Music is for sharing. That’s the idea, held with love and mutual admiration, behind COVERS, KCRW’s on-site sessions from Reeperbahn Festival in Germany, back this year for another season. We invited a slate of artists we’re excited about to play songs by their musical peers, to funnel others’ work through their own musical lens. And Hamburg’s BROCKHOFF beams throughout this raw yet soft-edged performance, as simple as two voices, two guitars, and a tangle of amps, clearly proud to be embodying the music and lyrics of "Soft Skin." Revel with her and find more COVERS here.
Locust is not a new band, but for the sake of metaphor, perhaps the Locust seen here has an all-new exoskeleton. Original member Mark Van Hoen last played as Locust when “opening for Massive Attack in the '90s” before forming this new iteration with collaborator, vocalist and frontwoman Olive Kimoto, also of KCRW. Hit play for haunting synths paired perfectly with baroque religious imagery, vocalization to inhabit your deepest longing, and a shoegaze-y BPM that makes this one an instant playlist add for your full moon nightwalks.
We love when a song gets straight into your body, shimmy and smiles and sways dialed in from the first bar. That’s the case with this exuberant yet divinely smooth single from Argentinian trio TRÍADA. Harmonized voices float over production that is so elegantly composed as to feel like it just came out that way, straight from the strings and skins. Charmingly, TRÍADA first met at their performing arts high school, and it sounds like they were all on the right path. Find more like this on their debut album, De Versiones y Alma, out now.
Eat your heart out! Tap into your long-buried teenage crush feelings with this bopped-up track from Brooklyn-then-LA artist Josh da Costa, who’s kinda done it all, so he does what he does real good. You’ll hear '80s new wave influences, both in sound and in fashion, indie from the early aughts and teens, good ol’ jangly guitars, killer-kiss drum flourishes, and turn-it-up synths that achieve just what they’re after… all set to a monstrous love affair video that’ll have you chuckling.
Ready to ascend? We love to leave you on a meditative, format-breaking, eclectic piece of music here at the 5 Songs newsletter, and this one really fulfills the mission. “Almight…supreme, absolute!” These are the declarations of spiritual guru Alice Coltrane as she welcomes her late-nite audience to worship with her at “Eternity’s Pillar.” Not exactly a “song” but certainly music, this revitalized recording of the wife of John Coltrane sharing her worship with the world via public access television in 1985 is… something to be experienced. Experience it live with us tonight in LA.
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