It’s time again for Friday on My Mind, our weekly blog post where we look at videos centered around one common theme. This is a collaborative effort between KEXP and King 5 News. With Hanukkah and Christmas behind us, it’s time to focus on the New Year which is why our theme for this week is time.
The soulful and prolific Texas songwriter David Ramirez recently returned with his new album We’re Not Going Anywhere, which he self-released via his Sweetworld label. For the single "Watching From a Distance," he and director Erica Silverman made a video that captures the song's themes of longing …
Pioneering Seattle-based drum & bass DJ/producer Jordana wraps up the 2020 run of Midnight In A Perfect World with a high-octane DJ mix that storms through 30 magnetic drum & bass songs and includes her unreleased remix of Loxy & Inc.'s 2000 single "Murder Inc."
Dropping a pair of albums on one day is an ambitious move, but convention has never been for the inimitable Shabazz Palaces. Those records - Quazarz vs. The Jealous Machines and Quazarz: Born on a Gangster Star - are filled with some of the duo's most engaging work yet, and those records shin…
Ranging from searing heat to sludgy gravel, Meatbodies' powerful, muscular, and meaty (of course) garage rock is an immediate rush of blood to the head, more than ever on their latest album, Alice. Joining DJ Morgan in studio, the band runs through six Alice tracks, discusses their guilty p…
The Michigan outfit Heaters took the “space rock” tags that were put on the band after their debut to heart, naming their sophomore outing, Baptistina, after the asteroid that was once presumed to have ended the dinosaur. Doubling down on the heavier, more gauzy elements of their music for their s…
Without even an album under their earth-shaking name, Thunderpussy shred like no other outfit... and outfits they have aplenty. The Seattle four-piece bring their theatrical, sex-fueled, high-octane, bluesy rock show to the KEXP studio for an extended session, complete with "pussyfooting"…
Ty Segall & The Muggers (featuring Kyle Thomas of King Tuff, Mikal Cronin, Wand's Cory Hanson and Evan Burrows, and Emmet Kelly of The Cairo Gang) stop by KEXP for the first ever live broadcast session from our new live room. Recorded 01/21/2016 - 5 songs: Squealer, Emotional Mugger / Leo…
KEXP presents a preview of the fifth installment of Reykjavík Calling, a cross-cultural musical exploration featuring pairings and creative collaborations between musicians from sister cities Seattle and Reykjavik, Iceland. Recorded 10/10/2014 - 4 songs: Color Decay (Júníus Meyvant), You've Been F…
Welsh band The Joy Formidable have spent the past decade making stadium-ready indie rock opuses that sound larger than life itself. In 2019, after releasing four great albums, the band celebrated the 10-year anniversary of their debut EP, 'A Balloon Called Moaning,' with a deluxe re-issue and a maj…
While the Saturday lineup of Capitol Hill Block Party leaned heavily on Seattle's DIY punk and electronic strengths, Sunday was where got to see the city's pop strengths shine through. And truly, our fair city is not lacking in this department. On the Vera stage, Sassyblack put her incredible voice…
Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by DJ Chilly and Albina Cabrera, hosts of El Sonido on KEXP, in honor of Latinx Heritage Month, is "Fumar de Dia" by Marilina Bertoldi, from the 2018 album Prender un Fuego on Pelo Music S.A.
Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by DJ Chilly and Albina Cabrera, hosts of El Sonido on KEXP, in honor of Latinx Heritage Month, is "Perdidos En Pantitlan" by Los Blenders, from the 2020 album Mazunte 2016 out via Devil in the Woods.
Through in-studio performances, interviews with local and national artists, co-curators and DJs Darek Mazzone and Chilly explore the immigrant experience.
Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by Gabriel Teodros, host of Early on KEXP, is "Soft Inside" by Dea Galore & the Melodiks (feat. Georgia Anne Muldrow), from the 2023 EP The Flow on Kollision Entertainment.
Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by Gabriel Teodros, host of Early on KEXP, is "No Wish" by Black Milk feat. Phonte & Raphael Saadiq, from the 2023 album Everybody Good? on Mass Appeal / Computer Ugly.
Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by DJ Miss Ashley in honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day, is "Second Nature" by Drew Martin from the 2023 album Where's Your Feet on Kritter Records.
