As Women’s History Month comes to a close, KEXP’s Jasmine Albertson talks with three women in the touring industry (Stephanie Escoto, Alicia Blake, and Robin Taylor).
For KEXP’s Music Heals programming, Macklemore shares his journey on the subject and how a robbery at his studio ultimately helped someone else’s path to recovery.
KEXP caught up with Lynn Ahrens of Schoolhouse Rock to talk about the music of the show and its legacy.
Y La Bamba speaks with KEXP about family, Mexican American identity, queerness, and mental health, and how these themes show up in their music.
Rahill joins KEXP’s Isabel Khalili to discuss the vulnerability of the new album and how it helped her arrive at the place of self-love she embodied as a child.
KEXP’s Janice Headley talks with Karl Blau about his recent move to Philadelphia and new musical project called Opal Eskar.
KEXP’s Dusty Henry spoke with Mike Park of Asian Man Records to learn more about the label’s history, the ethos that’s kept it alive, and more.
KEXP talks with Dua Saleh, a non-binary multidisciplinary artist from Minneapolis who released a single this month, “body cast,” in response to the murders of Black people at the hands of police.
Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by Larry Mizell, Jr., host of Street Sounds on KEXP, in honor of Juneteenth, is "SirLadyMakemFall" by Liv.e, from the 2020 EP Bout These Pipedreams / Lessons from My Mistakes.. but I Lost Your Number on In Real Life Music / AWAL. Hear Larry's Weekly Mix Juneteenth…
KEXP talks to drummer Donald “DJ” Johnson and bassist Laura Lee of psychedelic funk band Khruangbin.
KEXP talks to Aisha Fukushima, a self-proclaimed "RAPtivist" whose mission is to “challenge oppression with expression all around the globe.”
KEXP DJ Kevin Cole talks with Andrea Swensson, author of the book Got to Be Something Here: The Rise of the Minneapolis Sound.
KEXP's Owen Murphy catches up with Postcards' lead singer and co-songwriter Julia Sabra to discuss what happened that day.
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 "Marcaperu" by Yanna, a 2020 self-released single.
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 "Land Back (feat. Boogey the Beat & Northern Voice)" by A Tribe Called Red, a 2020 self-released single.
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 "Como la Chicha (feat. Fabian Arias & Dakota Camacho)" by Ill-ēsha, from the 2020 self-released album Songs from the Sweat Sh…
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 "All Turn Native" by Of Mexican Descent, from the 2006 self-released album Exitos Y Mas Exitos (Edicion De Lujo).
Sa-Roc’s latest release, The Sharecropper’s Daughter, is KEXP DJ Gabriel Teodros’ favorite hip-hop album of 2020.
As 2020 lurches towards a close, KEXP has been looking back at, and honoring, many of the music figures we lost in the last year. In this segment, we explore some of the lesser known musicians, songwriters, and producers who passed away in 2020.
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DJ and professor Davey D along with KEXP’s Gabriel Teodros discuss how consolidation and the Telecommunications Act of 1996 hid independent and more conscious hip hop artists from the mainstream eye.
