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The first Who (= the first band Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey & John Entwistle were members of) were The Detours back in the early 1960s. When Joh...

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With the Oscars done, we focus on smaller films. In this mostly electropop episode, we profile Electric Youth & Pilotpriests score to the 2020 Canadian scifi horror Come True. 1. The Conet Project: 555 Konec (The Conet Project: Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations, 1997) Irdial 2. Electric Youth: Modern Fears [Pilotpriest Come True version] (Come True OST, 2021) Milan 3. Pilotpriest: Forgiven (Come True OST, 2021) Milan 4. Digital Underground: Same Song (This is an EP Release, 1991)...

New Music Reviews (5/3) KEXP Each week, Music Director Don Yates shares brief insights on new and upcoming releases for KEXPs rotation. These reviews help our DJs decide on what they want to play. See what we added this week below (and on our Charts page), including new releases from Dawn Richard, Dawn Richard – Second Line (Merge) This New Orleans singer/songwriter/musician/producer’s sixth solo album is an adventurous blend of R&B, house, footwork, New Orleans bounce and m...

Open share drawer The DFA stalwart delivers a set of psychedelic, late-night club cuts that invoke the dancefloor at its most immersive. Had the notion of acid house not been comprehensively explored at the tail end of the 1980s, we might have minted the term to describe the Juan Maclean’s I Can’t Explain, which is inspired by mind-expanding drugs and old-school house music. John Maclean—operating solo here, rather than in the company of Nancy Whang—says that he created the ...

Last modified on Mon 26 Apr 2021 06.04 EDT These days, we think of the period between 1965 and 1967 as one of white-hot musical progress, a dizzying three-year period during which innovation followed innovation, a succession of totemic albums and singles were released and pop music changed irrevocably. But, as Jon Savage’s superb book 1966: The Year the Decade Exploded made clear, not everyone at the time was impressed with how things were going. Savage’s research revealed a successio...

Roger Daltrey performing at the Royal Albert Hall in 2018 Credit: PA Wire Has anyone ever been more sure of themselves than Roger Daltrey was back in March 2019, when a journalist asked him about Brexit’s possible effect on European touring? “What’s that got to do with the rock business?” The Who singer fumed at the Sky News team, pacing and grizzling, channelling the indignation of a man for whom failure in an argument with a traffic warden has never been an option. “How are you goin...

Jimmy Page recalled watching Shirley Bassey collapse while he played as a session musician on the James Bond Goldfinger theme.

Dolores O'Riordan passed away unexpectedly on this day in 2018.

Dolores O'Riordan passed away unexpectedly on this day in 2018.