Archive for June 2024 - Page 3

Kinga Glyk dropped a live video yesterday, and we’re digging the groove. “Who Cares” is a song from her new album, “Real Life,” which is out now.

Bootsy Collins has announced a new solo album. “Album of the Year #1 Funkateer” will mark the funk legend’s 23rd studio record.

Lao Tizer sent us this video, and while we were already excited to check it out, we saw that Anthony Crawford is a part of the band, which took it up a notch. “Down” is the first video release from the band’s upcoming album, AMPLIFY, which drops on August 23rd.

After releasing Origin Story back in April, Derek Frank is taking his show on the road. The bassist, who is also known for his work with Gwen Stefani and Shania Twain, will be leading his band in a run of dates that will focus on the West Coast.

Summer school is officially in session. So I’m handing out grades for five different takes on Prince’s “I Feel For You” from 1979-1984.

Tiny Desk Concert keeps upping their game. This episode features the great Meshell Ndegeocello and her band performing music from her upcoming album, “No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin,” and other songs from her catalog.

Acoustic Hot Tuna is setting out on another tour across the U.S. this summer, stretching from July to October. The masterful duo of Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady have been playing together for seven decades, and the bond has only deepened.

In this lesson, we do our best Duck Dunn impression and learn the bass line to the Otis Redding classic, “Down In The Valley.”

Bassist/vocalist Adi Oasis visited the KEXP studio and put on quite a performance. It was so good, I decided to share the entire session.

A new piece of Paul McCartney’s archives has been unveiled fifty years after it was created. In August 1974, the former Beatle and his band Wings went to Abbey Road Studios to film a documentary and record a live studio album that never made the cut. That project has now gotten an official release as “One Hand Clapping.”

Magical Mystery Doors performs some of the most impressive mashups I’ve seen. In this one, they blend Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway To Heaven” and The Beatles’ “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.”

Bassist, composer, and bandleader Avery Sharpe has released a new album called “I Am My Neighbors Keeper.” During our turbulent times, Sharpe composed the set of music as a reminder to come together and help each other out.