It's unquestionably the strongest week of new releases this year (especially since it's only the third week of new releases). Leading the pack is the highly-anticipated sophomore releases from UK group Savages. KEXP Music Director Don Yates says, "this British band's excellent second album features…
On September 11, Minnesota band Low will release their 11th studio album, Ones and Sixes via Sub Pop. The album was co-produced by the band and BJ Burton at Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon's studio in Wisconsin. Listen to the record's first single "No Comprende" below. [CoS]
Tangerine is a Seattle four-piece that plays power-pop with catchy rhythms and soft, touching vocals. The band recently released their EP, Behemoth, and will play a bunch of local shows in support of the record. We had a chance to catch up lead singer and guitar player, Marika Che, to talk about th…
With their brand-new EP Fade Away, California band Best Coast prove they're not doing any such thing. The seven-song release just came out this past week, but we were lucky to have the band in the KEXP studios back in August for a sneak-peek at these new summery-sounding songs. You can't help smil…
DJ Sharlese hosts a podcast featuring bands competing in the 2015 Sound Off! competition, the premiere Northwest battle of the bands hosted by the Experience Music Project (EMP) Museum. 1. Bleachbear - Astoria 2. Champagne Babylon - Lost In Eden 3. Nightspace - Insecure 4. Super Soaked - Wannabe…
Seven years after their last record, Canadian band Wolf Parade are back with a new full-length record. Called Cry Cry Cry, the album follows 2010's Expo 86 and last year's EP entitled EP 4. They've shared with us the first single off the album, "Valley Boy." The band is made up of Spencer Krug (Moo…
In the last few years, there’s been a slew of English, (mostly) London-based bands emerging from basement gigs with world-beating ambitions and the musical elements to make good on them: a heavy dose of pop melody, a balance of snarky storytelling and heartfelt appeal, and most of all, hooks that a…
A junkyard band with a heart of sixties-style psychedelia, country blues and garage experimentalism with Shana Cleveland, Nicolas Gonzalez, Faustine Hudson and Bradford Button.
A new generation of big band music composed and conducted by Ahamefule J. Oluo with lyrics written and performed by Okanomode.
Martin Douglas travels to Bellingham (and through the world wide web) to speak with Bellingham's loudest, weirdest punk band.
Acclaimed drummer and musicologist Jon Wurster talks to KEXP about his first-ever favorite band, The Clash.
New music from Florence and the Machine, Laura Marling and Mike Lindsay's new band LUMP, DJ Koze, and Cherry Glazer.
Underworld and Iggy Pop, Parquet Courts, and the Justin Vernon/Dessner brothers band Big Red Machine share new music.
Plus, the band announces tour dates spanning from SXSW to the Pacific Northwest
An archive broadcast recorded in May 1995 reveals this seminal band, featuring 14 Seattle players on twice as many instruments, in full flight.
Spiky and smooth, the kinetic guitar playing of Bombino weaves through the buoyant rhythms that his band produces.
Greg Vandy hosts the six-piece band in the KEXP Live Room as they perform 5 songs from their 2018 self-titled LP.
On the show this time, it’s the mesmerizing post-punk shoegaze of Brooklyn band DIIV.
On the show this time, it's the dynamic experimental music of Japanese band MONO.
