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Will Holland performing as Quantic - this 12" includes a B-side disco cover of Paul McCartney and Wings' "Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five" quanticmusic.bandcamp.com

Nigerian singer and songwriter Steve Monite with his most famous Afro-boogie track from 1984! The track was also covered live by Frank Ocean with Alex G at the 2017 FYF Fest in LA - leading to this bootleg re-release Read more at Spectrum Culture: tinyurl.com

The French electronic music duo of Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay perform as Justice. Rosnay described the album as being "like if you're in the car with your best friend and your lover and your kids." etjusticepourtous.bandcamp.com

“I was never pleased with myself as an actor and also as a singer. But, I did understand, from the very start working with my father, that when you didn’t have a singer’s voice it’s the little accidents. The breathing, when you’re out of tune sometimes – those little things that make you sound alive. It took me a long time to understand this: that I preferred mistakes to a nice, perfect thing.” - Charlotte Gainsbourg - bit.ly Charlotte Gainsbourg performed Live in the KEXP Studio in 2010 - www.youtube.com

[during air break] Daft Punk was a French electronic music duo formed in 1993 in Paris by Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter. Their first album was called Homework because they recorded it in Bangalter's home studio.: bit.ly

"Have We Met" was #71 on KEXP's Top 90.3 Albums of 2020 -- kexp.org Enjoy this review of Dan Bejar's 2020 release, "Have We Met": pitchfork.com

Brand new from Samia - she performs at The Crocodile on February 23! This new track features lyrics from Minneapolis' Papa Mbye, and production by Rostam The multi-talented child of actors Kathy Najimy and Dan Finnerty. She wrote "Honey" during the early days of the pandemic - learn more about her and the new album at Nylon: tinyurl.com

The first single to feature vocalist Sarah Cracknell, this track also features a sample from Dusty Springfield's 1967 hit "I Can't Wait Until I See My Baby's Face"

Mourning the loss of Tom Verlaine, who died yesterday at age 73 in Manhattan. Born Thomas Miller in Wilmington, Delaware in 1949, Verlaine (who borrowed his name from the French symbolist poet) was trained as a classical pianist but gravitated toward rock music after an encounter with the Rolling Stones' "19th Nervous Breakdown." Reviewing Television for the magazine Rock Scene in 1974, Patti Smith wrote that Mr. Verlaine “plays guitar with angular inverted passion like a thousand of bluebirds screaming.”

Brand new from Iggy Pop, his 19th album - who said the new album is intended to "beat the *** out of the listener" - tinyurl.com The album features guest contributions from Jane's Addiction members Dave Navarro, Eric Avery and Chris Chaney, alongside appearances from Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard and drummers Taylor Hawkins and Travis Barker.

[during air break] The Winston Brothers are a modular studio project by Hamburg-based multi-instrumentalist and producer Sebastian Nagel (The Mighty Mocambos, Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band) and drummer/percussionist extraordinaire Lucas Kochbeck (The KBCS, Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band, Hamburg Spinners).

Cheryl Waters hosted Miss Grit - Live on KEXP at Home back in 2021. Here is the session: youtu.be "On the lead single from their upcoming debut album, Margaret Sohn invokes the familiar trope of an Asian robot to explore the complexities of selfhood." - tinyurl.com missgrit.bandcamp.com

Released in June, 1999, this was The Flaming Lips' ninth studio album. Critics called it "perhaps the best record of the decade" and "the band's crowning achievement": rockhaq.com

New music from the DC-born, Brooklyn-based Oddisee (Amir Mohamed el Khalif). On this track he confronts the uphill battle of avoiding your parents' mistakes - with support from Phonte and BeMyFiasco from The Foreign Exchange and South Londoner Kay Young - tinyurl.com oddisee.bandcamp.com

Dan Vidmar, best known by his stage name Shy Girls, is based out of Portland - "Sometimes I feel like titles just arrive, especially if I silence my mind and listen to the album. And I kept coming back to this aviary theme. I think it was partially that the rhythmic, drum-loopy nature of the album reminded me of wings flapping. But even in a more conceptual sense, to me something about the record feels like a bird in flight." bit.ly

New single from Cameroonian-American musician Vagabon (Lætitia Tamko) - she's performing at The Showbox with Weyes Blood on Wednesday, March 22nd! Get tickets: tinyurl.com Troy Nelson hosted Vagabon - Live in the KEXP Studio - in 2019: youtu.be

Mayfield sang openly about civil rights and black pride, and was known for introducing social consciousness into African-American music. Having been raised in the Cabrini-Green projects of Chicago, he witnessed many of the tragedies of the urban ghetto first hand, and was quoted saying, "With everything I saw on the streets as a young black kid, it wasn't hard during the later fifties and sixties for me to write my heartfelt way of how I visualized things, how I thought things ought to be." bit.ly

The 3rd studio album by soul musician Curtis Mayfield was released as the soundtrack for the Blaxploitation film of the same name. "The first thing I wanted to do was not condone what was going down, but understand it, and speak in terms of how one can keep from getting locked into these things which youngsters and a lot of people see all around them." bit.ly

[during air break] Chaz Bear celebrating the 10th anniversary of "Anything in Return" with this new set of instrumentals - "The first thing I wanted to do was not condone what was going down, but understand it, and speak in terms of how one can keep from getting locked into these things which youngsters and a lot of people see all around them." - toroymoi.bandcamp.com

Happy birthday to Bettye LaVette - born on this day in 1946! This track samples her 1965 standard "Let Me Down Easy" "It was an absolute honor to be able to work with Bettye’s voice over the course of writing the track. She’s able to convey emotion with her vocal work unlike any other."- bit.ly

New single from next month's "Cracker Island" - with long-time band member Adeleye Omotayo stepping up for co-lead-vocals! Read more at the NME: tinyurl.com

AFTERNOON DANCE BREAK Caroline Polacheck co-founded Charlist in 2005, and she's performing at The Showbox Sodo on May 4, with special guest Sudan Archives - tinyurl.com

DANCE BREAK "And no, when I sing ‘Take your mask off,’ I didn't mean your N95," Lizzo says. "I meant like the mask of the person that you have to uphold when you're out in the world, the mask that protects your true self. Take that off, because we accept you for who you are in this space." -- tinyurl.com

DANCE BREAK “After spending the last five years writing about grief, I wanted our follow-up to be about joy” Watch Japanese Breakfast's Live on KEXP At Home session from July 2021: youtu.be

DANCE BREAK Cheryl Waters hosted U.S. Girls - Live in the KEXP Studio in March 2018: youtu.be -- Meghan Remy - performing as U.S. Girls - also directed the video for this track: youtu.be

[during air break] Compilation of standout early material from the French electronica band Air! www.airfrenchband.com

Brand new music from The Rodians, out of Cornwall in the UK! In the Star Wars universe, Rodians are green-skinned reptilian humanoids - including the infamous Greedo, who may or may not have shot first therodians.bandcamp.com

"Hi Evie, wanted to get my request in early for Lottery Noises by Alvvays to ensure listeners are aware of this delightful second to last track on the Blue Rev album. Thanks!" - Jon in Edmonton

[during air break] Classixx are the LA-based duo of Michael David and Tyler Blake. Their debut album made a ton of best-of lists, including lists of the best dance albums ever released This song features altered samples of the lead from Fleetwood Mac's "Seven Wonders" from 1987's "Tango In The Night" Cheryl Waters hosted Classixx Live in the KEXP Studio in 2013 -- youtu.be

To be given your sight Hid in a long peaceful night A nervous bride for your eyes A fractured smile that soon dies (Peter Hook on lead vocals)

Everyone's licking up to the new kingpin Trying to get a way up with the smile Sing for your supper boy and jump to a finger-click Ain't my way of living in style (Watch XTC perform this song from 1989 on The Letterman Show that year: youtu.be)

Midnight creeps so slowly into hearts of men / Who need more than they get Daylight deals a bad hand to a woman / Who has laid too many bets The mirror stares you in the face / And says "Baby, uh, uh, it don't work" You say your prayers though you don't care / You dance and shake the hurt (Rose Riggins: "The song is an exploration is of times spent at house parties and at discos, when you wanted to be disco queen or king and the spotlight just wouldn't focus on you.")

"Over producer Inflo's steady break beat and surging streaks, she displays command of her punchy rhymes with a cadence so casual it feels as if she could deliver them in her sleep. The track closes the same way it starts: with the pomp and circumstance of booming brass notes. It's a declaration — Little Simz is here and she wants you to feel it. " - n.pr -- Check out Little Simz's 2021 performance Live on KEXP at Home here: bit.ly

"Its keyboard parts recall both Berlin and the Knife, and the mood and vocal aesthetic of the piece is not far removed from mid-'90s trip hop, or at least the music directly influenced by Tricky's Maxinquaye." - tinyurl.com Cheryl Waters hosted Little Dragon live at The Little London Plane during the 2018 Upstream Music Fest -- check out "Feather": youtu.be littledragon.bandcamp.com

[during air break] "Since I Left You" was #204 on KEXP listeners' Top Albums of the past 50 years -- kex.org This song features samples from Enoch Light's 1967 theme to the film "The Sand Pebbles"

Drake recently announced that he signed Naomi Sharon as the first female artist on his OVO label - the Dutch/Caribbean singer Naomi Sharon released two new singles produced by Noah "40" Shebib Check out the video: youtu.be

By request from Gregory! Will White and Alex Gifford formed Propellerheads in Bath, UK in 1995 - on this track, they sample 1984's "It's Yours" by T La Rock and Jazzy Jay

Altın Gün's new single “Rakiya Su Katamam” updates the folk standard composed by Turkish writer/theologian Mustafa Öztürk - tinyurl.com Larry Mizell, Jr hosted Altin Gün - Live in the KEXP Studio -- in April 2022: youtu.be

This song is a cover of Yellow Magic Orchestra's Firecracker! Cheryl Waters hosted Khruangbin - Live in the KEXP Studio - in April 2018: youtu.be Khruangbin is a three-piece band from Texas, formed of Laura Lee on bass, Mark Speer on guitar, and Donald Johnson on drums. Taking influence from 1960's Thai funk - their name means "flying engine" or "airplane"

The latest from South African artist Nakhane. The new single is part of a trilogy of songs inspired by the musician’s relationship with their mother. nakhaneofficial.com pitchfork.com