In a move we can only hope was inspired by KEXP's Six Degrees Day, Afghan Whigs frontman Greg Dulli has covered a song by Sharon Van Etten! Stream his version of "A Crime" below, featuring guest vocals from none other than Ani DiFranco, to add another link to the chain. You can download the track …
Majical Cloudz' new album Are You Alone? drops today and is now available to stream via Spotify. This 12-track offering is the Canadian indie pop outfit's first album since 2013's Impersonator. They recently expanded their winter tour, and will land in Seattle at Barboza on January 23. [CoS]
Hold Steady frontman Craig Finn stopped by Late Night With Seth Meyers last night to perform the single "Maggie I’ve Been Searching for Our Son" off his latest solo release, Faith in the Future. Watch his impassioned performance below, and then check out an acoustic rendition of the track, perform…
METZ go for broke on their latest track "Eraser." It's an intense piece of noise rock that will leave you anxious yet mesmerized. The single is being offered as a limited edition - only 1,000 copies - pressed on green vinyl, which will release on January 22. Pre-order here via Subpop. [CoS]
Ten Commandos, a Seattle punk supergroup, have released their debut single "Staring Down the Dust." Members of the band include Pearl Jam's Matt Cameron, Queens of the Stone Age collaborator Allain Johannes, and Ben Shepherd of Soundgarden. The song features guest vocals from Screaming Tree's Mark…
The music of Duluth, MN-based trio Low has always evoked great emotion, so it's no surprise their videos do, too (except for that one with John Stamos; we don't talk about that). For the track "Lies," off their latest Sub Pop full-length Ones And Sixes, the band turned to Spanish film director Man…
We've got more new music to share from Return to the Moon, the highly-anticipated debut of EL VY, a collaboration between Matt Berninger of The National and Brent Knopf of Ramona Falls/Menomena, out October 30th on 4AD. Check out a lyric video, directed by Matt's brother Tom Berninger, for the sin…
It's been over twenty years since his death and yet Kurt Cobain is still contributing to the music industry. On November 13, Montage of Heck: The Home Recordings, an album of home-recorded Cobain tracks will be released. A special 7" of his songs, "And I Love Her (Beatles Cover)" and "Sappy," will…
Boston punk band The Real Kids had a surprise hit in 1977 with the track "All Kindsa Girls," and now all-girl trio Ex Hex give it a modern spin with their rendition, shared below. Lead vocalist Mary Timony described it to NME as, "just a great song, the kind of song that you wish you wrote." The c…
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.
