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"Crushed Velvet" by explores self-expression and its feelings of empowerment. The lyrics highlight the significance of dressing in crushed velvet attire as a means of feeling confident and true to oneself.
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The phantasmagoric video peaks with Karen O standing atop a spiky, gas-guzzling, Mad Max-style limo as guest star Perfume Genius, replete in undead makeup that Beetlejuice would approve of, steers down the highway.: www.youtube.com
This ninth studio album from Blur was written by Damon Albarn while he was on tour with Gorillaz. Pitchfork calls it a "meticulously polished reunion album": pitchfork.com
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Shades of David Bowie! That wonderful distorted guitar is from Graham Coxon.
Grab this record and support Other Lives here: otherlivesofficial.bandcamp.com
The Scottish group One Dove brought together Dot Allison, Ian Carmichael, and Jim McKinven -- this track brought Stephen Hague in to perform a remix
Arlo Parks recorded this new song with Adele/Florence and the Machine producer Paul Epworth. Arlo Parks said:
"Paul is just a wizard; he has this childlike spirit that I’ve always really loved and he brought that to 'Blades.' I wanted to make something that I can dance to, finally, because I feel like my songs don’t really have that quality in general. So, I took inspiration from bands like ESG, artists like Kaytranada, and a lot of the kind of ’70s Zambian psychedelic rock that I love."
Video!
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L'Rain is playing Madame Lou's on Wednesday, December 6th!
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Taja Cheek (l"Rain) has announced a new album, "I Killed Your Dog," which will be out on October 13, and shared this new single, “Pet Rock.” -- “The song is based around an old story I’d been told about a woman who was riding the train but looked strange, and the reader eventually figures out that she’s dead, with glasses on, being propped up by the people that seem to have harmed her,” Cheek said. “As a lifelong collector of tchotchkes, the music video is based on a concept I came up with featuring miniatures.”www.youtube.com
Vocalist Molly Rankin shares, "'After The Earthquake' is mainly inspired by Haruki Murakami’s 'After The Quake.'" Full interview with Stereogum: www.stereogum.com
Enjoy this video from Alvvays' visit to KEXP in 2017, hosted by Kevin Cole and featuring classics "Plimsoll Punks," "Dreams," "Tonite," "Not My Baby," and "In Undertow": www.youtube.com
Frank Black co-wrote "Gigantic" with Pixies bass player Kim Deal, who was using the stage name Mrs. John Murphy at the time. The song made a big impression on Kurt Cobain. He said in 1992, "I wish Kim was allowed to write more songs for the Pixies, because 'Gigantic' is the best Pixies song and Kim wrote it." Kim Deal reacted modestly, "Well, it's better than somebody saying, 'Oh God, you suck.'"
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Check out a live version of the song performed at Rock Werchter Festival in Belgium circa 1989, enjoy:
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Byrne and Eno have described “Strange Overtones” as a “‘song about writing a song.’ The subject of the song struggles to write innovative music, but is overheard by a neighbor using beats that are "twenty years old."
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Jon Yeo created a music video for the song featuring the art of Brian Eno.: www.youtube.com
Blackoak refers to the area where the bulk of this track was written over the winter of 2021, surrounded by snow covered woodland.
Watch Maribou State play Live on KEXP in 2019: youtu.be.
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Ghost of Vroom's "Still Getting It Done" was recently selected as KEXP's Song of the Day:
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Boy Harsher released this song as part of the soundtrack for their short horror film The Runner. boyharsher.bandcamp.com
The Human League’s lead singer, Phil Oakey, wrote “Don’t You Want Me” after reading a photo-story in a romance magazine for girls. Oakey originally recorded the song as a male solo—but after watching the 1976 musical drama A Star Is Born, he decided to make it a duet with one of The Human League's female vocalists, Susan Ann Sulley.
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In the UK, it was the best selling song of 1981. In 1982, Human League were nominated for the Grammy for Best New Artist, in great part due to the success of this song. In 2015, “Don’t You Want Me” was voted by the British public as the 7th greatest chart-topper of the 80s.
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Scary Pockets recorded a sultry funk interpretation of this classic tune in 2019, featuring Bruno Major and Bill Wurtz. www.youtube.com
The performance will be available online for two weeks via our archives:
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"Hard to Handle" is a 1968 song written by American soul singer Otis Redding along with Al Bell and Allen Jones. Originally recorded by Redding, it was released in 1968 as the B-side to "Amen" (shortly after the singer's sudden death in 1967).
From producer Danger Mouse and Brooklyn emcee Jemini's album Born Again. The *new* single “Brooklyn Basquiat,” originally recorded 20 years ago in 2003, appears on the new album.
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Brand new from Montreal's Josie Boivin, her sophomore LP "Jardin" drops two months from today - you can pre-order digital or vinyl on her Bandcamp: munya.bandcamp.com
Modest Mouse will be performing alongside Pixies at Climate Pledge Arena on Friday September 8, 2023.
Modest Mouse is an American rock band formed in 1993 in Issaquah, Washington, and currently based in Portland, Oregon. The founding members were lead singer/guitarist Isaac Brock, drummer Jeremiah Green and bassist Eric Judy.
Yayyyyyy!!!! Evie's back!!! I'm so happy! It's gonna be a great day!! If you could, might you be able to squeak in something by Wolf Alice? Whichever song you'd like... they are all magical and magnificent. Thanks, superstar!
Chad in Detroit
The album title 'IRM' was inspired by the French initialism for an MRI scanner. All the songs on this album were written and produced by Beck except "Le Chat Du Café Des Artistes", and the album was mostly recorded at Beck's home studio in Los Angeles, California.
Check out Charlotte Gainsbourg performing this song live on KEXP back in 2010. bit.ly
Serge Gainsbourg was a French singer-songwriter, actor, composer, and director. Regarded as one of the most important figures in French pop, he was renowned for often provocative and scandalous releases which caused uproar in France, dividing public opinion. He is often regarded as one of the world's most influential popular musicians.
Gary Wright, legendary musician best known for his hit singles “Dream Weaver” and “Love Is Alive,” passed away on Monday at age 80.
Wright's breakthrough album, The Dream Weaver (1975), came after he had spent seven years in London as, alternately, a member of the British blues rock band Spooky Tooth and a solo artist on A&M Records. While in England, he played keyboards on former Beatle George Harrison's triple album All Things Must Pass (1970),
Neighborhood Watch is the third album from West Coast hip hop group Dilated Peoples. Who's Who features samples from Gary Wright, The Soul Searchers, and Quincy Jones.
Samples Can't Find the Judge by Gary Wright (1975), Stone to the Bone by James Brown (1973), and Time by Pink Floyd (1973).
Sampled on that last track!
Time from Pink Floyd's 'The Dark Side of the Moon' was released as a single in the U.S. The lyrics deal with the passage of time – time can slip by, but many people do not realize it until it is too late. Roger Waters got the idea when he realized he was no longer preparing for anything in life, but was right in the middle of it. It is noted for its long introductory passage of clocks chiming and alarms ringing, recorded as a quadrophonic test by Alan Parsons, not specifically for the album.
Earlier this year, KEXP’s Emily Fox, Martin Douglas, Larry Mizell Jr., Marco Collins, Dusty Henry, and Jasmine Albertson discussed Lil Yachty's "Let's Start Here" for our Sound & Vision podcast. Find it here: www.kexp.org
Keep Shelly in Athens is an electronic duo hailing from Athens, Greece, formed in June 2010.
"Sophia Magdalena Scholl (9 May 1921 – 22 February 1943) was a German student and anti-Nazi political activist, active within the White Rose non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany." -- athenianaurarecordings.bandcamp.com
liner notes: "The subject of the song is the singer's regret about taking the attitude of 'not fighting' to an extreme - and by the end of the song realizes he's made a mistake and sometimes a person has no choice - as unpleasant as it may be... To surrender to every conflict without a challenge, he finds, is worse than getting beat up."
New album out September 29th! They will perform at The Crocodile on November 24!
Here is Polyrhythmics performing live on KEXP back in 2020: www.youtube.com polyrhythmics.bandcamp.com www.polyrhythmics.com
Sun is the ninth studio album by American musician Cat Power. Her first album of all-original material since 2006's The Greatest.
Recording began sometime in 2007, with Cat Power building a studio in her Malibu home to record and produce new songs herself. The album's production encountered several delays, and towards the end of the project Cat Power partnered with Cassius member Philippe Zdar, in the hope of a potential collaboration. Unable to pay Zdar for his mixing work until the album was finalised and presented to Matador for release, she transferred her work to Zdar's recording studio in France—where he worked pro bono—until sessions for the album finally concluded in April 2012.
La Sécurité (Montréal/Tiohtià:ke) is a collective whose art punk is equal parts: jumpy beats, off-kilter arrangements, and minimalistic melodic hooks.
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Called "one of the most dynamic bands that New York could offer" South Bronx group ESG (Emerald Sapphire & Gold) was formed by sisters Renee, Valerie, and Marie Scroggins in 1981. This track appears on ESG's debut album "Come Away with ESG", released in 1983 on independent label 99 Records.
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Celebrating International Women's Day! - www.kexp.org
From The Budos Band's 'Frontier's Edge EP'. They call their latest EP "an otherworldly Western, shot through a frantic and supercharged rhythm assault"
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New Music! Toronto alt-jazz ensemble BADBADNOTGOOD helps reimagine three songs from Baltimore hardcore band Turnstile’s 2021 album 'Glow On' -, “Mystery,” “Alien Love Call,” and “Underwater Boi” - on a new EP 'New Heart Designs'.
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Featuring El-P and thankugoodsir
Killer Mike said this album is his way of honoring "the civil rights movement, the abolitionist movement, which gave us some of the most beautiful music ever" - tinyurl.com
For Freddie Mercury, born on this day in 1946!
This song was written by Mercury, inspired by watching the 18th stage of the 1978 Tour de France passing Montreux, where the band were recording "Jazz" in the Mountain Studios. Where the band played live, bicycle shops sold out of bells, as fans would buy them to ring during the song.
Bombino will perform at Neumos on Thursday, September 28, 2023.
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Omara "Bombino" Moctar is an internationally acclaimed Tuareg guitarist and singer-songwriter from Agadez, Niger. He was live in our studio in July, 2018.: www.youtube.com