Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by John Richards, host of The Morning Show on KEXP, is "Confessions" by Sudan Archives, from the 2019 album Athena on Stones Throw Records.
In honor of the 30th anniversary of the landmark My Bloody Valentine album Loveless, KEXP has dug into our archives for this interview with frontman Kevin Shields, originally conducted back in 2009.
Sam Beam's new label Black Cricket Recording Co. has released Archive Series Volume No. 1, the first collection in a series of archival Iron & Wine songs. Most of the tracks were recorded while he was working on his 2002 debut, The Creek Drank The Cradle. The album will officially drop on Febr…
Next year, HBO will broadcast a "fully authorized" Kurt Cobain documentary. Montage of Heck, named after a Cobain mixtape from the 80s, will feature great amounts of previously unheard material. According to a press release, filmmaker Brett Morgen has "no-holds-barred access to Kurt Cobain’s archi…
A Sonarchy Archive performance from 2003. Live dub transcending the sequencer from this Portland band.
A sneak peek at her long-awaited debut album.
Sudan Archives is the alias of Cincinnati-bred, LA-based singer, songwriter, violinist, and producer Brittney Denise Parks. Recently releasing her self-titled debut EP this past summer on Stones Throw Records, her mesmerizing blend of Sudanese and West African influences with R&B and electronic…
This Sonarchy Archive show is a two guitar attack with cinematic, extreme sound pressure results.
Sonarchy archive performance from 2006 with KJ Sawka (drums and programming), Christa Wells (vocals) and Kent Halverson (keys and bass).
DJ Morgan hosts this exclusive session from KEXP's live broadcast of the first-ever THING Festival in Port Townsend, Washington.
An archive broadcast recorded in May 1995 reveals this seminal band, featuring 14 Seattle players on twice as many instruments, in full flight.
This 1996 session from the Sonarchy archive series features the compositions of Andrew Dury (drums), Brent Arnold (cello), Fred Chalenor (bass), and Steve Moore (trombone).
Nine players perform the Graffica score. Great example of Seattle's large group improv history. Sonarchy Archive Series show from 2000.
from the Sonarchy Archive Series, this November 1998 drone music performance is ideal for closing out 2009: A meditation on quiet with Paul Moore and David Brogan on electronics.
Ian builds electronics that are guided by their own randomized processes. The results are percussive, weird and not human. This show is in the Sonarchy archive from July 2004.
This Sonarchy Archive performance was first aired 12/21/96 and features Tim Young and Andri Otraskin in a gorgeous acoustic guitar duet.
