"Are you digging our laid-back vibe?" Band of Horses band leader Ben Bridwell asked the audience during their recent concert at Seattle's Moore Theatre. Following their recently released live recording, Acoustic at the Ryman, Bridwell and co. chose to perform very loose, rootsy interpretations from…
"If you're meaning to seduce anybody, you don't announce your intention", Joe Henry joked when introducing his new song "Swayed", but nevertheless, the LA-based singer-songwriter hooked us by the heart during a recent in-studio. Undoubtedly, it's his warmth, openness and charm that has made him so …
The band name of Lonesome Shack came from frontman Ben Todd’s experience living in, well, a lonesome shack that he built himself in New Mexico. In it, Todd learned Mississippi Fred McDowell songs and honed his facility on stringed instruments like bass, banjo and guitar. It is impossible not to not…
May has been a big month for Mary Lambert. In the wake of the success of "Same Love" - her 2012 collaboration with Macklemore & Ryan Lewis that served as a rallying cry to same-sex couples worldwide - the Seattle-based singer/songwriter has been writing new songs, playing a series of local show…
More anthemic than brooding, Scottish band Frightened Rabbit's songs pull no punches. You don't have time to dwell on their brutally honest lyrics, usually about love and relationships, as you're pumping your fist in the air and sloshing around a pint of. This week, their latest and fourth emotiona…
Cleveland post-punk band Cloud Nothings are following up this year's Life Without Sound with a new track, "Relief." The previously unreleased demo is a contribution to a forthcoming benefit compilation, Taking It To Heart, Volume Two, which is raising money for the Heart And Stroke Foundation. Fron…
Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by Larry Mizell, Jr., host of Street Sounds on KEXP, in honor of Juneteenth, is "Floyd" by SPECSWIZARD, a 2020 self-released single. Hear Larry's Weekly Mix Juneteenth podcast here.
Today's Song of the Day — as chosen by DJ Gabriel Teodros and special guest, indigenous art-ivist Calina Lawrence, as part of KEXP’s Indigenous Peoples’ Day programming — is "The Social (feat. pHoenix Pagliacci)" by DJ Shub, a 2020 single on Shub Music.
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Today's Song of the Day — as chosen by DJ Gabriel Teodros and special guest, indigenous art-ivist Calina Lawrence, as part of KEXP’s Indigenous Peoples’ Day programming — is "Native New Yorker" by Dioganhdih, a 2019 self-released single.
Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by DJ Sharlese, host of Mechanical Breakdown and rotating host for Expansions, in honor of World Goth Day Extended, is "Metropolitan Boy" by Camlann, from the 2021 album Path of Wellness on Mom + Pop.
Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by DJ Sharlese, host of Mechanical Breakdown and rotating host for Expansions, in honor of World Goth Day Extended, is "Tomorrow's Heroine" by NNHMN, from the 2021 EP Tomorrow's Heroine on K Dream's.
Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by DJ Sharlese, host of Mechanical Breakdown and rotating host for Expansions, in honor of World Goth Day Extended, is "¿Cuánto resiste el cuerpo?" by Balvanera, from the 2021 album Courses of Action on DKA Records.
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Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by DJ Sharlese, host of Mechanical Breakdown and rotating host for Expansions, in honor of World Goth Day Extended, is "Fear (Forever Grey Remix)" by Ash Code, from the 2021 self-released EP Fear.
Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by DJ Sharlese, host of Mechanical Breakdown and rotating host for Expansions, in honor of World Goth Day Extended, is "Victim" by Nox Novacula, from the 2021 album Ascension on Manic Depression.
Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by Albina Cabrera and DJ Chilly, hosts of El Sonido, in honor of Aquí y Ahora: Without Borders, is "La Perla" by Sofia Kourtesis, from the 2021 Fresia Magdalena EP on Technicolour.
Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by Larry Mizell, Jr., host of The Afternoon Show on KEXP, is "Made A Circle (feat. Nappy Nina, Maassai, Antonia Gabriela & Orion Sun)" by Moor Mother, from the 2021 album Black Encyclopedia of the Air on Moor Mother / Anti.
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Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by Albina Cabrera and DJ Chilly, hosts of El Sonido, in honor of Aquí y Ahora: Without Borders, is "Aprendiendo por las Malas" by Doris Anahí, from the 2022 Aprendiendo por las Malas EP on Casa Mija..
Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by Albina Cabrera and DJ Chilly, hosts of El Sonido, in honor of Aquí y Ahora: Without Borders, is "Metamorfosis (feat. Grupo El Renacimiento)" by Meridian Brothers, from the 2022 album Meridian Brothers & El Grupo Renacimiento on Ansonia Records.
Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by Mike Ramos, in honor of Pushing Boundaries, is "Super Glue (Cover)" by Lo! Peninsula, from the 2023 self-released album The Resurrection Of The Princess Of Woe And Her Vampire Hound Posse.
Friends of the station Of Monsters And Men have come a long way since KEXP filmed them playing in a living room in Reykjavik, Iceland in 2010. In fact, they've come a long way even since the station filmed them playing on a bluff at Sasquatch in 2012. KEXP was one of the earliest to discover this b…
