Guest William McDonough, architect and founder of William McDonough and Partners, speaks with Diane Horn about his book, "The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability--Designing for Abundance", coauthored with Michael Braungart.
Stellar improvisation from William Monteleone (saxophones) and Stephen Fandrich (piano).
Van William - Revolution (feat. First Aid Kit) - a 2016 single on Shawnee Waters.
Guest Terry Tempest Williams speaks with Diane Horn about her most recent book “The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks”.
Guest David Williams speaks with Diane Horn about his most recent book, “Too High and Too Steep: Reshaping Seattle's Topography”.
A Tribe Called Red - Virus (feat. Saul Williams & Black Bear) - from the 2016 album We Are The Halluci Nation on Radicalized Records.
Guest William Powers, Senior Fellow, World Policy Institute, speaks with Diane Horn about his book, “New Slow City: Living Simply in the World's Fastest City”.
Though a relative unknown here in the states, singer/songwriter Marlon Williams is a star in his native New Zealand and his recently-adopted home of Australia. At the age of 17, he, some high school classmates, and their apparently-pretty-cool science teacher formed the band The Unfaithful Ways. In…
New Zealand singer-songwriter Marlon Williams and his band play a live set in the KEXP studio. Recorded 02/01/2016 - 4 songs: Strange Things, Dark Child, Hello Miss Lonesome, When I Was A Young Girl.
New Zealand singer-songwriter Marlon Williams brought his band and their foot-pounding vintage folk to the KEXP studios in support of his first solo record. Longtime the front-man of The Unfaithful Ways, Williams relocated to Melbourne to record and release his eponymous solo album. The rocksteady,…
Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by John Richards, host of The Morning Show on KEXP, is "Ballad for the Unemployed" by William McCarthy, a 2020 self-released single.
Guest William Easterly, Professor of Economics at New York University and Co-director of NYU's Development Research Institute, speaks with Diane Horn about his book “The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor”.
Marlon Williams, singer-songwriter from New Zealand, talks about his new album, written entirely in the Indigenous language Te Reo Maori.
Legendary Louisiana country singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams stops by The Afternoon Show for a set of tunes from her 2015 album "Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone" live in the KEXP studio. Recorded 02/11/2015 - 4 songs: East Side of Town, West Memphis, Protection, It's Gonna Rain.
Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by John Richards, host of The Morning Show on KEXP, is “Man Without a Soul” by Lucinda Williams, from the 2020 album Good Souls Better Angels on Highway 20/Thirty Tigers.
A nuanced singer-songwriter and old-soul Americana-ist as demonstrably badass as Lucinda Williams is automatically going to yield a badass night, and that's just what the southern Stevie Nicks of tumbleweed-twang gave us.
It's always a good time to celebrate Lucinda Williams, but now is an even better time than usual: She just released a new album, Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone, which seems to be universally adored and is currently in rotation here at KEXP (she's still got her spot in M). This album has a loc…
New music from Christine and the Queens, Toro y Moi with Rome Fortune, and Marlon Williams.
Freely improvised music from Matt Williams (guitar) and Kevin Haag (drums, loops and samples).
A weird electric night out with Marcus on electronics and processing and Dustin on guitar and processing.
