Wednesday Music News

02/24/2016

Janice Headley

Aside from Luna, aside from Dean & Britta, musician Britta Phillips is now branching out into a solo career. Her debut release, Luck or Magic, hits stores on April 29th on Double Feature, the label she co-runs with Luna's Dean Wareham. Today, she shares a cover of the Evie Sands 1968 single "One Fine Summer Morning," with a video as lovely as the song. Watch below: [Under the Radar]

Seattle's own Macklemore & Ryan Lewis team up with Texas soul and gospel artist Leon Bridges for the track "Kevin," not a song about KEXP's Afternoon Show DJ, but an earnest piece on America’s prescription drug abuse problem. The stoic black-and-white shot clip was directed by Lewis and Jason Koenig. Watch below. The new Macklemore & Ryan Lewis album, This Unruly Mess I’ve Made, hits stores on February 26th via their own Macklemore LLC. The duo will be playing two free local shows that day, an all-ages in-store at Easy Street Records and a later show at Neumos, that will be streamed online. [Spin]

Brooklyn garage punks The So So Glos hit the floor with the track "Dancing Industry," off their forthcoming fifth full-length, Kamikaze, out May 13th via Votiv Music. Frontman Levi Zaru tells Billboard, "...the album is called Kamikaze because we want to take back a historically violent word and redefine it in a progressive way. The explosive weapon in our case isn't a bomb or an airplane but one of lyrical and musical expression." [Stereogum]

'80s alt-rockers Violent Femmes stopped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night in support of their comeback album, We Can Do Anything, their first new full-length since 2000's Freak Magnet. Watch them perform the 1983 hit “Blister in the Sun” with Colbert, and a new single "Memory" below. The reunited Milwaukee trio are playing Saturday, May 14th at The Showbox. Keep track of all these late night TV musical highlights with KEXP's TV Eye. [Consequence of Sound]

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