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Thursday, Sep 29 2022, 10AM
Released on this day in 1998: Aquemini by OutKast!
This track features samples from Giorgio Moroder's 1978 '(Theme from) Midnight Express.'
(They also sampled 1978's "Is This Love" by Bob Marley and the Wailers & 1998's "Black Ice' from Goodie Mob -- featuring OutKast)
Evie's hosting Ibivio Sound Machine LIVE in the KEXP Studio today at 12PM Pacific! Stay tuned!
"Prior to the sessions," Hot Chip wrote in a statement, "we had run into Ibibio Sound Machine at festivals and loved watching them perform. There are very talented musicians throughout the band, and Eno is a massively charismatic, skilled singer... The songs on this record are uniformly great, and we were really happy to be a part of making it."
Primarily recorded during the 2020 lockdown, Spirituals features virtual collaborations with a great roster such as Rostam, Boys Noize, Dre Skull, P2J, Nick Zinner, SBTRKT, JakeOne, Illangelo, Doc McKinney, Psymun, Ricky Blaze, Lido, Ray Brady, and Ryan Olson.
Writing for New Musical Express in 1992, journalist Stephen Dalton stated, "The Sugarcubes remain the coolest band ever, onstage and off, with the most drop-dead wonderful voice in pop history." -- bit.ly
Let's Eat Grandma are on tour! They'll perform at The Crocodile -- it's an all-ages show on Friday, November 18. Tickets: tinyurl.com
BRAND NEW single from Let's Eat Grandma, off their April album "Two Ribbons". They're also scoring the upcoming Netflix series "The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself", due out on October 28
Learn more: tinyurl.com
"Bruiser" was inspired by the work Yayoi Kusama, whose work inspired the band ; learn more about the artist: en.wikipedia.org
KEXP hosted The Duke Spirit - Live in the KEXP Studio back in 2008, you can search our YouTube channel to find the songs: www.youtube.com
"The video... is based around the concept of computer simulation. The creatures, formed from sections cut and twisted from insects, crustaceans and bone are arranged in sculptural compositions inspired by artists such as Hieronymus Bosch; finding the surreal within mixed forms and scales. The movement for the creatures is powered through generated simulations – randomised numbers and splines are generated and the position of each creature along these splines are calculated; seemingly without reason but born from the choices of software." tinyurl.com
Cheryl Waters hosted The Horrors LIVE in the KEXP Studio in 2018 -- Faris Badwan was mesmerizing: youtu.be
Talking about the song, the group's guitarist Martin Macnamara said:
"Fever Dream" was written during the hottest days of summer and is about a kind of existential aimlessness that is at its best and worst during that time of the year. [..] Musically it walks a narrow line between that sense of hope and despair but emphasizes the former by nodding towards a baggy, swirling Northern sound."
bit.ly
Tributes rolling in across social media with the sad announcement of Coolio's death yesterday at the age of 59 -- and lots of requests from our listeners as well
www.nytimes.com
New music from the Miami-based group led by Adam Scone, longtime legend on the Hammond organ for Daptone Records -- the new album includes Jimmy James from DLO3 and The True Loves on guitar! Order on vinyl or digital: sconecashplayers.bandcamp.com
With samples from Paul Desmond, Cream, Betty Wright, and Elliott Smith, and the legendary Wendy Carlos!
KEXP had the opportunity to interview RJD2 in 2018: bit.ly
officialrjd2.bandcamp.com
"Home Maker" was released earlier this year and made "best new track" on Pitchfork which said of the track, "on an ornate new single, singer-songwriter and violinist Brittney Parks envisions domestic work as a dreamlike act of care and seduction."
Check out the article and be sure to watch the video! tinyurl.com
We've hosted Wild Cub on KEXP multiple times, including this set during SXSW in March 2013 that included "Wishing Well": youtu.be
In a press release, bandleader Alli Logout describes “Midnight Legend” as “a love song to all the girls leaving the club at 6AM, a love song to everybody who doesn’t have love around them.”- bit.ly
Alli Logout also directed the video:
Happy birthday to Shelby, from Earl!!
San Francisco band Geographer covering New Order's 1983 "Age of Consent" from "Power, Corruption & Lies"
rcgeographer.bandcamp.com
Happy happy birthday, Shelby!
this song finds LCD mainman James Murphy recalling his crazy younger years, which were filled with excitement and bad decisions. But in middle age, priorities change and friendships fade, leaving him to wonder where his friends are tonight... bit.ly
Brand New from Makaya McCraven -- American jazz drummer and bandleader who was was born in Paris, France, to jazz drummer father Stephen McCraven and Hungarian singer Ágnes Zsigmondi and from the age of three was raised in and around Amherst and Northampton, Massachusetts
The visual for this track features gorgeous animations laster-etched on stone: youtu.be
Matt Mondanile (Ducktails) released several solo albums as Ducktails before including collaborators on his fourth studio album -- including synth from Daniel Lopatin, Oneohtrix Point Never!
New music from this 'Psychedelic R'n'B' singer and songwriter from SE London, UK! The song is produced by Earbuds, who is known for work with UK-based rapper slowthai.
Happy birthday to producer and musician Liam Howe, co-founder of Sneaker Pimps -- born on this day in 1974
In addition to this posthumous MF Doom verse, The Roots’ Black Thought and super-producer Danger Mouse also enlisted Raekwon, Michael Kiwanuka, Run the Jewels, A$AP Rocky and more on their new collaborative album 'Cheat Codes'! www.dangermouseblackthought.com
Sleater-Kinney are celebrating the 25th anniversary of "Dig Me Out" with this upcoming covers album -- a portion of the record's sales will be donated to Portland LGBTQUIA+ youth center SMYRC (Sexual & Gender Minority Youth Resource Center): newavenues.org
The album includes St Vincent, Margo Price, The Linda Lindas, and more -- including Courtney Barnett
'För Allting' translates to "For Everything" in English; it's the latest from the Swedish dream pop/post-punk group, recorded with HOLY’s Hannes Ferm.
Black vinyl LPs are sold out but you can get the limited-edition Transparent Red as well as CD or digital: makthaverskan.bandcamp.com
New from the LA group that describes themselves as "a four-piece eyebrow band" and "non-biological sisters who have known each other longer than they haven't and speak a language that no one else can understand. "
Pre-order their latest on cassette, CD, vinyl, or digital: theparanoyds.bandcamp.com
Psychedelic masterpiece from 2010 -- On the track, Kevin wistfully summarizes why he has no chance with the woman he admires -- he lives a laid-back, relaxed lifestyle, while she she's all business and fast-paced-- ttps://bit.ly/32d37e5
UK DJ and producer Lil Silva (TJ Carter) has been working with artists ranging from Adele, Mark Ronson, Kano, and George FitzGerald for over ten years -- his debut album was called "...a bold and inventive step forward from an artist who has been threatening to make this kind of artistic statement for some time. Sometimes, good things really do come to those who wait" by the NME - tinyurl.com
Evie hosted Crumb Live in the KEXP Studio back in December 2021 -- check out the whole performance (including this song!) after the show --youtu.be
crumbtheband.bandcamp.com
Baltimore-born, DC-raised Maimouna Youssef (aka Mumu Fresh) is a critically acclaimed Afro-Indigenous singer, Emcee, songwriter, activist, workshop facilitator and audio engineer - a "quadruple threat" according to The Roots' Black Thought. maimounayoussef.com
'Get Up Sequences Part Two' drops in Feburary 2023 - It features guest appearances from Apples In Stereo’s Hilarie Bratset, Lucie Too’s Kokubo Chisato, Neha Hatwar, the Star Feminine Band, Nitty Scott, and more.
#230 on KEXP listeners' top songs of the past 50 years -- now we need you to vote for your top 10 *albums* from KEXP's 50 Years! - www.kexp.org
This song was first released as a B-side, but after it was used in the 1996 film Trainspotting, "Born Slippy .NUXX" was issued as a single and became what British magazine Music Week called "an anthem for a generation". - bit.ly
Built To Spill will perform at The Showbox on Saturday, Nov 26 -- the show is 21+ only: tinyurl.com
Cheryl Waters hosted Built To Spill in July -- Live in the KEXP Studio: youtu.be
Of the track Brian Christinzio says: “People that are struggling in life, be it from a stress, loss, or mental illness, are more likely to behave in self-destructive ways. The idea of only drinking when you’re drunk is the notion that sometimes we hurt ourselves because we are hurting. The verses reflect the feelings some of us have when we are plodding through our everyday lives. The choruses are what happens when these feelings get the best of us.”
bit.ly
bc-camplight.bandcamp.com
Takudzwa Victoria Rosa "Tkay" Maidza is a Zimbabwean-born Australian singer-songwriter and rapper.
Her cover of this Pixies track was released as part of a compilation record titled Bills & Aches & Blues, a release featuring covers of 4AD artists covering other 4AD artists. 4ad.com
Brand new music from Nation of Language -- by request from Megan!
"“From The Hill” is a song reflecting on times when friendships fall apart over romantic entanglement, accompanied by the sensation that you’re somehow watching it happen from above with a more zoomed-out perspective. It can feel at times like certain parts of life are a story with which you’re just following along – the characters enter, they play their role, and then they leave. "
-bit.ly
"hi, we just narrowly avoided the brunt of the hurricane down here in south florida. can you play the new one from the church The Hypnogogue for us survivors here please..." - Ric
he band's first new single in five years is a nearly seven-minute epic with a dark, futuristic theme. "I don’t think this song has any predecessor in our history at all," frontman Steve Kilbey says - bit.ly
"This song is about the inadequacy of language. It was written around the time that those currently in power took it upon themselves to think that they could minimize the existence of certain people by removing the words that we currently use to define them — like transgender — from use. Language is bigger than the powers that try to control it, but we are so much bigger than language. We are so much more than anything that can be suggested with words."
The duo's new EP, 'No Horizon' is out now here: smarturl.it
One of tracks featured on Live at KEXP Volume 10 out now. All proceeds go directly to the artists! --www.kexp.org
This performance took place during the band's appearance Live in the KEXP Studio on August 2, 2019 - hosted by Cheryl Waters: youtu.be
This is a wonderful mashup of Bruce Springsteen's "Dancing in the Dark" and LCD Soundsystem's "All My Friends." -- Give yourself some dancing room when you watch Hot Chip perform this one live in Glastonbury in 2015: youtu.be
Ibibio Sound Machine are LIVE on KEXP and will be performing tonight at the Neptune.
Ibibio Sound Machine is performing material from their 2022 release "Electricity".
See the official video for "Protection from Evil": www.youtube.com
Hot Chip produced Ibibio Sound Machine's 2022 release "Electricity." Hot Chip said, "Prior to the sessions, we had run into Ibibio Sound Machine at festivals and loved watching them perform. There are very talented musicians throughout the band, and Eno (London-born, Nigerian vocalist Eno Williams) is a massively charismatic, skilled singer. The sessions were hugely rewarding as Ibibio brought in friends and collaborators to add a wide array of different instruments — some of which were unfamiliar to us. The songs on this record are uniformly great, and we were really happy to be a part of making it."
Happy Thursday and welcome to The Afternoon Show with the delightful Troy Nelson! Thank you so much for listening!
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Did you know that Austin, Texas group TC Superstar has eight members, four of which are dancers? The band is fronted by Connor McCampbell on vocals and guitar. Don't miss the video of "Into You": www.youtube.com