Milwaukee folk punk legends Violent Femmes have announced that they’ll be relasing their 10th studio album on July 26. Titled Hotel Last Resort, the record follows 2016’s We Can Do Anything, which saw the band return for their first album in 16 years. Hotel Last Resort features covers of Irving Ber…
Local busybody Julia Shapiro of Chastity Belt, Childbirth, and Who Is She? is releasing her debut solo record, Perfect Version, this summer. Last month, she shared the album’s lead single “Natural” and today she’s following it up with the vulnerable, downtempo “A Couple Highs.”
Last month, Bleached unveiled their first new music in two years, the stripped-down single “Shitty Ballet.” Today, they’ve announced a forthcoming album, Don’t You Think You’ve Had Enough?, out July 12 via Dead Oceans and shared the second single, “Hard to Kill.”
KEXP is venturing out to the SPOT Festival in Aarhus, Denmark on May 2-4. While we won’t be broadcasting this time around, KEXP has been invited as guests from our previous initiatives and will be on the scene exploring all the Danish and Nordic music we can handle.
Perfume Genius’ Mike Hadreas will be collaborating with Seattle choreographer Kate Wallich on a new contemporary dance and live music performance piece. Set to debut at the Moore Theatre Oct. 4-5, the piece is titled The Sun Still Burns Here.
Each week, KEXP’s Music Director Don Yates (joined this week by DJ Chilly) shares brief insights on new and upcoming releases. See what's coming up this week below, including reviews for new releases from Beyoncé, Tacocat, Kevin Morby, and more.
To culminate KEXP's Punk Month, Martin Douglas explores his life through the cracked prism of punk rock music.
Victoria Legrand, co-founder of dream-pop band Beach House, talks to KEXP about her origins in singing, how the band has stayed together now for 15 years, and what she remembers most from conversations with her fans.
Andy Liszt of California-based psych-gaze band LSD and the Search for God tells us about his life-saving selector.
In 2018, KEXP celebrated the 30th anniversary of local record label Sub Pop with a four-month retrospective, "counting up" every catalog number in their vast discography of over 1,200 releases. Dig into the archives of our catalog coverage, featuring in-depth coverage on the history of their releases.
