La Sera - Queens - from the 2016 EP Queens on Polyvinyl Records.
Wild Nothing - TV Queen - from the 2016 album Life Of Pause on Captured Tracks.
This week's episode is all about drag queens and gay cowboys. We'll hear from the first openly gay country band, Lavender Country and hear how that band influenced the country music of Orville Peck today. We'll also hear about the controversies around Drag Queen Story Time.
Ty Segall - Orange Color Queen - from the 2017 album Ty Segall on Drag City.
Queen Zee will perform at KEXP's International Clash Day London broadcast on Thurs, Feb. 7
Moody, defiant, empowered, and completely original. Every song on Cheryl Waters’ latest musical collage is fit for a Queen.
If you had told the DJs at KCMU 25-plus years ago, as they listened to the debut album by the New Jersey rapper known as Queen Latifah, that in 2015 her name would the second thing suggested by Google when you type in "Queen" (just under "Queen Elizabeth"), they would have said "what's Google?" But…
KEXP looks into the protests against the Drag Queen Story Time events at the Seattle Public Library.
Queen Zee perform songs from their eponymous debut live from Studio 9294 in Hackney Wick in London during KEXP’s International Clash Day 2019 broadcast.
Today's song, featured on The Midday Show with Cheryl Waters, is "Idle Crown" by Queen Zee, from the 2017 single Idle Crown / Victim Age on Sasstone Records.
Today’s song, featured on The Midday Show with Cheryl Waters, is "Dope Queen Blues" by Adia Victoria, from the 2019 album Silences on Atlantic Records.
KEXP premieres the new single "Kings and Queens" from Ever So Android, off the upcoming Castles EP
Every Monday through Friday, we deliver a different song as part of our Song of the Day podcast subscription. This podcast features exclusive KEXP in-studio performances, unreleased songs, and recordings from independent artists that our DJs think you should hear. Today’s selection, featured on The…
Doom Wop, the title of Prom Queen's latest album, is just as much of a title as it is a statement of aesthetic. Dressed to the nines and stocked with a wave of girl-group melodies, Leeni and co. joins DJ Sean on Audioasis for a set of smooth, beehive-haired Doom Wop tracks and a discussion of…
On January 18, Seattle lost one of its valued treasures: Easy Street Records Queen Anne. Although vinyl sales continued to increase, they couldn't forestall rising rents, and so one of the city's small handful of excellent record stores closed its doors. Since the Queen Anne location was more than …
The Queen of Soul has passed away at the age of 76.
Twenty two years after its release, Jeremy Enigk's Return of the Frog Queen continues to enrapture with its baroque arrangements and Enigk's inimitable songwriting. Performing four cuts from the album alongside a new song on KEXP's broadcast from the Upstream Music Festival with a …
New music from Christine and the Queens, Toro y Moi with Rome Fortune, and Marlon Williams.
