Featuring sets from Miguel, Zola Jesus, Little Dragon, Colleen Green, Sol, and more.
Featuring sets from Miguel, Little Dragon, Kyle Craft, Grace Love, Colleen Green, Mirah, and more.
More Upstream act announced in addition to previously revealed acts The Flaming Lips, Zola Jesus, and Cut Copy.
A new international supergroup of sorts has emerged through the combined talents of Guy Keltner, Jasmina Hirschl, Miguel Servin, and Ryan Granger
Red Gringo(Directed by Miguel Ángel Vidaurre, Chile, 2016, 67 minutes)
L.A. artist Miguel shares his fourth full-length, an album KEXP Music Director Don Yates declares "a potent set of psych-tinged R&B and funk featuring a hazy, groove-driven sound with echoing psych-rock guitars, spacey keyboards, and blunted beats accompanying his soulful vocals and lyrics of t…
“We carry it now as a badge of honor,” says Miguel Ramirez, percussionist of Los Angeles group La Santa Cecilia, “to say that we are immigrants or children of immigrants.” After the band had stopped by KEXP a few months earlier to perform live I reached out over the phone so we could talk a bit mor…
KEXP Music Director Don Yates has declared the debut release from Ibeyi as his "Pick of the Week." He notes, "the debut album from the young Paris-based French-Cuban twin-sister duo of Naomi and Lisa-Kainde Diaz (who are also both daughters of the acclaimed Cuban percussionist Miguel “Anga” Diaz) i…
With Ibeyi, every song is a blessing, sometimes quite literally. The Parisian born twin sisters reach deep into their French-Cuban ancestry and call upon the spirits of Santería on their debut LP, which blends Yoruban evocations with contemporary expressions of love and loss. Their music is, as the…
They've been playing together in one form or another since they were kids, so maybe it's not a surprise that within a year of their first single, Los Angeles' HAIM feel like natural stars. The three sisters that comprise the band - Danielle, Este, and and Alana - give great interviews. They have hi…
Through in-studio performances, interviews with local and national artists, co-curators and DJs Darek Mazzone and Chilly explore the immigrant experience.
KEXP Charts, Top Charts, Rock, Hip-Hop, World Music
