At just 27, singer-songwriter Kevin Morby has accomplished much, both as a band member of NYC-based projects such as Woods and The Babies and as a solo artist. The songs on the third album under his own name, Singing Saw, are his sharpest and also most spacious, reflecting the divide between city a…
Brooklyn band Caveman are back with their first new album since their 2013 self-titled LP. KEXP Music Director Don Yates calls it "a well-crafted blend of driving, War On Drugs-style rock and atmospheric, '80s-steeped pop-rock." We can't wait to hear the new songs live when the band perform at Conc…
Any local bands want a free studio session? Converse, the iconic footwear of indie rockers, presents the Converse Rubber Tracks Pop-Up Studio. Last month, across the country, Converse offered free recording sessions to bands in legendary studios like Abbey Road Studios in London, England; Tuff Gong…
Album, schmalbum. Modest Mouse fans have been waiting for news on a follow-up to the band's 2007 breakout, We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank, and instead the humble rodents have announced a cross-country tour! Sure, why not. Chances are, attendees will hear some new material in the set list; …
The Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne recently partook in a "record store tour" where he sold some special tidbits from the band's earlier days. One of the amazing offerings was a Lips recording from 1983 called 2nd Cassette Demo, and you can listen to both sides of the tape below. It's an awesome…
Today on the Morning Show, we debuted a new song by TV on the Radio, and now the single, entitled "Million Miles", is available for you to hear and watch again and again. Though the band recently left Interscope Records, they haven't stopped turning out amazing material, now on band member Dave Sit…
On November 5, we learned the horrible news that Mimi Parker of the band Low had lost her battle to ovarian cancer. Mimi was only 55 when she passed, but had done so much in her life as a mother, as a musician, and as a human. She was married to Alan Sparhawk, her bandmate. They met in grade school…
Tommy Stinson put Bash & Pop on hold for just over two decades before reviving it last year, but the Minneapolis group's raucous, delightfully unhinged energy remains intact because, as the onetime Replacement says, “I'm not pretending to be anything other than what I am.” Stinson and the band…
The South Korean surf-rock band contemplates the joy of the holiday season with the title track from their upcoming Christmas EP.
The annual subscription singles series has been running since 1991, with the band sharing covers, lives tracks, and collaborations to members.
Get to know Mexican indie rock band Centavrvs before their session on KEXP's Mexico Broadcast on Tuesday 2/26 at 3 PM PST / 5 PM CST.
Martin Douglas' Treefort coverage continues with two stellar Northwest bands and a travel-sized pack of cold medicine.
The Seattle band have shared the third single from their forthcoming record This Mess Is a Place
Coulter Leslie of Seattle band the National Honor Society shares his favorite guitar pedal with KEXP.
The experimental New York band went through a real creepy period in the mid-'80s.
Martin Douglas speaks to three-fourths of the power-pop band about their new album Ever Loving.
The newest single from the Seattle band's forthcoming debut album includes a dark yet prismatic video.
The Seattle band's newest single is a heaving bout with COVID-induced paranoia. Martin Douglas explores.
As they say via a press release, "Bachelor is not a band, it is a friendship."
Two decades after their breakup, Martin Douglas explores the history of the influential South Sound punk band through their music.
