If you were listening to Warpaint LIVE on KEXP this morning, the L.A. band opened with this brand new track: "Whiteout" (or "White Out" -- seeing two different spellings around). Stream the album version below, out this Friday, September 23rd on the album Heads Up. The new one was co-produced by J…
Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke debuted a new, 10-minute song called "Coloured Candy" during Rag & Bone's 2017 Spring/Summer runway show. It features lines from The Universal Sigh, the free newspaper that accompanied the release of Radiohead’s eighth studio album The King of Limbs. Check out the…
It's a bummer that the new Phantogram album, Three, got pushed back from September 16th to a October 7th release, but the band share a new song to make up for it. Stream the single "Same Old Blues" below. [Under the Radar]
Leave it to Father John Misty to explain America to us (hint: it's basically Go-Gurt). The catchier-than-it-has-any-right-to-be track details the ridiculous ways people die, and will be performed by an animated Mr. Misty on Adult Swim's Brad Neely’s Harg Nallin’ Sclopio Peepio. The season finale a…
The ever so talented Carrie Brownstein has written and directed a new short film for fashion house KENZO. The Realest Real is a hilariously creepy satire about our society's insane social media obsession. The film stars Girl Meets World's Rowan Blanchard, House of Cards' Mahershala Ali, Orange is …
Following his fantastic third solo album, Singing Saw, Kevin Morby shares a digital 7” single today titled "Tiny Fires." The acoustic track was written and recorded in Morby’s bedroom in Los Angeles, and features two members of his touring band -- Meg Duffy on slide guitar and bass, and Justin Sul…
Today, M.I.A. has released her latest - and possibly final - album AIM, the follow up to 2013's Matangi. This album features collaborations with Diplo, Zayn Malik, and Skillrex. Thanks to Spotify you can stream the entire thing below. [Pitchfork]
All throughout the Midday Show on KEXP today, DJ Cheryl Waters has been sharing tracks from the forthcoming Cymbals Eat Guitars album, Pretty Years. Miss a few songs? Had to go into a meeting? You can stream the entire album here, via NPR Music. The band will be crashing through (argh, puns! I can…
Split Single, the music project of Jason Narducy (Superchunk, Verbow), will release their sophomore album, Metal Frames, on November 18. Today they've shared the album track "Leave My Mind." The beautiful harmonies, haunting lyrics, and bad ass guitar rifts really knock this one out of the park. […
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.
