San Francisco’s Moon Duo once again light up the KEXP live room as they launch into their special psychedelic blend of astronomically awesome audio that is bound to elevate your mind into an altered consciousness. Casting some light on their newly released LP, Shadow of the Sun, the duo have built and improved upon their past releases. Not only does Ripley Johnson display some of his best guitar work to date while Sanae Yamada creates her most luminous electronic melodies, but the rhythms reveal serious drive, so much so that the duo became a trio, adding drummer John Jeffrey to give their live sound more weight. Watch and listen as Moon Duo holds it down like gravity live in the KEXP studio, crafting hit after hit until you see more stars than Spock did in his first light year.
If you think it'd be hard to bring all seven prolific members of Doomtree together to record, you'd be right. That's why the Minneapolis hip-hop collective called "all hands" for their first album in three years. Fortunately, All Hands is their most collaborative and socially-minded effort yet, sho…
It's hard to live up to a name like theirs, and harder still to shine brightly for over fifteen years, but Stars have not only lost none of their shimmering allure - they've somehow turned an amorphous Canadian collective, on par and in cahoots with Broken Social Scene, into a consistently producti…
