Notable adult punk rocker Martin Douglas speaks with the Olympia "adult-punk" band about their past life together, the spiritual drain of having to work for a living, and what being punk means to them.
WIth Built To Spill playing two sold-out shows March 26th and 27th at the Columbia City Theater, KEXP chats with one of the region’s most beloved rockers, frontman Doug Martsch.
Toronto noise-grunge rockers METZ perform songs from their outstanding new record "II" live on KEXP's The Afternoon Show with Troy Nelson. Recorded 08/04/2015 - 4 songs: Wait in Line, The Swimmer, Spit You Out, Acetate.
It is an end of an era… Oxford, England based influential shoegaze rockers Ride deliver a fantastic performance of songs from their classic record "Nowhere". Recorded 11/16/2015 - 6 songs: Kaleidoscope, Polar Bear, In A Different Place, Decay, Dreams Burn Down, Seagull.
Detroit gritty rockers Jessica Hernandez & the Deltas perform a live set of their unique soulful pop and blues'd out rock at KEXP. Recorded 12/17/2014 - 4 songs: Caught Up, Dead Brains, Sorry I Stole Your Man, No Place Left To Hide.
On its 25th anniversary, KEXP looks back at Howl, the debut album from Spokane garage-rockers The Makers.
Join KEXP on Saturday, October 19th for this annual spotlight of Icelandic music with synth-punk trio Kælan Mikla and Reykjavik rockers Sólstafir.
Real Estate return to KEXP to play songs from their new LP "Atlas" on The Midday Show. The New Jersey/Brooklyn indie rockers deliver a dreamy set of upbeat tunes and discuss recording their latest effort at Wilco's Loft Studio. Recorded 3/6/2014 - 4 songs: The Bend, Talking Backwards, Cr…
From their very first single, "Found Love in a Graveyard," London by way of Glasgow band Veronica Falls set the tone of their future releases: their sunny take on gloomy topics makes for happy listening in the darkened Northwest, that's for sure. Their 2011 self-titled debut channeled everyone from…
KEXP is excited to present an intimate session with high-energy, psych-tinged garage-rockers Thee Oh Sees in the KEXP Gathering Space at 1 PM. The insanely prolific West Coast band are on tour in support of their latest LP, A Weird Exits, out now on Castle Face Records, and are playing an all-ages …
Veteran LA-based alt/indie rockers Failure perform songs from their killer new record, "The Heart Is a Monster" and their amazing 1996 album "Fantastic Planet" live on KEXP's The Midday Show with Cheryl Waters. Recorded 08/28/2015 - 4 songs: Hot Traveler, Another Space Song, At…
KEXP is celebrating our 50th anniversary this year, and we're looking back at the last half-century of music. Each week in 2022, KEXP pays homage to a different year, and our writers are commemorating a song from that year that resonates with them. This week, KEXP's Martin Douglas looks back at vis…
As KEXP celebrates its 50th anniversary, we're looking back at the last half-century of music. Each week in 2022, KEXP pays homage to a different year and our writers are commemorating with one song from that year that resonates with them. This week, Martin writes about the band's 1978 single, the …
Too stuffed from holiday treats to get up and change the record? Why not put on this 22-minute-long new track from Portland psych-rockers Unknown Mortal Orchestra! Grandma will love it! [Pitchfork]
If the Rolling Stones had started their career in 2014 Chicago, they might have been called Twin Peaks. The warm, laid-back chemistry exuded by this crew of bluesy rockers is so over-the-top fun to watch that it's almost hard to not want to just shoot the breeze with them all night over drink…
Beloved indie-rockers, Polaris are best known for providing music from the classic 1990's Nickelodeon television show ‘The Adventures of Pete & Pete'. While embarking on their first tour ever, they stopped by the KEXP studios and performed a fantastically killer live set on The Midday show wit…
Brooklyn dream-rockers DIIV made their network television debut on Letterman last night. Zachary Cole Smith & Co. played a frantic rendition of "Doused," the penultimate track on their outstanding debut album, Oshin. Watch the "fantastic" Letterman performance below.
The Seattle psych rockers release their latest album, Destroy The Sun, on Aug. 3 via Swoon Records. KEXP shares an advance stream and catches up with the band about making the record, learning to let go, and the capitalist structures they would utilize to actually “destroy the sun.”
Highlights this week include the first new album in 16 years from veteran rockers, The Afghan Whigs. KEXP Music Director Don Yates describes their latest, titled Do To the Best, as "a strong return-to-form of brooding, soul-inflected rock with atmospheric guitars and keyboards and occasional string…
Leading up until the Upstream Music Fest + Summit, KEXP will be featuring a new local artist from the lineup with an interview and suggested tracks for where to start. Today’s post features Seattle indie rocker Ruler, performing Saturday, May 13 on the Barsuk stage.
