DJ Sessions: Drawing Inspiration From Motown To The Spice Girls

On this week’s installment of the Here & Now DJ sessions, Travis Holcombe of KCRW shares music inspired by pop music’s past.

The Missouri group Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, signed to Motown Record’s famous rival, Stax Records. And the Danish singer-songwriter Mø says she fell in love with pop listening to the Spice Girls.

• Hear previous installments of the DJ Sessions

Music from the segment

• Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats, “I Need Never Get Old”

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• Børns, “Electric Love”

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• Mø, “Kamikaze”

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• Tom Misch, “Beautiful Escape”

Note: We have a Spotify playlist and an Apple Music playlist for our weekly DJ Sessions.

Guest

• Travis Holcombe, DJ at KCRW in Santa Monica, California. He tweets @TravisHolcombe.

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