KEXP breaks down five of the artists playing this year's Freakout Fest 7, held November 14-17 in Ballard.
The annual event has been rescheduled with "properly distanced release dates" on Saturdays in August, September, and October.
British rapper Ben Chijioke, who performed under the moniker Ty, has died from pneumonia following complications from COVID-19. He was 47-years-old.
The album, titled III, will be released October 23rd via In the Red.
With only a guitar and a digital delay pedal, Monkman recorded his debut album Bleached Waves at home and released earlier this year.
DJ Miss Ashley shares her Top Ten Albums of 2020; check out her list and more DJ picks for best releases of the year.
DJ Alex shares her Top Ten Albums of 2020 and then some! Check out his list and more DJ picks for best releases of the year.
Larry Mizell Jr shares his Top Ten Albums of 2020; check out his list and more DJ picks for best releases of the year.
Cheryl Waters shares her Top Ten Albums of 2020 and then some! Check out her lists and more DJ picks for best releases of the year.
Join El Sonido DJs Chilly and Albina as they reflect on the year through their favorite releases and discuss big moments in Latin music.
After a year of missing live shows, KEXP has asked artists to share their personal journals, sketches, photos, and memories from being on tour
Guest Richard Conlin, President, Seattle City Council, speaks with Diane Horn about progress made on the City of Seattle's Local Food Action Initiative and the Year of Urban Agriculture.
Anyone who got to kick off 2017 with Sleater-Kinney is already very lucky, but it sounds like the show was even better than we could've imagined. For their New Year's Eve concert at San Francisco’s Nob Hill Masonic Auditorium, the ladies paid tribute to artists we've lost this year: David Bowie an…
For the fourth year, KEXP is proud to sponsor the Macefield Music Festival, happening this weekend, Friday, September 30th through Sunday, October 2nd, throughout Ballard. As always, the line-up looks like a KEXP playlist, with this year's headliners including Zola Jesus, legendary UK art-rock band…
Can you believe it's been 20 years since OK Computer was released?! In honor of that special anniversary, Radiohead are releasing a special deluxe reissue called OKNOTOK. The album will feature three previously unreleased songs, along with the record's original 12 tracks and eight B-sides. One of t…
This weekend, Pizza Fest returns to El Corazon and Funhouse for a seventh year of greasy punk, rock, metal, and of course, pizza. The three-day festival is appropriately headlined by the long-running, Ramones-inspired, "original" pizza-themed punk band Personal & the Pizzas. This year's lineu…
We are HAM! If you aren't yet, that's okay. HAM is legend. It took years of inactivity to become the rock icons they are today. Following the Icelandic doom metal band's prolific years, from 1988 to 1994, their legion of fans grew, until finally their members stepped aside from their other careers …
It had to be one of the stranger pairings we heard about this year: acclaimed electronic producer Nicolas Jaar and the relatively unknown Dave Harrington. That the two might be friends from their Brown University connection (both studied there) mades sense, but what would a composer of heady ambien…
Nearly 35 years in music and Bob Mould shows no signs of slowing down! From his early punk roots with Hüsker Dü in the 1980s through his alternative pop years with Sugar in the 1990s, and in the years between and afterwards with his ten solo albums, the veteran songwriter has explored a variety of …
We opened this year’s broadcast live from Kex Hostel at Iceland Airwaves Music Festival with a newer Icelandic band, Between Mountains. Hailing from the Westfjords, the promising new duo were this year’s winner of Músíktilraunir, a youth-focused battle of the bands (similar to Seattle’s Sound Off!)…
