It's 37 degrees in Reykjavik, and KEXP is setting up at Kex Hostel for four days of incredible live music. Iceland Airwaves festival is just getting warmed up (it officially kicks off tomorrow), but things are already hot here at the hippest hostel in Iceland. We've brought along all the necessary …
Tomorrow, Friday, October 6th, Rhino Records are releasing The Replacements For Sale: Live At Maxwell’s 1986, a two-disc set capturing The Replacements at their mid-career best. Last month, KEXP premiered the live version of "Takin’ A Ride," and today, we share the band's ramshackle take on "Color …
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Every week, KEXP features a new local artist with an interview and suggested tracks for where to start. This week, we’re featuring Seattle's Telekinesis, who play Concerts at the Mural this Friday, August 11. with SISTERS and Haley Heynderickx.
After 30 amazing years as KEXP's in-house proctologist of rock n' roll, DJ Leon Berman is stepping down as host of Shake the Shack on KEXP tonight, Friday, July 15th, and handing all surgical implements over to Cousin Mike, his faithful sidekick over many years.
A couple weeks ago, you got a glimpse of KEXP staff members taking hard hat tours of the New Home construction site on a Friday afternoon. Now we’d like to give you a more detailed look at what they saw. Hosted by KEXP Business and Operations Manager Denise Burnside, this video tour walks you throu…
All day long for Earth Day, KEXP DJs John Richards, Cheryl Waters, and Kevin Cole have been showcasing recycling and reuse with a day of music featuring sampled music, re-using beats and recycling old songs to create new ones. (Check out some examples on the KEXP Blog here.)
Hey, are you going to be in Austin, TX, during SXSW next week? If you are, come join KEXP at Mellow Johnny's Bike shop for three days of free music. During the 2014 South by Southwest Music Conference, KEXP is teaming up with our friends Distiller Promo, Sub Pop + Hardly Art, and Merge Records for …
Performing four songs from their sophomore album Joy As An Act of Resistance, the Bristol quintet walk into the KEXP Live Room and exit 30 minutes later with an instant classic KEXP session under their belts.
In celebration of International Clash Day, KEXP presents the first ever Clash video game, Lost in the Supermarket.
This week marks 50 years since the start of this station. KEXP’s Owen Murphy has more on the first year of what was then KCMU, a student run radio station at the University of Washington.
This interview originally appeared on the Huffington Post.
Legendary independent record label Sub Pop will turn 30 years old this year, and Seattle-based public broadcaster and arts organization KEXP will pay tribute to the label with a four-month retrospective.
KEXP has received its largest-ever philanthropic gift, in the form of a bequest from a generous donor. The gift, totaling just under $10 million, is among the largest bequests to a single public radio station in history.
KEXP’s Midday Show host looks back at the station’s early days as KCMU, getting demo tapes from Ben Gibbard, and one of the biggest Seattle band’s earliest days.
On Thursday, December 6th at McCaw Hall, musician and activist Moby will showcase the breadth of his career with the Pacific Northwest Ballet Orchestra, to benefit KEXP.
With Moby performing at KEXP's Yule Benefit concert on Thursday, December 6th, KEXP looks back at some of the recent memorable uses of his songs in film and television.
