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Thursday, May 18 2023, 10AM
Good morning and welcome to the Midday Show with Cheryl Waters!
Be sure to tune-in at noon today for a live in-studio session with Spirit Award. This session is open to the public, so come down and join us at the Gathering Space!
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In the bedroom-directed video, Parks rides on the back of a motorcycle and beholds a wall of psychedelic LED lights. In a press release, Parks says:
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.
stereogum.com/2220825/arlo-parks-blades/music/
English singer-songwriter and podcaster Jessie Ware released her fifth studio album, That! Feels Good!, last month.
Nabihah Iqbal will performing live on KEXP on Monday, June 5th at noon. This event is open to the public, so come down and join us!
www.kexp.org
nabihahiqbal.bandcamp.com
Rose City Band is kicking off their European tour in just a few days and have also announced a few dates in the Northeast later this summer:
www.rosecityband.org
Califone's newest album, villagers, will be released tomorrow, May 19th.
califonemusic.bandcamp.com
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Califone is an acclaimed musical project centered around Tim Rutili and a regular and rotating list of contributors. Formed out of the Chicago band Red Red Meat, they've been exploring the tension between experimental noise, acoustic texture, technology, humanity, cinematic images and microscopic poetry since 1998 with over a dozen albums of sleeper hits and enduring classics.
Fleet Foxes will be headlining at the Thing Festival this August in Port Townsend, WA.
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Here's Fleet Foxes performing live in the KEXP studio in 2017 - www.youtube.com
New music from the Ghanaian-Australian artist. Look out for Genesis Owusu Live on KEXP coming soon!
genesisowusu.bandcamp.com
Grain Chatten is the frontman for Fontaines D.C. and his solo album entitled Chaos for the Fly is coming out June 30th.
www.grianchatten.com
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Fontaines D.C. played live on KEXP last May. Check it out here - www.youtube.com
Spoon have announced a new EP: Memory Dust is out June 13th via Matador. It features three songs that began during the same sessions that produced Spoon’s 2022 album Lucifer on the Sofa.
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A double shot from Spoon!
You can order their new EP coming on June 13th here - spoontheband.bandcamp.com
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Spoon was last live in the KEXP studio in 2017. Check out the full performance, and interview with Cheryl, here: bit.ly
The new single from Brooklyn artist Madison McFerrin's forthcoming debut album. She was recently featured as part of KEXP's Sound & Vision podcast speaking about her family's musical legacy that spans generations - www.kexp.org
Local artist Vanilla Abstract released their latest single, Minesweeper, this past April. vanillaabstractmusic.bandcamp.com
New music from New York's Rahill and their newest album, 'Flowers at Your Feet'.
rahill.bandcamp.com
Watch the 'I Smile for E' music video: www.youtube.com
Icelandic singer JFDR sweeps us up in her dreamlike new single Life Man, from her upcoming album Museum, via Houndstooth.
whenthehornblows.com
Did you know that Ben Harper inspired Mavis to try skateboarding for her 80th birthday? Learn more about this living legend here - www.thesoraya.org
Brittany Howard and Alabama Shakes have performed for KEXP over the years. Check them out here!
www.youtube.com
www.dailymotion.com
Nominated for the Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals in 1971. Official video here - www.youtube.com
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Read more about this signature song from the band here: www.rhino.com.
LEATHERS is the electro-pop project of Canadian musician and visual artist, Shannon Hemmett (also the keyboardist of acclaimed Vancouver post punk band ACTORS).
www.instagram.com
HotWax is dropping their five-track EP entitled A Thousand Times on May 19 via Marathon Artists. HotWax shares their latest 'Treasure'-- A grunge-inspired, blissfully bruising guitar anthem that centers around the bittersweet nature of infatuation. hotwax2.bandcamp.com
Check out Crumb live in the KEXP Studio in December 2021: youtu.be
www.crumbtheband.com
Chicago band Slow Pulp were live on KEXP back in 2020: bit.ly
They dropped "Cramps" as a single in February. slowpulp.bandcamp.com
You can catch Goat Girl playing at a few festivals this summer in Europe - goatgirl.co.uk
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Goat Girl performed "Sad Cowboy" during this KEXP LIVE at Home session: www.youtube.com
Nation of Language is playing two sold out shows in Seattle at The Crocodile tonight and tomorrow! You can see them on tour this summer - www.nationoflanguage.com
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Pre-order the new third record now, releasing on September 14th.
www.nationoflanguage.com
This rootsy ballad is a tune on Drive-By Trucker's ninth album, Go-Go Boots. The song is a cover of a recording by the group's fellow Muscle Shoals artist Eddie Hinton.
www.songfacts.com
You can still order the digital version of Live at KEXP Volume 10 here - kexp.bandcamp.com
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Watch Cheryl host Black Pumas live in the KEXP studios back in 2019 - www.youtube.com
Don't miss this live performance of Texas Sun at Glastonbury last year: www.youtube.com
The Flyying Colours are a four-piece formed in Australia in 2011 by school friends Brodie J Brümmer and Gemma O'Connor.
You Never Know is the Melbourne-based band's third full length recording, created in the midst of the pandemic, recorded over a two-week period in the summer of 2021 with an intent to capture a moment in time with recurring themes and sounds. The brief passing of our lives seems to stare us in the mirror during difficult times. It is this sort of introspection that shades facets of this beautiful record. bit.ly
Lush formed in 1987 when close friends Miki Berenyi and Emma Anderson (who were in other bands previously) joined Chris Acland’s band, Baby Machines. After bassist Steve Rippon joined the band, they changed their name to Lush:
mylifeinmusiclists.ca
Seattle’s own Spirit Award is releasing their newest album, The Fear, tomorrow on Sub Pop Records. Read more about it here - spiritaward.bandcamp.com
Spirit Award is the moniker for Seattle-based singer/songwriter Daniel Lyon with collaboration with bassist Chris Jordan (Sunny Day Real Estate) and other various musicians. The band’s vision has always been to make something with intention, love, vulnerability, raw emotion and authenticity that captures the human spirit.
You can catch Spirit Award playing in Washington on a few dates this spring. Tomorrow they’ll be in Everett as part of the Fisherman's Village Music Fest. On Saturday, June 10th, they’ll be at Neumos for their record release party.
www.spiritawardmusic.com
Sprit Award last joined KEXP back in 2018. You can rewatch that session right here - www.youtube.com.
Keep your eyes peeled to our YouTube channel where today’s session will also be added.
The mysterious London-based post-punk band Snapped Ankles formed in 2011, after a few friends began to play between other artist's performances and during parties at a shared warehouse space in London's Brick Lane. Over time, the fledgling band's style began to emerge naturally, implementing homemade synths and experimental production into their songs. You can read more about their origins - www.allmusic.com
Formed in 1989, Dutch ensemble Zuco 103 focuses on Brazilian music. Telenova was released in April and is their eighth studio album. zuco103.bandcamp.com
Bomba Estéreo is part of the lineup for Bumbershoot during the Labor Day weekend, September 2nd and 3rd, 2023: bit.ly
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Bomba Estéreo have played several amazing sets live in the KEXP studio. Catch all the sessions here:
www.youtube.com
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The origins of the group go back to 2001 when Bogotá native Simón Mejía (Charconautas) was part of a loose collective of musicians and visual artists under the name A.M. 770 -- their work was influenced by groups that combined traditional Colombian rhythms with modern beats - bit.ly
LCD Soundsystem is getting back on the road this summer! They'll be playing with Jamie XX, Idles and more - resetconcertseries.com
During the 2019 Spring Fundraising Drive, KEXP counted down the KEXP Favorite Songs of All Time, as voted on by our listeners. This classic track came in at #501.
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You can see Sunny Day Real Estate as part of the Bumbershoot Festival this Labor Day weekend in Seattle. The daily schedule has recently been released - bumbershoot.com.
Andrew Bird has been a friend of KEXP and performing for us for over 11 years. Take a trip down memory lane here - shorturl.at
Though it’s actually based on an old English idiom, R.E.M. reputedly first encountered the phrase “life’s rich pageant” through watching the 1964 film A Shot In The Dark, starring Peter Sellers as the hapless fictional French detective Inspector Clouseau. Read more about how R.E.M. created their classic album - www.udiscovermusic.com
Indigo De Souza is a singer-songwriter from Asheville, North Carolina. The Water is a single off her new album is called All of this Will End.
indigodesouza.bandcamp.com
For "Nikki Nack", Merrill Garbus turned tUnE-yArDs into a communal arts tribe of singers, dancers and performers. Watch them perform "Water Fountain" live from the KEXP studio from back in 2014: www.youtube.com
Written by James Taylor, "Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight" is on the album Out Of The Ghetto - The Polydor Years from 1978.