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Tutti first performed under the name Cosmosis.\n\nAccording to Throbbing Gristle biographer Simon Ford, the name of Cosey Fanni Tutti was suggested to her by mail artist Robin Klassnick based on the title of the opera Così fan tutte, literally meaning \"That's what they all do\"— ‌they being women, hence, \"That's what all women do.\"","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"},{"id":3620877,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3620877/?format=json","airdate":"2026-02-22T16:05:54-08:00","show":66003,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66003/?format=json","image_uri":"","thumbnail_uri":"","song":"Send","track_id":"825b37f3-a3b9-4da2-bb33-a0c627420429","recording_id":"c7490b0d-8c71-403b-98ce-00b73c358d18","artist":"PVA","artist_ids":["3e3c2787-4412-4614-82af-ce903b4d8b96"],"album":"No More Like This","release_id":"68c6a63d-72d9-4c69-b33d-5a93b3b1d818","release_group_id":"ce2f78d9-a9ad-449b-ad98-d7493b9f5ab4","labels":[],"label_ids":[],"release_date":"2026-01-23","rotation_status":"Heavy","is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"Of No More Like This, KEXP's Music Director Chris Sanley notes, \"The sophomore album from London trio PVA is all about balance; light and dark, blurry and sharp, urgent and tranquil.\n\n\"Featuring synths both bright and sinister, angular guitars, driving percussion, and Ella Harris’s entrancing, deadpan vocals, No More Like This is an engrossing, essential listen that brilliantly fuses electropunk, trip-hop, and experimental soundscapes to reveal their ever-evolving vision.\" Read more new music reviews here:  https://tinyurl.com/mrzrkp23","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"},{"id":3620878,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3620878/?format=json","airdate":"2026-02-22T16:03:50-08:00","show":66003,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66003/?format=json","image_uri":"","thumbnail_uri":"","comment":"","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"airbreak"},{"id":3620875,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3620875/?format=json","airdate":"2026-02-22T15:59:35-08:00","show":66003,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66003/?format=json","image_uri":"","thumbnail_uri":"","song":"Better Way to Live","track_id":null,"recording_id":"81536838-d6a8-422c-8571-7b19b71812a7","artist":"KNEECAP feat. 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If you haven't seen last year's Kneecap biopic yet, please do. 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The album would go on to sell 70,000 copies in its first week and raise £1,200,000 for the charity.\n\nIn 2025, War Child reached out to James Ford and asked him to work on Help(2), to which he felt \"incredibly honoured.\"\n\nThe album was recorded over a period of one week in Abbey Road Studios. 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Organized by the Glenn Gould Association, the festival is held annually in August in the city of Castelbuono, in the Sicilian province of Palermo.\n\nKae Tempest is an English spoken word performer, poet, recording artist, novelist and playwright. At the age of 16, Tempest was accepted into the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology in Croydon. In 2013, he won the Ted Hughes Award for his work Brand New Ancients. He was named a Next Generation Poet by the Poetry Book Society, a once-a-decade accolade.\n\nTempest's albums Everybody Down and Let Them Eat Chaos were nominated for the Mercury Music Prize. An accompanying poetry book for the latter album (also titled Let Them Eat Chaos) was nominated for the Costa Book of the Year in the Poetry Category. His debut novel The Bricks That Built the Houses was a Sunday Times best-seller and won the 2017 Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Breakthrough Author. He was nominated as Best Female Solo Performer at the 2018 Brit Awards. 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The quartet got media attention after playing to a sold-out show to a crowd of over 2,000 at The Forum in Kentish Town, London, before their first proper single, \"Forever Lost,\" was released.\n\nThe band caused a stir when they were booked to perform \"Love Me Like You\" on Top of the Pops.\n\nThey became the first artists ever to walk off the BBC show after host Richard Bacon introduced them as \"a big fat melting pot of talent,\" a snide reference to the fact that the then-fashionable wasted crackhead look was not really their image. \n\n\"We were on stage, about to do this amazing thing, and it's like, OK, so we've just been insulted and now we're supposed to play through this song? 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Over the last nine years, the \"limerance-rock\" four-piece have released two EPs and a debut album, honing a sound that channels classic rock icons like The Rolling Stones and Television through an indie lens influenced by The War on Drugs and Stephen Malkmus. \n\nOn calling it \"limerance-rock,\" Everett explains it as \"music that is yearning, sometimes angsty, fun and love filled.\"  https://tinyurl.com/ya86pszm","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"},{"id":3620860,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3620860/?format=json","airdate":"2026-02-22T15:31:09-08:00","show":66003,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66003/?format=json","image_uri":"","thumbnail_uri":"","song":"Real Sublime","track_id":null,"recording_id":null,"artist":"Cult Canyon","artist_ids":[],"album":null,"release_id":null,"release_group_id":null,"labels":[],"label_ids":[],"release_date":null,"rotation_status":"R/N","is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"If you came of age on early-2000s indie, you likely crossed paths with Josh Chicoine as frontman of The M’s, whose sharp hooks and festival-ready anthems carried them from Polyvinyl releases to stages at SXSW, Lollapalooza, ACL, and Pitchfork.\n\nIn the years since, Chicoine has remained a restless presence in Chicago’s music community through projects like Sabers and Cloudbirds. 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