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Song of the Day: The Fucking Eagles - Gentlemen’s Blues

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photo by Allie Bishop Pasquier Every Monday through Friday, we deliver a different song as part our Song of the Day podcast subscription . This podcast features exclusive KEXP in-studio performances, unreleased songs, and recordings from independent artists that our DJs think you should hear. Each and every Friday we offer songs by local artists. Today’s featured selection, chosen by Afternoon Show host Kevin Cole, is “Gentlemen’s Blues” by The Fucking Eagles from the 2009 album Midnight

Dusk Till Dawn

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Breakestra Strut Records (2009) *** Smooth breaks and funky jams are the singular obsession of Los Angeles’ Breakestra, and for good reason. When hip-hop music wasn’t all-out atrophying and frothing at the mouth,  the beats and samples came from the soul, funk and jazz hits of the past. Some of those songs became obscure over the years and that meant musical treasure for hip-hop producers and DJs who could revive them and use them in entirely new and unexpected contexts. As samples beca

This Week In Hip-Hop

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Mayer Hawthorne will be at DC9 on Sunday. Tuesday: >> Resident N'digo Rose will be joined by DJ Jahsonic and special guest Lady Alma at "Soul Overdose" at Station 9 . $10, 8 p.m. Wednesday: >> A combination of art exhibit and DJ set, "The Classics" will feature album cover artwork from some of hip-hop music's most memorable recordings. In addition, DJs 2-Tone Jones and Nick Da 1da will help shape the musical atmosphere at Lounge of Three (1013 U Street NW). Fr

Equalizer Chicago Gets on the Soul Train

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by Ali Weiss This Friday night, 9/25, at darkroom bar , KEXP’s monthly Equalizer Chicago showcase packs soul bands, hip-hop artists and local DJs into an overall dance party line-up. Here’s a look at the players. L.A.-based headliners Mayer Hawthorne & The County blend retro Motown with a modern, hip hop influence. Hawthorne hails from Ann Arbor, MI, and got his start in hip hop before writing a few soul songs on the side; he didn’t take them seriously until Stones Throw label

Dj Q-Bert Interview

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The DMC World DJ Championships are set to take place this Friday and Saturday at London's O2 Indigo venue with guest appearance from Dj Yoda, Dj I-Dee, Dj Fly, Rob Swift and Dj Q-Bert. THE competition for any aspiring DJ, the event, which boast Clash pals Drunknmunky as official fashion sponsor, will see a Battle For World Supremacy, a World Team Battle and the Dj Championship World Final itself as well as some of the planet's best Djs entertaining the crowds including Dj Q-Bert. ClashMusi