on the album. It features Donald Byrd on trumpet and piano.
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Check out the video for "Loungin', featuring Donald Byrd on trumpet:
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New 10-track record from Neneh Cherry featuring reimaginings of her older songs in collaboration with her fav female and non-binary artists of today including SIA, Robyn & ANOHNI. She tapped Jamila Woods for this rendition of "Kootchi."
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"U.R.A Fever" was the lead single off of the Kills' third album, Midnight Boom.
"On Midnight Boom, The Kills subtly and organically fuse pop, glam, blues, art-punk and hip hop, in a manner that flits between light and dark, funny and morbid, experimental and cute." bit.ly
Santigold will play an all-ages show at the Showbox SoDo on Tuesday, November 8th as part of the Holified Tour. bit.ly
“The energy I was looking for couldn’t be the old version of punk rock, it had to be the future sound of punk rock,” Santigold said of the song in a statement, adding: “It all came together in a way I could never have imagined when we started, but it was exactly what I set out to make. I want to make music that sounds like the past and the future all in one; music that makes you feel safe enough to jump in, but then takes us on a journey to where we needed to go but have never even heard of.
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Fear Fear is Working Men's Club's second full-length release. The band was Live on KEXP at Home in April 2021. Check out the session and interview, hosted by Kevin Cole! bit.ly
"Random Access Memories" was final track from the duo's final album released before their breakup in 2021. The track was co-produced by French DJ and producer Stéphane Quême, aka DJ Falcon -- and features a sample of the song "We Ride Tonight" by Australian band The Sherbs.
Tom Tom Club was founded by Talking Heads' Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz. This self-titled 1981 album was their debut. Five albums have followed, including the most recent, Downtown Rockers, released in 2012.
"Perhaps the only band to have the British Film Institute on speed dial, the London duo Public Service Broadcasting take clips of public service films and lay them over soaring electronic rock." bit.ly
"This silly tale from space — equal parts Godzilla and Power Rangers — felt like a homecoming from another planet. [The music video] features the fab three famously shifting gears and speeds as they rap into their signature low-shot cam atop a track sampling sci-fi fare as bizarre as the Resonator from From Beyond and the theme song from The Toxic Avenger. The whole package somehow felt ahead of its time, like an homage, and out of this world — simultaneously. That’s actually a pretty good way to describe Beastie Boys." bit.ly
"Space Walk" is set to a recording of Ed White's 1965 space walk on the Gemini 4 mission. Nick Franglen and Fred Deakin chose to use the sample after listening to an album called Flight to the Moon (1969); the two were struck by how moving and emotive many of the tracks were.
Deakin later said, "'One small step' leaves me cold, because it was so obviously scripted. But the spacewalk… even after hearing it so many times, it's so vivid."
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Fresh off the Spaceship tells the story of the Black Constellation, an artist collective (Shabazz Palaces, THEESatisfaction, Ya Tseen) with Seattle roots and cosmic reach. Hosted by KEXP’s Larry Mizell Jr. and Martin Douglas, each of the 10 episodes takes listeners on a musical journey connecting the stars of the Black Constellation and drawing meaning from their art, emphasizing the revolutionary power of communion along the way.: www.kexp.org
Poppy Ajudha's song "MOTHERS SISTERS GIRLFRIENDS" was chosen by Larry Mizell, Jr. as KEXP's song of the day on June 15, 2022. bit.ly
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Following up her debut album, The Power In Us, Ajudha released the single "NO!" just this month!
Florida-born, Alabama-based artist Ethel Cain is live in the KEXP studios!! "A House in Nebraska" is the third track of her 2022 album, Preacher's Daughter. She will play an all-ages show at Neumos tomorrow night. Tickets here: bit.ly
Ethel Cain's debut incorporates "elements of ambient, doom metal, classic rock, folk, country and other styles, combining acoustic and heavy electric guitars, piano, occasional shimmering synths and mostly slow-moving rhythms with her smoky, haunting vocals and evocative lyrics of troubled family relationships and religious trauma." bit.ly
Ethel Cain plays the penultimate track off her debut album, "Preacher's Daughter," live on KEXP.
Listen to the full album here: www.daughtersofcain.com
Did you know that this Los Angeles trio were our guest DJs on KEXP's Midnight in a Perfect World in July? Go here to see their playlist: bit.ly
Automatic released their sophomore album, "Excess," on June 24th.
“It’s about spending your life making money and then spending it to fill the void created by said job,” the band’s Halle Saxon-Gaines said in a statement. “Kind of like going to LA to live your dreams,” Lola Dompé added.
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London group Renegade Soundwave was active from 1986-1995. Howyoudoin? was their penultimate album.
In a statement released alongside "Far Apart," MorMor's first release in over two years, the Toronto artist explains that he wrote the track about the "toxicity that occurs in a relationship when both people haven’t yet faced their demons." The heaviness of that topic is fleshed out in the lyrics, with MorMor singing about being "pulled down from above" and "buried in my doubt" in his distinctive falsetto.: bit.ly
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MorMor was live on KEXP at home on October 29, 2020. You can watch the performance and interview here: bit.ly
"Cut 4 Me' was the "debut mixtape" of Los Angeles vocalist Kelela Mizanekristos. She was attempting "to take the moody sounds of the sorts of electronic musicians orbiting club nights/labels/collectives like Night Slugs and Fade to Mind, and give them a more pop-friendly spin that will appeal to listeners who don’t normally go in for severely dark dance music.": pitchfork.com