Out in support of her third album, New View, Eleanor Friedberger stopped by the KEXP studios to share some of the new tracks. This wasn't her first time in studio - she was here back in 2013 in support of Personal Record , but it's clear that three years of grind have sharpened her act. Her albums have long drawn comparisons to Neil Young in particular for both her pleasantly off-tone voice and the candid frankness of her lyrical storytelling, but the unassuming elegance of her songwriting doesn't lean as heavily on the melancholy of some of her predecessors - or, as she puts it: "I hope that this album sounds like an adult who's OK, as boring as that sounds! I don't want to sound like I'm miserable." New View has a far more settled sound than her previous works, as evidenced on tracks like "Sweetest Girl", in which she begs for calmness from the people around her. Check out her soothing in-studio performance now:
Fifty fans christened KEXP's live room during an exclusive tear-soaked performance with José González, all to benefit KEXP's New Home. The Swedish singer-songwriter, whose history with KEXP dates back over a decade, broke listeners' hearts for a full set of gorgeous, heartbreaking bliss, while shar…
Though they hail from Los Angeles, Dengue Fever are like Cambodian ambassadors to the Pacific Northwest. On their recent return to the KEXP airwaves, the six-piece seemed right at home, even in our new studio. The band's instrumentation is uniquely cinematic, a multicultural modernization of the ps…
