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Sunday, Jul 15 2018, 3PM
Run–D.M.C. sampled the bassline and drum beat of "Fools Gold" for their hit "What's It All About?" in 1990.
Catch Wye Oak TONIGHT at Neumos! www.ticketfly.com Also live at KEXP tomorrow for free, open to the public! bit.ly
Guitarist and vocalist for Warpaint, Theresa Wayman, dropped her first album under the name TT this year: www.ttlovelaws.com
KEXP Review of the 2017 Gorillaz show at Key Arena last year: blog.kexp.org
The album version of the song was an a cappella which was remixed and re-recorded before being released as a single
The Internet are due to drop their latest album, Hive Mind, next week on 7/20!
Junius Meyvant will drop a new album this fall, available for preorder now: bit.ly
Neko Case plays Seattle this November at the Paramount with Destroyer bit.ly
Angel Olsen plays the Paramount September 14 with Hand Habits bit.ly
Wishin and Hopin was first recorded by Dionne Warwick as the B-side of Warwick's single "This Empty Place" in the spring of 1963. Jump forward to 1995- Ani DiFranco's rendition of this song was released that November, and was featured over the opening credits of the film, My Best Friend's Wedding.
Missed Caribou live back in 2015? Read the KEXP review of the show and check out photos here: bit.ly
Thievery Corporation was featured on the 2018 release of Paul Simon's Graceland Remixes: smarturl.it
In October 2009, Ana Tijoux released 1977, her second solo album, with the name coming from the year Tijoux was born. She describes it as a return to her Hip-Hop roots, an homage to the "golden age of Hip-Hop", and largely auto-biographical, exploring mature themes from her own life, from the death of a close friend to having a creative crises, friendship and bad luck, amongst others.
This song was inspired by the death of Pete Rock & CL Smooth's close friend Troy Dixon (better known as "Trouble" T. Roy of Heavy D & the Boyz) in 1990.
The song was written by lead vocalist and guitarist Ben Gibbard as "a requiem for a skyline", inspired by the rapid changes to Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, where Gibbard had lived for 20 years and some areas were "almost unrecognizable" due to the influx of workers for companies like Amazon.
MGMT released their fourth studio album Little Dark Age on February 9, 2018 after five years without new material
Panda Bear aka Noah Lennox mentioned the album Tomboy would be a departure from his signature sound on Person Pitch and Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion: "I got tired of the severe parameters of using samplers. Thinking about Nirvana and The White Stripes got me into the idea of doing something with a heavy focus on guitar and rhythm."
The fusing of folk music and electronic production was a turning point for Sudan. "I started mixing my violin into beats,” she says, “It wasn't complicated — I'd just sing straight into the iPad."
My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James recently released new solo work, catch him on tour this fall jimjames.com
The drum loop used in the chorus of the song was based on Prince's "The Ballad of Dorothy Parker"
Check out DJ Morgan's 2017 interview with Beck on the KEXP blog: blog.kexp.org
Earth Moon was featured as a KEXP song of the day earlier this year: bit.ly
Ride's session at KEXP in 2017 can be viewed in its entirety here: bit.ly
Fear Fun is the first studio album released by American folk musician Josh Tillman under his pseudonym Father John Misty. The album was released following Tillman's departure from Fleet Foxes. SB1016
Father John Misty performs at Capitol Hill Block Party next weekend, July 22 bit.ly
Courtney Barnett brings the Tell Me How You Really Feel tour to Seattle on October 8 at the Paramount with special guest Waxahatchee bit.ly
Daft Punk produced the tracks included in Homework without a plan to release an album. Bangalter stated, "It was supposed to be just a load of singles. But we did so many tracks over a period of five months that we realized that we had a good album."
Moby worked with guest performers on several tracks from 18, with Azure Ray, MC Lyte, Angie Stone, and Sinéad O'Connor among the featured vocalists on the album.
93 'til Infinity is often heralded as the best album to come out of the Hiero Golden Age, a period in the early-to-mid-nineties during which the collective released several critically acclaimed albums (including Del tha Funkee Homosapien's No Need for Alarm and Casual's Fear Itself) and rose to national prominence.
Kamasi Washington plays The Showbox on October 17th bit.ly