Khruangbin - Friday Morning

It's Friday so why not something different, a "Friday Morning" love song, written and recorded at the remote farm in Burton, Texas where KHRUANGBIN got its start. To commemorate the song, the band asked their closest friends and family to record messages of love to each band member. The music video is a portrait of the band hearing these audio recordings for the first time, capturing on film the emotions one feels when they hear just how loved they are; a poignant and heartfelt expression in a time where, as a collective whole, we need to hear and express love more than ever.

KHRUANGBIN is a three-piece band from Texas, formed of Laura Lee on bass, Mark Speer on guitar, and Donald Johnson on drums. Taking influence from 1960's Thai funk - their name literally translates to "Engine Fly" in Thai - KHRUANGBIN is steeped in the bass heavy, psychedelic sound of their inspiration, Tarantino soundtracks and surf-rock cool.

Enjoy today's tune, taken from the second studio album "Con Todo El Mundo" by American musical trio KHRUANGBIN. It was released January 26, 2018 under Dead Oceans and Night Time Stories.



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Khruangbin - White Gloves

Monday and it's time for the annual Way Out West week again.

I did my first Way out West festival 2008, the 2nd year it was running and since then I have been in Slottsskogen, Gothenburg for almost two weeks. Nowadays it is an absolutely wonderful time in the park, fantastic colleagues, people around the organization, sponsors, exhibitors and restaurangs, you basically know everyone there and the job goes incredibly smoothly, during the year we have worked out all the shortcomings and done most very simple, almost like a dance during a balmy summer evening.

So this week we are going to play some music of the artist that plays on the festival this year. Then we sum it up next week for a couple of days of bands that I have discover and perhaps a story or two. Enjoy!

KHRUANGBIN is a three-piece band from Texas, formed of Laura Lee on bass, Mark Speer on guitar, and Donald Johnson on drums. Taking influence from 1960’s Thai funk – their name literally translates to “Engine Fly” in Thai – KHRUANGBIN is steeped in the bass heavy, psychedelic sound of their inspiration, Tarantino soundtracks and surf-rock cool. Beginning of last year, KHRUANGBIN released their second album Con Todo El Mundo to widespread critical acclaim. The album title answers the question on how to love – “with the whole world”. Kind of fitting for a band that channels the beauty of the world in their music.

KHRUANGBIN will perform at Way Out West on Friday 9th at Linné 21:15

Today's tune "White Gloves" is taken from the album "The Universe Smiles Upon You", released November 6, 2015. The Video made is a Relix Studio Sessions, 9/9/16, enjoy!



Upcoming Shows

Aug 02 Pendarvis Farm Happy Valley, OR
Aug 05 Kaslo Jazz Festival Kaslo, BC
Aug 07 Sziget Festival Budapest, Hungary
Aug 08 Haldern Pop Festival Rees, Germany
Aug 09 Way Out West Festival Gothenburg, Sweden
Aug 14 Paredes de Coura Festival Paredes de Coura, Portugal
Aug 15 Green Man Festival Brecon Beacons, UK
Aug 22 Lockn' Arrington, VA
Aug 23 The Ground Miami, FL
Aug 24 THING Port Townsend, WA
Nov 13 Circo Voador Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Nov 15 Memorial da América Latina São Paulo, Brazil


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Khruangbin - Maria También

KHRUANGBIN is an American musical trio from Houston, Texas, formed of Laura Lee on bass, Mark Speer on guitar, and Donald Ray "DJ" Johnson Jr. on drums. The band is known for blending global music influences, classic soul, dub and psychedelia. Their debut album, "The Universe Smiles Upon You" (2015), draws from the history of Thai music in the 1960s, while their second album, "Con Todo El Mundo" (2018), has influences from Spain and the Middle East. Speer, Lee, and DJ also host "Air Khruang" radio shows on NTS and Facebook Live.

Taking influence from 1960's Thai funk - their name literally translates to "Engine Fly" in Thai.

Throughout "Con Todo El Mundo", Laura Lee’s melodic low-end theory, Mark’s lyrical, free-role guitar lines, and DJ’s ever-steady, ever-ready backbeat form something greater than their parts. A vibe-synchronous soul-unit travelling the planet, honing their craft, absorbing the sights, sounds and feels from cultures across the globe, processing them through the Khruangbin filter and gifting the result...with all the world.

"Con Todo El Mundo" was released January 26, 2018.

Today's tune "Maria También", the first single from the latest album "Con Todo El Mundo", tells the story of Iranian women prior to the revolution of 1979. Celebrating their creativity, freedom and ability to express themselves, the video shows a side of women in the Middle East that often isn't seen in the Western world.

The women in the video are all part of a large network of artists, singers, dancers and songwriters who have been either exiled or silenced since the revolution. With the video, KHRUANGBIN hopes to bring these remarkable women back into the spotlight and honour the artistry of silenced women everywhere.



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Babymetal - Megitsune

Japan, is an interesting country, with their history, customs, cuisine and music. There are many great music acts originated from Japan, including all the music styles, Japan has created a lot of "strange" things in our eyes / ears, but are huge over there.

Personally, I think it can be fun with this, but I am simply too old to go into this! Or what do you say? Today's band is one of the newer ones that is Huge in Japan, and is beginning to spread across the world.

BABYMETAL was formed in 2010. Their major debut single “ Ijme, dame, zettai" along with 2nd single “Megistune" both ranked in the Top 10 Oricon chart in Japan. In March 2014, they took to the stage of Nippon Budokan for a 2-Days gig making them the youngest female act to ever perform there. Their 1st studio album BAYBMETAL made it into the US Billboard chart. In summer of the same year, they embarked on their first World Tour, performing on the Main Stage at UK’s prodigious festival Sonisphere Festival 2014 in front of 65,000 festival goers, and supporting Lady Gaga on her “ArtRave: The Artpop Ball” 2014 Tour. In fall they were back for additional headline shows in Hammerstein Ballroom, New York City and O2 Academy Brixton, London. In January 2015, they headlined a show at the 20,000 capacities Saitama Super Arena, and in June 2015, they headlined a show at the 25,000 capacities Makuhari Messe. In summer of 2015, BABYMETAL received awards from prominent UK music magazines “Kerrang!” and “METAL HAMMER”. They then performed in front of a staggering 90,000 people at the prestigious Reading and Leeds Festival in August. This December, BABYMETAL are to take the stage again for 2 consecutive days at Japan’s Yokohama Arena pulling a total of 26,000 people before returning to the UK in April 2016 to headline London’s The SSE Arena, Wembley. BABYMETAL's ‘Metal Resistance’ is rapidly expanding across the globe.

The album was first released on February 26, 2014 under Toy's Factory in Japan, in several editions, regular and limited. The limited edition comes with a bonus DVD containing video clips and live footage from Summer Sonic Festival 2013. It reached the 4th place on Oricon Weekly Charts and sold 37,463 copies during the first week.

BABYMETAL consist of:

SU-METAL (Vocal,Dance)
YUIMETAL (Scream,Dance)
MOAMETAL (Scream,Dance)

Today's tune "Megitsune" (メギツネ?, "Vixen") is the second major label single by the band Babymetal. It was released in Japan on June 19, 2013 as the fifth single from the album "Babymetal". It is also the first single released independently from the idol group Sakura Gakuin.

The single was released in four versions: limited "Ki", "Tsu", and "Ne" (Kitsune means "fox" in Japanese) editions and a standard edition. The DVDs included in the limited editions feature footage from each of the live performances from Live: Legend I, D, Z Apocalypse



Here is a second tune with BABYMETAL - Gimme Chocolate!! With almost 38 millions views, crazy!



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