Another year, and another amazing analysis by KEXP volunteer and Tableau product manager Jewel Loree! Below, you can explore and discover the artists, albums, and songs that mattered most to KEXP DJs in 2016 with this interactive data visualization. Sadly, in a year of so much loss, it's no surpris…
For creators and fans alike, music has always provided catharsis, relief and healing. But Few artists tap so directly into that power as Tim Showalter, whose project Strand of Oaks goes so far as to name its most recent album Heal. Like pages from a diary, the Philly-based songwriter's lyrics delve…
One of the most exciting exhibits opening in Seattle this summer is Bowie by Mick Rock, a collection of 65 photographs by Bowie's personal photographer Mick Rock. And this Friday, June 30th, Mo'Pop kicks off the exhibit with Hot Tramp, I Love You So, an opening reception as dazzling as the show it …
French website La Blogothèque has filmed a live acoustic set of Real Estate. The band played a few tracks from their last album Atlas as well as a cover of Weezer's "Say It Ain't So" (listen at the 17-minute mark). The half-hour session is available to watch in full below. [Pitchfork]
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…
One thing that makes a KEXP Drive so special is premiering our new design and all the fun thank-you-gifts that come along with it!
Martin Douglas speaks with Seattle's top hip-hop producer about the journey his career has taken him on so far.
It's enough to make you curl up screaming in the fetal position – the number of amazing Icelandic releases in 2013, that is. As if 2012 wasn't already such a great year, but damn, 2013 proves there's no end to the wealth of talent on the arctic island. Since they're each so great in different ways,…
This morning, Pickathon announced its 2016 lineup, and it's a doozy! Wilco's Jeff Tweedy headlines along with Yo La Tengo, Beach House, and Ty Segall & The Muggers, plus so many other KEXP favorites - like Black Mountain, Thee Oh Sees, Dan Deacon, Ibeyi, Fruit Bats, My Bubba, Hurray for the Rif…
Brooklyn group Yeasayer are an act that cares about the details. From their pleas to “please watch at the 4k setting” on one of their music video’s to the collage of sounds that was their 2016 release, Amen and Goodbye, the group certainly has a knack for thinking about the little things other band…
Watch the Icelandic band's performance for Iceland Airwaves 2019 at Kex Hostel.
It should never go without saying that we at KEXP are amazed by the ongoing support by our listeners and friends. This year, you've helped us maintain our fiercely independent programming and find a new home, and now you're continuing to help us fully compete it so that we can reach more of you tha…
Every Monday through Friday, we deliver a different song as part of our Song of the Day podcast subscription. This podcast features exclusive KEXP in-studio performances, unreleased songs, and recordings from independent artists that our DJs think you should hear. Today’s song, featured on the Morn…
If I were a better blogger, I would have gone into KEXP armed with the Bumbershoot lineup and found an album from one of the many fine bands playing at this weekend's festival (Negativland, say, or maybe Jonathan Richman) so as to bring you a remotely topical post for this week. Instead of that, I …
"Nothing is more dangerous than a man," Hutch's guitar declared as The Thermals blazed through an incendiary set live at KEXP. The songs on the Portland band's latest album, Desperate Ground, carry the same message: guns kill, people kill, wars kill. In the studio, the trio (Hutch, Kathy and Westin…
Jeff Tweedy has announced a new memoir titled Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording With Wilco, Etc.
From the album Perfect Love Song out October 4th via Father/Daughter Records.
Canadian indie legends Metric deliver a somber acoustic set on the Midday Show with Stevie Zoom. Recorded 02/21/2016 - 4 songs: Lie Lie Lie, Cascades, Dreams So Real, Breathing Underwater.
The Twilight Sad have always specialized in making the darker side of humanity seem so grandiose and alluring, but they've never made gloom quite so emotive and magnetic as they do on their fourth album, Nobody Wants To Be Here and Nobody Wants To Leave. When the Scottish band brought six cuts from…
